The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-23 00:00:00

A GOOD SOLDIER.

The following is the copy of a letter addressed to
the hissed Hospita6Bergeaat Tarley, 191$ Regieteet, by

tin saroese of tbO earn Sergeant Turley died lately fa
semaspanos of fatigue sad exposure before Sebastopol, sad
the Inter bean testiany to his hisb *hamster sad saleable
services. The letter is silks hoonieble to the writer, and
tr kin whose merits it records.

!. To Mr. Simon Clarke, Mklow.

"Camp, above Sebastopol, 26th February, 1855.
" lad that Hospital-ge►geaat Turley, 19th /Logi-
meat, lately sent yes a sues of mosey, that you might give
it to hie mat, Mrs. Ward, midis( seer Attlee,. I write
now to ask you to perform the melancholy task of informing
her of his death. He died es the 24th instant,
sad wee buried yesterday is the revise near to our
camp. The commanding sad every other officer of
the regiment off duty followed his remains to the
grave, and a great proportion of the sea-coramissiossed
alders and privates. This tribute of respect is a sufficient
proof of the estimation to which Sergeant Turley was held
►y the officers of the regiment in which he served, as well
u by his comrades ; and it will, doubtless, ►e a wares of
coseolatioa to his relatives to know that he was so much
esteemed by them .
" I ass desirous that yen would ales express to his nas-
tiness my own feelings of eiteeedieg regret at his loos. I had
served with Sergeant Turley for some years past, to the
West lodise sad in North America ; and ever deco the
return of the regiment to Beglaad, in 1661, I have had ►im
constantly ander my immediate observation in the hospital.
During this period, I have feverishly known him to be a
painstaking upright soldier, cad heard of one instance
in which he wee charged with as act of moral or military
asiscorultest. He displayed particular activity, and, in
several instances, great personal cottage, while acting as
sergeant of military polies in Canada. He showed marked
moral courage as hospital sergeant daring the prevalence of
cholera is Salmis, and was aneusing is kindness and st-
amina to kis ask and dying seenowles. His tioasteat eau-
Noe, ►y day and night, and ezpoure, especially daring the
animus which has prevailed daring the last two swaths,
weskesed his constitution very ammiderably ; sad to this
debility, more than to any distinct malady, I attribute his
death. I have lost in hire a very able as•istant is the
hospital duties; and the rsgimest has lost a valuable non•
sommissitused siker, who outset be easily replaced.
"A short time slam, in coojeactioa with the captain of
his company, I recommended him for the 201. annuity, or
for the medal and gratuity, given by a recent royal warrant
for distinguished service in the field. The commanding
officer coasidered, however, that these grants applied only to
gallant canon In action with the enemy, otherwise. I have
ao doubt, his nag service and exeellint character would
have procured fee him one of these marks of dbtioction.
"I shall forward to your care a watch, which he moally
were, by the first opportunity I sea find. Hie other effects
will be alcioaated for in the anal way.

.. Pieme to communicate the *patents of this letter to
Sergeant Tarley's relatives—my I condole with thous on
1 their law, and that I had hoped he would have hems spared
to return home tome as a support sad comfort to the. after
the term of his military &orrice had expired.—Believe me,
yours obediently,
.' Twouaa Loiroxonn, Surgeon,l9th Best."