working parties severe losses just before the final bombardment. From the 3rd to the 6th, we had 3 ofHcers, 3 sergeants, and. 40 rank and file killed; 3 officers, 9 sergeants, and 180 rank and file wounded. Captain Pechell, 77th, fell on the 3rd September; Captain Anderson, Acting Engineer, was killed on the 4th; and Captain Snow, II.A., was killed on the 6th. On the 3rd, Lieutenant Chatfield, 49th; on the 5th, Captain Verschoyle, Grenadier Guards, and Lieutenant Phillips, 56th Eegiment, were wounded, all slightly. Our trench guards kept up a tremendous fire on the place, and in the two attacks about 150,000 rounds of ammunition were expended between each relief. On the 7th September, we had 1 officer, 11 rank and file killed, and 48 rank and file wounded.
The officer was Captain Buckley, Scotch Fusilier Guards, who was shot while posting his sentries in front of the Eedan. CHAPTER XVI. CAPTURE OF THE MALAKHOFF AND ATTACK oy THE EEDAN. Reflections on the long-expected triumpli — Eecapitulation — Day of the assault — Disposition of the forces — Amateurs — Tartars, Turks, and Eupatorians evince great anxiety to obtain a good view of the assault — The French attack the Malakhofl^ — The Russians taken by surprise oflTer little resistance to the first attack — Desperate struggle of seven hours' duration — Signal given for tlie English assault upon the Redan — Impeifect arrangements — Gallant conduct of Colonel Unett — Fury of the assault — Casualties — Bravery of Captain Fyers — Previous career of that officer — Advance of the storming party — Colonel AVindham's gallantry— Impression among the men that the Redan was mined — Elibrts of the officers to encourage their troops — Indomitable perseverance of Colonel AVindham — Urgent appeal for reinforcements — Devotion of the officers — Gallantry of the men — Wonderful escape of Colonel AVindliam — Tlie Russians bring up a field-piece — Colonel WindlKim goes for reinforcements — The Russians having assembled in great strength, charge with tlic bayonet — Fearful struggle — Retreat of the Engli.-h — I'errible slaughter on both sides — Success of the French in the MalakhofT — Causes of our failure in the attack upon the Redan — Difhculty of obtaining accurate information — Plans for the renewal of the assault — Losses in these operations.
Monday, Sepinnhcr 10. The contest on which the eyes of Europe have been turned so long is nearly decided — the event on which the hopes of so many mighty empires depended, all but determined. Sel)asto]»ol is in iiames! The Heet, the object of so umch diplomaticcon- troversy, and of so many bloody struggles, has disappeared in the deep! One more great act of carnage has been added to the tremendous but glorious tragedy, of which the whole world, from the most civilized nations down to the most barbarous hordes of the East, has been the anxious and excited audience. Amid shouts of victory and cries of despair — in frantic rejoicing and passionate sorrow — a pall of black smoke, streaked by the fiery flashings of exploding fortresses, descends upon the stage, on which has been depicted so many varied traits of human misery and of human greatness, such high endurance and calm courage, such littleness and weakness — across which have stalked characters which history may hereafter develope as largely as the struggle in which they were engaged, and swell to gigantic proportions, or which she may dwarf into pettiest dimensions, as unworthy of the part they played.
A dull, strange silence, broken at distant intervals by the crash of citadels and palaces as they are blown into dust, succeeds to the incessant dialogue of the cannon which have spoken so loudly and so angrily throughout an entire year. Tired armies, separated from each other by a sea of fires, rest on their arms, and gaze with varied emotions on all that remains of the object of their conflicts. How trite all these announcements appear! How disheai-tening it is to the writer to feel that all he is describing is known in England, and has been discussed and canvassed in every homestead ere he can sit down to tell the story, and that by the time his letters reach those for whom they are intended, all that which now appears to him as novel and recent as it is interesting and impoi'tant, wiU be a twice-told tale!