HEIGHTS ABOVE SEBASTOPOL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 242, 24 February 1855, Page 6

HEIGHTS ABOVE SEBASTOPOL.

Oct. 22. This is tlie ■sixth ■ diiy of the bombardment and the place sliil holds out, though the ISussiiin fire is inucli slackened since ihe 19ih. The English have lill the day before yesterday home the whole brunt of ihe enemy's heavy lire, wiili ! I am happy to say, but comparatively lit lie loss df life to us. The first day we opened lire two French magazines blew up, caused them irreat loss of life, and 15 guns, wliich threw them hack as they had to form new batteries: but now I will do them justice to say, they are makinuf up for lost time, by throwing a heavy file into the town, which I think, (as (b most most others) we shall in a few days enter in triumph, though Sevastopol is by nature as strong a position as any in the world. You will be «rhul to hear that all the troops are healthy, the , 20lh, both oflieers and men, never more so, as . for myself, I never had liner health. I turned out with the 10th, 57ili, and (>Bth regiments, and a company of Hiiles, as skirmishers, and two £iius, to a place about seven miles oft', where we arrived before daylight, to encounter eight battalions ol' Ilussian infantry, and a

body of Cossacks, which threatened an attack upon the little town of B.ilakhmi, and t|, e f ew troops we had left there lo defend it; | m t t | )(} Cossack videltes rode ofl", and gave the enemy's force the alarm of our approach ; «»d ,»s ili CSe Cossacks are sad cowards against regular trooiis I doubt not that they gieatly >'>ngni{itd,- 0(1 ' r stieniith, for. the enemy sheered off airnl^r n, e mountains; not relishing the risk of another en. gagemeiit in the open country. 1 really feel for the poor creatures in Sebastopol, for there is now lo'nly one »nte open to, them, and ii,., t «ate directly faces the lire of the French batteries.