INCIDENTS OF THE WAR
... A CORRESPONDENT in the Crimea writes under date of June 29th The number of medical officers seceding from the pro- fession of surgery in the army, and adopting that of the sword, is rapidly increasing. Assistant-Surgeon Shaw Phelps, of the 55th Regiment, whose retirement appears in the Gazette of the 15th June, just arrived, was appointed to an ensigncy in the same regi- ment on the same date. ...