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CONTENTS. XXXI Chaptbe VIII. — continued. Their sufferings on board the sick-transports, . . . 186 Our hospitals in the Levant, 187 Mortality in the hospitals on the Bosphorus, .... 189 The deaths that took place in our hospitals, .... 189 Strict comparison impracticable between the effect of the win- ter on the French and on the English army, . . .189 Recapitulation, . . . . . . . • .190 The strategic decisions which resulted in obliging the Allies to winter on the Chersonese Heights, 192 CHAPTEE IX. DEMEANOUR UNDER THESE TRIALS OF THE STATE, AND THS PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. I. Critical state of the Allied army, 195 The expedient to which it resorted 196 Canrobert's means of showing a good countenance to the enemy, .......... 197 Lord Raglan's, 197 Danger arising from publicity, 198 Character of Lord Raglan's correspondence with the Home Government, ......... 199 Effect of the despatches upon the mind of the Duke of Newcastle, • 200 Meeting and adjournment of Parliament, .... 201 The nation steadfast, ........ 202 Impulse given to recruiting by the accounts of Inkerman, . 202 The counsels of the ' Times ' at this period, .... 202 IL Newspaper correspondents in the Crimea, .... 204 Correspondents of London newspapers in the Crimea, . . 205 The modern war correspondent, ...... 205 Mr Russell, 208 Lord Raglan's letter of the 13th November on the subject of the Press, . . • • • • . 31i