POSTSCRIPT.

SATURDAY MORNING.

Since the foregoing pages were prepared for the press, important de- spatches and letters have been received from the Crimea. The official despatches appear this morning as a Supplement to the Extraordinary Gazette of Thursday. One from Lord Raglan, dated the 3d November, leads up to the great conflict of the 5th; others supply omissions in the connected series of official reports. These despatches, with additional details from various sources, deepen our sense of the trial which the troops have to endure, of the loss incurred, and of the noble skill and fortitude with which they sustain their active duties uninterruptedly.

[From the Supplement to Thursday's Gazette Extraordinary.]

Lord Raglan to the Duke of Newcastle.

"Before Sebastopol, Nov. 3, 1854. " My Lord Duke—Since I wrote to your Grace on the 28th ultimo, the enemy have considerably increased their force in the valley of the Tschernaya, both in artillery, cavalry, and infantry, and have extended to their left, not only occupying the village of Kamera, but the heights beyond it, and pushing forward pickets and even guns towards our extreme right ; and these yesterday fired a few shots, apparently to try the range, which fell somewhat short.

"These movements have induced me to place as strong a force as I can dispose of on the precipitous ridge in that direction, in order to prevent any fattempt to get round to Balaklava by the sea; and the whole line is strength- ened by a breastwork, which has been thrown op by the Highland Brigade, the Royal Marines, and the Turkish troops, thus circumscribing that part of the position ; whilst immediately in front of the gorge leading into the town a strong redoubt is in course of being completed, which is to be garrisoned by the 93d Regiment, and armed with several guns; and on high ground behind, and to the left, is a battery manned by seamen, which terminates the position to be defended by the troops under the command of Major-Ge- neral Sir Colin Campbell.

" Further to the left, and in a more elevated position, is the brigade of the first French division, commanded by General Vinois, ready to move to the assistance of any of the British force that may be assailed, and maintain- ing the connexion between the troops in the valley and those on the ridge on which the main armies are posted. " The harbour of Balaklava is under the charge of Captain Daeres of the Sanspareil; and Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons is in the roadstead, out- side, and is in daily communication with me. " Thua, every possible step has been taken to secure this important point : but I will not conceal from your Grace, that I should be more satisfied if I could have occupied the position in considerably greater strength. "With reference to the operations of the combined armies engaged in the attack on Sebastopol, I have the honour to state, that there is no material diminution in the enemy's fire • and yesterday morning, two hours before daylight, the cannonade from all parts of the South front was heavy in the extreme, both on the French and British lines; and it occasioned, I deeply regret to say, some loss, but less than might have been expected under the circumstances.

"In the meanwhile, the French, who have before them the town and real body of the place, have taken advantage of the more favourable ground, and are carrying on approaches systematically on the most salient and com- manding part of the enemy's lines; and they have constructed and opened batteries, the precision of the fire from which has moat materially damaged the Russian works, although as yet they have not succeeded in silencing their guns. "The weather is still fine, but it has become extremely cold, and there was a severe frost last night.

"I beg to submit to your Grace the nominal returns of casualties amongst the non-commissioned officers and rank and file from the 22d October to the 1st November, both days inclusive, and a list of ollicera killed and wounded between the 27th October and 1st November. Captain Maude, of the Horse Artillery, an excellent officer is, I am assured, doing well. I likewise en- close the naval return of casualties.

" I have, &o. RaciLear. "To his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c."

Return of Castsalties from the 27th October to the lot November.

Artillery -1 officer, Captain G. A. Maude, 1 sergeant, 5 rank and file, wounded. Sappers and Miners-1 rank and file wounded. Coldstream Guards-1 rank and file wounded. 7th Regiment-1 rank and file wounded. 19th Regiment-1 rank and file wounded. 20th Regiment-1 drummer, 4 rankand file wounded. 21st Regiment —2 rank and file killed. 49th Regiment-1 officer, Major Powell, killed. 57th Regiment-2 rank and file wounded. 63d Regiment-1 rank and file killed ; 1 rank and file wounded. 77th Regiment-1 rank and file, wounded. 811th Regiment —1 rank and file killed; 1 sergeant, 5 rank and file, wounded. let Battalion Rifie Brigade-1 rank and file killed ; 1 rank and file wounded. Total-1 officer, 5 rank and file, killed ; 1 officer, 2 sergeants, 1 drummer, 25 rank and file, wounded.

Names of Officers killed and wounded from the 27th October to the 1st November. Royal Artillery—Captain G. A. Maude, wounded dangerously (omitted in the return from 22d to 26th). 49th Regiment Major C T. Powell, killed.

Return of Casualties in the Naval Brigade from the 29th October to the 1st November. Seamen—Wounded, 5.

