HASZARD’S GAZETTE, OCTOBER 17.

supports, while Strange’s battery from the Quarries carried death through their ranks in every quarter of the Karabelnsin. \Vith the Malakhoff, the enetny lost Sebastopol. The ditch outside towards the north was yet full ofFreneh and Russians piled over each other in horrid confusion. On the right, towards the- Little Redan, the ground was literally strewn with bodies as thick as they could lie, and in the ditch they were piled over each other. Here the French, victo- rious in the Maiakhoff, met with a heavy loss and a series of severe repulses. ’ he Rus- sians lay inside the work in heaps, like car- cases in a butcher's cart, and the wounds, the blood—-the sight exceeded all I had hitherto witnessed. Descending from the Malakhoff we come upon a suburb of ruined houses open to the sea; It is filled with dead. The Russians ltnve crept away into holes and corners of every house to die like poisoned rats; artillery horses, with their entrails torn open by shot, are stretch- ed all over the space at the back of the Malakhoff, marking the place where the Russians tnoved up their last column to re- take it, under tlte cover ofa. heavy field battery. Every ltouse, the church, sotne public buildings, sentry boxes, all alike are broken and riddled by cannon and mortar. Turning to the left, we proceed by 0. ve tall snow-white wall of great length to the dockyard gateway. This wall is pierced and broken through and through with can- non. Inside are the docks. which, naval men say, are unequalled in the world. A steamer is blazing merrily in one oftltetn. Gates and store sides are splintered and pierced by shot. There are the stately dockyard'buildings on the right, which used to look so clean, and white, and spruce. Parts of them are knocked to atoms, and hang together in such shreds and patches that it is only wonderful they cohere. The soft white stones, of which they and the walls are made, are readily knocked to pieces by a cannon shot. Fort Paul is untouched. There it stands, as if frown- ing defiance at its impending fate, right be- fore us, and warning voices bid all people to retire, and even the most benevolent retreat from the hospital, which is in one of these buildings, where they are tending the miserable wounded. I visited it next day.

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RUSSIA MUST NEVER HAVE THE CRIMEA

AGAI In whatever direction the tide of war

may flow for the moment, considerations of

humanity ofjustice, and of policy alike de- mand that the Crimea should not be restor- ed to Russia. Once put her again in pos- session of Sebastopol, and a ticket-of leave man does not more surely recommcnce the practices to which he is indebted for his ti-

tle, than Russia returns to her vocation of

reparing a descent upon Constantinople. esides, if we pttt her again in possession of Sebastopol, she will assuredly take care this time to render it no less impregnable on the land side than she had made it towards the sea. She will turn it into a real Gibraltar, and iftho Allies should ever again undertake to besiege it, they will find that they have not one, but many lines of defence, to over- come. Deprived of Sebastopol, it is impos- sible for Russia to carry into effect her de- signs against Turkey. The assistance of a fleet is essential to their success. Let the Allies keep the Crimea by maintaining a moderate land force at Perekop, with a small squadron an Sebastopol, and Russia is paralyzed for aggression in the East. Restore Sebastopol to her, and within a quarter of a century, the same work (pro- bably much increased in difficulty) which has just been accomplished, must again be done.

Several of the “nsvvics" who went from the neighbourhood of West Ham to the Crimes, to construct the railway st Bslslrlsvs,_hsvc returned home within the last few days. Most ofthem have saved something considcrsbls out of their earnings, and have brought home several Crimean relics, consisting of Russian musltcts, swords, &c.

Thclosding firms amongst the India rubber msnufscturets are very busy—govcrnment hsving

» oontrseted for s supply of s superior class of water

proof clothing to that hitherto provided for the troops in the Crimes. It has been determined, and wisely, tbst no water roof‘ goods but those which‘- srs minsrslissd, or vu ssnisod, shall in future be Juppli‘ for the ass of the troops '

(From the Daily News’ Correspondent.)

last waving over Sebastopol. Long befor the following details of the great achieve- ment by which this glorious result has been accomplished can reach you, the electric telegraph will have spread the news of ottr triumph throttghout England and France, bringing joy to the masses, and sorrow, alas! to many a bereaved home; it remains, therefore, to us, whose slower messenger is the post, merely to furnish the particulars ofthe struggle which has ended in so glori- ous, though costly, a success.

