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y « tspicidn with those who are ' 'well isifonned ; but en-those who'are not well informed must be prevented > m suspecting . All that was perfectly easy . -Not so eofficial adoption of the plan . Unhappily the-matter i nofrrest with the "War-offiee , but -with the Ordnanceice ; and these gentlemen were told that they must ider for - contracts \ in the usual -way . Tenders , were cordingly sent in on the 26 th of December ; no replies ve yet been received from the Ordnance . For our own Tt as we know something of the time required for the Wt of the simplest instrument in a public office , as soon the affair gets beyond the influence exerted by a ilous chief , we are not surprised at the lapse of what after all not much more than half a month !" It is very evident , from the letters written on the bjeCt , that the conduct of the Messrs . Price is dieted alike by jjood feeling and sound commercial pacity .
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THE HOSPITALS IN THE EAST . ece correspondent of the Times at Scutari , who is ing good service by his philanthropism at the hostals , gives -us some intelligence , part of which is tuded to in the letter of the Rev . S . Godolphin sborne : — " I understand that the Sultan Serai , a large building no great distance from the General Hospital , has been ven up for the use of the sick and wounded . This fords space for from 400 to 500 more patients , and , ¦ th the accommodation provided in the upper story of me stables near the Barrack Hospital , may be regarded a fair reserve against another influx of invalids from e Crimea . I trust , however , that , as the army gets
tter supplied with warm clothing , and has its other ints more abundantly met from home , the amount of kness which we have hitherto had to deplore in its aks may be diminished . The officers who have last me down here state that a good stock of warm clothing d been distributed before they left ; but if this be so it certainly strange that the sick have not yet shared in 3 benefits and comforts of that distribution . No former rivals have reached Scutari in greater wretchedness , ; h , and prostration , than those most recently brought —; Many of them are in a state of almost comite nudity ^ all are dirty to a degree which t hose who ow the British soldier by his peace aspect would not ¦ dit , and . there are among them-cases of mortified toes ,
m exposure and defective circulation , which it is easy perceive result , like the other forms of sickness prelent , from the excessive hardships which the men have d tO ' -undergo . "I mentioned in my last letter that an plication had been made to me for warm clothing by 5 surgeon on behalf of a regiment ordered direct from tot climate to the Crimea , arid totally unprovided with 3 means of withstanding so sudden a change of opecature . The -application was made on the ground it prevention was better than cure , and I knew so ich of the mortality that had taken place among the t regiments sent out that I did not think I should be itifled ; in . refusing . : I , however , undertook to supply sat was wanted conditionally , for if on arriving at
laldava ~ the things were ; not"found-to berequisite they rerto ' bo i handed over to the Rev . Mr . Hay ward and i other chaplains there , = for the use of the sick and traded . TJris" 4 irrangement > was thankfully acceded to , i' yesterday I put on boaTd the Golden Fleece for the th Foot ( 660 strong ) a stock of flannels , drawers , and iks , "Which I . hope will keep them warm ami in good irt until they get into Sebastopol . If I have erred in is departing somewhat from tho strict interpretation my trust , I am sure that the subscribers to the Fund i- overlook on act which enables them to say that thoy ire contributed in so important a manner to the physical nfort of a whole regiment of the lino on it way to ifront the enemy .
