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"VOLUME 13 _ « Self-Meltance tg the Grue Road to nbependence."' assions; although w thé wounded enemy' had' tinquestionably: en-". Siecle PROSPECTUS - 1) oet ry. | of the housework, works worsted. cats and brightest vedeciel rays, the gies scene aii that: they sent: urgent neeess to us Re calin and 'order as any are ever witniess- ohetth 'hd Kdeiaahn "was s going : OF THE. Eas Gs ee a dogs for intellectual discipline, and wears a the Crucifixion. The partial coloring then | for aid, and our.guns.were.directed with such ved ¢ on ie battle: field." ie War | /This was the' single act: Rope oie i Tsaw = stylish bonnet. to church by way of morals | takes a character of incontestible 'Superior~ good. effect. on. a mass of infantry which | | iS Ty a ie perpetrated by "this arty flushed with victory. PROVINCIAL XB REEMAN, TO AUTUMN. j and. religion. | Without a definite object, ity; and presents to the astonished spectator | threatened their left, that they were 'relieved Leases STIRRING SCRE, . yand' animated' by angry: re TT how can she be expected to rise early in the | a picture composed of, six. most perfect fig- | from all ermBarMenieht, 'and enabled'to eain |' "Little more thai 14,000..of our, na The 'Bhi ibnicial® Freeman will be gebauek to | ' Hy KEATS." _were actually engaged with the: enemy,! Two Anti-Slavery, Temperance: and General Litera-, ture.' 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As an advertising medium, as a vehicle of in- formation on Agriculture, --and as an enemy to' vice' in any and every conceivable form anda promoter of good morals, it shall be made way of the patronage of the public. M, A. SHADD, Puplehng Agent. ae i; _- REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS. 'The Canadian Contributors are: J. J. Cary, and Ameria C, Swapp, of Tor- onto; and A. B. Jones of London. Friends in "Chatham, Windsor, Buxton and other places 'westward, 'do also correspond; whose names »wilk be: announced hereafter, if not, objectiona- ble to the parties. Ant Lerrers, whether intended for. publication or on Business, must be addressed, post-pand, to M. A. Suabp, Toronto, C. W. "Ofhice, 5, City Buildings, King Street East Toronto, : ; ¢ : eA AE RS Peery. "CHARLES | "MARCH, House Sign end Ornameital Eainter, Grainer, Glazier and Paper Hanger, Carver, Gilder and Glass Stainer. Mixed Paints, Putty, Enamelled and Plain Window Glass ae HBOKInE Glass, for Sale at the lowest Cash prices. ? 'No. 29, King Street: West. 'Toronto, 10th April, 1854. 4 R. S$ Ss MACDONELE Barrister, At- torney at fay aay Public, Se., et Windsor, CW. FESSRS. R. P. & "ADAM CROOKS, Bar- -risters at Law, Attorneys and Solicitors, Walneon st Toronto.) Cather & CAMERON, Barvietéud ho! &c., Office hureh Street, next door to the Court House. . WiLtaM CaviEy, Marruew Crooxs: CAMERON. se eh B. IGN ES, ; DEALER IN GROCERIES AND CROCKERY WARE, "wo, 314 DUNDAS STREET, . LONDON, AG. NY if . NDREW HENDERSON, Auctioneer and Commission 'Merchant, No. 32, Yonge St., Toronto. ' References, --Thomas Clarkson, Esq,, Dicsi: ent of the Board. of Trade ; John Robertson, Sq. Messrs. A. Ogilvie & Co.; Messrs, How- ard Fitch ; Messrs." *p Crawford & Co. D. FARRAR, & Co., IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN . GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS, &c. &c, _ NO, 15, DUNDAS STREET, LONDON, Cc.W. Z VANKOUGHNET & BROTHER PRARRISTERS, Atntoreys, &c. &c.--Office in Church Street, over ' The City Bank" Agency, two. sper south of St. Andrew's Church. ; " OHARLES: FLETCHER, BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER, No. 54, Yonce Srree, TORONTO. "British and American. Works imported and for sale at the smallest possible advance re tie wholesale 'tad My PUN OTUALITY ! ao ve et ten oe R BROWN, PODS IST Philadelphia, prastoNasis BOOT AND SHOE MAKERS, No 33 King Street West. All work warranted to be done' ina Superior Style. Repairing done with) neatness and. dis- ete, Feet measured on anatoutical poops - Toronto, aie 18th, 1854. "ih ee HARCOURTS CLOTHING STORE, KING STREET EAST. 4 HE 'Subscribe thas just received a very su- T erior assortment .of West. of England Ba Cloths, Cassimeres, Doeskins, Tweeds, Vesting . of the newest pattern 'and material. 