The graves of some officers are still, I believe, unmarked, and as for the noncommissioned officers and the mere rank and file, their restingplaces, spread all over the camp, are scarcely to be distinguished, ti'om the rows of mounds which sliovi"^ where dead horses and butchers' offal have been buried. Would it not be well to enclose all these detached burial-grounds with substantial walls, or even with timber fences, and then to raise in each a monumental column or tablet, with the names, as far as they can be ascertained, of those who rest inside, ere the army leaves the Crimea? Perhaps it would touch the soldier more deeply than gold, or pay itself, to see the country so thoughtful of his departed comrades.
There are, of course, graves here and there, trenches hastily dug during an armistice, in which the fallen have been as hastily interred, which the tramp of war has beaten down so that they never will be recognised till some deep plougher turns up the bones to light in ages to come; but let us mai'k, as far as we know them, the resting-places of these British dead, who lie so far from fi-iends and home. Now that our army has breathing time, the large divisional grave-j'ards of the men have been enclosed by a shallow trench of a i'ew inches in depth, and sometimes by a low wall of loose