" The last batch of sisters and nurses , sent out under i charge of "Miss Stanley , , arc still at Therapia , but er considerable negotiation an arrangement lias been no to by which about twenty of them are to- be cm-• ye&hore . One-half como in as additional hands , the tor to supply vacancies which from ono cause or other vo arisen-in the staff which Miss Nightingale brought i with nor . " While tho good which tho nurses have io -is incalculable arid admitted by every ono , tho scoss of tho experiment as a feature of tho raedioal > artment of tho army on war service cannot bo conored a 3 decisively established until certain relius dissensions which have arisen are set at rest , long thoso whoso services . Miss Nightingale has
ponsod with . arc live white -veiled , nuns , whose ivloua convent lives had not sufficiently qua-3 d them for tho duties of nursing . Their removal i givfen umbrago to the Roman Catholic chaplains . 93 Nightingale is quite right in endeavouring . to put ' establishment upon a proper business -like . footing ; ; doing so thus oarly will , I foar , inako lior a , good xtbor of enemies . Whether she succeeds or . fails , she i at-least tho satisfaction of . knowing that sho has aa'dy dono an incalculable amount of good , and that two'months , when there was no one olso to act , sho [ 'boon the real purveyor of thoso vast < establishments , > vidin £ what could not bo obtninod through tho ular channels of tho service , and especially from her
« xtra kitchen "supplying comforts , without which many a poor fellow would have died . Her name and benevolent services are ' the theme of frequent and grateful praise among the men in the'trenches , and she has made the Barraek Hospital so comfortable that the convalescents begin to show a decided reluctance to leave it . " Some presents from the Queen have been received here , including essence of beef , soap , « au de Cologne , toilet vinegar , &c . "Whether the contributions of charitable people at -home will ever arrive safely must in great measure depend upon the care with which they inform those to whom the parcels are addressed of the mode of transmission . The Turkish Custom-house is a Maelstrom from which nothing that ever finds its way there is , without great difliculty , recovered . "
AN IMPARTIAL WITNESS IN THE HOSPITAL . The Rev . S . G . Osborne , who has been at Scutari , doing all in his power to aid the efforts of the hospital authorities , bears the following testimony : — " I am now bound to say that nothing can exceed the kind way in which my efforts for our poor sick and wounded men have been appreciated by the Minister and Secretary of : War . My suggestions have been received in the same grateful spirit , and I do firmly believe that that which the Government have desired from the first will be obtained . I know no energy , no expense , nor pains are being : spared . I can see no reason to doubt that , with the machinery and staff Lord W . Paulet of the
will-soon possess ,-with ^ he active support Government so substantially afforded him—he will soon bring all the hospital departments , and . the transport of the sick into that condition which humanity and policy alike demand . I am not now writing to defend or to accuse , but that I may comfort those over whose relatives the ^ hospital' . fate may . hang , as not the most but yet a dreaded cloud . . I can give them my solemn conviction that I believe the Duke of Newcastle will strain every nerve , use all possible means to secure the best treatment of the sick and wounded . You cannot speak to him on the subject , and not see that the ' man , ' the ' Christian , ' is touched as well . as the Minister .
" Knowing , as I do , the prudence , the zeal , the patient endurance with which Miss Nightingale , the Bracebridges , alTthBRsIsters , are working ; remembering that where the legitimate sources of supply fail ; there is no hesitation in seeking voluntury aid ; and knowing how that ? aid watches every opportunity fov employment , the English may rest assured that there will be no want of effort nor of means to meet the , sick -or wounded men ' s necessities . " .
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RUSSIAN APOLOGY FOR MURDER . The St . Petersburg Journal contains the following most lame and discreditable apology for the coldblooded barbarities committed by Russian officers and soldiers on the field of battle ; and to render the apology of these infamous practices more scandalous , attributes them to Christian zeal and religious fervour : " . In the Anglo-French . press , and even in Parliament , the reproaches cast by our-enemies upon the cruelty-of our brave soldiers has found an echo . Attempts have been made to spread the belief that our soldiers were accustomed to murder wounded men left on tho field of battle . We know that Prince Menschikoff immediately replied to this odious accusation . " We shall limit ourselves to reminding that magnanimity and commiseration are qualities universally recognised in the Russian people . Even writers who are opposed to us do not think of questioning this . Who can think thatia people with whom the axiom , ' Thou shalt not smite a fallen foo , ' has become proverbial , could be guilty of such excesses ?
" But , whilst in casting back this reproach attempted to bo levelled against our whole army , wo certainly shall not justify some isolated cases that may perhaps havo occurred . . Those cases , if they came to tho knowledge of tho military authorities , have doubtless been punished with all the severity of our military code . " If such cases havo occurred , they must for tho most part be ascribed to tho indignation which tho conduct of tho allied troops called forth among our soldiers (!) . It must not bo forgotten that Russian soldiers defend tho soil of thoir country—thoir native hearths—attacked by foreigners allied with the enemies of Christianityforeigners who neither spare churches , cloisters , nor the holy bolls , and that , in tho oyos of Russian soldiers , such assaults are sacrileges calling for vengeance .
