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The War. The Serious Illness And Consequ...
Officers and rank and file , killed , 144 ; mounded , 1058 ; Sfesing , 150 : officers killed and wounded 93 . The losses of the French were less on the 7 th of June , tpften the Mamelon was taken ; and the greater number of the casualties occurred , not in the actual assault and temporary capture of the Malakoff batteries , but in the attempt to stay there under the fire of the neighbouring defences . Only two French divisions were employed in the assault—those of Generals Mayran and Brunet . Both these generals were seriously wounded . We read as follows in the Daily News : —
" The Russian Government publishes a despatch from Prince Gortschakoff , dated the evening of the 19 th , praising his troops , and announcing that the fire of the Allies had all but ceased . A small Russian reinforcement of iufantry is moving down to Sebastopol . Owing to the difficulty of feeding large corps in the Crimea since the operations of the Allies in the Black Sea , the Bussian Government has given an increased extension to the camp at Nicolaieff , assembling there the divisions which would otherwise be encamped in the Tauric Peninsula .
" Advices from Paris state that no further assault on the Malakoff batteries is expected to take place until French breaching batteries , in course of construction in front of the Mamelon , are ready to open fire . " Letters from Odessa state that fears are entertained there that the Allies , having completed their work in the Sea of Azof , will visit , for the same reasons , the mouths of the Dnieper , as well as Kherson and Nicolaieff , at the embouchure of the Bug , which , since the 24 th ult ., have become of more importance than ever to the Russian commissariat , and where the Czar has ships and naval establishments . A reconnoissance of Perekop is also again spoken of . " A . TEITGE FOR BURYING THE DEAD ( JUNE 9 th ) .
The interval afforded another opportunity , rapidly taken advantage of , of getting a nearer look at Sebastopol ; and the Mamelon , as the most important of our late acquisitions , was the attractive spot , whither every one who had the time and chance hastened . The French working parties had broken ground on the ascent , and were connecting their lines , distant some two hundred yards , with the fort by new parallels , and were also reversing the Russian trenches outside , facing towards our advanced works . The rugged , channelled , and shotbruised outline of the fortress grew larger and more real as you wound up to it ; but the interior , altogether unknown till that moment , excited a more vivid feeling , and alike outside and inside attested the fierceness of the
struggle and the pluck of the assailants . The surface of the ground within was cut into holes and pits—here like an old stone quarry , there like a bit of Crimean vineyard ; some of these were the effect of bursting shells with well-timed fuses , some the cunning apparatus of the hardy and prolonged defence . The corpses which cumbered the earth and were in process of removal gave out faint tokens of coming putrefaction ; fragments of bodies and marks of carnage were interspersed with ruined gabions and broken firelocks ; Russian guns , dismounted and dented with shotmarks , lay tumbled below their embrasures ; fifty or so were concealed beneath the debris : and some quantity of hidden powder
was also rooted out of the subterranean recesses which abounded in the rock . These nests , excavated in the inner faces of the intrenchments , were left warm by their previous occupants — food and implements of labour were found in them , and , among other things , a bit of fiahing-net in course of construction . The nearer view alone revealed the stupendous character of the earthworks , and , if astonishment were not now a stale sentiment , the eye-witnesses would have been simply astonished at the amount of labour lavished on them . The traverses appeared to bo some eighteen feet in height . An English lady—where will they not go ? where do they not go ?—was brought by her husband , an officer , to survey the place . —Times Correspondent .
The same writer relates that , during this brief suspension of hostilities , " a Russian officer fell into conversation with one of our mon , and , giving him his card , said , ' I wish this was all over , and wo wore good friends again ; wo aro all tired enough , but our prdors are to fight it out to tho last . ' At tho termination of the armistice , there were some signs of insubordination among the men who wore in contiguity with oura . " GUNURAL . PJKLJaSIEll ' s ACCOUNT OF THIS CAI'TURK OF TUB MAMKLON .
Tho Moniiew of Monday contains General Polissier ' s despatch , giving a detailed narrative of tho capture of the Mamelon Vert and tho Ouvrages Bluncs on tho 7 th of Juno . Tho White Works ( which are works of counter-approach constructed by tho Russians on tho 22 nd and 27 th of February ) woro carried by tho flrat impetuous ru » h of tho French , who soon established themselves in . thoir acquisition ; tho buttory of tho 2 nd of May , dofending the entrance to tho Careening JJay ravine , was seized , and tho guns spiked ; tho retreat of tho enemy from tho White "Works was cut off ; tho Mamelou was occupied , under a tremendous liro from tho Redan and tho Mulakoff batteries ; and borne away by tho enthusiasm of tho moinont , the French ponotmtud into tho ditch of tho Malakoff , and . tried to cntor tho
enceinte . From this , however , they were necessarily driven ; fresh columns of Russians attacked the Mamelon ; a mine or a powder magazine exploded ; and , in the recoil , the French were for a time obliged to recede from their position . But , being speedily reinforced , our allies again dashed the enemy out of the Mamelon , and remained definitively masters of the " green mound" and of the works upon it . The advantages thus obtained not only give us a greater command over the fortifications of the town itself , but they have destroyed the effect of the Russian counter-approaches , which have fallen into the hands of our allies .
