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ready this week at Kulleli. The supply of beds and

other things necessary from Lady Stratford has been
of the greatest assistance. The Times' fund has also
provided clothing and necessaries of wine, &c. Here
Lady Stratford has been doing what Miss Nightin-
gale has been compelled to do at Scutari, and has in
the great emergency provided those things which
the purveyor could not supply at the time they were
required. I imagine that these ladies would very
gladly have been spared the trouble and annoyance
of getting such necessaries had they not both found
it impossible to gei, theta in any other way.
Much has been done here in every department,
but still much more is needed, and the needs grow
daily. The rapid increase and continued change of
sick outstrip every effort, or rather prevent the
efforts being properly carried out. When thousands
pour through the hospital in a month, and some
times 300 are landed in one day, you cannot wonder
at great difficulties arising. The feeding of 8,000
men, sick and well, in this country is no easy matter.
Very great exertions have been, and are, making in
every department; but only those who are in every
part of the hospital can conceive how much is to be
done and kept in order. The accounts of Mr. Mac-
donald, who is in charge of the Times' fund are un-
doubtedly true as to our wants, past and future. But
I think he forgets how great a work has been done
here since last September, and this by a staff weak
in numbers. lam under the mark iu stating that
30,0()0 men have been in hospital since September,
and preparation and comforts have been supplied for
these, not at all times adequate, but still very great
when these large numbers are considered. Mr.
Macdonald hears more of our wants than any one,
and I am sure only writes on what he hears and be-
lieves. But he cannot know how much has been
done, and under what difficulties, as those do who
live daily and hourly among them all. His most
judicious distribution of the fund will ever be remem-
bered, and himself regarded as a kindhearted gen-
tleman.
In addition to the works rapidly carried on at
Kulleli, sheds for 1,000 men are nearly finished in
the large square of the barrack hospital. They are
a considerable distance from the building, and are
wide enough to allow of four rows of beds. They
are of wood, with tiled roof, and had not been com-
menced on the 15th of January, and Captain Gordon
tells me will be ready this week. Sick are sent
to-day to Smyrna, where hospital room is provided
for 1,200 men, and 300 go at once. This will be a
good change for the men, and also enable the medi•
cal men here to thin the corridors of the hospitals,
which, indeed, ought not to have a patient in teem.
Miss Stanley and sixteen nurses are at Kulleli, and
exerting themselves to the utmost. All the nurses
who remain are now fully employed. Several are ill,
and are, I fear, in a very dangerous state at Scutari.
This gradual employment of the nurses has worked
well; and they have all been at work long enough to
give full proof of their usefulness and great success.
I grieve to hear from time to time that some of the
younger surgeons do not scruple to speak of Miss
Nightingale and her nurses in a manner which does
them no credit as gentlemen, and shows them to be
very deficient in judgment and right feeling. It is
past belief that any one can desire their absence, by
which our poor fellows would be deprived of such.
great comforts, and iu many cases of things needful
for their very life. A better spirit will, 1 hope, yet
animate them, learnt from the very persons they so
disparage, who do not scruple to nurse night and day
these very officers when sick or dying.
With so rapid an increase of sick, you will too well
know that the chaplain's work increases also, and the
burials now are over eighty each day. There have
been some changes, so I will give a list of who are
here:—
Barrack Hospital.—Rev. G. Lawless, Dr. Black-
wood, Hadow, Crosier, Sabin.
General lospital.—Revs. J. M. Lewes and F.
Hobson.
Kulleli.—Revs. J. Mullett and 1). Freeth.
Buller.

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night to forage. I got as much wood as three men most of the wards all the beds are occupied at the
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could carry, two glass tumblers, and a looking• glass. present time, but here again a few days will make a Kulleli.—Revs. J. Hallett and 1). Freeth.
The weather is very changeable—one day rain, and great change. Many of the men will be up, and Holes Rev. Buller.
next frost and snow. It has been very cold, as the filled with hope of health and longer life, but some Rev. Mr. Bondier, Fellow of King's College, Cam-
papers will have told you, I suppose. The cold welt- will have exchanged the hospital bed for the last bridge, is helping those who are ill. Besides these,
ther agreed with me wonderfully, and if you were to cold bed, earth—here a bed most truly, since no Mr. Fergusson and Mr. Drennan are hers, taking
see me now you would say you never saw me looking coffin closes in the blanket•sbrouded corpse. care of the Presbyterians. Mr. Owen has been here
so well and fat. Nothing seemed to do me so much The sick who have come in during the last week for some days very ill, but is now recovering. Mr.
good as twelve hours' night duty in an exposed aim- appear less emaciated and exhausted than those of Iladow and Mr. Hobson have both been ill,
tion, without a blade of grass to shelter you, and a previous weeks, but the frost-bitten limbs abound, but are better. The work here is very severe, as 700
cutting north wind, accompanied with sleet and snow and these cases must long occupy the beds. Great or 800 men fall to each of us. But of these the
—very unpleasant whilst it lasted, but then it gave exertions have been made at Ktilleli, which, in a very larger portion are convalescent, and do not need such
me such a stunning appetite, and I had lots to satisfy short time, has been prepared for 1,000 sick. Only care as the dying and very ill do. This great !wea-
n, and it makesyour tent seem sojolly in comparison. bare walls came into our possession, and now most sure of numbers must, we hope, soon be over, and
lam very sorry to hear that some of my letters still of the requisites of an hospital are provided. The then we shall be enough for the work; probably
continue to go astray. I hope that the one in which beds, bedding, and utensils for drinking, or dem before more could be appointed and sent out from
I acknowledged the receipt of all those well-assorted linen provided by Lady Stratford, give this ho*pital a home the numbers will have decry 'd. This