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a nstant shower of " eavy mitiles was poured upon the besieged until eleven, when Robinson s brigade, getting out through the trenches, passed throu h the openings in the sea-wall, and was launc ed bodily against the breaches. While the head of the column was still gatheriu on the sand, about thi yards from the sal‘upt ang e of the horn— work, twe ve men, commanded by a sergeant, whose heroic death has not sufl‘iced to preserve his name, running violently forward, leaped upon the covered way, With intent to cut the sausage of the enemy s mines. The French, startled by theisuddcn assault, fired the train prematurely, and though the sergeant and his brave followers were all destroyed, and the

- high sea-wall was thrown with a dreadful crash upon the head of the advancing column, no more than forty men were crushed by the rums, and the rush of the tr Was scarcely checked. The for- lorn hope had‘ read passed beyond the play of the inine, and now spec ed along the strand, amidst a shower of pa and shells; the leader, Lieut. Mac- ire, of 5:: 4th regiment, conspicuous from his :

ong white plume, his fine figure, and his swiftness, g bounded far ahead of his men in all the pride of

eat breach to fell dead, and the stormers went sweeping like a dark surge over his body; many died, however, with him, and the trickling of the wounded men to the rear was incessant.

By this time there was a broad strand left by the retreating tide, and the sun had dried the rocks, yet they disturbed the order and closeness of the for- matiou; the distance to the main breach was still nearly two hundred yards, and the French, seeing, the first mass of the assailants pass the horn-work regardless of its broken bastion, immediately abandoned the front, and crowding en the river time of that work, poured their musketry into the flank? of the second column as it rushed along a few yards , below them; but the soldiers, still running forward|

I towards the breach, retiu'ned this fire without slack- I ening their speed. The batteries of the Monte - 0r ullo and SLElmo now sent their showers of shot an shells, the two pieces on the cavalier swept the face ofthe breach in the bastion of St. John, and the four-pounder in the horn-work being suddenly mounted on the broken bastion, poured grape shot into their rear.

Thus scoui‘ged with fire from all sides, the storm- ers, their array broken alike by the shot and by the rocks they passed over, reached their destinations, and the head of the first column gained the top of the great breach; but the unexpected gulph below could only be passed at a few places where meagre parcels of the burned houses were still attached to the rampart, and the deadly clatter of the French muskets from the loop-holed wall beyond soon strewed the narrow crest of the ruins with dead. In vain the following multitude covered the ascent, seeking an entrance at every part; to advance was impossible, and the mass of assailants, slowly sink-

’ ing downwards, remained stubborn and immove- ab 6 on the lower part. of the breach. Here they were covered from the musketry in front, but from several isolated points, especially the tower of Lus Homos, under which the great mine was placed, the French still smote them with small arms, and the artillery from the Monte Orgulle poured shells and grape without intermission. .

'Such was the state of affairs at‘ the great breach, at the bastion of St. John it was even worse. access to the to of the high curtain being quite

cticable, the efiiirts to force a way were more persever‘ and constant, and the slaughter was in propurti ,' r the traverse on the flank, cutting it off from t i cavalier, was defended by French gre- nadiers who would not yield; the two pieces on the cavalier itself swept along the front face of the opening,.and.the four-pounder and musketry from the horn work, swept in like mamicr along the

' river face. In the midst of this destruction some suppers and a working party attached to the assault- ing columns endeavoured to form a lodgment, but no artificial materials having been provided, most of the laborers were killed before they could raise the loose rocky fragments into a cover.

During this time the besiegers’ artillery kept up a constant counter fire which killed many of the French, and reversed brigades of the fifth division were pushed on by degrees, to feed the attack until the fifih wing ofthe ninth regiment only remained in the trenches. The volunteers also who had with difficulty been restrained in the trenches, calling out ‘to know why they had been brought there, it“ they were not to lend the assault tliese;’ men, whose presence had given such offence to General Lcitli that he would have kept them altogether from the assault, being now let loose", went like a whirlwind to the breaches, and again the crowded masses swarmed up the face of the ruins, but on reaching the crest line they came down like a falling wall; crowd after crowd were seen to mount, to totter, and to sink; the deadly French fire was unabated, the smoke floated away, and the crest ofthe breach bore no living man. Sir Thomas Graham, standing on the nearest of the Chofi'e batteries, beheld this frightful destruction with a stern resolution to win at any cost; and he was a man to have put himself at the last company, and died sword in hand upon the breach rather than sustain a second defeat, but neither his confidence nor his resources were yet exhausted. He directed an attempt to be made on the horn work, and turned all the Chofi‘e batteries and one on the Isthmus, that is to say, the concen- trated fire of fifty heayiy pieces, upon the high cur- tain. The shot range over the heads of the troops who now were gathered at the foot of the breach, and the stream of missiles thus poured along the upper surface of the high curtain broke down the traverses, and in its fearful course shattering all things, strewed the rampart with the mangled limbs of the defenders. swept over_ the heads of the soldiers a cry arose,

fiem some inexperienced people, ‘to retire because ‘ e batteries were firing on the stormei-s ;’ but the Veterans of the light division under Hunt being at 'that pomt, were not to be so disturbed, and in the very heat and fury of the cannonade effected a solid lodgment in some ruins of houses actually within the rampart on the right of the great breach.

