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in this very attack, in consequence of the misconduct of theit young soldiers during night affairs in the trenches, The old soldiers beaaved admirably, and stood by their oflicers to the

THE ODD LOOKING GENERALS IN THE TRENCHES. It was a bitter cold day, and the stranger would have been

astonished at the aspect of the Britisn Generals as they " The Commander-in-Chief, General

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' 1: ' , > internally ; an this peculiarity of construction accounts for'|

* I Liks \\ Al. | the inactivity of the Russians curing the last b nnbardment,

nn 'the soldiers concealing themselves in their casemates till sno

THE STORMING OF SEBASTOPOL {time as the heavy fire should cease. It docs not appear eithe? | last...

that the guards of these works were ebanged oftener than

: ‘ND I ‘ ‘AN POR WANT or srrrotts. | monthly, for every portion of this quarter bore proofs of — ee Se he) Gl ag 7955, | manent occupation; that of the Commander being filled with

poe — as | erm-chairs, pictures and laxuries, whilst workshops for cnr

irdment, which had*been kept up with loss vigour) penters and magons were fitted up, The very security of the

t duting the sight of the 7th, broke ont at daybreak) -) dors in thes #trorgholds ihust haye infereased a chance of

into a complet fire frém ent! to end of our lines, a burst) surprise, and the iustant oecupation of the work and destrne-| viewed the assault.

over every part cf tke Russian works with a fery of ® lornade, ition of the defendets in a short period are a proof of it. The

8 an cies ; eendin * ci uds of cyst and Sith k . which were ariven into ; map witha cold north wind, blinding the men whose duty

Our camp witht

edlied them to the trenches, and filling the air so densely as to

; 4 } } ' r objects indistinct at 2 certain distance. As the bom- birdment commenesd pr para tions for the assanit were made

in the ¢amns of the Allies, and numerous regiments were drawn wn vider afnis at dawn, It had been considera proper to for-

ward the men im detachments, and not in columns, so as to keep

the ewemy as much as possible ignorant pf our intentions, The storm ine was entrusted to the Second Ligh Divisions, portions of whic: wore fo form h&miedfate supports, whilst the rear was | &) he kort by the Poutth Division, the Guards and Highland-

ers, and th "Third Division. i of the storming, and was support “dd by Gen.

wral COMA Varkbam Phere was no visible movement on the part of the Russians, and the northern camps, as well as the bridge, were unaseally qaict. Th y 8 mod “passiv: ly to wait fer the ces- Bit! f our fire, answe ring but at interyais only from thei rile T etther unable or unwilling to reply. At half-past 9) all the r Le} f the Sceond and Light Divisions, as well as

the generals and staff had made their way into the trenches; )

Gen, Codrington taking up his position in the fifth parallel, “* . . = .” . . , 1 ‘, : whilst General Markham had his in a pit called Egerton’s Pit, in the third parallel. The stormers consisted of portions of

aud the S&th, from the Light Division.

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The ladder parties were told off from the 3d Baffs and 97th | gt The supports of these regiments, as well! as other | ; ats of the same division, were in reserve in the fourth and neraliels ready for action. At the foot of the Malakhoff

had aleo heon mussod stormers from the French Ist Division ,con- eistine of 400 men of the Ist Zouaves and 450 men of the Ist Chasseurs de Vineennes, under the command of Gen. M‘Mahon. Yho Ith Division furnished gtormets fot the Little Redan and the m the proper left of the Malakhoff. The 2d Division kept

the trenches, whilst the Fourth wae in reserve. Gen. Pelissier

and his staff rode turough the British camp on the way to In- kermann at half-pact eleven. passing the Guards and Liighiand- ers as they may ed up the W oronzeff-road to the trenches. Gen. mn tuok up @ position near the Picket-house on the

f-road. There were few spectators on the hills on of iutions taken | : Bala Clava Rut the few who were fortunate enongh in vainines admittance to Catheurt-hill were’ blinded by the dust

