The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-21 00:00:00

INCIDENTS ELF THE CONFLICT;

Fnrtherdetails in connexion with this gallantlyeachieved,
though dear-bought, victory, are found in various private
letters. The following: interesting account is from the
letter of an officer of the Light Cavalry Brigade ; it is
dated from the camp, near Balaklava, Oct,. 27th:—
" You will be glad to hear I am alive after our tremen-
dous affair of the 25th. We were ordered to charge some
Russian batteries and cavalry, and the light brigade went
down—the 17th and /3th leading in line; the 11th were
ordered to hang a little back as a suppoxt, and the 4th and
Bth followed, in a sort of third line. We all knew that
the thing was desperate before we started, and it was even
worse than we thought. In our front, about a mile and a
half off, were several lines of Russian cavalry and nine
guns, to get at which we had to pass along a wide valley,
with the ground a little falling,-in itself favourable enough
for a charge of cavalry ; but the sloping hills on each side
gave the enemy an opportunity (which they used) of
placing guns on both our flanks as ,we advanced; and not
only guns, but infantry witlr, Minit rifles. However,
there was no hesitation ; down our. fellows went at the
gallop—through a fire in front and on both flanks, which
emptied our saddles and knocked over our horses by scores.
I do not think that one man flinchedin the whole brigade,
though every one allows that so hot a fire was hardly ever
seen. We went right on, cut down the gunners at their
guns (Me Russians worked' their trans until we were-
within ten yards of them) ; went on still, broke a line of
cavalry in rear of the•guns, and drove it back on the third
line. But here our bolt was shot : the Russians formed
four deep, and our thin and broken ranks, and blown.
horses, could not attempt to break through them, parti-.
cularly as the Russian.cavalry had got round our flanks,
and were prepared: to charge our rear (with fresh men).
We broke back through then, however, and then had to
run the gauntlet, through the cross-fire of the artillery
and Minis rifles, back, to our own lines, with their eayalr3r,
hanging on our flank. The heavy brigade, which had
made a good, charge of its own in the morning-, covered
our coming out of action, and lost some men from the
artillery. _ _ _ _ _ - _ -

" There is no concealing the thing—the light brigade
was greatly damaged, and for nothing ; for, though we
killed the, gunnery and the horses of nine 1:2-pounders,
we could not bring them away. * ' * It was a
bitter moment after we broke through the line of cavalry
in rear of their guns, when I looked round and, saw there
was no support 'beyond our own brigade, which, leading
in the smoke, had diverged and scarcely filled the ground.
Wa went on, however, and hoped that their own men
flying would break the enemy's line and drive them into
the river. When I saw them form four deep, instead, I
knew it was 'all up,' and called out to the men to rally.
At this moment a solitary squadron of the Bth came up in
good order. This saved the remnant of us ; for we rallied
to them, and they, wheeling about, charged a line which
the Russians had formed in our rear. You never saw men
behave so well as our men did, Ai we could not hold
our ground, all our dead and badly wounded were left
behind, and we know not who are dead, or who are pri-

soners. All this makes me miserable, even to write ; but
it is the naked truth. Lord Raglan says that the moral
effect has been wonderful, The Russian prisoners, since
taken at Sebastopol, say the Russians were pertrified at
the qua.,;fir of the attack and the enerev that could, after

such a fire,-break through their lines; These prisoners
were taken in a very successful affair by Sir De Lacy
Evans. Do the old fellow justice : He is a first-rate
division leader."
THE 93RD AND THE SCOTS GREYS...," The 93rd, (says

the shock in line, disdaining to forth in square, and, when
within an easy range, poured a rattling volley into the
crowded ranks of the enemy. The latter hesitated,
received another volley, and then wheeled sharply round
to the left without confronting the bristling bayonets.
find self-confidence exhibited by

the brave 93rd were beyond c
did the Highland bonnets ever
British infantry regiment, the I
and dashed forward against tl
ffettino into saddle. The nun

Reptilsed by one

a caval

enemy, opening their rank
received them in their mid
them. For several minutes

eQ upon
1144vpeared

from sight, but at last the belligerent circle sprang asun-
der, similar to a bursting shell, and the red coats appeared
driving before them, in headlong flight, the routed enemy.
The struggle had been a fearful one, and at first the
Russians, encouraged by their formidable numerical supe-
riority, fought furiously. Daunted, and at length routed
by the heroic bravery of these 280 British sabres, the
enemy galloped back towards the captured redoubts.
Never in the annals of the Scots Greys had they greater
odds to encounter and to conquer?'
THE DASTARDLY Tongs.—Whenever, during the day
after the battle of the 25th (says a correspondent), you
saw any of the Turkish soldiers, you saw the people
hooting them and calling them cowards and run-aways.
I witnessed two Irish women actually driving four
of these chivalrous gentry before them, making them
carry some things for them, probably to their own
wounded husbands, and saying, " Eh ! ye cowardly
devils, this is all you're fit for, to be our servants ; sure
you are afraid to fight ;" and on our return I saw a young
middy drawn up before some fifty of them, abusing them
most heartily for their having run away. One of them
made a sign as if he was going to draw his sword, when
master middy sang out, " Oh," said he, " I'm not afraid of
you, such a set of cowards as you are," set his arms a-
kimbo, and then stood, the picture of a young lion, and, I
should say, about as brave.