London Mail (Newspaper) - September 26, 1855, London, Middlesex SEPTEMBER QJ THE WE enclosed in the last number of the MAIL for India a copy of the telegraphic despatch which announced the capture of the Malakhoff Tower before by the on the 8th This success was followed by the evacuation of Sebastopol on the The Russian under Prince retired by the bridge of boats which they had prepared for some time Before their final departure they blew up Fort Nicholas and the Quarantine Forts they exploded a great number of and they sunk all the remaining ships of their great Euxine with the exception of a few small which destroyed on a subsequent The intention of Prince is expressed in his telegraphic The brave army cf he repelled six but they were unable to retake the Kara and have therefore retreated to the north leaving to the Allies only a mass of bloodstained This was his object after the city was no longer tenable by his He encircled and guarded his retreat by a belt of in consistence with the Russian plan of destroying what cannot be The scene beneath the ramparts of the Malakhoff and the Redan was so terrific that General refused to permit his men to enter the burning ruins for some Explosions and fire have cleansed the city from the pestilence that raged within its overcrowded The Allies can take possession of the stones with greater safety that have been purified by Bat the operation was not so successful as the Russian commander had He sought the annihilation of all that was useful in the city but he An armistice of 24 we was conceded to the in order that they might withdraw their wounded of whom a number were left on the south in the rapidity of their The number of men who there perished is and never will known but after the removal of the survivors the allied forces entered the and made an inventory of the This document tells the importance of the and the purposes of the more clearly than any argument or any other A vast number of guns have been destroyed upon the works formed in defence of the A considerable quantity are supposed to be sunk in the The Armaments of the ships scuttled by their owners went down with them on the night between the 8th and 9th of The retreating Muscovites carried with them all that could be and rendered They made provision for their retreat some previous to its and thus had lei sure to and time to from their ample stores of those pieces that were likely to suit them the allies have obtained the almost fabulous number of JOUR thousand one thousand more than the late Duke of Wellington captured in all his battles and as the spoil of all his That enumeration alone indicates the extensive character of those preparations made by the Russian Govern ment for future Sebastopol could not require four thousand guns for its They could not be employed in the Crimea but a more con venient arsenal than the great military port of that peninsula could not exist for equipments to vessels built at or at other towns on the rivers of or for stores destined to arm the Bos and the when ihe wishes of the Muscovite were The Allies also found thousand cannon a large quantity of many cut to form a large stock of biass or copper equal to fifty thousand and five hundred Admirals who then commanded have been slain in this all their seamen have or preceded to graves in the trenches of their august city and Russia wants alike and Her rots on the sands of the sea which her government claimed as a Muscovite Her admirals sleep beneath the ramparts of the great arsenal from which they expected to dominate the Around in the dust of are buried the brave unable to meet the western men on the stoutly defended even to The last bombardment of the south side com upon the 5th September from the French Our own guns scarcely equalled the usual cannonade for the greater part of that As night they joined in more vigor and the bombardment was maintained during the and renewed in the with intense bitterness on all Upon the 6th the large Lancaster guns broke into the general onslaught from our Slower and more precise than the ordinary a spectator writes that their report was heard far above the continuous crash of the smaller and the ground vibrated at each discharge of this ponderous They were chiefly directed against the and made way for the French Night brought no longer respite to the guns and the gunner than was necessary to cool the and in the morn ing of the 8th Prince telegraphed that the fire was The Allies also mention with astonishment the accuracy and pre cision of the Russian They know how the hostile army may be but not how all the clever gunners are The British batteries were chiefly directed against the Malakhoff and the Redan while the French as they were at everything from the mouth of the harbour on their left to the extreme right of the After dawn on the 8th the batteries of the Malakhoff and the Redan either reserved their fire or were disabled from answering the opposing Two Russian frigates had been burned since the commencement of this bom The embrasures of the celebrated forts often named were The guns were dis or they were The nature of the ground had allowed the French to work up their sap and trenches so close to the Malakhoff that the abattis might be touched by the hand from the top of their The approach to the Redan was more and a broad ridge lay between the advanced trench and the It has been variously estimated at from seventy to one hundred Tt was probably equal to the larger and may have been The Malakhoff dominated the and the little and the entire ring of works around southern Either of the other works might be but neither of them could be held without the It commanded the other defences but it was also a perfect being built in the form of a and protected from the tire of the by its own in any of their other when the Malakhoff the assailants had only to arm the and pour their shot upon the town but after the capture of any other it had to be reversed before it could be employed against the The form of the Malakhoff also sheltered the assailants from the guns of the or of the second line of whenever its artillery were while the command of the Redan only exposed the assailants to the fire of other without any For these reasons the Malakhoff was to be and the general attack was to be only after the under General had mastered the central They were then to shell the the second line of and the navy of Russia from their new For this thousand pounds of It is not easy to see how the latter escaped the numerous explosions and and some parties suspect that the powder is stowed in with connecting wires from the north which the Russians purpose to use as guides to an electric with the view of blowing up the allied forces at their The latter will probably the and render the connexion if any stratagem of nature was The fleet of Russia destroyed thus at Sebastopol mounted excepting the British was the most powerful armada in and at any one The sailors numbered from to men twelvemonths The destruction of Sinope was their only feat of arms and il was It is also The purpose artillery were advanced to a close mity to the They assailed very shortly after Their assault occupied only ten mi They were upon the within the and the tricolour waved from its It was the and the French next attacked the Little and all the forts on the Detachments from the divisions under General and General Markham were ordered to attack the Great It defended the arsenals and and it was held in great The men and entered the Re dan but the