"Eupatoria, Feb I8, 1855, 6 p.m.

"My Lord,—I have the honour to inform your lordship
that nothing of importance has taken place here since
the enemy retired yesterday.

"Owing to the deficiency of cavalry with the army of
his Highness Omer Pacha we are not able to obtain
exact information as to the position of the enemy, who
have entirely disappeared, so far as we can see, with the
exception of the usual cavalry advanced posts.

"Convoys of waggons, however, have been seen from
the fleet, moving along the north shore of the Sasik
Putrid Lake from the eastward. I am inclined,
however, to believe that they are bringing forage and
provisions for the cavalry which surrounds us.

"In the meantime, however, his highness is taking
every precaution, by adding to the defences of the place,
to provide against any further attempts of the enemy.
Fortunately the two transports (sailing) containing
artillery and materials for constructing works have
arrived, and in the course of the night we shall have
twelve or fourteen more guns in position than yesterday.
The parapets also have been raised, so that we may
hope that our loss will not be so heavy on a future
occasion.

"The total loss yesterday amounted to as follows, of all
ranks:—Turks: 97 killed; 277 wounded. French: 4
killed; 9 wounded. Total combatants: 101 killed;
286 wounded. Tartar population: 13 killed; 11
wounded. Horses of the Turkish army: 79 killed; 18
wounded.

"Amongst the killed of the Turks, were 1 general of
division (Selim Pacha, Egyptian), 1 colonel, and 5
subaltern officers; and amongst the wounded, 1 general
of brigade (Egyptian), 4 superior and 5 subaltern officers.
Amongst the French wounded was an officer of the
Henri IV., who was serving ashore in a land battery.

"A greater portion of the horses of one battery were
killed, and 19 men of the same battery, the whole of
the guns being disabled.

"I have not been able to obtain further positive details
of the enemy's force.—I am, &c,

(Signed) " JOHN SIMMONS.
"Captain Royal Engineers, Brevet-Major.

"Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.B."

Despatch from Lord Raglan to the Earl of Panmure,
dated Feb. 24;

"My Lord,—I do myself the honour, with reference to
my despatch of the 20th instant, to transmit to your
lordship the translation of a letter I have had from
Omer Pacha in which his highness has been so good as
to give me a detailed account of the Russian attack upon
Eupatoria on the morning of the 17th inst., and of the
brilliant manner in which he repulsed the enemy and
forced them to retire from before the place.

"Your lordship will observe, with the greatest
satisfaction, that the conduct of the Turkish troops was
remarkable for its gallantry and determination: and
that the arrangements of the generalissimo were such as
might be expected from an officer of his high distinction
and established reputation.

"I understand from Colonel Simmons that the result
of this successful action has had an excellent moral
effect upon the Turkish army, which has since been
busily occupied in improving the defences and increasing
the armament of the works.

"The English men-of-war, Curacoa, Furious,
Valorous, and Viper, the French steamer Véloce, and
the Turkish steamer Schehfaer, greatly contributed to
the success of the day by the energy of their co-operation,
and the power of their fire; and Omer Pacha has
expressed his sense of their valuable assistance, as well
as that of a detachment of the French army, which
your lordship will regret to see sustained some loss in
killed and wounded, and among the latter is a naval
officer.
I have, &c, RAGLAN."

The letter from Omer Pacha contains a repetition of
the particulars given above. In regard to the loss
sustained by his troops, Omer Pacha says: "Our losses
are not very numerous, but they are to be deplored.
We regret the death of Selim Pacha, Lieutenant-
General commanding the Egyptian troops. We had,
moreover, 87 killed and 277 wounded; 79 horses killed and
18 wounded. Amongst the killed there are seven
officers, and 10 are wounded, amongst them Suleiman
Pacha. Thirteen inhabitants of the town have been
killed, and 11 wounded. The French had four killed and
eight wounded; Lieutenant Las Cases among the latter."

A striking account of this battle is given by the
correspondent of the Daily News, who was an eyewitness.
He thus describes the final assault by the Russians and
its result: "A few minutes previously the Furious had
sent a rocket party ashore, who landed on the extreme
right of the town, and coming round amongst the
windmills, opened their fire on the Russians just as the
head of the column issued from the burying-ground
and appeared on the glacis, and at the same moment
the musketry commenced from the entrenchment.
The column pushed on to a distance of not more than
twenty yards from the ditch, but there gave way and
fell into disorder. Selim Pacha now made a sortie
with a brigade of Egyptians, and charged them with the
bayonet; but in the act of leading his men on,
received a musket-ball through the body, and fell dead.
Ismail Bey was also wounded on the same occasion.
The Russians now fell into disorder, gave way, and
retired, leaving the graveyard strewed with their dead.
The artillery limbered up, and went off, firing
occasional shots till it passed the brow of the hill. The
cavalry preceded it at a canter, but when on the other
side the whole retreated in the most beautiful order, to
a distance of about two miles, where they bivouacked on
the plain. Immediately after the cessation of the firing,
I walked down to the outwork, and at every yard
along the inside of the inner entrenchment found
traces of the conflict, in the shape of battered houses,
dead horses, and here and there wounded or dead men.
The scene in the interior of the outwork was terrific.
Men lay on every side gashed and torn by those frightful
wounds which round-shot invariably inflict. Here a
gory trunk, looking as if the head had been wrenched
from the shoulders by the hand of a giant; there an
artilleryman, lying across a splinter of his own gun-
carriage—the splintered bones of his thighs protruding
from the flesh; another cut in two as if by a knife, and
his body doubled up like a strip of brown paper. The
artillery horses and their drivers were stationed amongst
the windmills which stand in thick clusters between
the outwork and the fortifications of the interior, and
as the whole of this space was swept for nearly two
hours by the fire of the battery which was last brought
up, the havoc was dreadful. Nearly eighty artillery
horses were killed on a small patch of ground, some by
the shot, others by the splinters of wood and stone,
which flew in showers from the mills at every discharge,
and the soil was strewn with their blood and entrails.
I saw all the horses of one gun knocked together into
one indiscriminate mass, as if some mighty force had
squeezed them up like so much butter. None of all
these things, however, attracted much attention from
the defenders of the position. All were talking loudly,
some few laughing; artillerymen, taking the harness
off the dead horses, and making repairs on the damaged
guns; some throwing up fresh clay where the works
had suffered; others carrying off the wounded in
blankets, many of the latter groaning loudly; others
reverently covering the faces of the dead with the skirts
of their coats, and all this amidst a hum and buzz of
voices which rose as merrily and cheerfully upon the
morning air, towards the sunny sky, as if it were the
close of a fête, and no grim evidences of a bloody
struggle lay on every yard of the soil. Omer Pacha
rode round soon after, with a large staff and most of the
European officers who were in the place, and in his train
I went down to the graveyard. The firing had certainly
not ceased twenty minutes, and yet at least 2000 Tartars
had rushed out of the town, and stripped and plundered
the dead Russians. When Omer Pacha reached the
spot he drove them all away, but not before every
one of the bodies was stark naked. The greater
number seemed very young men, some mere boys; all
wore an expression of perfect repose; no trace of
distortion was visible either in the features or the limbs;