POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
The details of the late losses of the Allies before Sebastopol are neces- sarily imperfect, and many current reports show the general anxiety. The Times says-
" The troops withdrew into our own lines, effecting their retreat in order, and not being harassed by the enemy ; but in the fearful struggle which took place upon and within the works, where a partial success was at one time obtained, both French and English were mowed down by the means of defence accumulated by the enemy in the rear of the batteries. We leirik„ with the deepest pain, that the losses of the Allied forces are believed to be greater than in any former action of the war. Sir John Campbell, Colonel Yea, of the Seventh, Colonel Shadforth, of the Fifty-seventh, and many other officers of distinguished gallantry, fell in our ranks, while the French have lost two general officers and a vast number of men in all branches of the service."
The Standard, in a second edition last night, and the Daily Nowa this morning, venture to be more particular, and not only estimate the British loss at from 4000 to 5000 men and from 40 to 60 officers, but to describe the causes of the repulse.
" We believe," says the Daily Hews," that when the details are published, it will be found that the check experienced by the Allies commenced with the springing of a mine by the Russians at a moment when the assailing columns were on the point of establishing themselves within the Russian lines. A considerable number of Russian troops lost their lives with the French and English by this explosion. In the recoil which followed, our allies, pressed by force of numbers, receded to the Mamelon and beyond it, and the Mamelon batteries were for a time in the power of the enemy. It was at this peried that the English suffered most, being exposed in the posi- tion taken on the 7th to the flank fire of the guns on the Mamelon. The enemy was not suffered to remain in this regained work, but was attacked on the same night by the French, and driven back to the enceinte, our gallant Allies remaining masters of the Mamelon."
[This looks like a mingling of the details of the action of the 7th June with those of the 18th.]
The Standard says, that after the British had carried the outworks the Redan they came upon a deep trench which they had no means passing, and were thus exposed to a murderous fire. " The repulse of the French from the Malakoff tower, it appears, was r' plete for some time before our gallant troops quitted the outworks 035 were Redan, and our, casualties we much augmented by the guns of the Mu° i„ u enfilading the outworks of the Redan ; added to which, the men-of-• n the harbour were laid broadside on, and, by their fire on the retiring Jr) caused fearful havoc, their being no cover or shelter whatever fr Lne storm of projectiles."
[Here again there is some reason to believe that these deta'are a fresh compound derived from the accounts of the fight of the 7th or We, are told that some of the English entered the Redan on that nta and spiked fifteen guns, and that it was before the Malakoff that thelas„....a- ble ditch was encountered by the French. In this state of ie4111LY all alleged details should be received with caution.]
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