BISIIII 1 • 1 L =MI m CHA.RLES' F. READ 4k-11 , 1 1 0e,i'ts eokqek. ik- f , l` / - , stationedat , eatheart's hill l ii , l &l the curly pert' f tt the •il diy;' and efitirtivitids- - tic : tift ccis tee - right 'to Ithe Pieket-litstfie Cover the" - -Worimafiff Mad. ' .All the etriotteitritatid igentleinen; Who' rather,abound here lost - noWcl.were in'a state of gt eat lexeiteMent, - iiticidotted - the' plain in' i eettentri4.-attire-Whielt"reealiM Oho's old me , modesiitif' "COwes - ,'aint,:y . achtitig, and' sea - bath=' ;; ing--were - :eottaged tit 'a *seri:eft Of - subtle man oeuversito'turn the flank 'hit littivary-lentiles,' and ii',lt getr'i,o, - the'frimt,-atid:!their*ec e s s was: anistc ditithle tri theicenterkiki, and singe nutty. -- tiity.' iii Tartar's, TUrklaint!fipotorianet, t rt ,fiere -- -.sil 'g,ularly . -- perturbed 'el'eti- such -plat d people, - tind:•thronged every kpidlivhith- com manded he stnallest view of ithe . plisee.rl At 16'34 n,-...Pelllstsier.and hta -staff - 'irerii bp' i to trio, observatory fM' the right. The" French" tren - ehes - were erowdhd , With men as close as.they could" piteli,• and seer-Could gee' I our inietithrOugh the break~ the ciol'isiii or ' dust, whit-h Werstlitiost irritating, already in their trenches. ...- . .. . - •-•' .- . -1., - - ' A 'few - Minutes' befisre lii.2: o'clock the Preneh, likea swarm of heei , ,. -IsSited froirt the trenches close •to: the ttimed I.lfalakiiff, swerinediup:its face,;and • ,e're :through the embrasures In the - tWitikling-4an eye. They crossed the seven TnetreS of'ground which permeated jhertirfitorril - the' enemy at - a few boundstliey- drifted; as light IV' - pant] quickly as titittintii leaves before the find, hattatlion afierliattallion, into' the embr.asures, and in . it 'minute iirt - iiii after - the head of their col- Orrin isstiell front the ditch, the tri-color - was floating 144yer the . - Korniloff bastion. The masketiiw:is yiaty feeble at firSt, indeed oar allies toiN the Ru - ssians quite toy siirririse.and very fe4, ilf them were, in the LlVlrtiakiiff; lett the e sminlreeiwered themselveeVand risen 12 • o'clock filp past 7in the evening, the Freneh had to :Meet" and defitit' the repeated attempts of the enemy to regain the work and the lit 'tie' Redan, when weary of the Ifearfid slangli. ter of 10- Men, who -fity in t hote;sand over the exterior o• the Workss," the l'ifeseoyite general,: despair-lit of succeits,l Withdrew-his exhausted - legions, hltd.preparect - -withadrriirable skill to et:inmate' the piece. 101- the s!reneh attack on the lel,ftt . l know nothing„ bUt _that., ffiri'. tended ill Tettrnest, it Was not successful, and was follOwerl by ioni6 loss to sow allies. As" soon as the " tri-color' -w - ers - observed waving . overlhei phrapet of the Milak - iitT through th,.it smoke Ui"id dust, four rockets were sent tip from Chiihnian's :meek one aftler aniitner, as a sigtial ifi it our assiiult on the..ffedarf. ,1114 weee altiiit•borne tack by the violence of the wind; and the Silvery"jets id" . .sparkii, they. , .threw °tit on- exploding,- were- n early - inyisl ' file agaiik . the r:iw gray sky. I , ItArit stillest minutes past twelve when our (. men'T - Teit[ the - fifili parallel.- The titsketry . 1 contnienttell at - once, and in loss . than live minntes.l dluriun which the troops had to pass I over aliiiu thirty yards from the approach to the paraPe of the Redan,they 11,1-1,1 lust a large - portion Of . keir oit-ocrs, - and Were deprived . of the aid 474 their - leaders, with the. exirep tion: I have, stated. . The .rifletrien advanced admirabry:ibtit frain their piesithin they . could ' not do - .oinill to rednee the fire of thegnns on , the flank rind below:the re.ettle.riiig, angles, A,e- they eitine nearer the- eneMy's fire be 4-1-arvic. 