| Show correspondence ot of the london times AN ARMISTICE AT SEBAS sedas BEFORE arch 26 55 early on saturday mo morning a flag of truce wab was wag sent in by the allies wi wilh wild iii ili a proposition to the russians for an armistice to 6 bury the dad dead d ad which we revin in numbers five or six sir russians to e every ver P benchman hman and Engli englishman sliman silman in front of odthe the round tower and AI Al amelm amelon and after some daay an answer jin jn the affirmative was return returned ednd ind it was arranged that two hours should be granted for fi collecting and carrying away the dead on both bolli sides ane news spread through the camps arld and the th races which the cha deurs had pot got up in excellent savle were were much shorn thorn i horn ihorn of their attractions by the op prunty afforded affirmed to us of m ml alting ting our enemies on neutral ground all the ravines rasines leading to the front trenches were crowed with of ficera hastening kin on horse and foot down to the scene of so much rauch hard fighting the crests of or llie flie hills arid arld the slopes I 1 in front of the batteries were covered with men and they dotted the deadly interval between en the batteries batt bait tries trieb which huch had been before occupied alone by thousands of tuns auns and fragments of friell discharged by french frerich and english and Riis russians during th this protracted siege tile the day was bright and warm w arm white flags hags waved gently in the faint sprin aprin spring bremze above the embrasure 3 nt 0 our batteurs batt bat teries eues and froni front the tile tower and mamel in not a soui soul had been visible in front ot of the lines sn instant herre berre her re the emblems of or peace wre w re run up p to the flag flagstaff staffs and a sullen cin from roin the tho u Al mar Mai amelon nelon and a hurst burst of smoke irom roin gordons batteries had but a short time lime previously heralded I 1 the armistice the instant the flags daffa were I 1 hoisted friend orlend and foe swarmed out 0 of llie tile em pm bras bra u res the ri fl ili ill a tj of t the lie lle A allies I 1 I 1 ies les a and n d of the I 1 enemy rose from tile tiie their r lairs in the rifle pits and sauntered toward IL teach ach other to behold their grim handiwork the i whole hole hoie orthe of the between the ruan nugan ru nuan an lines and ow obrown own wis was waa filled with groups nf f I 1 unarmed soldiery passing pasting pass past ing down by gle tue middle middie picket ellavine ll avine which is is now occupied b by y the i french and which runs rung down in I 1 brott rort oft the light division Divi hion sion camp I 1 came out upon tile the ad j danced french trench within a few hundred yards odthe of the Al Marn amelon elyn bion the sight was strange beyond description french english and rus rusi 1 sian rian eian tian of ficeri were walking about saluting nm each other courteously as they passed and nd occasion ally entering into conversation and a CO constant n tant interchange little civilities such as oHrin and rid receiving rec eiTing cigar lights was coin going an on in each little gro cro group croup up i 14 some of the russian officers offic ers erg were evidently men of high rank and breading breed mg their polished manners contra contrasted stid acm remarkably w with 1 it their plain and nid rid rather coarse cloila clothing 1 ing the they y wore bore with few exceptions exception the tha invariable long eray gray coat over oven their uni uniforms r sor ms the french officers were all gen len en grande and leered tT red a it striking contrast to many of our own officers who nho were dressed a la a balaklava Balak lava laya and wore uncouth head dresses coats and nondescript bial I 1 many of the russians looked remarkably like Engli english sli sll gentlemen ins tyle lyle oi office fice and arid bear ipg one tall fine looking old man with a long grey beard a and rid strangely shaped cap was wag pointed out to us as s lietman heiman of the tho cossacks in the crimea but it did not appear as if there were many men of high bagh military rank present the russians were rather crave grave and reserved served rt but they tiley seemed to fraternize with the tile french better than with ourselves and tile the men certainly got on better belter with our allies than with the few privates of our own regiments who were down towards the front froni was wast on we were walking among the dead over bloodstain blood stain ed ground covered with evidences of recent fight broken muskets bayonets bayon hayon ets carlough j boxes caps fragments of clothing straps and belts pieces of shell little pools of clotted c of ed blood b no shot round and grape shattered babions and sandbags sandbars sand bags were visible around us on every side and through the midst ot of the crowd stalked a i solemn procession