Show BRITISH BRTiS li ENDURANCE AT THE CRIMEA the french troops looked Spruce rt tout but do the work in colonel colln colin campbells letters from Seba sevastopol sebastopol now published w with ith a preface by viscount wolseley Wol selcy this tribute Is paid to the endurance and devotion ot of the british troops at the crimea 1 11 I dare dare say you will read ft L good deal in the papers about the extraordinary privations the lite officers are suffering here this 1 i non nonsense Pense I 1 do not con bider that the officers are arc suffering more than ony any reasonable man may expect to suffer in a campaign campain n the difference between what they surfer and what the men inen butter la Is the difference between life and death they the officers have to remain sometimes twelve hours in snow and sleet but they alwawi ind find a dry bed and some hot tea with ham and biscuit ready on their return and it if they cannot endure d ure this without grumbling they are not fit alt to be soldiers but with the unfortunate men it is s very different they corns come home soaking wet have no change ot of clothing and often oden nothing to eat but some dry bi biscuit with willi a glasa of 0 ruin even when sick they have no beds beda but ore are obliged to lie on the damp clamp m mud id in their tents so po that ll it Is quite surprising 9 to me that the m morlA llly should be so small email the w worst mgt french legli ment here makes a better appearance than the best english in tact fact the rifle hide brigade is the only Engli titi hrc here that keeps heeps up un the appearance ot of being soldiers their dark clothing and black belt give them a grat advantage the othni olli ci a are messes ot of mud front from head to foot and never make tiny attempt to clean themselves tho the only thins thing we ever look to is a the state oc 0 f the arms and ammunition the whole organization of 0 the french army Is vastly superior to ours particularly their medical and commissariat mis missa sarlat riat departments our medical department part ment Is in a very bad state I 1 do not know that it is 1 the fault of 0 any one in particular but that we ne are mere infants lit in the art of oc war and have lad had no experience except in india III 1 tt here everything in the way ot of organization Is done by the east india company the french are so no experienced in miny many points I 1 think the discipline ot of our men Is beyond all praise ind and I 1 very much doubt if rench french I merits could have lave been induced to do such bovere work as out our men doing a week ago it if tho the french had not seen our men under lite hie I 1 should think the luey would have bon benn filled with contempt for them irom fronk their appe app earan aronte but bill IRS as it havo have a greater respect f lor r us ind and never 1 ea 10 ing it somo some french effit ul ceia 1 st hl hive h ive ti been candid enough to ray CAY chii they do not think their own men could have advanced und under er the tremendous fire that ours dl 14 1 at t alma tile the following conversation which colonal caa campbell i gives as aa a specimen or of whit what marhl 1 be tx heard omone among the working parties part lee la Is worth first irishman och bedad I 1 lade a worse life here nor a rabbit second iram irishman II 11 man Is it a rabbit P a I 1 W wah io h I 1 wor rabbit for or though ly th they e shoot t t the e poor baste bast 0 11 all li day they cant make him pick lit all nigh t third n boys heres the e engineer n g 1 ne e r A a b hoi 0 t I 1 k alence i le nc e fo u r t h 1 Irish r 1 sh m manWell a n 1 V el 1 1 id d ns ail soon boon see nee a Rooi blan como come over ever the parapet an a on engineer theyer worse nor the tha doe therm third ireman what did they do to you rat pat irishman well F friday was a a week I 1 was working in this battery and a shell came in and killed poor jim 1 Ilan naan and wounded two more and they sent bent me for the he doc ther and when I 1 was wa going up the I 1 meets the engineer a little of 0 a chap and plays ayn he be ahert are you going says I 1 T im in going for f the decther doc ther the matter rays its ys lie be say savo I 1 theres theren six men kilt with a 0 shell 1 Is I there nays mays he then tell the adjutant to pend end me ma six nix more find and look sharp about it divil a word more he be said lie ile lighta said bald poor fel fellows tows fifth Ir ael ae 1 hould your that chat 9 sure re the frinch lose inse a tholand men a night under the Mammy loon and adf never say it a word want about abou t it first firm irishman well it bates balls in me who the oll olli loers cers them sure they talk like ducks fifth irishman arrah will yr frit mind your picking I 1 belleve believe auve tuk my foot off and ito AO on |