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Se t. l-5.—.\ly last letter, though vvi-ittcn the tiir day after the enemy's uhainloiiiiioiit of their stronghold, was rim-c.-x.<:irily Ct)llllllL'tl to a narrative of the iiicidcnts of our own and the French attack. With it view of giving you the latest news, I had tl~.-1'-.-i'i-ed writiii; it, till the last hour rillowcd me by the post, and was coit- scqucntly lllltllilt) to do more than refer to the fact that the town was already being ritlcd, licrtcli-like by otir ttllics, whilst our own men were virtually deprived of tho very isiinillvst. lic- nclits in the shape of plunder. The saino no- ccssity conipcllcd me to postpone, till now, any detailed dcscri tion of the state of the town itself, and oft 0 works by means of which it has been so ion and so bravely defended. In tho resent letter, I shall attempt to give your rca. crs some rough idea. of both.

Before entering on anything in the shape of u. descri tion, either of the defending redoubts or of Se iastopol itself, however, I wish to add to my former brief account of the operations of the 8th, it further remark or two in defence of the part enacted by our own iuen, and in cor- rcction of an error which I there committed, in stating, that the French inid stormed the Little Rcd:in and its utljoiiiiiig works in Carecniiig Bay. I should be most sorry to pen ii. lino wliicli would bear the interpretation ofjealousy or ill-will towards our allies, wlniso bi-.ivery and indoiiiitiblc cncrgy I have so oi"t«_-ii had oc- casion to adiiiirc; but, whilst extending tl. full mood of praise for all tln.-y lnivc both endured and uccoiiiplislnttl, I would permit no squoaiiii- isli generosity towards them to dull my recol- lection, or qualify my eulogy, of what our t.,.,.,, troops liuvc in like iiiaiiiicr sutl':rcd and :icliicv- ctl. Tliut in the two coinbincd attacks, how- ever. which have terminated the siege ofScbiis- topol, our allies succeeded in that undertaken by them, whilst. we failed in the other allotted to us, may at first seem linniiliaiting to our mi. litury pride; but when the relative dillieulties of the two operations are considered, I venture to think, that we shall sulfur littlo either, in our own estimation or in that of Euro 0 generally. Mainl owing to the tire of our nglish batte- ries uring the three previous duys of the bomburdment——for the Mamelon had remained all but silent throughout that period-the Frencli on the forcnoon of the 8t.li found every gun but one in the Mulakholl silenced. 'l‘licir advanced sup, too, had brought thorn 11130 to within some forty yards of their point ofattack. and during their rapid dash in column over this narrow space, they were exposed only tn the grape-shot of this one gun. Once oxfghe face oftlie parapet, they were safe from :1 se- cond discliurge, and had then only to contend against the faint and brief resistance of it body of trench guards who had evidently been taken umtwures. A rapid and wellsnstained tire of niusketry soon expelled these, and the reserves who were hurried up by the enemy had equally little clianco against the swarming columns of‘ otir allies, whom good gcncrztlship kept: poufin in to the support of the first storincr.-i,

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as fast,

I‘ . . parapet and Jump inside the rcdoubt. Such a contest was nicrol a. question oI' numbers; and, having made cxce lent arrangements to gem,-,,

' lirriitl ditch W;

- .-inistcr, the lcdan would,witliontd_oubt, have

‘more than l.-alt‘ that number decp—lct them

their own superiority in this respect, the French

Collllnttllllefs lt;ttl no cause to doubt the result. i Widely dilf.-rent, howcvcr, w.i.-i the case on our; side. Differently constructcd—:ts I shall pro-V scntly dcscribo—- and stretching over ti. long

line, in hard] ‘any point ex oscd to so close

and direct it re us that which boro upon the,‘ Mulakliolf, the Rcdan had replied to our batte-‘ rice with considerable vigor throughout the entire bombardment; still continued to show tight with a dozen or so' of uninjured guns. Instead, too, of forty‘ yards of open space, the nearest point fronii our motu vanced parallel to the ditch of tho‘ Redun measured 220, and this, also, ovcrywlicro i

exposed to the tire of twelve or fourteen 68-faloiigits entire front. On such it solid mass

poiindcrs. I have several times crossed this‘ fatal spot ﬂl.l1C0.fll0 capture of the plaice, andi cacli tiiuc with increased wonder how ii. single‘, titan of our whole storiners could have escaped - the tornado of grape and canister which such!