'Every article 'belonging to a gentleman's com- oe nian kept constant on-hand. "GEO. HARCOURT, | 11, King Street East. goatee : ma. 13--1m. REMOVAL. » Fashionable Hair Cutting ! pe 'SUBSCRIBER erateful to his old atrons, and the public generally, for' their 'past' Feiots, would respectfully: invite them. to visit him .at the CITY BATHS, Front. Street, _ East of Church Street, to which place he has "lately removed, where he will take great pleasure 'in Waiting on-all'who may favor him with their gsc Bree in the line of HAIR» CUTTING, POOING." HAIR CURLING, or SHAM- OING ts oka) Warm and Cou BATHS at all hours. Z| : THOS. F. CARY. "Toronto, Angiist 12, '1854. "FINE, 'WATCHES, JEW «LRY, SILVER \», / AND PLATED WARE, je ge R 8 ONS, yMPORTER' 'and general dealer; at his old stand, St. Paul's Street, St. Catharines, Cow, "offers at Wholesale and Retail, every description of fal and. Silver, Watches, Jewelry, Silver ofa Plated Ware, Pocket Cutlery, Razors, Spec- cles, Clocks; Mirrots, wie a great variety' of: i fancy. goods. »: iO LAR experienced vworkanan, gen ie en att in to re airing ine. Watches an ot er me jobware, whic a ill Ibe warranted. fe 0 'PA RSONS; vi SE PeLe | Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers ; | education is finished ?" -you make, which should satisfy both you and less regard to truth than they profess. Bi ~ Your business enter- |. |in the hive. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom friend of the maturing sun, Conspiring with him how to load and 'bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch- eaves run; To bend with apples the ee cottage trees, And fill all. fruit with ripeness. to the CONE Ss To swell the gourd, and: plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel: to set budding more, ~ And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they: think warm days will never cease, For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. Who hath not seen thee oft beneath thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granery floor, 'Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind ; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while the houk And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep: Steady thy laden head across a brook: 'Or by.a cider press with patient look, Thou watchest the last ee hours by -- Where are phan songs of Spieler 2. Ah, where are they 4 "Think not of MER thou hast thy music too,-- While barred clouds bloom the soft dying day, And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue; Then ina wailful choir the small gnat mourns ' Among the river sallows, borne aloft, Or smiling as the light wind lives or dies ; And tull grown lambs bleat loud from hilly { sbourns: i" Hedge-crickets'sing : ana now, with treble soft, The red-breast whistles froma garden croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies, Miscellaneous. RAAA nN Make your Girls Independent. BY HENRY F. FRENCH. Everybody in New England. knows ex- [eet what to. do witha boy. Give him as a matter of course, the best. education you ean afford, and whether he is poor or rich, prepare' him for some business, some regular useful business in life, so that whatever be the turn of Fortune's Wheel, he may be in- dependent. A good. education and a pro- fession or trade, without property, is enough for him--enough to place him beyond the charities. of a cold world, enough to give him hope and courage and assurance of success in life. But what is to become of the daughter.? Do we consider this question sufficiently ? Is not all. New England grossly negligent on this point?' Does the public voice answer this question satisfactorily 2? Let us examine the matter fairly, You have a daughter of sixteen, ina family of half a dozen children. You have a small property, a comfortable home, a farm perhaps, are tolerably " well off," worth perhaps eight or ten thousand' dollars, You are: still a young man, at least not so very old, that you need 'necessarily die for some: years yet. Suppose this young lady. has progressed: as well as most girls, inher studies. She can read and write respectably, has cyphered as far as square root, can read French a little, though she cannot fee a sentence of it cor- rectly., She can play on the piano, so that a person of common discernment can distin- euish her Old Hundred from the Battle of Prague, but has developed no very decided taste for music. Still she is intelligent, ac- tive, and promising. Suppose she were, some pleasant morning, to propose the ques- tion directly to you, and ask a serious reply, "What do you intend I'shall do when my What answer would herself? The' probability, perhaps, is, that within ten or twelve years, she may marry ; for that is the fate of a majority of ladies. Suill, I think, you would not like to answer her reasonable question by such a sug ake because stich a probability is,. after all; vague uncertainty, and you would be quite unwilling a child of yours should make mar- riage a matter of necessity, or even of cal- culation. she has but one'chance in life, and 'that of 'such a nature, that she cannot seek to avail herself of it. "Can you say to' 'her deliberately, that you have a home which shall always be hers, also that you have means to maintain her, and that she need take no thought for the future ? (| This 1 is practically, what most fathers are. saying to their daughters, but frequently, with "Your e Is uncertain. Ts 'it safe to risk the wel- own |i prises may fail." fare of others entirely on your own continted | prosperity ? Besides, is there enough in the subordinate duties which usually fall to the share of a daughter in a family, to fill up the aspiring of human nature, to develop the faculties of the soul? Look at the course of life. of grown up daughters in the families about you. They are usually regarded by the mother as children in all matters per- taining to the household. 