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pAINTS, OILS AND WINDOW GLASS, Drugs, Medicines & Dye Stuffs.

Zine VARNISHES.

Oi 45 ENILA SERIE cnsesccess . BOSTON, MASS. @etoher 22, 1855, 2m

. 7 y SLYU33a WOVE, James W. Cairns, .-.... Proprictor, KENT STREET, CHANLOTTETOWN, P. E. 1. Pleasantly situated, and every comfort afforded at moderate cost.

oz Horses and vehicles, for hire, in cOnaection with the establishment. September J.

wh ty y “ ; ¥ "> ‘ od y ; y 4 WIAA COSA, Commission Merchant and Genoral Agent, GISBORNE & HENDERSON'S WHARP, Sr. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND.

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Commission Merchant, General Agont and |

Auctioneer. QUEEN STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

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Ship Brokers ard Commission Merchants,

and Dealers in Provisions, Fish, Oil, &e. The dark blue jacket that enfolds cation with K —— . ascd. I rom all —. COMMU ARISES

repRyY LANDING WATER-ST.. ST. JOHN. N.B.| he sailor's manly breast, } Teceived by clegraph Lom Otchakof, the aay hefore poster; betiay tL dsh. Nb peewee eee Mab delim d ey OL. ‘Vy sy. bD. Bears more of real honor cay youn rday and to-day, we gather as follows :—The for- , o> : "" elit eis : ." ‘ ypnire “y r . ress of it iv aftey yy r rwitte tha‘ 4} a | Rareatnces — Charlottetown, P.E.L, J MS J URDIE, Esq. Than the star and ermine yest, | tress of Kimburn, after supporting, during the 3d (15th) inst., St. John, N.B., Messrs. Rh. Rayxrx & Co. ha heavy ¢annonade-and bombardment. from the gunboats,

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Commission Merchants,

RUSotTA WHARF. 53.4. iVC.3 BOSTON. Particular attention is given to consignments of Vessels and Produce from the British Provinces; and the purchase and} shipment of all kinds of Merchandize, with a general Insurance

Ayoncy. Septem r 10.

repent - ceasing

TO BE SOLD, ‘A T Private Sale, and if not disposed of previously, then at {a Public Auction on the Ist day of May next, at Summer- side ow the Premises—al!l that Lot of Land now in the posses sonof Mr Wilham tl Lane, having a breadth of 50 feet, and monimg back from the high road to the shore, with the two buiidiogs thereon erected :—one of which ts divided into three convement tenements for business, and the office is at present eecupied by Mr Lane as a dwelimg house and dry goods store —betng one of the best stands fur business.

The terms are—one half of the purchase money to be paid at time of sule, when a Deed wi)) be given if required, —and the Balance, with tnterest, et six per cent, to be secured by Mort- g:ge, payable in one year from date of Sale. For title, &c., please apply at the office ef

Charlottetown, Jaly 9.

CHARLES YOUNG.

Valuable Farm for Sale. N excellent FARM, consisting of 75 acres of Freehold a Land, on the Emy Vale Road, Lot 65, twelve miles from Char- lottetown, (40 acres of which are clear,) with a large DWELLING HOCSE, newly erected and completely fuished, is now offered for sale,

May 28. JOUN KENNY, Central Academy. For Saie, TAXUAT beautifully situated FARM at Darnley, known as

the subscriber's; it contains 100 acres of land ina high state of single soldier whom they soe wandering among the broken|

cultivation; it is a leasehold for 999 years, the yearly rent of wich is £5 IIs Iid, currency; there are on tlhe premises a large two-story Dwelling Ifouse, a large and convenient Burn, with a Thresbiag Mill, «sad an out house for a Grasary.

Atso,—A small FARM, coutaining 24 acres of freehold Jand, situate in Princetown Royalty, within a few chains of the Darnley Bridge.

ihe above mentioned properties are well worth the attention of persons wishing to purchase. or further particulars enquire of

Charlottetown, september 17. Wa. BE. CLARK,

Freehold for Sale.

puat well known Frechold, of 55 acres, “* EQLANTINE

POINT,” Fortune Bay, formerly owned by Epwarp Axre.t, is

now offered for sale, of which a good aud valid title can be given. For further particulars apply to W. B. DEAN. Kegistered book 24, page 878. tf July 23.