vy Gen. Simpson to stop all egress

— BBs ¢ J the onlv eve- = esses of » ote rene, | c ‘ . : tinea stilt - e la ar 4 t ; . ee ee = oe aad sai . = “ ee ae Russians first commenced their retreat, pre ai nted. th The ‘Little Redan, when, weary of the fearful slaughter of his ti who tuok part in it, or those who formed the supports Of | «eine their sec ines of defenee eflicaciously. ie | : . @~ ; t nor a \t t few aad b (oad no athe b oa aes a ae 5 te 3 ow “er “i - a l . t onahh ‘them t ,/men, who lay in thousands over the exterior of the works, 1 ELOTERITS. 4t0 & SOW DEBUTS YUE an - tah ae Ds hand-to-h: ‘conflict down the descent did not ens > } 0 | z e's : ‘ : was urged : thrrifie blaze of fire, which poured upon the —_ ar eons coe fiend: and thus the French | the Muscovite General, despairing of success, withdrew his A Q h ‘ > i ifiVi . sa rte , = ' 7 : ussians from emrasares putposely kept~ closed wat! that | cod down from the Malakhoff towards the town unti! they | exhausted legions, and prepared, with admirable skill, to \t ton minutes past twelve the sigual for the storm-| Cone tothe base of the hill, and on a level with the dockyard. | evacuate the place. mg of the Matacaoll was given by the explosion of two mires | peo that spot they receded, moving to their right, and driving | “ a : ve counterserap, and in the ¢ miusion rym Uy tbe the Russians through the etreetsef the Karabelnaia suburb ; | THE BRITISH ATTACK ON TUE REDAN. : ul } roar thi wOuaves and Chass ‘UPS rueh > mn. i€Y | rk 4) sal ‘ “al “yw os : » af the lehter ‘ ft i i . a apt ar Le = oe ; ae ” : _~ 4©2 | whilst the field artillery and some of the lighter guns left "| The attacking columas were not strong enough, he sup- “aie tacir way over sroumt pl Ue sree "y the ¢ xp OsIOn 0! i the M ilakhoff were turned Against the second line of defence, 5S , i f. b hi 1 t : ~a i full : - im el vati ns of jagged and irregular | ‘of sch ++ mandenitatte enfiladed Darkness now supery ened. ! ports were pot strong enough, and were also too ar enin: ; formation, Theirepeed was scarcely impeded hy this obstacle, | bcp Residahe aider its cover. withdrew from the works of | aud the trenches did not afford room for a sufficient number | they jamped down the diteh, and up the sides of the Worss | the Kerabelnaia, the Little Redan and Black Battery, lof men. Where we attacked the Redan with two divisions at wsing the scaling-tadduze, | ee. Beene We ee) : lo ly, » portion of each being virtually in reserve, and not Saft thee, Prénch <caaanb site” f py ey + ts | CONSEQUENCE OF THE TIMIDITY OF THE BRITISH) engaged in the affair at «ll, the French made their assault on |. or left the French perfect masters of it: the short} ’ “sgh ps i, en se ~ , a ee ; ' ichthdhaicediate sal :parated the dit h of the —EXPULSION FROM THE REDAN, the Malakoff with four divisions of the second corps d’armee, wi sive Oo vont wu Ve 3 ts, W Cil & ab A : atu Ui we age * é ‘i . ioe . ' . ; f from the parallel, contributing not a little to the| Sir Edward Codrington asked Col. Windham if he thought the first and fourth divisions forming ue pet rig. columns, to issue’of the storm. In the meanwhile two other at-! he really could do anything with such supports as he could | and the third and fifth being the support wit reserves of vl been auhost simultaneously made upon the Russians, | afford, and said he might take the Royals, who were then | 10,000 men. The Freoch had probably not jéss than 30,000 } r less fortunate r sults. Gon: Codrington, hearing the | the parallel. ‘* Let the ofhcers come out Mm front—let oy mien in the right attack. ; it on the Malakhoff, after a short pause gave adyance In order, and if the men keep their foFmation the

» storm the Redan. ‘The ladder parties of the 3d 27th dashed out, and favoured by tolerably even ground |