'They do. not take a share even of the responsibility of the fam- ily. If required to do a share of the work, | they do it asa disagreeable task, to which a life of ease is far preferable. Th the duties of wife and mother, there is enough to occupy the heart, and exercise the intellect of an educated woman ; ; but the mere drudgery of housework, the cooking and mending and 'scrubbing, especially in a cabordinate = posi- tion, have in them nothing peculiarly attrac- tive or ennobling to anybody. Usually, however, the daughter is not a working bee | Shei is better educated than+ her mother, perhaps, : and not half so good a _| housekeeper, and so she" naturally takes to & fashion and light literature, receives calls and | ie bus. od? otsad: ve ne "Jewellers, ip St. Catharines, Canada returns them, dusts the parlor for her share No, you could not say to her that | 'three feet square. of colors admirable for their beauty and | : represent. morning, or to take an active interest in the affairs of life. ' But the question recurs, what better can be dene? What shall be done that our daughters may have couraye to look the future calmly i in the face, and feel that their position is in some measure dependent Bpen their own exertions? 'A definite hope for the future, can tone make a rational being happy. Gave every child, then, male or female, an edwcation for some business, The. discipline of acquiring it will be, in» itself, salutary, and the: con- sciousness of possessing it will at all times give dignity: and independence to the char- acter. 'Whatever your. position in society, educate your daughter for some business in | life, educate her according to your means and condition, and:according to' her tastes and capacity. The "sphere of woman," which:has been always: reduced far below the hemispheye which all accord to her asa right, includes, certainly, the whole range of teachingy--in letters, in science, in music: and drawing, and whatever else is learned in our schools. '" Woman's Mission" surely is to teach, and the demand for female in- structors, of a high order, is by no means supplied. Academies and high schools are now. paying salaries of five hundred and a thousand dollars to col! lege graduates, as mere temporary teachers, and would, be glad to exckange them for well qualified females, who would enter upon their duties with some probability of permanency, Then there are the thousands of district schools, which are, fast changing from the hands of college boys, tothe " milder influences" of the gentle sex. If your daughter has a decided taste for music, or, any ornamental acquirement, assist her to appreciate the gift which Heaven has offered her. Make her excel in something which the world deems excellent, and her superior attainment will -always command respect, and the means of honorable subsistence. ; But there are many who cannot afford the means, thus to qualify their daughters for teachers, What shall they do? I answer, believe that labor :is honorable, and teach them a trade, or manual occupation of some kind. I have never chanced to live.in any place, where dressmakers and milliners did not keep the ladies of tie village in com- plete subjection, dealing out their favors of dress-fitting and bonnet-trimming as if they were pearls and diamonds. I venture: to say, sir, to you who are: reading this: paper, that you 'can build a forty-foot barn in less time, than your wife and daughters. can procure their: winter nats. Teach every young lady to cut and make her own dresses; and if you go further, and educate her to the trade, her support in life is secured. The printing offices, the couuting-rooms or shops, the manufacturing establishments of various kinds, are furnishing respectable employment for females, and) gradually the "era of freedom" for waoman's labor: and talent, is enlarging everywhere in New England. The ineans of education have nut yet been supplied to boys and girls alike. Even 'Boston, I believe, which 'affords to every boy, at the public cost, a four years' 'course In a Latin-or High school, gives to 'girls'as an equivalent, only one additional toes in'the grammar schools. New England has' her