Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-12-02

struggling and horses mnging friend and foe in ots
gade could to the retreat Of the miserable rem
nants Of that band of heroes they returned place
they had lately Quilted in all the pride Of life
At ll.S5 not British soldier, except the dead and
dying was left in front Of these bloody Muscove guns
Our loss, far as it could be ascertained in killed.
wounded and missing at o'clock to-day follows
Went into action. Retd action Loss.
4th Light Dragons. ........l1S 80 70
Sth Hussars... l04 3S Sc
l1th Hussars. ITO 25 S5
18th Light Dragons. ........130 81 90
LIZ tn Lancers.................i45 80 ITO
Totals. !. .... 0O7 l9s 400
1t is not certain that all these killed. wounded
missing; many will still come in, and about eighty
wounded have already returned Capt Nolan was killed
by the first shot fred he rode in advance of the hus
sars, cheering them Lord Lucan slightly wound
ed Lord Cardigan received lance thrust through his
clothes Major Halkett, Of the 4th light dragons,
killed Lord Fitzgibbon Of the Sth hussars was despe
rately wounded, and has since, fear died. Cornst
Houghon Of the 1th hussars, is killed Captains Goad
and Oldham and Cornet Montgomery Of the 18th light
dragons are killed. Capt White and Lieut.. Thomas,
Of the 18th lancers, are killed Capt. Charteris 92d
foot aid-de-camp to Lord Lucan, is killed Capt Nor
rs who was in command of the 18th lancers and whose
reputation gallant officer and good swordsman is
known to the army, has received dreadful wounds and
has been carried board ship The other wounded OFF,
GERS are Capt. Maxse, aid-de-camp, slightly; Capt
Hutton, 4th light dragons; Lieut. Sparkle, 4th light
dragons; Capt Cooke IL tn hussnrs Leut Treveyan,
l1th hussars Capt Lockwood, of the cavalry staff is
missing Mr.. Woombwell, of the 18th, had narrow
escape. He was dragged off his horse by the cap and
taken prisoner by Cossscks A Russian officer ad
dressed him and told him not to be afraid for that he
would be well taken care though e gems "a were rather
rough in their manners However they saved the
trouble of guarding him. for in the charge he made his
escape and got back to his lines
While our affair was going on the French cavalry made
most brilliant charge at the battery our le which
was firing on men, and cut down the gunners but
they could get off the guns without support and had
to retreat with the loss Of two captains and fifty
killed and wounded of their little force Of two hundred
chasseurs The heavy cavalry in columns Of squadrons,
moved sowly backwards, covering the retreat Of the
broken men The ground left covered with our men
and with hundreds Of Russians, and we could see the
Cossacks busy searching the dead.
Our infantry made forward movement towards the
redoubts after the cavalry in and the Russian
antry Ia advance slowly retired towards the gorge at
the time the French cavalry pushed forward on
their right and held them in check pushing out line of
skrnishers and forcing them to withdraw their guns.
The Russians from the redoubt still harassed very
much by shell and shot, and infantry first divison)
ordered to lie down in two lines to escape their effect
The fourth division covered by the rising ground and
two regiments Of French infantry which had arrived in
the valley followed by strong artillery moved onwsrds
to operate the Russian right already threatened by
the French cavalry The Russians threw out skrmshers
to meet the French skrmishers, and as it would be mad
to attack them light horse had done, the
French contented themselves with keeping their position
At ii o'clock A. NJ. the Russians feeling alarmed at
steady advance and at the symptoms of intention to
turn cut off their right retired from No. redoubt
which taken possession of by the Allies AT Ills
o'clock they abandoned the redoubt No. blowing up the
magazines and still continued to advance, they
blew up and abandoned No. as IL 40 o'clock; but
great regret were not in time nor IN force to pre-
vent their taking off seven out Of nine guns in these
earthworks
AT I148 o'clock the Russian line of infantry began to
retire slowly end strong portion of it crept up the hill
behind the hrst redoubt, which still belongs them, in
tba in hnt
it not desire to risk battle, and had already
found that position too large to be readily de-
Tended. We made up minds, therefore, to let the
Russians have the redoubs Nos. 2, and g. and
if they liked and to content ourselves with keeping Ba
laaya and the communication with it open by the west
ery and southerly heights behind camp. The artl
lery the right Of rst division fired shot and rockets at
the first redonb but could not do much good could
the heavy guns of the batteries the town carry
far to annoy the Russians. At II o'clock the greater
portion of the French and English moved more rapid
ly and accession to the strength Of artillery was
made by two French batteries who rushed towards the
front of left in support of their cavalry The first
division remained still in line along the route to Ba-
laklava.
From u Ito 1915 not shot was fred on either side
but the Russians gathered up their forces towards the
heights the gorge, and still keeping their cavalry
the plain, mannuvred in front right. Gen. Can
robert who had gone off short time previously to in.
spect the position of his troops from telegraph station
u.s. returned and had animated conversation with
Lord Regau At this moment the bugles Of the French
below sounded, and Gen. Canrobert shouting to the
Zouayes in the trench asked what this sonere sgnied
" Cess gTSae nous, Central" the reply We
all looked for renewal of the action.
At 1928 the whole Of the Allies again got into motion
towards the enemy, with the exception of the first div
son which moved eceon towards the opposite hills,
keeping their right wing well before Palakaya At II 40
Captain Cahorpe sent by Lord Raglan with orders
to the troops which seemed have the effect of altering
the disposition Of Our front, for the French at p M
showed still further up left When got to the
ridges they took possession Of redoubs Nos. J. q and
but the Russians evidently intended to keep No. and
draw after them If possible, into the gorge where
they had retired their guns. As object solely tc
keep Balakaya, this not game; and, the Rus
slams would advance, but kept their cavalry in front
of the approach the mountain passes it became evil
dent there would be further engagement to-day. The
cannonade which began at IL i5 and continued with
little effect, ceased altogether at ll5, and the two ar
mics retained their respective positions. Our men and
horses alike tired and hungry, and the French were
| no hettor.
Lord Raglan continued on the hillside all day watch
ing the enemy About o'clock Sir Colin Campbell and
Sir g. Ca.hcart and Lord Cardigan had interviews with
Lord Raglan, who evidently listened their recals with
great interest Gen. Bosquet Joined Gen Canrobert,
and there WAS long conversation between the French
and English Generals after which all moved down to the
valley together and examined the enemys position
dark before lord Raglan returned TO his quarters With
last gsam OF day could the sheen Of the enc
mys aDces in their old position in the valley and their
infantry gradually crowned the heights on their left and
occupied the road to tho village which is beyond Balak
lava to the soUthward Our guards were moving back