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The C'imsshscorre.pouden. Of tn. Lon
a"n Times furnishes that paper with the
most ample end thrilling accounts Of the
s'o'm'ne of Sevss;opoi, on the 9Th Of Sep
'e"oer' that have ye. been given to the pub.
lie. Of the gaIIsu, assault, bv The French,
on the Malskoff, be says:
Al 10 9 O'Clock General Peli..ier and
his s'H wen, up The French Observatory
on The right. The French trenches were
crowded with men as close a. they could
pack, and We could see our men through The
breaks IN The clouds of dust, which were
most irritating. already in their trenches, A
few minues before IL O'Clock, the French.
Ike swarm Of bees, issued from their
trenches close 10 the doomed MsIakoff.
sw"rmed up its face, and were through the
einorasu'es 10 the t"inkling Of On eye
hey crossed the seven metres Of ground
which separate them from the enemy a,
few bounds-'hey d'ifled as lightly and
quickly as autumn leaves before the wind.
baisli"n sfer ba,.sliop, into the embrasures,
and IN q minute or Two after the head Of
'helr Column issued from The ditch the ,ri-
color wss floating over the Korpiloff Bss-
non. The muske,ty was verv feeble a, frs,
Indeed, our allies took The Russians quite
ny surprise. and very few of the latter were
IN the Malskof; but they soon recovered
themselves, and, from IL o'clock ill pas, Z
IN The evening, the French had TO meet end
sIefes, the repeated attempts of the enemy to
regain the work and the Lille Redan, when,
weary Of The fearful slaughter Of his men,
who lay in thousands over the exterior Of
the works, the Muscovi,e General, despair.
ing Of success, Withdrew his exhausted Ie.
gions, aud prepared, with admirable skill, to
evacua'e the plsce.
The ATTACK on THE REpAN, bv the
English, ives no. attended with The success
which followed the French attack upon The
Malak"G, as The very brief end partial ex-
tracts from The letter Of the Times CORES.
ponden', here given, will show:
As soon as the ,r-color was seen waving
over The Psrspe, Of the Malsk off through The
smoke and dust, four rockets were sent up
from Chspman's attack. one after smother,
as signal for our assault on the Rehsn.
I, wss few minutes after IL when our
men left The 9Th parallel. The musketry
COMMENCED ., once, and in less than five
minutes, during which the troops had 10
pass over sbou. thirty yards from the near
es. approach to The parspet Of the Redsn,
hey had lost large proportion Of their Of
ficers, and were deprived Of the aid Of their
leaders. with the exceptions ] have stated.
The riAemen advanced admirably, bu' from
their position they could no; do much 10
reduce the fire of The guns on the TANKS and
below the Ie.en.ering angles. The bravery
and coolness Of that experienced, deserving,
aud nnuch urgfected officer Captain Flyers,
were never more brilliantly displayed or ur.
gently called for. As they came nearer, the
enemy's FIRE became less fa,sl. They cross
ed the aba.,is ~llhou, difficulty; j, was torn
40 pieces and destroyed by our shot, and the
men stepped over and through il with ease.
The ligh, division made straight for The ga
lien, and projecting engle Of the Redan, and
came TO the ditch, which is here about Is
fee, deep. The party detailed for the pur
pnse placed The ladders. bu, they were found
70 be too short, However, had there been
enough Of them, tina. would no. have mat,
.ered much, bu. come had been lef. behind
in The hands Of dead or wounded men, and
Others had been broken, 80 that if one can
credit the statements made by those who
were present, there were not more than six
or seven ladders at The salient.
The men led by their officers lesped into
the ditch and scrambled up the other side,
whence they 60, Up The parspe. almost
~i,hou. opposition, for the few Russians
who were in front ran back and got behind
,heiJ trsverses and breasiworks az soon as
they raw our men on the top, and opened
Fl upon them. The small party
.f The 9O.h, much diminished, went on gal
lan,ly towards the bresslwork, but they
we're too weak to force it, and they he'd to
retire and get behind the ,raverses, where
men of different reg iments had already con
sregs,ed. end were keeping up brisk fire
on the Russians, whose heads were jus, Vi
sble above the bress,work. Simultaneous
~ with the head Of the storming party of
the Light Division, Colonel Windham had
60, inside The Redsn on their right, below
the ssIisnt on The proper left face Of The Re-
dan, bu, in spite Of all his exer,ionr, could
.lo little more than the gsIsn, officers Of The
ooh and 9Th, and Of The supporting regi-
men,s. The fact was that the
Hnssisns having accumulated several thou
eands Of men behind the bress,work, and
seeing our men all scattered up and confus-
ed behind The inner psrspe, Of the traverse,
crossed the bress,work, through which sew.
eral field pieces were now playing with
Crane on the inner face Of The Redsn, and
charged our broken groups with the bsvo.
net, and q, the same time The, the rear ranks,
pe.,ina on the breslwork poured a heavy
hail Of bullets on them over the heads oi
.ha sdxancinu cnlumna The stIuaale LII Al