The Press.
London, England, 1857-11-14 00:00:00

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MIMES EPROUVEES PAR L'AIIIIEE.
tie chiffre des tleces, ala date du 30 mars 1856,
62,492
s'elovait
bepuis cette 6poque jusqua'it la fin di l'evacuation
(periode du typhus et du cholera, il est mort
4,504 'townies ), ci

Total des feces eonstates 47,036
Le nonibre des 'mottles disparus qu'il y a lieu de
porter au compte des pertes de l'armee est de 1,781
Militaires qui out peri dans le naufrage de la
Semi ..

Total des pertea de l'armee

RETOUR.
Militaires rentra isolaleut en convalescence ou
- - -

69;229

o:,,009

en conge
L'effectif de l'arrnee d'Orient, att 30
mars 1850, e.tait de 110,210 nommes,
140,210
ci
Savoir :En Crimea 120,170
En Turquie: 148,240
Sous lee acmes
15,310 25,761
Aux hOpitaux
10,448
chiffre des aces survenus ppntlant
l'evacuation est, aiasi qu'on l'a vit
plus mit, de
li
11 est done revenu d'Orient depai.s la ---
signature de la pall
Corps rappeles de l'armee avant la signature de
la pair ..

Total des hommea revenus de l'arniee 227,135
RESUME.
On a transportsen Orient
Les pertes de l'annee stmt. de

2440,039
11 est reveals d'Orient en France et en Algerie.. 227,13.)

Difference
Dans ce dernier chitfre sont compris, (rune part, tous
les individus qui, sans etre lies au drapeau, sont partis
avec l'armee ou ass suite, et, trautre part, les offi2ieri et
soldats qui ont ete embargues phisieurs fois pour l'Orient.
Ce sont des militaires relives en France en convalescence
ou en cone et qui sont retournes a Farmers apres leur
retahlissement on respiration de leur conge : As figurent
au moins deux fois daus le chiffee total des hommes

embargoes.
Dr. Bryce impugns the veracity of this re.

port :
The military critic needs not to have pointed out the
very equivocal terms employed in this tabular statement.
It is for others that I venture to indicate certain ano-
malies and misleading phrases. (1) By effective strength
(reffecliv) is usually meant soldiers fit for immediate
active service ; hut in this category are numbered the
ambulance sick in the Crimea on the 30th Mandl, who,
according to M. Baudens, amounted to 19,048 in the
preceding month; besides the above 10,448 under treat-
ment in hospitals on the Bosphorus on the very day
when the report calls them eifectives. By this means
the War Minister augments his numerical belligerent
force by upwards of 30,000 nominally effective troops, and
so makes it appear dint 73.41 per cent. of the Crimean
army was restored to France after the signature of peace
in a fit condition to have continued active hostilities—a
demonstrable fallacy. (2) Fifteen thousand troops, col-
lected in the regimental sick depots outside Constan-
tinople and elsewhere, are similarly designated and regis-
tered. (3) The Ministerial reporter allows himself a
margin of 12,400 men not specifically accounted for. With
regard to this rather considerable item, being, in the
phraseology of the report, " une difference eutre les en-
vois de troupes et des hommes revenus de l'arinee," it is
obscurely explained thet the number is made up in pact
of persons subsequently disrated as soldiers, though so
classed and counted on embarkation, and in part of
others who, returning from and proceeding to the East
oftener than once, were in consequence reckoned as mul-
tiples of a single individual, and thus to an indefinite
degree enhancing the parer strength of the army. Mili-
tary readers may probably extract a more professional
meaning Clan the writer is able to do out of the original
text, for which purpose ti.e passage is given. They will
please to remark that in the " deport" of the report the
total are called " troupes," in the " retour,' " hommes."
Ought the " difference " to go to the reduction of the
former sum and consequent proportionate increment of
losses by death and otherwise? or is it simply a novel
mode of balancing the debit and credit sides of an impe-
rial expenditure of which the particulars cannot be pro-
duced—a device for concealing the disappearance from
the muster-roll of any number of persons not otherwise
accounted for?—in which category French surgeons have
assured Inc were many hundreds embarked at Kamiesch
for hospitals on the Bosphorus, but who found a resting-
plaee mid-channel. M. Baudens declares that, at one
time, two hundred soldiers died daily between the Crimea
and Constantinople. Another strange avowal for a mili-
tary return is that 1,780 men have unaccountably dis-
appeared—" disparus." They are added to the total loss,
bat no records vouch for the time, place, or manner of
their deaths. Hence is obvious the impossibility of
making a really just and useful comparison between the
losses by deaths sustained by the two armies respectively
—the terms and elements of calculation furnished by
each not being equivalent. Moreover, the French War
Minister's report dues not, except in one instance, dis-
tinguish betwixt the deaths, the result of actual fighting,
and those from camp diseases alone. This important dis-
tinction is made in the English published returns. Again,
the latter distinguish the numbers invalided, while the