colleges--her Harvards, hor Yales, her Dar tmouths, for the boys, but nothing of the kind for girls, But 'these wants will soon be met--Horace Mann, whose' opinion is entitled i in this mat- ter to higher authority, perhaps, than any other individwal i in this country, has accept- ed' the Presidency of a college in Ohio, where the sexes es equal advantages of instruction. The want of the means to give to girls, at the public expense, the same thorough and a| systematic education as boys are receiving at our colleges, is the great defect in our New Enoland 'system of instruction. Not- withstanding this want of opportunity for education, a great share of our best writing of aliterary character, both in books and magazines, is' from the' pens of ladies, and he who doubts the capacity of the better- "half. of creation, for any literary labor. de- serves' to have 'his ears pulled by Fanny Fern, and to be classed among slave-catch- ers in Mrs. Stowe's next edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Education for all, according to the capacity of each, ts ae true law oF lowe and of progress." Eaeter, N. Ay , Sept., 1854. New England Farmer. | A mene of Art. There is on exhibition in Paris one of the most remarkable pieces of masterwork which the union of art and science has ever pro- duced. He 3 consists of a picture 'of about This picture is made up boldness, but there is no subject. The most experienced eye can detect nothing but dis- jointed and half-formed approximations to- wards a coherent design. The most able artist sees there only the finest colors, but no one can tell what they are intended to In the middle of the: picture, which is horizontally placed, is a mirror formed by a copper cylinder covered by a perfectly polished" coating of silver. This mirror is usualy veiled. © So far there is lit- tle' remarkable, and the greatest amateurs in painting would hardly consent to spend five: frances on such an apparently profitless study. But it is impossibie not to feel a glow of admiration when, on uncovering the | mirror, there is presented upon it, in the following account of Beau Branniek: "Prince. -ures,, depicted with a degree of boldness such. {as the master painters. alone knew how to impart to the subject which it was t their glory" to ee -- Boston a ewe 2 So- EEEe Hears Brummel, Our 'hems mien gives us "the * The' story of Brammel, had the people' been so. astute as to. seize its leading points, is. amus- ing as aromance. . 'The audacious insolence with which he trampled down the haughtiest of the high nobility of England was splendid _whedavee successful. a small confectionary shopain Bury . street, St. James's, London, and let, lodgings, The first Lord Liverpool, then almost 'obscure, lodged i in his house, took his son as a secre- tary, got him office under Lord North, and | allowed: him to feather 'his: nest so 'well, that, on his death, in 1794, there .was sixty- -five thousand pounds to divide among two sons and a daughter. George, the second was educated at Eton, and dresded so well; while: early in his teens, that the prefix of " Beal? was then put to his name. In Oxford he af- 'feeted to be exclusive, aad on his. father's death, in 1794, at. the age of sixteen, was presented with a cornetcy in the tenth 'Hus' sars, by the Princeof Wales, colonel of that reviment. Henceforth he was the Prince's, gonstanl companion. In two years he was a captain, and then--threw up his commission, and set up asa gentleman at large. 'This' was' before he was twenty: one, and the only, rea, son assigned was that the regiment was or- dered to Manchester, which he consider ed decidedly vulgar. | He started as an independent gentleman, on thirty thousand pounds--a small sum, for carrying on such a profession--ridiculously small for one whose wardrobe cost him eight thousand pounds a year, and who entertamed fashion, and even royalty at his table. No man dressed better ; simply, but richly,' with; elegance and taste. In this he eclipsed his much-puffed successor, D'Orsay, whose showy attire made him look like what he was--a tailor's walking advertisement. The Prince of Wales, whose wardrobe has cost, one hundred] thousand pousids, was Brunmel's greatest rival, until corpulence, which he hated, destroyed all his reason:.ble preten- tions to the throne of dandyism. Simplicity, of the most studied: kind, was Brummel's great System He mixed and visited in the ene 'circles, for he was young, handsome, satirical, and the fashion. He Pode well, and was a good shot, but affected to despise Melton: and. the pheasants, on, the plea that they were too troublesome. His great reform was in the neckcloth, which then was a sort of 'white muslin padding. He introduced' the mod- erate use of starch, which gave the necessary stifiness, and