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London, England, 1854-08-17 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1854.

in hand, in accordance with the existing eGnditions of
charter-party in respect to hired transports, from six
months' to two months' arrears of pay. This altera-
tion.will be applied to all existing arrangements where
the partied are willing to make a reasonable reduction
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in the rate of freight.
Yesterday the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
determined that all ships hired as transports for the
conveyance of troops or freight must be supplied, at
the expense of the owners, with three or more of the fire-
annihilator machines, and the necessary number of ad-
ditional charges.
Yesterday the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
gave.notice at the Underwriters' and Merchants'-rooms
at Lloyd's in the Royal Exchange, as also at Liverpool,
that they require a number of good coppered ships, of
from 600 to 800 tons burden (new measurement), to be
employed in the regular transport of troops for three
months certain, and further, should the public service
require them, at the rate of 20s. per ton per calendar
month, to take the place of others in the Black Sea.
These ships are all to be armed, in accordance with the
regulations previously issued by their lordships with re-
spect to transport ships.
The hired transport Maidstone, Captain Escott, which
came in contact with the brig Seaton Sluice of the
Start, and has been repaired at the Devonport,dock-
yard, sailed on Monday with troops for the Cape of Good
Hope. ---
OFFICIAL VISIT TO WOOLWICH.

Rear-Admiral the Hon. Richard Saunders Du, das,
C. 8., and Captain Peter Richards, C. 8., Lords of the
Admiralty, arrived at the Royal Marine Barracks, Wool-
wich, at half-past 11 o'clock yesterday, and were received
by the Royal Marines, under the command of Colonel
Samuel B. Ellis, C. 8., the men presenting arms and the
:)and playing the National Anthem. Their Lordships,
I.companied by the Commandant of the Division, Col.
-;1R. Wtllesley, Assistant-Adjutant-General, and staff

,fficers, proceeded to inspect-the men, and expressed
.liemselves highly pleased with their clean and excellent
,ppearance. The companies then marched past at slow
ind quick time, headed by the band, and under the corn-
nand df-Lieu.-Colonel Mitford.' Their Lordships next
,roceeded to the building erected for ship-gun drill prac-
. ice, where they were received by Capt. Paine, instruc-
tor in naval gunnery. They there witnessed the instruc-
tion the men of the Royal Marines receive in tying knots,
in splicing ropes, and other duties of the blue jackets,
,vhich render the marine corps so useful when sent to
jilt) a ship on her being commissioned. The great gun
.xeicise was carried on with eight 32-pounder guns, and
vas performed with a celerity of movement and preci-
non which elicited their Lordships' highest approbation,
the practice on each occasion of loading being with double
32-pounder shot. On•leaving the ship gun drill exercise
their lordships paid a visit to the boys' and girls' schools,
mid appeared pleased with the clean and neat manner in
which the children were attired, and the satisfactory pro-
;less of their instruction, considering their age. From
the schools their lordships proceeded to the Hospital or
Royal Marine Infirmary, over which they were conducted
by Dr. Christie and Dr. Jenkins, Dr. 0. Evans, Deputy
Inspector of Hospitals, being absent on leave. The wards
for the patients were all very clean, well ventilated; and
,ept in the best order. The noncommissioned officers'
library was next visited, and, then proceeding to the
Mint of the barracks, they inspeeted the barrack .rooros
ror the men, and at the rear the lavatories and baths for
then. accommodation.

Their lordships left the barracks at a quarter.past one
p.m., after expressing their great satisfaction to Colonel
'Ellis at all they had witnessed.
On arriving at the dockyard their lordships entered the
official residence of Commodore Shepherd, and shortly
after proceeded to the basin at the west end of the yard,
to inspeet the Arrow screw steam despatch gun-boat,
expected to be ready for sea this afternoon. Their lord:
ships went on board and remained upwards of an hour,
inspecting the various details of the new description of
gun-boat. The Beagle, another of the *despatch gun-
boats, has been masted, and her two 68-pounder oval guns
of 95 cwt. each have been brought from the Royal Arj
sepal and placed alongside, ready to be put on board;
The Arrow, in addition to her two 68-pounder-oval guns,
has received and mounted two 12-pounder brass howit4
zers, each weighing 10 cwt., and they are placed aeterij
of the large guns.
Their lordships having concluded their inspection left
the dockyard by the factory-gate at a quarter past three
o'clock p.m., on their return to the Admiralty.

take the place of the Ist Lancashire in Portemcnith
garrison.

