The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-09
IA II H e w A n
AFFAIRS BEFORE SEBASTOPOL.


and wounded states the general health Of the army
good and that at five O'Clock on the morning
of tho 10th heavy fire was opened the Redan by the
allied batteries.
JrIY l-Gortschakof telegraphs Tho enemy has re-
newed vigorous cannonade Yesterday, at P. NJ, Ad-
Diral Nachmof received wound and has since
died. Until further orders Admiral Panfo is appointed
to succeed the deceased commander of the gar
rison, and Port and Military Governor Of sebasopol
JrLY l3-The Times correspondent writes-Iast night
the Russians kept up tremendous fre am sorry to
say that the battery which the French constructed be-
tween the Mameon and the Malako, has been knocked
to pieces by the powerful fire Of the latter fort colonel
and thirty officers and men were put hors du oonu and
the siege works have received decided cheek. ,act
as the allies to the actual defences OF the place
they expect to meet elaborate works and OBJ
stacles heaped another with all the care which
many months Of preparation admit Even now the ene-
my strengthening the Baako every day 1t is not
what it the 18th Of June, and fortnight hence 1t
will not be what it is The battery at the White
Works, however, still goes on and its effect will be
proved in a few days.
July 16-Prince Gortschakoff announces having made
two sorics the 4th and 18TH before the basion Kor
nen which were satisfactory. Nothing Of Importance
had occurred in other parts of the Crimea.
July 23.-Gen. Peissier telegraphs The enemy APP
peaed to have taken alarm last night and opened very
brisk fire on the right and left of lines of attack Our
batteries replied successfully have good intelligence
from Yenkae. Everything there is going well under
the direction of Col Osmor who has taken to
establish order at Kertsch.
This day Gen. Pessier inspected the French troops
the Tchernaya, and found them in effective state.
july 25-Pessier telegraphs:-"After brisk can
nonade the Russians made a sortie, about midnight,
the left of the little Rcdan As close to Them
it did not take the enemy one minute to reach our
gabonades. The Russians promptly received, and
were repulsed leaving wounded and eight dead the
darkness enabled them to carry of the others General
Bison was duty in the trenches.
,hs has not
increased since my last report and the general health of
the army continues satisfactory
PROGRESS OF THE SIEGE.
from the London Times, July %.
Although several weeks have now elapsed since the oc
OF the last great events at the siege of ebasto
pol this interval Of time has undoubtedly served to con-
sodate the position of the allied armies in the Crmea, to
many of the of apprehension excited by
the return Of summer and to advance by slow but
tain steps the operations of the SIEGE OF all these
grounds of satisfaction the most important are the health
of the army the Of the sanitary measures adopt
ed in the camps and the favorable climate have found
in the southern districts of the Crimea Among the
aggeraed perils and objections which at one time
conurcd in this country to bring the Crmean expedi
ton into dsrepute it roundly asserted that the eli
mate of Arctic severity in winter and peslentia in
summer whereas it was perfectly wen known to
those who had examined the subject that this
region enjoys the temperature of the southern
coast of Great Britain The army has OF course, ac-
qured degree of stability and vigor in campaigning,
which not to be expected when first it took the field
and we are confident from the numbers, the condition,
and the vaor of these troops and the large amount of
their field artillery that the allied armies are able to en-
counter with the most confident expectations of success
any force the enemy by possibility bring against
them The delay which has occurred has had the advan
tage converting invasion Of the Crimea into
cupaon Of several of the most mportont points in the
peninsula. Eupatoria Kamiesch Bala.lava and Yeni-
kale fortified stations, which we shall hold
during the whole continuance of . the war. We
entertain hope Of renewing the attack Of
Inkerman, of shaking of the grasp which the iron
han of war has placed of the richest portions of
the imperial domnions. Had Sebastopol been carried
last autumn by coup de main we should at once have
effected our primary object in the Oh that Tor
manner the inability Of the whole power OF the Russian
empire to repe the adversres who have now established
themselves the Crimean coast We trust, however,
that this firm position of the allies will enable them at
distant period extend their active operations beyond
the Belbek and that It is merely question Of time at
what moment il may be most expedent to commence
such movement against the encampments from which
the enemy still continues to throw achievements and
munitions of all kinds into Sebastopol.
