France is now put in the worst place
In the matter, whereon she and Russia fell out;

And as--in the third place--the Sultan has granted
All we asked by a Firman, which clearly maintains
The rights of our Church, which was all we e'er wanted;
And as--in the fourth place--my note thus explains

The duplicity, weakness, and tergiversation
Which the Porte through the whole of this business has shown,
And proves, too, the Czar's great forbearance and patience,
Guided, as he has been, by his duty alone;--

We cannot conceive what he's taken to task for,
If on the offensive he ventures to act,
Seeing that we have always had all we now ask for,
And have since got a firman confirming the fact.

Submit the above, as a full demonstration,
That no option we've had, 'tween disgrace and a war,
And ask if the Porte had so used them, what nation
But _must_ have done just what's been done by the Czar?

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THE SOLDIER'S FIRST STEP.

The chief difficulty of military science, as studied at the Camp at
Chobham, has proved during the late wet weather to consist in the
elements.

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A CASE IN PINT.

On what model has the India Bill been formed? On that of a pale ale
bottle, one would think, for it seems to be a very insufficient
measure.

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[Illustration: ANOTHER NIGHT SURPRISE AT CHOBHAM.]

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DOMESTIC RESULTS OF THE CAMP.

The Camp at Chobham has already so far answered its purpose as to have
given a powerful impetus to the military propensities of the rising
generation, and there has been a considerable muster of troops in many a
nursery, which may, on this occasion, be termed a nursery for young
soldiers.

We lately had the privilege of being present at a Grand Nursery Review
and Sham Fight, where the Wooden Cavalry, under the command of MASTER
JONES, stood a fierce attack from a division of tin soldiery under the
able direction of MASTER and MISS TODDLEKINS. The ground occupied was a
sort of table land, having for its surface a _tapis vert_, or green
cover. MASTER JONES was on the spot early, and the Wooden Cavalry were
at once disturbed from their bivouac; and the sentries having been
summoned from their boxes, took up a strong position behind some lines
formed of an open dictionary, which admitted of the s