When my last letter was being despatch- ed, the final volleys of the bombardment were booming on the ear, and the brave battalions by whom the attack was to be made were parading a few hundred yards frotn my tent door. The Light and Second Divisions being those selected for our own

those two tnost distinguished sections of our army received orders on Friday night to have two days’ rations cooked and served out at six o’elock on the following morning. At seven a.tn. the first storming party, consisting of I00 men oftlte 97th Regiment,

ing party, I00 men of the second battalion ofthe Rifle Brigade, under Capt. Fyt-rs-— paraded, and shortly afterwards marched down to the trenches; where the former took up their position in the new buoyeau running out ofthe centre ofthe fifth parall- el, arid the latter in extended order on their left, ready to cover their advance, and kee

down the fire frotn the parapet _of the Redan.

alf-an-hour later, the second body o stormers, composed of 200 of the 97th un- der Colonel Handcock, and 300 of the 90th under Captain Grove, followed, and fortned immediatt.-lv behind the first, in the'parallol itself. After a similiar interval, these again were t'wllowed by working parties of 00 men from each ofthe two Divisions engaged, sue-«~r-eded, lntlf-an-hour later, by supports of 750 men each from the l9th and 88th Regiments, with part of a brigade of the 2d Division; these were stationed in the fourth parallel, ready for advancing into the fifth as soon as the assault was made. Lastly came the r(‘:'-L't'\'t’S, consist- ing ofthe first brigade of the Light Divi- sion, who,’ as the sequel will show, with their usual luck, came in for a share of the actual assault This, I think, is a tolerahly accurate statement of the relative division ol,thc duties of the attack, and of the strength of the parties employed.

As on the l8th of June, it was again ar- ranged that the English should assault the Redan and the French the Mnlakhoff. The experience of that disastrous occasion, however, taught the necessity of permitting the latter redoubt to be first captured before our own men attempted the former; inasmuch as the guns of the Round Tower efl’ectually commanded the open space over whicha force attacking the Redan must cross. To be sure, there was reason to believe, that the Malakhotf had at length been efl'ectually silenced; but a similar

the last assault, and its error dearly proved.

had been blocked up as early as daylight of the 7th; but this was no guarantee that the guns had not, as before, been drawn in under cover, ready in a minute’s time to clear an opening for themselves and receive an attacking force with grape and canister, as on the morning of the I8th of June. Accordingly, the guns f our own right attack continued to play vigorously on the Round Tower till a few minutes before noon on Saturday, notwithstanding that its own fire had all but entirely ceased the day before—an occasional shot from a single gun being all the reply it gave to the on- slaught of the besicgtng artillery. On the Malalthofl', thereflre, even more than on the Redan, which was to be stormed by our own men, did our guns direct their W rendering the work a perfect furnace

texplodin shells; and to the sustained vi-

our an precision of this practice is main- y to be attributed the success of the attack which followed. In the meantime nearly ,000 French had been moved down into their sdvsnced trenches before the Mame- lon and other co erin spots around it, under the comma d o General Bosquet.

sltare of tlte operation, the regiments of.

under Major \Velsford, and the first covet‘-'

notion was entertained on the occasion of

Every embrasure but one of the Malakhoff

Our own force, I am forgetting to mention,

CAMP nst-‘on: Sr.nas'rorot., SEPT. 11.. was under tlte chief direction of Sir \\’m.

The Union Jack and the Tt'it‘0lor are at C"‘l"l"g‘_'"‘» “ml Gemml ‘M“"kI‘f"" as 0 second in comtnant_l; General Simpson

himself being somewhere near the Twenty- one Gun Battery, but without any direct share in the management of the operations.

