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THE HOSPITALS IN THE EAST. The correspon...
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any suspicion with those who are well informed ; but -even those -nb . fi are not well informed : most be prevented firomsuspecting ; ' AH that was perfectly easy . Not so the official adoption of the plan ; Unhappily tiie matter < Ed nptrest -wit * the ¦ War-office , but with theOrdnanceoffice ; and these gentlemen were told that they mnst tender for contracts in ' the usual way . Tenders rwere accordingly sent in on the 26 th of December ; no replies have yet been received from the Ordnance : For dur . own part , as we know something of the time required for the orbit of the simplest instrument in a public office , as soon as the affair gets beyond the influence exerted by a zealous chief , we are not surprised at the lapse of what Is after all not much more than half a month !" It is- very evident , from the letters written on the subject , that the conduct of the Messrs . Price is dictated alike by good feeling and sound commercial capacity .
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The Hospitals In The East. The Correspon...
THE HOSPITALS IN THE EAST . The correspondent of the Times at Scutari , who is doing good service by his philanthropism at the hospitals , gives us some intelligence , part of which is alluded to in the letter of the Rev . S . Godolphin Osborne : — " I understand that the Sultan Serai , a large building at no great distance from the General Hospital , has been given up for the use of the sick and wounded . This affords space for from 400 to 500 more patients , and , with the accommodation provided in the upper story of some stables near the Barrack Hospital , may be regarded as a , fair reserve against another influx of invalids from the Crimea . I trust , however , that , as the army gets
better supplied with warm clothing , and has its other wants more abundantly met from home , the amount of sickness which we have hitherto had to deplore in its raaks may be diminished . The officers who have last come down here state that a good etock of warm clothing had been distributed before they left ; but if this be so it is certainly strange that the sick have not yet shared in the . benefits and comforts of that distribution . No former arrivals have reached Scutari in greater wretchedness , filth , and prostration , than those most recently brought in . Many of them are in a state of almost complete nudity , all are dirty to a degree which those who know the British soldier by his "peace aspect would not ^ credit , and there are among them cases of mortified toes ,
from exposure and defective circulation , which it is easy to perceive result , like the other forms of sickness prevalent , from the excessive hardships which the men have had to undergo . I mentioned in my last letter that an application had been made to me for warm clothing by the surgeon on behalf of a regiment ordered direct from a hot climate to the Crimea , and totally unprovided with the means of withstanding so sudden a change of temperature . The application was made on the ground that prevention was- better than cure , and I knew so much of the- mortality that had taken place among the last regiments sent out that I did not think I should be justified ' in refusing . I , however , undertook to supply what was wanted conditionally , for if on arriving at
Balaklava the things were not found to be requisite they were to be handed over to the Rev . Mr . Hay ward and ' tliS ~ ottiier ^ HaplMns ^ tKr ^ "ToFl ; fi « ^ use of the sick and wounded . This arrangement was thankfully acceded to , and yesterday I put on board the Golden Fleece for the 39 th Foot ( 660 strong ) a stock of flannels , drawers , and socks , which I hope will keep them warm and in good heart until they get into Sebastopol . If I have erred in thus departing somewhat from the strict interpretation of my trust , I am sure that the subscribers to the Fund will , overlook an act which enables them to say that they have contributed in so important a manner to the physical comfort of a whole regiment of the line ou it way to confront the enemy .
" The last batch of sisters and nurses , sent out under the charge of Miss Stanley , aro still at Therapia , but after considerable negotiation an arrangement has been come to by which about twenty of them are to be employed here . One-half come in as additional hands , the other to supply vacancies which from one . cause or other have arisen in tlio staff which Hiss Nightingale brought out with her . "While the good which the nurses have dona ia- incalculable and admitted by every one , the . success of tho : experiment as a feature of tho medical department of the army on war service cannot bo considered aa decisively established until certain religious dissensions which have arisen are set at rest Among those whoso services Miss Nightingale has
dispensed with aro five white-veiled nuns , whose previous convent lives had not sufficiently qualified , them for tho duties of nursing . Their removal has , given umbrage to tho Roman Catholic chaplains . Miss , Nightingale is quito right in endeavouring to put hor establishment upon a proper business-liko footing ; bat doing so thus early will , I fear , mako hot a , good number of enemies . Whether aha succeeds or fails ,, she has at least tho satisfaction of knowing that sho has already dono on incalculable amount of good , and that for tvfxt months , whon there was no one else to act , sho has . bQon . tho real purveyor of thoso vast establishments , providing , whut could not bo obtained through tho regular channels , of tho service , and especially from hor
extra 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 Barrack Hospital bo 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 , eau 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 difficulty , recovered . "
AN IMPARTIAL ¦ WITNESS IN THE HOSPITAL .. The Rev . S . G . Osborne , who has been at Scutari , doing all ia 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 , t & e machinery and staff Lord W . Paulet
will soon possess , with the active support of the Government so substantially afforded him—he wifl 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 1 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 , all the sisters , are working ; remembering that where the legitimate sources of supply fail ; there is no hesitation in seeking voluntary aid ; and knowing how that aid vxxtc he » eoery opportunity for 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 . "
Russian Apology For Murder, The St. Pete...