dispensed with the pad. He was curious in his tie: if the cravat did not glide into it at the first touch, he would throw it aside and 'try another. His valet, who was met with a heap of these rumpled neck- cldths on his. AN, solemnly said, " These are our. failures." The Prince of Wales quarrelled with 'ne after nearly twenty years" "intimacy. gue story runs that, in the Prince's drawing- room, he said, " Wales ring the bell,' " which was done ; one when the eo came in, the ence cas " Orger Mr. Brummel's car- riage." THe bea 'aeeied this, and attrib- uted the quarrel' to 'something het had ssaid about. Mrs. Fitzherbert's. stoutness.,..'his was about 1811. Brummel continued king of fashion, though he had quarrelled with the Bui he took to gaming. In 1814, he lost all he had, and ten thousand pounds, 'more; raised what money: he could, and re- treated to Calais ; attributed his bad luck tp his having parted with "a lucky sixpence," which, he maintained, Rothschild must have got posséssion' of ; was supported in his exile by his brother and sister ; ; was, so liberal, when his remittances, came, that, the beggars i called him "LeRoi de. Calais"; was made British Consul at Caen, on the mediation' of Wellington. with George [V.; was removed, without compensation, eben that consulate was abolished ; lost his senses; spent his last hours. in a bora for lunatic mendicants ; and died March 2, 1840. There, ina nutshell, is the true history of Brammel. -- New Vouk Suaday Times. THE BATTLE OF ALMA. | oe the Crimea Com sepdngenye of -° London Times, ) Pp Bull allt ict s of the ait siti iasBrsnahads Valour of the English-- Terrible Slaugh- ter-- Gallantry of the Erench--Shockiny Spectacle--Scene after the Combat-- The woe and the Dead. Nearly Ten. Thousand Slain! The brunt fell' on tHe Light Division, more especially on the 7th, 23rd and 33rd. regi- ments, and on the left brigade of. the Qnd division, so far as heavy loss is concerned; but the Guards and Highlanders crowned the labors of their fellow soldiers by a grand charge, which appalled the Russians reserves, already shaken by the fire of the guns of Captain Turner's battery, and - ploughed by them from the heights. "The Guards lost many men; many iefiers are wounded in the three battalions, and there is scarcely one of them who has not had escapes eee mi-: raculous. . _ CRITICAL POSITION OF THE TRENCH, It so happened that twice or thrice dur--- ing the action the French were so hardly ® : tery. Hin allresnects except one--the cavalry' arm} | was inoperative, His gran dfather kept: | never-failing British bayonet. short weeks, I.could then die. happy!" Peis mies a position fromewhich they rendered us ma terial aid in return, by: directing their: guns}. against the Russian reserves above the. bat- The battle of the Alma was perfect >The Russian. cavalry cove ered , itself with, disgrace... It never, gave | our horse.a chance of a charge, and the na- ture of the ground forbade our 'attempting a demonstration against a very. 'stpefior foree manoéuvering' in a' higher: position.) They Russians,indeed, barely covered. the, retreat, and-our squadrons, were too, weak, to (tty, 2 a} dash at them. Ours it was to face steadily the fire of tre- mendous batteries; to advance with a rush, steadily and.sure, and sresistless:as the swell of the ocean, against, a. wall, of. fire and. solid masxes of infantry ; to struggle on,at one time overwhelmed by crashing vo ileys' of grape | and musketry, at another 'disorganized by | % round shot. winning.the ground from death at: every pace; to,form tranquilly and readily when thrown into momentary disorder, and at last to hail victory to our 'éolors by' the'} It is said that | several Branch officers. have declared, since they viewed the, ground, that they 1 thought their men would oe he been'able to carry the position as we did. General Canrobert, in a moment of enthusiasm, exclaimed.to one of our Generals at the eloxe of the day," All. I.would ask of fortune now is that 1 might | command a corps of, English troops for. three On the other hand, the French had 'to. scale.the. sides,/of steep ravines covered with ..dense, masses. of infantry, supported by. clouds. of | skirmishers ; they, had to, clamber up. rocky | steeps defended by swarms of sharpshooters ; they had to gain a most difficult position with quickness and alacity. Delay would have proved fatal ; slowness 'of movements would have lost us the battle, for without the. French on the heights on-our right we must have been driven across the Alma, as "they would have been swept into the valley had we. failed in carrying our batteries, . 