The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-14 00:00:00

FOOD.

Experience proves that the same amount of ani-
mal food is not required in a hot climate to preserve
health and strength as in a cold one. A large
amount of animal food, instead t.f giving strength,
heats the blood, renders the systtm feverisl, and
consequently weakens the whole body.
The Rajputs or Rajputana, and the S.khs of the
Punjab, are physically as strong as Europeans, and
they are capable of enduring more fatigue, and
withstanding better the vicis-itudes of the climate
of India. This is due, partly to the race, but
chiefly to the nature of their food, of which the
staple is wheaten flour, made into chapatis. They
eat but twice a day ; and, although theypartake of
animal food, they do so in very much less propor-
tion than is the habit in Europe.
The best food for a soldier is that which the
country freely products, and which is nutritious
and digestible, and at the same time palatable.
The large quantity of pork indulged in by sol-
diers is most injurious. Pigs are foul feeders ; amd
any one, marching one day in the rear of an Euro-
pean regiment, may see the pigs, destined to feed
the men, acting the part of scavengers, and clear-
ing off every imaginable kind of filth. The owners
and drivers of pigs are the lowest class of natives,
who purposely drive their animals over ground
where they may find wherewith to fill themselves.
It can be readily understood that our meat thus
fed must be unwholesome ; and that by indulging
in it the blood becomes graduall3 poisoned, and
rendered prone to reeive any disease.
Hermetically soiled, preserved or salted provi-
sions are noxious, if partaken of for a prolonged
period, or to the exclusion of fresh food.
Bread when tolerably well made is, of course, one
of the best articles of diet. Biscuits are not so di-
gestible, but they have tho advantage of being
easily carried, and of being always ready. In the
absence of these, flour (ata) can always ba pro-
cured, and chapatis (a thin unleavened cake) are
easily made, are highly nutritious, and are perfectly
digestible when eaten fresh and hot. When cold
and tough they are unwholesome. Chapatis can be
baked in any quantity on iron plates made for the
purpose, at:d every European should learn (whi,-11
he can easily do from any native) how to knead
and prepare them. Flour can be got from every
village, and with it no European detachment need
ever be without "the staff of life."

Rice and dal can also be had anywhere. These,
boiled separately, and afterwards mixed together,
make, with the addition of salt audpepper, a whole-
some and nutritious food, well suited fur breakfast.

Beef is the meat usually furnished to regiments.
The lean commissariat trine do not promise much,
bnt it is difficult to procure other meat in sufficieut
quantity. Slow boiling for two hours will make
any meat tender, and the water in which it is
boiled makes excellent soup. The addition of what-
ever vegetables are to be had, of a few slices of
salted pork or bacon, two or three handfuls of flour,
some onions, and sale, and pepper, makes a savoury.
mess. Rice, bailed is a separate vessel, and after-
wards mixed up with the soup, meat, &c., adds to
the quantity and quality of the meal, which is
wholesome, nutritious, and palatab!e.
Mutton and fowls may occa•ionally he had as
n change ; and in the raighbonrhood of large rivers
fiAh makes an useful variety, and can ii wally be
had in abundance.

3AM: ia an invaluable article of diet, and should
be largely supplied to soldiers.
Vegetables are essential to the preservation of
health. Opportunities for procuring them in quan-
tity present ttletn.sel vcs much oftener on the march
than is genetelly supposed.
In cold woatber inquiry will prove that in the
neighbourhood of nearly every halting place there
are fields of carrots, turnips, onionQ, and of many
native vegetables, such as bygun, sag, kc.
A little mmragement on the part of the commis-
sariat ageeit could obtain these.

SoldiTArs should be strictly warned never to eat
uucoolzed or raw vegetables.
Frui4. when sound and ripe is beneficial instead
of fittrtful. Unripe or over-ripe fzuit will produce
disease►. The water-melon and guava are, however,

* By James Harrison, M.D., Surgeon, lion. Company's
service'.