RUSSIAN APOLOGY FOR MURDER , The St . Petersburg Jotwnal 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 scaudalous , attributes them to . Christian zeal aud 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- Attenipts have been ! made " toispread thebelief that our soldiers weta accustomed to murder wounded men left on the 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 that a people with whom tho axiom , ' Thou shalt not smite a fallen foe , ' has become proverbial , could be guilty of such excesses ? " But , whilst in casting back this reproach attempted to bo levelled against our whole army , we certaiiily shall not justify some isolated cases that may perhaps have occurred . These cases , if they came to tho knowledge of tho military authorities , have doubtless been punished with all tho severity of our military code .
" If such coses have occurred , they must for the most part be ascribed- to the indignation which the conduct of the allied troops called forth among our soldiers (!) . It must not bo forgotten tliat Russian soldiers defend tho soil of thoir country—their nativo hearths—attacked by foreigners allied with the enemies of Christianityforeigners who noither spare churches , cloisters , nor tho holy bells , and that , in tho eyes of Russian soldiors , such assaults are sacrilbgea calling for vengeance . " It cannot bo denied that tho plunder and ruining of tho church of Cherson—of this most ancient tomplewhich our soldiors lookod upon from tho ramparts of Sobostopol , filled them with just indignation .
" Tho defeucp of a pooplo who aro assailed m that which is holiest and dourest to their hearts , will oftentimes necessarily assumo a wild chaructor , und break out into demonstrations resulting from the state ot things . "Beaidoa , why should wo not boar iu mind tho conduct of our enemies ? " Why , for instance , should wo not mention that tho Anglo-Crouch tirailleurs during tho battle of tho 24 th , wjhou . they could not rodUt tho shook of our bayonets ( 1 ) , U n ... " *"
threw themselves ofl' the ground aod pretended to be wounded , aad thenwhen our troops passed , noe up and fired at their legs ? Such , and the like things , wSl suffice to render comprehensible , at least , the exasperation of Russian soldiers . Let ns finally call to mind , tfcat while our enemies think fit to accuse us of cruelty , the prisoners we take from them Tender us more Jtbstice . The chiefs of the allied armies have received from Prince Menschikoff irresistible proofs of this truth . * ,
Continental Notes. Lokd Jobs Rcssell Has...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . Lokd Jobs Rcssell has been in Paris during * b * week . The object of his visit was said to be purely a . domestic one . We observe , however , that he has dined -frith the Minister of Foreign Affairs , in company witli Sir William Temple , Marshal Nugent , Baron Subnet , and M , de Persigny . On Wednesday Lord John Russell had a private interview with the Emperor . Admiral Hamelin has arrived in Paris . The return of Prince Napoleon to France is now announced in the Moniteur in the folio-wing 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 Negotiations fob Pea < 2 b . —According to an article in the Debate , signed by M . de Sacy , and founded on Vienna correspondence , giving an account of the interpretation of the four 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 the right to take advantage of the eventualities of the war , 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 he 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 tlie Protocol of the 10 th of April last , the fifth _ iirticle-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 Dobrudscha by the Russian troops is , perhaps , explained by tha 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 the Western Powers have determined to occupy some portion of Russian territory , Bessarabia , or the Crimea , after tho conclusion of peace .
On the other Imnd , letters froin . Viennarejport that Prince Gortschakoft remarked during the conference that " doubtless tho 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 wore not in accordance with tlio fundamental principle of Russian policy , and that consequently their acceptance at St . Petersburg would bo very difficult ; and that in his own opinion the most the Emperor Nicholas could' do to save Germany from the horrors of war , would be to offer no interruption to tho withdrawal of the Allies from tho Crimea . "
Owing to the mildness of tho season the Baltic is still open , aud tho movements of neutral vessels from Russian ports are unimpeded . Danish , Swedish , and Dutch vessels are the principal carriers ; and notwithstanding the prohibition , rye and grain aro exported . At St . Petersburg , Lord John Russell ' s declaration in Parliament that tho Allies were content to leave Russia a great and powerful state , has boon adopted as the refrain of a popular political song , the inscription ; of which
ia— « o how aour aro tho grapes . ' Prussia declines to moboliso hor forces in aid of Austria , but obtains from Russia an engagement not to attack Austria . Bavaria , Saxony , aud Wurtomburg support Prussia . Austria appeals to tlio Diet . Tho convention betweon Austria and I'rance for securinff tho tranquillity of Italy is not to be signed until thotreaty of December 2 nd has resulted in an offensive as well as defensive alliance . ''
, „__ , _ ____ Tho Mornittg Chronicle correspondent in Paris mentions a rumour of a project for making th « Arohduko Louis , brother of tho Emperor Francis Joseph , King of * riu > French Ambassador at Vienna has presented to tho Austrian Kmperor tho Grand Cross of tho L « gion of Honour , iu return for tho Order of St . Stephen , it
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 13, 1855, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13011855/page/7/
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