HASZARD’S GAZETTE, OCTOBER 17.

News as rm: mvcusn sun. The Storming of Sebastopol.

Ixrunsioii raois ran RIDAN.

Sir Edward Codrington asked Col. Windham if he thought he really could do anything with each supports as he could aﬂ'ord, and said he might take the Royals..who were then in the

rallel. “ Let the oﬂicers come out in front-

et us advance in order,.and if the men keep their formation,the Redan is ours,” was the Colonel’s reply; but he spoke too late—for at that'very moment our men were seen leaping down into the diteh, or running down the parapet of the salient. and throu the embrasures out of the work into the ditch, while the Russians followed than with the bayonet and with heavy muslrctry, and even threw stones and grapeshot at them as they lay in the ditch I.’ .' The fact was, that the Russi- ans having accumulated several thousands of men behind the breastwork. and seeing our men all scattered and confused behind the inner parapet of the traverse, crossed the hreastwork, through which several ﬁeld-pieces were now laying with grape on the inner face of the Re an, and charged our broken groups with the bayonet, at the same time that the rear ranks, gettin on the breastwork, poured a heavy hail of bu lets on them over the heads

of the advancing column. The struggle that-

took place was short, desperate and bloody. Our soldiers, taken at every disadvantage, met the enemy with the bayonet too, and isolated combats took place in which the brairefellows who stood their ground (all honor to them!) ho to defend themselves against three or four ad- versaries at once. In this melee, the officers, armed only with their swords, had little chance; nor had those who carried pistols much oppor- tunity of usin them in such a ra id contest. The fell like erocs, and many a gailantsoldier wit them. The bodies of English and Russi- ans inside the Redan, locked in an embrace which death could not relax, but had rather cemented all the closer, lay next day inside the Redan, as evidences of the terrible animosity of the struggle. But the solid weight of the ad- vancing mass, urged on, and fed- each moment from the rear, by company after company and battalion after battalion, prevailed at last against the isolated and disyointed band, who had abandoned the protection of unanimity of cou- rage. and had lost the advantages of discipline and obedience. As though some giant rock had ad- vanced into the sea, and forced back the waters that bull‘-.-ted it, so did the Russian columns ress down against the spray of soldiery which retted their edge with fire and steel, and con- tended in vain against their weight. The struggling band was forced back b the enemy, who moved on, crushing friend an foe beneath their solid tramp, and, bleeding, panting, and ,exhausted, our men la in heaps in tlieditcli beneath the parapet, sheltered themselves be- hind stones and in bo.nb-craters in the slope of the work, or tried to ass back to our advanced parallel and sup. an had to run the gauntlet of a tremendous_ﬁre. Many of them lost their lives, or were seriously wounded in this at- tom t. APPALLING scans: [N -rnr Dl'l'Cll.

The scene in the ditch was appalling, al- though some of the oﬂicers have assured me that they and the men were laughing at the

recipitation with which many brave and gal- ant fellows did not hesitate from plunging headlong upon the mass of bayonets, muskets, and sprawling soldiers—the ladders were all knocked down or broken, so that it was diﬂicult for the men to get up at the other side, and the dead, the dying, the wounded, and the sound were all lying in heaps together. The Russians came out of the em rasures, plied them with stones, grs shot, and the bayonet, but were soon forge to retire by the ﬁre of our batteries and riﬂemen, and under cover of this ﬁre many of our men escaped to the up roaches. In some instances,the enemy rsiste in renisiningout- side in order to plun er the bodies of those who were lying on the slope of the parapet, and paid the enalty of their rashness in beta stretched besi e their foes; but others came orth on a holier errand and actually brought water to our wounded. if this last act be true, it is but right to discredit the story that the Russians placed our wounded over the magazine in the rear of the Redan, near the Barrack Batter , are they ﬁred it—the only foundation for which, as far as I can discover, is that many of the ho- dies of our men found in the Radon were dread- fully scorchcd and burnt; but there were many Russians lying in a similar state.

will rasncn MIIIAGI To run IIATIN Inousii.