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Wgter-earrier. •

Lord PANMURE rose and said,—My lords, before
the
,house adjourns I wi4h to perform what I consider
to be a public duty on my part, but which would have
been performed by the illustrious duke at the head of
the army had he not unfortunately mistaken the hour at
which this house was to meet, supposing it to be five
instead of three o'clock, and he had therebre appoin' ed
a levee, which he cannot interrupt, and which detair e
him at this time. It had been his Royal Highness's
intention, in order to set right with the public a di,tir-
guished and gallant officer in the army, to make to your
lordships the statement which I am now about to
make, and which he has authorised we in his absence
to make. The gallant officer I refer to is Sir Colin
Campbell. I am about to make this statement, not
only in justice to that di.tinguished officer, but as a
member of the Government; and as a colleague of my
noble friend Lord Canning, also in justice to the
Governor-General of India. Your lordships are well
aware that, for reasons which I shall not attempt to
divine, certain parties ha►e endeavoured most indus-
triously to persuade the public that disagreements ex-
isted between Lord Canning and Sir Colin Campbell. It
has been almost in vain that a distinct denial to these
statements bas bees given on the part of the Govern-
ment. Such denials have been made, and, I am happy
to say, have been generally believed, but I shall now
read to your lordships an extract from a letter from Sir
Cohn Campbell himself, which will put the matter be-
yond a doubt, and convince the public mind of England
of the malignant intentions of those who' have invented
this story. It is an ►xtract from a letter dated Oct. 26,
1857, wri ten to his Etoyal Highness the CAntnander-m•
Chief upon the occasion of the gallant writer quitting
Calcutta to take the field at the head of his troops, with,
I hope a certain prospect of leading them to victory.
The extract from this letter to which I refer is this :
" Now that lam on the point of leaving Calcutta I would
beg, with the greatest respect to the Goiernor-Geueril, to
record the deep sense of tneobligation I entertain towards his
lordship. Our intercourse has been most cordial, intimate,
and unreserved. I cannot be sufficiently thankful for his lord-
ship's confidence and supportand the kindly manner in which
they have been afforded, to my great pets nal satisfaction.
One at a distance, and unacquainted with the ordinary mode
of transacting business in this country, could hardly estimate
the gain to the public service which has thus been made. But
I allude principally to my owe feo•inge of gratification."

Thus, my lords, Sir Colin Campbell ears testimony
that Lord Canning, setting aside the ordinary mode of
transac, ing military business iu that country, has afforded
him a support which has tended greatly to the advan-
tage of the public service. (Clear, hear.) My lords I
thought it was my duty to make this statement to you
and to the public before Parliament was adjourned, in
order tbat we might set at rest for ever the caluneay
wLicb has been circulated, tbat between the Governor-
General and the Commander-in-Chief in India any dis-
agreements had existed. (near, bear.)
The motion fur the adjournment motif Thursday, the
4th r f February, 1853, was then agreed to, and their
lordships separated.

HOUSE OF COALNIONS.--(SATDADAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter to three
o'clock.

NEW WRIT:

On the motion of Mr. LIAYTER, a new writ was
ordered for the election of a knight of the •hire for the
county of Buckingham, in the room of the Hon. Mr. Ca•
vendish, who had accepted the office of bailiff of the
stewarOship of liorthfidet in the county of Y.,rk.

ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
Lord PALMERSTON moved the adiiurument of the
house till the 4th February nPxt.
EVIDENCE OF M R TWELLS BEFORE THE

" Then paper is issued which is not capable of being paid
on demand, but it is done in the confidence that the country
would be in such a state before that demand could be made
that it would be utterly impossible for the country to de-
mand it?—Yes, quite
"Then it bears upon the fac 3 of it a fallacy, just as much
as an inconvertible note ?—Yes, just the same. Therefore I
think it would be only the fair and jujicious and hoenst
corers; to take that those notes should bear an impress upon
them of what they were intended to be.
" You therefore recommend that those notes, instead of
being issued upon securities, and pretending that they are
issued on gold, should bear upon the face of them that they
are issued upon securities, and :f ou would recommend that
those notes, so issued upon securities, should be made a legal
tender ?—Quito so,

"And whether the amount should be 14,000,0001. or
20,000,0001. is a question upon which you do not give a posi-
tive opinion"—Not at all.

"But your experience has shown you that when there was
a steady issue of about 20,000,000/. the trade was carried on
steadily and prosperously in the country ?—Yes; that is why
I say 20,000,0001. ; but it is quite possible that 14,000,0001.
would effect a great deal ; that is a matter which experience
only can decide."