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Az om,the Lond, Morning Herald ) }eonsider in spite of the Times, as superior io the dark puddle

* As for theif tishstromblesdme ag all fiaies—they are gone+that is, which starnates in the veios of Belgian and German the euryics is gono—gowe witha vengeance.” | mercenartes,

Would ary one believe Mat an Haglishmin, not to ssy) There were two wars in the Punjaub ; and whose name is

any human beng, now existing, coud pen sneha sentence as connected with the hard won battles which gave the empire |

the'above, in reference to the most fearful national misfortune ‘of old Runject Singh to the crown of Knglan¢? Whose but which has fallen uson any people of modern times, and) glorious old Gough's, who has won seven pitched battles

avhich ended in the death or expatriation of neariy 3,000,000 | hecause no ministerial clap trap required his promotion. | Three days ago our regiment was in the trenches; we had

of his fellow creatures? Yet such are the terms in whieh} England, however, has derived reputation from feats of the ‘government organ speaks of*the fearful event in whieh | individual daring, which have never been equalled, performed its own inflaence was so disesrrous'y and fetally exerted. lat Silistria und Herst. Who defended those beleagued cities | “Gone with a rengeance.” Hiren the Times does Rot! npon whose fall the fite of continents depended? Why, vonture to say “thank God.” bat we can well fancy that the! James Butler and Eldred Pottinger. “hyan'ta whieh if dares not offer to th: Giver of all Good, are | England has discovered the North-west passage, and we j racticaily bestowed upon the trinity which it and its abetrors ask who met at Melville Island on the completion of that really worship—Mammon, Belial, and Moloch; for every|ereat achievement? The glorious three were MeOlure, ane of those demons had their share in the awful cruelty’ Kelet, and McClintoek, and it was Mecham who first came perpetnited on the Irish in J847 and 1848. It required the! on the track of the lost Collision. cuoning of Belial to persaade the well-meaning Eoglish! here are, moreover, some men now, or lately, commanding nation that the “best mode of preventing the reeurrence of a! jn the Crimea, whom even the Tzmes, that strikes at All, and fumine in the Next year was to prohibit ev!:ivation in the | throws out its calumnies broadeast, has not ventured to present. Nothing less tham the avari-e of Mammon could | malign—and their names are Delacy Evans, Pennefather have taken adraatage of so terrible a visitation to sell up the and Torrens. Finally. we shall add, that three years age Irish proprietors, and remorselessly clear ihe land of the} England was proud of three Generals who had fought oscupiers, when purchased for haif their value from the campaigns, commanded in chief, and won pitched battles, and ruined owner. Lastly, it must have required the cruelty of|they were all Irish. At present but one survives—for Moloch himself to turn such mis‘ortunes into the means of} Napier and Wellington, alas! are gone. As for Lord expatriating the blood, bone, and sinew of the country. Girey’s assertion the other nizht, that the present commander- Surely, Englishmen wii! have little dificulty in connecting | in-chief was in this position—made too, in the presence of the neSarious schome of hiring foreign mercenaries with | Lord Gough !—it is simply one of those’statements which no _ the nataral ant Jievitable eomsequeaces of the awful |oue acquainted with the “tortusus fneapacity of that noble national eriae iuto which they were betrayed in 1847 and! earl to realise a simple truth, either of fact or polities: will 1848. © . ‘be surprised at Lord Wardinge necer commanded in the Listen to the words of one of the best men in Ireland, | firld ; and once when, as Governor-General, he interfered when writing of his own prospects of raising men for the too! with the actual eommander-in-chief, he very nearly de- Jate-embodied militia:—-:The Whig massacre of the Lrish | stroyed the military supremacy of England, in India, as in 1846 and subsequent years, has left but few recruits; for) we had oceasion to show a few days sinca. in 1846 children who would now serve as recruits, died in} The statements which we have male above hare been numbers, and though the population may be diminished only | wrung from us by the malignity with which the ministerial by 2,000,000, we are now but a nation of old women and /organ pursues those who have inclination and capacity to be cripples.” Wel', gentlemen of England, how like. you the | the equals of any subjects Her Majesty possesses, both in corsequences? As the Times tells you, you will have the | loyalty and fidelity, and yet the Times exu!ts in an unseemly “placid blue-eyed German,” instead of the “ troublesome /manner at their destruction and expstriation. Does England Irish.” We fancy, however, that even the Guards, glorious | endorse the sefitiment ? We know it is not so: but if there fellows as they are, would rather have the 88th by their side, | he one so denstionalised let him employ the Times to match however “ troublesome,” than any German corps, even were our list, if he can, We ses that the consistent organ of the they as stout men at arms as the “ fans knechts” of old, | covyornment wishes fo “Send Sir Charles Trevelyar: to take which they never will be. crder ip rezard to all matters which have gone wrong in the The Trish’ are well used to have their Glood poured forth! Crimea. God protect our poor fellows? Sir Charles was like water all over the earth, and then find that the snobbery | the crowning mercy” of the Irish famine. Why do the —the word is god Fiorentine—of Hngland pives all the | Cabinet vot‘sen] M. Ssyer to cosk non-existent provisions tory to the bearskins of the Guards, and the b: nnets of the} at Balaklava ?—they did so in Ireland. The appointment Trightanders, bevause they look picturesque in 2 print shop. | of the execllent and kind-hearted cuiinier, however, was Aa for the Guards, however, we hare not 4 word to say— only a bitter jest, bat Sir Charles Trevelyan’s mission to they have been through the whole of the desperate fights of [reland was a well calculated coup de grace. Effectually the Crimea ; “they have been first in honor as in place, in re-| did he use the dagger of mercy, and rizht well was he paid nown as in loss—ut we must dissent f-om attributing the | for his work, of which we see the judicial effect in the whole g'ory of A'ma to the ffighlund Brigad>, which did foreigners’ enlistment bill, not lose abeve 15 or 20 men Killed—and totally, according | new cant—enoring the 23-d, Tih and 53rd, every one : " : or whieh battalions lost _ wed in a sieg'e company thie the | LETTERS FROM THE BATTLE FIELD. whole HigMland Brigade put together. 4 panes * . : os : As the Times see-ns to congratulate the country upon the Corporal Downing never had such fun in his life. expatriation of the Irish, we wil! just poiut out one of the} Corporal Downing, of the 95th Regt., writes as follows :— consequerces of the first Whrg expulsion of the inhabitants | « My dear Jack,—I am still, thank God, “sound in wind |