1e , 4 fatal. - They . crossed the, .atfati i 4 without diMetlitY ; it wai torn fo: pieces and de , triiVer)'.lb our shot. and the' men :stepped • over andltlirong,h it . With ease. - The light. division onside straight fir thh . salient and , Prineeting angle of the redan;- and mine to the - diteh Which - is here - about- fifteen, feet deep. TPi.,l party "d'etitiled f ,, rl,ti t e - purp-se placed the halders.: bet tle: y - wlre ' found to be too Atiirlt. -' -1 - loWiever.' hal' there beim DEtAILS OF THE ASSAULT. S enough of them that would notlhave ;matter -1 Frorn.the Correirnende n t 'of'the London Timer. - ed much, hint some had -been 4;11 'behind in ' Foram Dirtstox.CAsse, ' 1 ' . - -. the hands-fir the dead, : or wourehed men, and -14 One n)01-4 . Sept •10th•1855. others had seer?-brokim, so- that if One can. great act of carnage has 'been, credit' the Statements- made by those" whii ridded to th tremendous but "glorious trag-, were: present, thi - .4.e: was' not . more than six or edy (If witie l. the; while world, from the most seven hidifers.at the - saliiint. The men, led civilized natlyiiis; : down to the"most barbarous by their officers, feared into the ditch aticl ,hordes of th' -East, has been the anxious and - scrambled tip the other side - , whence they got exc!ted audiittee. Amid the shouts.of victor fy . and cries of despair—in frantic reji.tle.ing ,t. • up the -para Pet almostwithout opposition, for the few fiutisians who 'were in front ran hack st.ci pasSioni e sorrow—a pall o f, black -smoke and got bel4nd their traverses! and. breast. • streaked lipthe fiery flashings of. exploding works as soon as they saw our Oen on t0p,;,1 fortresses, descends upon the stage on which Ana opened:lllre upon them. -) ' ' 'l has been detiieted so many varied" traits..of -As the light division rushed nut in the front,' , huniu i rei se i-y a m ] ,Ot.huitian greatness, such they were, iedrept by the gans . ofi the K trraek I Ilh endure ce and calm courage, sueh light- battery andlby several . pienes : oi l i the proper I, De's and w: ' kness,.across.which have:stalked - right of theredaa, loaded heaVily with grape,. thuracteri . .hith .history may detvelop .. as which (..itsect them Considerable loss - ere they I e i r largely as th - - struggle in which they are en reachted•thelient or apex of the work - - at I gaged, and :: ell to gigantic proportions, -or which they - rivere•to assault. • ' he storintng 4- 141 ch she may dwarf into j - iiettiest diniensieng, cofunts"of the ..gretond division suing frotn 1 as ullwertilyhbe part they played: A dull, the fifth parallel rushed up irnin i . fliatel; after I . i itrielg e • siiene, 'br•titen at - distant intervals . , the light dii:ision, but - whim they r::ime up by -the crash of citadels "and. palaces as they kiose to the apex, Brigrefier Wipdhuni very fir into dust„ succeeds the incessant dialogue judiciously H irteight thein by *.ilight detour ciaie . eantioti_whi c h have spoken so hull on the right anti of the light di l vision; se ag and so angr il y throughout tut entire year,and. to comedow i n on the slope of the proper left sunless separated from - each other by - a'' lase of the Reilati. The first embrasure to t ired if fires rest on thttir arins, - and gaze with whi e :fi th e y c l rrnoivrars in flames; hat 'in. - wing ratted eniet4ms on all that rethains . of. the- on to the' neit. the Men' leaped info the 4; ditch, 1 , obji-et of theiF c‘inhicts. ' . aid with the' and of ladders and liratrh Othor's I On the iniriling of the Sth of - September, hne ; 's, serain bled up- on the tit her side ,I elrnb- , 1 the weather': hanged" suddenly,. beet) . nting . bit , ; ~d ;I f ., 1, ,., ,Ara1 . )44, or poured iii.t hrti , igh th.ie rite. 1 lkr:1 - co'.(l. . bitten wind rinht from the y r. which were t7rilefefidedi, -C,;'. Wind- ~ tcYfth, side 'f Sera7topol, blew intolerable ; haM was the first, or one of. the i1r , 7 4 men on -1 I ,otis of du , "into our faces. The sun. was- this 'tide ant with him' entered 'Daniel Itia- 'iscuted ; t : sky was of a leaden wititry honey, a great grenadier of 7 the . - flirty-first.