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GEN ‘RAL SIMPSON’S OFFICIAL: DESPATCH OF THE, jiae. The city was cnyeloped in fire and smoke, and torn | camp, aud the French had to pass their lines. ‘Phe instant

: a wa . STORMING OF SEBASTOPOL. lasunder with the trentendous shock of these voleanoes. At

the leading regiment.of Zouaves came up to thie spot where

« % . , . ‘ / ® Sam Pl a Yay ( ° ) SA) 1, September 9, 1855. \ 4.45 the Niagstaff and Garden Batteries blew up. At 5.80) our first resiment was p aved, the men, w.ta one spontaneous

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| two of the southern forts went up into the air, and the effect) burst, rent the air with an English cheer. The French offi-

— : i vital il iv _ . - 2 _ she \fy Lord.—I had the honor to apprize your Lor Iship in my Lof these explosions was immensely increased by the rush of a| cers drew their swords, their men dressed up and marched

deapatelh of the 5th ihstawt, that tha, Maginger and Artitlery

heors of th@ Allied Armies bad laid before General Pelissier |

and mvsclf a report recommending t ven | the Sth imstant, wavy 3

tor three davs. ‘fhis°arrangement f eon rraiulate your Lordship on the st attack of yesterday, which has ena 1 in town. doekvards and public buildings, and dest ruction of the last : Russian fleet in the Black Sea. Three la .

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~ . Te ¢ a At 7.16 flames began to ascend from Fort Nicholas. sups of the

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tthe speedy capture or sinking of | 7 the bridge was floated off in portiohs to the north side. A + wasarranced that at 12 o'clock; 6 o'clock several violent explosi k place in the works lt was arranged that at 12 o’clock, 6 o'clock several violent explosions took pla ‘ Rasher’ ~ . ’ > A , . . « © , “ ne as ei Peoneh columns of assault were to leave their! on our left, opposite the Ifrench. The town was by this time from Catheart’s hill and the trenches, and every 0

great number of live shell into the air, which exploded in all past as vata review, while regiment after regiment of the bat the assault should be directions, All this time a steady current of iafantry was | Second Division caught up the ery, and at last our men pre- wy fire had been kept up| passing in unbroken masses to the north side over the bridge, | sented arms to their brave comrades of France, and the officers aereed to, and f have.to! and at 6.45 the last battalions passed over, and the hill sides! on both sides saluted with their swords, and this continued

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opposite were alive with their masses. At 7.15 the connec- | till the last man had marched by.

ition of the floating-bridge with the south side was acrores, GRANDEUR-AND BEAUTY OF THE CAPTURED

CITY.

Whatever idea one has formed from looking at Sebastopol

4 . “4 wee : : epared trnehes, and tuke possession of the Malakoff and adjacent | jy a mass of flames, and the pillar of black, grey, and velvety of its respectability as a city, 1 must say I was little prep

x iy eneer : ¢ han ‘) waar? Ts ‘ ‘ Nev wero . » - mi ‘ works, After their sucesss had heen assured, und they were | (+ smoke from it seemed to support the very heavens,

rvivte established, the Redan was to be assaulted by the English ; eBAST frirty established, the Redan w werner te yom THE INTERIOR OF SEBASTOPOL.

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tie apparently impregnable defences of the Malakoff with that’ and that they were ever taken; they are amazed that men

having.once obtained possession, they were never dislodged.

appoint d our Allies quitted their trenches, entered and carrie | diyided—they are astonished at the strength of the works, oe

them. ‘The fire of our artillery was searching out every

to witness the remains of anything so beautiful. To ride along what must have been the grand street, and see the lawip-posts and pavements seemed to call forth the remem-

“ i . os . ° 1 shen > . i lraneously to be attacked by the French. At the hour} The wonder of all visitors to the ruins of Sebastopol 'S Hrance that there are such things yet in the world. The

| houses, or d should say mansions, that are passed one after

‘another in the most frightful dilapidations, are most surprise

; ey hoysay Niet Nor rforises he ‘re el ‘ ‘ . ‘ ad, ” - ‘ ° * . impetagus yaloar which characterises the French attack; and,! coud have defended them so long with such rains vvery {i283 a number of these appear to have been public buildings.