The Royal South Lincoln Militia arrived in garrison,
at Chichester, on the 14th inst., from Grantham.
A detachment from the depots quartered in Ninchester
proceeded, on the 15th instant, to do duty in the Tower
of London.
Yesterday a detachment of the Royal Artillery was
marched to the Royal Mint, Tower•hill, to guard that
establishment.

The head-quarters of the 51st Regiment left Chatham
yesterday, and proceeded, rid Gravesend and Blackwall,
to the North-Western Railway, where a special train
was in readiness to carry the men on to Manchester.
The 94th having received their arms from the Tower,
have been inspected by Major-General Beresford, who
was highly pleased with the regiment.
The departure of Col. Walker, of the Fuelleer Guards,
for the East, by-the Harbinger, has been countermanded,
in consequence of there not being accommodation on
board that steamer for more than the horses of Sir G.
Cathcart and his staff.

Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel Broughton has
been appointed commanding Royal Engineer in Ports-
mouth garnson, vice Sir Frederick Smith, C. 8., pro-
moted to the rank of major-general in the army.

THE ESSEX RIFLE MILITIA AND THEIR
LATE COLONEL,
A circular memorandum has been' Walled from 'the
Horse Guards, which states :--

" The Essex -Regiment of Rifle' Militia having re-
ceived orders to move from the Tower of London to
Ganterbuly, the. General Commanding-in• Chief desires
to express to the commanding officers, non-commissioned
officers, and men, his entire satisfaction for their very
exemplary conduct during the time they have per-
formed the grrrison duties of the Tower.
• " The General Coutmanding-in•Chief deeply laments
the loss which themilitia service hal sustained by_ Lteut.•
Colonel Lord-Jocelyn's dead; and he colidoles with the
Essex Rifle Militia or losing a cominandini, officer• who
had so entirely gained their attachment by attention
to their welfare, and their confidence by his professional
abilities.

THE WEST' INDIES.
The large ships on the %Vest India station seem to
have been everywhere but the right place, and nothing
larger than the colonial built 3-gun schooner Bermuda
was to be lound at Grey town to witness the atrocities of
the American corvette Cyane. Had the Calypso, 18,
Captain Forbes, or the 'Vestal, 26, Captain Thompson,
or even the little brig Expre.s, been there, the Yankee
yvould not have dared to do that for which he will
assuredly be called to account. The fact is the force in
the West Indies, as on all other stations, has been Most
injudiciously reduced to swell the Baltic and Black Sea
fleets. The good old rule has not been observed, that
wherever a foreign man-of-war may present himself he
will fihd British pendant of superior force. Some of
these days we shall have a catastrophe to deplore much
more serious than the Greytown affair, which is only
comparable With; th,e,,Sinope massacre. It is Russian
all hver.

The Calypso was at Antigua on the 24th ult.
Buzzard, 6, paddle, Commander W. H. Dobbie, was
at St. John's Newfoundland, 25th July, all well.
The Arab, 14, Commander Ogle, arrived at Barbadoes
from the coast of Africa station, on the 18th nit.
THE BRAZILS. —The Vixen, 6, paddle, Commander F.
L. Barnard, was at Monte Video, July 3, all well, about
to leave for Buenos Ayres, and expecting again to go up
the Panama with Mr. Gore. The Madagascar, store-
ship ; Sharpshooter, 87- iron screw, Lieutenant Corn•
mander Parish ; and Bonetta, 3, Lieutenant-Commander
Charles Wake, were at Rio. The Trident, 6, iron-
paddle, sailed on a cruise on the .11th July. The Ex-
press, 6, Commander Boys, was at Bahia.

SECOND COURT-MARTIAL ON LIEUT.
PERRY, AT WINDSOR.

FOURTEENTH DAY—WEDNESDAY.
The Court appointed to try Lieutenant James Ed-
ward Perry,. of the 46th Regiment,• assembled at the
Infantry Barracks, Windsor, this morning, Colonel
James Edward Kelly, of the provisional battalion,
presiding.
Major Stuart, late of the 46th Regiment, was then
called and sworn.

