of the town, in which General Eyre so gallantly and successfully established himself during the unfortunate attack of the 18th June. The vaUey on the right of the picture, and which divided the English and French attacks, is stiU studded with a few trees, whose tops and branches, like every other feature of the landscape, are covered deep with snow. A working party is busily employed in labours which soon render those engaged in them insensible to cold, while the guard of the trenches, with their muskets piled against the parapet, are condemned to a state of inaction which demands, evidently not in vain, a recourse to artificial means of promoting that genial circulation of the blood, without which the hardships of so severe a service are liable to be terminated by a " relief," sometimes deemed even more welcome than the arrival of comrades in the regular course of duty.
One characteristic group, a little to the right of the others, must not be passed over unnoticed. Three French riflemen, under the shelter of a projection of the rock, are eagerly on the watch for the chance of a shot at the enemy; and woe to the unwary Russian, who, looking over a parapet, or peeping through an embrasure, shall bring himself within range of those ready rifles, for they are wielded by hands which never tremble, and directed by eyes which never err; and the bullet which speeds from their < deadly grooves is urged on its flight by the breath of the destroying angel.