GRATUITIES TO WOUNDED OFFICERS.
A return moved for by Lord Alfred Paget gives the names of the officers who have received gratuities for wounds sustained in the Crimea, and men- tions the nature and severity of the injuries. The officers are forty in 'am- ber, and the gratuities vary from 331. 9s. 2d. to 5841. each. Some otoPthe details are distressing. Thus, Ensign Annesley, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, who wrote so cheerful a letter after he had received his wound, is reported to have lost twenty-three teeth and part of his tongue; Captain Morris, of the Seventeenth Lancers, received two sabre-cuts on the head, a lance- thrust on his forehead, a sabre-cut on his left arm, and two of his ribs were broken; Major Sir Thomas Troubridge, of .the Seventh Foot, has sustained the amputation of his right leg and left foot. The return states that pen- sions according to rank will be granted to those who have lost a limb or an eye, or whose injury is equal to the loss of a limb.
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