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of what is—with bitter irony—calied the “ sisfer island.” | and limb,” and hope I'll live to see and give youa good shake | The Whigs wer the soi-disant statesmen who drove out the | of mg fist yet. Thisis the country to try a man’s mettle and | Irish aoe Sarsfield after the wars of 1688, as they were| constitution, and I must say that both have been well tried—| the men who expatriated their successors after the famine of | she first by the Russians and the latter by the climate. You| 1846. We hope that the war, which the question of the) will, [ suppose, have seen in the papers the Bala Clava affvir, | right of search is almost certain to give rise to with America | where the cayalry were engaged, and also that of the 29th of in the spring, may not produce iv<tanees similar to that | November, where our division hunted the Russians. I was} which we are going to quote ; if it should, however, the nation jin the affair of the 25th, though I had no more business there | will know what they owe to their eonniweee at Whig policy | than you had, because I was then, and am now, employed as | in depopulating [reland—6 0,009 of whose sons died in the elerk in the commissuriat department ; but when I heard the | service of France in little more than one hundred years after | firing I slipp-d on my belt, handled the rifle, and walked, or éhe expulsion of 1688. | rather ran, off to join my company. The fight was then going | We quote fiom the correspondence of Marshal Saxe the on hot, so I joinel the first lot I met, which happened to be | following remarks : — ,the outlying picket of the 30th. The Russians made a bold} “T qucstioa if there are many of ovr friends who dare! attempt. but soon began to give away, and in the end it was as | modertake to pass a placo with a boy of infantry before a! ood asa fox haunt. Never had such fun in my life. We numerous satay and flatter limse f that he would hold his | followed them under the fire of their own batteries. Sir De and for several hours with fifteen or twenty battalions in | Lacy Evans was so pletsed that he reled all aseprizoners, and the middle of an army, as the [English did, without aay gaye an extra ratién of rum to every man in the division. | dharge being able to shake them, or make them throw away |The next good shindy was on the 5th of November. ! their fire—this is what we have a! seen.” The Russians attacked and drove in our pickets at daybreak, | # Such was the description given by a noble enemy of the but they soon got reinforced. Our division was again first’ * infernal colamn” of the English at Fontenoy. . Now, we into it, and behaved as usual, like bricks. The enemy had! ask, what stopped and destroyed that column? The Trish an enormous artillery, which I must say was admirably | Brigade—banished by the Whig:, and it is such subjects 28 served all through the day. They took up a position in the they were that we are again expatriating to make way for night, and fought like devils from dawn until sunset, and our} Belgians and Germans. 5h, glorious policy ! |people only were first engaged, bat Gen. Canrobert sent to! We say Belgians; for the equivoecations of Mr. Syd- cur assistance a strong body of his chaps, and they soon de- | ney Herbert on Friday nigut. when questioned by Colonel | cided the battle. Duane, will not do away with the fact—that which we assert jogs, and our people also saffered severely, both in officers’ most positively —that whether it was “ impossible or zot’— and men. It was a terribleday. I had a narrow escape or the Due of Newcastle Aas been nezociating with General two. I was standing close to my tent, where two pork | Vandermeer and Colonel Palma for a mercenzry legion of | barrels were piled on top of the other. I was Icaning agginst | Beem. Have Englishmen so totally forgotten the flight | them, looking at the fight a little above me, when a canmon | p e