Prisoner-- Were you until recently a major in the
"46th RegiMent ?
Witness—l was.
Prisoner—Do you know Mr. M'Gregor, the army
agent
Witiess—l do.
PiiSnner—Will you look at the letter produced, and
say whether you believe the same to be in his hand.
writing ?
Witness.L.-I think it is all his handwritioit. The sii!
nature I am sure is his ; the first part of it seems written
differently.
•
Prisoner—The letter is now put in.
The Deputy Judge Advocate the.' read the following
letter :

Dublin, previous to the regiment coming to this
country.
• Colonel 'Fordyce then read the charge, and it was s-
matter of surprise that it had not been done earlier.
By the Court—Do you know that Colonel Garrett re-
proached Lieutenant Perry for reporting, and. called
him a fool for his pains
Witness—l do not,
By the Court—ls it within your knowledge that Lieu-
tenant Perry made a threat to the colonel,. either
_by
word of mouth or in writing, that he would appeal to
the general of the district
Witness-4t is not.
By the Court—Are yon aware of Colonel Garrett re-
primanding an officer for annoying Lieutenant Perry,
and was Lieutenant Perry subject to annoyance after
this reprimand ?
Witness—l am not at all aware of the circumstances,
either of the reprimand or of the subsequent.annoyance.
By the Court—Will you state the particular case
when the complaint was made and was ineffectual, and
when did it happen ?
Witness—The case of ill-treatment—or of practical
joke—alluded to by myself was that of a subaltern of my
own company ; it was Ensign Bythesea, in 1842.
Major-General Wetherall—l wish that answer to be
recorded. You might as well go back to the battle of
Waterloo. I only protest against your going back so
many years. Oar labours will be endless ; but Ido en-
treat that every answer may be recorded.
President—The question and answer are both ordered
to be recorded.
By the Court—Were you present with the regiment
in the Linen.liall Barracks, Dublin, when the occurrencts4
alluded to in the charge took place!
Witness—l. was present with the regiment all the
time while it was in the Linen-hall Barracks, with the
exception of a few days' leave—perhaps a week. I lived,
however, in lodgings.
By the Court—To your knowledge, was Lieutenant
Perry more subjected to tnose practical jokes than the
other younz officers. ~
Witness—l have no knowledge that he was.
By the Court—Was Captain Nicholas in the habit of
annoying young officers on joining the regiment, or of
aiding or abetting others in so doing ?
Witness—l have no knowledge whether he was or

was not.
By the Court—You stated that you bad reason to
,believe that Major Maxwell bad ordered young officers
to be brought down out of their beds ; can you state
any particular case of your own knowledge ?
Witness—l have been told that he had done so ; but
I have no knowledge of any particular case.
By the Court—What reason can you then have for
believing it.
Witness--Because I have already said that I was
told so, and I believe what I was told, I can name, if
the Court wish it, the officer who told me.
Prisoner—l should like to have the name.
Witness—l will mention the name now, if the Court

wishes it.
The Court was then cleared. After a lapse of a quarter
of an hour, the Court was re-opened, and
The President stated that the Court had decided that
the name of the officer should be mentioned.
Witness—lt was Captain Hardy, of the 46th Regi-
ment. • • • •
By the Court—lf Lieut. Perry had threatened to ap-
peal to the general, would- not the circumstance hate
come to your knowledge ? "
Witness—Such a circumstance might have happened
very readily without coming to my knowledge.
By the Court—Could Lieutenant Perry's threatening •
to make a, report to the general of the district have been
the subject 3f common conversation; and could his so-
ciety have .been shunned in consequence, wtihout your
being aware of either circumstance ? •
Witness—lt might.
Prisoner—May I ask the priVilege of putting one
question through to Court, the prevent the necessity of
;laving of having the witness recalled ?
The President—Yes.
Prisoner (through the Courts—May I request you to
explain why you lived out of barracks, as you, being a
Inajor, could always secure apartments in the barracks
Witness—There were only two field offi3ers' quarters
in the barracks.
The witness then retired.
Private Edward Lawler, of the B company, the servant
of Lieutenant Perry, was then called, and the charge was
read over to him by Colonel, Fordyce. He was then
sworn.