General Pelissisr observed the failure of our attack from the rear of the Mslskhclf, and sent over to General Simpson to ask, if he intended to attack again. he English Commander- la-Chisf is reported to have replied that he did not then feel in a condition to do so. All this time the Guards and Highlanders, the Third and Fourth Divisions, and most of the re- serves sure untouched. They could, indeed, have furnished nistsrisls for another assault, but

d that the

iug the Redan, and of redeeming the credit of our arms would not have been dearly purchased by the effusion of more valuable blood. As soon as we abandoned the assault, the ﬁring almost ceased along o'ur front, but in the rear of the Malakhoﬂ there was a ﬁerce contest go- ing on between masses of Russians, now re- leased from the Redan, or drawn from the town, and the French, inside the work : and the fight for the Little Redan, on the proper left of the hlalakhoff was raging furiously. Clouds of smoke and dust covered the scene, but the rattle of muskctry was incessant, and be tokened the severe nature of the struggle below Through the breaks in the smoke there could e seen now and then a tricolcur, surmounted by an eagle, ﬂuttering bravely over the inner parapet o the Malaklioﬂ‘. The storm of bugle rolled ﬁercely round it, and beat against it; but it was sustained by strong arms and stout hearts, and all the assaults of the enemy were directed in vain against it. We could see. too our noble allies swarming over into the Mala-_ khotf from their splendid approaches to it from the hlamelon, or rushing with swift steps to- wards the riglit, where the Russians continually reinforced, sought in vain to heat back their foes and to regain the key of their osition. 'l‘lio struggle was full ofinterest to us al , but its issue was never oubted. The issue of our

Till wnuoiuwu. or ‘fill Iwssuﬂs.

Scxnsr, Sept. 9.—At ei ht o'clock last night, the Russians began quiet y to withdraw from the town. in the principal liouscs ofwhich they had previously stored up conibustibles in order to render Sebastopol a second Moscow. With great art the general kept up a fire of musketr l'rom his advanced posts, as though he intended to renew the attempts to regain the Malukhoff. Ere two o’clock this morning, the ﬂeet had been scuttled and sunk, with the exception of the steamers. About 12.30 the men of the second division on duty in the trenches observed a pretcrnatural silence in the Redun, and some volunteers crept up into it. Nothing could they bear, but the heavy breathing and groans of the wounded and dying, who, with the dead, were the sole occupants of the place. As the Redan was known to be mined. the men were withdrawn, and soon afterwards, the Russian tactics began to develope tlieinselvcs. About two o'clock ﬂames were observed to break out in dill‘,-rent parts of the town. The s read gradually all over the principle buildings. At four o'clock, a stupendous explosion behind the Rcdun shook the whole camp , it was followed by four other explosions equally startling. The city was enveloped in fire and smoke, and torn asunder with the tremendous shocks of

assault was the source of deep grief and morti- tication to us, which all the glorious success of our allies could not alleviate. The French, indeed, have been generous enough to say, that our troops behaved with rent bravery, and wondered how we kept the Redan so long an er such a tremendous fire, but British soldiers are rather accustomed to the nil admi- rari under such circumstances, and praise like that gives pain as well no pleasure. Man

soldiers, of the opinion to which I have alluded, think that we should at once have renewed the attempt once made, and it is but small conso- lation to them to know that General Simpson

morning.

THE SORT OF SOLDIERS THAT WERE SENT 0 ATTACK THE RI-IDAN.

The rapidly-increasing numbers of wounded men, some of whom had left their arms behind them, gave rise to suspicions of the truth; but their answers to many eager questions were not very decisive or intelligible, and some of them did not ca on know what they were attack- ing. One our fellow who was inurcliing stiﬂly up with a roken arm and a ball through his shoulder, carried off his lirclock with him, but he made the naive confession that he had “never ﬁred it off, for he could not.” The piece turned out to be in excellent order. struck one, that such men as these, liowcver brave, were scarcel a lit match for the well drilled soldiers of ussia; and yet we were trustin the honor, reputation. and glory of Great ritain to undisciplined lads from the plough, or the lanes of our towns and villages! As one example of the sort of recruits we have received here recently, I may mention that there was a considerable number of men in draughts which came out last week to regiments in the Fourth Division who had only been enlisted a few days, and who had never ﬁred a riﬂe in their lives ! It must not be imagined, that such rawnesss can be corrected and turned into mi- litary eﬁiciency out here, for the fact is, that this siege has on a ut the worst possible school for developin the courage and man] self-reliance ofa soliﬁer; neither does it teach him the value ofdisci line and of united action. When he es into t s trenches, he learns to dodge behind gabious and to take pet shots from behind stones and parapets, and at the same time he has'no opportunity of testing the value of his comrades, or of proving himself against the enemy on the open field. The na- tural result follows. Nor was it ominous of good that there have been two courts of inquiry recentl on the conduct of two most distin- guishe regimsnts—-one, indeed, belonging to the hi hest rank of our infantry, and the other a wel -tried and gallant regiment, which was engaged in this very attack, in consequence of the misconduct of their young soldiers during night aﬂairs in the trenches. The old soldiers behaved admirably, and stood by their ollicers to the last.

