The Sun. — 1854-10-11 (London, England)

RAGLAN. 'muscular men enough. The surgeons remarked His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, that their tenacity of life was very remarkable. &c., &c. Many of them •lived with wounds calculated to destroy two or three ordivary men. 'I saw one of the 32d Regiment on the, field just after the fight. He was shot right thrall:till-he head, and the brain protruded in large masses at the back of the head. and front the front of the skull. I saw with my. own eyes the wounded man raise his hand, wipe the horrible mass front his brow, and proceed to struggle down the hills. to wands the water I Many of the Russians were shot it three or four places ; few of them had only one w mind. They seemed to hare a general idea that they would be murdered : possibly they had been told that no quarter would be given, and several deplorable events took place in consequence. As our me.a were passing by two or three of them were shot or stabbed by men lying en the ground, and the cry wa raised that " the wounded RuSsians" were firing on our men. It was a terrible and sickening sight to go over the battle-field.. Till deprived of my horse by a chance shot, I rode about to ascertain, as far as possible, the loss of our friends, and in doing so I was often brought to a standstill by the difficulty of getting through the piles of wounded Russians, mingled too often. with our own poor soldiers. The hills of Greenwich park, in fair time are not more densely covered with human-beings than were the heights of the Alma with dead and dying. On these bloody mounds 2,10 English Officers and men, and upwards of 3,000 Russians, while 'their western extremity was coVerecl with the bodies of 1,400 gallant Frenchmani and of more than 3,000 of their foes. . • The attitudes of some of the dead were awful. Ono man might he seen re=sting on one knee, with the arms extended in the form of taking aim, the brow compressed, the lips clenched—the very expression of firing at an u lemy stamped on the face and fixed there by dead It; a ball had struck this man in the • neck. Pirersiologiste or anatomists must settle the rest. Anc Cher- was lying on his back with the same expression, and his arms raised in a similar attitude, the Minio musket still grasped in his hands undischarged. Another lay in a perfect arch, his head reacting on one part of the ground and his feet ou the other, but the back raised high above it. Many men without legs or arms were trying to crawl down to the waterside. Some of the dead lay with a calm, placid smile on the face, as thOugh they were in some delicious dream.  SCUTARI, Sept. 28.--Wo have got to Scutari at last, but I thought we should not have brought any men at all, as the men kept during the voyage quickly dying of, their wounds ; there were only three surgeons on board to dress and look after 600 men. My dear fellow, E, ngland has a great deal to answer for, in not ;►aving sufficient medical men to attend the wounded soldiers who risked their lives and bled for their country's honour. I never had my arm looked at by a doctor from the day I received the wound till yesterday ; but, thank God, from previous experience, I was able to look after it myself, and the wounds of others also. During our stay on 'board the ship many a bright man lost his life through want of medical attendance ; we throw about 80 or 100 overboard coming down the Black Sea, but it is just as bad at Scutari. We 'disembarked on the 26th, and we have had.meither tea, rations, nor anything except lb. of bread.  There was a'draft of 300 men to have sailed today for the Crimea, but it was countermanded. I heir there are no more troops wanted in the Crimea, as SebastOpoi is all but down, but I cannot vouch for the truth of it. . ,  We lost abo.ut 168 in oar regiment, and. the British army about 1,200 or 1,300 altogether. Give my love to all, and God bless you. • Good bye.