The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-12 00:00:00

OFFICIAL DESPATCH

FROM

FIELD-MARSHAL
LORD RAGLAN.

[FROM A SUPPLEMENT TO FRIDAY'S GAZETTE.)

WAR DEPARTMENT, FEB. 12.

Lord Panmure has this day received a despatch and
its enclosures, of which the following are copies, ad-
dressed to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, by Field-
Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.B.
Before Sebastopol, Jan. 27, 1855.
My Lord Duke, —I have the satisfaction to acquaint
your grace that the weather continues fine. There are
severe frosts at night ; but the elm shines brightly
through the day, and there is an absence of wind, which,
whilst it continued, added considerably to the sufferings
of the troops.
Every exertion is making by public transport, and in-
dividually, i❑ getting huts up ; but this is a most diffi-
cult operation, and the ground is still so rotten that it is
a most arduous labour to pass along it.
The extremely confined space of Balaklava, and vast
accumulation of stores, has obliged me to erect huts at
some distance outside the town for their reception.
I inclose the lists of casualties to the 25th instant in-
clusive.—l have, &c.,

RAGLAN.
His Grace the Duk© of Newcastle, &c., &c.

Enclosure 1.

RETURN OF CASUALTIES FROM 22D TO 25TH
JAN., 1855.
Scots Fusilier Guards-2 rank and file, wounded
Ist Regiment of Foot-1 rank and file, wounded
17th Regiment-1 rank and file, wounded.
28th Regiment— 3 rank anl file, wounded.
30th Regiment-1 rank and file, wounded.
38th Regiment-3 rank and file, wounded.
44th Regiment-1 rank and file, wounded.
Ist Bat,'%lion Rifle Brigade-2 rank and file, wounded.
Totv-14 rank and file, wounded.
J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT,
Adj utant-General,

Enclosure 2.

NOMINAL RETURN OF NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES WOUNDED
FROM JAN. 22 TO JAN. 25, INCLUSIVE.

WOUNDED.
JAN. 22.
Scots Fusilier Guards.
Private James Able, severely
Private George Smith, severely
17th Regiment of Foot.
Private Thomas Lottos, severely, since dead
2Sth Regiment of Foot.
Private John Rogers, slightly
Ist Battalion Rifle Briga
Private Henry Ralph, slightly
Private Edmund Dyer, slightly

JAN. 23.
Ist Regiment if Foot.
Private William Lawler, severely
38th Regiment of Fo9t.
Private James Shearman, severely
Private Ati,tin Fitzgibbon, slightly
Private El \%in Elsie, severely

JAN. 24.
28th Regiment of Foot.
Private Richard MeGainey, beverely

JAN. 25.
Private Patrick Hogan, severely
30th Regiment of Foot.
Private William Strip, severely
44th Regiment of Foot.
Private A. Matson, slightly
J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT,
Adjutant-General.

LITERATURE.

The Martins of Cro' Martin. Nos. 1., 11., and
111. By Charles Lever.
As welcome to us as flowers iu May, or ices in
August, or humming ale in December, are the two
pink leaves put forth at stated intervals by the
monthly rose of our old, trusty, and right pleasant
friend Harry Lorrequer. There would really seem
to be an inexhaustible fecundity in his imagination.
For scarcely has the double number, xix. and
xx., made its Siamese-like entree into the world
of letters—bringing Mr. Lever's last new work to
a merry conclusion (for they all end merrily by a
sort of right prescriptive)—when the prospectus of
some blithe successor is sure, within a very brief
interval, indeed, to make its accustomed appear-
ance. It has been thus with) ur novelist from the
commencement—from the commencement of bis
career—as the most roystering and rollicking of the
periodical contributors to light literature. Nay,
we remember well enough, in illustration of his
prolific capacity as a fictionist, how once upon a
time one of the liveliest of his stories rose out of its
ashes after the manner of that paragon of poultry,
the phoenix—the chief portion of the tale in question
having been consumed accidentally in MS., while
the earlier instalments were in actual course of
publication. Whereupon Mr. Lever needed only
the aid for a couple of fortnights of his ready friend,
and yet readier-writer, Mr. G. P. R. James, to fill
up the gap of a single issue ley some aptly-told
tale of conflagration—while the real Simon Pure of
the seri d reproduced chapter after chapter (out of
the magical blending, we may presume, of fancy
and of memory), the incidents which had
been originally recounted by him in the ill-
fated manuscript, destroyed while its hierogly-
phics were being translated into the verna-
cular of legible typography. Ex uno disce
fames, or rather—ex pede Ilerculem. The
occurrence here reverted to is, we take it, suffi-
ciently significant of Mr. Lever's fruitfulness of in-
vention and energy of penmanship, being, as it is,
ngst us
one among the more notableeventsi in h
progress since the period of his advent amongst
literary
ginning 3
through the pages
psosw
eagreeablymeanof
editedthe
under his own auspices, h
gay and scholarly Dublin University Magazine.
An advent, it
may
any b e
timorous well
remembered,
o l/
wordsa
-
of
nounced.Not by
propitiation,
but by the boisterous hilarity and
4, Harry Lorrequer," a subaltern in a
the devil-rue-care swagger of that unconscionable
regiment. Hardly had we recovered
marching
gco
from the laughter provoked, peal after peal, by the
equicoques and contretemps, by the mingled blarney
and badinage of that wild outburst of Irish animal
spirits, than our risibility was yet further taxed by
oar author with an unscrupulousness as glaring as
might be expected from the Comic Chancellor of the
Exchequer in the Realms of Nonsense, under the
premiership of Rigdum Funnidos, and the sway of
the burlesque sceptre of some high and mighty
Crononhotonthologos. For forth came the second
and what we cannot but still regard as incompar-
ably the best, the wittiest, the liveliest, the most
genuinely and spontaneously humorous of all
Charles Lover's effusions—to wit, his namesake
"Charles O'Malley'," of the famous 14th Light Di a-
greens. Afterwards appeared what promised to be a
collective publication of story after story from the
hand of our novelist—a work generically entitled
" Our Mess," but ono which, notwithstanding all
its early promise and intrinsic merit, ceased as pre-
maturely and proved to be altogether as much a
failure as the yet more renowned omniant,
gather of Harry Lorrequer's illustrious con-
temporary Boz viz., " Master HuraPhreY 8,
Clock." Precisely, however, as the last-meutionell
serial gave birth to the " Old Curiosity Shop" and
to " Barnaby Badge," go also did Mr, l'eYer's