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BATTLE OF INKERMAN.
Tas further details of this battle, and that of
the 5th, are as follows-The are selected
from the letter of the Argus' own correspondent:
The further details of the battle, or attempted
surprise, of the 25th October, are v ? culated
at the same time to arouse our Indian iron
and our regret. The Turkish troops, pi mci.
pally from Tunis, and not by any means a fair
spin oilmen. were necessarily employs d in per reel-
ing the bat for is. thrown up to pi meet one of the
next en es of our long fine old. dence; and unfortunately
as they gave way under the weight of
strong Russian columns thrown su denly up in
them the brave Fighting fears had to sustain the
entire brunt, with due captured hntieiiig-tiiiuid
against them, until supported by more of the British
and ultimately by the French troops. In) an
unfortunate mistake, when the Hu Star s cure all
but retrial big, our light naval v. which is but
small in number, urged the batter y they still
held, and dashed among the gunners, cutting till in
to pieces. Unsupported by infantry, cheaper formed
prodigies of valour, but were more than half cut off.
In returning, Capt. Nolan, who had misconceived
his orders, was one of the first to fall, and Lord
Cardigan was slightly wounded. The day how.
ever, was our own. On the 8th November, a
grand struggle again took place, the battle of
Inkerman, and for the details of this glorious,
but alas, sanguinary affair, I refer you to the
papers. Large reinforcements having g arrived
under the command of General Liprandi, accompanied
by two sons of the Emperor Nicholas, a
force of 40,000 tu 50,0011 Russians were brought
against us, during a heavy mist, and here again
the English from their position had the first by unt
to sustain. A few thousand of them mowed down
the ranks of the assaulting party, and when the
remaining forces were brought up. French and
British, the enemy were completely routed after
a battle more bloody than that of the Alma. The
Allies lost dreadfully, say 2300 Foghsk killed
and wounded, and ljOll French. The
Russians it is said, had ten thousand
men hors de combat, and also many superior
officers The English lost Sir Geo go Cathe art.
General Goldie General Fox. Strangways, bibles
General Blown his log wounded, and having his
arm since amputated. Sir De Lacy Evans is
obliged to come home, owing to a fall from his
horse. Prince Napoleon had to quit for Comdin
tinople, in consequence of dysentry. and the
Duke of Cambridge had a narrow escape of being
killed. Ltprandf, the Russian General was
I wounded. War. under the new system, shrinks
( visibly the list of offices a. Uli the 5th November
; also a grand W^Um^J^^j^Aji^JSSiit^^

but this the French repulsed, with great loss to
,'?. the party. -The weather is now booming and
" - over control it is sincerely hoped that the issue

' ' may I di ere our army has this additional trial t

encounter. --a. ' . a

Other details of the great battle of Inkerman
have reached since my last communication,
and surprise' even the opinion formed as to
the extraordinary deeds of prowess which elm.
racterised it. Officers and privates sustained
the conflict rather like demi-gods than more
his, 82nd lamentable it seems that the lives
of so many brave fellows should have paid
the forfeit which grain war exacts. The
Russians had admirably laid their plans
Their enormous reinforcements from Odessa,
and other points, on the march for one and two
months in some instances, and especially

from Silistria, had all arrived, some only the
day before the battle, and the Grand Dukes
Nicholas and Miss nel came to inspire the com-
batants with the instructions and approval of the
' Czar. Nothing that could excite he enthusiasm

or warm the fanaticism of the Russian soldiery
was left untried. Grand masses were
celebrated in Sevastopol the night previous to
the battle, and The Id-hop, as is stated by some
of the prisoner a promised the blessing of the
Almighty upon the efforts of the troops and rich
booty in the English camp, where immense tren
sure was in store for- them To those who might
fall, heaven and all its acts would be open
The cow cot inn between religion and patriotism
one can readily comprehend, but piety and
plunder ought not to be so nearly allied.
Per h HIS it would not be far wrong to
paraphrase Cromwell in referring to
the air as it is long since the Lord was will
i him or his councillors. Notwithstanding the

splendid victory we gained at Inkerman, there much
to i in et on our side, and I fear it' all truth
be told some thin.; likely to condemn

