The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-18 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1855.

OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.

for the last fortnight, still the sick and officers are
not, and the reason is that there are not yet
enough hospital and offioers' huts served out or in
the Crimes. I know several regiments and bat-
teries of artillery that still have some of their
oleic ander canvas. One would have thought that the
omenianding officer in each case, although short at
hospital accommodation, would have so far attended
to the sick as to have put them before this (Deo. 4)
into men's huts es a temporary measure, or else that
the principal medical °goer of each division, or even
Dr. Hell himself, would have looked better after the
comforts of the sick and wounded. As for the officers'
huts, they, in addition to fitting badly and letting in
the rain, are dreadfully cold, mach colder to live in
than under a doable tent, which means one
tent placed over another. These huts are
divided into eight compartments, and no doubt
it was Intended to give a tiny stove to each oompert-
asset; bat, unkrtunataly, only cue very small stove
has come out for each het, set as you may =PR's),
the occupants will not find the heat too great. The
same remark applies to the men's new large huts.
Instead of the Quartermaster-General's department
being enabled to serve out two or three large stoves to
each hat, it is only able to afford one. Now,
then is only one way of remedying these die-
erepenoies, and that is by building a regu-
lar fire-place and chimney in each case;
for there are no old stoves or stove pipes to
be procured. Sebastopol has been so gutted, that
bricks are not to be got even If transport were es behad,
and stone is not at all plentiful. I already know of
some individual MN where the officers have left the
huts, and gone back to their tents, there to remain
till more stoles come out, which the Staff my are
imputed. The Highland Division, on account of
being so near trees and brushwood, is not
supplied with fool, and very properly so, from our
commissariat. Large trees are often blasted out
near Samara end Baidar with powder. Sir Colin
Campbell has telegraphed not to have his horses and
kit sold, so it is pretty certain that he intends to re-
turn to take command of the first corps d'armee, to
consist of the Ist, 4th, and Highland Divides& The
ether corps d'ormie will consist of the 2cd, 3rd, and
Light Divisions. His Assistant Quartermaster-
Geeseal, Lieutenant-Colonel Shadwell, late captain
lerthe 19th Regiment, goes home on leave next Ea-
terday. The new main road from Balaklava to the
Light Division, although in many parts unfinished,
still can be used the whole way. If mot kept in
eenstant repair, it will sue get hollow in the centre
and full of holes.
According to late accounts from Woolwich, the 22
oempaniesof the Siege Train Artillery, now under the
esomsed, in the front, of Colonel St. George, and
at isisklave, of Lieutenant-Colonel Browne, are to
p look This, if true, will be of great benefit to
that urn of the service, for now that the siege is over
they are of no use as an armed body of men, for of
the 1,800 and odd on Balaklava heights there are only
about 380 *erbium amongst them ; of course they
-possess their shoat swede. Ilse went armed body
of mon out here are the Sappers ; they, although
die companies strong, which ought to make
1,000 men, instead of 540, as at present
in the Crimea, have no other arm but the
old smooth barrel carbine. All the old tracks
•mad all the different camps are in a fearful
elide. Ryon the Woronsoff Road, between Sebuto-
lei bed the French telegraph, i. like a river of mud,
altßenelt It is in tolerable condition still beyond the
latter to Phone Paso. The small villages or bazaars
—one called Little Hamitsch, on the Weaned
Road, behind the Light and Bossed Divides', and the
other called Little Ladikoi, near the Guards' camp,
or the iron huts—are in a most drudfal
condition as regards mud. There has been very
little firing for the lad three days between the nee*
side and the allies, and there is a total want of
shaves or guard, to be amused with. By pen&
sion of the mixed oommiesion our troop are
allowed to take a small quantity of cordage
out of the Redan, for the purpose of caulking
their huts between the junction of the rafter-plates
under the caps. The French are not near so parti-
cular about leave. They not only go down to Sebas-
topol by regiments with several six-horse artillery
waggons each day and night, bet they will also, on
the principle of taking French leave, walk off with
everything they can lay their hands upon.