FESTIVITIES AT EISK . A journal of our naval operations in the Sea of Azof gives the following account of an odd scene which took place at the destruction of Eisk : — "It was the wish of the Governor that our boats should pull in close to the shore and form order of battle in line abreast , makiug an imposing appearance , so as to justify him in surrendering ; which we did . The marines and firing party landed , and were received by the Governor and colonel , providing the officers with mounts . One party proceeded to the westward , and fired some mile and a half of stacks , consisting of hay , rye , and straw , in places six and eight deep ; others to the town , to fire a quantity of grain that the Governor had taken out of the stores to prevent the town being burnt , which they were in great fear of . The parties having destroyed the grain and stacks , which
they took to be Government property , re-embarked ; but , previous to their leaving the beach , the Governor begged their acceptance of a quantity of stock , which he had ordered down to the beach , which we politely declined . Compliments passed—such as , they hoped they would meet each other under more favourable auspices in lieu of such painful circumstances . The Governor and inhabitants were thankful for our leniency in sparing the town . About this time one dozen of champagne came down very apropos in a drosky , which seemingly our friend the Governor had ordered , and which he insisted upon our opening , and drinking each other ' s healths . Two very swell Greeks , dressed up gaudily in their war costume , were not content with drinking healths only , but drank success to the expedition in French ? I suppose our friend the Governor did not understand them . "
THE SPIT OF ARAB AT . The following picturesque description of the marshy tongue of land at Arabat is from a letter of the Times Special Correspondent attached to the Kertch expedition : — " The Spit of Arabat is a bank but a few feet above water , and is in some places only a furlong in breadth . It is nearly seventy miles in length , and its average width is less than half a mile from sea to sea . In the interior , or on the body of the bank , there are numerous lagunes—narrow strips of water much more salt than that of the adjacent sea . Some of these are only a few yards in length and a few feet in breadth , others extend for a quarter of a mile ,
and are about one hundred yards broad . They are all bounded alike by thick high grass and rushes . The bottom , which is found at the depth of a few feet—often at two or three inches—consists of hard sand covered with slimy green vegetable matter . The water abounds in small flounders and dabs , and in shrimps , which leap about in wild commotion " at an approaching footstep . Every lagune is covered with mallards and ducks , in pairs , and the fringes of tho spit are the resort of pelicans and cormorants innumerable . Tho silence , the dreary solitude of tho scene , are beyond description . Even the birds , mute as they arc at this season , appear to bo preternaturally quiet and voiceless . Multitudes of odd , crustaceoua-looking polypous plants , spring up
through the reeds , and bright-coloured flycatchers , with orange breasts and black wings , poise over their nests below them Patches of ground were cleared hero and there , and gave feeble indications that young potatoes were struggling for life beneath . Large ricks of reeds and coarse grass had been gathered round tho battery , but were now reduced to ashes . There is a track beaten into tho semblance of a road over tho eand from the battery to Taman , and it v / ns covered with proofs of the precipitate -flight of tho garrison . Pieces of uniform , bags containing pieces of tho universal black bread , strings of onions , old rags , empty Backs and bottles , woro found along tho truck , and some of our party cume upon a largo chest , which was full of Government papers , stamps , custom-house
and quarantine dockets , & c . liut the Hun was intensely hot , and trudging through tho heavy sand vory painful . I had been rash enough , indeed , to go into tho deep reeds after Homo duck , and intensely did my face and bunds suffer in consequence . At every stop swarms of mosquitoes arose from tho reeds , and stung with a bitterness and ferocity which excited corresponding feeling in those who Buffered from their assaults . They woro of nil sizes and shapes , and woro proboscides of every form ; and tlxoir thirst was excessive . Tho noise they made trumpeting , buzzing , and singing around ono'w oars whs ho sharp and loud that it gained credence for tho statements of one of tho ofllcors of gunboats who hud recently roturnod from tho coast of tho Sivash or Putrid Sun , urul who doolared that the humming of tho mosquitotm ( hero in tho evening was so grout that it resomblod tliu blowing off of stcuin
from a boiler , and that the swarms of these spiteful insects filled the air like dense clouds . "
THE HANGO MASSACRE . Accounts have been received at the Admiralty from which it appears that several of the boat ' s crew ' of the Cossack , who wexe supposed to have been killed , are alive , though prisoners . A complete list is subjoined of the killed , and of the prisoners both wounded and un . wounded : — Killed . —Thompson , coxswain of the boat ; Corn wall ordinary seaman ; Benjamin Smith , ordinary seaman-Lynn , captain ' s steward ; Joseph Banks . ' Prisoners . —Wounded : John Lorton , George Boyle Joseph Gliddon ( right arm amputated ) , Thomas Stokes ' Unhurt : Lieutenant Louis Geneste , Surgeon Robert Easton , Mr . Sullivan , Owen Francis , William Rockelly John Hockey , and Francis George .