sed the abattis, with no sensible obstacle to their progress, planted their ladders on tim salient angle of the work. a. } aie aa eat Pcs vi doen. were delaved by ia si i ners, bess active than cy bad Doen, Were deinayve iy t ability td issue fre the parallel exce] t by one apefture, .-9 i succeeded in reaching the scarp of the Redan, latder party Had alfeadv mountell to the aseault. The rs followed, mounting on each side of the salient angle, their way into fhe Redan, killing the Russians vat traverse ; bnt in the eagerness to outstrip each yeartl m the ri rnit prea “1 across the work to join left. and deine so tell into the concentrated tire of upports, urwarus of 2.000 in number. were | ‘ : . . . . . . A hand-to-hand conflict folldwed, de&pe- ire—the Russians fighting for the held with the hears. and using every sort of missile in addition t y} rm: Shon s@loose cra ye, st ks of broken taouskets. hurled. in volleys from the suiamit of. the traverses, on wur men, whose ammunition pevan to fail. They in their turn ow. 9 s ae ‘* at p>. . is i é swonc:, ®#nd hurried them OULLISt tile hUSSIANS ; who as ee is MAidt. CBS i i | } sr, ences d by the arrival of reinforcements, and the

mation of ovr met, poured down upon oar devoted storni- | ul fought with them hand-to-hand. Many were the torts that then took place—men clung to men, and f both was nndergcie on the same spot. This Kither our generals must bring on utewirs or the stormers, retreat. The former was delayed, | snd the renumnt of our men gave way in Ccisorder from the | aranets and embrasures whieh they had 30 gallantly stormed, | there were several regiments in the 3d, 4th and ots parallels, which did not move sufficiently quick, and were | in time to save the relies of the Storniers. The Redan was

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the French atiaek on the Little Redan and works upon the | tpreening Bay were failures for other reasons. The troops L resolutely on, rapidly erosting a broad space w hich kit

n them an l the Russian redoubts. They were thrown maiderable confusion by rows of holes called trows a lowp, which the mon stambled in the darkness caused by dust reir attack was deprived by this of its firmness, |

was repalsed by the enemy. ‘The struggle, however, was tained doubtfully fora considerable time. The first body

©. stormers, almost annihilated by the musketry of the Rus- sian, covered the parapets of the works with their bodies ; when fresh angers came u p, and struggled to gain the sumuinit . of the scarp; but at ever) fresh attempt they fell back dis-! ofited into the ditch, coyering the ground with dead and | dying. The Russians not only had the adyaritage of position, | but taey had been materially assisted in this portion of the | attack ly the steamers, whieh fired broadsides upon the Mala- xholf and the countersearps of the Little Redan; The Vladimir —aiwaysso ably handled that, when anything daring was done by the Russians, the French said, c'est du Viadimir — steamed | rapidly up under the very mouths of the French batteries on Mount Sapoune, delivered her broadside, and then majestically | steauiing round, delivered a second, without eliciting in the | confosion any reply from the Prench.

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> lumns into inextricable confasion. Notwithstanding every adverse circumstance, however, the French maintained their

Siy Wikiant Codrington hail the |

| Russians, however, did not passively allow their enemy to en- ‘joy his own possession. They had tio sooner been driven out ‘lan they attacked the Frepth with the energy of despair, and the Zounves and Chasseurs found themselves defenders, instead lof assaulters, of the Malakhoff. They fought with all the ‘energy of pride and success, and for a considera ble time kept up an unequal struggle against superior numbers. The Rus sians trusted more to stones and missilesof that nature than te their muskets; and from the summits of the traverses they i hueledall kinds of miscellaneous articles, such as stones, beams, buckets, old grape-shot and muskets. The French, short of ‘ammunition, replied with the same weapons, varying their re- sistance by rushes at the point of the bayonet. They were civing away, however, before the advancing Russians, dis- convoged by the intelligence of impending failure at the Re- dan and Black Works ; but, precisely at that critical moment, the supports of the division. niarched up, and entered the work on all sides. The lmperial guard, eonsisting of Grena- diers and Zouaves, swarmed into the Malakhof and commenced Hand-to-hand amongst the labyrinthine | windings of the redoudt, amongst shell holes, broken gabions, and irregular elevations, each side fought and bled. Phey fell side by side, and in many instanees above each other. _ The ground was strewed with them, so as to be completely inyisi- ble. To add to the horror of the moment, the shells from the Zedan and steaniers fell in numbers upon the portion of the work in possession of the Frettch, and added to the heaviness of their losses. But the Russians were unable to regain the | Malakhoff. As the French poured in fresh supports every i moment, and brought in field artillery over a hasty bridge into