— 1 1 Gen. - :, ellissier during the night col- As I fahon4 entered witW a Cheer, he was li i :iced adetit oo,ooo.then about the Mamelon. shOt titough . (the head by a hiistiiin .rill.r.man,:! form the storating• columni for-the Male- arid fell dead lachiss COL,Windhkm. .- . Ar ud Lil 4 Redan and to " provide the. ne- . -.Ai our men entered . through I the' embra- lin( rser* es. The French were reinfOre:- sures; the 'few Hiissiins whO .were between k r.s , o oolSardMiam i , who "marched 'up' the:salient and thebreastworks retireated to the '"' r hee-Ch.erna-ya last night, ft was arrann- • 'latter, andl-got fri.itn 'the trai-er:eti tfi its - pr..- Coat ibe.Ereneh were-to attack the .11tra. tection,' Frahm it thei- - fteired 'din 'it" qttiek . at 1 : 10011 , and-ss soon as their attack' be- - fire' on they parapet of the.... satie94. which wa'', , that ire Were to assault the Reda!). - crowded' . b- p yli the It en Of . .114„ t4l iviSton,und . At 101-2 She .Second division and the light on the gapslthrongh he rbs inner prirapet ~ ir the: .isica% moved down to the trenches, and Ri l ian ;' Red fitiri tnen''',AVitly ahrinfittuatitni. re pla ce d ' tl the advanced parallels as qui- which all et rs detilOre,: hut calinot iit*iipi, 1 and un, tentat,l o u s l y as possible: About retrierly On SI ell ficeasiong; - -:bi;graii- to rettirti ,. ' same 110 91 Gen, Simpson and staff ni'Oved ' the• fire Of t!: enemy Wit hope, allviincing s Or , t ,., rn to the aid- parallel of the Green hill crossing heft mi . ft he' traVer - seg, Itittitred 'and :cry; Sir ,Hertry Jones, Lob - ill to move fired - as. quitik 'as they - could, but ilid,little ex- , id . or futi . t:,) nevertheless insistpi s in being ettition,U4 th '. litiSsiatits Were well &Hind by' ~ ..+l. down to ; witness theassault, and 'was .' 143. the ' araliO on a lit,tor,'?in- which he .4 ~ ,Du ssiati!Titl;itienfielittiftlie lower traverse...4,', . -. . . • . the lureastwiik. There -', Were Jib+ ,grimlps. Or iained till . I was over. rh was, as 1 baie •near ihe base oflhe liedaii, WhOi kept_ alt a I ,a bitter Id day,:andh at would .galime- r „ „ r ....„„ r - men .. !:, As if i . 4(l . ol . in „f . n ' 1 _, , beep. onished "at - the ° ' aspect ,uf ; the . assault *as '-.S. preak the:etietOy `c.attie rilshink dab generals as theY viewed the. assault:- up 4-oni the baeriseksln :the- rear for the Red.'' oi annanAlar-in-thief, Gen. Simpson.,-, , s.at ./okand inereasedltheforen and intpositt of IS treneh4lwith his eyes and nose fustia7: the fire, w.hil4 Out'. soldiera dropped risty.and' i the cola find dust, end 'hie: cloak 'drawn' ..enot?Oraged ;the .. RUssians,kr their,iinniobility' (t er his h ,ad to protect - him-against both: and-. the Weekhesi'Of their 'fusilad4from Which ' Jones Wire a red night-cap, and reclin. the Cairn) , tkiri; -ell protected; l'ln - SO‘iti'the' i his lit T; and Sir Richard 4S-irey; the - 4 3 ffieers', by itiioe. - ,atuf - in.44- by cl*ple and 7rnitste .geucrl itadi.4 ,l, white pocket-, daring, triedlSto axe, 44ir „tolitheril. of% . They' 'chief t ied over his cap and .ears,which had an ittipr - -to t -Obit the Redttnia-as ruined: - . - so ,ewhat from* martial and :bele and that'll .:' y advaaned they . . wini4L'Aili . hi' zl. .- . . -t ar , . The Duke of Newcastle Irat . - tik4ll . iik : ,!' 1 L -- - • ' 1: '-' Snnuner's wine over, ' Fogs are falling down ; And with russet tinges, • Antuat's doing biewm Boughs a.e daily rifled • By the gusty, thieves And the Book Of Natu;e's Getting short _of leaves. „ • . • Round the . fops or }minis, °Swallows as they flit, Give like yearly tenants,. , Notices to quit Skies of fickle temper; Weep by tarns _sad laugh, 'N'ig'ht and day together, Taking half4nd-hall. So October efideth.— Cold and most oevenso.