and at noon of the Stlihearth which

lroni tho that issno ofotir men from the tsholtcr ...' our own pr. ipct till their arrival at the . i i in:in_v have since fotiiid ll. «_i‘:ivc, I ain di.-poscd to think that most of your l".‘.ltl'.'l'Ii \\'lli .~‘l:ul‘t.' in my surprise. Incvitably T“l‘Ul%‘(l. then, as the were, our sliattcrcd °""'l"~“”-’“-“ \\‘<'I‘o compo led to fall back on the tlrcnch \\‘liit‘il [Loy Illlll left; and to regain this, 39".‘! ll-Ml to pziss through the some terrible :-Iortn as lu-ion-. Ilad tlioy, indeed, been pro- 1----rly 5'-l]'[I'.ll‘i-‘Ll, this ordeal would have been -‘i’-“'04 “Mill : and, in spite of all its grape and

been our own. To every attempt at repeating the attack the some formidable front was shown, and cut up as they had been in their tirst essay. it was not to be wondered at that our young troops, many of whom were under direct tire for the lirst time, shrank from at second expo- sure to the dcsoluting storm.

Such, then, is it brief statement of the rela- tive ditlicultics of the two attacks on the Rcdan “ml 310 Millétlil‘-Ulf: and, bearing in mind those facts. few, I am inclined to believe, will consi- dcr that the French have much ground for l'*‘?l=lll";:. as compared with ourselves. Tliut tloy foiight and conquered bravely, I would be the last to deny; but that they would have succeeded, with the same numerical strength as our own, ngiinst the Red-.tn, no impartial ztlltl intnlligz,-iit liiztll could believe. In proof of this, and I'.LIll(‘l‘ nioro, I may add mention of their lliilurc boforo the Little l{cd.in, after the out-up-.ttion of the M-.i.lu.kholl'. The six or eight guns of this work had continued ell‘-.-ctive i.il‘Ull_L;il()llE the bonibardnicnt; and when our allies. after their dashing capture of the larger" rudonbt, piisscd on to attempt the seizure of the minor bnttci~ios on its proper left, they were received with close and welt-directed discharges of grape, which speedily checked their impe- tuous and conlfdent advance. Three several

across the cinbrasiirtes to shelter the gunners from the besicgers' ritloincn. You admire the cover provided for their at-tillcryinen when not at,-tintlly working the units. in little retreats pi'o')f against any but the very heaviest splinters of shell. But these, again, are nothing when compared with the shot and sliell-prool'cba.m- hers for the shelter of larger bodies of troops, which abound throughout the work. I dived into several of these balfsnbterrancan waiting- rooms, and found many of them titted up with lire-places, cooking conveniences, benches, and other suitable furniture; whilst in others of smaller dimensions and which had evident] been occupied by the oilicers, there were in it - dition bedsteads, chairs, tables and in some even liandsoincly glazed cupboards, containing cmptywiue bottles, and other traces of their occup-.int’s regard for creature comforts. On a. Bll(‘ll in oncol them. 1 lighted on a cheap Far- ringzlon-strcct reprint of “ Paul Clifford," and an old cu y of the Illustrated News--tlie latter with stin ry engravings of scenes from the siege. Even more interesting than all these, however, were the inner abutting defences of the redoubt, of which we had previously lioai-daiid imagined so much. Fi-out the irregular order in \\‘l‘.lCIl those occur. it is difficult to describe them in any way tliztt will convey an accurate idea of their exact appearance and relation to the main \\'ork:, but they may be generally men- tioned its independent supports similarly armed and ofncarly equal strength in construction to the front line of tlic rcdoubt, which stands to thorn, in lln.-t, in the relation ofu screen. Their guns. too, so thoroughly coinin-and the whole interior of tl.c lledau tl:-.'.‘. any osssiliug force which iniglit have siiccccdcd in forcing the outer battery would have been oxposetl to an inner fire as gelling us, and more concentrated than, the first. The whole structure and ur- rungciiicnt of those inner defences, indeed, are such as to justify the belief that, had the re-

timos did they repeat the attempt; but they were as often driven back with heavy loss, and ﬁnally abandoned the eﬂbrt. During the night, when the Redan itself was blown up, the works in Carcening Bay shared a. similar fate, and were entered without a. blow in the morning. When I last wroto,my impression wits, that the French lnid stormed this line of minor works with the some successful bravery as had been previously displayed in their seizure of t e .\Ialakliotf; but ti. few hours later, I learned my error, and therefore add this sentence in cor- rcctiun of what I then stated.

