Miscellaneous.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 352, 15 March 1856, Page 5

Miscellaneous.

The following incident is rehnpd hv"lhc Gazette of Trieste as having taken v\-,n:v during the battle of the Tcheinaya. '-While the struggle was at its hottest, a large dog belonging lo Colonel iVletlinaiiii, of the Scventytliinl Regiment of the line, broke his chain, and rushed into the midst of the cuinh.itanis. Having saved the lives t>t a sergeant and a M'ltlior. and made thiee Ilns>ians prisoners, he leceived a seven; bullet wound in the leg; notwithstanding which he continued in the field, and grappling with an officer iimong the enemy, brought him to the ground, aisd secured his capture. After the battle, (he lesr of the animal was carefully dressed by an auny sur}reon, and it is said th;it he will receive a medal, hi token of the fidelity and prowess which he displayed." Fishermen declare that they have seen .sharks on die coast of Auhil Head and ('hire Island. Last week a boat proceeding from ■'chil towards Newport laden with turl, •Mid having a crew of two men and one woman, was suddenly capvzed, and the woman was drowned, while the men hdd on by the boat. The peasantry declare that the boat was upset by one of those voracious- monsters, and that the woman was carried off,— a fact wi:ich her lather also positively adinns.

A horrible story comes fiom Florence. Eleven thousand persons have died there of cholera ; the burials are very hasty ; it is said lhat one mnn who had been bnrifd alive, forced his wav through the thin covering of earth, and rea'di^d his friends alive after living on roots in a forest, snrounding the cemetery lor three days. He reported that he had felt other supposed corpses move; they were subsequently disintened ; life had men departed, but there were terrible evidences that they had iieeu interred while living.

Attack ox the Redan.—We «nw our fellows advance beautiful!v up to the Ited.m, and almost thought we would have noshing to i\y>. When we g<<t the order to advance, we doubled up through the trenches nnii) we got to tlie ;iil\;nieed one right opposite tlie Redan. Here we leaped the parapet, and had a clear run u{ about 200 yards to where (lie fellow* were climbing up the side of the; R"dan. If I were to iive for a thousand years T should never forget that run with fixed bayonets. We wers decimated tiv "Tape and canister before we were half-wav .icross. I dont know how I escaped. * * * Here's where the grand mistake was made— the first renimeut that trot up, instead ot jumping over liie gabions, and running in through the embrasures, stopped outside; so that when we got up ihe ladders we were ali mixed up together, no one to lead us. When I looked .'ii'Mtud there were only two or three of my own corps near me. Tlie niesi were laliin^ round me like leaves in autumn ; and though th«-y would not advance, they would not retire ; so that the carnage was awful. One officer of she llifl«j> mailed up the p.irapel in through aii e>!i-Hi-asure. About six of us followed him. We had sc.ircelv advanced to the mouth of it uiun ihe Rifle ollieer was slmt ; lie tried to get hack, hut fell de.id down the parapet. Three more of them were knocked down ; I caimot s-.y whether they were killed or not. 1 u«>t ■• hex and fell stunned in the embrasure, hut was pulled up by twt> of our own tjrenadiri-s. 1 cuuc til shortly, irot a rifie lyinir be>id«; me, ami oommeneed firmsi1 away. * * * A panic seized the men : (he word was <>ivm to mire, and many, very many, were kiii.'d by jumping down into tlie diich on the lop ol itn'ir own bayonets. It may look like boa>tii)-r, but 1 ;uu sun- you will ghe me eivdii for not :e!'iji^ \mi it lie in » cvm1 like this. Aft^r thorns!: becann1 Lreueral, one ollieer of the Scveuiv-scveiuii and I stood almost alone on the '.T'lind which we hold so lousr :>"d naiil lor so dt-arlv. He was oryiiijr out,' S'aaine, slmuie!* :uul 1 l>;td my foraiic o.ip waving on (ho lop of jny bayonet ■ but \v > iniiilit as wi>ll have nifil to stop the i-i'l-s of Niasfiira. Hi' tu«i\e<i vouml and a^ked me mv name. 1 toid him. ."illo said he would ivco'mmcnd me to my onmnel. Poor fVll.nv, he had scarcely spoken when a shower oi i ;ilebui!et> llevv p;ist us, and he lell into the diu-h. '' j'is neariiiy time to hook it!' cried 1 so myself; and once atfain 1 crossed that field nnhun. Ni> matter what the papers say, the men <iid tlu-ir duty. I'hev ejinnot do impo^sibiiitif^, sending1 huii'lieds, iiiste.id of'hons:in 11-, in auaek a vlno*^ like the liod.m!"— From a Private of (he SSch.