Dwelling House and Land near Charlotto- town forSale. ’ OR SALE, the newly built and commodious Dwelling

Hicuse in Charlottetown Royalty, late the residence of the Lon, |

Charles Hensley, together with eighteen acres of Land adjoining. The Dwelling House contains—Dining Reom, Drawing Koom and Study; two Kitchens, with Store-rooms, &e.; and Nine Bed-rooms. There iz also Stables, Coach-house, Roct-honse, Putap, &c., on the premises. The dis- tance from Charlottetown is rather less than one mile

Also to let from year to year, or fur a term of years, as agreed upon, oe Pasture Lots in Charlottetown Royalty, near the above Dwelling

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For Terms of Sale and Lease apply to the subscriber at the Attorney Generals Office, Colonial Building, Charlottetown.

July 30. JOSEPH WENSLEY.

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mue Commissioner of Public Lands gives notice that per- sons who have given bonds for the purchase of lands—having had favorable terms offered them—should they not speedily settle their accounts, by calling at the Commissioner's Office, and agreeing to the balance thereon in the terms offered by the Government—render them- selves liable to aay alteration in these terms which may be thought advisable. September 17, 1855.

Notice.

LL persons are hereby cautioned against trespassing on those lands situate on Lot or Township No. 46, the property of Captain Byrne, the heirs of Mrs. Taylor and of Miss Gan Cunningh aud lying between the western boundary of Major Crooke’s land, the eastern bouudary of Lot 45. Amy person or persons so fi trespassing, will be prosceuted with the utmost rigour of the law.

ROBERT STEWART, €4. Agent for Captain Byrne, the heirs of Mrs. Taylor and Miss Gun Cunningham.

Charlottetown, April 23. Notice to Tonants.

PME subscriber requests ali persons indebted to him for

ent, or arrears of Kent, on his part of half Lot or Township No.

37, to pay the same forthwith. He is also prepared to lease or sell any part of the above property—his titles being now duly recorded; and * anVe 1 i takes this opportunity of notifying that any person or persons found insubordination and many offences it leads to, is a large trespassing on the above property, will be prosecuted to the utmost amount of punishment of various kinds—extra guards, stonc- rigour of the law. Also, the Tenants on the Estates under the manage- car ing and flo ing. The cart-wheel (here substituted | ment of the subscriber, viz:—on Lot or Townsbip No. 26—the property foe the tri

of Messrs Thomeons; on Lot or Township No. 36—the property of the Rev. John Macdonald; and on Lot or Township No. 49—the property of Messrs. Haythorne;—as no arrears will be allowed to remain dae after

the first of January, (856.

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| THE GALLANT BRITISH TAR. broken for drunkenness. On Saturday there was an issue of disgracefal scene than was presented by the part of the eamp in whieh I happened to be at about an hour before sunset on Sunday afternoon. I have no reason to believe that it was confined to that part of the camp, but [I mention only that

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Who guards with zeal our country’s weal,

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saw, as we leant against a railing enjoying the pranty of the evening. Half the men who passed along a track

Spread havoe in its blew, alittle in our front were more or less intoxicated. Some

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' Lhe first to spare its foe. were merely unsteady, others staggered and strageled out | He recks not though proud glory’s shout of the path. Some were pugnacious, and we saw two fights | May be his knell of death, begin, which were only put an end to by the arrival of The triumph won, without a sigh, a patrol. None, more than myself, would advocate every } He alae his parting breath, recsonable indulgence to an army; which has deserved so well

of its country as that of the Crimea, displaying, as. it has done, on repented occasions, and for long periods, the utmost valour, fortitude and patience. But if-means are not fonnd | of checking the great drunkenness that at present goes on | here, the result will be a grievous seandal to the service. At | the same time that I gladly reeord ‘thé physieal well-being of the troops, | am bound to declire my conviction that they have never, since the commencement of the war, been in worse discipline and subordination.

| Ile’s Britain’s boast, and claims a toast! ** In peace, my boys, or war, Here's to the brave upon the waye— ‘The gallant British tar !’’