Nearly every house must have had some architectural preten-

The thi-colour planted on the parapet was the signal for our : of ; Oi eis ae th ae nts for the attack Ten-) hook and corner in the town, and it would become impossi- | ion the rows of pillars and columns are unceasing, and trues \ hla) cb Tat . i eb Diba Caadtedis ‘ ee ‘ : . ‘ : 7 t 2 b ] :

trusted to Licutenant General Sir William Codrington, who | ble for the Russians to keep any body of men to defend their | from the visible remains I should say it ought to have been

carried ‘out the details in coneert Ww ith Lieut rave (ieneral | long line of parapet aud battery without such murderous o ‘one of the prettiest places in the world. The fronts of sore Markham. 1 determiged that the Seegnd and Light Divisions as would speedily annibilate an army. Their enormous bomb houses appeared so perfeet that with the aid of a strong ima-

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should have the honour of the assault, frym the cireumstances proofs, large and numerous as they were, could not hold the |

of their having defended the batteries and approaches against

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analy Bg requisite force to resist a general concerted attack made a!l hs, and irom the iImtimat

knowledge they possessed of the gr yund. The fire of our ar- tillery having made as much of a breach as possible in the Ae salient of the Redan, [ decided that the columns of assault prodigious.

sho tld he directed agin { that pars, a3 b ing less exposed t a THE MAL AKHOFF WITH TH B TRICOLOUR the heavy flanking fire by whieh as “aa is protester, It FLOATING OVER IT.

was arbang ‘dd between Sir . Codringt mand Lieutenant The road was crowded with Freachmen’ retutning ‘with General Markham that the assaulting column of 1,000 men y “re ch fl ¢ Russi should be formed by equal numbers of these two divisions, the paltry plunder from Sebastopol, and with fi es of ussian column of the Light Division to lead, that of the second to! prisoners, many of them wounded, and all dejected, with the follow. They left the trenches at the preconcerted sigual, and | exception of a fine little boy, in a Cossack’s cap and a tiny moved werues the ground, preceded by a covering party of 200) uniform great coat, who seemed rather pleased with his kind men, and a ladder party of 620. On arriving at the crest of ”

the ditch, and the ladders placed, the men immediately stormed |

the parapet of the R «lan and penetrated into the salient angle. A most determined and bloody contest was here maintained for,” : : nearly an hour, and, althoagh sapported to the utmost, and; With a Zouave and an indigene. c g

the greatest bravery displayed, it was found impossible to trenches, of gabionades, and of zigzags and parallels, by

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evidently been indulging in the popularly credited 'Datch courage, and who danced all “the way into the camp

maintain the position. Your Lordship will perceive, by the | which the French had worked their sure and deadly way ogand sud list of casualties, with what gallantry and seli-| ¢lose to the heart of the Russian defence, and treading gently

: ies i an Areal thamacives at tha head of 2 a an devotion the officers so nobly placed themselves at the head of) aiong the heaps of dead, where the ground bears full tokens

their men during this sanguinary conflict. I feel myself unable to express in ad quate terms tue sense I ent rtiin of the con- duct and gallantry exhibited by the troops, though their devotion

sap. It is barely ten yards from that to the base of the

along the line with rapidity and without previous warning. | On the other hand, the strength of the works themselves is

‘gination, you could almost fancy you were riding in a nice ‘town, where nothing had happened, and in other parts that | you were only visiting the scene of a disastrous fire, and | presently expected to get beyond the pale of its rage ; but alas! wherever you went, all, all was alike—never was leone and desolation more complete; never had man

worked more successfully to destroy his own work, | SEBASTOPOL FIRING ON THE RUSSIANS. | Whilst I was here, a mortar battery which the French have

“established was playing on the Russians at the other side, and shaking the ruins of Fort Nicholas with its report; but the

captors. ‘There was also one stout Kussian soldier, who had | great surprise was, that it was not returned, and that Con- sources of ,stantine remained quiet. With the naked eye, the Russians

)could be seen “ scuttling ” away from the shell. Below the)

Passing through a maze of | monument I entered a fine building, which I decided in my |

‘own wind to have been the theatre or opera-house ; and not

| far from this was a splendid church. Passing up one of the | ‘streets [ was attracted by the music of a Freuch band, which

