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THE FIELD 
had 500 cannon, and yielded th OuflB frmlne *t the end of 
10S days ; Ciudad Rodrigo, with 86 guns, was not taken for 
21 days. 
A Vienna newspaper, the Cht Deutsche Post, states, upon 
the authority of letters from Odessa, that n ItusBian corps of 
infautn- assembled at Pcrekoj. on the 15th, and immediately 
after commenced its march with sixty pieces of artillery for 
Simferopol by the Steppes, and will there join the forces of 
Prince Menschikoff. The total force in the Crimea will be 
as follows : — Garrison of Sebastopol, including the crews of 
the fleet 34.001) ; corps of Prince Menschikoff, 20,000 ; corps 
of General Liprandi, 24,000 : total, 84,000. 
INTELLIGENCE RECEIVED ON THURSDAY, NOV. 2. 
(By Submarine and BrtlisJi Ttkyraph. ) 
In addition to intelligence brought to Vania by the Trent 
steamer, we have received from Vienna a despatch, from a 
perfectly reliable source, which states that the subjoined 
statement from the Wiener Zcitung of the English army 
having experienced a serious reverse is a gross exaggeration. 
The affair referred to took place near Eupatoria, where 
the allies were on the look out for the advancing reinforce- 
ments of the Russians. 
The British cavalry was attacked, but the French advanced 
to its assistance, and the Russians retired. 
The date is not exactly known, but the affair is supposed 
to have occurred on the 23rd ult. 
The Wiener Zcitung of this evening contains the following 
doubtful announcement, evidently from a Russian source, 
which it professes to have received from Kicheucff, iu Bessa- 
rabia, on the 29th iust, : — 
“On the 25tli, General Liprandi attacked the detached 
camp of the English, and took the four redoubt s which pro- 
tected their position. The assailauts also took eleven guns. 
“At the same time such a powerful cavalry attack was 
made, that it probably cost the English half their light 
cavalry. Lord Cardigan, who commanded, escaped with 
difficulty.” 
The Oesterre.iehische Correspondent contains a despatch from 
Sebastopol of the 24th, which states that nothing decisive 
had occurred up to that date, but that the bombardment of 
four of the forts continued, and was answered by the Rus- 
sians in Sebastopol. 
The vessels of the allies were reported to have sustained 
much injury in their recent attack upon the forts at the 
mouth of the harbour, and some stores of powder were said 
to have exploded. 
It is certain that the Russians have received consider- 
able reinforcements, though it is by no means so certain that 
they amount to 30,000 men, the number this despatch fixes 
them at. 
It is also reported that a still stronger corps is expected 
from Perekop, but this very much requires confirmation. 
DESPATCHES RECEIVED IN L6NDON ON FRIDAY. 
NOVEMBER 8uu. 
Prospects op the Siege of Sebastopol. 
(By Submarine aud British Telegraph). 
We have received from Vienna a despatch specially for- 
warded from Constantinople to Semlin, and thence by tele- 
graph. It is as follows : — 
“ News has been received from Sebastopol of the 23rd, 
that the cannonade had continued incessantly for seven days. 
“ The fire of the Russians was said to be slackening, but 
the French works were not strong enough, aud had been 
much injured. 
“ The British are said to bo within 300 yards of the 
Russian works. 
“ A deserter says that the loss of the Russians has been 
very great. 
“ Nachimoff is said to be killed 
“ A fire broke out in the town on the morning of the 23rd, 
and was burning when the steamer left.” 
A second despatch, dated Vienna, Thursday evening, is as 
follows : — 
“ Official despatches, dated the 25th of October, for the 
English, French, and Austrian Governments, which have 
been received here, show that the siege of Sebastopol is pro- 
gressing favourably. 
“ They mention frequent rencontres, but say nothing of 
Liprandi’s alleged victory. 
" The French brigade from the Pineus bad passed the 
Bosphorus.” 
After the very satisfactory intelligence we have given above, 
and which may be fully relied upon, it is only by way of con- 
trast that we publish the following “ official Russian news,” 
received by way of Vienna : — 
“ On the 25th of October, General Liprandi attacked the 
allied camp at Balaklava, stormed four redoubts, aud took 
eleven guns. 
“The English cavalry was totally beateu, and lost 500 
men.” 
DESPATCHES RECEIVED IN LONDON ON FRIDAY 
EVENING. 
(By Submarine and British Telegraph) 
Balaklava, Crimea, Oct. 17. 