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ithe redoubt, the Russians slowly yielded, and commenced a ' retreat which ended in a rout. The scene of it was the way ‘leading from the dockyard to the Malakhoff, a road traced, in- | side of the second lirie of defence, to which the Russiaus trust-

ed av a means of retriving their losses. A long series of bat-

tories had been erected from the foot of the Malakhoff to the

Naval Hospital, part of them bearing upon the Redan and | part upon the Malakhoff. A large six-gun battery at the base lof the southern front of the hospital bad been armed with G3- | pounders, and the windows in the eround-floor of the hospital ‘on the eastern face had been turned into embrasures trom | which ships’ carronades played upon the Malakhoff and the lascent tort. The rapidity of the French movement when the

Redan is ou was the Colonel's reply ; but he spoke too late— for at that very moment our men were seen leaping down into the ditch, or running down the parapet of the salient, and through the embrasures of the work into the ditch, while the Russians follewed them with the bayonct.and with heavy musketry, @ven threw stones and grapeshot at them as they lav in the ditch!!! The faet wes that the Russians having accumulated several thousands of men behind the breastwork

ind seeing our men all seatiered up ala t Calls UU aul PCA uly

inner face of the Redan, and charged vur broken groups with the haworet, at the same time that the rear ranks, getting on the breastwork, poured a heayy hail of bullets on them over the heads ef the advancing column. ‘The struggle that took place was short, desperate and bloody. Our soldiers, taken at every disadvantage, met the enemy wit the bayonet too, and isolated combats took place in which the brave fol- lows who stood their ground (all honour to them!) had to defend themselves against three or four adversaries at once. In this melee the officers, armed only with their swords, had nor had those who carried pistols much oppor- tunity of using them in such a rapid contest. They fell like heroes, and many a gallant soldier with them. The bodies of English and Russians inside the Redan, locked in an

little chance ;

-embrace which death could not relax, but had rather cemented

all the closer, lay next inside the Redan, as evidences of the terrible animosity of the struggle. But the solid weight of the advancing piass, urced on, and fed eaeh moment from the rear, by Company after company, and battalion after bat- talion, prevailed at last against the is lated and disjointed band. who had abandoried the protection of unanimity of courage, and had lost the advantages of disei pline and obedience. As though some giant reek had advanced into the sea, and foreed back the waters that buffeted it, so did the Russian columns press down against the spray of soldiery which fretted their mb with fire and steel, and contended in vain against their weight. The struggling band was forced back by the enemy, who moved on, crushing friend and foe beneath their solid tramp, and, bleeding, panting and ex- hausted, our men lay in heaps in the ditch beneath the para- pet, sheltered themselves behind stones and in bhomb-craters in the slope of the work, or tried to pass back to our advanced parallel and sap, and had to run the gauntlet of a tremendous fire. Many of them lost their lives, or were seriously wounded in this attempt.

THE SORT OF SOLDIERS THAT WERE SENT TO)

ATTACK THE REDAN. he rapidly-inereasing numbers of wounded men, some of

tioners were not very decisive or intelligible, and some of them did not even know what they bad been attacking, One r fellow who was. marching stifliy up with a broken arm

‘anda bali through his shoulder, earried off his firelock with

: ™-\ him, but be made the native confession that be had * never iitted dreadful havoc, and threw the ranks of the assaulting |

fired it off, for he could not.” The piece turned out to be in excellent order. It struck one that such men as these,

and confused behind the! inner parapet of the traverse, cross-d the breastwork, through | whieh several field=pieces were now playing with grape on the |

Simpson, sat in the trench, with his nose and eyés just facthg the-cold and dust, and his cloak.drawn up.over his head to protect him against both. General Jones wore a red night- | cap, and reclined on his litter, and Sir Richard Airey, the

tiedsover his cap and ears, which detracted somewhat from a martial and belligerent aspect. The Duke of Neweast]¢ was stationed at Catheart’s hill, in the early part of the day, and afterwards moved off to the right to the picket-house look- out over the Woronzoff road.

THE FRENCH LET LOOSE AT THE MALAKOFFP.

