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Peace Once More in the Crimea

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Mr. Unsworth, the Roman Catholic chaplain, has been removed from the Crimea. It is understood that Dr. Wiseman disapproved of the friendly relations which he held with his heretical Church of England brethren. The reverend gentleman was by no means a polemical divine. There is a secession also among the Sisters of Charity, and it is stated that they are nearly all going to leave the Crimea today in the "Cleopatra." The Army Works Corps is on the move homewards. Several hundreds of them have been already erabarked, and large sums of money will thus be saved to the country, for the navvies' work in the Crimea is over for ever. The fioating factory and workshop attached to the Land Trans-. port Corps will proceed homewards as soon as the demands for her services cease.

Never has money been better employed than in this vessel, the arrangements of which reflect the highest credit on the able and intelligent gentleman, Mr. Fraser, who superintended the outfitting and internal economy of the cruiser. He has received but small reward for his trouble; but Colonel M'Murdo and Mr. Dojiie unite in their testimony to his activity, usefulness, and zeal, and entertain the same sense of the services rendered by the factory. No intelligence has been i-eceived respecting the future destination of the troops, and the officers of each regiment are busy in conjecturing their probable I'outes from the Straits of Oibraltar. The belief among many is that their regiments will go to Canada. The sanitary state of the army continues to be wonderful.

In one regiment, 700 strong, there were only iico men on the sick list early this week! Returns have been called for, which will show a frightful contrast to this state of things during the terrible winter of 1854-1855. In some regiments of the Light Division, in addition to the results of sickness, it will CTaMEA. be seen from these returns tliat twenty officers and 700 rank and file have been put hor.'< de combat out of a strength of some twenty-eight officers and 800 rank and file, in the course of this campaign. The Russians admit their losses to have been prodigious, and there can be no question that they have the most unsound and sickly anny in Europe.

All past campaigns prove the feet. The dirty habits of the men may account in some measure for the mortality in their camps. AprU 22. I regi-et that I missed the grand review of the French and English armies, which too place on Thursday last, while I was making the tour of the southern coast round to Simpheropol and Bakshiserai. This day was originally intended for the spectacle, but General Ltiders, for whose edification it was designed, was obliged to leave for Odessa before Saturday, and the review took place sooner than was anticipated. The sight is described by all who witnessed it as magnificent and imposing, and I cannot but regard it as a misfortune to have been absent from it, although I can bear with some equanimity the loss of the French races and the carousal, which also came off during my absence.

General Liiders, who was attended by a staff of Euasian officers to the number of seventy or eighty, is stated to have spoken of the appearance of our army in terms of the greatest admiration. Marshal Pelissiev was particularly struck with the appearance of the Highland Brigade, which formed a living wall from the head-quarters camp to the commencement of the formation of our line, and he declared " that they were the finest and most splendid-looking soldiers in the world." The French review took place early in the day; their battalions fonned on the plateau from the Red Hill, to the north-west of Balaklava, near Mrs. Seacole's — a noted landmark — right away to Kamiesch, a distance of more than three miles. They were drawn np in rather loose order, and adopted a less massive formation than is their wont, and in the march past their battalions were sometimes broken up, and consisted of only two or three companies each, the remaining companies being formed into another battalion.