Glasgow Courier. — 1855-10-16 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

INTERIOR OF SEBASTOPOL.  It is almost incredible to state the loss of tha Russians in Sebastopol alone; thousands and thousands of dead bodies putrefy the air, and, indeed, almost the earth. I have been to see Sebastopol, and to describe the state of it is almost and, indeed, utterly impossible; it is a frightful den; the last two bombardments have made frightful havoc in the town; it can only be compared to a sieve, it is so riddled with shot and shell. The buildings look quite perfect from our batteries, but once near them you find them nothing but mere shells; nothing remains of the inside but confused piles of rubbish—no staircase, no floors, nothing rem. ins except an unseemly mass, nor is there a single door or window to be seen in any of them. In walking through the town, whertver you could turn nothing hut dead bodies piled on top of each other, met the eye, and a horrid stanch saluted the nose ; and, what was more shocking still, there were casks filled with arms, legs, hands, toes, and fingers, piled regularly away in heaps. lint although this is the case with Sebastopol Proper, it is quite different with the batteries, and had the Russians half as many mortars as we had, we should never have seen, to a dead certainty, the inside of this stronghold, as the enemy would have been able to shell our men as fast as they cams up. But I must give you an idea of the strength of this place The batteries consist of a solid rock, with huge pieces of granite laid regularly, with enormous wet sandbags one heaped above another to an incredible thickness. This was their parapet, with embrasures just large enongh to allow their guns to protrude, and behind these parapets, and between each gun, were holes of sufficient size to hold from 40 to 50 men comfortably, cut out of the rock, and huge trunks of trees laid transversely, with regular layers of sandbags piled up to the height of the parapets. When the tire became too hot for them they used to Lap into these holes, and, once there, they were comparatively safe. In each of these retreats they had regular cooking utensils and bedding, and on the least alarm they could rush out and run up their guns which had been withdrawn ; and if any had been damaged they could dig up fresh ones, as they always had a reserve buried in the ground beside each gun, of which they must have had an immense number, as a vast amount of broken guns lie beside each embrasure. When our men entered the Redan they found a quantity of soup made of bread and meat. One of the men of our ship found a camp-kettle in the Redan, and brought it down to the ship, and we have the plea. sure td drinking Russian coffee, likewise brought from there. The reason why the French got into the Malakoff so cleverly was the Russians were playing at cards at the time ; they were at once overpowered by the French and fled by the Redan, where they received a murderous volley from our men, and were attacked by a vast number of bayonets, which left the most of them dead on the spot. Our men were repuls d three different times at the Ittclan. Nor could the English and French together take it till it was abandon -d by the Russians, and although our men succeeded in taking and entering it, the first moment they did so a cry arose that the place NI 119 undermined, which so surprised and staggered our men that it was the chiof cause of their being repulsed.