— But the months that follow, Sure will pinch utirorse. * ay FOR LITTLE AUES. ICE BY MMUS DUNN ENGLISH lirecollect a little girl, 1 - Whom in the way I met; . • To shut my eyes and, look within, plainly see her yet. 11t• eyes they bad an, azure hue— Our wildlitig,siolets not more blue— And from her gipsy hat's duress :A 1 single brown and waving tress Escaped, and on her shoulder flung • Alshadow, where it careless hung. Ail artless-happy dear was she, A 4. eyes of man would like to see. I topped the tripping, pretty maid, And.in a jesting humor said-- SWeet, will you be my wife, `To bless'and beautify my life? `Pain too Buie,' now said she; • Sir, mail I older be;' - N. l further wonkfthe darling say ;• Bu archly smiling„ ran away. . . T years had passed when I'sat down t elide a lady dear; • W 'spoke , more love by - eye .than tnngue, • . card more by eye than ear. U on her checks a modest glow K pt moving faintly to and fro; ' • Ea i f dear blue eye lay shily hid • . Be 11l eath its white and quivering lid.; . Atid by its rise and fall, ber,breast i -•. - . Brirrayed its ocean-like unrest., - A' •ealt.h of lore was in her eyes; Her bosom was a mine of sighs ; . \ Hdr heart was in my heart; her hand • Trembled in mine ai this demand— `S.Weet,- will vou be my darlinr. wife, - I li bless and beautify my life?' `0 1, I am older now,' said she, I Tl; l an that first time yoa spoke to me ; -` A rl now I may not run away'4A • ,It Was not needed more to say. - . There is a little gird, jest now. 'rho its upon my knee; ' Her .eyes are of a hazel hue— i'..' • -. 'they - say she looks like tile: -.. . Th 1. bee-like humming of her' voice Which makes my spirit so rejoice, The dark-,grown tresses fia acing _wild Ov r the shoulders of the child, Tr], deep glow of her cheeks , WI ch health and happy fzelings speaks, Th fondness of her up-turned gaze, Re i d! to me utv earlier days; Ani in my s'pirit's earl hear - Th accents of the prattling dear - I alied ti be thy little wife, - ,To I I I less- anll beautify my lif.;-- ..•_. 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' 'The 'Office' ra . tell on- all 'flies, •• hie' ' t mug 0111 ~ rOr the etlerny'sfire by then. courage.'_ The' men ofthe diffikent. regim4nts - •beettme Tin- . gleti together inf . itteitritablei . coufusion. , • The 19th med did ndt care for' the sirders of the nffitiertidt theEt,44th; nor did - the -•soldier7S of the 23d heed tht enttimandsktf an officer,whd did•rtot•-bidongth their regintent. .The'.-offi eers'enuld not ffild their trien-the , men.hild lost si . gh4 of their own officers. All the brio. adieri wive Col. Windhstn• Were wounded or renderedlinfit fir the gnidtuice ofthe attack. That gallant officer did all that man diuld do to'fortn - his 'nien' for the attalc,and lead them against tl* eneMy. :•Proceeding - from trans verse to transVeON: he' coaxed, the , nteit.t o come ciu4 and anticeeded several • titnecin forming al - few . 'of ; ' Them, but - they. Melted away as (list tta be laid • hold - of them.,•and eitt - Z;T fell, in their little ranks de retired to. comer tn keep tit their fusil l ade. Many - of theni , croWti e d the lu*er.oart of the inner rittrapetltdd kept up , a, smart- fire upon l the enemy; btlt nothing . would .inditee thetn‘to come nut intro th . :tiapen Spat.ennd charge the breastwork. .ThiS was lall git,ting - •on 'at. the proper. :eftface Of the Redan, while nearly the same tome Was, being \repeated at the sa lient.. Estery mement'eur men were dimin- ishing in n'tnnberS, while the llttessians - Carle I up in • swtirms trtnn the town -arid rushed down fromtheNfalakofE which ' had now been ocenpieti. h' the ;French. •,. hrice did.