'Their energetic, moyement, their. rapid. flame- like spread from crag to crag, their ceaseless fu- sillade of the deadly rife, were all astonish- ing, and paralyzed the enemy completely. We, perhaps, could never have made such a rapid advance, or have got over so much oround in the same time. THE REGIMENTS THAT SUFFERED MOST: "The loss fell principally. on the 7th, '93rd, and 33rd Regiments, and on the 30th, 55th, and 95th Regiments, which formed the right | brigade of the 2d division. In fact, these regiments were. directly exposed to the tre-| mendous fire.of the principal earth-work bat- | tery, and came under range: almost 'the mo- ment the zdyance was sounded. The Rifles | got over the stream in such loose order that | they were wonderfully preserved, in. pies of the tremendous storm of, shot: which, rattled over them. Colonel , Lawrence. had. his horse killed under him." "Major 'Norcott's charger' recéived no less than five mortal wounds. » When «the ,.7th\ got out .of-the | stream, Col. Yeo found himself and his, men at once under range of the. battery , before they. could form, and weré "obliged to 'ad- vance pell Amalie 'against | the! gus. Poor | Monck and» Hare, 'soon: telke.) Phe colors were lost for a time, for:thrice did. the enemy's shot. strike. down the officers who carried them ; but Captain 'Pearson, Aide-de Camp to Sir'! Brown, passéd' thé last' 'poor fellow who bore them, and was enabled! to:restore them' to the gallant Colonels).. They are torn to pieces with shot. . The 33d, which Cross- ed the stream the first, sieve by "Colonel Blake, were niowed' down by round after round ofshotand'case. 'Lhe Major (Gougli) Captain Fitzgerald, Lieutenarig Wallis and Worthington, Ensigns Sirce and Greenwood. fell wounded in a ae monients ; Lieutenant Montagu' was killed on the = ag BRAVERY OF THE 23RD" REGIMENT. 'The 23rd, which was 'between 'the 7th and 33rd, 'pushed' on in advance, and weré re- dived by a féarfal'fire of riflesand musketry grape: and: cannister.», Encouraged, by, the ,example,of. their. Brigadier Codrington, and. headed by their gallant old General, Sir George Brown, the noble' brigade euaned up the Steep: every' 'moment', diminishing" 'their numbers and strswing the. ground, with the dead and dying... Its was, right in front of the battery that the 93d received their' severest losses, W hile the Ist' brighde 'of the Lig ht | Division was charging up' 'the hill on'one! iside of it, the leftor 2d brigade: ofthe :2d, (sir | De Li Eyan's) dnisianee was. charging the enemy close to them, and was expused to a similar fire, and met vat similar losses. 'The 30th, 55th, and 95th left' long" lines'of dead sbeltind: thier, and 'just as they, came to: the _battery.a sheet ofJead passed through them |" like a sword. 'It was necessary. to retire to reform ; and the | | Bussians, seeing their retreat, 'Nedped out 'of They were utterly | broken up. | the embrasures and br wigtnvotlis, andeactually | charged them down the hill with the bayonet. | But few exchanges of the steel were made. probably..not more than. half a dozen bay- } onet wounds were inflicted, and bitterly did the enemy repent,his temerity. The 'shat- tered regiments re-formed, and cheered on by their indefativable brigadier, Pennefather, } the shot of the French guns which enfiladed . whose courage never shone more, conspic- uously than on.this day, they drove the en-} emy like a heard of sheep up the hill to the | | shelter: of: their'earthworks, and then ' sent them 'flying 'beyond the bill, pursued: by re- } | morseless volleys of Minie balls, while Brig-. adier-General Codrington's » noble. brigade dealt 'the same, vengeance on their opponents. | The advance of the Guards'was as grand in andi Mooi /some of t regiment consists' of four BiB ations, and each divisions »never fired a-shote!) Lhe»yictory. 'was wonby the Guards, Highlanders, Light, 'and 'Second» divisions, 'opposads to, at least}: the Russian army was in/like proportion. with the bulk of theiriarmy. » The critical moment, | '| was at the advance: of the first idivision;, and,' that adv ance was a sight never: to be forgot-, _ ten. of the black bearskins were barely, wavering 'sAs they marched 'up the bill, the lines 'they were nearly as straight as 'on a. ort aah | and the daight: division § complained: thatthe} men of the Guards were loosing time in, dress- ing up as if on parade ground, -when they should shave' 'been supporting-the regiments exposed to' such, crushing ;fire... (While the, Guards were ruining upthey, fell.fast, and at: last the Duke, anxious at, the.loss..of, One.re=? viment, seemed: inclined. to, retire. his men, only for.a*moment to, reform, but. was di-) verted: from. doing. so. by..the adyice:.of. Sir, Colin Campbell. « 'Shey. continued their ad-. vance; therefore, swallowed up in.smoke,and: rent thr ough every instant by shot, and, after. The Grenadiers and Scotch Fusiliers con- and still more eagerly for the honor of cap- turing the. beautiful brass gun, &. Sor A DREADFUL. SIGHT---NEARLY. TEN THOU- SAND. DEAD, BODIES. "Tt was a terrible and sickening sight 'to' 30 over the battle field. 