The Tartars, Turks and Kupatorians were singularly per- turbed for such placid people, and thronged every knoll which commanned the smallest view of the place. At 10.45 General Pelissier and his staff went up to the French Observatory on ‘the right. The F rench trenches were crowded with men as ‘close as they could pack, and we could see our men through ‘the breaks in the clouds of dust, which were most irri- tating, all ready in their trenches. ‘he eannonade languished | parposely towards noon ; but the Russians, catching sight of ‘the cavalry and troops in front, began to shell Catheart’s hill ‘and the heights, and disturbed the equanimity of some of the | spectators by their shells bursting with loud “ thuds” right ‘over their ian A few minutes before 12 the French, ‘like a swarm of. bees, issued forth from their trenches close ‘to the doomed Malakoff, swarmed up its face, and were ‘through the embrasure in the twinkling of an eye.. They ‘erossed the seven metres of ground which separated them ‘from the enemy at a few bounds—they drifted as lightly and ‘quickly as autumn leaves before the wind, battalion after ‘battalion, into the embrasure’, and in a minute or two after

the head of their column issued from the ditch, the fri-colour “was floating over the Korniloff Bastion. The musketry was very feeble at first—indeed, out allies took the Russians quite by surprise, and very few of the latter were in the Malakoff ; ‘but they soon recovered themselves, and from 12 o'clock till | past 7 in the evening the French had to meet and defeat the ‘repeated attempts of the enemy to regain the work and the

TOSSING Ue FOR THE FIRST FOOT IN THE . REDAN.

| Brigadier Shirley was on board slip, but as soon as he ‘heard of the assault he resolved to join his brigade, and he ‘accordingly came up to camp that very morning. Col. Unett,

‘of the 19th, was the sevior officer in Brigadier Shirley’s and correct conduct in the house of God,” I can only remark,

absence, and on him would have devolved the daty of leading the storming column of the Light Division, had the latter not returned, Col. Unett, ignorant of the Brigadier’s inten- |tion to leave shipboard, had to decide with Col. Windham who should take precedence in the attack. They tossed, and ‘Col. Unett won. He had it in lris power te say whether he ‘would go first or follow Col. Windham. He. looked at the shilling, turned it over, and saifl, “ My clioice is made; I'll be the tirst mam into the Redan.” Bat fate willed it other- wise, and he was struck down badly wounded ere yet he reaehed the abattis, althouzh he was not leading the column. “Scareely had the men left the fifth parallel when the guns on the flank of the Redan opened on them as they moved up rapidly to the salient, in which there were of course no camon, as the nature of sach a work does not perm't of their ‘being placed im thet particular position: Im a few seconds Brigadier Shirley was temporarily blinded by the dust and by ‘earth knocked into his eyes by a shot. He was obliged to retire, and his place was taken by Lieut. Col. Buubury, of the 25d, who was next in rank to Col. Unett, already struck down ‘and carried to therear. Brigadier Van Stranbenzee received a contusion on the face, and was also forced to leave the field. Col. Handcock fell mortally weunded in the head by a bullet, rand never spoke again. Capt. Hammond fell dead. Major /Welsford was killed on the spot. Capt. Grove was severely ‘wounded, Many officers and men were hit and fell ; and of ‘the commanders of parties only acting Brigadier Gen. Wind- ‘ham, Capt. Fyers, Gapt. Lewes and Capt. Maude, got un- ‘touched into the Redan, and eseaped seatheless from the ‘volleys of grape and rifie balls which swept the flanks of the

work towards the salient;

THE RUSH TO THE SALIENT ANGLE—THE LADDERS WERE TOO SHORT!

| Tt was a few minutes after 12 when our men left the fifth

‘parallel. ‘The musketry commenced at once, and in less than

‘five minutes, during which the troops had to pass over about

30 yards from the nearest approach to the parapet of the

‘whom had lett their arms behind them, gave rise to the sus-| Redan, they had lost a large portion. of the officers, and picions of the truth ; but their answers to many eager ques-

were deprived of the aid of their leaders, with the exceptions ‘I have stated. The Riflemen advanced admirably, but from their position they could not do much to reduce the fire of the guns on the flanks and below the re-entering angles. The ‘bravery and coolness of Capt. Fyers were never more brilliantly displayed, or urgently ealled for. As they came nearer the enemy's fire became less fatal. They crossed the ‘abattis without difficulty ; it was torn to pieces and destroyed

round at the foot of the searp and in the ditch of the Little | however brave, were scarcely a fit match for the well-drilled by our shot, and the men stepped over and through it with Rodan and Blaek Batteries, firing resolutely at every Russian | soldiers of Russia ; and yet we were trusting the honor, re-| ease. ‘The Light Division made straight for the sulient and

