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 period that the English suffered most, being exposed
in the position 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.

The following is the list of officers killed on the 18th
of June; Major-General Sir John Campbell; Colonel
Yea, 7th Regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel Shadforth,
57th Regiment; Lieutenant Meurant, 18th Regiment;
Lieutenant Davies, 38th Regiment; Lieutenant Ashwin,
57th Regiment; Lieutenant Bellow, 33rd Regiment;
Captain Shiffner, 54th Regiment; Captain Robinson,
34th Regiment; Lieutenant Hurt, 34th Regiment;
Lieutenant Alt, 34th Regiment; Captain Forman, Rifle
Brigade; Captain Jesse, Royal Engineers; Lieutenant
Graves, Royal Engineers; Lieutenant Murray, Royal
Engineers; Captain Fenwick, 44th Regiment; Captain
the Hon. C. Agar, 44th Regiment; Captain Caulfield,
44th Regiment; Lieutenant and Adjutant Hobson, 7th
Regiment.

Wounded:—Second Division. Lieut.-Col. J. Goodwin
(41st Foot), slightly. Third Division. Staff-Commanding
2nd Brigade—Major-Gen. William Eyre, C.B.,
severely.  4th Foot—Col. Cobbe, severely.  9th Foot—
Capt. F. Smith, dangerously, since dead; Lieut. and
Adjt. M'Queen, severely; and Lieut. A. G. Douglas,
slightly.  18th Foot—Major J. Clark Kennedy, slightly;
Captains John Cormick and M. J. Heyman—both
dangerously; and A. Armstrong and J. G. Wilkinson
—both slightly; and Lieuts. W. Kemp and Fairfax
Fearnley—both severely; and W. O. Bryen Taylor and
Charles Hotham—both slightly.  28th Foot—Capts. H.
R. C. Godley and J. D. Malcom—both severely; and
J. G. R. Aplin, slightly; and Lieut. F. Brodigan,
severely.  38th Foot—Lieut.-Col. J. J. Lowth; Capts.
Hon. C. Addington and Ludford Daniel; and Lieuts.
J. B. Frensh and H. B. Feilden—all severely.  44th
Foot—Col. Hon. A. Spencer, slightly; Capt. W. H.
Mansfield, dangerously; Lieuts. J. Logan and T. O.
Howurth, severely. Fourth Division. Staff-Capt. A.
Snodgrass (38th Foot), severely; Lieut. Image (21st
Foot), slightly.  7th Foot—Lieut. Hon. E. Fitzclarence,
dangerously; Major Pack, and Lieuts. Jones and C.
Malan—all severely; Lieuts. Lord R. Browne, G. H.
Waller, and W. L. G. Wright—all slightly: and Capt.
F. Appleyard, slight contusion.  20th Foot—Lieut.-Col.
Evelegh, Lieut. J. S. O'Neil, and Ensign F. G. Holmes,
all slightly.  23rd Foot—Lieut.-Col. D. Lysons, severely.
33rd Foot—Capt. Quayle, dangerously; Lieut.-Col. J.
D. Johnstone and Capt. Thomas Wickham, both
severely; and Lieut.-Col. G. V. Mundy and Lieut. J.
T. Rogers—both slightly.  34th Foot—Capt. J. Jordan,
Lieuts. Harman and R. B. Clayton—all severely; and
Capt. J. Gwilt and Lieut. F. Peel—both slightly.  57th
Foot—Brevet-Major Earle, Capts. Norman, Lea, and
St. Clair, and Lieuts. Venables and A. F. A. Slade—all
severely.  88th Foot—Capt. G. R. Browne, dangerously.
1st. Battalion, Rifle Brigade—Lieut. C. A. P. Boileau,
severely.  2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade—Lieuts. J. S.
Knox, dangerously; F. Fremantle, severely. Royal
Artillery—Second-Capt. W. J. Williams, slightly.
Royal Engineers—Lieut.-Col. R. Tylden, severely;
Major-General Harry Jones, and Brevet-Major and
Brigade-Major E. F. Bouchier—both slightly. Missing.
7th Foot—Lieut. N. D. Robinson.  33rd Foot—Lieut.
Heyland.