'Till 'déprived' of my horse by a chance: shot, L rode,about to as- certain, as farvas -possibleys the. loss. of our Ponda and in doing' so I was often brought | to a standstill by" the" 'difficulty 'of wetting | through the piles of wounded Russians, min- led too often. with, our own poor "soldiers. The hills of Greenwich Park in fair time are not more densely coyered.with, human, beings than were the heights of the. Alma with dead and dying. On these bloody 'mounds' fell 2,196 English officers and men, and upwards of 3,000 Russians, while thei western ex- tremity was covered with the bodies of 1 4.00 gallant F repiebnet; an oft more than 3,000 lof their foesi¥? 3 eater ecuen asmates 4 HOW LONG THE FIGHT i a ; When Lord Raglan and his»staff: and the Duke of Cambridge rode round to'the top of the hill, the troops ¢ cheered' them 'with 'a | thrilling eflect--a shout, of. victory--which | 'never can be.forgotten.., The enemy, who were flying in the: distance, . might almost 'have heard its echoes as'it 'rolled 'among the hills. Our men had mdeed done their work well, for the action which commenced atl 25 'on our part, was over about 4 p.m, | In fact, the actual close continuous. fig ghting did not last two hours. * idoteedt mick 3 THE RUSSIANS. The Russian regiments engaged 'against us, judging from the numbers on. the caps of, the, diag and. wo flgeene eel ussian 'Imperial Guard. battalion may be said-to be 650 strong. | Thes soldiers were mostly, stout strong. men, Several of the regiments, 32d. and, 17th for example, wore a black leath ler helmet, hand- | somely mounted with 'brass, and having @ | brass cone on thé top; 'witha hole for the | reception ofa tuft, feather, or plume; 'others | wore. simply a. white, linen, foraging. cap. nd™ 'bearing: the nomber of the regiment.' 'These 'coats "fitted loosely, were "gathered" in' at 'the back by: a small strap " 'andl button, descending to the ankles, and' seemed stout" 'conifortable garments, though' the cloth was Coarse in textures the trousers of course blue stuff, were thrust 'in- Side a pait of Wellington' boots, open at the top, to, admit of | their being" 'comfortably tucked downs. the boots were' el! teil 'made, and: serviceable. Sait. 3A pata "an 'THEIR POWERS: OF ENDURANCE. » The surgeons remarked that their tenacity of lifeowasvery:remarkable.;; Many-of them | lived with wounds ealéulated to, destroy two or three ordinary mens: I saw one of the | 32d regiment on the:tield just after the fight. He was: shot right through jthe head; and 'the brain protruded in large masses.at. the | 'back of:the head:and from -the front.' of: the skull. I saw with my own: eyes,the,wound- -ed man. raise his hand, wipe the horid masses' -from his brow, and proceed to struggle down the hill towards the water! Many | of the "Russians were shot in' three or four places; few, of them had only one wound. They seemed: to, have a- general idea that. they wotild' be tmurdered'; possibly, they. have. been told no quarter would be given, and. Sequence. " SICKENING INCIDENTS. | Bish es our men were passing by, two or three cs the wounded . 'Bassians" were 'fring on our | men. 'There is a story, indeed, that one offi- cer was severely injured by a man to whom - he was in the very act. of. administering : suc- cor:as he lay in agony on the field; be this as it may, there' was at one tire a near chance of a massacre taking place, but the -men, were . soon. contr olled, and confined themselves to the pillage that. always. takes place on a battle field. One villain with a sent coat on-his, back, I regret, to say, T saw go up toa wounded Russian who was rolling | on the earth in the rear of the 7th Regiment, and, before. we could say a word, discharged his she right through, thie wreiched creature' $ brains..,Colonel, Yeo rode at him to 1 t hi 1 down, but the fellow excused hinself by de- 20,000 Russiatis,): and, the, number of the}, . French' who 'disposéd, of the other. 20, 000 of several hits Seas erent stool ége in-con-")." THE FRENCH. DESPATCHES.( 'of them, were shot or stabbed by men lying * on the ground, and the cry was raised that i lof wives, mistresses, or mothers' o "sisters, 3 side 'their 'Coats. s wore the ye j:tlé' money they possessed in' purses' aa esd a 'thing "could: be! done to 'help them. 