We opened fire this morning with 71 English and 46 
French guns against 130 Russian. At 8.40 a French maga- 
zine exploded. At 10.45 the fire was renewed. At 12.45 
the French ships engaged the sea forts, with the Agamemnon, 
the Retribution, and the Britannia. At 1.25 another French 
magazine blew up. At 1.40 a tremendous explosion took 
place iu Sebastopol. At 2.55 the magazine of the Russian 
redoubt blew up. The Russians, however, returned to their 
guns. At 5.30 the ships fired on Fort Constantine at short 
range. The fire was kept up until 0 o'clock, and did great 
damage to the Russians. 
liuUikluva , Oct. 18. 
The Russians have re-mounted their guns, which aro much 
heavier than ours. 
Our loss yesterday amounted to 96. 
The Retribution iuid London both caught fire, and have 
had their mainmasts carried away. 
The redoubt aud the round tower keep up a brisk fire. 
We get our munitions up with difficulty. 
Paris. 
The Monitcur of this morning says, that General Can- 
robert's report of the 23rd states, that the attack continued 
without any remarkable incident, and that all wero full of 
confidence as to the result, According to further acoouuts 
received from Sebastopol to the 25th, some English engi- 
neers employed in Sebastopol hod made their escape, and 
reported the town filled with dead left unburied, and that 
provisions were becoming very scarce. The upper works of 
Fort Constantine had been completely destroyed, and two 
hips of the line sunk. 
St. Petersburg. 
The St. Petersburg Journal contains two reports from 
Prince Mensohikoff to the Emperor Nicholas, giving details 
of the, operations before Sebastopol on the 17th and 18th. 
The fiivt asserts that at nightfall on the 17th, the first day 
of the bombardment, the English had only two guns able to 
return the Russian fire, while the Russians had a few dis- 
mounted. 
At noon on the same day fourteen vessels of the allied fleet 
attacked Sebastopol by sea, directing their fire against Fort 
Constantine and Battery No. 10. 
The shortness of the time and the smoke rendered it im- 
possible for Prince Meuschikoff to furnish complete details of 
the loss on either side ; but the Russian cause had sustained 
a severe loss iu the death of Admiral Kornileff, whose leg 
had been carried off by a round shot, aud who died on the 
spot. 
The second report, dated the 18th inst., says that though 
the allied fire was astonishing by its power and noise, it had 
not done so much harm as might have been expected. 
The Alexander battery, and battery No. IU, had not suf- 
fered much, but the Constantine battery had been greatly 
injured. Ou the laud side, none of the Russian batteries 
had suffered except No. 3, in which nearly all the pieces (33 
in all) had been dismounted. 
The Russian loss was estimated at 500 killed and wounded ; 
among the latter Admiral Nachimoff, very slightly. 
During the night of the 18th the Russians were busily 
employed in repairing the damage done to their defences. 
On the 18th the English fire was less active than on the 
day before, and the French had hardly fired at all. Prince 
Meuschikoff attributes this to diversion made without the 
walls by General Semiakine, who appeared iu the enemy’s 
rear, and thus diverted their attention from Sebastopol. 
The vessels which had taken part in the bombardment 
on the 17th, and which Prince Menschikoff believed to be 
all French, had gone away in the direction of Cape Cher- 
sonese. 
The smoke ou the 17th, and a thick fog on the 18th, had 
rendered it impossible for Prince Menschikoff to state the 
enemy’s loss, but he says it would seem that one ship of the 
line had been seriously damaged, aud two steamers set ou 
fire by red-hot shot. 
[Despatches from Lord Raglan have reached France, and 
may be hourly expected in London. — E d ] 
THE WOUNDED AT CONSTANTINOPLE. 
Among the certificated nurses who have just left this 
country, under the charge of Miss Nightingale, to attend 
upon the sick aud wounded in the British hospital at Scutari, 
is Miss Erskine, eldest daughter of the Dowager Lady Erskine, 
of Pwll-y-chochan, North Wales; and among those about to 
depart on the same mission are two sisters of Mr. G. 0. 
Higgins, one of the members for Mayo. 
Very large and ample supplies of winter clothing 
have been forwarded to the army in the Crimea, aud an 
amusing ua well as an instructive library of new books and 
newspapers haa been dispatched to the hospital at Scutari. 
Already wo are gratified to learn that the condition of the 
sick and wounded at Scutari has materially improved, and 
many are desirous to joiu their regiments once more. Ac- 
counts from the fleet, too, by the mail which left Balaklava 
on the 13th, aud letters written from several of the ships, all 
agree in describing the cholera as having almost entirely 
disappeared from on board the squadron. 
