The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-15 00:00:00

MISTAKES IN OUR RAS'

Ntlizaous though the Eng
who are thinkiag of joining tl
Reform Association, there will be
will only think of doing so ;
always a multitude of men who,
another, join no associations wits
remain outside must now, howe
duty in demanding certain ree
steadily and emphatically as if the
popular agitation. They must Be
as they are concerned, there shall
sale slaughter without bloodshed c
East, through bad management.
co-operate, or do not find it count
proper to hold off from the ne
obtain Administrative Reform, ti

their minds about any mistako
certainly committed in our
We must all say, in a way not to
that we will not and cannot end
misery of seeing lives thrown a
and incapacity, and devoted ser
infliction of pain and death. 'l'
camp in the winter were arreei
the cry of public indignation ; ai
our warfare in the summer mum
irresistible popular demand for
vigilance in the management o
army.
It is scarcely credible (yet the
seems indisputable) that in the
oar soldiers wore their stocks, e
by suffocation, between the bo
throats and the tightness of tl
What Sir GEORGE BROWN can

men marching, under a hot sun, ii
has happened, and all the comme,
him, is inconceivable. He must
body in England—every recruit,
may become a soldier, and ever]
might otherwise become soldier
how hundreds in a regiment hal
left behind on a march, fainting
from the pressure of their do
having given way with a bad
remonstrance which could not 1
Sir GEORGE BROWN again mar
the same dress and with the
reports that daring the whole
one man wounded. It is to be
soon have to report how many of
shins have failed to reach are
ness and carelessness. It will nc
on the climate, since the Freud]
our soldiers, and the Turks s
suffered at all. If the commas(
prevent the use of the tight co
sacks, for want of substitutes,
answerable for the stock, and, c
sickness and death resulting frc
And what is the meaning
without shelter from the heavy
heating on the march? Was
last autumn about the French
possible that, after all the mo
vend, our soldiers are nnpn
that form ? If the little ter
were they not in use in the let
are not provided, how is su
cased? We have the means
perils of a summer campaign
South Russia really are ; and
is, make a demand which cant
obeyed, that our army shall
provided for than in the wince
The way to learn managem
foreign climate is to observe s
Well, on the steppe, no man, w
help it,lies down to rest expose
One important circumstance, 4
our late successes in the Sea of
' to any considerable amount cs
Taganrog and the other tos
goer. The oorn and flour whi
are most certainly the conten
the large accumulations whi
shores to meet the needs of
above and below, and the vai
11 Transport is to the last degr
its most prosperous condi
roads are in the best state, s
travel fifteen miles a day.
indigenous march wear cloths
i heavy*. their winter dress, 1
weight hanging from the sh
belt round the loins. Th,
without shelter. They craw
tin; down some sort of cu
the light, if their carte do not
So much for the waggoners.
fowlers, they are equally cal
up the ravines and watercou
fowl, are perfectly aware of
peading over the see of fin
any shore of those seas. 1
lushes in the swamps, or to g
the perpetrator to Siberia ; n
sissperate mischief caused b
where everything, animal an
of hundreds of miles, is lii
because the reeds and rushes
for covering, where the inho
way of timber. The fowls
under reed roofs, or rushy psi
huts are of the same materis
wood. Now, here is one nu
already—a very short one, e
yet they dropped by the woe
oertainly will be—more and
Where are the sheltering
kept Frenchmen dry while
lag in mud below and
In Crimean marches the nil
in defiles, or among tilled
or on the steppe : and evi
dangerous from dews, and
miasma. Everywhere the
drive healthy men into ken
delirium, exhaustion, and
is provided ? Will the oc
I wear stocks in summer
bags? or will they insis
mosquitoes en regls I '
for mismanagement in a
are inhabitants there is
manners and customs, rj
climate. Every man Is
aught to know what in
Europeans of the Crime
western appliances of
nourishing kind, r.suGht tc
found among Rr.esians,
for want of it. Spirituou
ought tsbe rixoluded. by
better--seeing th.t she
their fosci
Muds., PAcust'Jmed as 03
i_lsitst'S tile indigenous
and drink w
, and have better t
is 'other matters, in avoil
'or moon, or at all withot
against mosquitoes and
clothing of every kiwi,
taught by the as*" par