A Stockholm paper has accounts from Helsingfors stating that the English have bombarded Hango , and destroyed the tel « graph station . The Russians ' now admit that the Cossack's boat displayed a flag of truce but allege that they suspected a stratagem to surprise them .
DESPATCHES FROM LORD RAGLAN . A despatch from the Commander-in-Chief , dated June 12 th , has been published ; but it does not contain any news of which the telegraph has not previousl y informed us . From the enclosures we learn that the casualties from the 4 th to the 6 th ( query 7 th ?) of June inclusive , were—1 officer , 7 rank and file , killed ; 5 officers , 5 sergeants , 1 drummer , 64 rank and file wounded ; 1 rank and file missing . Those from the 8 th to the 10 th , also inclusive , were—19 rank and file , killed ; 5 officers , 10 sergeants , 105 rank and file wounded . Naval brigade ( 9 th and 10 th of June ) : 1 killed , 14 wounded , 4 contused .
Further despatches from Lord Raglan , dated the 14 th and 16 th inst ., have been received . They mention the conclusion of the Sea of Azof expedition , congratulate Sir George Brown and Admiral and Captain Lyons on its success , and , with reference to the health of the army , state that cholera has increased since the last report , but that the men in general look healthv .
DESPATCHES FROM SIR EDMUND LYONS , & C Communications from Captain Lyons , Sir Edmund Lyons , and Rear-Admiral Stewart , dated respectively June 3 rd , 6 th , and 11 th , contain the details of our attack upon Taganrog , and of the evacuation of Anapa by the Russians . Captain Lyons , in his account of the Taganrog affair , says that there were upwards of 3000 Russian soldiers in the town at the time , and that these constantly endeavoured to prevent the destruction of the Government stores , but were hindered by the fire from the boats' guns . No mention is made of our men being routed and driven back to the boats , according to the Russian General ' s version ; nor , considering that we had not one man killed , and only one wounded , and that we destroyed all the Government stores and public buildings , is the relation very probable . Commander Coles , Lieutenant Buckley , ami Lieutenant Mackenzie , are noticed by Captain Lyons with great commendation .
The Government have published a despatch from Sir Edmund Lyons , of the date of June 12 , enclosing letters from Captain Lyons and Lieutenant Ilorton . These documents refer to the operations in the Sea of Azof , but only contain the official detailed report of facts already known . The admiral remarks that so great was the quantity of grain -irhieh the Allies firori , " that in some eases the conflagration had not entirely subsided when last seen on the eighth day . " SERIOUS ILLNESS AND RUMOURED RESIGNATION OK
LOUD UAliLAN . Wo read in tho Times . — " Lord Raglan ' s iron constitution has at longth given way to a cause that lias laid many a younger and stronger man low , and hia lordship has , we are told , requested to be relieved of hia command , in order to return home . General Simpson , we believe , will succeed him in the con > niand-in-chief . " Sir George Brown is suffering from the same disease dysentery ; and the stato of Lord Raglan ' s honlth is , we understand , of a nature to warrant the gravest anticipations . JJKATll OF CAPTAIN LYONS .
Intelligence readied the Admiralty on Wednesday that Captain Lyum , of the Miranda , son of tho Admiral , had boon killed . On the same afternoon tho news was communicated to liis sister , tho Countess of Arundol anil Surrey . " It appears , " says tho 7 'hnos , " that , in his anxiety to maku a thorough recognisance of Kuilu , he approached so near to that port that , standing on the paddle-box of his tthlp , he received a rifle ball in Inn U'g . He did not think much of it at the time , but Uio extreme heat , tho excitement of the occasion , and probably hIho a degree of vexation at beiiitf thus uiineeeHnurily disabled , checked tlio healing process , and < hipriv « d II" - ' sorvico of tho vory promisiiifr ollicor U > whom wo owe our first liavul suc
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Leader (1850-1860), June 30, 1855, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30061855/page/4/
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