'was having its afternoon's practice, and soon after, the French |

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directed against an attack made from the Black Sea, whi, others lie tethe south and converge their fire on Seb and the readstead. The space separating the two reetj entrenchments is defended by Fort Constantine, the g which command both the roadstead and the sea, (y western coast we first meet with the Wasp battery and { the Telegraph ; then, turning near Fort Constantine we ourselves before. Fort Catherine, armed with 120 guns two other batteries ‘ rasantes ’ om the border of the bay, ‘roeky ground, so cut ap with ravines, of the Southern land, rises from the level of the sea by an abrupt ascent, table-land was, before the invasion, crowned with teries, partly cut into the living rock, but since then the shore of the bay, as far as the Inkermann Lighthouse, been covered with earthen entrénchments. Farther tye back ground, in the centre of these works, the summit of table-land bears the star-shaped fort named Severnaya, also called ‘ the Citadel.’ Of the fortifications on the ling: the Belbeck we have no details -whatever. Al! we know; that when in 1854 the allied army, after the battle of, Alma, marched on Sebastopol, it found the north side, assailable, and was obliged to make the flank march reer at the time, for the purpose of turning Sebastopol and ‘the south side of the town, which was known to be wat! fortified. This proves that even at that date North pol wes in rather a formidable condition. Since that per they have certainly extended and strengthened the def of this position ; while prolonging them as far as Upper beck, they have formed an entrenched camp for the army of reserve. At the mouth of the Belbeck the found eyen last year a regular fort. The forts on the no side are capable of containing a garrison of 25,000 men, ‘The new works on the north side are meanwhile progressigy very rapidly. Enormous working parties are engaged ' them. Three new batteries have been commen on east of the great Star Fort, between it and the battery on verge of the cliff at the entrance to the Bay of Inkermam ‘le batterie de la cimetiere,” as the French call it. Ty new guns have been added to this last-named work, so that} is now armed with 14, instead of 12, guns. The general chy racter of the new works which have lately been thrown wp,

with so much rapidity by the Rassians on the north side,is certainly defensive ; at the same time some of the works, g. pecially the three last commenced, will perhaps be able ty carry their fire into the Karabelnaia suburb, and into the part of the citadel and town which borders on the roadstead, Twelve new earthwork bstteries can now be counted, whic did not exist at all 12 days ago. Some of these are finished in all respects but receiving their armament, even the plat. forms being laid down. In four only are the embrasures not yet pierced. hey extend generally in two lines, one ling

of the bloody fray, we come at last to the head of the French | drums beat their usual rappel, which warned us that sunset being carrie 1 along the heights from the Wasp Fort to For?

Constantine, and having the embrasures directed against the

was not tewarded by the success which they so well merited, | huge sloping mound of earth which rises full 20 feet in height | visit to their oo : eye a very | sea on that side, the other line extending along the heights yus n aru A i! : i 7 ’ € J ‘ . , . ‘ ‘ - - 3 . ; os to no ome are my thanks more justly due than to Colonel} above the level, and shows in every direction the grinning ‘similar to those in the Malakhoff an edan, and weil pro-| from Fort Constantine to the Cemetery Battery, and looking

Windham, who gallautly headed bis column of attack, and) muzzles of its guns. The tricolour waves placidly from 1ts |

was fortunate in entering, and remaining With the troops during highest point, and already the French are busy constructing the contest. ‘Phe trenches were, subsequently to this attack, 4 semaphore on the top. Step briskly out of the sap-—avoid e> crowded. with troops that | was unable to organise ;

f nd assault, which Lintended to make with the Highlanders : : ‘ . ») mdr Lieutenant General Six Colin Campbell, whohad hitherto |Come on. There is a ditch at our feet, some 20 to 22 fect

med the reserve, to be.supported by the third division under | deep, and 10 feet broad. See, here is the place where the a © Fs , . . * D4 > : P « -3

Maior General Sir-William Byre. [, therefore, sont for these | French crossed—here is their bridge of planks, and here they

officers, and arranged with them to renew the attack the fol-| swarmed in upon the unsuspecting defenders of the Mala-

ingmorning. Lhe Highland Brigade oceupied the advanced | khoff. They had not teu yards to go. We had 200, and

trenches during the night. About 11 o’cloek the enemy eon were then out of breath. Were not blanks better than

s scaling-ladders? Sce how easily the French crossed. You

mencod exploding .their. magazines, and Sir Colin Campbell I i rdered a small rty advance cautiously to examine _ . . having ora a smail party to advar cautious: xauimine ‘ ‘ : ?

