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 WITH LOKD RAGLAN. 255 tifying. I may, however, tell you privately that chap. I suspect these actions of the French, attended „ as they are by serious loss, are far from giving the Emperor the satisfaction which they ought. . . . I have no doubt that you know far better than he or we do how to take Sebastopol in the shortest time, and with the least sacrifice of our precious men. . . . The subject of Cholera, on which you have no notion how I have been pestered by every description of bore. Between ourselves Palmerston is naturally nervous for the army, and listens too much to people. Then come those who think they are entire controllers of cholera, and every other disease under the sun. Then the hoinceopathists insist on their nostrums. In short, all are alarmed, and insist on sending advice.'* 1 The rapid tide of success which has poured in upon us has put down grumbling. . . . The papers sent home by you, and dating from 7th May, have given us an insight into your own proceedings, which you have done yourself injustice by withholding so long. I appreciate your good-natured motives, but I think you ought to consider yourself a little more, and your associates a little less. Make your com- munications as secret as you choose, but hide not your own light under a bushel. . . . However, it is easy to wage war on paper, and I rely on your local resolves as being by far the best for action. . . . He [the Emperor]
 * Lord Panmure to Lord Raglan, 11th June 1855.