(TROY OITA SPECIAL

CAMP, 813A8TOPOL, Deo. 3.
The weather has motioned very unsettled. Tits
wind, which blew very strongly from s mouther 4
direction during the night of the 30th of November
and early on the morning of the Ist instant, caused
some damage through the camps, ,but none of a
serious nature. A goodly number of tents were
blown over, and some few of the new huts in course
of erection. The tents overthrown were 'chiefly those
occupied by yowl campaigners, to whom the effects
of soaking rain in softening the earth about the tent-
pegs, together with high wind, were novelties, and
who omitted to take the necessary precautions of
relaxing the tightened minas, and seeming the pegs,
to meet the additional strain to which they were
subjected. The hats only partially built and offered
in yielded readily to the pressure of the gale, and,
being neither secured in a sunk foundatiom nor hav-
ing an extended bass, were easily overthrown. The
nature of the. compartments in which they are con-,
'traded prevented the occurrence of any damage of
importance, and on the wind subsiding the parts
were placed together eight without difficulty or
much labour. Yesterday the wind was more westerly,
and came sweeping along in heavy squalls, memo-
panied with beating showers of snow. Between the
squalls—and their approach wsisignalled by the sudden
gathering and approach of dark masses of clouds from
the seaward—the sun shoes brightly, and the steno
plane exhibited the usual characteristics of a day in
April. To-day (December 3) we have been without
rain or snow, and the temperature has been mild.
The covering of snow on the higher ranges of the
mountains which rise beyond the plain of the Taber-
nays to the eastward is still very scanty, and only
seen in patches. The early migration which was
noticed of various kinds of wild fowl towards warmer
regions had led to the expectation of an early add
severe winter ; but the event has proved to be the
very reverse se this supposition. The fineness of the
weather athmsted all the officers who could leave
camp to wham the Grunt -International Steeple-
chase whieliores fixed to come off to day. It took
plots on ewe tolerably- level ground between the
'Peewit Headquarters and the Monastery. Some arti-
Add eislristisas were formed by banking up a small
stress, illabg &whoa, and introducing other im-
pediments of a like nature. The ground was not
so heavy as bed been anticipated from the
quantity of rain which had fallen lately,
owing to the moil being of a more sandy quality, and
her frequented than in other parts of the plateau.
Ounlau7 to anticipation, there were very few wi-
dest& Although a few riders were thrown in the
coons of the day, I heard of only one casualty of at
all a serious character. A lieutenant of the 7th
Royal Fesitien, Lieutenant Waller I believe, was
ridden down in the first rush, and as he was tarried
towards his camp on a stretcher he appeared to be
considerably shaken. There were many French
officers present, bet very few Sardinians, in conse-
quence of the distance of their camps from the seine
of the sports. In the evening a very large party
dined together at the restaurant established near the
Third Division.
The fire from the mirth side has greatly increased
during the past week, both against the part of the
town occupied by the Freak, and also against the
Harebelnan suburb. Fora men of the 18th Royal
Irish Regiment, who were et work near the docks,
were wounded this morning by the explosion of
a shell, and yesterday Lord R. Browne, of the 7th
Fusiliers, received a slight injury while on duty
from a similar canes. Hitherto, although large parties
have been employed, not ally in the dockyard, but
also in fetching supplies of timber and stores from
all parts of the docks and embark, scarcely any one
has been injured. A. very heavy fire of shells was
maintained for several hours against this part of the
tows to-day, so that the usual fatigue parties were not
permitted to enter it. The discharge was kept up
partly against the remains of the Whits Buildings,
either from some working party having bean no-
Mood Awe, or for the purpose of setting them on
fin, and partly against the dockyard, where the
enemy had no doubt observed the penman of groups
of soldiers. The French fire against the north side
has been more reserved of late.
The Russian batteries bearing upon our position
above Inkermann, have also maintained a frequent
fin. Their shells reach a considerable distance
towards the Careening Bay ravine and the camps en
the right of the Light Division, but are generally per
banning in their effects. No change out be
perceived in the disposition of the Russian detach-
ments hutted on the heights overhanging the ruins
of Inkermann and the valley of the Tchernaya. A
few days since, a body of Remain troops, &boot three
oe four thousand strong, advanced from the Khan/
Mackenzie road into the upper part of the valley, bat
the object of • the inownest wan not apparent. It
could hardly SOTTO much purpose sea reseanshemiss,
on account of the commanding range for observation
afforded by the position on the heights above ; end it
could hardly be expected to succeed, if it wee% eel
some supposed, a bait to tempt an admen of the
French against them, for they never left the cover of
some of their batteries. The lower part of the Toler-
nay& valley is becoming much flooded.
Deo. 4. Heavy and continuous rain fell during the
whole of last night, and the surface of the camp-
ground, where not drained, is reduced to a mere

