The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser. — 1854-11-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1854•  THE ATTACK ON BALAKLAVA.  ANOTHER  Men, 4th Light Dragoons llB Bth ./rish Hussars 11th Prince Albert's Hussars 13th Light Dragoons 17th Lancers  Total . 607 sabres. The whole brigade scarcely made one. effective regiment, according to. the numbers of continental armies ; and yet it was all we-could spare. As they passed towards the front, the Russians opened on them•from the guns in the redoubts-on,the right, with volleys of musketry and rifles they swept proudly past glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendour of war. We could scarcely, believe the evidence of our senses ! Surely that handful of men are not going to charge an army iu position ? Alas ! it was but too, true-- their desperate valour knew no bounds; and far, indeed, was it removed from its so-called better part—discretion. They advanced: in two lines, quickening their pace as they closed towards the enemy— a more fearful spectacle was never witnessed. than now by those who, without the power to aid, beheld: their heroic countrymen rushing to the arms of death.. At-the distance of 1,200 yards the whole line of the enemy belched forth, from thirty iron-mouths, a flood of smoke and flame, through which hissed the deadly balls. The flight was marked by instant gaps in our ranks, by dead men and horses, by steeds flying wounded or riderless across the plain. The first line is broken, it is joined by the second, they never halt or check their speed an instant; with diminished ranks, thinned by those•thirty guns which the Russians had laid with the most deadly accuracy, with a halo of flashing steel above their-heads, and with a cheer that was many a noble fellow's deathcry, they flew into the smoke of the batteries, but ere they were lost from view the plain was strewed with their bodies and with the carcases of horses. They were exposed to an oblique fire from the batteries on the hills on both sides, as well as to a direct fire of musketry. Through the clouds of smoke we could see their sabres flashing as they rode up to the guns and dashed between them, cutting down the gunners as they stood. Wesaw them riding through the gum.; to our delight we saw them returning, after breaking through a column of Russian infantry, and scattering them like chaff, when the. flank fire of the battery on the hill swept them down, scattered and broken as they were. Wounded men and dismounted troopers flying towards us told the sad tale—demi-gods could not have done what we had failed to do. At the very moment when they were about to retreat, an, enormous mass of Lancers was hurled on their flank. Colonel Shewell, of the Bth Hussars, saw the danger, and rode his few men straight at them, cutting his way through with fearful loss. The other regiments turned and engaged in a desperate encounter. With courage too great almost for credence, they were breaking their way through the columns which enveloped them. when there took place an act of atrocity without parallel in the modern warfare of civilised nations.. The Russian gunners, when the storm of cavalry passed, returned to their guns. They saw their own cavalry mingled with the troopers who had just ridden over them, and, to the eternal disgrace of the Russian name, the miscreants poured a murderous volley of grape and canister on the mass of struggling men and horses, mingling friend and foe in one common ruin. It was as much as our Heavy Cavalry Brigade could do to cover the retreat of the miserable remnants of that band of heroes as they returned to the place they had so lately quitted, in all the pride of life, At 11.35 not a British soldier, except the dead and dying, were left in front of these bloody Muscovite guns. Our loss, as far as it could be ascertained, in killed, wounded, and missing at two o'clock to-day, was as follows :