-. Col. , .Windhamisetici . offs cers to Si r ' ' W. Cotiring- - ton, who Was in the . fift h parallel begging of him to E.ll - 4 tip - Supports in scene order of i formation j' btu all three of 'these officers were wounded - as they passettifrinn the dile!) o f th e Redin to the rear, and. the Colonel's own 'Aid-il-Carti . P, Lieut. Swire of the turn. ' : teenth, a gallant young officer,l was hit clan- ' gerously in the hipas7he went on' this peril oas errand: . Supports were., indeed sent up, but they katne Op in disorder from the fire to which-. they • were exposed on their way, and , - rrived in driblets oak• to lnerease . the confusinn and the carnitge. Finding that he could ctgleet no.tnen on that ; left flee Col. Windham passed l through.one lot the cuts of the inner parapet, , and walked over to the right face, at the , ,dristaticenf thirty yards-from the Russian breAstwork, to•whch he Moved in a parallel line, to ,a ; close fire, but wenderfel to say,' , without being touched. • . • The C•olitnel gat, some riflemen /111.1 a feW Of the 87th i togettier; but no 4ouner had he broierht anent tout than they were killed. wounded, air dispersed by a colicentrated fire. The offieer.l, With the noblest ditrotion, aided Col. Windl)ani, and -he beeatne, the special mark of the enemy's riff: mutt. 1 Then arrow . neek. of salient was too elo:e to ti lon= any kind . - 44 formattnit, and the mitre the Men crowded iiito it the inure they ; tat nut of order, tail the store they suffered' front the enemy's tire. This miser4ble wnrk lasted for!:m hour: The Rus,ianswere now in dense Masses behind the hreastworle. and Col.. Windham - walked !rick InToss:.llie mi e n space to the left'to make one more aitempt:to retrieve the day. T e mew . of the tparapet of the salient, who were firing at tha'; Russians, sent theie shot at him, anti the latfer, win) were pouring vu!ley after Vttiley on all point's of the head of the, work, likewisedirkted their mnskets against . him, but he pas4e...l thrinigh - this eross fireln safe ty, and got t:within:!the inner parapet on tffe left, where the men were Iteeoiniug thinner and thinner; A Russian officer) now stepped. over the breastwork, and tore twn a gabion •wiflt-his oWn hands ; it was t make ru n g f ,- 1: 21 .field-Piece. Vol.i Windham exelaimed . , . to several s4.thliers' whi) Were Oiug over the parapet, , %Yell,. as you . are so intld of &leg, why f o nt V - ou shoot. that Rus l itiatt V - Th 4 .fired a vnliiiy and Missed hint. and s•yin . after the fteld-pieCe began to play onl the head of the sllient•iivith grape. Gil. Windham saw there . was an time . to be lost.. 1-:tt had sent three office . int re-infiireemetitt; and above all, for rate r in forMation, and he now resoly ed to eo nt ;Pen. Codrington. Seeing ' Capt. Cre.arlock , the 9 0 th near to him busy in encottrag• g, his Men, and exetting himself re " with g t energy .to get! them - in order,. he said—' I must go tb, the general "for supports. Now thind,let it he known, in case I - ant killed,why t. w - etit away.' lie cr;ssed•the par apet and, diich, and 'succeeded i• gaining the fifth paralkil throtigh a storm of grape and • rifle hullet4. in safety... Sir W i iiiiem - Cod-, rington asko hint ; if he' thought he really could do anything with such sit i ppOrts as he 'Could affierd; and said he Might take the Roy.' als, who - were then' in the parallel. ' Let the oTf!ers come ,out in fi s •ont—let ds advance in order, and it the Men keep their formation the Redan 4, ours,' .wtt's the colimel's reply; but he spo4 too line—for at that very our -ment our men were' seen. leaping down into the ditch, or ritiming down the parapet - ofthe salient, and through the ; embraslll.o4 ont'of the work into thedbeh; •While the Russians followed theno with the iniyo4t, and 'with' , It-avy intisici.try.- add even threw sneies. an grapeshot . ati!thein riff they lay blithe diteh.— The faet -West That the Russians having accu nittlated-...4icrar thnusands .of 'nett - behind - - the breastw( l irk, aniEseeing our Men all seat tired up . .an4, confined. behind the inner par apet of the Cvaversh,'ernssed theihreastwork, through whi z eli several iiele.