Prisoner—Do you recollect me being on detachment
it Cork when under the command of Captain Colin
.'2ampbell, and do you recollect my writing a letter to you
irom Middleton, telling you to go and get an answer from
Captain Campbell relative to my leave ?
Witness—Yes, sir.
Prisoner—What were my instructions in that letter ?
Witness—To ascertain from Captain Campbell whether
Lieut. Perry was to get leave for the day following, and
if he did not get leave I was to go over by the three
o'clock mail car next morning to Middleton ; and if he
did get leave, I was not to go. I went to the mess-
waiter, who was attending the officers at the time, and
asked him to ask Captain Campbell if Mr. Perry had
got leave for the day following, and he told me that it
was all right, I was to go by the three o'clock car, to
let Mr. Perry know if he had not been given leave, in
order that he might be in time for the 11 o'clock parade
Prisoner—What mess was that ; and was it not a pri-
Jate mess between Lieutenant Shervinton and other
olicers in the barrack ; and was I a member of that mess?
Witness—To the best of my belief, Captain Campbell,
Lieutenant M`A.lester, and Lieutenant Shervinton dined
ogether in Mr. Shervinton's room. I never knew Mr.
Perry to dine with them.
Prisoner—Will you inform the court what state my
roam used to be in in the morning ? Was or was not my
hirt torn and my umbrella broken in the Linen-hall
Barracks, Dublin ?
Witness—ln the Linen-hall Barracks, Dublin, I have
known Mr. Perry's room-door to be broken, the lower
panel of it, the latch-lock burst and broken off, his broken
candles thrown on the floor and smeared on the boards.
The collar of his night-shirt was torn, and his room was
very " unregular," his things all knocked about in it.
The catch of hie umbrella was broken. He could not
open it. That is all I know about its being broken.
No questions were put to this witness either by the
prosecutor or the court.
Lieutenant Lennard, late of the 46th Regiment, was
then called.
Prisoner—l believe he is not here. I think a medica
certificate has been sent to state he is unable to come, in
consequence of an attack of diarrheca. I have not seen
the certificate myself ; but I understand it has been put
into the hands of my solicitor.
The Deputy Judge-Advocate said—l will read it, if it
required ; but,
The Prisoner expressed himself quite satisfied, and
.vould nut trouble the Court with the reading of the cer-
ificate.
The President—lt is nearly two o'clock ;we will ad-
journ for ten minutes.
Prisoner—Before you adjourn, will you allow me to
,ay a few words ? What I have to state may probably
fiuse an adjournment till to-morrow. He then addressed
the Court as follows :—Mr. Lennard, who has been
.;ummoned as a witness on my behalf, is, I understand
moo ill to attend. Ensign Stretton is now in the Turkish
,ervice, and cannot, I fear, be obtained. Captain
O'Toole, Captain Hardy, Lieutenant Shervington, and
Lieutenant Knapp, who are all witnesses material to my
lefence, were sent to Turkey ; and although I could
;reatly strengthen my defence by their evidence, I will,
under the circumstances, proceed with my defence rather
than continue by protracted delays the pTesent harassing
and painful proceedings. As lam conscious of my pelt:-.
feet innocence, may I request that the court may
.lir
readi
journed until one o'clock to-morrow, when I
my defence. I shall require to put in
'trial, and
..the certifiedwl ex-
f tracts of the proceedings on Lieutenant Ureer
the state the companies.
The Court adjourned for ten minutes, and sat with
closed doors until four o'clock.
' The Court will re assemble to-morrow (this morning)
at eleven o'clock

REFORMATION OF YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS.—The new
act for the better care and reformation of youthful
offenders in Great Britain has just been issued. The
object of the act is to make use of reformatory schools
for the better training of juvenile offenders. It is en-
acted that, on application, the Secretary of State may
order one of the
prison inspectors to report on the rt-
formatory establishments. Juvenile offenders may no
on the expiration of a sentence, be sent to a reformatory
-tablishinent for not less that) two and not more than
Jive years. The Treasury may defray the cost of main.
t !Dance at reformatory schools. Cost of maintenance to
tie partly recovered from parents and others. Youthful
offenders absconding or refusing: to conform to the rules
iziay be sent to a house of corre,,ltion for three months.

