Weekly conservative. (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1854-1860, 1855-06-23

If TIA siege Of Sebast0poi presents matter to
interest eix me Whoreadstbe published record
Of passing events there is nothing In the doings
there more stirling than the different conducts
Of the English and French officers and men.
under the same circumstances. While strict
order, rigid discipline. and great earnestness Of
purpose are manifested by the French portion
Of the allied army, the English branch oft ap-
pears to be sadly deficient in these essential ele
ments to the success OF military operations.
The French officers mix with the men under
their command, examine her sonall their cor
dition, and attend to the prompf supply Of fh6r
wants = They know how to mitigate the rigor
Of established law, SO proper ia time Of peace,
but unsuitable on the battlefield Hence we
find that. as compared with the English, the
French troops have been better provided for,
and have suffered less from exposure, privafion,
and want Of general measures than the English
IL would be fair to presume that the English
would adopt habit or rather rule of conduct
so eminentiy practical and proper after seeing
its beneficial effect on the French army. But
such is not the case. The British have not al
tered their practice in the least-the rigor Of
prescribed form is preserved as entireand
practiced as scrupulously in the trenches,
rs il is in the barracks before the war. Nothing
can be had, however urgent the necessity, be-
fore written orders are obtained from divers
officers who are rarely ever at hand when the
order is needed So striking is the defect in
this department Of the service that il has arous-
ed general Indignation, growing out Of the
exposures that have been made By witnesses who
testified before the Parliamentary comiftee II
was in evidence before the committee that in
some instances cavalry horses were two dayz
without feed for want Of an order from somebody
(wlio WASN'T for the provender.
But it is not in the commissary and quarter
master dcpartmentes alone that matter for cen
sure appears, hut in fact there is a recklessness
want of decent propriety IN the conduct o.
the British that contrast unfavoralle with the
French One might suppose that the British
| officers would find enough 10 occupy their time
in preserving the discipline of their crops, rene
| dying defective arrangements Of the enemy. and
endeavoring TO perfect Ithemselves in the art Of
war. But the officers themselves appear to b,
of a different opinion. A recent Fletkr from
the British camp to enc Of the London papers
| gives an exciting account of ho<e-race. ant
itseems that they have these diversions regular
| ~. The same writer tells usthat .dog-hunting'
| is also farorite sport in the camp. Thes.
officers are evidently of the same sort as q part,
OF others sent by the British commanders to Hell
goland in the Baltic, who took with them sucl
an amoaat of baggage that the people Of Hell
golsnd thought they had come for = long sta,
! Azd6ns the artieies they brought with then
were pianos for their families.
One of the correspondents from the Crimes
states that on one occasion not long since, Will
the French were actually engaged with the Rus
slams, in an affair in which several hundred mel
were killed the English were just over the hill
near by, enjoying themselves with horse r ia
Such conduct is reyoltingly disgusting and Ia
efectualIy disguised all the good and sober sen
sible portion Of the English people