The Semaphore de Marseilles contains the following account 
of the departure from that port of the English ladies who 
are proceeding to the East to attend on the sick aud 
wounded : — “ The war in the East has not only exhibited 
the courage of English and French soldiers, but has also 
given rise to acts of the most sublime devotion on the part 
of the weaker sex, who know so well how to fulfil acts of 
Christian charity. The arrival of fifty-five ladies, who, on 
the appeal made by the Times, the most powerful organ of 
the British press, volunteered to proceed to the East to 
attend ou the sick aud wounded, has caused a profoimd 
sensation in our city. The Times expressed its regret a short 
time since that the English nation did not follow the 
example set by our heroic Sisters of Charity. We find that 
the appeal has not been made in vain. Some years ago a 
young Indy, Miss Nightingale, founded in London an esta- 
blishment for nurses, and she has undertaken to exorcise her 
Christian charity on a theatre exposed to more danger and 
under more trying circumstance. From all we could learn 
of Miss Nightingale aud her companions we are convinced 
that she is equal, if not superior, to this undertaking, to 
which the English Government has given its support. 
Miss Nightingale possesses every advantage this world can 
afford. She is young, rich, and in possession of a fortune of 
£30,000 ; she has, nevertheless, devoted herself to an exist- 
ence of self-denial. Moved by the sufferings of her countrymen 
in the East, she resolved to follow the sublime example of our 
ISisters of Charity, With that view she left Loudon to seek 
a new theatre where she might display her charity and bene- 
volence. The Roman Catholic religion, which has to sustain 
its ancient reputation for charity, also furnished its honour- 
able contingent of young English ladies. Twelve nuns from 
the convent at Norwood, under the charge of their supe- 
rioress, an Irish lady, have also volunteered to accompany 
Mina N ightingale. Charity alone can effectually smooth down 
all differences in religion. For a long time past Sisters of 
Charity, acting under a pious inspiration, have been in the 
habit of attending the sick aud Buffering, Tim is the neu- 
tral ground chosen by the Norwood nuns and the compa- 
nions of Miss Nightingale for emulation. An English priest, 
the Rev. Mr. Wheble, has already set them the example. 
This clergyman gave his services wherever they were re- 
quired, without asking of what persuasion the person was 
who stood in need of them. At three o' dock to-day these ladies 
traversed our city to take passage in the VectiB. This vessel, 
which generally plies between Marseilles and Malta, has been 
placed at the disposal of these charitable ladies by the Penin- 
sular Company, and is to convey them to Constantinople. 
The commander, Captain Powell, as well ns the crew, re- 
ceived them with every mark of respect. Everyone admired 
the siiunle and becoming costume of these women, particu- 
larly that of Miss Nightingale, who, from her ladylike man- 
ners and appearance, might be taken for a Pnrisieuue. She 
wore a brown dress, a grey shawl, with a mantle of the same 
colour, and a black bonnet, altogether in harmony with the 
Christian mission she has undertaken. The Roman Catholic 
ladies were habited iu them oonventual dresB — a white robe 
and black cap.” 
Medical Orderlies for Turkey — In consequence of a 
War-office circular received at Chatham on Wednesday, 
requiring upwards of 400 volunteers to join an ambulance 
corps for duty at the seat of war in the East, to be under the 
immediate control of the Medical Inspector-General, to take 
charge of the sick aud wounded soldiers in the Crimea, and 
during the pending war with Russia, the whole of the depots 
viz., British aud East India regiments, comprising the Pro- 
visional Battalion, assembled on the general parade-ground 
of Chatham Barracks, at two p.m., when the war circular was 
read to the troops, assembled iu open columns of divisions 
and sixty men volunteered, all of whom bad completed nine- 
teen years' service; there were also upwards i>f 130 men 
who bad recently returned from India as invalids, but who 
were found, on medical inspection, to be fit for duty in any 
other country except India. These troops ore to be itnrue 
diately inspected by the general doctor of the garrison. 
Every man must have u character for sobriety and good con- 
duct before he can be allowed to pass the commandant. A- 
soon as the number of men are obtained they will be dis- 
patched to Turkey for orders. 
LETTERS ABOUT THE ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. 
Copy of a Letter from W. H. Floyd, 23rd Welsh Fusi- 
liers (2723). 
General Hospital, Scutari, Oct. 14, 1S54. 
My dear Mother, — You may see by my letter that paper 
is very scarce with ine. A letter written by me to my bro- 
ther will inform you that I have had the honour to serve in 
the two greatest general engagements ever fought in the 
world. It will likewise tell you that I have been severely 
wounded in three places, which is as follows : — A musket 
shot through the right arm, which I received about an hour 
after we commenced the action, but being determined to pay 
them for making a hole through my jacket and fleshy part of 
my right arm above the elbow, I would not fall to the rear, 
but made my comrade tie a handkerchief round it, and 
fought through the action, which lasted three hours after, 
but just us we thought the action was over, for the imperial 
Russian army was routed, and we hod gaiued the entrench- 
ments and forts, they baited and wheeled round, and made 
another stand, which did not last long, for General Sir G. 