At twelve o’elock exactly, the fire of the batteries ceased, and the party of"/.ouavt-s, who letl the French attack, dashed over the lpnrapet of their advanced sap, and in less ‘than a tninute had crossed the intervening forty yards, and were scrambling up the ~ parapet ofthe Round Tower. Contrary to all hope, the solitary gun on the proper right of the work was the only piece that jl'CCCl\'C(I the assaulters with a discharge, land there was no titne to reload it before ‘our allies were inside the redoubt; the tnis- 'chicfintlictctl by its one round ofgrape was but small. Swarm after swarm of our al- lies crowdr-d up the steep embnnktnent, till be whole parapet was litterally covered : with them, and then commenced such a fire lof tnusketry as never echoed throttglt the

ll‘tt\’lltt!s round Sebastopol before. I can

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‘compare its lll1llr(Il(t‘lt continuity to nothing‘had n usand lt't|nl' e which

but the rattling tattoos of at tho :(lI‘lllttS. I have WlllIt.‘SSt.'(l 70,000 lItt'tt eu- 'gaged in a general action; but the inliintry ,tiro tlt‘ll\'(‘It'll on the occgsiou was but as lchild’s play cotnpnred with the ceaseless roll that poured in ttpott the Malakholf, during Saturday‘s attack. As usual, no circum- stantial ot- complete narrative of the opera- tion can be given, frotn the habitual incom- tnunicativeness which our allies observe itt all their proceedings; but frotn one of the Zouaves who led the attack, I learn that

r the prepared resistance was less than had

been expected° The enemy had been takt n by surprise, and after a feeble stand tnadc by the supports within the redoubt when the French entered, the place was vacated by its former holders, who kept up at running fire as they retired; reserves, however, were speedily brought up, but as the French continued to pottr in at all points it: tnore than an equal ratio, the two were soon overpowered, and in less tltun half-an- hour aller the first '/.outtve scaled th-- para- pet, the Mnlnkotf was won. The deafening roll of tnusketry, however, in no degree diminished, but swept on to the right to- wards the Little Redan, whose guns flanked the tower: here, and in the adjoining works, the struggle was continued for nearly a couple of hours, until the last lllttscovite was driven frotn his cover, attd the ground occupied by our allies.

In the meantitne, however, our own as- sault had begun. But it must first be men- tioned, that instead ofhaving before them a work whose tembrasures had been lmngt:d- up and its guns silenced, like the Malakoff, ottr tnen ltad to rush upon a line of battery nearly every piece in which was ready to receive thetn with grape attd canister. The French, too, started from a litte ul trench only some forty yards frotn the point to be attacked, whilst our own troops were cont- pelled to cross an open surface of full six titnes the extent, attd that, too, under a direct and flanking fire frotn neatly a score of guns. It is needless to dilate upon the comparative difficulties of the two attacks; but whilst awarding to the French a full tneed of praise for their brilliant gallantry on the occasion, I cannot be betrayed by any mawkish generosity into a cimcenlment ofthe infinitely greater dangers involved in that portion of the day’s achievements which fell to the lot oftlte British. On the day following the assault, I crossed over the space between our fifth parallel and the Redan, and was then able in some degree to realize the difficulty of making a run over such a distance and such ground under the desolating fire of some twenty 68-pounders loaded with grape and canister. Let all this be borne in mind, before any of your readers jump to the false conclusion that the French displayed a greater heroism than ourselves; for, raw and inexperienced as were many of our troops engaged, with some few exceptions they fought as became the conquerors of the Alias and Inkermann. As soon as the French had made good their footing in the Malakhoff a tricolor was run up to announce the triumph, and immedi- stely after at small white flag—the signal appointed for the advance of our own men- wss waved from the psrspet of Msmelon. At the first glance of it, the order was pas-