-rtiecl were now playing, with.grapenn the ironer face of the .Redan,: and ffnirge4-our. broken ',evotips with the liiiimer,' : :itt theNime time tha t r ' the rear ranks, gettink on die breastwork, poured a heavy hail 4 1 _) 9 11e 4 .0n them 044 • the head • .. t of the advanFing column. The struzgle g that took place Was short, desperate and bloody. Our soldier's' taken it every di advantage. •- met tue enemy with the bayonet tnU, and isol li t c d combats .. - t.'Jok place stifich" • the heave felloteti who StoOd their viand had to defend themi!elves against three or four ad-. versr. ti es .ht In this melee the:(4l.!ers, armed only. with their swo . rds,i had little i ha' thoss who carriAOistola ibui-h opportunity of u : ing them in itieihn,rapid :Enniost. They felllike heriles, and Many agallant soldier with thilm. The, bodies tbr Eingiiih'tutd Ru-sians locked in an einbraee 4ith dehth could not relait, fiuL had rather retifented - all the — closer, lay next. .day inside th'e Rednit'As evidenels s►f ` the ter. ' rate animoSity‘ of ti!ie.strutzgle. ,But the'sol- Id weight Of thss ad*ancing man:. urged 'and - red !moment from the rear by corn patiy.after ornnpanyrAnd hattallini niter - blo t:LI:ion; prevailed atiiut against the isolated: itild . litiointed band' ivhei had abandoned the, ittLotection ollunitnitnity and courage and bud. lost the advantage of discipline end obedt'enee. As thierigt. tienne giant rock had . advanced into the sea and ; f4rcol bark the:waters that bpf - feted-if,-*SO 4id tbei,Russlifn columns press down aftaleatffieliti9i of coldietit which fret- FHB • - - . - ; ted-their- edge with fire en d s teel and tonteind;-- ed in. vain.vainat.their ,tlorellextr . - Thefi* 4l lP -) glinghand .was..forCed heek.. - . the -. enetny . ,_ who moved on' crushing -friend - and* the !be neat)i their solid tramp; andhleeding, pant , ' jog, and 'exhanated,-.ourtner lay in-heap* in , : the ditch beneath the parapet,sihelted think, selves, behindeturies and_lts bornb.erviee s. the slope of the work, or endeitycirel fiase back again to our idianced'paraltetnnd-stin.' *and - Ltd tri run the gauntlet ela tremendhus. fire.-iMaiirpf them lust .their or - were Aeriotisly wounded in this attempt. 1 ,The • siecnoiu the _ditch was appalling althoAgli Scene , * 'the officers' have assured me that they and the men were laughing at - the *pre cipitation with whith.manyhrsv o fel I( twa did not. hesitate to plenge epee the ,mass of bayonets musitet,,, And Sprawling The:ladders "Were" 'alf knocked doviiiOr broken,'-So: that"-it' wa i l; -difs; cult fur the mien to getnp nt the other-Side; and. the deed,..the dying,'-- the 'wounded; end this so'uitil; were all lying.in beeps ,to,gether, The Russians came out . of the einbrastireS, plied. them, with stones,, grape-shot, and the bayonbt, tnit - ivere.kenti flirL•ed the fir e ofour hatterlett and riflemen, and itn= . der : cover of this fire many of( ioer men es (*p to.t)ie,approachea. le some iestinces =the enemy persisted in remaining outaele 'in order to plunder the hitt - lies of those Who were lying en the _atop ! ) if. the w:i . Ine t -ail& paid the pehaltyfif their; AshiteA in Ibeing , qrefebed beSide their 'flied;' but othersitame tbrthen.a holir errand: aed actually brilu, , ltt water to our wounded; if this lust Set be true, -it: is _hut right to disertidit the.story . that the placed our wounded over the !nag:tante in the rear of the redan,' _near the barrack, battery, ere they fired it!—the' only foundation fur which, as far as I_ can discov er, is that many of the .bodies of our men. found in the redan, were dreadfully, scorched . and burned ; but there *ere, mealy ,RaSsians lying'there in a similar: kale: - I ! Otir.itttack laStedabout tut hour and three quarteris', as well as I could make oat, and in that tine we lost More men than at Inkerinann where the fi_hting lasted fur seven hours. - It is difficult, as ,I have had occasion to- ob serYe on former invasions- ' to give With any TretensionS to accuracy the'details of st-bat ltt!it becomes:elniest impossible to at tain cerreeteese iri.deseribieg such an affair as the assault on the redari tinder . the 'pecu liar 6i-cum:Nimes which' attendA it. In ad- - 1116(in to the smoke of battle, there were ay dust Mingled with sand, Which blew right into the laces of the men and swept the hills 'its their rear, which were criaded with spectators, or those. 