The loss of non-commissioned officers and men is
stated to be; killed, 144; wounded, 1058;
missing, 150.

The latest intelligence is contained in the two following
telegraphic despatches, received by the Minister of
War from General Pelissier;—"June 19.—The besieged,
notwithstanding our failure of yesterday, which they
will doubtless exaggerate considerably, grew alarmed
last night, and for a long time they kept up a fire from
all their guns at empty space. To-day, at 4 o'clock,
there was an armistice for burying the dead.

"June 20.—The besieged, closely pressed on the side of
the Central Ravine, are setting fire to the little
faubourg at the extremity of the southern port. We
are erecting batteries with guns of heavy calibre on the
works captured on the 7th of June, which threaten
more directly the great port."

The accounts from the Crimea in last month's "Narrative"
came down to the landing of the expedition of the
allied forces at Kertch without opposition. The details
of this event, and of the subsequent important successes of
the expedition, are given in despatches from the English
and French commanders of the land and sea forces;
Sir Edmund Lyons, Admiral Bruat, Sir George Brown,
and General Autemarre. From these we learn, that
the land force consisted of fifteen thousand men and five
batteries of artillery; the naval force, of thirty-three
English and nearly as many French ships of war, with
a proportionate quantity of transports. The British
force was composed of the Highland Brigade and fifty
men of the 8th Hussars; the rest were French and
Turks. They landed on the 24th May, at Kamiesch
Bournu, a few miles south of Kertch, and experienced
no resistance. One after another the Russians blew up
their forts; and Admiral Bruat estimates the quantity of
powder burnt in the different explosions at 100,000
kilogrammes. The explosion of nearly a third of that
amount at Yenikale was felt, he says, ten miles out at sea.

Admiral Lyons relates an incident that called forth
the admiration of both fleets, and deserves to be particularly
mentioned:—"Lieutenant M'Killop, whose gun-
vessel, the Snake, was not employed like the others in
landing troops, dashed past the forts after an enemy's
steamer; and, although he soon found himself engaged
not only with her but also with two others who came
to her support, he persevered, and by the cleverness and
extreme rapidity of his manœuvres, prevented the escape
of all three, and they were consequently destroyed by
the enemy; and the Snake had not a man hurt, though
shot passed through the vessel."

Admiral Bruat also notices this act of gallantry:—
"Shortly afterwards, an English gun-boat, of a light
draft of water, made for Yenikale, to cut out a Russian
steamer which had left Kertch and was trying to
gain the Sea of Azoff. A sharp encounter soon
commenced between the two vessels, in which the
batteries of Yenikale took part. I ordered the Fulton
to proceed to hasten to the aid of the gunboat;
which arrived with all speed at the scene of combat,
and had to withstand a very heavy fire. I ordered
the Megère to support her, and Admiral Lyons on
his part also ordered succour to be given to the gun-
boat. Nevertheless, the enemy's steamer which we
knew had the treasury of Kertch on board, escaped,
leaving in our hands two barges containing precious
objects and a portion of the military and civil archives.
But the confusion of the Russians, attacked unexpectedly
by land and sea, became so great that they
soon relinquished all thoughts of further resistance, and
did not even take care to remove the wounded from
Sebastopol who were in the hospital of the citadel."

Sir George Brown and General d'Autemarre describe
the landing of the troops and their subsequent
proceedings. It appears that the large ships could not
get within three miles, and the transports only
within two miles of the point of the coast selected for
a landing. The troops were conveyed to the beach
in boats, towed by small steamers, whose guns covered
the disembarkation. At ten o'clock the first soldiers
stepped ashore, and, occupying a rising ground near
a salt marsh, covered the disembarkation of the
remainder. It was soon after the landing of the first
men of the force that the Russians began to blow
up their batteries and retire; and before night all
the batteries between Kamiesch Bournu and Kertch
were blown up. Sir George Brown was precluded from
advancing, because most of the Turkish troops and
artillery had not landed. He therefore encamped for
the night, in the best position he could, but exposed to
the attacks of any adventurous Cossacks who might be
disposed to do mischief. When the morning broke,