" It cannot bo denied that the plunder and ruining of tho church of Cherson—of this most ancient templewhich our soldiers lookod upon from tho ramparts of Sebastopol , filled thorn with just indignation . " Tho dofenco of a people who aro assailed in that which is holiest and doarost to their hearts , will oftentimos necessarily ossumo a wild character , and break out into demonstrations resulting from the state of tilings . . . " Besides , why should wo not bear in mind tho conduct of our enemies ? " Why ,, for instance , should wo not mention that tho Anglo-French tirailleurs during tho battlo of tho 24 th , when thoy could not resist tho shock of our bayonets ( I ) ,
threw themselves on the ground and pretended to be wounded / and then when our troops passed , rose , upland fired at then- legs ? Such , and-the like things , will-suffice to render comprehensible , at -least , the exasperation of Russian soldiers . Let us finally call * to mind , that while our enemies think fit ^ to accuse us of cruelly , "the prisoners . we take from them render us more'justice . The chiefs of , the allied armies-have received ^ frctai 'Prince Menschikoif irresistible proofs of thistruth . "
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . Lord John Russell , has been in Paris duringitfee week . The object of his visit was said to be puretyta domestic one . We observe , however , that he hasuBned 'withtho Minister of Foreign Affairs , in company with'Sir-. William Temple , Marshal Nugent , OBaron Hubner , arid M . 'de Persigny . On Wednesday Lord John Bussellhada private interview with the Emperor . Admiral -Hamsun lias arrived in Paris . The return of Prince Napoleon to France is now announced in the Moniteur in the following official language : —" Prince Napoleon , notwithstanding his severe sufferings , was preparing to leave Constantinople . to return to the Crimea , but the Emperor having been informed by the medical men that the state of health of the Prince would not allow-of his continuing the campaign , has ordered him to return to France . "
The Negotlytions for Peace . —r-According to an article in the De'bats , signed by M . de Sacy , and founded on Vienna correspondence , . giving . an account of the interpretation of thefour guarantees agreed to by the Allies at the conference , and accepted after some delay by Prince Gortschakoff , it was insisted that the anterior treaties between Turkey and Russia must be revised , the Black Sea be free , and the naval forces of each power determined . But the Western Powers reserved theright to take advantage of r t ; he eventualities of thewar , and intimated possible conditions that might arise therefrom ,
among others , the destruction of the fortress of Ismail , and the establishment in its place of a neutral fortress . They might also , perhaps , insist on the destruction of Sebastopol , the demolition of its forts , of its arsenals , and a prohibition of their re-erection , or the establishment of any military port which might threaten the independence of Turkey . Prince Gortschakoff dissented strongly from these conditions , and declared lie had no power to make such concessions . But on the evening of the 6 th of January he received the order to accept , without reserve , the written , protocol as a basis of
negotiation . - Sardinia has signed -the Protocol of the 10 th of April last , the fifth article of which provided for the admission of other powers of Europe to the alliance , ' and has thereby joined the Western Powers . ~ News of a fresh invasion of the Dobrudschaiby the Russian troops ia , perhaps , explained by the following later despatch from-a Russian source : —" A Turkish detachment , having crossed the Danube into Bessarabia , has been defeated by the Russians . " The Morning Post Paris correspondent writes that tho Western Powers have determined to occupy some portion of Russian territory , Bessarabia , or the Crimea , after the conclusion . of . peace . _ _ , ;
On the other hand , letters from Vienna report that Prince Gortschakoil remarked during the conference that " doubtless the . Czar would allow the Allies to establish Balaklava " as a point of retreat . No further concession , " he continued , " could be expected at a moment when the victorious Russian army was opposed to the decimated allied forces , and completely invested the latter . " In a private circle , the Russian diplomatist is further reported to have communicated "that the conditions laid before him were not in accordance with the fundamental principle of Russian policy , and that consequently their acceptance at St . Petersburg would bo very -difficult ; and that in bis own opinion the most tho Emperor Nicholas could do to save Germany from tho horrors of war , would bo to offer no interruption to tho withdrawal of tho Allies from the Crimea . "
Owing to the mildness of the season the Baltic U still open , arid the movements of neutral vessels from Russian ports are unimpeded . Danish , Swedish , and Dutch vessels arc the principal carriers ; and notwithstanding tho prohibition , ryo and gmin aro exported . At St . Petersburg , Lord John Russell ' s declaration in Parliament that tho Allies were content to leave Russia a great andipowerful state , has been adopted as tho »•<; - yrain of a , popular political song , tho . inscription of which i 8— " O . how sour aro tlio grapes . " Prussia declines to mobolido her forces in aid of Austria , but obtains horn Russia an engagement wot to attack Austria . Bavaria , Saxony , and Wurtwuburg support Prussia . Austria appeals to tho Dust . The convention between Austria and i ranee lor socuring tho tranquillity of Italy ia not to be signeU-until tho treaty of December 2 ml : has resulted Hr « n offensive ^ The Mornmii Ohronida correspondent inJBarfa imentioiba rumour of a project for making t ^ Axohduke Louis , brother of tho Emperor l'mncis Joseph , . King oC ^ TJio French Ambassador at Vienna has ipwsented to tho Austrian Kmporor tho Grand Cross of tho . Legion of Honour , in return for tho Order of St . Stepken .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 13, 1855, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2073/page/7/
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