The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-19 00:00:00

JULY 31.

Grin. Grds. Coldstream. Scots Fus.
Fever
Diarrhcea,
Cholera
Other complants... 10

107 61 77
Total sick. 245 ; including convalescent, 334.
AD GUST 1.
Gren. Grds. Coldstream. Scots Fus.
Fever
Cholera
Diarrhoea
Other complaints... 9

Total ... 129 74 80
Total sick, 283 ; including conraleacent, 333.

A UGUST- 2.
Gren. Grda. Coldstream. Scots Fus.
Fever
Cholera
Diarrhea
Other complaints... 13

Total
Total sick, 292 ; including convalescent, 395.

AUGUST-3.
Gren. Grds. Coldstream. Scots Fus.
Fever
Cholera
Diarrhcea
Other complaints... 12

Total
Total sick, 304 ; including convalescent, 399.

The above relates to sickness. The reports of
deaths in the same brigade, since the cholera and
lever set in, have been as follows :

Gren Gds. Coldstm.Seots Fns.
Deaths previous to July 27 6
July 27 1
ff 23
11 29
~ 30
f 1 31
Aug. 1
II 2 1
3 1
ff

Total
Total, 39 deaths, including two women of the Scots
Fusilier Guards.
The proportion of deaths, it will be perceived, has
hitherto been comparatively small taking the ratio
of mortality usually expected when fever and cholera
rage simultaneously. Still the visitation is very dis-
tressing, and the more so when it is considered that
the regiments j ust mentioned are composed of picked
men, including probably (with thellighland troops)
the finest and healthiest soldiers in the service. The
calamity is aggravated by the manner in which the
medical officers are thwarted through the impossi-
bility of obtaining adequate supplies of medicine
and other articles necessary for the effectual treat-
, ment of the sick. They are incessantly begging and
praying for things which cannot be had, and they
are met with the old excuse—the want of means of
transport. Lamentable, indeed, it is that the dis-
stance—only 10 miles—between this place and
Varna should operate as an " insurmountable"
obstacle in the way of sending on supplies all-im-
portant to the safety of the army. Ido not here
refer alone to the absence of the " comforts" in the
shape of porter, &c., about which such ostentatious
parade was made some time since ; I allude like-
wise to the deficiency of medical stores in general.
If 10 miles be a commissariat impossibility, how
hopelessly insuperable would be that impossibility
if the army had, as it might have done, pushed far
into the heart of the roadless, trackless, miasma-
reeking swamps of Bulgaria.
Amongst those lately dead is Col. the Hon. Lau-
derdale Maule, brother to Lord Panmure, and
Assistant Adjutant-General to Sir De Lacy Evans's
Division. Poor Col. Maule, whowas highly esteemed
by his fellow-soldiers of all grades, was buried the
day before yesterday. The funeral was attended by
a large concourse of officers and men.. A vast num-
ber of officers are seriously indisposed. Lieut.-Col.
Onslow (who had only just arrived out) and Lieut.-
Col. F. Seymour are dangerously so. Amongst
the officers now on the sick list are Col. Trevelyan,
Lieut.-Col. Crombie, Lieut.-Col. V. Dawson, Capt.
Armitage, Capt. Bouverie, and Capt. Mackinnon,
Coldstream Guards; Lieut.-Col. F. Berkeley,'Capt.
W. Bulwer, Lieut. Blane, Lieut. Lindsay, and
Assistant-Surgeon Robinson, of the Fusiliers; Lieut.
Anstruther, Lieut. F. Quin, and Assistant-Surgeon
Blenkins, of the Grenadiers, are also ill. A medi-
cal board will sit on Saturday, to consider the steps
which it may be necessary for the two officers last-
named to take for the recovery of their health.
Through the recommendation of medical boards a
number of officers have lately obtained leave of
absence for England. Amongst them are Assistant-
Commissary-General F. Watt, Major Johnstone,
33d Regiment ; Captain Munro, Grenadier Guards;
Lieuts. Balfour and Alexander, Rifles • Lieut.-
Colonel Flude and Lieut. H. Percival, Royal Artil-
lery ; Deputy-Commissariat-General Gowran, &c.
That much of the sickness and mortality has been
occasioned by non-attention to the precautions re-
quisite to guard against predisposition to disorder,
is very certain. The days are still excessively hot,
and the nights brings on change in temperature so
sudden and complete that, without the utmost vigi-
lance, cold lnd influenza, tending to fatal disorders,
are contracted. In reference to this particular sub-
ject the following general order was issued some
days ago by Lord Raglan
:
"At the present season, when summer heats have set
in, the Commander of the Forces deems it expedient to
caution the men against a too free use of vegetables,
and to urge them entirely to abstain from fruits, and the
wine of the country. It is also important to avoid ex-
posure after sunset. At that time a great change takes
Place in the temperature of the etwoepliere, atd it ie