The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-17 00:00:00

No. 77.—OENzuli LErrp

CANTERBURY'', CONSTANTINOPEry SEP. 30.
SlB,—Trer Majesty's steam-vessel Beagl9:arrived yester-

day min°. nglandand Malta, and went on in the
eveningm to-An' the fleet off Sebastopol, compretemith coals
and water.

The Vulcaysailed last evening for the Crimea,- and the
Industry, Cambria, Andes, Colombo, and Kangaroo steam
transports are'ready. Some of these vessels take• up col-
liers, with about 1,700 tons of fuel- for the fieetrbesides
several coal ships sent on to Varna.

The Industry-will be employed as a steam colliet, and
carries between 71)0 and 800 tons.
The Caduceus transport arrived con, the 28th from, the
Crimea with 270 sick from the arm-A. having lost a great
number on the passage down. The Courier transportialso
with sick, came down yesterday, but got ashore some miles
up the Bosphorus, but I have removed all the sick to
Scutaria by steam tenders.

The Turkish government having kindly given every agi
sistance in their power in complying with our wants, r
have also applied to them for more bedsteads for the hos-
pital, and am myself contracting for 2001rooden trestles,
they being much required.
I have pleasure in co-nperating with the military autho-
rities with a view to thecare of the sick and wounded,
and, from the unremitting attention of the staff, they are
made as comfortable as pbsaible, under existing circum-
stances.

A Russian Brigadier-General died of his- wounds last
night at Scutari, and will be buried to-day with military
honours. Another general! has also arrived • from the
Crimea, who will be sent on to Malta, by direction of the
Connzunder-in-Chief, by the first opportunity.-
I beg to enclose a statement of the sick anti wounded
soldiers, made out as correctlr as can be ascertained dur-
ing the present press of duty.—l have, &c.,
EDWARD BOXER, ReanAdmiral, Super:ittendent.
To the Secretary of the Admiralty, London.

THE GALLANT TWENTY-THIS.Dt—A writer in the Tiiries
says :—" As every detail of the battle of the Alma must
be of great interest to your readers, I trust you will be
kind enough to insert the enclosed, written by-si near
relative, and showing, so far as relates to the gallant 23d,
the services performed by that regiment. This letter is
more particularly interesting to the friends of the officers
in the 23d, as it shows that, from the time of their crossing
the Alma- until they gained the heights, their perseverance
and success were equal to their bravery, notwithstanding
the melancholy loss of officers and men : Heights of
Alma.—lt is with pleasure, but at the same time with
feelings of horror, that I now write to you a few details of
the battle oisthe Alma. Yesterday we crossed the Alma
river on our way to Sebastopol, when,,. just as we arrived
at the Alma,,about 20,000, or 30,000-Russians rose up and
gave us a shawer of grape and canister. I can only com-
pare it to a fall of hailstones. We won the day, and gained
the heights under terrific firing. General Brown Then
gave orders for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers to charge,
which we dial; and with one rush we carried the heights,
General Brown• calling out at the same time, " Ilurraltfor
the Royal Websh! Well done ! I will remember you 2'
I am sorry to say the victory was dearly bought

Chester was slid dead, and his horseago. rvans, poor
fellow ! was by my side, and we were cheering the com-
pany when haell, and I had to command the company.
We charged the heights and left about 20 dead in the
ditches. Butler and Anstruther, who were carrying the
colours, were bbtli shot dead ; also ConolLY,WYnne, Young,
and Radcliffe.- I was in the midst of the wounded and
dying, and their groans were fearful; General Brown
said he never saw such sharp firing, and, as for the 23. k, na
regiment conld: behave more bravely—they fought like
tigers. Campbell is wounded. Applevrhaite, Sayer, and
Bathurst have also suffered. My poor 'servant had. his
head shot off. This is the beginning. Phrhaps to-morrow
we may have another height to take. We took from: 10.
to 80 prisoners; some of them I captured myself? "
THE PRIIICIPALTOWNS IN THE CRIMBA.--Sebastopol,
41,135 inhabitants ; Batkchi Serai, 12•,391; Simpheropol,
12,104; Eupetoria,9,B2o ; Bertsch, 8,228'; Theodosia, 4;709;
Stara Brim, 4176 ; Balaklava, 461; Yalta, .3'71.: The roads
practicable far artillery in the Crimea are :-1. FrornSira-
pheropol to Sebastopol, along the northern declivity of the
Taurian chain; Its length is 36 miles. 2. From Simphe-
ropol to Yalta, across the Taurian chain, at the base of the
Tchatir Dag; its length is 46 miles.. 3.; From Yalta to
Balaklava, along the south coast. 4. From BalakLua to
Sebastopol, around the western termination:of the Tanrian
chain; its length is 9 miles. 5. Frow.Simpheropa to
Eupatoria. 6: From Simpheropol to ,Pereoop. Batkchi
Sergi is half-way from Sebastopol to • Simpheropol ; the
road between the two places skirts thebase of the Taurian
chain.

THE INTENDED FLOATING BATTE=Ese—The batteries
in course of construction will be themost formidable ever
projected. They are of forged or hammered iron plates,
4 inches thick, lined inside with wood, and. will measure
about I,EOO •tons. From actual experiment it has been
proved that they will be impervious to shot or shell.—A
dozen at least (French and English). of these floating
batterieswill be in the Baltic next spring.
A MESSENGER was sent with orders to the com-
mancrtng officer of the engineer. establishment at Chat-
ham to forward all non-commissioned: officers or privates
of the Royal Sappers and Minersovho,are practical divers,
for the purpose of their being seat to the army under the
command of Lord Raglan in. the Crimea, to assist in
bringing up the guns and removing the vessels sunk at
the entrance of the harbour of Sebastopol.

TIER LATE MARSHAL Sr., Aux./oak—The disease of"
the marshal was, we believe) an. affectic' da of the mucous..
membrane of the intestines, from which he has suffered
more• or less for some years.. He went, a short time since,
to the south of France for the benefit of his health,. arid.
there consulted a homceopathic• doctor, who, it was said,
gave him relief; but the-beneficial change that he under-.
went was probably due to xelaxation from business, mode-
rate exercise, and change of scene. When the marshal:
volunteered to take the-command of the army of the East,.
his physician told hint that if he could abstain from fatigue
the change might be of service, but that if excessive fatigue
should bring on an salute attack his life would bein danger,,
for the ordinary means. of reducing inflammation, could not
be resorted to with, him in his debilitated state.with much
chance of success., It is, probably from an acute attack of
this kind, if it bo• not an attack of cholera, that the mar-
shal has died.