sed on from General Codrington for the stormers to leave cover, and half a minute later Major Welsford and his party, carry- ing scaling ladders, bounded over the para- pet of the boyeau. A volley of grape struck down nearly a third of them, poor \Velsford included, but the remainder rush- ed gallantly on. In the meantime the Ri- fles, under Captain Fyers, kept up a vigor- ous and deadly fire on the ennbrnsures, but the thick-tnnttnd mantlets with which these were curtainrd ltl a great measure counter- acted this, and the grape continued to fly thick and fast over the death-space to be crossed. The second body of stormers fol- lowed quickly on the heels of tltose who were already placing the ladders, nttd, be- ing well supported by those behind, were soon inside the Redan. Here a tnurderous but brief struggle ensued, and before many minutes had elapsed since the fit-st of our tnen gained the parapet, none ofthe enemy but the dead and dying remained within it. The Redan, like the Illalakltoff, was won. And here 1 might have chauntcd a piano

in honor of our unqualified triumph, too, ot the blundt-ring tnistnanagctnent has so often borne frttit in the sacri- iticc ofour troops again tttrncd up to deprive

lus of ottr full share of the glory ofthis me-

Lmorablc day. Instead of pouring in sup- lports to the aid ofthose itt possession of the l

redoubt, General (.‘odrington—l believel

lam only justly attributing the blame to him

i-—l'or some tnysttsrious strategic reasons

known only to himself, kept back the troops

,who crowded the trenches in the rear till

ithe enemy had time to bring up his over-

ipowcrittg‘ reset-vies and clear the Redan of four men. The latter bravely, bttt vainly,

‘attempted to make a stand, anxiously ex-

Ipt-cting every minute the arrival of sup-

ports; llttl no supports eatne, and they were

swept back into the open to retreat under fresh storms of grape--for by another mar-

vellous piece of neglect, no attempt at spi- king the guns of the place had been made

by those who had gained a footing inside.

Orders for the withheld supports yvere then given, but inhartnony with the blunder which had gone before, the intelligent aides-dc-camp, who carried the commands, being about as ignorant of the topography of the trenches us of the interior of Sebas- topol, stumbled on the wrong regiments, and ordered up the first brigade of the Light Division, which had been told off as

the proper reserve. Evident, however, as was the blunder, the gallant “ fighting 7th,” led on by Major Turner, and the 23d, un- der.Colonel Lysons, advanced to the re-

newed attack' The other regiments, who should have proceeded, followed in a state of beautiful pell-ntell; and, under a fire of grape and canister before which the bravest columns ofthe Old Guard would have stag- gered, our young levies—for such were three-fourths of the troops engaged--were led on to regain the ground which had been lost through mismanagement before. It was ttot, however, in human nature to make headway under such an iron strom; the men turned, turned and fled back under cover of the parapet, leaving very many of their own number, and tnore in proportion oftheir officers, dead or dying on this field of death. Two young lieutenants. Wright antl Colt, ofthe 7th, were amongst the kil- led, and three of the same rank of the 23d. MajorTurner received a ball through his scnlp——-one ofthe narrowest escapes of the day—-whilst Lieutenant Alma Jones, of fighting fame, was knocked over by a frag- ment of a shell. Colonel Lysons carried away a rifle bullet in his leg, and only three of all the remaining ofliccrs of these two crack regiments escaped untouched. From the failure of this second attempt, the at- tack became one of musketry fire over the parnpqti, aided by the guns of the Quarry and ot er batteries which bore upon the Redan. Brigadier Straubenzee, command- ing the lst Brigade of the Light Division, tried. to induce his chief to storm again, ofl'ertng to lead the assault with the still eager though shattered regiments of his own command; but Sir William declined repeating the attempt at that time. Thence on till dusk, we waged a futile war of musk- etry'snd artillery fire, which was vigoursly replied to by the enemy, and ni ht closed upon our _men, discouraged an humbled -that through mismanagement on the part of those with whom lay the direction of the assault, they had failed while the French