SEBASTOPOL.

Evening Post, Issue 98, 2 June 1865, Page 3

SEBASTOPOL.

" During the whole of the siege of Sebaatopol," sayß the Nicholaief Messenger, " the dead were inter/red upon the spot where \ Vf>&y Se)i. T>?e result was a number of small cemeteries and separate tombs, which surrounded S -bastopl. Upon leaving the Crimea the allies entrusted to us the onerous and difficult task of guarding the inviolaI MSily of »be«e tombs. The Russian amhorities did what they could, but it was utterly impossible to place a sentinel over each tomb. By degrees the former owners returned to their lands with their cattle. Some of the cemetery walls were defaced, monuments broken, crosses ovei thrown. Complaints, correspondence, negotiations between the governments interested followed. The Eng_ lish proposed to send to the Crimea an entire company of soldiers to watch the tombs— it would have amounted to the foundation of an English colony in the Crimea. Naturally enough our government could not accept such a proposal. The French acted much better ; <ihey sent an engineer to Sebastopol with orders to form one large cemetery, to which the mortal remains of their fellow-country-men who died during the siege were after wards to be transferred. Mr. Braker, a landowner in the neighbourhood, whose property is situated at about three miles from Sebastopol, gave a pieco of ground for this purpose, which has been surrounded by a wall. In this enclosure 18 large tombs are being built, one of which is the middle. All these tombs are built upon arches, forminjr catacombs in which the bones of the soldiers will be placed, arranged by regiments. Above each regiment the officers of those regiments, j up to the rank of co onete inclusive, will be ] placed in separate compartments. The generals, to the number of 10, will be placed in tlie tomb in the middle of the cemetery. All these tombs and the catacombs will be always open, and inscriptions cut in tablets of marble will designate by name each officer's pluce. A house has been built for the keeper, a Frenchman, ami for the attendants. The c instruct, on of this cemetery is nearly finished. There is nothing more to do than to transfer the bones from the old tombs, and this is now being done. It is said that the English are going to follow the example ot the French. If such is tiie case, we shall be reliuved of a heavy duty, and the whole of that vast field of death which surrounds Sebastopol will he covered, as of cold, with vinewards and gardens."