In the 1'Jth regiment, taking the total number of hours for November, >4 have been passed by the men either on duty in the tn or on piquet, which is 10 hours daily for each man, the remaining 11 being pawed in bringing water, seeking for fuel, cooking, and other duties, &c. In s to each man one night in camp and one on duty; many men, however, had to go on duty with tlu i panics two or three nights running, doing 24 hours' duty to r.' in camp.,!!. on an average, were something less than one night in tlu-ir tents, with water and furl fatigues when off duty; they are in consequence weak and wasted, front the incessant and n- dut ii lies or out'. piquet every second night; on the int. en ing days, guards, besides water and fuel fatigues, &c. 4 In the 88th regiment no man has ever more than on.night in tent, has 12 hours in the trenches, and 24 hours on piquet, and then has to look after wood for cooking, water, A return and letter from Captain Forman, commanding the ri.Jn wing of the 2nd battalion < ember that wing was on duty times, namely, '. in the trenches, and in t; and that the average daily duty performed by each man was about hours, in addition to two hours spcni and from the trenches, besides the fatigue of procuring wood and water, and other regimental duties. hi December the am.t corps is described as being rather only about 9 hours in the trenches or piquets, exclusive of other duties. These few individual instances will be sufficient to show how the system worked, and there appears no reason to suppose that (except, perhaps, in the 46th regiment) they differed from the ordinary routine of duty in other corps during this period." Tulloch, Crimean Commission, pp. 177-78. F. TABLE giving the weight of the different balls used by the various belligerents during the past war. AViih the exception of our own, the weights noted can only be looked on as close approximations, from the specimens being too few to enable the weights to be given with perfect exactness. All the specimens examined were new balls which had not been used. Description of Ball. Description of Rill. 8UEGERY OF THE CKIMKAN OC 5 CO CO CO X CO C4 "N "M -t I>-OTH CO illegible in the scan of the first
" In four months," says M. Scrive, " 47,800 men, in an effective force of 145,000, entered our ambulances during the -winter of 1855-6; 9,000 of these died; an equal number of those transferred, perhaps, perished in the hospitals at Constantinople, or in France." TABLE showing the cases and deaths from wounds and disease in the French army from September, 1854, to July, 1856: i-a-es, and;"'29 deaths in an etlVrtivo force of f0,000 etna, and 7>,G89 deaths, in a total force of. maximum in February, IHJG. In January, July, Augu nlu-r,!.<>.">. it was also very prevail -nt, hut hy June, is.-.r,. it had pvatly diminished. In 1-Ybruary. 185G, 4,341 cases, and aths from scurvy, appear in the returns.