'who tried to be-and the irregularity - of the ground offered other impediments to their view!; hut greater than all these obstacles thief that uu otie could from any eeeceiyable pireition in front See what was rein' on inside the Jac which seemed to engarf Our soldierslWith lin its htige dun-coltired ntgged-- parapet... 4 only to vomit there fnrth again in dimillslied narilberS.. It was all along but-too plain to understand what - ;was.taking place Within from the externalastiect of that ilLfated Work -the sbeies 'id Whieh; hate astonished the vii•erld with the sight of British trtnips, in flight twice •in twit successive 'ettueks tin its fiirmidaliie defenses* :i ., This' redin has cost us more lives than thn4eaptire of I3adajoz , not to *peak . or duke who have fallen in the trenches and ap proachea to it; and, although the etterny evac dined. 'man scireelyelaini the credit-of having eauied thorn stet' toss that they tired owing to their dread itif a renewed a s , sault. On. the contrary, vrr must, in fairnei.. ad mit that the Russians Maintained their grip of the place till - the French were fairly eatai • lished .in; the Malaki4,and the key of thelpos: ition was torn form' their grasp. ' They might, indeed; have remained blthe *place longer than .they-did, !Its- the Fr ench were scarcelyin a'conditioti to molest them' from the. Malakoff with 'artillery, .and . enuld not be permitted. to; interfere 'with our attack! had they_ been able to send reiniorcernents to 'us; but the Russian' deneral.ie a mat oi l too' much genius and eitperietice as .a soldier _to ;lose Men in 'defending an untenable position,! 'and his. - retreat was effected with masterly] skill Audi with , perfeet ease he the fire of a 'vie-, tOrious enemy. cOvering,- his rear by the: flames of the burning city, and treinenduous esploAeUs, Which spoke in tunes of porten-. tons war sing to thole who . might have wish.; ed . ' to castoff his retreat, he led his hattabonS, in - narrow files across a deep arm of the - sea,:, conimanded by our - guns and in the face of Most poWerfu I fleet; paraded them in our sight niihey-eHr4sed, and -ctrried offall his nose useful -stores and m unitions of war. - He:left fete trophies and many bitter memories. •TIIIs IN7'ERIOR OFSEVASTOPOL. .1 . WEDNESDAY, Sept. 742„ It is -delightful to abandon the-old herding, `.` iege-of.Sevitstopill," which, for the last .threemonths, might have been. steretyped„ but it is,not clear. what is to 'be put' rfl. its! place, forthe enemy, having abandoned the south side, seem prepared to defend the north aide, rind!to - erect there another monument of engineering skill, and.to leave Other ineineri els of their. dogged -resolution.• The wonder; ufall visitors to the- rains Beyastopol isdi= v ided,- 7 they astonished .at the strength' of the , works, and -that they were ever taken ; they are' amazed that men valid have defen.., ded: thenvno lung .10h such ruittaround. them, These fee/ings are-apparently in oppositiori; to eatth.other;:tint a glance at %the plrere,erxild-! esplahrtheapparenteuntradiCtion.: Klsclear in the first 'place,ithist the fire of our artillery-. was searching -out every nook amid, corperl of the town,'and that, it would hi:avow:A/trolly_ in/ possible:Sir:the Russians to keep.any body , 'men tot dekd knit Jibe art .itad:4,atteil , without ouch. inue l lerous-Ilissas , would -speedily , ir emituilitta.bornb.Protifie large-and ..numerous las they -srera, ~-eet...hold the reeiiiiite Circe , u, , -resist a general .( oticerted Watch ell along ; .t 4 ; line .1 0 P;i9us ! On lbe other iland,.,t4a farentiithactiau 711/ 4 , 61 unimielves is r;r