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great as that of those who died or were wounded, for they did not go back as he did. It was 

 not equal to that of Colonel Yea, of the 7th Fusileers, on the occasion of the former attack on the 

 Redan, who, single-handed, went up to certain death saying, ' I call on God to witness my men 

 have forsaken me ;' or to that of Sir John Campbell, who went up to the ditch alone, and was 

 shot dead where he stood. Those men would not go back ; and somehow I respect them more 

 than others who did." " Not a single outpost is held, of which the French naturally complain. 

 Lord Panmure's employment is that of sending out lecturers at £200 a year to teach the soldiers 

 chemistry ; schoolmasters are on their way, school-houses are ordered to be built, Miss Nightingale 

 wants larger churches to be erected, and in the mean time the men are for the most part in 

 tents, as the huts that were supplied were blown down. The men's clothing is of the very worst 

 description — stockings of the most flimsy kind, flannels wretched. Our transport animals are 

 necessarily exposed to every kind of weather from the want of planking to make roofs for 

 shedding ; the men on duty are put into the worst kind of tents ; and yet all these evils remain 

 unremedied. When planking and tar are asked for, chemical lectures are ofl'ered ; and instead of 

 good stockings and flannels, magic lanterns are sent, and globes as well celestial as terrestrial." 



As the winter set in, officers and men had still something to complain of. The majority of 

 the latter in Arthur Hay's division were under canvas, the huts being useless. Lord Arthur 

 was totally unprovided with warm clothes ; they were lying in Balaclava or possibly in London — 

 most probably the lattei', for an officer had just arrived who had seen them a month before in the 

 London store, waiting to be shipped. The scanty clothes in which he weathered the storm were 

 in tatters. This touched his susceptibilities. The General of his Division was a " dandy," 

 who prided himself on good form in attire. The only consolation left to the Assistant 

 Adjutant-General was to read over his tailor's bill, which told of things that would in time 

 " make him a tearing swell," and to call on his imagination to picture what " A superfine blue 

 cloth coat, richly braided — and lined with scarlet," and similar articles, would make him look like 

 when he got them. 



He felt much gratification at the bestowal of the K.C.B. upon Lord Rokeby. " Had 

 he been sent at the Redan, he would not have come out alive and beaten." 



Rumours of peace and of an immediate return of the army to England were rife in camp. 

 Such rumours were not grateful to Lord Arthur. He was not dazzled by the glitter of stars 

 or ribbons, but fully appreciated the charm of substantial rank, in the train of which all gauds 

 and decorations would follow. Whilst he was with his division in the field, every day counted 

 towards his full colonelcy. After all that had been accomplished, the desired goal had not yet 

 been attained. 



Note. — At the close of the year the Russian forces in the Crimea numbered 100,000 men. 