; al sitet observe on your right hand, as you is:ue from the head of the .

the Radan. foaund.the . work ab undoned ; he did not, how ‘yer, : " ° ' : deem it necessary. te occupy it till daylight.. The evacuation | Fiench trench, a line ot gabions on tue ground running up of the town by the enemy was made manilest during the night. | te this bridge. This is flying sap, which the French made Great fires appeared. in evory part, accompanied by large ex-| the instant they got out of the trench into the Malakhoff, so plosions, under cover of which the enemy succesded in with-| that they were enabled to pour a continuous siream of men drawing their troops to the north side by moans of the raft} into the works, with comparative safety from the flank fire of ridge Yeeently constructed, and which they afterwards dis- | 5), enemy. In the same way they at once. dug a trench — can a on , etna ie 4 ee ‘across the work inside, to see if there were any galvanic eaivedis siaainen toot eciblo for the Admirals to fulfil | Wires to fire mines. Mount the parapet and descend—of their intention of bringing the broadsides of the allied fleets what amazing thickness are, those embrasures! From the t> bear upon the Quarantin: Batteries ; bat an excellent effect | level of the ground inside to the top of the parapet cannot was produeed by the animated and well-direeted fire of their | be jess than 13 fect. Theré are eight rows of gabions piled mortar yessels, those of her Majesty being under the direction | gng above the other, and as each row recedes towards the of Capt: in Wile x. of the Odin, and Captain Digby, of the to it leaves in the ledge below an excellent bangnette for Royal Marine Artillery. It pow b comes my pleasing duty, | 1° defenders. Insidybe sight is too terrible to dwe)l upon. wy L phy. Lee ca sdk, her t tema bedtey The French are carrying away their own and the Russian i.” The h wrdships’ aud privations enduted by many of the | Wounded, and their are five distinct piles of dead formed to r-viments daring a long winter campaign are too well known | clear the way. The ground is marked by pools of blood, for m2 to comment upon. They were borne both by officers and the smell is already noisome ; swarms of flies settle on and men with a pationce and unmurmuring endurance worthy | dead and dying. The traverses are so high and deep that { the highest prais>, and which gained them the deserved) it is impossible almost to get a view of the whole of the Mal- &) PAAuse SRC Sy ocr ge Ry Sak che Bae re ae Brigade. | akhoff from auy one spot, and there is a high mound of earth 7 C bes Se aan eee tian lags = rad ‘in the middle of the work, either intended as a kind of shell- who have s*rved the guns from the commencement of the} proof, or the remains of the old White Tower, The guns, siege, merit my warmest thanks. The prompt, hearty and | which to the- number of 60 were found in the work, are eficacious eo-operation of Her Majesty’s Navy, commanded by | all ship’s guns, and mounted on ship’s carriages, and worked Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, and ably seconded by Sir|in the same way as ship’s guos. There are a few old- Houston Stewart, has contribated most materially to the success | fashioned, oldly-shaped mortars. Look around the work, of our undertaking and here, perhaps, I may he petmittod’| and you will see that the strenght of the Russian was his oa ee -e it had pleased God that the sucess t..| weakness—he fell into his own bomb-proofs. In the parapet this memorable siege should have been reported by my ever-to b+ lamented predecessor in this command, I am sure that it, of the work may be observed several entrances---very narrow would have been one of his most pleasing duties to express the | outside, but descending and enlarging downwards, and open- deep sense, which 1, know he entertained of the inyaluable ing into rooms some four or five feet high, and eight or ten assistance and counsel he received on all ees from Sir Ed- | square. These are only lighted from the outside by day and mand Lyons. Whenat times affairs looked gloomy and success | ust have -been pitch dark at night, unless the men were doubtful, he was a pans, gen amt (gene ee ang every | allowed jaitetis’ Here’: the garrison retired when exposed nasistance that evald tend to advance the Operations Was given | . A oie Po coe which characterises the British sailors. to a heavy bombardment. The odour of these narrow cham- Nothing has contributed more to the present undertaking than | bers is villanous, and the air reeks with blood and abominations the eortial co-operation which has so happily existed from the | unutterable. There are several