on account of their associations with persons and events of which they can read at home in the historical or the library productions of the mother country.
[Cheers,] Neither is there a deed of heroism recorded here that does not elicit its tribute of applause in the remotest hamlet of the western hemisphere.
I have myself met with the story of Grace Darling's courage stuck up in the small public room of an sun in an obscure American town; so the example of self-devotion of your Florence Nightingale [Cheers] has raised the admiration and stimulated the ardor of imitation of many of my fair countrywomen, as it has done of her own. And perhaps I may be permitted here to make an allusion to a higher character, so far as to say that through the breadth of the United States, from sea to sea, the name of Her Majesty, the Queen, is held in the highest honor, [cheers.] not because she is a Queen — no, that's not the reason, for there have been many Queens whom we do not admire at all — b
ination of the passengers was entitled to be regarded as an innocent destination, and they were consequently set at liberty.
The London Times claims that this case plainly establishes the principle that between one neutral port and another all persons and things whatever may be legally carried.
Every regiment in the camp at Aldershott had been medically inspected, so that they might be in perfect readiness to embark immediately for Canada.
A body of trained nurses on Miss Florence Nightingale's plan, were to proceed at once to Halifax.
The Army and Navy Gazette says that there is a prospect of a trouble with the Siekha.
The batteries of artillery at Bombay, on the point of embarkation to England, were stopped by pressing dispatches from Bengal.
The English funds were flat on the 25th of December, and lower.
The heaviness was caused by the tone of the New York journals per the City of Baltimore, which it was argued rendered the prospects of peace less favora
rnment in the expression of a bold and manly opinion in our behalf, and in the manifestation of the most substantial aid and comfort to our cause.
Sir John and his daughter returned to England soon thereafter; his daughter accompanied Florence Nightingale to the Crimea, and was the constant companion day and night of that angel of mercy, in her ministrations to the dying and wounded soldiers in the Crimean war. On her return to England young Grinnell met her in London, and they were married "I would as soon have expected to see an angel from Heaven!
Pray, Miss Musgrave, how came you here?"
Her story was soon told with most unaffected simplicity.
"After leaving New York," said she, "I returned to England and went with Florence Nightingale to the Crimea.
On my return home I married Mr. Grinnell, and on the breaking out of the war in America, my husband avowed his determination to link his fortunes with the South; and I accompanied him. He soon raised a company — fitted them
Mrs. Grinnell.
--We regret to learn that Mrs. Grinnell is lying ill at "Cook's."This noble and patriotic lady was wounded by the enemy in her endeavor to serve our cause.
Like her noble country woman, Florence Nightingale, she has been devoting her time to relieving the sufferings of the soldier, as well upon the blood-stained battle-field as in hospital, when she might have been in the enjoyment of all the comforts and luxuries of life in a land where birth and title never fail to command them.
We feel satisfied there is not an official or citizen that will fail to pay her that respect or attention she justly deserves at their hands. J. H. C.