As a sufficiently detailed and accurate des- cription of the Russian works, as seen from our own trenches, has already appeared in these columns, I need say nothing as to the appear- ance of the Rt.-daii externally. Let even those of our readers who may not have seen the topographical sketch to which I refer, fancy it iuge grcy bank of earth running angularly over the suniinit ofa. broken slope. and fronted by it vast ditch some eighteen feet wide by

pierce this with gibioncd ciiibr.-isnres at inter- vals of sonic three yards, and mentally picture these bristling with the black inuzzlcs ot't38- pounders, and their idea. of the outside front of this celebrated work will be sufficiently com- plete. My tirst entry into the interior, on the morning after its abandonment, was made by u bridge of broken fuscincs and gabions, laid hastily-over the dead bodies that had just been gathered into the ditch for burial, which has since been done by levelling over them it por- tion of the parapet above. The ghastly piles nearly ﬁlled the vast trench to it level with the the outer surface, and the thin covering of now conceals them from view barely falls below the summit of the low bank in front. What tirst struck one in passing up the cut made by our suppers tlirotigh the broad para at, was the unusual solidity and strength of this last—itvcraging thirty or thirty-ﬁve feet

of g;:ibions, funcincs, .~x:indbags, and I need hard- ly st that artillery ofcvon the heaviest calibre conl have no Scllsiltlc ell‘.-ct. G8 or 98 poiiii

doubt been strenuously defended, no body of at- titcking troops that could have been brought against it would have had ti. chance of success. And the same system of rear defences extended down alon nearly the whole curtain leadin to- wards the blalaklioﬁ. The open space behin the Redan, as I have already mentioned, presents ti. broken surface, literally ploughed up into nar- row trenclics by round shot, and lioneycombed into small pits by exploded shell ; I doubt if there be half a. foot of square space within the whole enclosure on which one or other of these missiles has not fallen. The huge pits occa- sioned by the explodcd mines complete the wrecked appearance of the spot, and give it in the last degree an aspect of ruin and desolation. Although four days had elapsed since the clo- sing contest, I stumbled on no less than ﬁve dead Russians in dill‘ei-ent. parts of the redoubt; why they had been passed over in the general burial I am unable to explain.

Passing down from the rear of the Radon, the path, which lies along what was once a. liarid- some wall of (YIIISLPIICLI stone-—now knocked into a line of sliaitorod niasoiicry, leads to the first of the rent series of government buildings which terminate down on the liarbour, at the

oint at present covered with the ruins of Fort ’auI. Concealed as they are from view from our trenches by the Radon bill, I was one of many who, till within the past ﬁve days_. were utterly ignorant of the extent of the mischief which had been done to these buildings by our ﬁre. Sliattered and riddled at all points, they seem the very type of architectural ruin. Only it degree better is the condition of the next: range of buildings beyond; the terrible eﬂ'cc_ts of shot and shell everywhere met the eye. in shattered columns, levelled side-walls, and fallen roofs. Even in this extreme of desola- tion, however, enougli remains to sug est how tine—ulmost grund—must havo boon t e struc- tures thus ruthlessly destroyed. The general character of these piles of buildings resembled in some degree that of the quadrangle pf the Admiralty and other adjacent ollices in boater- set-housc. As the distance from the Redan

shot might cntcr, but they could not penetrate. Coiiipared with this iiiassivo structure of mud

increases, the injury done to the buildings becomes less in proportion, though, down to

‘"1 ‘“'““‘''“°“t 0011”. and did, send forth. I and wickerwork, the thickest of our own or the tho very last of the series, op site to where

Scarccly it foot of surface is there which it gun I did not Sweep; and when I add that the cncmyl

l\‘rt-ncli works is as paper to ti. dcttl bt-iml. 'l'licn witliin—-besides the great superiority of,

stood Fort Paul, the damage is considerable. Crossing one of the intcrv-.-ning esplnnndel, I