of these plaees, and they first between the two services. I cannot sufficiently express | might set defiance to the heaviest mortars in the world ; over my approbation of the conduct of the Royal Engineers under | the roof is a layer of ship’s masts, cut in juuks and deposited enna m, “7 rica ages Aah sang a agi lb ee ‘ - carefully ; then there is over them a sulid layer of earth, and irae past e hes ' Aiea suff-ring ona bed of sickness, but the jeune that a layer of gabions, and above that a pile of earth eventful hour of the assault would not permit him to remain! again. In one of these dungeons, which is excavated in the abont: he was conveyed on a litter into the trenches to witness, solid rock, and was probably underneath the old White Tower, the completion of his arduous undertakings. My warmest the officer commanding seems to have lived. It must have thanks are due to the officers and soldiers of the Royal Ar-| been a dreary residence, The flour and the entrance was is a ar en pummeet #2 S mee Pe, SOR, \littered a foot deep with reports, returns, and perhaps des- ee z oo ae : contstbut vl ue "its ultimate a ocoae: . T inst patehes ae the Czar that the place had sustained no bog further to record my thanks for the cordial co-operation | damaze. The garrison were in these narrow chambers en- aud assistance 1 have received in carrying out the details of Joyng their siesta, which they invariably take at twelve the service from the Chief of the Staff, the Adjutant and | o’clock, when the French burst in on them libs a torrent, and Quartermaster Generals, ay (ioneren Pits as well 7 generals as it were drowned them in their holes, commanding divisions and brigades of this army. must re- | parry r > Taq r eh myself, for the subject. of afature despatch, bringing INHUMANITY OF THE RUSSIAN COMMANDER, b fore your Lordseip the particular mention of officers of the; The Russian General left behind him the most hideous various branches of tiris — whom 1 shall beg to recommend evidence of the straits to which he had been reduced, and of “ geenovanahio gestions: goarent y hip Menard tothe — the indifference to human life which disgraces the Russian Assistant Military Secretary to my noble predecessor and my- jarmy.: Fort Panl sud the adjacent buildings wert wand ai self since the commencement of this war, and who will be able : . . te give to your Lordship more minute details than the limits) 0 corpses were found of those who had perished from their of «despatch will allow.—l have, &e. untended wounds, or the unsatisfied cravings of vatare. To JAMES SEMPSON, Genoral Commanding. [all appearance, these unhappy beings had been abandoned to sptecilinte lita nein Tis, tinh caaneni their fate, just as the wounded afier the battle of Borodino BLOWING UP OF THE FORTS. were left to perish in the fire of Moscow in 1812; and. that Sonpsy, Seer. 9.—At cight o’clock-last night the Russians | fate, inflicted by their own savage countrymen, was infinitely began uietly to withdraw from the town, ia the principal | Worse than aught that cau be conceived of the horrors of a houses of which they had previously stored up combustibles, | eld batile. It was surely in Prince Gortschakoff’s power, in order to vender Sebastopol a second Moscow. About 12,| When he resolved to evacuate the town, to leave behind him 3) the men of the Second Bivis'on on duty in the trenches | PetsoRs qualified te relieve the immediate wants of the sick, » served a perpetual silenee in the Redan, and some volun- whose olfice would have been respected by auy civilized ‘ crept up into it. NOthing could they hear but the| Power. Lnstead of this, he abandoned them to their fate, |. vy breathing and groans of the wounded and the dying, | We!l knowing that the sea of fire he had kindled, and which who, with the dead, were the sole ocettpants of the place. | was raging around them, would cut them off from all succour As the Redan was known to be mined, the men were with-| for several days, if, indeed, it did not consume them altogether, drawn, and soon afterwards the tassian tactics began to de-| LNGLISH HONOURS TO THE BRAVE SOLDIERS welope themselves. About two.o'clock flames were observed | OF FRANCK, ,

so break cut-in different parts ofthe tow, They spread It sv’ happene] that as the rempants’of the-French regi

those poor mangled braves who are lying all around, and |

‘hospitals, in which, after an interval'of three days, hundreds | f

‘tected from shot and shell. ‘The more the surprising strength | of the whole place is looked at, the surprise that it has not before fallen give ways to wonder that it is now in possession of the Allies,

THE FIRE FROM THE NORTH FORTS.

