regimental number of each soldier.—7. The regiments
will form in contiguous columns, at quarter distance.
—8. They will not load until they have landed, and not
then until they are ordered.—9. The spare ammunition
(first reserve) will be disposed of as directed in the
accompanying memorandum, and will be in charge of
an officer of the field train department.—10. The horses
provided for the service will be landed after the troops
have disembarked.—11. Three days' bread and three
days' salt meat, ready cooked, are to be carried both by
officers and men, and the men will have their canteens
filled with water.—12. The water bags will also be
landed, and placed with the reserve ammunition, and
the horses appointed for them, if they can be taken, of
which there is at present some doubt, will be got on
shore as soon as possible.—13. It is necessary that officers
should take on shore, in the first instance, such articles
only as they can carry themselves.—14. The servants of
officers are not only on all occasions of service to be
present under arms with the regiments to which they
belong, but they are to carry no more than any other
soldier, and they are to mount all picquets and guards
with their masters.—15. Mounted officers alone will be
entitled to batmen.—16. The medical staff attached to
the divisions and brigades will land with them.—17.
The batteries will land with the divisions to which they
are attached, as well as the sappers similarly situated;
and the latter will bring with them a due proportion of
entrenching tools.—18. The Light Division will land
first. Four companies of the 2d battalion Rifle Brigade
will be attached to each of its brigades, and will form
the advance.—19. The First Division will follow, then
the second, then the third, and the fourth.—20. The
cavalry will be ready to land; but will not disembark
until they receive special directions to do so. They will
take with them three days' corn and forage.—21.
Provision will be made by the naval authorities for the
disembarkation of a due proportion of the horses of the
officers of the staff, and these officers are recommended
to take upon their horses three days' corn and forage."

THE ORDER OF LANDING.—When the troops are in
the boats they will form on the off-shore side of the ships
from which they disembark, ready to form the line
abreast, on the signal being made from the Agamemnon.
The boats are to keep a space of 20 feet clear of the oars
of each other; care to be taken to observe the signals,
that 'to form' may not be mistaken for 'advance.'
All officers of boats will distinctly understand, that they
are to be on the look out for orders and signals from
the respective commanding officers of their divisions,
following each other, and never proceeding in execution
of the signal until it be hauled down by the senior
officer. The form of advance will be in line, abreast,
and the greatest care will be taken to preserve the line,
but no boat advance beyond it, or fall into the rear;
but all will pull in to the shore stoutly and steadily,
preserving the strictest silence. All boats towed to land
on the port side of the boat towing them."

"The divisions, as in the general regulations, then
follow, together with the arrangements which were to
be carried out for the assembling at first rendezvous;
anchoring off the enemy's territory, and disembarking
the army and materiel. Dr. Hall, who is at the head
of the medical department in Turkey, also issued the
following circular containing directions and suggestions
as to surgical practice on the field; a document of great
and peculiar interest, from its humane, judicious, and
minute instructions for the care of the wounded soldiers:

"The ambulance equipment for one division of the
army, consisting of two brigades of three battalions
each—the battalions being 800 strong—should consist of
two large store-waggons, to be under the care of a
purveyor's clerk, at the head-quarters of the division.
These waggons to contain a reserve supply of medicines,
materials, medical comforts, tents, and bedding. Each
battalion surgeon should have a pack-horse for the
conveyance of his instruments, a few medical comforts
for immediate use; such as a bottle of brandy, ½lb. of
tea, 1lb. of sugar, and 4oz. of arrowroot, a few tins
of essence of beef, some medicines, and a supply of
surgical materials agreeably to the printed scale laid
down in the regulations. A spring-waggon should also
be attached to each battalion for the removal of the
wounded off the field, and tor the conveyance of the
hospital canteens A and B, with twelve sets of bedding,
ten canvass bearers, and the hospital marquee, on the
line of march: or when the spring-waggons are either
small or required for the conveyance of the sick and
wounded, a reserve waggon might be attached to each
brigade for the carriage of these articles. Canvass
bearers, with long poles and shoulder-straps, in the
proportion of two to every 100 men, will also be
required.

"2. Before a division takes the field, the principal
medical officer should satisfy himself, by personal
inspection, that the equipment of surgeons of regiments
is complete in every respect; and it would be a
necessary precaution for him to see the pack-horses
loaded in his presence, as by that means he would
ascertain that no straps, buckles, or cords were wanting.

"3. When an action with the enemy seems inevitable,
the surgeon of each regiment will make arrangements
for the removal of the wounded of his corps from the
field; and it would be desirable for him to give
instructions to the bandsmen and others employed in
that duty how to apply a field tourniquet, how to
restrain dangerous hemorrhage until the assistance of
the medical officer on the field can be obtained; and for
this purpose a tourniquet should be given to each
party of bearers. The bearers should also each of them
carry a canteen full of water.

"4. While the troops are advancing, the medical
officers will follow with the spring-waggons and bearers,
and any other conveyance that is available; but when
they deploy, or form for action, all, except one medical
officer per regiment, will move a short distance to the
rear, out of musket-range, and will prepare for affording
aid to the wounded, and performing such primary
operations as may be deemed absolutely necessary. For
this purpose, the surgical panniers must be brought up,
and instruments, ligatures, dressings, and cordials
(brandy), got ready, and, above all things, an abundant
supply of water provided. For the safe and easy
conveyance of which, the leather bags or skins formerly
recommended would be found most convenient.

"Dr. Hall takes this opportunity of cautioning
medical officers against the use of chloroform in the
severe shock of serious gunshot wounds, as he thinks
few will survive where it is used. But as public opinion,
founded perhaps on mistaken philanthropy, he knows is
against him, he can only caution medical officers, and
entreat they will narrowly watch its effects; for,
however barbarous it may appear, the smart of the
knife is a powerful stimulant, and it is much better to
hear a man bawl lustily than to see him sink silently
into the grave.

"5. One medical officer for each regiment, generally
the junior assistant-surgeon, should follow the troops
within musket-range, so as to be at hand to check any
alarming hemorrhage, and to expedite the removal of the
wounded off the field to the rear: and for this purpose,
the bearers should be placed under his orders, and
the regimental spring-waggon be so stationed as
to be within easy reach, to convey them to where
the surgeon and his assistants have established
themselves. The field-assistant should carry with
with him in his haversack his pocket case of instruments,
with a few ligatures ready cut, two field tourniquets,
some lint, and two or three bandages; and he
should be accompanied by three men, one with a knapsack
or haversack, containing a pint bottle of brandy,
or some other stimulant, twenty-four bandages, half a
pound of lint, three sponges, six long and six short
solid splints, two old sheets, cut into quarters before
starting, for the purpose of rolling fractured limbs in,
and so preventing them from sustaining further injury
on the men's removal from the field. This is best
accomplished by placing the old linen under the limb,
and rolling the splint up in it from the outer edge, and
rolling towards the limb on each side, and then securing
the whole with two or three bands of tape. In this
way, Dr. Hall thinks the medical officers will find
they can temporarily secure fractured limbs better, and
much more expeditiously, than in any other manner.