The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-09 00:00:00

BATTLE OF THE ALMA.

ARRIVAL OF LORD BURGHERSH.
(From the Morning Post of Sunday.)

Major Lord Burghersh, principal aide-de-camp to
General Lord Raglan, commanding the British
forces in the Crimea, arrived in town this morning
at a quarter to 7 o'clock, bearing detailed intelli-
gence of the first great action in which the
allied forces have been engaged against the Rus-
sians. Lord Burghersh brings intelligence down
to the 25th of September, at noon, on which
day his lordship embarked in her Majesty's war
steamer Fury, Capt. Chambers, then lying near the
mouth of the river Katcha, several miles north of
the Alma, and within sight of the fortifications of
Sebastopol—the advanced guard of the allied
forces at that time stretching to within two-and-
a-half miles of the outworks of the fortress.

The Fury made the run across the Black Sea to
Constantinople in 34 hours; arriving at the Turkish
capital about midnight on the 26th of September.
She left after coaling—an operation in which much
valuable time was lost, through the clumsiness of
the Turks—on the night of the 27th ; and, after
a stormy passage, reached Malta about 10 o'clock on
the night of Monday last, the 2d of October. Only
21, hours were consumed in coaling at Malta, and the
Fury again put to sea about midnight on the 23. inst.,
two hours after the Nil, the ordinary French mail
packet, had taken her departure fromthe same port.
The distance from Malta to Marseilles was run—un-
der some disadvantages of weather, which obliged the
Fury to round the island of Sardinia—in 80 hours,the
Fury steaming into the harbour of the latter
port at 8 o'clock on Friday morning, the 6th in-
stant. In less than an hour Lord Burghersh had
disembarked and secured a special train, by which
he travelled to Valence, posting thence to Lyons.
Another special train was herechartered by his lord-
ship to bring him on to Paris ; but as the exigencies
of foreign railways do not admit of any disturbance
of the ordinary traffic, so in this instance, on over-
taking one of the usual trains, his lordship's carriage
was attached thereto, and his arrival in Paris thus
delayed until five o'clock last evening. Lord Burg-
hersh, after having had a brief interview with Lord
Cowley, her Majesty's Ambassador at the French
Court, came on to Boulogne, where he arrived
shortly after 12 o'clock last night. His lordship
crossed from Boulogne to Dover in one of the beauti-
ful steamers of the South-Eastern Railway Company,
and leaving Dover at four o'clock arrived at Lon-
don-bridge station-at half-past 6. A carriage was in
waiting to convey his lordship to Downing-street,
where he alighted at the office of the Minister for
the War Department. His Grace the Duke of New-
castle was instantly sent for, and arrived in less than
half-an-hour—though, we regret to add, suffering
from severe indisposition. The Earl of Aberdeen
and the Earl of Clarendon arrived within the hour,
and all the Ministers bad long interviews with
Lord Burghersh.
The intense interest with which the details here
given will be read by all classes, renders it unne-
cessary to do more than to express our heartfelt
thankfulness that the losses the Pritish troops
have sustained in this first glorious victory are not
quite so fatal as might have been feared from the
numerical list of " killed and wounded" forwarded
through the telegraph by Lord Raglan. Not
more than 26 officers fell on the field, and 19
non-commissioned officers, and the returns of
rank and file actually killed amount only to 308.
There can be no doubt that many others of each
class, whose names appear among the list of the
" severely wounded," 'will die in the service of their
country, but it is at least consolatory to know that
the proportion actually dead is small in comparison
with the number of casualties.

It will bo observed that only one officer of the
Guards Brigade is returned as " killed"—
Mr. Horace Cust, of the Coldstream Guards.
This gallant young man is the youngest
son of Captain the Hon. Peregine Francis
Cust—a cousin of the youthful Earl Brownlow—and
a nephew of the Duke of Buccleuch.
Of the officers of the Scots Fusiliers, nine were
wounded, but it is hoped none fatally so.