According to Messager de Bayonne, the marsh- s|’s baton is not the only recompense that the genorsl-in chief ofths French army in the Crim- es will rcccivs. ii is said thsilhe Emperor in- tends usming Marshal Pslissier, Duke of Ssbssto_ po .

We learn on good authority, that the French lost only one man in their alisck on the Mslskoff before they took possession of lhll work.

hard Psnmurs continues to receive very favour- able accounts of the progress towards recovery of the wounded in the snack on the Redsn.

Orders have been received at Portsmouth to dis-

intended to attack the Radon the following-

these volcanoes. At 4.45 the Flugstaﬂ' and ‘Garden Buttcrics blew up. At 5.30 two of the (southern forts went up into the air, and the ictfcct of these explosions was immciiscly in- {creased by the rush of a great number oflive islioll into the air, which cxplodcd in all direc- 5 ions. All this time, a steady current of in fun- ry was passing in unbroken nnisses to the north side over the bridge, and at 6.45 the last battalions passed over, and the hill sides opposite were alive with their masses. Several small explosions took place inside of the town at 7.10. Coliimns of black suioke began to rise

At 7-15 the connection of the ﬂoating bridge with the south side was severed. At 7.16 ﬂames began to ascend from Fort Nicholas. At 8.7 the bridge was floated oil‘ in portions to the north side. At 9, several violent explosions took place in the works on our left, opposite the French. The town was by this time in a .mass of ﬂames, and the pillar of black, gray, :_and velvety fat smoke from it seemed to sup-

port the very heavens. The French kept up

ﬁring guns on the left, probably to keep out ’stragglcrs,butcre the Russians left the place, , the Zouuves and sailors were in it, and cngn ed ‘busily in plundering. Not a shot was ﬁred to ‘the front and centre. The Vladimir and Gro- .inonosctz were very busy towing boats and

istores across. Cavalry and sentrics were sent

it . up to prevent any one going into the town, buti

iwitliout much success. I visited a good or- tion of the place. Ex losions occurred all through the day. 'l‘lic p under was enormous. The following after-order of the day has been issucd:— GENERAL AFTER onnsn.

llead-quarters, Sept. 9.

The Commander of the forces congratulates the army on the result of the attack of yester- day. The brilliant assault and occu ation of the Malakhoff by our gallant allies ob iged the enemy to abandon the works they have so long held with such bravery and etcrminntion. 'l‘bc conimandcrof the forces returns his thanks to the general officers and men of the second and light divisions, who advanced and attacked with such gallantr the works of the Redan. lle regrets, from t e formidable nature of the ﬂanking defences, that their devotion did not meet with that immediate success which it so well merited lle condoles and deeply sympa- thises with the many brave ollicers, non-com- missioned oﬂicers, and men who are now

course of their noble exertions of yesterday.

llant officers and men, who have fallen‘ in the final struggle of this ion and memorable siege. Their loss will be severe y felt, and their names long remembered in this army and by the British nation. General Simpson avails him- self of this opportunit to congratulate and convey his warmest than s to'tlie general oﬂicers, olﬁcers, and soldiers of the several divisions, to the Royal Engineers and Artillery. for their cheerfu endurance of almost unparalleled hardships and sufferings, and for the unﬂinch- ing courage and determination which on so many trying occasions they have evinced. It is with equal satisfaction, that the commander of the forces thanks the oticers and men of the naval brigade for the long and uniform course of valuab e service rendered b them from the commencement of the sicge.— order, H. W. Bssxuan, Chief of the Staff.

[t_is dillicult, as l have had occasion to observe on former occasions ,to give, with any pretensions to accuracy, the details of a battle,

at it becomes almost impossible to attain correctness in describing such an aﬁisir as the assault» on the Rcdsn under the peculiar circumstances which attended it. In addition to the smoke of battle, there were ﬂying clouds of dust mingled with sand, which blew right

from the neighbourhood of Fort Paul at 7.12..

