On the rear face, a 36-pounder, having been hit on the cascabel by a chance shell, was thrown completely over the parapet, and left standing on its muzzle at a distance of 30 feet from its original position. Another gun was also unserviceable, owing to the partial destruction of its carriage by a shell. But it was in the casemates below that the fire of the ships inflicted the greatest injury. The front wall of the casemates, which is faced with masonry two feet in thickness, was in many places torn away under the stress of fire, leaving only six feet of rubble as a protection to the guns. Through the latter the heavy shells pierced with ease. The results were as follows:--Under west tower, casemate penetrated, gun not disabled. In casemates Nos. 1 to 12, just one half of the guns were disabled. Of the casemates on the right sea front, No. 17 was the only one in which there was no gun hit. The loss of life in the casemates must have been out of all proportion to the effect produced by the feeble guns (six 5-inch S.B.) mounted within. On the scarp of casemates Nos. 1 to 12 there were about 13 hits, of which seven pierced the wall. 15. _Fort Silsileh._--The fire does not appear to have in any way injured the guns or stores of this fort, though fragments of at least two shells lay around the rifled guns. The total number of guns dismounted was, four M.L.R. guns, sixteen S.B. guns, and one mortar. The forts at Alexandria generally were badly knocked about, but the more modern parapets were not seriously injured. If the bombardment were directed against the forts in their defensive capacity, it must be pronounced a failure. If its object were the dismounting of the rifled guns, it must be conceded that such results as attended the work of either the inside squadron (where only one gun of this type was seriously affected), or even of the outside squadron (where less than half of the guns were permanently disabled), do not justify the verdict of success. In the wider sense, however, of having driven the Egyptian gunners from their batteries and having silenced the forts, the fleet was unquestionably victorious. CHAPTER X. THE DAY AFTER THE BOMBARDMENT. The following day, the 12th July, when it was proposed to renew the bombardment, there was dull gloomy weather off Alexandria, with a haze hanging over the city. There had been a strong breeze from the sea during the previous night, and it was still blowing fresh from the N.N.W., causing the ironclads forming the outside squadron to roll somewhat. The gunboat _Beacon_ at daylight collected the bodies of the men belonging to the fleet, killed the previous day, and buried them at sea. The _Humber_ storeship appeared in sight, and working parties were sent to her for ammunition. At 9 a.m. the _Inflexible_ and _Temeraire_ were sent to reconnoitre the batteries from Eunostos Point on Ras-el-Tin, to Fort Pharos.