Let but the s ms of want come nigh, | And tell their tale to him, He'll chide their eyes for weeping, W hile his own are growing dim. ¥ se ° “ Cheer up!’’ he cries, ** we all must moot THE FALL OF KINBURN.—RUSSIAN OFFICIAL The storm as well as calm ; DESPATCH But, turning on his heel, Jack slips al : ' The guineas in their palm. The Jourual de St. Petersburg of the 20th announces He'll hear no long oration, the full of Kinburn - the following terms —In eee | But tell you every man of the situation of the fortress of Kinburn, which is erected is born to act & Brother's part at the extreme end of the spit of land bearing the samie name, } And do what good he can. on the left bank of the Liman of the Dnieper, and at the Ho’s Britain's bodkt. aiid clatins & toast ¢ entrance of the Liman, the communication of Nicolaieff with ‘In peace, mny boys, or war, this fortress took place through Otchakoff, and Were main- Hése'd to the Bente apon the wayo— tained by means of large row beats, and by an optical marine The gallant British tar!" telegraph, established at Otchakoff. On the appearance of " the enemy's vessels in the Liman, the direct water communi-

The tithe of folly in his head ; “e : : May make the landsman’s mirth, a and sicamlrigaies anchored ja. the. Liman, But nature proudly owns him replied to it-by.an animated aud well-directed fire from its

Asher child of sterling worth. | & n:. At nightfall the fire ceased on both sides ; but yester- |

day, the 16th inst., it was resumed, and continued durin y the

His heart is warm, his hand is trae, . ; ae : . . whole day, though with less vivacity. At nine o’clock tis

His word is frank and free ; And though he plays the ass on shore, : He’s lion of t lie’s Britain’s boast, and claims a teast ' | «Iu poage, my boys, or war, Liero’s to the brave upon the wave—

and they all commenced a most furious vertieal and hovizen- tal fre, in which they were assisted by the rest of the enemy’s i fieet from the seaboard. The infernal fire continued until | half-past two o’clock in the afternoon. At that time the for- | tress, within which the baildings were all in flames, ceased | © SSE (firing ; after which the enemy discontinued his fire also. At i

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THE WAR InNy THE EAST, | Liman steered in the direction of Otchakoff and the Nicholas cap aauis battery, sitaated on the opposite shore ; but up to this even- PLEASANT DAYS IN THE CAMP. ; ing they have not opened their fire. — ‘ “_ - | ‘The Fremden Blatt states that after the capitulation and our vis q c » Sebas xt. TS. . pire: ake . : Fourth Division Camp, before Sebastopol, Oct. 15 | occupation of Kinburn by the Allies, they offered to General

rh pleasanter spot for a camp, in such sunny and delightful | Knorring, the commandant at Otehakoff, the choice of retiring

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) weather as we at present enjoy. could hardly be found than | with his troops, with the honours of war. Tho General re-|

;the slope beyond the village of Kamara on which the High-| fused ; but seeing the impossibility of maintaining his po- landers have pitched their tents, and whither materials for) sition, he himself blew up the fortifications of the fortress huts have already been sent in large quantities. ‘This camp, | confided to his eare. recently the nearest to the briskest part of the siege, and into) ee oe ian sah cied . which Russian projectiles not anffequintly plunged, is now} THN NEW BATTERTES AT SEBASTOPOL. | tranquil and laborious assome new settlement im an Australian! Three new batteries have been erected by the Allies at | bush or America’s back woods. Peaceful toil has sueceeded | Sebastopol, bat their fire was not actively maintained. The the din of war. Except the cannonade from the north side, | attack on Forts Constantine and Catherine was delayed by at times rather loud, not a sound is heard that indicated the} the expectation that the Russians would evacuate the north vicinity of a foe. The Russians, as if to vent their rage at! side, for which operation they appeared to be preparing. | their recent reverse, continues to pound away at intervals at} The Sardinian division, with the English and French |the ruins of the town they have been forced to abandon. | cavalry, has returned to their former lines on the Tehernaya. , They do little harm to us, and might as well save their am Acliceen, wa-durcierwen aia uenate oi sniick | Shay 4 SRM PP: WARS mignt oo THE RETURN TO EUPATORTA. ‘munition, which they often condescend to expend even on a |

A despatch has been received from St. Petersburg, to the

walls or across the plam. Yesterday our old friend, Bilbo-| effect that after several movements im adyanee thé Allied quet, long silent, opened his mouth, and sent a couple of shot| forces finally retired to Eupatoria on the 20th, as the Russians either at the works by Traktir bridge, or at something he saw | continued to threaten their left flank.

