The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-07 00:00:00

wounded since the

aptain Rowley, of the Guards, was killed yesterday ;
68th Regiment, killed to-day ; Ruthven,
wounded.

O'Leary, of the
Lieutenant, R.N.

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OCTOBER 18, 3 r. 31

The fire was resumed this morning soon after daybreak.
The French were still unable to support us. Their ex-
treme left is still silenced. They will not be ready till the
19th or 20th, so 'damaged are they by the Russian fire.
During the night the Russians remounted their guns,
and brought up fresh ones, and established a great supe-
riority of fire and weight of metal.

At 10 a.m. the alarm was given that the Russians were
marching to attack our rear on the Balaklava road. Lord
Raglan and staff, with large bodies of French troops, at
once moved there, and found the Russian cavalry and two
battalions of infantry, with one gun, endeavouring to
creep up, in a fog, to the outposts. The Turks opened a
fire from the redoubts, and the Russians retired.
At this moment (3 p.m.) the Russians are pressing us
very hard, returning three shots for our two. Colonel
Hood, of the Guards, was killed in the trenches to-day.
Ruthven, of the Albion, is better. Lieutenant Chase, of
the Albion, is killed. Another lieutenant and 100 men
were killed and wounded in our fleet yesterday, while
attacking Fort Constantine.

The attack by the_fleets is to be renewed to-morrow

Of the siege-train there are 2 IlilledTls ;;;;;ely
wounded, and 8 slightly wounded. This was up to
yesterday.

Our hiss up to to-day is 96.
The redan and flagstaff fort are as troublesome as ever.
The Retribution and London had their mainmasts shot
away, and were on fire yesterday. They had to be
hauled off.
The Agamemnon has suffered severely.

Lord J. Murray and Ellison, with 150 men of the 88th
130 artillerymen, and six surgeons, arrived last night pei
Tonning.
The sickness has much abated.
......

The redan fort, flagstaf

fort, and Round Tower we

.e firing very warmly just now.
We can scarcely get up ammunition to our guns

THE ATTACK BY SEA

OFF THE KATCHA, CRIMEA, OCT. 18.

Yesterday morning, about daybreak, the English and
French opened fire from their batteries on the south side
of Sebastopol. Late on the preceding night it had been
agreed by the combined admirals and generals that the
fleets should on the same day make a grand attack on the
forts at the mouth of the harbour. During the night top-
gallantmasts were lowered, spare spars and boats hauled
over to Her Majesty's ship Vulcan, and early in the morn-
ing steam was up. The paddlewheel and screw-frigates
lashed themselves alongside the sailing line-of-battle ships,
and all was got ready for the fight. The French were to
occupy the right as you enter the harbour—that is, the
southern side, and the English the left, or the northern
side, in one line, about 1,500 yards off.
The French first got into their places, about half-past
twelve o'clock, and immediately commenced a heavy fire,
which was vigorously returned from the batteries. The
distance, however, was certainly greater than originally
contemplated, and, as far as I can ascertain, it was over
2,000 yards. By degrees the English ships successively
took up their stations, passing in rear of the French and
anchoring to the left. The Agamemnon, Sanspareil, and
London, (lashed to the Niger,) however, took an inside
station in advance, perhaps about 1,000 yards from Fort
Constantine. Nothing could be more noble than the
gallant way in which the Agamemnon and Sanspareil
steamed in amid a perfect hail of cannon balls and shells,
preceded by a little tug-steamer, the Circassia, commanded
by Mr. Ball. This little bit of a cockleshell, which looked
as if she might have been arrested by a fowling-piece,
deliberately felt the way for the large ships till her services
were no longer required.

The firing- soonbecarile terrific. At the distance of six
miles the sustained sound resembled that of a furious
locomotive at full speed, but, of course, the roar was infi-
nitely grander. The day was a dead calm, so that the
smoke hung heavily about both ships and batteries, and
frequently prevented either side from seeing anything.
From about 2 till dark (nearly 6) the cannonade raged
most furiously.

Towards 4:o'clock Fort Constantine, as well as some of
the smaller batteries, slackened somewhat in their fire ;
but towards dusk, as some of the ships began to haul out,
the Russians returned to their guns, and the fire seemed
as fierce as ever. There was one explosion just behind
Fort Constantine, which appeared to do much damage.
At dark all the ships returned to their anchorage. The
change was magical from a hot sun, mist, smoke, explo-
sions, shot, shell, rockets, and the roar of 10,000 guns—to
a still, cool, brilliant starlight sky, looking down upon a
glassy sea, reflecting in long tremulous lines the light at
the mastheads of the ships returning amid profound
silence.

What damage has been done to the forts we don't yet
know. Three of our ships have been roughly handled,
and the killed and wounded amount to 46 English killed
and upwards of 250 wounded. Lieutenant Chase, of the
Albion, has fallen, and Lieutenant Lloyd, commanding
the Vesuvius, and Mr. Foster, midshipman on board the
Sanspareil, are seriously wounded. No captains have been
hit. The blue jackets showed all their ancient valour.
Eight or nine men are swept away at a forecastle gun on
board the Sanspareil by the explosion of a shell. The
two remaining men coolly went on loading, with their
sponge and rammer, as though nothing had happened.

THE FRENCH DESPATCHES.
The Moniteur of Sunday contains the following

The Martial Minister of War has received from General
Canrobert, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the East,
the following report, dated from the head-quarters before
Sebastopol, the 18th of October, and forming a cantinua-
tion of that of the 13th, inserted in the Moniteur of the
28th of October :