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 488 APPENDIX. effect, that tney deserve to be carefully remembered by our army admiuistrators. The tone of the instructions is very peculiar, aud such as to make one believe that, whether directly or otherwise — perhaps through the wholesome inters^ention of Mr Sidney Herbert — they owed much to feminhie impulsion. The diction of the orders is such that, in housekeeper's language, it may be said to have 'bustled the servants.' iSTOTE 49. — When afterwards he went to the Crimea, Mr Raw- linson, the engineering member of the Commission who had achieved such vast good, had himself a sort of escape which popular diction is still apt to call 'miraculous.' He was struck by a 68-pouuder shot without being permanently or indeed very seriously injured. Note 50. — ri)id. Stated more exactly with their appendant fractions, the numbers given in the text are: 42.7, 31.5, 14.4, 10.7, 5.2, 4.3, and 2.2. Note 51. — That is, with the average rate in such of them as were in or near London. In those, it seems, the average rate of mortality was 2.9 per cent. Note 52. — Being deaths to force per 1000 per annum : — 1173.6 OHiiuary looo, February, , 1 1 / o. w . 9792. March , , 561.6 April , , 223.2 May , , 202.8 June ,, . 318. Note 53. — Ibid. The ratio of these six deaths ' to force per saw expressing the ratio for June 1856 (see note, cuite, No. 36 to chap. X., pp. 478, 479), i.e., by the figures 2.4. PRINTED BV WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONB.
 * 1000 per annum ' is expressed by the figures which we before