artillery from the second lines of from the and from all available quarters plunged at Meantime the promised aid from the Malakhoff was not The French artillery was although their flag and after a conflict for an hour the men were compelled to abandon a position which hey had and maintained at a loss which will be best understood by a reference to the fallen and wounded The French on all points except the was also The despatch of General Simpson is not and it is pro able that a portion is unpublished to prevent mis which might arise without any ust cause but it is believed that the after they secured admission into the iad to maintain a long and murderous combat for he even against artillery within its The severity of this internal battle is apparent from multitude of their slain and wounded This unseen by the army without the prevented them from giving that as sistance which appears to have been arranged for and Within the Malakhoff the Russian gunners were cut down at their It does lot seem that many of its garrison if wanted We vead of no The guns on the Redan had apparently been or the Russians had never taken possession after being driven from their works although our trenches were crowded with yet it does not appear that they were fired It is also probable that a number of the wounded remained within the works and that could not play upon the The Highland Division were brought up to renew the but from the crowded state of the according to General they were not sent forward until night With the French were firing rapidly from the Malakhoff itself and the mortar vessels of the fleets were pouring in their missiles into the and the forts nearest to the sea while the Russians themselves began to and Sir Colin Campbell ascertained at 11 oclock that the Redan was abandoned but General Simpson from the number of and the state of the that the soldiers should not enter it until the The loss in officers sustained by the British is given nominally in our The total in officers and soldiers is said to be of whom 500 to 600 are The remainder are The loss of the French has been Five general officers are to be among the slain but their names are not yet Their entire loss has been stated variously at from then and next of killed and The latter we trust covers fully their The loss of the Allies during the bombardment was slighter than on former and that of the Russians was very Prince koff telegraphed a loss of meriin twentyfour Their casualties during the bombardment have been at and their loss in the assault is put at Letters from their own cities describe the fatalities as extremely Nineteen general officers have killed or Including their loss at certainly quite and before the as certainly during the bombardment and at the assault probably beneath the total of men is found sufficient with a serious sick roll to exhaust the reinforcements that they have obtained What is now to be done is easily but is not extremely The Russians propose to fight for the north and the allies must take They cannot advance upon any other route without transhipping their material and They cannot force the route by for only one road exists over tlic tous from the heights of to the sea at If the Russians are therefore able to maintain their fortified position on the heights of the Allies are still inclosed on a plat to which they have added the great ravine where Sebastopol and where its ruins are They have no other egress than the the almost inaccessible road across the moun and the route over the harbour to the northern forts still garrisoned by the The Allies hold Kertch upon the and Eu upon the of the Crimea but they are only accessible by This circumstance is not fatal to the progress of the allied The ocean is not a bad road for the maritime powers yet the singularity of the position has not equalled in modern and by the natural difficulties of the coun All their from the utter failure of the crops in the must be conveyed by for a great distance over bad in light The means of conveyance are said to be nearly used and the well trodden they must be over the will become almost impassible in five or six weeks from the present We deem it therefore highly probable that the Russian Government would be incapable of feeding one hundred thousand men in the south of the and altogether unable to give them shelter during the winter something Stores of provisions are not mentioned among the waifs captured in and it appears highly probable that the Russians were of This supposition is supported by previous The army of the North must do decisive or retreat into winter The armies of the West will find adequate shelter among the ruins of Our soldiers know how to repair houses of After the fire came the rain storm of rain heavier than often falls in tese By fire and water the ruins of Sebastopol have been purified in a manner that has no parallel in recent The conflagration of Sebastopol almost resembles the end of and The allies we the destruction of the port by casting the stones into the harbour when they are done with tlic Bullion continues to be withdrawn from this country in larger sums than are received The changes upon the Bank of England account since the date of the last mail the Reduct ion of Bullion of of Reserved Notes Increase of private deposits of public Do of private Decrease of Government Do The demand for money in business thus appears to have been and the Directors of the in supplying have managed to turn their shareholders means to good We men in our last number the increase of the minimum rate of discount at the Bank from 4 per on the 6ih current and at this it will probably stand through the if it do not rise We had no idea that on the following the the Directors were to take another step but they did and ran up the minimum from 4 to per while some persons expect a further mve to 5 per on Thursday The shareholders of the Bank had allotted to them last week a divi dend of 4 per for six or at the rate of 8 per per The decrease of bullion in the Bank of France for the month ending upon the 13th current slightly exceeded two millions The Directors of that institution have increased their minimum rate of discount from 4 to 5 per The amount of bullion in the Paris Bank is 11 to a cir culation of 26 millions The bullion iu the Bank of England is to circulation of not quite 20 but which with the circulation of the country banks in England will be 26 The Irish and Scotch Banks have an independent circulation and stock of We mentioned in our last that the second instal ment of the Turkish payable on the 12th was half a in error for one which has been along with upon our own loan on the 18th The next pay ment for our own loan is on the 12th and one million for the Turkish loan upon the 20th Easiness last week in nearly all shares and stocks was done to the disadvantage of Exchequer Bills stood at par to a premium of Idia Bonds varied from to and India Stock was done at The highest price of Consols since our last was upon mail the when the quotation was and the lowest occurred on Wednesday the when was The success at Sebastopol has not affected prices as dealers had discounted the north side of the in at some previous Very little improvement occurred in Consols towards the close of last aud prices on Saturday night ended at to Prices given way since the middle of nominally by but in by as to the extent of is earned since the date There was no change on The scarcity of bullion has not arisen the paucity of as since our up to S turday Continued on page
