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Wounded.-Colonel Henry C. Cobbe.

Wounded.

4th. Foot. 9th. Foot. Killed.-Captain Frederick Smith. Lieutenants Allen George Douglas and John M' Queen, (Adjutant.)

18th. Foot. Killed.-Lieutenant John William Meurant. Wounded.-Major John Clarke Kennedy, Captains John Cormick, Anthony William Samuel Freeman Armstrong, Matthew J. Hayman, Henry J. Stephenson, and J. George Wilkinson; Lieutenants William O' Bryen Taylor, William Kemp, Fairfax Fearnley, and Charles Hotham.

28th. regiment. Wounded.-Captains J. Guise R. Aplin Henry Robert C. Godley, and J. Dundas Malcolm, Lieutenants Francis Brodigan and Charles E. B. Lennard.

38th. regiment. Killed.-Lieutenant Owen G. S. Davies. Wounded.-Lieutenant-Colonel John Jackson Lowth, Captains Ludford H. Daniel and the Honourable Charles J. Addington, Lieutenants Henry Broome Feilden and John Bolton French.* 44th. regiment. Killed.-Captains Bowes Fenwick, Honourable Charles Welbore Herbert Agar, and Francis W. C. Caulfield. Wounded.-Colonel the Honourable Augustus Almeric Spencer, Captain William H. Mansfield, Lieutenants Joseph Logan and T. Orton Howorth.

FOURTH DIVISION.-STAFF. Killed.-Major-General Sir John Campbell, Bart. Wounded.-Captain Arch: C. Snodgrass, 38th. Foot, Aide-de-Camp to ditto.

17th. Foot.

Killed.-Captain John L. Croker. 20th. regiment. Wounded.-Lieutenant-Colonel

Frederick

Charles Evelegh, Lieutenants John J. S. O'Neill and Francis George Holmes.

21st. regiment.

57th. regiment.

Wounded.-Lieutenant John George Image.
Killed.-Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Shad-
Wounded.-Captains

forth, and Lieutenant James C. Ashwin.

*This officer received a most remarkable wound, considering that immediate death was not the result; the medical board stated that "Lieutenant French, of the 38th. Regiment, received a gunshot wound on the 18th. June, 1855, before Sebastopol, in the upper portion of the left shoulder, which penetrated the chest, and resulted in a most copious suppuration from the left side, with compression of the left lung, and removal of the heart from the left to the right side. The left arm is powerless, and his general health very delicate, the suppuration from the left lung, though considerably diminished, not having yet subsided." He died on the 9th. of December, 1857.-Curiosities of War.

Frederic Percy Lea, Charles William St. Clair, George H. Norman, and Arthur Maxwell Earle, (Brevet-Major,) Lieutenants Cavendish Venables and A. F. A. Slade.

Rifle Brigade, 1st. battalion. Wounded.-Lieutenant C. A. Penrhyn Boileau.

LIGHT DIVISION.—7th. Royal Fusiliers. Killed.-Colonel Lacy Walter Yea, and Lieutenant (Adjutant) J. St. Clair Hobson. Wounded.-Major Arthur John Pack, Captain Frederick E. Appleyard, and Lieutenants Lewis J. F. Jones, Lord Richard H. Browne, George Henry Waller, Napier D. Robinson, Honourable Edward Fitz Clarence, William L. L. G. Wright, and Charles H. Malan.

23rd. Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Daniel Lysons.

Wounded.-Lieutenant-Colonel

33rd. regiment. Killed.-Lieutenants Valentine Bennett and Langford R. Heyland. Wounded.-Lieutenant-Colonels John D. Johnstone and George V. Mundy, Captains John E. T. Quayle and Thomas Wickham, and Lieutenant J. Thornton Rogers.

34th. regiment. Killed.-Captains John Shiffner and John Robinson, Lieutenants Francis Richard Hurt and Henry Daniel Alt. Wounded.-Captains John Gwilt, William Warry, and Joseph Jordan, Lieutenants G. Byng Harman, Robert J. B. Clayton, and Francis Peel.

88th. regiment. Wounded.-Captain George R. Browne.

Rifle Brigade, 2nd. battalion. Killed.-Captain Edward R. Forman. Wounded.-Captain Edward W. Blackett, Lieutenants Fitz Roy W. Fremantle and John S. Knox.

Major-General Estcourt, Adjutant-General to the British forces. in the Crimea, died on the 24th. of June, and LieutenantColonel the Honourable W. L. Pakenham, C.B., Assistant Adjutant-General, was appointed his successor.

On the 28th. of June, 1855, the following extract of a telegraphic despatch from Lord Panmure was published to the army in the Crimea:-"I have Her Majesty's Commands to express Her grief that so much bravery should not have been rewarded with merited success; and to assure Her brave Troops that Her Majesty's confidence in them is entire." This was the last general order published by Lord Raglan, for about nine o'clock of the above day his gallant spirit breathed

its last. Posterity will endorse the Minister for War's expression of Her Majesty's grief for this great loss. "The country has been deprived of a brave and accomplished soldier, a true and devoted patriot, and an honourable and disinterested subject." His lordship's remains were borne to Kamiesch Bay, and placed on board the Caradoc, for conveyance to England, the officers and men of both armies vieing with each other in paying the last honours to the departed warrior.

