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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESWAY RVENTNO, OCTOBER, 11, 1854.

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GENERAL LORD RAGLAN.

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(FROM LAST EVENING'S GAZETTE.)
WAR DEPARTMENT, OCT. 10.
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has this day
reoeived two Despatches, of which the following
are copies, addressed to his Grace by General the
Lord Raglan, G.C.B.


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BALAKLAVA, Sept. 28.
My Lord Duke,—.ln continuation of my De-
spatch of the 23d inst., I beg leave to lay before
your Grace the names of the officers whose names
have been brought to my notice by the Generals of
Division, and the Heads of Departments.
Lieutenant-General Sir George Brown speaks
in the highest terms of Lieutenant-Colonel Yea, of
the Royal Fusiliers ; Lieutenant-Colonel Chester,
of the 23d, who was unfortunately killed, and of
Captain Bell, who succeeded to the command, and
brought the regiment out of action, and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Blake of the 33d. Lieutenant-
Colonel Sanders, of the 19th, who was severely

Eight ran.

LATEST BETTING.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
8 to 1 agst Rattle.
15 to 1 agst Early Bird (offered).
16 to 1 agst Scherz.
16 to 1 agst Orinoco (taken).

DERBY.
20 to 1 agst Cruiser.
33 to I agst Saraband.
40 to 1 agst Wild Payroll.
50 to 1 agst Polydora colt.

wounded ; Lieutenant-Colonel Egerton, of the 77th
Regiment, and Lieutenant-Colonel Shirley, of the
88th ; also of Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrence and
Major Norcott, of the Rifle Brigade, each com-
manding a wing of that corps ; Lieutenant-Colonel
Lake, commanding the Artillery, of Captain Brand-
ling, commanding a 9-pounder troop of Horse Ar-
tillery, and Captain Anderson, commanding a Field
Battery, and Captain Gordon, of the Royal En-
gineers ; likewise of Lieutenant-Colonel Sullivan,

STATE OF TRADE.

( From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
MANCHESTER, Oct. 10.—In the market of to-day, we
have had a continuance of that dulness which so sud-
denly followed the factitious liveliness of the 10th
ult. But the shock that was given to confidence by
the ensuing occurrences Las not been so strongly
felt as it was in the middle and latter part of last week.
The American advices are increasingly encouraging in
their accounts of the cotton crop. The prevailing esti-
mates of the yield exceed 3,000,000 bales. The yellow
fever was so destructive at Charleston and Savannah as to
have put a stop to business. The house of Phipps,
which had suspended payment at New York, was one
of old and high standing ; the amounts owing in Man-
chester are not, however, anything near so large as they
were last week reported to be.
ROCHDALE, Oct. 9.—The flannel market continues good
and the demand steady, witk little or no variation in price.
Fine goods are those which are most inquired after. In
the wool market there is uo change worthy of notice : the
manufacturers continue to buy for immediate use only.
HALIFAX, Oct. 7.—Fewer goods have changed hands
in our Piece Hall to-day than last Saturday ; and there
seems to be, on the part of the merchants, very little
disposition to operate. Indeed, the present aspect of the
commercial world is such as to induce great caution.
The yarn market exhibits no new feature, either as
regards demand or price ; and wools are quiet, with the
quotations firm. •