The forts on the north side of Sebastopol and the ships | poured an infernal fire, on the evening of the 8th, into the positions won by the French army at noon of thatday. The Presse d’'Orient says that the Russians have destroyed all the forts and bastions on the south of the harbour, particu- larly Forts St. Paul and Nicholas, Fort Alexander was blown up, and the Quarantine Fort burnt. The number of Russians wade prisoners in the Malakhoff is stated at 1,500, It is reported that the Russians are moving towards Mae- keuzie’s Farm. [It is also said that the Allied Fleets are | going to bombard Odessa. A Te Deum has been chanted in the church of St. Louis of France, at Constantinople, and public joy was at its height.

THE RUSSIANS FORTIFYING THE NORTH OF SEBASTOPOL.

The Russians are fortifying the north part, and are con- structing new batteries.’ The French are advancing cavalry and a column of infantry towards Baktchi-Serai by the Baidar road. Sebastopol is to be razed, and the basins filled up. A fearful tempest has occurred at Sebastopol, accom- panied by torrents of rain,

General Bezaine is appointed Governor of Sebastopol. Phree divisions, under General Herbillon, aré to reinforce the troops occupying the T'chernaya Valley.

An attack by the Allies is supposed to be impending.

The Journal de Constantinople affirms that Prince Gorts- chakoff inquired whether, if the Russians should retreat, would General Pelissier take charge of 1,500 wounded, whom he would be compelled to leave behind. The French Com- mander assented to these arrangements, but on condition that the Russian army physicians should remain with their regiments, and that they should destroy nothing on their retreat.

MOVEMENT OF THE ALLIES.

Part of the allied cavalry have received orders to embark for Eupatoria. ‘The allies have found large stores of clothing in Sebastopol.

GEN, PELISSIER’S ORDER OF THE DAY.

General Pelissier issued an Order of the Day on the 9th, to the effect that the Russian Power in the Black Sea no longer existed, and that the position of the Allies was so greatly strengthened that he could promise the troops an early return to France.

DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS IN THE FIELD. Tlampurc, Sxer. 27.— The following despatch has been received here, dated | “Sr. Pererssura, Ser. 26.—Prince Gortschakoff reports, under date the 23d instant, that the enemy had landed 20,000 men at Eupatoria, and he has now 30,000 men on our flank. * Yesterday he attacked our infantry, who retreated to the heights over Rusta.”

RUINS OF THE GREAT REDAN.

The Great Redan was next visited. Such a scene of wreck and ruin! All the houses behind it a mass of broken stones —a clock turret, with a shot right through the clock—a pagoda in ruins—another clock tower with all the clock de- stroyed, save the dial, with the words “ Barwise, London,” therein—cook-houses, where human blood was running among the utensils; in one place a sacll had lodged in the boiler aud blown it and its contents, and probably its attendants, to pieces. Everywhere wreck and destruction. ‘This evidently was a beau quartier once.’ Phe oldest inhabitant could not recognize it now. Climbing up ‘to the Redan, which was feartully cambered with the dead, we witnessed the seene of the desperate attack and defence, which cost both sides so much blood. ‘The ditch outside made one sick—it was ited up with English dead, some of them scorched and blackened by explosion, and others lacerated beyond recognition. ‘The quantity of broken gabions and gun-carriages here was ex- traordinary---the grouod was covered with them. The bomb proofs were the same as in the Malakhoff, and in one of them a music book was found, with a wotan’s name in it, and a canary bird and vase of flowers were outside the entrance. THE NORTH SIDE OF SEBASTOROL 7

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The Frankfort Post Gazette has the following r i ‘the fortifications on the north side of Sebhanhpel ss he for tificatious bordering the roadstead of Sebastopol on the north

upon the roadstead of Sebastopol, Several additions and outworks have also been made to the Star Fort. The 7 generally are of a very solid and massive character, an rapidity with which they have beer thrown up exhibits remarkable energy of the enemy to which we are opposed, | This command of labour appears to be almost unlimited.

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(From the London News of the Warld, September 30, 1855.) THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH ALLIANCE.