suffering from the wounds they received in the,

He deeply deplores the death of so many’

rity of the ground oﬁ'ered other impediments to their view ; but greater than all these obstacles was this, that no one could from any conceiiiable position in front see what was go- ing on inside the lledan, which seemed to engulf our soldiers within its huge dun-co- loured and ragged para eta only to vomit them forth again in diniinis ed numbers. It was all along but too lain to understand, what was taking place wit iin from the external aspect of that ill-fated work, the slopes of which have astonished the world with the sight of British troops in ﬂight twice in two successive attacks on its formidable defences This Redan _has cost us more lives than the capture of Badayoz, not to speak of those who have fallen in the trenches and approaches to it; and, although the enemy evacuated it, we can scarcely claim the credit of having caused them such loss, that the retired owing to their dread ofa renewed assault. On the contrary, we must, in fairness admit that the Russian maintained their grip of the lace till the French were fairly establislied in the i\lulakhoﬂ', and the key of the position was torn from their grasp. They might, indeed, have remained in the place long er thrin tliev did, us the French were ‘scarce y in ii condition to molest them from the Mala- klioﬁ' with artillery, and could not be permitted to interfere with our attack, had they been able to send rcinforcciiicn ts to us; but the Rus- sian general is a man of too much gcniu and experience as a soldier to lose men in defend- ing an urrtcnuble position, and his retreat was eﬂectcd with masterly skill and with perfect case in the face ofa victorious enemy. (Sover- ing his rear by the flames of the bprning city, and by tremendous explosions, which spoke in tones of portcntous warnin to those who might liu.vc wished to cut off his retreat, he led . battalions in narrow ﬁles across a deep arm of the sea, commanded b our guns and in the face of a most powerful ﬂeet, paraded them in ‘our sight as they crossed, and carried otfall his most useful stores and munitions of war.- _He left us few trophies and many bitter memories. lle sunk his ships and blew up his forts with- out molcstation, save some paltry efforts to ,break down the bridge by cannon shot, or to lshcll the troops as they marched over. Ilis istcamers towed his boots across at their leisure; 'and when every main was across. and not till then, the Russians began to dislocato and ﬂoat oil'tlie the iortions of their bridge and to pull ,it over to t a north side.

Sept. 10.-—'l‘lie town is still bnrnin and in ruins. It is in osscssion of the From: . The 1 f-‘.llowing order as been issued on the sulfect: ’ nd several men injure by

§—“ Five officers in ; explosions to-day.’ . 0___ 1 l’i-zscr. AGITATION A1‘ S1‘. P51-i:nsnuno.—A private lelterlroin Berlin s'ales, that the news of the taking of Sebastopol has produced at Si.l’elers- Iburg the utmost consternation. The young Em- iprcss. who appears to desire to be at the head of the peace party, does not spsie lier reprosclies against the war party. She says that if the note of Vienna lisd been accepted, Russia would have been spared the humiliation of the four points of guarantee demanded by the Allies ; and that, ifst a later period, iliose guarantees had been accepted, ussia would have been spared the shame ofthe defeat of the Tcliernsys , and the terrible disaster of the fall of Sebastopol. The journey of the , Emperor to the south had been resolved upon be- fore the fall of -Sebastopol was known. ltso ject was to raise the spirit of inc Russian army, which. according to llio reports of Prince Guita- clislrofl‘ , was greatly broken and depressed. The Russians are much more embarrassed to ﬁnd men 3 than provisions and munitions of war, especially ss one-third at leastof the effective troops rcinsin behind on the way, and never come up to their , destination.

An imperisl decree opens to the Minister of the interior an extraordinary credit of £53,867, 954 from the estimates of I855, for the purpose of reimbursing the treasury sad the city of Lyons for the advances made by them in I818 for the nniicnsl workshops. Another decree opens to the Minister of State, an extraordinary credit of f. llU,000 for Ilia expences of the religious cer- emony of ilie l3Ih instant, in Notrs Dame.

After the arrival of the intelligence of the fall of Sebastopol, the Prussian government inquired of the cabinets of Paris and London, whether it wss considered, that a favourable moment for re- opening nsgocistions for psscs had arrived. An answer was received in the negiuivo, which was immediately communicated by telegraph to Visa- na.

On Saturday morning a company of ﬁve Russian ,dsscrtsrs wss escorted into Woolwich dockysrd {from Shcrncss, in charge of s ssrjssnt of the Roy- :sl Marines, to be received on board the Fisgsrd ‘receiving ship, for s pssssgs to Constantinople, to join the Foreign Legion. They are enthusiastic in expressing their satisfaction at the treatment they receive in their newly adopted country, and con-

ch; snbso uent movement. of an nu..1.n._coniinns any farther shipment of shells for the render it ubtful whether the glory of carry- Crimes.

into the faces of the men and swept the hills in , _ _ _ their rear, which were crowded with spectators 7'“ “ill ll"! 5“ "0 |’°l|i°“|'¢° "3 ‘l'"““‘I R‘”"‘

or those who tried to be so, and the irrsgula- when their monthly pay was only is M.