toes at Water!oo as to submit to such an outrage bal! sent the top one spinning from my shoulders, and upset |

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‘same time, the very moment the Russian sees a head over ‘the breastwork he does the same. It often bappens that two ‘see each other ; so the quickest eye and steadicst arm have ithe best chance. The Russians are pretty good shots. It is nothing sirange to have the cap knocked off the head, or the cheeks grazad, or picees cut out of the collar or shoulders of the coat. Gents fond of duelling ouglt to come here for a few days to practice their hands. The ships and forts keep up a continual fire of grape shot and shell on our parties.

one mun knocked to pieces and two more wounded by grape. The same day a very feeling circumstanee took place. Two Russian soldiers were coming down the strect ; says one of our men, * By the powers but they have a woman to protect them.’ ‘Bad Juck to me,’ says another, ‘if she goes one tide Ti havea slap at them.’ They would not chance a shot for fear of hitting the woman, But she was not four paces from the Rassians when whiz go the Mivie rifles and down tumbles one of them; the other started off at a good run. ‘ Faith,’ says one of my comrades, ‘if we shot the woman the Rooshians would let old Nick know it, and he would stick it in the papers that we were shooting the women; and other countrics would say, ‘ Sinope again.’ Now, my dear wife, although we are at bloody work, this little incident will let you see that while we have no reluctance at shooting or bayonetting a Russian, we have some respect for their wo- men.” Enough to kill an iron man.

