Other names have since been added to that sad companionship, amongst them that of the brave and kind-hearted Sir John Campbell, who so worthily succeeded him in the command of the Division, but none which claim a sincerer tribute of regretful admiration. " His loss," says the Duke of Newcastle, " is to the Queen and her people a cause of sorrow, which even dims the triumph of this great occasion;" and Lord Raglan speaks in the most feeling terms of a fate which robbed the service of an officer of the highest merit, and himself of a faithful and attached friend. It was not until four o'clock p.m. that the protracted and fluctuating conflict finally terminated. About this time the retreat of the Russians had become general, and heavy masses were observed retiring over the Inkermann bridge, protected still by a tremendous fire from their field batteries, from those in front of the works of the place, and from the ship guns, but mowed down in numbers by the fatal precision of our artilleiy. In spite of this the retreat was efi*ected in the most orderly manner, and, as pursuit could only have led to fearful loss on our own side, the English, many of whom had passed the previous night in the trenches, while scarcely any had broken their fast, returned, after many hours of the hardest fighting, to their quarters, hungry and weary, it is true, but with the proud consciousness of having defeated by sheer courage and endurance a desperate enemy at desperate odds, and of having, in the widest and noblest sense of the terms, " deserved well," not only of their country, but of the civilised world. In their glorious task they had been bravely seconded by their staunch Allies the French, and the future historian will share the grateful perplexity of General Canrobert in apportioning the due meed of praise between the "intelligent vigour" of the Gaul and the "energetic solidity" of the Briton.
The losses of the Russians were enormous. Lord Raglan's Despatch estimates them at 15,000 men, and subsequent accounts have all tended rather to increase than diminish this appalling chiffre. " The configuration of the ground did not admit of any great development of their force, the attack consisting of a system of repeated assaults in heavy masses of columns, in which every shot that struck at all told with twenty-fold effect." Lord Raglan, who had had ample opportunities of observation, states, that he never before witnessed such a spectacle as the field presented, and all the accounts vie with each other in representing its horrors as beyond conception. In and around the redoubt, of which such frequent mention has been made, the dead lay literally in heaps, and the embrasures were choked with the bodies of those who had fallen by the bayonet; from 5000 to 6000 were actually buried on the field, on which, to this day, large patches of fresh-looking earth denote where the doomed myriads of the Czar found their last resting-place. The soul sickens and the pen fails in an attempt to describe a carnage so horrible; but softer emotions mingle with these sensations at the recollection of how many of the sons of Civilisation lie side by side with her most bitter enemies, in the calm repose which no animosity may trouble, no shock of earthly battle jar. They sleep in their nameless but sorrow -haunted graves; and in thousands
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of once happy homesteads, and by thousands of hearths, whose cheerful light is now solemnly darkened, their memories are enshrined in thoughts of pride and love, and pitying tenderness too big for utterance. Peace to their honoured dust! they have not died in vain. The bright and fervent spirit of their unshaken constancy and dauntless self-devotion burns yet with a kindred glow, and with undiminished lustre, even as the quenchless vestal fire, in countless hearts which pant to emulate their deeds; strengthening them, and purifying them, for the contest which yet remains, and whose end, so long delayed, fast, fast draws nigh.
It only remains to enumerate amongst the killed and wounded those whose eminent position in the army justifies such a selection; where all were heroes any other distinction would be invidious; and a fuU recapitulation would exceed the limits of our task.