The statement his been positively mule b

i writers on the spot and never yet contradict" d,

that General Evans pointed out days previously
to in Command, r--in.t'hi.'f the w. witness of the
very point which the U i-siam attacked, and
which cost us such a hole test of lives. This'
was a pi ice commanding part of the road, a d
yet a mere stone pence only was thrown up in.
guns were plant ed, on the plea that they were
on li recapture, and the wall was so high that our
guards at. all I only fire through tmhi-a-UM*s,
neither platform nor sand bags being available o
laid upon. There was a small height above
this place so precipitous that it was deemed impossible
it could be mounted by it hostile (bru

while we were i clow j and as to artillery l ship
got up-the idea was libelled. Aid yet' b

dint of the united labor of an imm< use number
of men, and in the dead of the night u der
cover of an immense mist, the Rmsim
did get artillery up this craggy height

the sound hiding so deadened by the
fog and probably also by the muffling of
the wheel-, that when a sharp eared sergeant
thought he heard a rumbling noise at no great
distance, his officers concluded it was waggons
moving in or out of Sevastopol, Those guns
upon opening fire in the morning, ere the fog
subsided, tore our tents to pieces, and literally
massacred our men near the wall, and not a
piece of art llery powerful or near enough to
answer them I With 05,000 men at command,
the lines as were harassing us on every side
with feint attacks and he knew not whether a
grand sortie from Sevastopol, an attack on
Balaklava, or an onslaught at Inkerman was
intended There were our men, too, worn out with
trench duty, Insolvent need by bad weather. and

as some accounts assert, even short of annual
' time. Many who had but just turned in, and

were about to break a long fast were com-
pelts d to leave the meal untasted ; officers had to
go out in their red uniform, fatally distinguish-
ing them from their m n who worn the grey)
greatcoat. And yet how they fought Heroes
could do no more, and mortal might have earned
imperishable glory by doing is half as much, li
was on Sunday morning, Nov. ember 5th, the
pious Rmslaus. who come dained so bitterly of the
Odessa bomber direct. commenced the attack,
consorted with the utmost military tact. A
" short sharp fire heavier in the outposts a sudden

running in of the assets. and the enemy was
upon us,. Up came the ponderous masses, adequate
to bury our poor numbers beneath their
very weight, and from the soiled heights above
operate the filching of the great guns over our
astonished troops. For a time the firing was
merely by chance, so dense was the atmosphere,
but the Rossii as had evidently taken good observations
days beforehand d, for they soon acquired
the proper aim, and did cruel execution. Our
guards rushed bravely to the front, defended the
wall against the times their number, but were
compelled for a time to withdraw, as the cannon
from the heights turned them down. Again
and again, however, they recovered the President
and drove out the enemy, and the mixed uniforms
helped alternately upon each other, told how
often the pace. had changed masters The Duke
of Cambridge had a most narrow escape, (or the
Russians kept a sho p watch upon him, At one
time he was surrounded and a surgeon saved

him. After the battle the Prince publicly
in asked him The Russians are said to
.' bate but well plie I with drink ere they

began, but with 2500ft inn against as they
m g'n w . I think they can 1 us drive into the sea
for an hour or two about six thousand English
kept him at bay and caused them to ruin loss

One portion of the 20 li regiment changed into
15 900 Russians and routed them. Had our artillery
bean of a heavier kind, we should have
destroyed probably 20,000 of our opponents, and
it is well that larger guns have been sent out to
match them next time. 'I he French, to the number
of eight thousand, came in grand style to
our aid, and enabled us to resume the offensive,
our stalwart fellows being actually tired of kill-
ing their enemies, who were continually reinforced
and brought up afresh to the attack.
Even after the retreat of the Russ! ins was up
denied they turned ever and anon to make another
desperate charge, and last effortless.
deem their laurel-. Eye-witnesses d scribe the
scene', when the fog cleared off IIB grand in the
extreme, such was the host of Muscovites on the
plain As to Prince Menschikoff' and General
llatinciiherg, they blame General Semenoff. was
was killed, for the failure of their grand scheme
which was to be raised the she. of Seats
trial ; but they also present! In their public
by lulu-j,-tor surely their private despatch s
do not thus seek to impose upon the
< zar that our enormous artillery and
superior numbers forced them to natural I be
deaths of our gall nit < farmers, many of them
ripe in years, were those of Hue soldiers Sir
George Oat heart died when some distance in advance
of his troop and General Fox Strang was a
bad his limb shattered at no great distance from
Lord Raglan, wh i lost several of his staff and in
whose neighborhood, it is stated a Russian battery
was continually moving. As to the enemy
I am not of those who expect any milk-and-water
sympathy or indulgences from them ; but
their cruel maiming of the wounded is so far beyond
the pale of war that I am rejoiced we
' secured one rascally major, whom we mean to
try by court-martial as a common murderer,

which he was.

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