and Lieutenant-Colonel Airey, of the Adjutant and
Quartermaster-General's Department, and Captain
Hallowell of the latter, and Captain Whitmore and
the other officers of his personal Staff; and Cap-
tains Glyn and Mackenzie, the Brigade-Majors
serving with the division.
Lieutenant-General his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge recommends Colonel the Honourable
Francis Hood, of the Grenadier Guards, Colonel
• the Honourable George Upton, of the Coldstream
Guards, and Colonel Sir Charles Hamilton, of the
Scots Fusilier Guards ; Lieutenant-Colonel Came-
ron, of the 42(1, Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas, of the
79t1;, and Lieutenant-Colonel Ainslie, of the 93d ;
Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Alexander Gor-
don, and Lieutenant-Colonel Cunynghamo, the As-
sistant-Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Cap-
tain Butler and the Honourable Arthur Hardinge,
the Deputy Assistant-Adjutant and Quartermaster-
General of the Division, and Major the Honour-
able James Macdonald, and the other officers of his
personal Staff ; also Lieutenant-Colonel Dacres
commanding, and Captains Paynter and Wood-
house of the Royal Artillery, and Captain Chap-
man of the Royal Engineers, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Stirling, and Captain the Honourable
Percy Fielding, the Brigade-Major of the division.
Lieutenant-General Sir De Lacy Evans eulogises
the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable
Percy Herbert of the Quartermaster-General's De-
partment, who was wounded, I hope not severely ;
Major Lysons of the 23d, acting as Assistant-Adju-
tant-General in the absence from sickness of Lieut?-
pant-Colonel Wilbraham, Captain Lane Fox, and
Captain Thompson, Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant
and Quartermaster-General, and Captain Allix and
the other officers of his personal Staff. He also praises
the exertions of Lieutenant-Colonels Hoey, of the
30th, Lieutenant-Colonel Warren, of the 55th, and
Lieutenant-Colonel Webber Smith, of the 95th,
who was severely wounded ; Lieutenant-Colonel
Carpenter, of the 41st, Lieutenant-Colonel Haly,
of the 47th, and Major Dalton, of the 49th, Lieu-
tenant-Colonels Fitzmayer and Dupuis, and Cap-
tains Turner and Swinton, of the Royal Artillery,
and to these I may add Captain Lovell, of the
Royal Engineers, Brevet-Majors Thackwell and
Armstrong, the Brigade-Majors of the division.
I consider it my duty especially to recommend
Captain Adye, of the Royal Artillery, the princi-
pal staff officer of that branch of the service, and
Captain the Honourable Edward Gage, Brigade-
Major of Artillery, and Major Tylden, Brigade-
Major of the Royal Engineers, and Major the
Honourable Edward eakenham, and Captain
Weare, who was wounded, of the Adjutant-
General's, and of Captains Wetherall, Woodford,
Sankey, and Hamilton, of the Quartermaster-
General's Department.

Mr. Commissary-General Filder, and Dr. Hall,
the principal Medical Officer, were in the field the
whole time, and merit my approbation for their
exertions in discharging their onerous duties.—l
have, &c., (Signed) RAGLAN.
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle,
&c., &c., &c.

BALAKLAVA, Sept. 28.
My Lord Duke,—l have the greatest satisfaction
in acquainting your grace that the army under my
command obtained possession of this important
.place on the 26th instant, and thus established a
new ;rid secure base for our future operations.
The Allied Armies quitted their position above
the Alma on the morning of the 23d, and moved
across the Katcha, where they halted for the
night, and on the following day passed the Belbeck.
It then appeared that the enemy had established
a work, which commanded the entrance of the
river, and debarred its use for the disembarkation
of troops, provision, and materiel ; and it became
expedient to consider whether the line of attack
upon the north side should not be abandoned, and
another course of operation adopted.
It having, after due deliberation, been deter-
mined by Marshal St. Arnaud and myself, that we
should relinquish our communication with the
Katoha, and the hope of establishing it by the
Belbeck, and endeavour by a flank march to the
left to go round Sebastopol and seize Balaklava,
the movement was commenced on the 25th, and
completed on the following day by the capture of
this place by her Majesty's troops, which led the ad-
vance. The march was attended with great diffi-
culties. On leaving the high road from the Belbeck
to Sebastopol, the Army had to traverse a dense
wood, in which there was but one road that led in

the direction it was necessary to take. That road
was left in the first instance to the Cavalry and Ar-
tillery ; and the divisions were ordered to march by
compass and make a way for themselves as well as
they could ; and, indeed, the Artillery of the Light
Division pursued the same course as long as it was
found to be possible, but, as the wood became more
impracticable, the batteries could not proceed other-
wise than by getting into the road above men-
tioned.