For half an hour this horrid tempest smote upon thgtgks and the houses behind, and then sudden- ly ' in the small clatter of the French mnskets shewed t iat the assailants were again in activity; at the same time the thirteenth Portuguese regiment, led b Major Snodgrass, and followed by a detachment of the twenty-fourth, under Colonel Macbean, entered the river fi'om the Chofres. The ford was deep, the water rose above the waist, and when the soldiers reached the middle of the stream, which was two hundred yards wide, a heavy gun struck on the head of the column with a shower of grape ; the havoc was fearful, but the survivors clo- sed and moved 'on.‘ A second discharge from the

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same ices fi'ont torear, Slim-h“ regimgnt moved» on, and anudst a confined firgo of muskuetry from the ramparts, and of , lsry In St. Elmo, from the castle, and from ' e Mirador landed on the left bank and rushed against the th_ breach. Macbean’s men, who had followed With equal bravery, then reinforced the at bronchi, about eighty yards to the left of the 0 er, atthough the line of ruins seemed to extend the w le way. The f! liting now became fierce and obst agai‘ n. at all die breaches, but the French musketrytfiill rolled wit adly effect; the heaps of slain.m a- sed, and o ’ more the great mass of stormers stink to the foot of the ruins unable to Win; the 'liv‘iplg shelteréd themselves as they could, but the dead wounded lay so thickly that hardly could it be judg- ed whether the hurt or unhurt wore most nume- rous.

It was now evident that the assault must'fail uni less some accident intervened, for the tide was rising, the reserves all engaged, and no greater efiort could be expected from men whose courage had been already pushed to the‘vergepf madness. In this crisis fortune interfered. A number-of powder barrels, live shells and combustible materials, which the French had accumulated behind the traverses for their defence, caught fire ; a bright consuming flame wrapped the whole of the high curtain, a suc- cession of loud explosions were heard, hundreds of the French grenadiers were destroyed ; the rest were thrown into confusion, and while the ramparts were still involvgd with suffocating eddies ofsmoke, the British soldiers broke in at the traverse. The defenders bewildered by this terrible disaster yielded for a moment, yet soon rallied; and a closo desperate struggle took place along the summit of the high curtain, but the fury of the Stormers, whose numbers being increased, could not be stemmed. The French colours on the cavalier were torn away by Lieutenant Gethin, of the lltli regiment. The horn work and the land from below the curtain, : and the loop holed wall beyond the great breach 5 were abandoned ; the light division soldiers, who had already established themselves on the French lefi, immediately penetrated‘to the streets, and at the same moment the Portuguese at the small breach mixed with the British who had wandered to that point seeking for an entrance, burst in on their side.

Five hours the battle lasted on the wall, and now the stream of war went pouring into the town. The undaunted governor still disputed the victory for a short time with the aid of his barricades, but seve- ral hundreds of his men being cut off and taken in the horn work, his garrison was so reduced that even to effect a retreat behind the line of defences which separated the town from Monte Orgullo was difficult. Many of his troops flying from the har- boiir flank of the town broke through a body of the British who had reached the vicinity of the fortified convent of Santa Teresa before them, and this post was the only one retained by the French in the town. * * ‘V ‘* * I

Three Generals, Leith, Oswald‘and Robinson had been hurt in the trenches, and Sir Richard Fletc , the chief engineer, a brave man who had served 3 country honourably, was killed, and Colonel Bur- goyne, the next in command of that arm, was wounded.

The carnage at the breaches was appalling. The vogimeers, although brought late into the action, . ha nearly half their numbers struck down, most of the regiments of the fifih division suffered in the same proportion, and the whole loss since the re- ncwal of the siege exceeded two thousand five hun- dred men and officers.

At a recent Anti-Slavery Meetin in Exeter Hall, at which Prince Albert presided, r. Buxton closed an able speech with the following allusion to her lilajcsty, and the hi 1) destiny baf'nro lun- e- _ .0 . .

I may be excused if I venture to express the deep feelings of respect and participation with which this vast multitude hail your Royal Highness in that l chair, and to declare my fervent and earnest desire that her Majesty, your Royal Highness’s Royal con- sort, may long reign upon her throne with bound- less prosperity and with surpassing glory. I do not forget—who ever can ?—the military triumphs of this country; but I‘ do say, that there is a road to glory more illustrious and purer far than victories like those of Waterloo and Trafalgar could open to us. To arrest the destruction of inankindT—to throw a blessing on a continent in ruins—to give civiliZa- tion and spread the gospel over a region in compari- son with which the extent of the British Empire it- self is insignificang-I do say this is the higher ground, the loftier path; and my desire is that her Majesty may tread it. (Tremendous cheering) My prayer is, that with every blessing, her Majesty may to far distant days be the beloved Sovereign of this people—that she may

, “ Shine the leader nfapplmiding nations, Po scatter happiness and pent-e around : 'I‘o bid the prostrate captive rise and live ; To see new cities tower at her command, And happy nations flouisli in her smile."

