The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Moniteur of yesterday publishes a report of
Marshal Vaillant, Minister of War, on the French
army employed in the East during the last war.
The tenour of the report is fully explained in the
following preamble
REPORT TO THE EMPEROR.
PARIS, SEPT. E.
Sire,—The war which has just terminated in so glo•
rious a manner for the arms of your Majesty and of your
august allies took place under very peculiar circum-
stances. To convey to the East and to keep them at
their complement armies which, under the flags of
France, of England, and of Sardinia, counted more than
200,000 fighting men, to provide them with everything
they stood in need of, required the development of im-
mense means.

I thought your Majesty would read with interest a
report giving a general view of those means, as far as
the French army is concerned' the effective strength of
which in the course of 1855 rose to 150,000 men, and
that perhaps, you might deign to admit the War-office,
obedient to the powerful impulse of the Emperor, has
given of zeal in the fulfilment of so laborious a task.
This report comprises three distinct compartments.
The first concerns the personnel itself of the army ; it
gives the number of troops which embarked for the East ;
the number of those which returned either to France or
to Algeria; it indicates the measures of precaution
taken at their departure, and on their return, &c.
Toe second compartment, undei the head of materiel,
showe the resources of the artillery at the different
periods of the war ; the importance and extent of am-
munition of every description forwarded to the Crimea ;
the amount sent by the Engineers corps ; the provisions
which the military administration—properly called—
sent for the subsistence of the troops, for fuel, for proven-
, der, dress, encampment, and harnessing; the resources
A nd victualling of the hospital department, as well for
the fixed hospitals as for the moving ambulances. This
compartment also indicates the organisation of the re-
ligious service in our hospitals and in the army. It
gives a table of the means placed at the disposal of the
military equipages, and touches upon some branches o f

the service which I cannot well call accessory ones,
although they only take a secondary place, such as the
treasury post office, printing-office, and telegraph, which
figures for the first time as a regular a' junct of the
service attached to an army.
The third compartment gives a general view of the
naval resources employed for the transport of the army
of the East And its immense stares of provisions from
the ports of France and of Algeria, to Gallip )li, Con-
stantinople, Varna, and Eupatoria, and, finally, to the
providential port of Kamiesh, as also to insure their
return. However great was the energy displayed by
the Imperial navy, it was nevertheless found necessary
to charter a considerable number of trading vessels, and
the War office conveyed from its own resources a con-
siderable portion of the personnel of the army, and also
nearly all the horses and materiel.

The figures in the ta.iles need no comments ; they
sufficiently explain the vastness of the enterprise and the
efforts made to carry out the projects of your Majesty,
and to provide, conformably to your orders, not only for
the wants but for the comforts of your soldiers of the
Army of the East.
This report, which, with the tables referred to,
fills eight closely printed columns of the Moniteur,
is preceded by the following letter from the Em-
peror to the Marshal :
To H.E. MARSHAL VAILLANT, MINISTER OF WAR.
Compiegne, Oct. 22.
My dear Marshal,—The most useful services are not
always the most striking. The skilful and indefatigable
Mitiister who day and night is occupied in his Cabinet
with the organisation of 600,000 men, and with provid-
ing an army of 200,000 with all that is necessary for its
existence, to enable it to fight and conquer in a country
without resources at 800 leagues from France, the merit
of that Minister, I say, is at least equal to that of the
general who triumphs on the field of battle. And the
country must therefore share its gratitude with him who
prepares the path to victory by uniting elements in time,
and with him who gains it by well taken measures in the
field.

,
This is why, my dear Marshal, in ordering the inser-
tion in the Moniteer of the remarkable report you have
addressed to me, I have wished to make the public judge
of the services the full value of which I alone have hith-
erto appreciated.

AcCe.pt, my dear Marshal, the assurance of my sincere
friendship. NAPOLEON.
BOURSE, Oct. 23.—The following were the last
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