The head-quarters of the Army, followed by seve-
ral batteries of Artillery, were the first to clear the
forest, near what is called, in Major Jarvis's map,
Mackenzie's Farm, and at once found themselves on
the flank and rear of a Russian division, on the march
to Bashi-Serai.

This was attacked as soon as the cavalry, which
had diverged a little into a bye and intricate path,
could be brought up. A vast quantity of ammu-
nition and much valuable baggage fell into • our
hands, and the pursuit was discontinued after about
a mile and a half, it being a great object to reach the
Tschernaya that evening.
The Russians lost a few men, and some prisoners
were taken, amongst whom was a Captain of
Artillery.
The march was then resumed by the descent of
a

steop and difficult defile into the-plains, through
which runs the Tschernaya river, and this the
cavalry succeeded in reaching shortly before dark,
followed in the course of the night by the Light,
First, Second, and Third Divisions ; the Fourth
Division having been left on the heights above the
Belbeck till the following day, to maintain our com-
munication with the Katcha.

This march, which took the enemy quite by sur-
prise, was a very long and toilsome one, and, ex-
cept at Mackenzie's Farm, where two wells, yield-
ing a scanty supply, were found, the troops were
without water, but they supported their fatigues
and privations with the utmost cheerfulness, and
resumed their march to this place on the morning
of the 26th.

As they approached Balaklays, nothing indicated
that it was held in force ; but as resistance was
offered to the advance of the Rifle Brigade, and
guns were opened from an old castle, as the head
of the column showed itself on the road leading
into the town, I deemed it prudent to occupy the
two flanking heights by the Light Division and
a portion of Captain Brandling's troop of Horse
Artillery on the left ; movements terminated by
the surrender 9f the place, which had been occu-
pied by very inconsiderable numbers of the enemy.
Shortly after we had taken possession we were
greeted by Captain Mends, of the Agamemnon, and
soon after by Sir Edmund Lyons himself.
His co-operation was secured to us by the ac-
tivity and enterprise of Lieutenant Maxse, of her
Majesty's ship Agamemnon, who reached my camp
on the Tschernaya, on the night of the 25th with
despatches, and who volunteered immediately to
retrace his steps through the forest, and to commu-
nicate to Sir Edmund the importance I attached to
his presence at the mouth of the harbour of Bala-
Maya the next morning, which difficult service

(from the intricacy of the country infested by Cos-
sacks) he accomplished so effectually that the Ad-
miral was enabled to appear off this harbour at the
very moment that our troops showed themselves
upon the heights.
Nothing could he more opportune than his arri-
val, and yesterday the magnificent ship that bears
his flag entered this beautiful .harbour; and the
Admiral, as has been his invariable practice, co-
operated with the army ill every way possible.
We are busily engaged in disembarking our siege
train and provisions, and we are most desirous of
undertaking the attack of Sebastopol without the
•

loss of a day. I moved up two divisions yesterday
to its immediate neighbourhood, when I was en-
abled to have a good view of the place ;. and Lieu-
' tenant-General Sir John Burgoyne, and General
Bigot, the French Chef de Genie, are occupied, in
reconnoitring it closely to-day.
The march of the French army on the 25th was
still more fatiguing 'and prolonged than ours.
Being behind our columns they could not reach
Tschernaya till the next day, and I fear must have
suffered sadly from want of water.
I regret to have to acquaint your grace that
Marshal St. Arnaud has been compelled, by severe
illness, to relinquish the command of the army. I
saw him on the 25th, when he was suffering very
much, and he felt it his duty to resian the next
morning. I view his retirement with deep concern,
having always found in him every disposition to act
in concert with me. He has since become much
worse, and is I fear in a very precarious state.
FoAunately he is succeeded by an officer of high
reputation, General Canrobert, with whom I am
satisfied I shall have great pleasure in acting, and
who is equally. desirous of maintaining the most
friendly'relations with me.