moving, in. the walloy.. bolow hig. .musries. . To-day. the Rus-j .nyrecrany AivEeY TA names i pA ce Mk IR sian guns are sabui mute, and the stillness contrasts | PERMISSION GI re, dl a "TO EVACU- |strikingly with the uproar we were here so long accustomed AES A EE el ito. ‘The silence would be quite solemn did not the tap of the | General Prince Gortschakoff has roccived, through General | builder’s hammer replace in ‘some degree the crack of the rifle, | Stackelberg, ful! powers from the Emperor to defend or | amd the rumble of carts the roar of the cannon. The pagiish. abandon the Crimea, according to circumstances, without in- army, convinced that it is to winter in its present camp, has | curring any responsibility for the determination to which he set seriously to work to guard itself from the Siena: janay come. pate

| weather from: which it last year suffered so grievously, and toj [There is no reason to doubt, that this information is sub- jmake itself as comfortable as it can. Off€ers and men | stantially true, nothwithstanding that Prince Gortschakoff. on

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which I and a military friend who accompanied me actually

morning. eleven other steam-frigates and a ship of theline of | 7 Tera RY Tard ens 4 : } e sea. 9G guns reinforeed the ships already at anchor in the Liman, |

jhad landed. After that the ships before anchored in_ the |

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i‘\, he 8 YAS, | Poetry sort or other fer intoxication. One regiment was cited to me ‘sionally, at other hours also. Late on Wednesday. night the

: ‘ =* (L refrain from naming it), in which there were 60 offenders reserve ammunition was ordered to he ready early In the Whelesale Dealer in On nowrenreee chit aetaieeneen aie of this sort at one time. In another nine sergeants were

morning, as there was every possibility of an attack. On Thursday forenoon the Freneh were formed up in the valley j of the Tchernaya, awaiting a foe who came not. Yesterday, about noon, there were movements of troops, and it »was re- }ported that large masses of Russians were visible, Much |note of preparation ond.clash of arms, but it nevertheless ig the opinion of many here—some of them persons whose opinion has weight—that our Muscovite friends have not the ,remotest idea of attacking us, and that Lord Panmure’s infor- ) mation to a contrary effect, derived from Berlin, proceeds in fact from St. Petersburg, or at any rate from friends of our enemies, Wao desire to prevent us from taking advantage of what little fine weather remains to undertake fresh. expo ditions, If this be the case, how heartily the Rrssians and |their underhand favourers must have laughed, when they | heard of the trip to Eupatoria having been abandoned, On | Wedtosday the telegraph brought fresh information ‘ori- ginuting in Vienna, to our head-quarters, to the effect that | the Russians were about to abandon the north side. At pre- _Sent there are no visible signs of such approaching evaevation, nor is. there any probable reason to assign for it, excepting one, | Which is that the Russians find it impossible to supply their }army during the winter. On this point opinions difier mach. Some think that there will be no diffienlty in bringing eaough | supplies by the road from Perekop ; others doubt that road being sufficient, and think also that the Raszian means of transport will run short. It is pretty certain that no large | depot of provisions exists near at hand, and also that none has ever existed, even at the commencement of the siege, for last }winter the Russians—who, doubtless, never contemplated la siege of anything like such duration, nor, probwly, an attack at all by land, and had made sure of speedily beat- ing off any naval force brought against their great. fortress— had a constant stream of supplies powring into the town. Tt imay bo urged that they have taken advantage of the summer to lay in stores; but the drought of that’ season is as untae vorable to such an operation as the wet and cold and heavy roads of winter ; and; unless by camels; which caa do but little, transport continues very dificult. Taking a fair and punprejudiced view of all the’ chances and’; tobabilities, I co not think they can have done more than to make'the supply meet the demand, and even that) we have reason to believe, at (umes but scantily.. Their léss of beasts of “dtaught and } burden must have been: prodicious, and the wearsamd.tear of | their illanade carts proportionately large. Their chicf mo- tive for striving to retain their present position would be that, if they anticipate negotiations for peace this winter, these would bs carried on more favourably to them whilst they still have a footing in the Crimea than if they had rioved Gut of \it, leaving us to garrison Sebastopol and Simpheropol, aad if | we choose to transportour army to the Danube and to Asia.

| DESCRIPTION OF SEBASTOPOL.