Two other despatches, dated the 31st October, report on the state of the wounded, make corrections in previous despatches, and enclose a ree report from the Earl of Lucan, Lord Raglan states that "the wounded were making satisfactory progress, although there is too much reason to apprehend that, among such a.number of severe and dangerous injuries, a certain proportion of casualties must occur." It should have been stated, that when at the battle of the Alma Lieutenant-Colonel Webber Smith was wounded and obliged to retire, Major Champion took the com- mand of the Ninety-fifth, and "gained great credit by the way he con- ducted the command." Another correction is, that Major Powell, and not Major Dalton, of the Forty-ninth, as stated in Lord Raglan's de- spatch of the 28th, had been killed in the trenches.

The Earl of Lucan reports the following list of officers, engaged on the 25th, who are " entitled to the notice of the Commander of the Forces."

" Major-General the Earl of Cardigan, commanding Light Cavalry Bri- gade; Brigadier-General Scarlett, commanding Heavy. Brigade ; Colonel Lord George Paget, commanding 4th Light Dragoons ; Lieutenant-Colonel Shewell, commanding 8th Hussars ; Lieutenant-Colonel Hodge, command- ing 4th Dragoon Guards; Lieutenant-Colonel Griffiths, commanding 2d Scots Greys; Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke, commanding 1st Royal Dragoons; Lieutenant-Colonel White, commanding 6th Inniskilling Dragoons ; Lieute- nant-Colonel Douglas, commanding 11th Hussars ; Captain Jenyns, eons- mending 13th Light Dragoons • Captain Morris, commanding 17th Lan- ears ; Captain Burton, commanding 6th Dragoon Guards ; Captain Maude, Royal Horse Artillery ; Colonel Lord William Paulet, Assistant Adju- tant-General, Cavalry Division ; Lieutenant-Colonel Mayow, Brigade Major, Light Cavalry. Brigade; Major M'Mahon, Assistant Quartermaster-General, Cavalry Division ; Captain Conolly, Brigade Major, Heavy Brigade ; Cap- tain B. Walker, 7th Dragoon Guards, my first Aide-de-camp; Captain Fel- lowes, 12th Lancers, Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster-Genera4 Cavalry Division."

The Ifoniteur of yesterday published a despatch from General Canrobert, dated November 2. The General states that the French attack had been carried to within 140 metres of the Flagstaff battery ; that the fire of a new battery, opened on the 2d, " dominated that of the plaee " ; that the Russians had repaired the damage done in the night - and that on the 2d they assailed their foes with "the most violent artillery fire perhaps ever heard, happily badly directed," and causing " a very insignificant loss and no material damage." The enemy had thrown up new defences near the barracks ; "a more obstinate de- fence cannot be imagined" But in despite of "obstacles of every de- scription " the French had made real progress in their works. " The engineers," he adds, " have almost achieved the impossible, as in four- teen days we have reached the third parallel, sapping our way through solid rock, where three or four days are required to do the work of one night on ordinary ground. `The weather is cold, but fine. The health of the army is satisfactory, although the siege operations have exceedingly fatigued the troops em- ployed."

We regret to say that intelligence has been rooeived at the War Department of the deaths, in the action of the 5th November, of the following distinguished officers—Lieutenant-General Sir George Cathcart, K-C.B., Brigadier-General Strangways, and Brigadier-General Goldie. The sad intelligence reached his Grace the Duke of Newcastle by tele- graph in cipher yesterday, but was withheld from the public until today, in order to afford his Grace the necessary time for communicating the painful intelligence to the widows and relatives of the deceased.—Globe, Nov. 17.

General Cathcart was the fourth son of the first Earl Cathcart. He en- tered the Life Guards in 1810; served in Germany in the campaign of 1814, as Aide-de-camp to Lord Cathcart in Belgium, and in 1815 as Aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington. In 1852 he was Governor-General of the Cape of Good Hope ; where he was specially charged with bringing the Caffre war to a conclusion.

Brigadier-General Strangways commanded with distinction a detachment of Colonel Bogue's Rocket Brigade in Northern Germany ; and on the death of Colonel Bogue at Leipaie, took the command during the remainder of the battle. He also served at Waterloo; where he was wounded.

Brigadier-General Goldie entered the Army in 1825, and served up to the rank of Colonel in 1851.

From unofficial sources we learn that Major Nasmytb, one of the British defenders of Silistria, was ill and unable to discharge his duties as Aide-de-camp to Sir John Burgoyne ; that Sir De Lacy Evans was ill on board the Simeon, suffering from the fall of his horse, and from diarrhoea ; and that Lieutenant Houghton, of the Eleventh Hussars, reported killed, is only slightly wounded. There is a rumour that the cause of our disaster [on the 25th October] is being closely investigated by the authorities, and that it does not appear poor Captain Nolan was so much to blame as was at first supposed by those who did not know his strict character as an officer and a soldier.— Times Correspondent.