Sergeant Thomas, 41st Foot, says :—* If you only saw me now you would think that [ was sixty years of age, and not me only but every man in the company. You would not know us again if ever you get the chance to see us. We are going to winter in the Crimea, and it will kill every man in the British army, with hard fighting, hard living, and slecp- ing in wet clothes and on damp ground—all enoug’a to kill an iron man, Tt is now eighty-nine days since I have taken off my boots or clothes. Think for a moment how we are situated. We are encamped within 3,000 yards of Sebastopol. We have to carry our water about a mile and a half, and only four men a company allowed at a time to go, and to carry but a small barrel a man, it holds but a pint and a half. Wash- ing the face and hands is out of the question. I go some- times eight or ten days without washing my face or hands ;} and for washing clothes we never get a chance of it. Poor Davia Griffiths died on the 7th of this month from nething e!se but fatigue and cold, after escaping four battle fields and behaving so brave as he did. He jumped out of the ranks and laid down under a stone and shot four Russians before he got uv, and then ran on top of three mor», struck one with his firelock on the head and killed him, and brought the other two in prizoners. J was looking ut him, at the same time had my owti work to. [ nearly got my home blow that day, it was a ball through the collar of my jacket, another through both legs of my trousers, and a sligt touch on the head, but nothing worth speaking about. 1 am all right, so is Jack Harris and Everson.”

The heart of a Soldier.

“Sergeant William Jamieson gives an account of his wound recived at Inkermann, two fingers being shot off, and adds :—But, thank God, I am sound in wind and limb, and will yet ‘ beat them again,’ as the old farmers say at home. God is favourable to me, having brought me out of three most terrific battles, and saved me from cholera, and He will not now desert me. IPf TI had not you and my dear little pet to mourn for me, I would be coutent under any circum-| You are never absent from my thoughts, and it causes me great pain when I meditate upon the great im-! probability of ever again returning ; but, ‘ hope sustains me,’ | and I often think that I must and shall return. -You must

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wet and cold have caused the many of whom, as well 2s. the h directions. -I was at svork ‘ enemy's work at the trenches, but we had too a cover for them to

took the gun and shot at them several times. I whether I killed any of them or not, but I can assure you they are so very numerous, they are al! over the country,

dead in all yards of the

all over the place; we buried hundreds of them ourselves, There are a lot of our men wearing Russian boots, which they pulled off them. There was a Frenchman yesterday pulling one fellow out of the grave to get his boot. } ht { would rather go without boots for a long time before I would do that. Sebastopol Jooks to be a beautiful There is a very fine arsenal. We can see them work ng, but we could, if we liked. fire in and destroy the best part of the of taking it soon, so by that means he don’t wish to destro any, Or more than he can avoid. The French would go and storm it at once, if they were allowed to do so, and our men would likewise. soldier ; he will go throvgh fire and water if you once his blood warm. You mentioned about the Par dedints of pounds that have been collected for the soldiers’ comforts

the soldiers get here is very little. If they go to the doctor he might give them a pill, and send them away again. If a man can stand on his legs at all he must do his duty.”

Ways, meaus, and high prices in the Camp.

Brigade, writes as follows :—* I at, this time to have addressed my letters from Se . but the Russians sti! hold out, and T fancy the Commander of the Forces will not fire upon the town until he has tried every plan, as the

sian commander refused to send the wo although Lord Raglan offered to send f the interior of the . Lam very su making; cut upan old stocking

consequence of the salt. Oxyr clothing is in about trying my hand at trousers making an old blanket, but I suppose we shall get some clothing soon. Some speculating people have arrived with provisions, but the prices are, or will be to English people, fabulous, Butter, ds. ;- bad cheese, 4s ; and soap, 2s. per pound ; a flannel shirt, £1 10s. and £2; worsted socks, 8s. per pair; boots, £4 4s. ; but there isone thing in our fayour—we can wear what we like ; some make shirts from biscuit bags. I am pretty well off for under-clothing. I feel certain that the place must soon fall. { believe that our regiment is to return to Eng- land with the first; I shall be very glad. Thank God, my health continues very good; we have very little sickness in camp at present—a few suffering from fever b ton by exposure. Our regiment has suffered fearfully. e came from England 950 rank and file; we have now only 580 effective men! 390 dead or sent away unfit for service, or ill in camp. .

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THE FOUR CONDITIONS.