Brown, or Lord Raglan (I do not know which of them) or- 
dered us, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Scots Fusilier Guards, 
Grenadier Guards, and the 33rd Regiment of the Line, to 
form up for the charge, which wo did directly ; and now 
came the grand charge, and away they went after a few mo- 
ments' wounding with the bayonets, but not before they had 
left me a bayonet wound in the left thigh and a rifle ball 
through the loft breast, which passed through the breast bone 
aud left lung, going out under my shoulder blade. My other 
wounds are trifling to compare with the latter, for they are 
nearly healed up. The wound through my breast is closing 
up quite fast, but it will be months, the doctors tell me, be- 
fore it will be healed up inside, and that I will always 
have to take great care of myself, for any convulsive or 
quick movement will be dangerous to me. They seem to 
think it quite a miracle that I should live, for they have 
agreed that the ball passed between the leading-strings of 
the heart, and about half an inch from the heart. Yet I am 
better, and live in hopes to live better a long time, although 
I shall never have much power in my left arm, nor shall I 
ever be upright ; at least I can hardly expect it— but I must 
hope for the best. I never did despair, nor shall I. I have 
served my Queen in the best manner I could through an 
arduous campaign until I became mutilated with wounds ; 
it is now her turn to serve me during the remainder of my 
days. I shall be homo iu England in December, and be 
discharged iu May, so you must have a corner berth ready 
for m>\ I am getting the best of treatment here. I can 
get anything I wish ; liquors of any description, or food, it 
matters not what it costs, I am to get it. Give my love to 
•T aud his wife, Mr. T , aud Mrs. L , Granny, and 
Uncle Jones. Please tell Joseph that I received his letter 
with the stamps, but they were no good to me, for I lost 
them with my pack and kit on the field of battle. 
Now for a small anecdote. The bit of hair that yon sent 
me, and another bit that a person you know sent me, I wore 
in a little bag round my neck. It was shot straight through 
the middle of the bag, and most of the bag and hair went 
into my breast, and every morning the doctor takes some of 
it out. Please answer by return of post. My love to you, 
all friends, and relations. — I remain, your affectionate 
youngest son, Hamlet, 
Royal Welsh Fusiliers.) i 
I may come home next month, for the Doctor-General 
just told me he would send me to my native air as soon 
possible. 
Letter from John Horn, Gunner in the Royal Horse 
Artillery. 
Within gunshot of Sebastopol, Oct. 6. 
Dear Father and Mother, — I have just received your 
kind and welcome letter, and was glud to hear that you were 
all well, ns this leaves me nto present both fat, strong, and 
hearty. My clothes are getting too small for me. We live 
a great deal bettor in Russia than in Turkey. I have 
a great deal of news to tell you. A few hours after I dis- 
patched my last letter our troop was sent on board, and off 
we went to the Crimea. We lauded about forty miles from 
Sebastopol without a shot being fired at'us; but a number 
of Cossacks gave us some trouble. Lord Cardigan took 
out two of our guns, with two troops of light cavalry, t 
give chose to the enemy ; I was among them. We pursued 
them up the country for about eighteen miles, but they kept 
out of gun reach ; night came ou, and we were obliged to 
return to our camps with empty stomachs. Slept very well 
on the sea sand, with my saddle for my pillow aud mV 
cloak for a covering. So much for our first day's work in 
the Crimea. The French and English were all landed iu 
three days. We then marched up the countiy, and outlie 
18th came within sight of the enemy ; they, however, kept 
their distance that day. We slept that night in th e eaUje 
manner as the preceding one. The following morning " c 
proceeded on our route, and came in sight of th® eneinv- 
about ton o’clock on the top of a hill. Lord Cardigan with 
two troops of light cavalry and our troop of Horse Artil- 
lery, received orders to reconnoitre. We started up the hi 
at full gallop ; they wore on the other side ready to receive 
us, so a few of our light cavalry were sent out ns skir- 
mishers. The enemy also sent out a party of skirmisher-, 
aud they fired at each other for about fifteen minutes, when 
the enemy brought ten guns to boar ou our cavalry. Gui 
troop then galloped up, tho bullets whistling past our ears, 
which lmd a strange effect upon me till we were brought 
into action ; then I had something else to think about. Dj e 
very first shot I fired sent one of the enemy’s gun met- 1 * 
out of its bed. By this time the C troop came 
assistance with a few of the battery’s guns, and in a sh°_ 
time we set thorn all a-flying ; but it was a veiy severe ski 
misb. Our side lost four horses killed and four men wound 1 - 1 • 