of soldiers bearing their de parted patted comrades to their long home I 1 counted 77 litters borne past me ir in 15 minutes each filled with a dead enemy the contortions of the slain were horrible and recalled the mem ories of the fields of alma and some few french were lying far in in advance toward phe the marnelos Mar Mat nelon and round tower among the ga blons belongings to the french advanced trenches which the trie russians had broken down they had evidently been slain in pursuit of the enemy the russians appeared to treat their dead with great respect the soldiers I 1 saw were white faced and seemed ill iii fed led though many of them had llad powerful frames square equate and broad cheats all their dead who fell wilh with in in and near our lines were sk ripped stripped of boots and stockings the cleanliness af their feet and in most cases of their coarse goare linen shirts was remarkable several severi saflora of the equip ages ageson of the he fleet flee tift ft sebastopol sevastopol Seba were hillid d in the attack they were generally muscular fine stout fei fel fellows I 1 aws with rough soldiery gees the russians carried off all the dead which lay outside our lines t to the town passing down between lh ih Al amelon and the round tower in the midst of all this stern evidence of war a certain amount of lively converset conver sat ion begin to spring up in fn which the russian of ounces rices indu indulged lr in a little badin badinage acre arre 7 some of therl them aski asked ed our officers WL nilen alien lien llen we e were coming corning in to take the place othera others when we te thought of orgain gain away aw some congratulated us upon t 1 on the ex i cel cei cellene 1 ent opportunity we had of getting gelling a good look at sebastopol sevastopol Sebast Seba as the chance of a nearer views view except on similar occasions was not in their opinion very probable one officer asked la a private confidentially in english liow how many men we sent into llie ilie tren cheb chec on only Y a nighta night and nd a wake party pary of or was the ready reply the officer laughed and arid turned aay aw ay at one time a russian with a litter liler stopp d by a dead body and put it into tiit the litter he ed round for or a comrade to help him A zou ave at once advanced with much grace arace and lifted edit it to the infinite amusement of the bystanders but the joke jike was nas not long lung lived as a russian brusquely ca came me up and helped to cany early fx 5 his dead comrade in the town own we could see lare larae bodie bodien of soldiery in in the streets assembler assembled at tile the corner corners and in the public places probably they wera ordered ont out to make x show of their strength the russians denied hat prince kofr kofT was dead but they admitted that admiral astur min was killed led lie ile cas vas as one of the princia princ it officers engaged in vae vat 1 i destruction of the turk ish sli fleet at the czar r had rewarded lim him by living 1 aday an order of st georee george of higher uglier discretion than that worn by prince and ira lra ofa ifa class which if i s generall generally y accorded only to successful generals Gete rals rais who 1010 have bave con eon conducted ducted an army and closed a triumphant campaign A distinguished looking naan man mho who complained that lie was likely to be deprived of his hig hi aruie in hig his yacht liis year by tiie flie th themer themar evar ever nar arr was wa af pf anted out to us as is prince daral danai ehi k owing 0 9 some rome misunderstanding c T r other oilier a little fusillade began begin among among the riflemen on the left claring tile mintlee armistice nr and disturbed our attention teri terl tion for a moment but it was soon terminated a general biquet and several koscera effice r of f ra rank of the a ded allied army visited ted led the t rf n ci 1 eg 3 during the armistice and staff officer officers ve we represent on both sides to see that the men irien lid sid not go out of bounds was over about 3 1 doek dock scarcely had the white while flag disappeared behind lh parapet 0 the trip 11 amelon before bafo re a round shot rom lle ile he lie sailors Bai mal lors battery went slap dap thrombi through one nf the embrasures embra rf f the wark aud and bd tip up a great pillar of earth batth anh inide in ide the th lugs luss tans fans abonce at once replied cepl led and aud and aud the he noise of cannon soon re echoed through the thee ravines it was curious to observe the he lasses masses of shot end in the ravines which has been fired by the nemy atour mea men tn tin their way to and from the ilia ren e ches riches it W wis aia is impossible for them to see ris usi asi burthey poured a ir hotan ane one hali hall right lato iAta he path from r 6 ni therould the round tower the Ila Mi melch and ind the ships at I 1 11 sol u |