GRAND • CRIMEAN

wretched missals.
I must sot forget to antics the asuntent owed by
eigat seas of the Coldstream" Osaka dressed as Unisons,
All their fanifal isetrucasots were weed and imegiaary,
Inapt a Ana They did not slog at sU badly, and
they apparently had a considerable amount of shillings
thrown to them. Oa e
they very oesasioa of a pablis Were,
except in the towhee, or et a battle, ere to be Ken
atoning the world. Many en the ground said it was a far
better oppertnity for the Russians to attack than after the
esplosion on the 15th of November; but, different from last
spring mass, all the °Sous, English and French, were
mounted, sad wore their swords.

swamp.
The general orders include the-following : " Any
application made by an officer for the sale of his we-
mission mast be scoompsnied by the following docu-
ment signed by the officer :
H, Having applied for permission to retire from the
envies, Ido bweby authorise the regimental aped,
in the event of my sppffication being granted, to re-
tain from the proceeds of my commission the nsnal
sum for the purpose of defraying the expense of the
passage of the officer who shall bo adored'" oat to
join the envies companies in my suommsion.

(FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.)
CARP 1111FORB SEBASTOPOL. Deo. 4.
The Initial is treating as most roughly—rain.
snow, and hail. or bail, eaow, sad rsbil are by tend
oar ocelpasioos. The wild, or storms, ea Friday
sight blew down several et the new and old bats,
stripped the rah off others, particularly in Betakes
and ap at the Banatorins, and laid many a hos-
pital marquee sad soldiers' bell test level with the
grand l'he Finn Brigade et the Highland Divi-
sloe bad all its hospital nemeses blows doers. sad
the silk were wed into the assets hats. Altissegh
all the abodes ass of this faith* haw bssa batted

