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 238 THE OPKNIXG OF TUF STEGP:. CHAP, flnv's cannonado ; luit then tluit coiisnniiition of . lime was the very sacrifice they could least afford — the very one which, in every battery and every cliurcli of Sebastopol, the devout Russian ]')ray(Hl they might make. Aifij,'iven Froui ou board the Allied tickets large bodies bv the 1 1 T 1 1 ^ Allied neets. of men were landed; and they were ordered or rather permitted, for the men were burning with zeal — to take part in the active operations against Sebastopol. The brigade of English seamen thus placed at Lord Eaglan's disposal was under the orders of Captain Lushington ; and Captain Peel besides undertook to arm and man a battery with guns and men from the Diamond. Moro- over, large quantities of the armament and other material resources of the fleets were freely de- voted to the same purpose. Numbers of ships' guns of heavy metal were taken from the decks of the men-of-war, and afterwards dragged up to camp by the bodily power of the sailors.* In the eyes of those who have witnessed the contrast as shown and developed by the business of war, it seems hardly short of a wonder that the same nation should be able to send out, to toil and fight for her cause, two bodies of men, each Distinguish- so dcvotcd, cacli so excellent, vet parted the one iiig cliarac- i n i' loristicsof from the other by a breadth so great as that the sailor ,..,..,, ,. as compared which dividcs our soldiers from our sailors. It with the soldier. is truc tluit tlic soldicr engaged in campaigning is too often in a lower state of health than that Kav}' affordecl, see Appendix.
 * For details of the assistiince in men and material wliirh our