New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-05
FROM THE BRITISH CAMP.


BEFORE SLvAsIoPoL, THURSDAY, Aprl >, 800.
In the evening very serious affair took place IN
front Of our right attack the particulars OF which
,rn o. yet scarcely acquainted slth Insre was very
hfavy firing from lOl TO ! o'clock, which gas Der
aided in by come prisK vOleys and hear that our
working parties in the advanced ren "a hspPeoed 70
meet working party Of the Rusisns, and taat a
regular baDd.to. hand light with pickaxes, spsde',
bile hatches and uusket stocks took place between
the two parties In which the RusssUs had the best
al one time, and We gained the ground al another
time till At last the Island courage cld ts WORK SUD
our drove the enemy up toward our o~n ii1es.
The fp BIT renewed in front VI the trenches me
covering parties out on both sides 10 the sd OF
their comrsoes and at lsst the RussiaOs we're re-
pulsed sitter 8 severe struggle. We haj three officers
wounced-oDe, Lieutenant JoIes, OF tie 7th better
known a. " IBkeIman Jones from having received
a wound on the 5ih Of November the other two OH
cers Of tbe 34th regiment Our lOss IN killed and
wounded IL stated 70 be 81. The Russians Se'e said
10 have let IL BODIES and that of one officer behind
them in Of pNsiels but the report req llres
Confirmation IL is believed that they lost 10 klued
and wounded about 30 men out Of the 80 who were
engaged in the affair Ia the absence OF al accurate
knowledge Of the facs il would be unfair TO allade
to the stories shost relative to tue bal condlct Of
some of the men who left their tools when surprised,
o. they allepe by the enemy. II Is more probable,
from the result that soldiers behaved With great
gasntry and il is certain that they beat, IN hand
to.hano encounters. vastly superior force OF the
Russians Heavy vOlieys Of musketry aud rounds OF
shot and shell we're FREQ al during the conflict.
APRIL 7.-Theie is no positive certainty that the
bombsrdment will begin Oh " 0nday. the n Of April,
but the er gineers ara artillery officers believe II Is
the day. IL is said we should have opened fire, or
that we resdy TO do go, yesterday morning, but
that Lord Raglan did not wish 10 insugurste Good
Friday by salvoss of artillery and By sanguintry
bombsromeDt. Ga the other hand, the circu instance
of our stl senoing up shot shell, and mOrars,
does not quite consistent with the state ent th Il
the Generals were prepared TO lombard before to-
day. Patience, good public, patience Rome was
not built 10 a day. Let us hope Ssyast)pol VIII be
taken in ess than q year. You have sent out very
brave but very small army, and il h.s been wasted
away and d" used up IN the face of the enemy, who
hss waxed boloer and more numerous ss its gallant
little adversary has thrunk up beneath the rlgOurs OF
winter overwork and sickness
Your divisions have fallen 10 the strength Of brig
aoes your bfieades have d~iDdled 10 regiments and
your regiments have been Ared 10 the dimensions
of cOmpaI les. Your gallant cavalry has ceased 70
only furnish pi kets and weak patrols 70 keep watch
Ouiside our bele0guered camps. You have been told
that you had st efficient army Of 30 600 men in
the field but the mel who tod you 30 juggled with
you IN dOu Die sense or did not know the tru b.
They did not see the ghast.y legions which PASSED
away from us At the e,ha hospitals of Scutari whose
portals have almost been deserving of the terrible in
snipiion of the IajerH0. They did not know that
Is Coo meu-sy, fifteen thousand six hundred sick sol
defs-~ere shipped from B alaklaya between October
l. 1854 ana March 80 1853, and sent down 10 his
pital although hundred and tens Of hu ldreds still
lay lsDguishing n tents in camp Who came 10 I'LL
their places few thousand sickly sinewless ooy',
dered mechanics caoled by recruiting sergeans
TO exChsIge the mfery of our great tOWEs for the
abunc ance OF the camp, and who added 3 couple Of
yeais 10 their sge in order t. pds muster at the depot