—reatlteoTollglFyFtheE.
great
power
Nothing can show
of Melike's Toshiffo, than that at the present moment
there are thousands of persons is the educated countries of
Europe, who, without bowleg anything of the work of the
insane of themodere comic dramaAndeestand immediately
CAMP, Dora 4. what is meant by "Tersile." Mohan has created a weed
Early yesterday amain the weather mexpectedly be- in the great Europe's vothbalary. Ile has dose more the*
Tamsleo, permitting cog the rams to come off is the afteesoon. this, it is tree ; bet so one can deny that this is a great
achlenrment. To have fired a label on me of the bottles
TM wane ideated was is a valley, or es a low Masted fiat which hive up the peculiar juices which are extracted from
betimes the liesostesy sal Misateh Bay. The pound wria the seething forme of modern society is something, and that
is to odor, and the Laos end Weeks was well oboes* Moller. has dose. Every Tartu& of the present and fettle
is to patine, sad sammaleely well artifloially made. The mention my feel meted that he has his denomination
diseases to be nut fee dm fir
sad seam& me was twice tolerably well mottled, without an application to the Herald's
eased the wane, or ewe miles, musing 12 Inns te In taken.
TM lest leap emented et • math 4 feet wide and 2 feet College.
Eng. milks nose wall 1 feet high. The enesd, of a trends Pour years ago as attempt was made to represent as
IMO wide, IMt Mop, with a hurdle 3 foot high. The i the Haymarket Theatre, the Tortuffo is a translation, is
----• the mode in whith it was played before Louis Quenon.
dig was the brook, 8 feet wide, with a fame in frost, I •••—•r=------- _
spm 444. The feactA, of ama 3 p,,, "ma, coLoxim ouwilat—Tba Buenos Ayres papers The translation--by Mr. °mind, we believe—was as well
done, es an isaponibty ever will be done. There is no
lkilnedd by as ambankasest 3 feet high, es top of which report the arrival there of Colonel Olideri, the intingsehed
11100 &died fame 3 fed high- The fifth. of • Mom wall about Italian palliate in the service of the Repiblic, after bie translating a Frank ennedy any more than there is say
4 gent lash. twists dooms, to tho mum ; cad tbs long and adventurous absence. The following is coudeund trasslat of any week of imaaination. But the difficulty
6th, from the enthusiastic account in the Trines., of the 22nd of truingatou of Koller. does not depend upon the imegi.
of • desiestly smug hurdle about 4 feet high. Oa the of October :—. Colonel Olive
waived y sterda Its - a
none Unit I nand Eir Witham Cedriaglos. the Can- dbeerbark den, cue of the most notable and spesy;:s'neoul nation of the author, but upon the peculiar delicacy of the
maader-inChief, who left after the first non ; Gwen& °maces whichi
ever greeted any of the maltreat Omens lannage. Rail as we will at the poverty of the French
indham, Garrett, Lawremea, Trodepe, aad Lad
eaTivritaisofenrecapital. The people of Buena Ayres, set dialect, we must still perforce confess, that as a medium of
bnyorthe Celesta **armadas it is unrivalled. Of this peculiarity Moller.
William Partin • Colossi
... ' 14•11114.... 8.11 Lie•L'C'°l•°*l in days mosibmfulimfrertrietcosausvieestry's IleiMadretrirte
Kookow• us the tido of the aill sworloolini the when firings hick he underwent in the Roman dungeons fader.
r of the tub has availed ;dwelt ;cad if Mr. Ogenford has not 'succeeded
was Mudd Under, who remised till atter the fithea w
ef despotism for Mertens consecutive ,in transfuring this into English, he may shield himself
under the plea of the impoestbility dimness. He has done
repel Renghnir- He arrived sad departed is hie mad jived biotin immense numbers. tinwards of a thousand
NA andap, draw, 4 inc grey honors. with two Fresh Italian natives greeted his disembarkation, which wag all that could be done.
affected at half peat two p.m. Ths most distinguished Mr. Webster brought out the Tartuffe last night at the
WANT Bolan so Postilions, hooded on honontch by society of the city bailed him with enthusiastic plaudits,
the well knew* aloes of Algeria. temps who aceampanied by two bands of music, one Italian and see Adelphi, as nearly as posdble, as well as we can recollect, in
we
• white turban, end ander his white calico robe Argentine. The port was one man of people, and Colonel the shape in which it was brought out at the Haymarket. The
