New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-17

in the rigging, ditch about six feet broad and !. ssH
deep, with the earth knocked about By shos :. -
sides and we meet Frenchmen laden with ws,s q
teens carrying large tin cans full Of coffee s,s
of meat and soup, ready cooked, up 20 the As,-,H
They are cooked in the ravine Close at hsn5 ~
taken up in messes 20 the men duty. The NJ
Ion rises before us, great quadrangular WORK ~ =
top Of mound or hill opposite Maiakoff 49,
about 500 yards nearer to Sevastopol. The silss :
formed of enormous parapets with steep slons ~
they bear many traces OF our tremendous FIRE an AZ
before the Msmelon was taken.
The parapetF are high inside the work, and Ar, :,
prodeious thickness II is evident the Msunelc'. Nt
overione by the Russians. II was filed with ~
trayerres, and covers, and excavations insiie A. -
n was impossible TO put large body of men M,
10 get them into order in case Of assault. IT,
terror is ike quarry so torn Is 1t aud blown nm =.
shells The stencil is fearful. 1t arises from the -
Russians who were buried as they FELL and bones ~
arms and legs stick out from the piles OF rubbAs
which YOU are treading. Many guns also were nm.
here wien they were disabled by our fire. bs, theS .
not Jecompose so RAPIDLY poor mortality ~
white dag was hostcd from the Redan just Us mr.
into the second English parallel on my leA, wAps
joins the left of the French right. What netwos q
zigzags and parallels and traVerses one has TO pssk
and through before lac can reach the front, Yoss,
see how easy il is for men 10 be confused a. MIA.
how easy TO mistake, when the ground is no. faa;,
Thus il was that the Fourth Division, who were sxsx
toned TO man orc attack, did not know where IN
were IN ldStlDg iut VI tuI ~
no doubt did the error arise owing 10 which sg ia,
Campbell attacked near the apex of the Redan is:ss,
of at the n ink. The Russians threw out long n.
of sentries along their works 10 front of the sbar,
which guards them, and at the same time we aiv0,x
another lice of sentries opposite the Rcdan, aus
French similar corion before the Mame,on Ia
officers on duty FASTENED to the intermediate spacee
the buryng aud searching parties came out ON thera
duty. The Quartermaster-General and ms stan se
on the spot and every precauiion was taken 10 ks
officers and men from crowding ABOUT Inc mena
the trenches were enoined not to get up on the pS
nets or into the embrasures to looksover. Al eS
Gers and men nor on duty stopped by the caviar
a mile behind or at the boyaux IN the trenches. N
Russians seemed to be under restraint also, but h
crowded on the top of the Redan and OF the Malak2
parapets and watched the proceedings with groat i
teresi. walked out of the trench unmolestet on u
right and rear OF the Quarries, under the Redan
which we have now established heavy battery
the distance of 400 yards from the cnemys embrasu
The ground slopes down from our attack Tor some lev
hundred wards and then rises again TO the Redau.
il covered with long rank grass and weeds, with largs
stones with tumuli alas Of recent formation, and
with holes rangingin depth from feet or teettoa foot
and in diameter from feet 10 or feet, where she'll
have fallen aud exploded 1t is impossible b
give notion of the manner in which the eHth
SCARED by these explosions and by the passage OF shot
The grass too is scanned in all directions by grapesh0
and furrowed By larger missiles, as If plows large a&
small had been constantly drawn over u. Someuma
il is difficult 10 get over the nequalies IN the ground
which ia naturally of broken and uneven surface
There is a red Jacket in the grass-a private of the 3lh
is living on bis face if he were fast asleep his Rs
with the barrel curved quite roand, and benz nearlyh
two by the grapeshot which afterward passed through
the soldiers body, is under him, and the right hand
which prOtrudes from under his chest, SUI ciueha
the stock. II was the first body saw, and the DeR
est TO our lines, but we advanced and passed III
seniries they lay thick enough around and before hin
The litter bearers were already busy. Most Of on
dead seemed TO lie close to the abatts OF the kedan
and many. no doubt, had been dragged up toita
night for plumbers sake. Colonel Yeas body wa
found near the abats on the right Of the Redan he
boots and epaulettes were gone, but otherwise IA
clothing was untouched. His head was greatly
swollen, and his features and fine manly face Il hac
been, were nearly neutrality-suspicious. Col. Sha1forhs
remains were in a similar state. The shattered franz
of Sir John Campbell lay close up TO the abatti,.
His sword and boots were taken, but the former u
SAID TO be in the Light Division camp. 1t is likely
he was carried away from the spot where he fell up to
the ditch of the abatts for the facility of searching
the body as he could not have got so tar In advance
as the place where he lay Already his remains were
decomposiYg fast, and his face was much disfgured.
Captain Hume bis attached aidde-camp, had The
body removed, and this evening 1t was mterredr
Caihcarts hllhis favorite resort, where every cte
was sure of kind word and cheerful saying ron
the Gallant Breadier. 1t was but the very evening
before his death that saw him standing within fec
feet Of his own crave lie had come to the ground u
order 10 attend the funeral of Captain Vaughan an
officer of his own regiment the 3sthl, who died q
wounds received two days previously in the trenches
and he laughgly invited one who was talking to him
TO come and lunch with him the next day al Tue Clur
house of Sevastopol.
Although the army has been disappointed by the re-
sut the attack on the Redan and Malak0 It has MOI
despared-it does not despair of the result OF ths
weary SIEGE | venture to say that the expectation o.
nearly every officer and soldier in the camp on the d
IS ,ho Of Iupa tyaa
newed that evening or on the folio wing morning. od
we are nOw it IL said, going to attack the Redan M
Malakof by sap; we are about To undergo the tedhs
process of mines and countermines, globes OF con-
preston etonnoirs fOugasses and all the apparsfn OF
scientific engineering, in which the Russians are ~
least our equals. 1t is not too much TO say that Zen.
Jones' our chief engineer, expects nothing OF impc'
lance TO be achieved for several, many weeks cone
that Sir George Brown is wiser and more discreet
and Lord Raglan less saDgune and more pertubed thai
they have been for some time past. Cries OF MURDER
from the lips of expiring officers have been echoe.
through the camp, but they have now died sway IN
lence or the noise active argument and discussion
Oppressed by the news OF deaths doings anon
many dear friends, and by the intelligence oil the zoe
of one who was valued by all who knew how 70 az
precate rare scholarship, quaint humor, pun
heart and lively fancy, can scarcely be suppose
competent TO view our position IN lts natui'
aspect or TO escape the influence OF the gloomy q
mosphere with which am Just now surrounded. Lor
Ragians amiable disposition is acutely touched by h
loss of so many gallant men. For myself, adm
that knowing nothing of war, and merely chroniclin
a. far as possible the results of its operations do No
see any possibility of being able to abandon oS
present position on the south side of Sevastopo or
na general attack on the Russian armies wbic
are encamped before us. Every rsvine has bee
made another Sevastopo by their engineers Oh
Land Transport Corps is hardly pressed by the servio
Of the Siege Artillery that as ! am informed the ratio
of fuel has been on several occasions recently not forth
coming for the troops to the full amount II il to be PR
sumed Ii at the allied Generals are acquainted WI
some respecting the strength and position Of ID
Russian army, which induce them TO think il would
unadysabe to break up our camp and try to force ID
passes of the Belbek. They may distrust their OF
rergth the efficiency Of their meansiof transpor
they may be deferred by the force and the aitiua
ofthe enemy. They NAV be influenced by consider