New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-15
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ofshsurdi3
Wbea the landing wss first reported. we said
that disease would be the worst enemy oil sue Al
lies if the cGmpsigu should be heightened Disease
is there in its worst forms, coupled at leas: o. TAR
as the British are concerned. with the very wor"
sort OF attendance. Indeed. to such an extent
have the ,ick been neglected from this cause tna'
Lord Raglan has been obliged to issue avery per-
emptory repriB and to tie medical stai. Bat shls
is not all The doctors are Ut Constantinople'
the medical stores at Yarna. and the sick at
Balaklava- Is not this s,lendii illustration OF
the new military doctrine lately held forth oy
Louis Bonsparte at Boulogne, mat every army
70 have good position, must be placed I'D 3 TIL
ANGLE The sick ness increases with the rough
ness of the season. the regiments dwindle down
a Britilh regime nj, sent out LOO strong no"
cannot count more than 600 men under arms
and the slowness of operations goes on its even
course. The routine of the Horse Guards, the
fruit of forty years peaceful schooling Is not to
be upset by trifes of that sort. Perish the army
but let Sevastopol be taken according to her
Msjesty's regulations.
IAcommoa s;eses the besiegers usually try to
place their frat batteries as near as possible to
the enemy's works, and six or seven hundred
yards is considered a great distance. But in 8
grand siege like this particularly if against mere
field works, just the reverse should be done, &C
cordipg to Raglan. The enemy allowsus to come
within seven hundred yards, but we must never
do what the enemy wants US to do. So says Rag
Ian, and opens his batteries at $500 and 5000
yards distance fact we could not believe
did the reports leave it possible to doubt.
Next be comes down 70 l,5OO and l,2Oo
yards, and then states, as reason for not
openipg fire, that preaching batteries, to be
effective must be within three or four hundred
Yards from the works TO be preached! The dis
tant batteries are to have Lancaster and long
range teninch guns, since it seems the British
artlleri,ts are of opinion that these guns are like
telescopes. only good at great distance. Indeed,
this long range question, which is perfectly In its
place for naval armaments, has caused more con-
fusion and humbug than real good when applied
to land artillery; we have an example of 1t in these
ridiculous batteries.
which have provoked all these outbursts of ge-
MUS and perspicacty, are as follows: On the
western side attacked by the FreHch) one or
two faces of the quarantine fort are exposed.
Behind this is a loopholed wall running up to-
ward the head of the Quarantine Bay, and end
ing on hill, in round tower which forms re-
duit for an earthwork constructed around it.
Thence wall of three feet average thickness is
continued to the upper end of the harbOr, thus
inclosiDg SevastopOl on the southwest This
wall is said to be incapable Of any defense, al
though it might easily have been made SO; it is,
therefore, protected BY small earth works lying in
front of it. From the end of the harbor eastward to
the Csreenng Bay (the British front of attack
there are no regular defenses whatever except two
towers surrounded and sheltered by lunettes, in
similar manner with the one described above.
There are besides some earthwOrks of irregular
form, the whole forming an entrenched camp oil
no great pretensiOns, if we are to believe the
published plans Of Capt. Biddulph, sketched on
the spot. At all events they show only one line
Of defenses, consisting Of works open in the rear;
there are no closed redoubts, of which as gen-
eral thing the Russians are so exceedingly fond.
But we cannot believe that this is the cases if
this was the only line to take, the British ought
long since to have taken it with the bayonet
There must be a second line Of redoubts behind
it.
The whole of the Russian works have been
armed with heavy guns from the feet-the best
use the Russians could make of them. Yet their
practice with them is despicable. They FIRE away
whole days and nights a! the enemy, and make
one bit for hundred rounds. Perhaps it was
this very bad practice which induced Lord Raglan
to open his trenches at the safe distance Of 5000
yards. After three days bombardment by the
allied fleets and armies, it is stated that the
British, on their side had made one breach, while
the French had not yet completed theirs. As
soon as this was completed, the assault was to
take place. That it should take 300 guns Of i'm
mense csliber three or four days to breach such
defenses would be incredible, had We not very
good authority for the respectful distance at
which the allied batteries had been constructed.
So much for the results already achieved; but
whatever event may crown the operations, it is
certain that the siege of SevastopOl will stand un-
parslleled in military history.