I have, &c.,
(Signed) RAGLAN.
His Grace the Duk© of Newcastle,
&c., &c., &c.

THE BATTLE OF ALMA.

The following is an extract of a letter from an
officer of the Brigade of Guards :
"CAMP NEAR BALAKLAVA, Sept. 27.-L-You will
scarcely bo more surprised than we are ourselves at
the English army being here, in possession of a
perfect seaport and new basis of operations for both
armies. On leaving the bivouac south of the Katcha
river, we marched to the river Belbeck, through
the village of the same name. It is extraordinary
that the Russians should not have attempted to'
stop us at either place, fox there are stronger posi-
tions even than on the Alma; but the Russians are
so completely cowed by our brilliant victory, in
which they own to a loss of 6,000 or 7,000 men,
that we may venture upon acts and movements
that could not be done without madness under other
circumstances. .As for their far-famed Cossack
cavalry, we have scarcely, seen 100 of them. The
French admiration of our attack and advance in
line continues, and is only exceeded by The astonish-
ment of the Russian officers, prisoners, whom we
have since seen. A French officer remarked to me
two days ago that it was trop majestueux.' I
certainly do not wonder at the Russians not at-
tempting to meet us on the open field, after seeing
how we could march against them in an entrenched •
position. The battle-field was dreadful to walk
over in the evening and following day ; the battle.
ended too late for us to remove even our own
wounded that day, and the fearful spectacle of
heads blown off, shattered limbs, broken arms, the
groans and sighs of the wounded, altogether made
a scene I never wish to see again. I have a few
trophies in the shape of brass plates representing
the double eagle worn on the helmet of all regi-
ments of the lide ; their 31st and 32d Regiments
were the two more immediately opposed to us.
"To continue our march. The day before yester-
day (Sept. 25), having had a false alarm during the
night of an approach of the Cossacks, we were under
arms at 5 o'clock, ready for a move. A recon-
naissance was made towards the Inkerman Lights,
with the view of finding a crossing practicable for
the army. Colonel Alexander only found a single
causeway over a morass, and a bridge over the
river with a force on the opposite side. Lord Rag-
lan, with Sir J. Burgoyne's advice, then deter-
mained upon one of the boldest flank marches, per-
haps ever performed in the face of an enemy. The
whole country between the Belbeck and the Tcher-
naya, which runs into the Sebastopol inlet, is
covered with one uninterrupted extensive jungle or
forest, intersected by no road but that leading
towards Sebastopol, and another narrow one on
which it would have taken perhaps days for a large
army to advance. We received orders to march
south-south-east, through this forest, in order to
strike the high road from Simpheropol,nearKhutor
Mackenzie. Our guides led us in too southerly a
direction, towards the end of the valleys near the
Inkerman Lights, upon which we had to make a
flank movement towards Kinitor Mackenzie. The
wood was so thick that the men could hardly see
each other ; not only did men of the same brigade
get mixed together, but Highlanders and Guards,
Guards and line, formed for an hour an apparently
inextricable mass of confusion. In the midst of it
we heard firing and several rounds of cannon in
our front, just where we were wanted to go. We
continued our march, however, and soon found
that the cause of the firing was the Scots Greys,
and some of our artillery in advance coming upon
the high road near Khutor Mackenzie, where they
intercepted fa Russian army of some say 15,000
men and a large convoy of provisions and ammuni-
tion. The party of Greys were only 20 strong, but
so cowed were the Russians and taken by surprise,
that half their army cut off towards Simpheropol,
the rest to Sebastopol. We all came out of the
wood about two or half-past two, at the very spot
where this took place. Every waggon was de-
stroyed, the flour given up to our men, powder
scattered, cartridges destroyed, camp equipments
thrown over theprecipices, clothing, accoutrements,
barrels, and articles of every description strewn
along three miles of road, along which we marched
towards the bridge over the Tchernaya. The whole
appearance of the road was more like the result of
a battle than anything else. Their army, in
short, was cut in two, and so divided that
they must have spread terror and increased
the already great demoralisation of the Russian
forces, both in Sebastopol aad in other parts
of the Crimea. After halting at this spot for an
hour and a half to rest the men after their fatiguing
forest march, we continued along the high road
to ,the bridge across the Tchernaya, a march of
six or seven miles further, leading to Balaklava,
and we reached our bivouac at half-past 8 p.m.,
having been under arms more than 14 hours. The
next morning early we pushed on towards Bala-
klava, and halted at the entrance of the pass. The
Rifles were sent forward to crown the heights on
each side of the bay, supported by a brigade of the
Light Division ; on each side also, these again were
supported by the two brigades of the Ist Division,
the Guards going to the right and the Grenadier
Guards taking possession of the village of Radakoi.
Here they remained while the Rifles and Artillery
attacked the small post, 'which is of very little
strength--.-an old ruined Genoese castle. A few
shells soon brought them to reason, and the white
flag was hoisted. Lord Raglan had a very narrow
escape, for on first turning an angle of the road
with all his staff, a shell from the fort flew among
them and wounded one of the staff. When this
little affair was settled, the troops retired, except
two companies of the Grenadier Guards, who were
sent to protect the houses of the inhabitants and
small town of Balaklava. So little did the Rus-
sians expect us, that the wives and children of
many officers who are in Sebastopol had gone there
for safety. The harbour is quite landlocked, with
rocky and very precipitous hills on each side, but
so deep that even the Agamemnon steamed in this
morning.