wean a reey iwatiewne swore& mamma raw., woe, of Olivieri had no small dificolty is reaching the carriage whole play wee one eoutiseed action. No drop scenes is-
asoba.aitaadas by a aulanaaa imam" staff, and was while had beenebromught f
here c; liwiases.visiThde multitude mom- tervened to stop the isterest, and to give opportunity of
esembil by halt • troop et Chinese. d'Afrigen Mrs. 8e• byvisited a great comber ennui. The end of each ant was marked by a performs.*
of the meet sesiiest men i the
kale, with kw provides wages, arrived es the Mead at wilt' their baud of made, denfiled to salute him, to the aloe of some of the mean of the period. There was no fiaggiag,
about half-peat 2, mid slier energise most rowels wises, of 'Viva Plias,' to which the colonel eeplied, adding hie so impatiest stamping of the feet for the raising of the
woman jan at the Imo to mu sooting owe boaam" the ' viva' for the Argentine liapabliet, to whose gownsman and certain. If this ii the faithful representation of the mode
bell test (the only One Oa the them) provided the her Pb•a° :lir Idnag
prased abwelif:l7aresihninardblia° tcatttat td:rod fordintr7, in which dramas were performed in the days of Louie
vont-gardea Theatre
toMblei dews, se as eke imagised, was pulled dews. jw Is BA/. masQuE„ cog' Quitters., we envy the ancestors of tin modern Frank.
"PM w••• • car.
°nimbi° of Fn.* r°l* was -nowded last night, almost beyond preemies; with lir. Webeter's personification of Tartnffe was perfect. This
sectsou toes, the atessured gesture, the cat-like licking
dims pesesst, but sanely a dams Beglish. Than tise of gaily-dressed masqueraders and more soberly
eteeplediness appmently mused great Interest to eardike, dike, for at epeetators. Catalan of thrice. clime. and pried. out for 114•7•10••• Inge triumphs of histrionic Porilniten.
In oddities la about a thwthean English notated ,a„„,, wen placid in etrasg contrast with the ordinary drew of Is eontemplating • representation of this kind, we out
amid,. cog stagroxyary, amosaaca. jahaery, sa43 „roam eardry-day lilts, sad nothing was wasting bat that scree undimmed the rep of the unworthy portion of the clergy
together with eallees, aaimagee whom wee Prince " I:srattwarth tas•aCts :sf foreaffrsar our 0011°ILlish tcalar
arr. of Frame 02 the representation of the Tortvffe and their
Victor, thee. were, I dwell asiedete, sheet In hundred boars. The theatre was tastefully decoratedn
and lightid, trestle attempts to procure its suppression• "Why on earth,"
moused Prank and flaraislaa °Leen. liedste4 asd then& ds *on was divided Jan two parties. by the laid Louis Quaterse to the Prince de Conde, after being
math "eased the sultana, a the weathae, tini rate "am raised platform es which the orchestra Ina bass placed present at • ligation play celled Scoramouelv, "do the
not hag' bath better niatthomA and thserthee the wbcgo during the
tirronn_si_to concerts. This arras doubt- pekes cry out naiad Tartu" asd never have a word to
ornallonouts won owl ors
to thontoo stowonfor two of damns, but the Wean! Ilre 'arious
epsetatiorrwurs may against Mereissowatef " Bessuee" said the Prism,
et whom were Pokey.. I mass • pthgessasse with report meek injured ►by fr. An eminent 'election of "mud in reply, " Seermrsounte may ridicule. religion anti piety,
Y yes think it may be istereatiag te year modem of the dean music was admirably performed by Jellies's Med, for which they don't cant
a straw, but Metiers ridicule.
day'seports. and the gaieties was asiataiskel is fell farce metal • lat. themselves, ead that they eased stand." " They insult
ORAND 111LITART OTISPLICHAMIL beer. me," said Mean, "In the name of piety, and devote me to
somacy, nearer 3, NW TR; B.OIIIIERT OF JIWILLIET AT POZTIMOI7TIL tative ref the cause of cbarity."—Mideme Celeste,
Illewuss--"leesent Tenn let DMA's, Mane Saday, Tedder —I f° sine bsd b•in obtained up "'We'd" (111•114•1) lire. Keeley sad wry Belby stai d Oldie veral ti
oasis; led Devisee. ueettemothisati setiewo, eine; net Inn. Ransom al to tin torintroson of the robbery of jewelisey _, ' . --' "Be se , _...._...pal
rt. Mier Mans% Zeta; cavalry. le. =kik ilith Reenes; ow at Mmes. Emanuel's, adjeiniag the Deskyard, Portsmouth. ',Ws inet Mons ow eserlll- The pica
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LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1117

