The Sun. — 1855-06-22 (London, England)

JUNE 8.  During the night repeated attacks six in all, were made upon our men in the Quarries, who defended their new acquisition with the utmost courage and pertinacity, and at a great sacrifice of life, against superior numbers, continually replenished. The strength of the party told off for the attack was in all only 1,000, of whom 600 were in support. At the commencement 200 only went iu, and  another 200 followed. More than once there was a fierce hand-to-hand fight in the position itself, and our fellows had frequently to dash out in front and take their assailants in flank. The most murderous sortie of the enemy took place about 3 in the morning ; then the whole ravine was lighted up with a blaze of fire, and a storm of shot was thrown in from the S rand Battery and every other spot within range. With a larger body in reserve, it is not doubtful that they could have been into the Redan in a twinkling. This is asserted freely both by officers and privates, and the latter express their opinion in no complimentary manner. They were near enough up to it to see that it was scarcely defended, and one officer lost his life almost within it. Generally speaking, the Russian gunners were not very active through the night; indeed there was little for them to do, and they are evidently shy of throwing away ammunition. On the other hand, their fatigue parties were as busy as bees, repairing and strengthening their shaken defences, and the sentinels outside our advanced works were near enough to hear the sound of their tools, and see the light of their tobacco-pipes. The French,l on the other hand, were losing no time in the Mamelon, in which, by the by, they found only seven guns, five of them spiked. When morning dawned, with the wind blowing• even sfronger than yesterday, the position held by both parties was one of expectation. The French were in great force within and on the outer slopes of the Mamelon, and also in possession of two out of the three offsets attached to the Mamelon on the Sapoune-hill. Their dead were seen lying mixed with Russians upon the broken ground outside the Malakhoff Tower, and were being carried up to camp in no slack succession. In the rear of the Mamelon their efforts to intrench themselves were being occasionally interrupted by shells from the ships in the harbour and from a batter? not hitherto known to exist further down the hill, while, on their left front, the Round Tower, showing still its formidable platforms of defence and its ragged embrasure above, fired upon their working parties in the western face, and upon their reserves in the background. The morning brought out on every side, along with the perception of advantage gained, and a prey lying at our feet, all the haste and circumstances of the scene, with its painful admixture of death and suffering. On our side 365 rank and file and 35 officers had been klled and wounded. On the French side nearly double the number of officers, and a total of not less than 1,500 men, probably more. It has been stated as high as 3,700, bat there may be error in the statement.  12 o'CLocEK. At this last moment I hoar it stated that the Russians aro carrying shot and shell off to the other side of the harbour—which may mean that they are getting ready for a bolt; may it prove true