'gr 'oahs, | the yells; the 'cries of despiir: and very expression of aes at an nein F ELSE o (HTH PRISONERS!) )1, 0 They were all dressed i in long. rab coats with dangéred their lives by acts of ferocious folly: ) Many of the Russians had'small crosses and') ychains fastened vound'their necks!' Several: -were found with 'Korans' in' their: knapsacks ;--most © probably. recruits from the! Iwasan Tartars.' Many"of the officersrhad portraits'? Phe privates 'bélow' their 'left:knee, and 'the men, in:their » eager search after the money, often: caused | the wounded' 'painful apprehensions that they" were about to destroy them. Last nighsall, 'those poor wretches lay, iw their agony ;:nO=" Ther suffering, were a' mournful commentary on» the'exultation of the vietors and on the joy: bee reigned along the bivouac-firesiof our' Fmeé 7 casi bb picked'up ere darkness. setin cweré } conveyed on'stretchers to the-hospital tents. ) Many of the others were 'provided with blan=v | kets:and eovered as they lay in their blood... |The bandsmen:'of 'the regiments worked: in. 'the tnost cheerfl and indefatigable manner,' : a momentary.. check,.rushed_ into, the, battery. |,hour after hour, ipa out anid ated ath | off our Spite sexe sid' alow. hs aedendemeg tended eagerl y for 'the honér of béing | first ia, ' N® many: of our wounded as couldybe: "SCENE APTER tan BAT' Bie after night had closed, fa ti might be seen moving over the frighi marking the spots. where friendshi cted the steps of. some officer in search of i wounded cosnrade, or where the Pillag ty stalked about. on his horrid errand, "the titudes of some, of the dead were awful, ape : on BBP face and fixed. sere by: dea ey or. _anatomists 'yaugt settle t Another was, lying on. his. back yet expression, and, his arms 'raised inas attitude, the. Minie musket, still eraspe 1 his. hands _ undischarged, Another Jay te a perfect arch, his head resting: on one art back raised high above ity "Many me men were trying. to dail do n Some of the dead Jay with' a calm, placid smile on the face, as nna h then were in some delicious dream, pis | BEFORE..AND, AFTER DEATH... Masks Of he Russians one thing was retiarkabley: The prisoners' are 'generally 'coarse, sullen, and unintelligent-iooking) mea. Death' had)' ennobled those who fell, for the expression. of their faces: was altogether different. The. wounded might have envied those: who seemed to'have passed-so'peacefully.: 901) oe nag The soldiers are all shaven cleanly on ther - chin' and cheek'; only the moustache-is left, and the hair is cropped as'close: to: the head 'as possible. 'The latter is a very convenient: 'mode' of- wearing the hair in these paris of the world.; Lhe: oliicers (those of superior rau excepted) are barely distinguishable rom the 'men, so far as uniform is concerned, but the generals wore sashes and geld epaulettes. S. 'The subalterns wore mer ly. a lace s strap instead of the cloth | eof the p 'Most of them spoke French ; treaties. of the wounded to with us, as the. officers moved » 'U "were touching i in the extreme, rs "phe! Woot 'fellows had a'notion' that; bis men would: murder them if the ¢ ye of the offi cer was removed from thei. An old Gen- eral who sat smiling and" bowitie™ 'ona banle with his' 'Teg 'broken' by a round' shot, séettied principally "éoncemed for the'loss of his snuff box. Ehis,' 1 .believe has. si re- stored:torhim. 'Lhe men say joa be at handled, and, had no General to direct, them. The officers displayed great, gallantry. an | the men fought witha dogged courage, sat acteristic: of the. Russian. infantry, baht ley | were utterly deficient in eap,and dash, .. Hae | oss' is 2/199 'killed .and wounded ; of the French, hewracad 1,300 and 1 Ae eq he enemy. have: lost. upwards. of 6,000,, Had we had-but.a_ little. brig ade of cavalry more, we might have converted the retreat. to an utter rout, and taken. some,5,000, prisoners? guns.and standards, as. trophies of our victor y- 'he troops' bivouacked on the, hast not far from the scene of their triumphs. e Rifles (2d-battalion) »were sent in i as. 4 ual. 'Lhe cavalry videttes- scoured the country and fell. back' at. nightfall on "their , a bodies in advance of the Riles. The ne 'of Lord Raglan's head-quarters were pitched ona flat. close to the bridge, and.to the, left of the: hill on which, were yes the Bala i led ang Midi Boone = a3 ray WE Marsnat Sr, "Aryavp's _ Last Orric AL 'Despatcu ANNOUNCING 'THE ViCTOR? OF THE ALMA. -- THE MARSHAL DRESS. TO THE Army. . . 'The' Moniteur contains the delle ai '¢ial despatch, uddressed by Marechal de St. 'Arnaud to the Emperor--the last, unfor--- 'tunately, whieh the Mipsis was destined 'to writet-- FigetpD OF set roe Sept. 94. €:ne,--The cannon of your' "Majesty | has adhe we have gained a 'complete victor It is a. gloorious oy 'Sire, to add to the military annals of France, and ie ty will have one name 'more to add to the vi¢tor ies which adorn the flags of the _-- 'ara we ee oy "the Russi ans hid piano tdeaeribted all their forces, and collected "all i their ae BEE EL a any im fly means, 'in order touppose the aaa. me