The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-13 00:00:00

88TH REGIMENT OP FOOT.

Killed—Sergeant John Matthewman ; Privates Ro-
bert M'Donald, Peter Leonard, Michael Hynes, Mi-
chael Perryman, and Daniel Griffin.
Wounded ^ Serjeant Michael M‘Donargh ; Privates
Timothy Doherty, Thomas Foley, Morris Savage, Pat-
rick Leonard, Patrick Burns, Morris Ferris, Edward
English, Patrick Cullen, John Bush, Daniel Monarty,
Patrick Morrissey, James Kenny, and John Daly.

when the moment comes for using the point of the
bayonet. In a word, the soldiers of the army of the
East are in the hands of their chief ; they know what
their generals are worth, end their generals know what
they can obtain from the courage and devotedness of
such men. A mutual confidence unites them and triples
their force. Is it this that should cause discouragement
in Paris ? But whatever may be the value of a man, if
his health be weakened by suffering or by the want of
food be soon succumbs, l'hmme ne fait pas son ventre,
mais le ventre fait l'homme, is a proverb among our old
troopers. Let the alarmists tranquillise themselves on
this subject, for our troops want nothing on this head.
Provisions are abundant, and should the wind become
contrary for our four hundred and fifty sailing vessels, we
have one hundred steamers always ready to supply
120,000 men assembled in that narrow space. The sea
even in winter is a more easy and certain resource for
our supplies than the land conveyance for Prince Men-
schikoff. What is there, we again ask, so alarming in
this state of things ? Are we to consider all as lost be.
cause the German journals and the lying despatches of
the private telegraph incessantly speak of reinforce-
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dicted, which shows this. The nature of the country
from Odessa to Simpheropol (150 leagues) prevents
more than from 800 to 1,000 men marching together
and bivouacking on the same spot. They would
be in want of water ; wells are scarce, and would be in.
sufficient to supply a greater number of men. Calculate
therefore all the delays and the twenty-six days march
of the first detachment, which left Odessa, and it will
be seen that Prince Menschikoff could not receive
more than 1,000 men per day at the most, which,
from the date of the landing of the Allies to the pre-
sent time, would only make 27,000 men, allowing
every circumstance to be in favour of the enemy.
General Gortschakoff, besides, cannot spare too many
of his troops, and the state of the steppes will be such
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tains of the Tauric chain check the rains and the icy
winds which come from the north of Russia while
we are established on the southern slopes under a
climate so serene that the Russian aristocracy select it
for building handsome country houses where they seek
an asylum against the cold of the north, the rains have
deluged the roads by which the Russian columns have to
march, and the steppe is transformed into a lake of mud.
The date of the last accounts which reached St. Peters.
burg from the Crimea prove this fact ; even the rapid
Feldjager himself took forty-eight hours longer to
perform the distance from Sebastopol to Kourak.
Can it, therefore, be supposed that provisions, am.
munition, and bodies of troops can make more
rapid progress 1 Thus, therefore, we see that either
a want of water does not allow an army to ad-
vance except by detachment, or the rain plunges it in
the mud. It pursues its march with difficulty, deci-
mated by fever, and arrives with the half of its original
effective strength. Is there in all this anything to cause
discouragement, or can it be found in the fact that the
most cordial good understanding between the generals of
the allied armies and the soldiers of the two nations,
who feel no other rivalry than that of well performing
their duty, or that the officers who have the direction
of the siege works enjoy the highest reputation in
Europe ? Dispel, therefore, these vain alarms, and
when the loyal servants of France display such cou-
rageous abnegation, let not their brave hearts be sad-
dened by inconsiderate complaints."

INCIDENTS OF THE SIEGE.

THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH SHIPS.

The English ships cannonaded the right, and the
French battered the forts on the left. Twenty line-of-
battle ships and steamers fired their broadsides like sol-
diers firing in platoon practice throughout the day. The
continual roar of these engines of destruction might be
assimilated as nearly as possible to the constant rolling
of a drum close to your ears. Soon after the first few
broadsides the belligerents, as well as their ships and
forts, became enveloped in a cloud of smoke, and in this
state they all took up their position, and pounded each
other like gluttons, until night put an end to both their
operations and their anger.