The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1854-05-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

NIGHT ATTACK ON THE ENEMY'S POSITION.  The British marched in even ranks, and commenced the action with a brisk fire of artillery at a distance of about a mile from the enemy. The Sikhs made a gallant defence. The British artillery advanced steadily till they were within a few hundred yards of the entrenchment ; but the Sikhs kept up an incessant fire from their heavy guns ; in consequence of which our infantry were ordered to advance, and, in the face of a murderous fire, to take the batteries. Night put a stop to the carnage, but not to the awful state of confusion which prevailed in the British camp, which arose partly from the severe losses and the scattering of the different regiments, with the uncertainty as to whether any advantage had been gained, and partly from the incessant firing kept up during the whole night by the Sikhs upon the wretched soldiers who were lying wounded upon the field of battle, or who were cowering around their scanty fires, worn out with cold, fatigue, and excruciating thirst. * * The village of Ferozeshah appears to have been held during the night of the 21st of December, partly by the British and partly by the Sikhs. One of our divisions under the gallant Major-General, Sir Harry Smith, kept up,a fire during the greater part of the night. The other divisions bivouacked at some distance, no one knows where. Had a concentrated movement been necessary, it would have been quite out of the question; for, by some mistake or oversight, no place of rendezvous had been fixed on. I am told that the men belonging to two or three of the European corps got clubbed together, and were so found the next morning ; nay, even the whereabouts of the Commander-in-Chief himself could not be found. A certain Major-General was anxious to communicate with him, and an engineering officer, who had just been with Sir Hugh Gough, offered to showi him the road; but, to his surprise, he could not find it; either his Excellency had moved his position, or the night was too dark tonable the officer to trace his way back. Every one is aware that the Sikh campaign was one in which much blood was poured out and an immense quantity of treasure sacrificed, the exact amount of which has probably never been revealed. Of the former Captain Humbley gives us some idea when he tells us, " We lost 10,788 men killed and wounded, and 1,899 horses, in seven battles and one siege, viz., Moolkee, Ferozeshah, Aliwal, Sobraon, Ramnagur, Chillianwallah, Goojerat, and the fort of Mooltan." In his sketches of civil life in India, Captain Humbley is sensible and judicious, as well as smartly observant ; and his volume contributes much additional knowledge of our actual position and wants in India. It is written in a fair spirit, and displays no inconsiderable amount of information and  London :Paternoster-row. ThThis Leisure eriodi Hcalo," pu.e blish d under the auspices of the Religious Tract Society, u to combine instruction with amusement, a happy endeavour unite sound morality with botTsement, and to In the part for April attention is particularly arrested succinct and interesting description by a screw-steamers," illustrated cleverlyips, is by, oi r " war swell-executedi sectional view of one of these first-class s the Duke of Wellington. The engraving is executed, and the descriptive letterpress adnu. rably explanatory,  The Autobiograph, of a Working Man. By Alexander Somerville. London : R. Hardwick.  Few varieties of literary composition are more instructively interesting than a sensibly written and unostentatious autobiography. In even the humblest walk of life, and from the most secluded individual scintillations of divine origin and indica