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The news a
tic, and stagtn
On Tuesday laa,
to be made b•

troops in the B&
men, and 2,000
against the Rr
ed pretty plain
patch of .bur
been made in
in. the Aland
can scarcely
advices from S
" one fort had

EASE

Aivity in the Bal-
of the Black Sea.
Boinarsund was
and tho French

)f 10,000 French-
ines, co-operated
. was foreshadow-
elated in the des-
Announcement had
that Russian sway
The statement
ire. Telegraphic
sth, report that
;ir Charles Na-

pier
is•not likely to stop till the islands, once the pro-
perty of Sweden and still occupied by Swedes,
hive been completely wrung from the grasp of the
Autocrat, who has held them now about half a
century. These deeds in the North should pique
our forces in Turkey to action of some sort. The
letter of our correspondent at the Camp near
Varna draws a very painful picture of the results
of inaction and mismanagement there. Who
is to blame for the sufferings of the English
troops ? That our soldiers should suffer will
surprise no one who remembers that they have
over them officers like Lord De Ros. By whose
infatuation could that extraordinary specimen of
the " titled" English officer have attained his pre-
sent position ? Be his patron whom he may, he
has much to answer for. Sir George Brown also
will be hereafter called to account for more than
one blunder.
When the Russians crossed the Danube and en-
tered the Dobrudsuha, we foretold the ravages they
would suffer from disease. When the English were
landed at Varna, we again drew attention to the
fatal character of the country our troops were ap-
proaching. The Russians were the first to pay the
price of their ignorant temerity. Our own regi-
ments are now suffering the penalty of their com-
manders' neglect of friendly suggestions about
sanitary laws.
A most startling series of statements will be
found in our letter from the camp of Monastir.
The charge is flatly made that, in addition to beino,
kept in that state of inaction which begets despond-
ency and disease, the men are half-starved. No
wonder that " a general gloom prevails," in spite
of orders to the bands to play "lively marches."
Who can enjoy music or be lively with a stomach
but half-filled, and that with Bulgarian beef?
Marching and counter-marching before breakfast
with empty stomachs, and breathing an atmosphere
far from the healthiest, cannot fail to tell in a very
deadly fashion on the gallant fellows who left our
shores, as it were but the other day, cheering and
cheered, and on the way, as it seemed, to fight in
a good cause, instead of famish in an aguish camp.
Well may the authorities of the army in Turkey
object to the presence of any correspondent but
one iu the Russian interest. Here is a picture for
Englishmen to contemplate :
It may sound strange, and it may appear incredible
to people at home, but still it is a fact, that the troops
out here in Bulgaria are hail starving. lam fully aware
that such a statement will appear monstrous to those
who recollect the statements (and very correct ones, too)
of the liberal provision made fir the necessities and com-
forts of the soldiers. The people of England have read,
and rejoiced in reading, that the Oriental expedition had
been provided for with an almost paternal care by the
country • that care had been taken, not only that the
rations of the soldiers were good and plentiful, but that
the smaller necessities and even the luxuries of life
should accompany them on their march, and be retailed
to them at cost price by the commissariat. Rice,
coffee, tea and sugar, ale and porter, were to be sent
in the rear of the army; our soldiers in Turkey were to
have all the creature comforts to which they had been
accustomed in England at prices considerably lower than
the average of English prices, and the nation to fight
and bleed for which they were sent out marked its grati-
tude beforehand by making a liberal provision for the
wants and comforts of its defenders. It is a well-known
fact that enormous stores for the use of the army
were bought at the public expense and sent out to Tur-
key, but it is not less a fact that the troops have had
little benefit, if any, from those stores—that they were
late at G Blip ili, irreguar at S wantinn• at Varna,
and utterly absent from the day the troops left for Ala-
('yn and Devna. Tne commissari it was unwilling or un-
able, or both, to send stores to the distance of 20 miles
from the depots, and yet the nation had willed it that
those stores should follow the array 2n its march acres
whole provinces ; and most assuredly the gentlemen of
the commissariat are appointed and paid, not for any
special merits of their own, but simply for the purpose
of forwarding wit' distributing those stores.
The effects of such Commissariat arrangements
are most melancholy on the health and efficiency
of the army.
Whatever provision may have been made for the food
of the troops, I believe there is not a single inan—not a
general officer, in the camp at Monastir, who will dare
to assert that the rations served out to the men are
sufficient for their maintenance. * * * * A soldier's
daily ration of one pound of this meat, minus the sinews,
skin, bones, and other articles unfit for confzumption,
reduces itself to about one-third of a pound of dry,
t ,ugh beef, which can be swallowed by dint of hard
Clewing, and which may be nutritious to a certain ex-
tent. But it is not too much to say that the troops have