T"olutow ti*Atitsbees of the Malssesehe
Board of Works atestsbiApPollitmesi of the ZOO
lincanner, in Bariiestun Ham • to' elect
• sheirmas. The inhabitants et Louisa an looking
▪ otereesed to this Meeks es to something that will
...Sseibbibeas with a test of the capacity of the sew
• tesethessiestodisobarge the duties that oreaboat to
devolve en. them. A judicious selection of &Chairman
will be essepted so • geed omen of their fature sm.
Nome. It is set easy to say what seneent of reedit
is dee to the rumours that Lord Inations and Sir
Joan firm= are to be pat is emaimatioa ;
bat apart hem all considerations at the • per-
meal autos of these gentlemen for the
siteatioa, these is ow that is sollpisal to
put them oat of the field. 'rho onerous duties of
. , the Chairs= of the Metropolitan Board of Works
• ars encash to require the whole time sad attention
, r of say one maa ; so, if properly dimelearged, are those
...or a member of Parliament; it is anesquantly he-
poseible that any one man sea fill both aims at the
sails time. The same ottemisa applies to Mr. Ron-
mum, for whom a claim wee put Onward by a oar-
. seepoudent in our yomerday's impeendoe. There is
another objection to the choked &member or Peas.,
meat : it would neosseuily impart a political chorister
to the prossedinge of the Board. Peas, hem Palk-
mentary esididates, as mainly oat of the guidon,
we find four gentians* teadering their .emtviess to
the Board—Mr.Jsas, Mr. W. Hawse, Mr. Tunis,
and Mr. Orton. The first three are known as men
of intelligence, and deservedly esteemed by theme who
are acquainted with them. Their seising forward se
madidatse for the Mice is a sign thstibieeportaace is
duly estimated. Mr. Ina urges is sepieert of hie claims
the madame hi has gathered by acting as chairman
of the Metrepelltaa Commission or Ileweri. It is no
doeM a resommeedation Ire a miedidate that he is not
a stranger to the dodos aides Mlle he mikes to fill
at the same doss the neeialmiM it the Beard will re. I
member that Mr. 'EBB'S experhaos has bees idol
as skins= of a communion Aide they have Mesa
leMbintod to supersede besammitol sot warheads" '
. Yom. There is a risk of his Waging the di '
Wide.' of the ex-sommisefin shag with him I
end also of his retaining his aseassioes with thorns
Mesons which have bees mispesied el giviag.it an '
ardlis hies. Mr. Howie else mob his aims epee
aziatimes abhdesil as a smarms of the emessimiele•
she. These is Ws difileasse, however, Meant the
• satsedmits of Mr. JIBS and Mr. HaWee—oste
Welk** lamer by the discharge of the famodens I
of shafemas Use enabled the pablie to jags of kis
espasity to preside over sad direst the dieesmisas of
a deliberative assembly, Mr. Hawn has only
occasionally " presided over the mistier' of the '
earlier sommissions." There is nee part of Mr. •
HAWES'S address that is sot vary clearly is- '
Miligible—" I am not," he says, "a peaty ass, or an
abuses of sey extreme views.* Of sours@
Hawse cannot mean " party" or "extreme views"' to
be taken in the political seam of theme phrases. He
must mean that he is not assembled to say of the
pleas which divided °plaice in the old Ommaisalt '
of Sewers; that he is ow of those eareising pone
who would coosiliate this man by *idly a pert of '
his @theme, and that man by adoptieg aped or lib
There is a specious show of inebgentisess aid nor
tier judgment about snob passim; bat they
are ohm used as a cloak to a timid sad
time-serving disposition. Mr. Tuition tells the Board
that he has diligently studied the law; that he has
practised us a banister; and that he has been an
active and approved magistrate. All this may be
true—is true; and yet Mr. TIMM may be deficient
is the penalise knowledge sad aptitude required he
the Chairman of the Board of Works. Mr. Tirane;
indeed, Wes care to inform the Board that he cow
pied a " high position in the Cambridge Mathemati-
cal Tripes of 1827 ;" but we have luiown many clever
young fellows who had the elementary mathematical
weds at their fingers made whoa they left
College, and have contrived to rub off all that
learning in the course diem thee twisty-eight years,
amid the jostling and paahiag at other avocations.
Of Mr. Orros's address we have only to remark that
the following hint smacks a little of bribery :
"Thum who render service ought ant to be at personal
agease, and one-half, or a considerable portico, of the
Obakann's saluy ought to be devoted to this object."
Illineeritioiemson the addressee of the candidates are
. sit Mined as conclusive regarding the validity of
I their claims, but simply with a view to remind the
members of the Board that, in fixing their choke,
they must look for something more than Emir words
Mel professions. The first requisite in a Chairman is
leisplahmee, both of temper and position. The
neat is that blended firmness and suavity whisk
enables a president to keep oaten to the point
mittens unduly encroaching on the liberty of debate.
UM, comes some practical expedites. be dealing with
tits espies likely to come seder dismission at
the Board, and a sound preetisal jedgmaat be aeon-
posted emergencies, or when now toples are lereashod.
It than qualities are united is any sae of the throe
fins-named candidates, let the choice of the Board fall
epee him ; if not, there is no necessity for weaning
• *sir regards to the volunteer solicitors for ofike—let
them search among their fellow-citisons till they dad
a better man. The Chairman, be he who he may, is
emote be besieged by Government, seeking to tern
hEm patronage into convenient shansols on the one
had; and by jobbing projectors, engineers, Wag*
taste, and contractors, of all shapes, mime, aid
dimensions. on the other. A man with WM, of
purpose, and a will of his own, is indispeassMe.

IT is not without some experience of the lite-
rag capacities and tastes of uneducated or half-eds.'
cared men that we speak of the fatal error which we
have found pervading the naiads of patreas et the
poor, from one end of the kingdom to the ether;
mid all that we hoar from the seat of war
about the soldiers' reading coefinse oar low
established opinion. The mistake we refer to is that
of regarding the minds of uneducated uses asehildieL
Nothing can be more mischievous them this. Is the
present case, the soldiers are ea little like being chil-
dren as philosophers. They know life; they know
passion ; they know human affairs sad interests In a
way which makes their point of view, is regard to
literature, as unlike that of children as if they were
tow time. wiser than they are. Yet, Rot owl, have
the Clapham Scheel and their followers erammed
model with tracts which eves small chains have a
right to resent, but the very beet totems (la an ex•
peso maser) for the popular reading have Mee
isto the erne (not to my sin) of writing dews to tie
leveler mind. almost every poplar serial .1 the
wont time Is written with the IMSIMIN ll= whisk