who showed himsclf over the parapet, whilst the P their part were equally quick in returning shot for shot when a Freneluman raised his person more than usual. This part of the fight partook at least of a certain Indian character, the struggle from cover to cover resembling those of which we have all read in the glowing pages of Cooper. These painful phases of the com ined assault preeeeded whilst the main attack on te Malakhoff rapidly lost its early characteristics. It is diffi- eult to give such a picture of the work as may furnish an Approx nate idea of its propertions and aspect. But the des- cription of it will, perhaps, be sufficieut to afford some con- } f its nature, and characterizes the aspect of this as well as the Redan and other forts held by the Russians. The ditch was about fifteen feet deep, and the scarp twenty fect high. The embracures and platforms were elevated abave the level of the work, which was divided into parts by traverses of irregular shape, in which small openings were left for the passage of men. These traverses were mostly quarried works, the galleries of which were supported by double roiws of gi- gantie beams of Norway pine, and the height of earth forming the roof made evéry vault bomb-proof. The traverses generally measored twelve to fifteen feet in height, and being most wrregular in their form, must have rendered complete posses-

the plough, or the lanes of our towns and villages! As one example of the sort of recruits we have received here recently, { may mention that there was a considerable number of men in draughts which came out last week to regiments in the Fourth Divisiou, who had ouly been enlisted a few days, and who had never fired a riffe in their lives! It must not be imagined that such rawness can be corrected and turned into military efficiency out here, for the fact is that this siege has beea about the worst possible school for developing the , courage and manly self-reliance of a soldier; neither does it teach him the value of discipline and of united action. When ,he goes into the trenches he learns to dodge behind gabious _and to take pot shells 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 natural result follows. Nor was it ominous of good that there have been two courts of inquiry recently on the conduct of two most distinguished regimeuts—one,

indeed, belonging to the highest rank of our infantry, and the

tussians on putation, and glory of Great Britain to undisciplined lads from | projecting angle of the Redan, and came to the ditch, which

| is here about 15 feet deep, The party detailed for the pur- ‘pose placed the ladders, but they weve found to be too short!!! However, had there been enough of them, that would not have mattered much, but some had been left be- ‘hind in the hands of dead or wounded men, and others had been broken, so that if one can eredit the statements made ‘by those who were present there were not more than six or seven ladders at the salient. The men led by their officers leaped into the ditch and scrambled up the other side, whence they got up the parapet almost without opposition, for the few Russians who were in froat ram back and got behind | their traverses and breastworks as soon as they saw our men on the top, and opened fire upon them.

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THE RUSSIAN ARMY.

A letter from Vienna of the 224, in the Independence of Beussells, says :— “Brom the accounts which have been received here it

ten extremely difficult. The Redan was similarly arranged | other-a well-triod and galla&t regiment, which was evgaged ; would appear that the Allies are actively preparing for a

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Quartermaster General, had a white pocket-handkerchief

| campaign, and doubtless they have it in contemplativn to force the Russian line of defence of Tscherker Kerman, or, in other words, to make a diversiou against Baktschi-Serai, This town, whieh contains 1,500 houses aud 10,000 inhabj- tants, is the station of the reserve of the Hussian army which holds the plateau of the Belbeck. From 500 te 400 deserters, most of them Poles, have arrived at the allied camp; they relate that the demoralisation of the Russian army was most complete; and that stich was the confusion from the first moment of the attack, that the soldiers, ex- hausied with fatigue, remained for 24 hours without provisions: ‘The loss of the Russians is estimated at 18,000,

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The Morning Post Paris correspondent writes—It is the opinion of those who have materials for drawing conclasions that

will visit Nicolaicoff. and there saperintend himself the winter Crimean campaign. The Russian treasury had re.

material is constantly passing through Prussia for the use of the enemy.