" When we were at our Belbeck bivouac, and it
was decided we should come on and take this place,
young Ma's° was sent back to the mouth of the
Katcha, where the fleet was lying. Having to ride
through the country which we had crossed, he only
took a verbal message from Lord Raglan, for fear
of his falling into the hands of the Cossacks. He
reached the fleet at 4 yesterday morning, and
before 12 the fleet was off Balaklava.
" THURSDAY, Sept. 28.—The meeting of the
fleet and army here was most cordial. I saw Sir
Edmund Lyons meet Lord Raglan on the quarter-
deck of the Caradoc ; Lord Raglan's face was beam-
ing with joy at the success that has hitherto at-
tended our arms. I believe we shall remain here
again to-day, for, unless the garrison of Sebastopol
give in without resistance, upon being summoned,
we shall not attempt anything without landing all
our siege guns."

There is this very peculiar feature about the
action—that we had the very thin.- to do which
we alone could have done, and that the French
had to do work for which they were particularly
suited. Ours it was to face steadily the fire of
tremendous batteries ; to advance with a rush,
steady and sure, and resistless as the swell of the
ocean, against a wall of fire and solid masses of
infantry ; to struggle on, at one time overwhelmed
by crashing volleys of grape and musketry, at
another disorganised by round shot, winning the
ground from death at every pace ; to form tran-
oebdeterocticlai•rurdya
quilly and readily when thrown.. into momentary
disorder, and at last to nail victory to our colours
by the never-failing Britishs bayonet. It is said
that several French officers
le
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since they viewed the ground, that they thoculgehi
,t,o one of our
their men wouldesiaidisoimdtf
evaxiveeeinaeiburlaeod
ntliioempositionAll I would
Generals, at etanlsitehlc.lose of the day,
lt command a
caosrkpsofoffbErtnugnleislntotwrojes;Atifloart tI mo
hree °short weeks ; I
could then die happy !" On the other hand, the
French had to scale the sides. of steep ravines
f skirnii,il masses
of, infantry, supported
covered with dense
by clouds 0
shooters ; they had to by
swarms of sharp-
up roci;:,- sti],.T,: ii,,i: lers ; tiey had to clamber
with quickness
been fatal; andslowness of.
lost us the alacrity. Delay would have
movement would have
battle, for without the French on the