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' PAPERS BP— THE GREAT WESTERN!

The steamer Great Western arrived at New York?

Sunday morning, the 9th.ins.tant, in fourteen days, and a half from Bristol, bringing London and Liver- July.

The Great Western brought about one hundred )assengers, among whom were Jerome Napoleon

onapurte, Prince Ravel, Mr. Miles, M. P., &c:

Prince Albert has been made Regent of Eng- land, in the event of the Queen’s death, which is said to have displeased the Duke of Sus- sex. The only restrictions on the exchise of royal prerogatives are, that theRoyal assent shall not be given to any Act for altering the succession to the throne; for interfering with the uniformity of doc-, trine and discipline at present existing in the Estab- lished Church; or for diminishing the legal priVi- leges of the Church of Scotland. .

Prince Augustus of Saxe Cobourg is to marry the

The Canada Government Bill, having passed both Houses of Parliament, received the Royal Assent on the 24th ult. _

Young Oxford, who attempted to take Her Majes- ty’s life, had been tried. The Jury returned a ver- dict to the effect that he was insane, and he was sentenced to the Bedlam prison for life.

SPAIN.—Cabl‘el‘u overpowered by the superior forces of the Queen, has been compelled to take rc- fuge in France. A vast number of the Carlist for- ces have followed his exam lo, and only a few chief- tains, with a. miserable hall of men, now remain in the field. The Queen’s orces having got rid of the enemy, are now in hostility among themselves, and there is no doubt but that this unfortunate coun- try is still destined to civil war. Espartcro had quar- relled with the Queen, and was in dis race. The origin of the quarrel was the refusal of spartero to sanction the municipal law.

Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, second bro- ther of Napoleon, died at Viterbo in Italy, on the 29th June. He was 66 years of age. It is aremark- able fact that he died with the same complaint as Napoleon—cancer of the stomach.

DIMINUTION or CniME IN IRELAND.—The Ti pe- rary Free Press, in referring to the results 0 the aSSizes for the southern division of that county, says—“No gaol delivery within our memory has ever exhibited the same character, or an equal con- clusion. The only trials of' interest or consequence had reference to outrages perpetrated years ago, and the two men on whom the extreme sentence of the law will be pronounced were tried for an

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Lieutenant_Geneml Sir . Sabbath afiernoon, about two o’cloc > after-an in. ness of a few days, in Grosvenor Stre ' .

THE EASTERN QUESTIOlV-t-IThe C' the official character of which i well known, con, firms the report which has been circulated in Lon- don, as to the alleged ‘arran ent in regard to.’ Egypt, independently of the renchpovemment._ lt sa 5— . -

“The representatives of England, Austna, Rum and Prussia, have signed a convention . With the! envoy of the Porto, of which the followmgare the principal ai1icles:-— .

“ ‘ The hereditary sovereignty of Egypt, and iii! life, the Pashalic of St. Jean d’Acre, are to be ofi'err ed to Mehemet Ali by the Sultan. It Within 10 days, the Pasha shall not accept these terms, the Sultan. will offer him Egypt alone. If he still refuse, the“ four Powers will compel him to accept the offer of the Sultan. sent to Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburgh, to be ratified.’”

DEATH or Loan Annex—With deep regret we announce the death of the above venerable Peer. His Lordship ivas taken ill on Monday last, and died at half-past 7 o’clock, on Sabbath evening, at his mansion, in St. James's Place. The deceased, Charles George Perceval, son of the second Earl of I Egmont, Baron Arden 'of Lohort Castle, county of , Cork, in the peerage of Ireland, and Baron Arden, of Arden, county of Warwickshire, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, was born on the 1st of October, 1756, and had consequently nearly attained the age of eighty-four years. The. Hon. Caitnm George James Perceval, R. N., M. P. (now on! Arden), was born March 14th, 1784. The deceased Lord was Lord Lieutenant and custos,rotulorum of the county of Surry, and registrar of the Court of Admiralty, which appointment, through his .Lord- ship’s death, becomes in the gift of Her Majesty’s. Ministers—Morning Post.

Lord Stanley’s Irish Registration Bill has been postponed till the next session of parliament.

Mr. Kelley’s Punishment of Death Bill, which has called forth considerable discussion after having been slightly amended, was to come up for a thir reading on the 27th ult.

The President, steam ship, Lieutenant Fayrer, R. N. sailed from Liverpool on Saturday afternoon on

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