The general order issued by General Pelissier, Commanderin-Chief of the French Army, (of which the following is a translation,) was worthy of himself and of his country.

"Death has suddenly taken away while in full exercise of his Command the Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, and has plunged the British in mourning.

"We all share the regret of our brave Allies. Those who knew Lord Raglan, who know the history of his life, so noble, so pure, so replete with service rendered to his country;those who witnessed his fearless demeanour at Alma and Inkermann, who recall the calm and stoic greatness of his character throughout this rude and memorable Campaign, every generous heart indeed will deplore the loss of such a man.

"The sentiments here expressed by the General-in-Chief are those of the whole Army. He has himself been cruelly struck by this unlooked-for blow.

"The public grief only increases his sorrow at being for ever separated from a Companion-in-Arms whose genial spirit he loved, whose virtues he admired, and from whom he has always received the most loyal and hearty co-operation.

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"Head Quarters, before Sebastopol, 29th. June, 1855.

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"Lieutenant-General, Chief of the Staff."

General La Marmora, Commander-in-Chief of the Sardinian Army in the Crimea, also published a general order on the

sad occasion, which, after alluding to his lordship's services, ended with this expressive paragraph:

"He esteemed highly this our King's Army, and did much to minister to its wants; let us unite therefore with our brave Allies in deploring his death, and venerating his memory."

In the absence of Lieutenant-General Sir George Brown, on account of ill-health, the command of the forces devolved on Lieutenant-General Simpson, the next senior officer, upon whom the Queen conferred the appointment of Commanderin-Chief of the Army in the Crimea.

At five o'clock on the morning of the 10th. of July, a heavy fire was opened upon the Redan, by the allied batteries, in order to assist the advances upon that work, to which the besieged responded, at intervals, with considerable warmth. This had the effect of checking the musketry fire, which had proved very annoying. Comparative tranquillity reigned in the batteries until the 17th. of July, when the enemy opened a heavy fire upon the French in the Mamelon, which was answered by the British on the Tower and Redan.

During the night of the 22nd. of July, the Russians opened a heavy fire of musketry from the parapets of the Malakoff and adjacent works, but they did not attempt an attack. They opened a similar fire in the course of the night on the left of the French. It is believed that they apprehended an attack from the French, and for this reason opened the above fire, which did no damage to either the works or soldiers.

Between ten and eleven o'clock at night on the 2nd. of August the enemy made a sortie in considerable force, by the Woronzoff road. Their strength was computed to be about two thousand, and their object was to destroy a heavy iron chevaux-de-frize, made across the above road, between the right and left attacks, and being further supported by heavy columns in rear, to take advantage of such circumstances as might present themselves. They advanced with loud cheers and bugling, and were received with great gallantry by the advanced picket, under the command of Lieutenant R. E. Carr, of the 39th., who withdrew his men, firing at the same time upon the enemy, to the main body, under the command of Captain Leckie, of the same regiment.

A heavy and well-directed fire was opened upon the enemy by the party under the latter officer, on the Woronzoff road; as also by the guards of the trenches on the right of the fourth parallel, under the command of Captain Boyle, of the 89th., and Captain Turner, of the 1st. Royals, which, in about ten minutes, caused the enemy to retire from an attack that, if it had not been so well met, might have been a serious affair.

Thus passed the time during July and August in repelling sorties from the enemy, combined with an occasional heavy firing, and in preparations for a renewal of the bombardment. As the movements of troops in Sebastopol, and the reliefs moving to and from the Russian works, could be observed from the deck of the flag-ship of Sir Houstoun Stewart, "Hannibal," which was anchored off the mouth of the harbour, a telegraphic communication was established between it and a station erected on the hill in front of the light division. This directed the fire of the mortar batteries, and caused serious losses to the enemy.

At times, however, the enemy opened heavily for a short period, causing many casualties. Brevet-Major Hugh Drummond, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, a most promising officer, was killed by a fragment of a shell, in the afternoon of the 13th. of August.

In the beginning of August the troops had been unceasingly employed in strengthening and improving the advanced works, which, by the 10th. had become so close to the enemy, that it was with the greatest difficulty any approach could be made. Every precaution was taken by the allies to prevent the Russians forcing them to raise the siege by a vigorous attack from without, which was anticipated about the middle of this month.

The Czar's last hope of relieving Sebastopol was dissipated by the battle of the Tchernaya gained over the Russians on the 16th. of August. This brilliant success was achieved by the French and Sardinian troops, and the enemy's attempt to pass the above river, although made with overwhelming numbers, met with a most decisive repulse. The British cavalry, under Lieutenant-General Sir James Yorke Scarlett,

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