There has not appeared as yet any authentic account of the identic interpretation of the four guarantees. These guaran- tees were laid down in the identic notes of the 8th of August. It was then declared by each Power separately, but in the same terms, that the relations of the Sublime Porte with the Imperial Court of Russia could not be re-established on solid and durable bases :—

not think anything of my wound, as [ cannot be very badly hurt, having undertaken to write this long letter. It was

rratifying when going to have my wound dressed, to meet)

Robert all safe. On the last occason (at Inkermann) Lieut. |

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quit the field.” We soon parted, and when I saw him next

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is given by the Constitution: el ;—* During the last three days the bad weather has recommenced, and our poor soldiers suffer much from this humidity, mingled with eoid and snow. |

However, the works have been urged on as rapidly as possi-|

. ’ - > > e } Gibson was killed; I saw him wounded, ani offered my aid}

‘<1, If the protectorate hitherio exercised by the Imperial Court of Russia overthe Principalities of Wallachia, Molda- via, and Servia, be not discontinued for the future, and if t' ¢ privileges accorded by the Sultans to these provinces, depen-

dencies of their empire, be not placed under the collcctive

he. rar, but he said, + No! I am badly | Suatantee of the Powers, in virtue of an arrangement to be

' ink J t s] y - > j t ere oI ° . ; hurt, but I think not dangerously so; I will no therefore | Thich should at the same time regulate all questions of detail. he wasdead. Poor fellow! he was a most daring and gallant hoot Rte ant Choteaies omen tne the principies established by the aets of tho Congress of A rush from Sebastopol upon the French.---The Russians | very much disappointed.

The following letter from Sebastopol. dated the 16th alt.,|

concluded with the Sublime Porte, and the stipulations of

Vienna. :

« 3. If the treaty of July 13, 1841, be not revised in concert by all the high contracting parties in the interest of the balance of power in Europe.

“4, If Russia do not give up her claim to exercise an official protectorate over the subjects of the Sublime Porte, to whatever rite they may belong; end if Austria, Great

ble, At present our batteries are armed, and can at any time | Britain, France, Prussia, and Buce'a.do net iend their mutual

open fire with 250 guns, of which 71 are mortars. Our third! paraliel is at 150 metres from the town, and our sharpshooters | are Close to the town. Our entrenchments extend from the! sea to the Quarantine Bay, and as far as the Chernaya. Last | night a-hand of volunteers from our Army surprised a numer-,

rous guard of the Russians within 200 paces of the town, and |

losing a man. The Russians, having two or~three~bat-| talious of Cossacks of the Black Sea brought up, thought) to frighten us by the boldness of the coup de main of these |

savages, accustomed to such things in the war of thé Cau-. casus; but they will soon find that it is dangerous work with |

men like ours. Our reinforcements are arriving without in-

assistance to obtain as an initiative from tke Ottoman Go- vernment the confirmation and the observanee of the religious privileges of the different Christian eommunities; and to tarn to account, in the common jaterest of their eo-religionists, the generous intentions manifested by bis Mujesty the Sultan, at the same time avoiding any aggression ou bis dignity and

The Russians were repulsed with immense | + i11e4 twenty-five men with the bayonet, without themselves | the independence of his Crown.”

Lord Clarendon's Explanations of the Guarantees. Lord Clarendon, in his despatch ef July 22, oxplained the meaning attached by the English Government to the guaran-

tees. He said— “ These guarantees are natarally suggested by the dangers

as to have these men placed again in the same lige with them- | a storekeeper of ours, an ex-London policeman, who was more. torruption, as well as those of our Allies. You are aware to guard against whieh they are required. Thus Russia hoe

elves .__ | frightened than hurt. At the same time, down comes my)

of the formidable amount which our army will’ soon reach. |

tuken advantage of the exclusive right which eho hdd acquired

We shall close this article by pointing out some of the | tent with a crash, the pole being smashed and sent in pieces |Add to that the arrival of 40,000 Tarks,and a new basis of by treaty, to watch over the relations of Wallachia and Mol-

illustrations, ene the last fifty years, of that people whom | throuzh the canvas. We then were ordered to retire by the, the Times congra its readers upon having got rid of | commissariat officer in charge, and fetch some stone= with us, | “with a ven ‘which we did some three or four hundred yards. My friend, |

