confidence. Lord Fitzroy Somerset was raised to the peerage by the title which will be for ever associated with one of the most glorious, though saddest pages of history, and assumed the supreme direction of affairs at the Horse Guards, only to abandon at the call of duty a post for which he was eminently fitted, and which promised an honourable provision for the declining years of one who had given too much care to the affairs of his country to permit him to improve his own. In obedience to the desire of his Queen and to the unanimous voice of the nation, Lord Raglan assumed at the commencement of the war with Russia the command of the British expeditionary force, quitting thus a lucrative employment for a service whose perils he knew while he braved them. His services in the Crimea were too eminent, and must still be too recent in the mind of every reader, to need recapitulation here; but amongst them not the least important or remarkable was the admirable tact with which he surmounted the diificulties of a divided command, conciliated his independence of action with the most cordial co-operation with his several colleagues, and cemented the union between the Allied Armies.
The French soldiers had been the witnesses of his valour in the field; their commanders knew by experience his prudence and temper in council; and how much these qualities had endeared him to all ranks of that great and gallant army may be gathered from the eloquent yet simple and touching terms in which Marshal Pelissier communicated to it the loss of his beloved colleague; and which are quoted in a former page. Though he was not spared to witness the triumph of the cause for which he had laboured so unwaveringly and so well, and though the soldier's death which he had braved in so many stricken fields was not granted him, as unfading a glory surrounds the termination of a career pursued in honour and closed at the post of duty and of danger.
The strange and gorgeous spectacle presented by the line of route, as the earthly remains of this great and good man were conveyed to Kazatch Bay to be embarked for England, has been so frequently and vividly described by other and abler pens, that it cannot be unfamiliar to the reader. And Mr. Simpson's drawing, the details of which will be found explained in the accompanying key-plate, tells its own story so graphically, as to render any written illustration superfluous.
THE TOWN BATTERIES OR INTERIOR FORTIFICATIONS OF SEBASTOPOL,
FROM F CHAPMAN'S ATTACK, 23iu) JUNE, 1855.
This view is taken from the advanced parallel of the left attack, which was always occupied by the Rifles, and showa the head of the South Harbour with the town beyond, the corner of the Barrack Batteries on the one side, and the Garden and Flagstaff Batteries on the other. It is here that the Woronzoff Road approaches the town: there are three embrasures staring in the direction it comes; it crosses the piece of flat marshy ground to the westward of the Creek, and mounts by a long incline to the Ville Civile. By a close inspection of the picture, embrasures will be found scattered in every direction of the town, but the most important of the interior works are the two batteries on the crest of the high ground upon which the town is built: from their height and central position, they commanded the rear of all the important points of the defences of Sebastopol, except the MalakofF, and even it was scarcely beyond their range. Our troops in the attack on the Redan suffered severely from these batteries. The ruined houses on the left of the picture are where General Eyre's brigade penetrated on the 18th of June, and the cemetery which they took is just a little to the left of them. Behind the three embrasures commanding the Woronzoff Road is a picture hung up by the Russians, which contains three figures, almost as large as life, executed in rather a primitive style of art upon boards nailed together; one of them represents a Russian soldier, and another a Zouave; the third it was difficult to make out, but it is understood to be an Englishman, and the meaning of the whole, that the Ruski could fight both of them.
BURNING UILDINGS AT KERTCH, 9th JUNE, 1855.
Could the mind be divested of the associations of ruin and desolation, which inevitably attend such a scene as that here so vividly presented to us, there would be no spectacle so beautiful, as there is unquestionably none so terrible and sublime, as that of a vast conflagration seen by night.