The Express. — 1855-09-29 (London, England)

THE CRIMEA.  Colonel St. Ange, in the Mats, reviews the several accounts of the attack on Sebastopol. " The first sentiment," he remarks, "which seizes the European public in reading the details of the assault on Sebastopol is that of admiration at the boldness and bravery of the English and French soldiers, who, with various alternations, incurred the same risks with equal intrepidity. Bat it is just also to pay a tribute of wellmerited praise to the two generals-in-chief, who were] the soul of this great warlike exploit, and whose ad, mirable arrangements satisfied all the conditions of the art of war both in the aggregate and the details— a fact which clearly appears from all private letters as well as from the reports of Marshal Pannier. We cannot but admire with what precision everything was calculated and foreseen, in order to assure success or to be prepared for a check. The columns of attack were formed in the places (formes of the trenches nearest to the town, and the reserves in the places dames of the second line, and in the hollow ground near it; the sappers were provided with their various tools, and bad been instructed in the use of movable bridges, to cross the fosses—they also were ready to fill up the fosses to enable the reserves and the field-artillery to pass; infantry auxiliaries were' lidded to them, carrying tools and gabions ; the men forming the scaling party had their muskets slung over their shoulders, and carried ladders—though, for the most put, in the impetuosity of their attack, they neglected to make use of the latter; the siege batteries were to sweep the ramparts with redoubled intensity up to the very moment when the signal far the assault was given, and were afterwards to emend our brave men by firing at the enemy over their beads, or in case of their being unsuccessful, to protect the retreat and check the pursuit of the enemy; gunners were attached to the (alumna, and were provided with their special implements and with those neoneary for turning and employing the conquered guns against the enemy ; and lastly, the pieces of field artillery distributed on the fronts of the attack were to give their co-operation to the infantry—laboaters were to prepare the way—and the artillerymen were, if necessary, to drag their goes with straps to get them over obstacles. All the generals had received their instructions from the general-in-chief ; the itinerary and the object dame column was determined; and let us even add, as the report shows, that the watches of the generals were regulated, in order that everything might be done at the hour and minute indicated in the general orders." The writer then enters into an examination of the manner in which the various attacks were conducted, and at the part which speaks of the assault on the Curtain, says: "In the midst of this sanguinary struggle, a very remarkable fact, and one which is quite new in the annals of war, occurred: by order of the Marshal, twelve guns drawn by borne were plead in bat. terytt half range from the town to support the assailants—thus offering for, perhaps, the first time, the spectacle of field artillery attacking ramparts armed with guns of the largest size. A number of men and hones were killed there—guns and gun carriages were smashed—but we must admire the service rendered to the assailants by these heroic artillerymen in this unequal conflict." The following tribute to the English troops will close our extracts from the Mats: "At the Great Redan, the English, after having bravely scaled the ramparts with great loss, because they had a wide space to cross under a fire of grape, found themselves in an open 'pace exposed to the murderous fire of a Travers erected much further off, They, however, held the position for nearly a whole hour; but driven back by the Russian reserves, and not receiving reinforcements, they yere obliged at int to give way. Notwithstanding this want of seems, their glory is intact, for there are no troops in the world who could have done more under such circumstances."