In Sebastopol itself there is nothing new. The Russians | continte firing at the town, with little reply from the French. They fire principally at Sebastopol proper, but now and then

drop a shot or shell into Karabelnaia, and sometimes take ithe flagstaff on the Malakoff for their mark. It is dificult | to say why we spare them so much, unless it be that we ex- | pect them soon to walk away, and leave us their north side ; forts in good erfer and condition, which would be expecting rather too much, ‘There would be no diffeulty in formirg xatterics of heavy guns, to knock some, at least, of their de- 1

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fences about their ears. Outside the town, the French are hard at work levelling their siegeworks, filling up trenches, | &c., though why they should take that trouble it is hard to sity, unless they contemplate the probability of Schastopol | heing garrisoned by the allies, and they, in their turn, be- sieged by the Russians. Visitors to the exterior works | continas to bo oceasionally pretty numerous; fewer persons go into the town, the fire, which sometimes is really heavy, rendering it unpleasant. A more curious spectacle is assuredly nowhere to be found than in the space comprised between the lines where our batteries were and the harbour of Sebastopol. lhe ground in parts is literally paved with shot sank in the ‘earth, ibove which their upper surface searcely rises ; there fare ditches and trenches In which they lic as thick as apples in 'a basket ; in some places numbers of them have been buried, You see them of every size, fromthe huge 68-pounder down to the dimunitive grape—jolly dittle fellowa, of a pleasant vinous appellation, but yery nasty to run against as they are passing through the air. As to the fragments of shell, you might macadamize roads with them—jugged, rusty bits of iron, infinitely various in size and form; one thinks, as one looks at them, how many a stout arid gallant fellow received his quictus from some of them ere they fell to the ground, after their diverging upward flight. Then you come upcn ill- treated cannon, trunnioniess some, others with muzzles knocked off, some burst into two or three pieces, and others bearing indentions as from the bammer of a_ eyclops You walk up inte the Redan—into the Malakoff, if the French, sentriets object not—and you marvel at the hugs dimensions of thoss famous works, and feel more surprised at their having even become ours than at their haying so |long resisted the utmost efforts of English and French. Sach

are busy with domestic arrangements. Llutting and road-| the 15th inst., declared, in an order of the day, that he would | , medley of enormous carthworks huge lumps of stone,

making are the occupations of the hour, and rapid progress) not leave the Crimea, hut woukl defend it te the very last. is making with both. Whenever we abandon this encamp-; He had not then received the instructions of his Imperial ment we shall leave almost a town behind us. Strong wooden! Master. The great amount of discretionary powers aceurded huts are springing up on all sides, and here and there a solid) to the General has, wo have reasun to believe, a far greater stone dwelling is in course of construction. There will be significance than any that ean relate to the movements of lots of chimneys smoking this Christinas on the heights before the army. It implies rather than expresses the wavering Sebastopol, and doubtless, many 2 good dinner will be eaten!) spirit of Russia, and is intended to prepare Europe for on that day, and many a glass emptied to those memortes| the retreat of the Muscovite army. It bespeaks the ina- and hopes of home which are almost the sole consolation for | bility of the Czar to send reinforcements, or, at least, his con- ‘the many privations that must be endured, even under the) viction that, even could he send them, the great point for most favorable circumstances, by the dwellers in a camp. It) which we contended is So obtained. The Imperial isnow pleasant to contrast the sufferings of last winter—the instructions, then, may be taken as a sort of warrant to the ‘cold, exposure, famine, and want of clothing then endured | Russian General to abandon his position ; and an intina- |—with the prospect of plenty and almost of comfort during tion to Europe that that event may shortly be looked for. that which approaches, and to observe the activity that pre-| But the question remains, how are the Russians to evacuate yails to make the most of the ample means supplied. ‘The | the Crimea? It is more easily spoken of than dune. He is necessary roads progress repidly towards completion. Drain- | already hemmed in on all sides. ‘The sea is in one direction, age is not neglected, and, indeed, it is a question whether it | a bleak and waterless steppe in another. Lhe take the third | be not almost overdone. Some of the ditches, dug along each | route that presents itself, he will fall in with the main body side of <he roads, and around stores, hospital huts, and other of Marshal Pelissier’s army ; if he take the fourth, and only establishments, are of formidable width and depth, and of.a remaining one, ke must be prepared to encounter Sir Colin dark night are likely to prove dangerous pitfalls to wandereis | Campbell's division, Lord George Paget’s light cavalry, and through the camp, especially if they have been taking ‘* just the infantry of the English, Freneh and Turks that have one more tumbler” in the quarters of some hospitable friend. been interposed between the Russian position and thetr route On the other hand, here, where the rains are frequently; tothe north. Their position is truly terrible. Above them torrents, during which the water sweeps down the slopes in the certain storm of Heaven, beneath them the bleached