The temporary silence Of the batteries which has
ceeded to the furious bombardnents and assaults of the
first half of the month of June that the besiegers
conducting their approaches to the key of the posi-
ton with greater caution and regularity and that we
shall probably hear no more ofa prouse expenditure OF
lie until guns have been brought so near the walls
TO subdue the fire OF the enemy The report OF Prince
Gortschakof the action of the 18th of June Is
of that operation The Russian General overrates the
forces engaged by the French and English armies and the
losses they sustaned he does not clearly show that the
failure of the attack by the French column mainly
by the want OF simultaneous action and that the
engagement the extreme right, in which General May
ran tell was in fact before the columns under Gen.
Brunei and Gen Autemarre advanced. He entirely oms
the remarkable fact that the attack of General Eyres bril-
gade the extreme left enabled handful OF British
troops only penetrate into the houses and garns
at the bottom Of the ravne but to remain there all
but, with these exceptions, the report gives toeraoy
connected view OF this action and enables us to form
opinion or two points OF the means OF
resistance OF the garrison.
all the preceding instances the Russians succeeded after
the bombment ia reestabishing the line Of defence of
sebasoIo in its primitive state, and, though IL is not
denied that the works severely damaged by the fire
Of the besiegers have constantly been found to
repair the lines and to construct batteries
under heavy fire. This Is one of the principal circum-
stances which distinguish the siege of ebasopo from all
other ogcs in history, and which show the uncommon
skin with which the Russian engineers avail them elves
Of the system of fertilization they have created while
the Russian troops display equal energy in the execution of
these plans Sebasopo may be said TO be defended by the
spade much by the sword has
shown that in works Of this nature the utmost
damage caused by bombardmont from siege trains
of unexampled magnitude ard power may be repaired
within few hours by active and resoiute garrison.
That of course is peculiar advantage which works
yetted with masonry never possess and the contrast
which has lately heen drawn by writer in the Enourg
Rri,to between the -ucedy fall of the Of Bomar
sund and the protrced resistance Of the earthwors OF
Sistra and sebasopol is most instructive lesson in the
art Of defence To render the bombardment OF eoastp
pol Of any at all preliminary to the assault OF he
place ii must be followed instantly by the attacking c.
rnns, for the interval OF single night mas on more
than occasion suocl Ia coUnterbaance the elect q
Of the G gigantic operations.
On the 18th of June, however. the Russians employed
another resource Cor which they deserve considerable
credit Although the capture of the White Works on the
7th of June had onalcl the French On the fgt % COM
the Careenng Bay allies do not appear at that
time to have brought guns Of heavy cbre 70 bear
the port Il IS stated that SIX Russian seamersowar
advanced to the Careenng bay point, AT he commence
mem of the action, and opened Ire the
Frnch in the rSvne where their reserve placed.
Gen. Pelisser lad alluded 70 the circumstance in
his report and indicates ingenuity the part Of
the defence that this last remnant 4 the naval forces Of
the enemy should have been thus employed Wehaye very
little doubt that before tie attach is renewed batteries
OF far greater range viii have Teen established IN
such manner T. command the port, and that it
will then become practicable TO sink burn from the
heights these maritime auxharies Of tho garrison In
fact draw TO the own, and avail ourselves
Of the command Of the sea at both exfcmee8 Of the
linenf attack the communication Of The garrison with
the northern side of The harbor from which the garrison
draws Its most important supplies viii become more d
icult and the shipping which is still aoat ought to be
altogether destroyed Although none q the measures
that have yet been employed against the place are Of
decisive cbaractoIand free 20 confess tha there
has been novelty of invention in the defence than
the side Of the aack-yo each OF the steps that has been
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