for the last two months mainly subsi,ted on their
pound of bread and the .meagre soup which hard boiling
has extracted from the beef aforesaid. The bread has
been good since the soldiers took the baking of it in
hand. This is a mercy, for Heaven knows to what state
they would have been reduced if the bread too had been
bad. Ne vegetables, not even dried ones, are included
in the soldier's rations.
It is evident enough what the results of all this
must be.
In England we are accustomed to see our soldiers
full of robust health--here the men are bronzed with ex-
posure to the sun and air, but they have got thin, and
the muscles of their legs and arms are in an alarming
state of softness. I felt the arms and legs of many, and
those not men that were on the sick list, and I was
quite startled by their leanness, and the unhealthy re-
laxed condition of the muscles. The generality of the
men complain, rot of hunger, but of want of appetite.
They cannot eat their food, feel weak, and are unable
to move.

Bad arrangements on the part of those in com-
mand lead to all this. Witu weakened frames the
soldiers are unable to brave the consequences of an
atmosphere charged with malaria ; and cholera
enters upon the scene.
When the army left Scutari for Varna, and when it
became known that spots for encampment had been se-
lected on the banks of the Devna lake, some of the phy-
sicians of Pera, men who know the country, told me
that the military authorities had pitched almost on the
worst locality that could be found in this part of Bulga-
ria. I was informed that the exhalations from theDavna

lake and its marshy meadows are pregnant with disease,
and that low fever and dysentery are always to be found
in the villages—few and far between—in this part of the
country. I thought it my duty at the time to report to
you this opinion, as coining from men competent to
judge, whose hopes and wishes were all for the good of
our troops and the success of our arms. I know that
both Lord de Re Icliffe and Lord R tglan were informed
of the danger to which the troops were exposed in the
eucampments wh ch had been selected for them. But it
would appear that it is a rule in this war that no opidon
shall be listened to and no advice taken. Experience is
to be bought, no matter at what price ; and in the pre-
sent instance the commanders of the arity believed in
the u7illealthiness of the Devna district only when the
plagoe had 1r .ken out and the men under their charge
were dying ar mud them.
The dis ass which has broken out among our troops
is cholera in its mo t malignant f .rm. It has sits ked
all the regiments, but chiefly those who were exposed
to the cm rents of air that swept along and carried up
the mists nom 'he Devna Lake. In the Rifle Brigade
a fax cases only occurred, and the 77th Regiment was
spared for several days ; nor did the germs of disease
declare themselves um alter their dislocation from
13,-,vna to Monastir. The 33d suffered severely. The
BSth (Connaught Rangers), too, had serious losses, b it
the i-eitne,lts which s% ere most exposed to the poisohou
breath of the lile are the 231 Welsh Fusiliers, arid
the 7th. They were the first to havo the disease, and
lost the greatest number of me•t. The first case c -
corred on the 22d inst. in the 23i1, when two men wereo
attacked with cholera, anal die I within
sevenlC eases.
hours
TT nh.hf:e
,e
ym pesr r
the firstt hadindei
shown
tict themselves.l
al i
n a
was the pale lace, the up turned eyes,
s ini symptoms
were
almost
thees.
lingers, and the
which
wrinkled hands, with cramped
crampy diTosition of the body generally,
those who have seen the ii.al4-nant forms of chol-ra
know so wel, and against which they also know medical
aid is of little or no avil. A great many of the patients
were in a state of hopeless collapse from first to last ; some
were quite Niue, and the only description which applies
to some of them is that they were ' living corpses.'
From the 22nd to the 26th instant the 7th Fusiliers lost
18 men ; the 23rd Welsh Fusiliers lost 17, the 33rd lost
9, the 88th had 11 deaths, the 77th 1, the 19th 5, and
the Rifle Brigade lost 3 men.
It is quite clear that nothing can be worse than
.keeping our troops in a sickly neighbourhood, and
in idleness—idleness which weakens them both
morally and physically. Some active step is im-
peratively needed in Turkey, almost as much for
the health and discipline of our troops as fur the
preservation of our nationalhonour. The transports
are known to be ready—the munitions of war are
ample—the cause good. W;illachia is safe, and the
Turks are in Bucharest. What, then, does Lord
Raglan wait fur? Is it for Lord ..kl,erdeen's con-
sent to the infliction of a. heavy blow oa the Author
of the war ?--Dai/y News.

E WAR IN TIIE
of the war shows ac
cation on the shores
ast a main attack o❑
by the allied fleets
Baltic. An army 01
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