THE WAR EN ASIA. , Despatches received from Vienna state that Kars is greatly straitened for provisions. The garrison is eating horse-flesh, Advices from Trebizond, dated the 6th instant, announce that the Russians had abandoned Erzeroum and are at

Malagulomia. —————— NY

Correspondence.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER. Sir ; :

Observing a communication in the Eastern Chronicle, published in Pictou, N.S., dated the T1th instant, signed by Hammet Norton, United States Consal in Pictou, and the Rey. R. F. Roach, Rector of Georgetown, P. E. Island, rela- tive to a disturbance that took place some short time ago between the crew of an American fishing vessel and some of the inhabitants of this Island,—-I beg leave to remark, that it is in vain for the American Consul to endeavour by his own naked statement, althomgh he endeavoured to support it by a worthy, or unworthy, divine, to do away with the im- pression that his countrymen were not the aggressors in the riot to which he refers. ‘The captain of the American vessel and his crew, on their examination before the magistrates, admitted that the man who fired the revolver was a citizen of the State of New York. As regards the divine Rector's understanding of the matter, as he terms it, I treat it with the same contempt that T do the worthy Consul’s remarks.

It is not very creditable for either of those gentlemen to state that whieh was not fact, namely, “ that the prisoner that was arrested as one of the rioters was immediately dismissed.” The riot took place on a Thursday, and the prisoner was taken up for trial on the following day before the magis- trates, and fined five shillings for disorderly conduct and being drunk, He was then remanded for farther examination re- ‘lative to the riot till the following Weduesday; and after hearing evidence on beth sides, the prisoner was dismissed— the magistrates. having, very properly, taken into considera- ‘tion the time he had been confined previous to the investiga- \tiot of the case. He admitted that he belonged to the Provineé of New Brunswick. The American who fired the revolver escaped without be'ng arrested. Had he not, I — if he would be dismissed on the veracity of the | divine Rector of the great cathedral of Georgetown, nor yet of the American Consul of Pictou. | With respect to the Recter’s voluntary observations in making honorable mention, as he styles it, ‘of the America fisheruien’s attention upon divine service, and their respectful

without fear of contradiction, that thousands of them had been in Georgetown Hardour for the last two years, and out of that number not one hundred of them had been within the doors of the divine Rector’s cathedral during that time, or | yet frequented any other place of worship. A few Sundays /ayo some of them visited different places of worship in the ‘town, and during divine service they had neither the good sense nor mauners to uncover their heads, till some civilized Cape Bretonizn pointed out to them the door.

The Sabbath is a favourite day with Mr. Norton's country- men, of which he makes such a boast, for greasing their vessels, and catching and curing fish, even in the harbour of Georgetown ; and the Rev. Mr. Roach has the audacity to call this correct and respectful conduct. I do uot think you could find a savage in Cape Breton or New Brunswick that would be guilty of the like conduct ; but to eulogise it in the pubiie prints of Nova Scotia, the Rector’s own native soil, is monstrous,

Before taking leave of his reverenee, I hope he will grant these Sabbath-breakers, &c., pardow and absolution for their past offences, aud admonish them rot to be guilty of such , abominable trausgressious of the divine and common Jaw iere- jafter, with either revolvers, hooks, or scrapers, or any other improper or unlawful weapons; and at the same time to ad- ‘monisi the American Consul of Pictou, for bis attempted

fraud on the people of Cape Bretoa, by screening what he calls his countryuren — some of which, [ admit, he uray be justly proud of, and they have always been treated here with that courtesy and respect which was due to them in their respective stations.

I am, sir, with respect, your obedient servant,

A CAPE BRETONLIAN. Georgetown, 16th October, 1855.

HB BLABMBR.

CHARLOTTETOWN, OCTOBER 22, 1855.

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Ir there ever had been any doubt that British Americans felt deeply interested in the progrees and success of the allied arms in the Crimea, that doubt must have been removed as soon as the intelligence of the fall of Sebastopol reached this side of the Atlantic. Nota place of any size at all but evinced the most unmistakeable indieations of unbounded gratification

vent to their ehthusiasm in illuminations, bonfires, addresses, and other public demonstrations of joy. The good city of St. John, N. B., appears to have eclipsed all other places in giving utterance to the public enthusiasm. The worthy citizens in that place seemed determined to distance the citizens of all other places in the manifestation of their delight at the success- full termination of the siege of Sebastopol. Not satisfied with an illumination on a large seale, they had a public dinner, # public ball, a concert and a regatta in quick succession—the City Government advancing funds from their treasury in aid of the latter movement. Now, as for Charlottetown, she behaved herself very respectably on the day and evening when the important news became known to her. he illumination was prompt and gencral, but we should not have stopped at that. We think we have the true feeling about this war, # well as any other part of British America—we think we havé rejoiced over the victories of the Allis, and deplored their sad loses in the field and in the camp with as much real feelings

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