‘Trish Orators, England has enjoyed in the eyes of | the storekeeper, was sitting upon a stone wal! chatting to me, | the the credit of the reputations acquired by Grattan, | when a 24 pounder sent the wall to the g ound almost from |

Canning, Sheridan, Burke and Plunket. under him. He turns to me and says, “ Jack, I'll hook it,”

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As Ministers, sbe has had the services of Castlereagh, | and hook it he did. It was a terrible day, my dear Jack,! are rare, and Jetters-out of horses still rarer. Not being able! the principal mouth of the Danube

operations, having Eupatoria for pivot. The health of our,

troops is excellent. Jack's delight--a ride in the Mud.

An English sailor, after having drank a bottle of port wine, was seized with a great longing to hare a ride. Dut horses

they were part of her own territory. ‘frontier of Russia in the Black Sea has enabled her to esta-

davia with the suzerain Power, to enter those provinces as if ‘Again, the privileged

blish in those waters a naval power whigi, in the absence of any counterbalancing force, is a standing menace to the Ottoman empire.. The uncontrolled ion by Russia of ¢ereated obstacles to

Canning, Wellington and Palmerston—two of whom struck and I'll never forget it. The siege guns are hard at it to- to find anything else, he paid two Turks to allow him to teke the navigation of that great river which seriously affect the down Na e '

poleon. ll day. But England has done great.things within the last fifty

years. Let us consider, the mames that are indelibly as-, = . mF . . : = sociated with those Rvs achievements. England has Will be a very eurrous one.” ‘

India,’ aid ‘the conqu-rors were Wellestey. ) Tfsstings, Welli and Gough 7 She was victcrious in“the ~ Remarkable respect.for 2 Woman.

Peniosular war and at Witerluo. We need not record the

“Jcnx Dows:xa. Corporal, 95th Regt.

name of the great warrior, for cvery one eat recognise it, ffoliows:— We are busily at work throwing up trenches These were great wars; “but we have had others. There within 306 or 230 yards of the town, and the Russians are | was a wir in : $ who did the work, while victory as hird at work doing the same to stop us. The regiments : We ansiter, Keane and Dennie? | of the third and fourth divisions take turn about im those

war in Chit ; who did the work ?) Géngh ‘advanced trenches, and there is sharp rifle practice for pro- ani Pottinger, © ~ * - ~ Hteeting ‘There was a war in Scinie who did the work? Sir C. land

his ride on their backs. . In consequenee, he

on the back | general eumuerce of Europe. Finalls, she. Stipulations of

‘of one and commenced riding through the mud. An English , Mae treaty of Kukschuk-Kainardji relative to the protection of

«“P, S.—I wish you a merry Christmas; 1 suppose mine officer, having met him whilst so eccapied, said, “ Jack, you : ‘ ‘are wrong bi ase that poor man so.” “ Oh, sir,” replied | she principal eause of the present struggle. Upon all these | é when this one is fatigued, | points the status guo ante beldunt must undergo important } | modifications. a

A corporal of the 4th (King’s Own) Regiment, writes 28‘ You sce that, in spite of everything, We laugh sometimes |

| the other, “Iam roasonable, and eis '[ yrill get on the other,” pointing to the Tark’s companion.

here. Work under the Enemy’s Fire. The following is from a soldier in the 7th Company, Royal

‘Sappers and Miaers:—*T go out to work every other night,

ties. The trench is lited with men who Jook over, from half-past 4 o'clock p. m., and remain till 9 o’clock on the ry Russian they lay an eye on is fired at. At the? following morsing, in pouring rain and all

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‘and published in the Chi ers. Orelately-acquired ‘rower iin optus with te attain 4Fpairgaimy. He has three wives; the latest, be “ sy. She-de

panen very wet ever since our company have béew here, and

or sick and wounded; but I have to tell you that the comforts

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