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‘sheets and floods, deep drainage is-essential if we are not to bones of the dead, and around them the instruments of death |

live ina quagmire, as we hitherto have done as often as the in dark array, waiting only for the first movement of the

weather has been wet. r : : : lare, and they cannot move without battle. ‘They must fight,

DRUNKENNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT. ‘then. There is nothing else open to them. _An uninter- To the wholesome labour and activity that now prevail, as rupted retreat-is ‘not to be thought of. But if they fight,

well as to the fineness of the weather, the healthy eondition of what is their chance of victory? Certainly desperation som2~ the army is doubtless due. It certainly is not attributable to times does wonders, and it is possible for any army thaf feels |

} etic ‘ 7 : . ( ' fy: ery | Sobri inence I regret to say that drunkenness that it must face death in some shape to conquer from very \avendy’ anion oa an The aikinwadda kind- madness, just as one maniac may tax the fall powers of hali- ness of the “ Queen’s sixpence”’ is doing, I fear, mach harm, \a-dozen men in their senses. But all the chances point the _used as it is by a very large portion of t ie soldiers as a means other way. The allied armies arc in the highest state of dis- of excessive drinking. The consequence of this, and of the cipline aud efficiency. |

FALSE ALARMS AT SEBASTOPOL, Forrtn Division Cayr, Ocr. 20.—Here, at Schastopol, hd ( Mi i an gui i » absence of events we angle) is f, gged, and the Provost-Mar- | nothing has been guing on, and, in the a ‘shal and lit hanistnte Wave plik on their ‘hands ; but 25 are Jeft to reflect on the past and to speculate on the future.

lashes, or even 50, are all insufficient to wean the British The projected ex edition to Eupatoria is given wp, an attack | |soldier from his favorite vice. I hear of regiments in which| upon ovr own lines being expected. Accordingly we bave there are literally scores of mon under punishment of one! been turning out before dayWreak cyery morning,~and, occa-

ibeleagared camp. The trath is, they cannot stay where they |

heaps upon heaps of shot and broken shell, and damaged } } ’ >

'guns, everything rugged and battered—a work of giants jroduced to chaos, And. then the gloomy fetid bomb-proofs, jwhere, for so long a time. the stubborn Russians lurke¢— wretched holes, worse than most dungeons. A minutely accurate drawing of as much of the Malakoff or Redan as an artist could embrace at a view would give a better idea of the nature of the difficulties to be surmounted, than any attempted sketch of the fight. The state of the town itself is the best procf of the enormous loss the Jussians must have suffered during this long and eyentful siege, and especially towards the close, when no part of the south sido jseems to have escaped our projectiles. The os is literally riddled with shot. You come upon all kinds of fantastical shattering: houses that stand when, according to all one’s previons notions of support and balance, they ought to fall to the ground, walls with buge holes through them, roofis in rags, and everywhere, within and without the pie the ground is ploughed up into great holes by the bursting of shells: The suecess of the Kinburn expedition makes one doubly iregret that more have not been undertaken, and that so little profit has been made of the six weeks that have now elapsad lsince the capture of Sebastopol. It is manifest that we have ample means at our command, and that whatever is ordered, within reason, will be triumphantly carried out by the zeal, skill and conrage of our effcers and men, even though, as ax Kinburn, our line-of-hattle ships have to be taken where there are but two feet of water ufder their keels,. What is wanting is a head to devise, and decision and promptitude tocommand, it were unfair net to make due allowances for some difliculties and obstacles of which we know nothing, but we should be over-indulgent and over-credulous if we admitted that alt has been done that might have been. The enemy is said to bo clearing roads through the brushwood down from Mackenzie's Farm, and to have plauted four guns to command the eause- |way across the marsh at the mouth of the Tcheriaya. This j\looks as. if they contemplated an attack in force along our ‘line, bnt | persist in thinking that their apparent preparations | for action, are made merely for the perro of. deceiving us. (The Russians are the most patient and laborious people in the world for ruses de guerre of that kind.

| VISID OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA TO NICOLALEFP.

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