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wall amongst others, taken i Chili, in all his medals and decorations. T'hese are many, for he 1s o Knight of the Tron Cross, an Oftticer of the Tegion of Honour, has the Turkish - War Medal of 185.4-6, the Indian War Medal of 1857-8, with the clasp for L.ucknow, the South African War Medal of 1879, the Medjidich (zrd and gth class), the Osmanich (3rd and 4th class), the St Sauveur of Greece. He 1sa Chevalier of the Order of Franz Joscf of Austria—the Redeemer of Portugal - cte,
We Jooked through a hook of- hiterary and pictorial reminiscences of the Crimea. Many of the sketches, the majority by Colonel Colville, now liquerry to the Duke
of Tocdinburgh, arc highly humorous. The callant colonel has certainly depicted the
chroniclers of war’s alarms under very trying circumstances, and Captain Swaeby of the gist, who was killed at Inkerman, presents the land- ing of the famous war correspondent and the total annihilation of the rival pressmen of the Znvalide Russe and the Soldaten Frewnd in a boldly dramatic way. Here is a photo- graph by Robertson. It shows Balaclava “The Valley of Death.” On the opposite page is a cartoon from Sweck. N\ mother and her ext'dren are sitting with open cars and excited, tearful - faces distening 1o Pater- familias by the freplace, reading A deseription of the cavalry fight ol Balaclavafrom the Z7mes, and flourishing a poker over his head. That ac- countwas written by Dr. Russcll, and thereas hittle reason to doubt that the word- pieture penned by him spired Lord Tennyson to write the
- Charge of the
Light Drigade.” We turn over the pages of the album. This ship of bluc paper s 1 delivery note from the Quar- termaster-Cieneral for a box from England, which Dr. Russell got up with great dith- culty at Dalaclava. It created great joy,
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INTLERTTETLS. 560 as the Tabel on it of = NMedical Comforts” sugaested to o the hungry warrors some- thing good from the old countrv. They cathered round o anxious expectation. Alas T the box contained wooden Tegs, splints, and such uscful supports o life ! The fetters from generals commanding — are numerous--a passport to the mteror after the war, a portrait of Catharine of Russia, and one of the Czar Nicholas, torn down from a wall at Buljanak, and many other memen- toes. The reading of o letter from the famous I'rench ckef Soyer reminds - Dr. Russell of an ancedote.
Sover was arrested one night m the Crimea
s o Spy. “Who and what ware vou?” asked the ofhcer mto whose presence he was
brought.
“Lam an ofhicer,” was the reply.
“What rank 2”7
“ I am chief of a battery.”
“Of what battery 27
“Of the Batterie de Cuisine de FArmde Anglatse, monsteur ! was the witty answer,
“MLSover,” continued D Russell, * was very cecentrie, but very original cas a cook supreme. Heocerected o handsome monu- ment to o his memory at - KNensal
wife's : Green, and was on the Jook-out for an
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mscription. At last he made known his
wish to l.ord Palmerston. “CWell, said the great statesman, ‘1 don’t