Within the last week a document of singular and unpreee- dented interest had made its appearance in the columns of the French official journal—the Moniteur. It is a_ testinsony, obviously emanating from the highest personage in state, to the completeness of the alliance which has happily

subsisted between France and England, and to the equal par-

ticipation of both in the labours and glories of the arduoms and costly struggle in which they are engaged, A more gene rous document never saw the light. Its principal aim appears to have been to guard the French nation against the assamp- tion that France has contributed more largely than Englandte the burdens and triumphs of the war. Such an inferente would certainly not be unnatural in the French mind, when the vast disproportion in the numerical strength of the armies of the two countries employed in the Crimea was considered. All misapprehension upon that point, however, is swept away

the labour and the glory of the contest, Napoleon (for "tis he who speaks) tells his people—* Sinee the commencement of the struggle Franee and England, united by an intimate com- munity of views and efforts, have shown a sort of emulation in providing each according to its resources the means of a suring success. If France was able to send out more soldiers, England provided a greater number of ships, and, nevertheless,

maritime resources would scarcely have sufficed for the trans- port of our troops and of the enormous quantity of materiel which such a war at a distance of 800 leagues from the country demanded. The English Admiralty placed 50 vessels of the Royal and commergial navy at the disposal of France, whieh conveyed to the Crimea nearly 40,000 of our troops with 2,- 000 horses, and 7,000 tons of materiel. Every one knows, moreover, that if Bomarsund fell under the blows of our sol-

there.” Having thus frankly and carefully elucidated the powerful aid afforded throughout all the operations of the

as at Bomarsund and at Sweaburg, the armies and fleets of emulated each other in bravery forthe common cause. At the

ed up to support them at Bala Clava.

‘In the last and victorious effurts against Sebastopol, English and French equally fulfilled their heroic task. Of several different points of attack one only was conquered at first ; but the triumph is not the less due to all the corps of the allied army, which, mutually supporting each other, and shar- ing the resistance of the enemy, finally lled him to aban- don the walls of that town, which cea despair could no longer defend. Thus the Commander-in-Chief of the French army was only just when he attributed to the English arm: a large share of glory in the success of that great day’s work.”

Not resting with this princely testimony to the claims of the English army and navy to share equally with the troops of France in the triumphs of the war, the Emperor to show that England has also borne her full part in the pecuni- ary sacrifices which have attended it. Epon that point, he says :—‘* As regards the pecuniary-sacrifiees which our allies have imposed upon themselves, they are equal to ours, if they do not exceed them. Without speaking of the Turkish loanof 100,000, 0008., guaranteed, it is true, by France as well asby England, but contracted for entirely by Our neighbours, nor the 500 millions advanced by them to the Piedmontese Gover ment to enable it to give us the so useful assistance of her brave soldiers, England has spent in this war nearly 400,000, Q0OF. last-year, and has provided so that she can this year more than a milliard, if necesssary. This enormous but den and all these sacrifices the English people knew how @ support, like the French peapla, not only with resignation, but with that energy which proves that it will spare noth till its object is attained; and it may be said that, wi our neighbours as with ourselves, the nation is not satisfe with following and supporting its Government, but goes ® some measure beyond it, by providing it with all the means for assuring the triumph of a cause, the justice and grandeur of which are equally understood by both peoples.”’ u

We have called this document unprecedented ; and we it to be so; for we can call to mind no other instance in the ruler of one nation, acting in alliance with angther, has % loyally and so generously laboured to set before the eyes his own people a true and just exposition of the merits of the? confederates, and to make them distinctly and clearly stand that they can claim no triumphs to themselves, nor boast

form two distinct sections, Bowe being situated to the woot and

of any sacrifices they may haye made in which the people with

by the candid, calm, and generous statements explicitly set 7 forth in the document to which we refer. First, as relates to ©

sent successively to the Crimea 80,000 troops, collected from all — points of her immense empire. Again, he says :—* Our own

diers, it was chiefly the English navy that took them ~

war by the English navy, the Emperor refers, with equal can- —_ dour and justice, to the constancy and yalour displayed on all occasions by the soldiers and seamen of England. “ {n all the phases of this war,’’ says he, ‘at Alma and at Inkermann, —

England and France have mingled their blood together, and b

Tchernaya_our allies hastened up to our support, as we hastem- F ;