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 478 APPENDIX. began, and did not completely end until late in the month of May. Still, these altogether reached only the small sum above mentioned. Note 30.— Rep., pp. 28. Note 31. — Aware of the delicacy of their task as distributors of religious books, the Honorary Agents specially record this crowning success, attributing it to the ' harmony and goodwill ' they believed to be characterising ' the mutual relations of Pro- ' testant, Roman Catholic, and Presljyterian.' — Rep., p. 36. Note 32. — See in Lord Albemarle's interesting Memou'S an account of the vile reception encountered by his regiment upon landing on the English shore some five or six months after the day when they had been fighting at Waterloo. They were hooted as tax-consumers. Note 33. — Autograph letter dated ' Before Sebastopol, May ' p]gerton and Thomas Tower, Esq. ' The feeling so strongly ex- pressed by Lord Raglan in the letter, quoted in the text, did not lose its force — except, as one might almost say, Avith his life. Amongst the last writings he ever penned — it was on the 25th of June, and only three days before his death — was a private note on tiie same subject which he addressed to Tower, then in England. Because connecting itself with the last days of Lord P^aglan, a fac-simile of that note will appear in my next, and last volume. Note 34. — Ibid. The exact number in hospital on the 22d of April was 8G83. These statements alone would be incomplete, because not showing the numerical strength out of which the invaliding took place, but the ratio of that invaliding ' to strengtli ' per 1000 per annum ' follows. Note 35. — Under the heading of ' Admissions into Hospita' ' (primary) to strength per 1000 per annum,' the Returns before me show for January 1855 417G, and for June 185(J only 432, a change not far short of a reduction from 10 to 1. — ' Notes' pre- sented to War Department, pp. 320, 321. NoTK 30. — As shown under census of 1851. Under the head- ing of ' Deaths to force per 1000 per annum,'' the ratio of mortality afflicting our army in January 1855 is represented by the figures 1173.6, whilst the ratio under that heading for June 1856 is represented by the figures 2.4. The ratio under the same head- ing ill each of the last five months of the occupation of the
 * 22, 1855,' from Lord Raglan ' To the Honourable Algernon