The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-05 00:00:00

Off Gallipoli, on board the Magdalena, Dee. 23.

A f.rtnight ago this day I left my home for the Cri-
mea. Several of my friends and neighbours had intrusted
to my care th.eir offerings to our brave troops in that
country'sdie-
. warfare. At the stations of
the l
South-Eastern righton Railways, on which I
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;1n ydayto
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Portsmouth, I inquired if
those packages might be all Owed to pass free. Not only
was the boon granted most readily at both, but every care
was taken to inform the servants at all the stations
where I had to stop on their respective lines of my be-
ing in the train ; and every attention and civility, as
well as many warmly expressed good wishes greeted me
on my arrival, and were offered on my departure without
a singlefee was remitted on the two occasions when it was ne-
cessary for myself of those great conve-
t me
exception.
to avail Even the ordinary "cloak-room "
conve-
niences. My packages consisted mainly of blankets,
articles of warm clothing, zw.
I ant sure you will excuse my troubling you to ex-
press my gratitude, both on behalf of myself and our
brave troops, on such an occasion'; and if you think it
to do so. InYletter you are at full liberty
worth while to publish

I have the honour to subFeribe myself, my dear Sir,
Very truly yourS,
bAN.
A,sistant OMeial Chaplain to the Army in the EIS'

is
the Maudlin-street Station, in Kilkenny, to coin.
from a sub-constable, late o.
radTeh;:ollowin,;

4C Camp near Balaklava, Crimea, Dec. 7, 1854.
44 ' There are twO sides to every picture.' Up to the
time we came to BalaklaVa' We had good times, but in-
deed the discomforts we are going through now sou
could scarcely believe. We left the Joseph Shepherd on
arney the
of eon our
braveand countrymen fell. You
could not believe that the fine army of England is re-
duced to what it is out here. The few horses that are
left are scarcely able to carry their hides, and the poor
men, from the cold and hardship they are going through,
ust
e wherele to
s o w h
me
are scarcely able to walk. . It is admitted by old sol-
diers to be the severest campaign that the English have
been engaged in for the last century. The guesian
army that engaged our troops on the sth are encamped
about three miles on our right rear ; we can see quite
plain, sitting in our tents, the Cossack sentries, and of
course they can see ours. We have batteries placed in
good position, and it would require -a great force to dis-
lodge us. Our (the constabulary) duty at present is the
keeping the passages clear about Dalaklava, and where
there is such great traffic, takingforagc and everything else
that a great army requires, from Dalaklava to where the
main body of the army is encamped near Sebastopol. The
roads are knee deep with mud, and to see poor men and
horses dragging and pulling along the road it would strike
pity into any person's heart. There is a good deal of the
men dying ; they take cramps from the cold of their
feet. The hospitals here are full, and they are sending
tthem in shiploads to Scutari every day. We hive an
almost constant cannonading up at Sebastopol, and I
ii
believe the besieged burn the most powder. The French
are admittedly before the English, both in being able to
carry on the war' in a foreign country, and in their ad•
vance on Sebastopol. By what I can hear the Russian
fleet are protecting the town, and must he dislodged be-
fore the place can be talcen. The Allied forces are
throwing up batteries to play on the fleet. The Rus-
sians sally out at night to take the batteries and are
beaten back again, and I believe that is the way things
are going on there. The weather as yet is not colder
than in Ireland, but when a man gets wet to the skin he
has no place to go to but a cold tent : when he gets up in
the morning he must go about collecting Wood to boil
his breakfast, which consists of green coffee, which must
be roasted on the stable shovel, pounded and thrown into
the water—=that, with some biscuit, is our breakfast •, bis-
cuit and salt-beef our dinner ; supper same as breakfast
We get 2 glasses of rum a day, which is chiefly the thing
that keeps life in ; but we hope it won't be always as
bad as it is now: If Sebastopol was once taken our condi-
tion would be better. Why, it it is not taken, and that the
troops have to winter here, history will record another
1812. Some of the mounted Staff corps are in excellent
health and spirits ; and I myself never was in better
health and spirits ; and we h•Spe,• with the Divine assis-
tance, to rub out and return to our native country again.
Only two of our men died—one a mounted man from
Waterford, named Maguire, the other one of the Eng-
lish constabulary."

WrcH KILLED BY HER HUsnAlits. —The inquest on
Ellen Bruin, the wife of Joseph 'Bruin, a waiter, who
was killed by her husband throwing a teakettle at her,
,t 3 described in Me Sea of yesterday, terminated on
Wednesday evening, in a verdict of manslaughter
against the husband, who was committed for trtal at the
Liverpool assizes.