The War—Aid To The Sick And Wounded.

tected and respected by belligerents so long as they remain occupied by sick and wounded and certain reasonable regulations are observed . The volunteer ambulance is an elastic organised body of surgeons , assistants , nurses , and attendants ,

carrying with them all things essential for their work . It is intended to supplement the proceedings of the regular army surgeons , and to do what , under pressure of circumstances , would otherwise be left undone or postponed . This principle of

action is to obviate as much as possible the necessity of transporting the wounded , especially those with fractures , and to give treatment as near as is safe to the scene of injury . Therefore , when fighting is going on , the ambulance mobile has

instructions to convert itself into a temporary hospital , close at hand and within easy distance of the next village , arranging at the same time for the chances of being obliged to move in accordance with the army . The personnel of the

ambulance consists of one surgeon-chief , four surgeons , ten assistant surgeons , and twelve dressers , with clergy of different persuasions , paymaster , and a sufficient number of clerks , nurses , and general attendants . The equipages have their

special servants . Altogether the muster comes to but little short of a hundred persons . Every one and everything carries the the red cross badge of the society . Each ambulance is attached , according to circumstances , to some army corps , and all are under martial law .

M . Leon Clerc is the chairman of the Socicte Frangais d'Angleterre pour les Blesses Francais M . P . Simaud , Treasurer , and M . Theodore Dubois , Secretary . The object of the society is to collect in England , and remit to the head committee ,

Paris , subscriptions for the benefit of the wounded French soldiers . The secretary writes : — " A great want of surgical bandages is still experienced and I trust that the numerous wholesale houses who could without in any way feeling it , furnish

large supplies of linen and calico , will aid in the good cause of humanity without loss of time . I doubt not that retail houses would , it the object were mentioned , supply customers at cost price , which would greatly facilitate the object the society

has in view . While on this subject I may state that a practical surgeon suggests that lengths of three , four , five , and six yards should be rolled up in widths varying from two to four inches . I hope that those who can do so will send me surgical instruments and sponges , for these articles

are indeed most urgently needed . Among the the numerous communications with which I have been favoured , I am happy to find that a desire obtains to relieve those who at this moment are in such dire necessity ; to use the words of one

informant , ' great practical sympathy is everywhere expressed / and this feeling , he adds , " may well be utilised by the clergy preaching for the wounded , aud ladies collecting lint and bandages from house to house . " With many thanks

for the assistance you have given me in making our wants known to the public . —I am , Sir , your obedient servant , THEODOBE DUBOIS , Secretary . " There is also in Paris a French Protestant Committee , under the direction of Mrs . Monod .

Mr . A . A . Glehn , of 27 , Mincing-lane , London , states that he has " remitted on the 25 th ult ., 500 francs , the next 1000 francs , and has since sent a credit for another 1000 francs . Mr . Monod writes

to me in a letter dated yesterday evening , from the head quarters in Paris of the Comite Evangelique de Secours pour les Soldats Blesses , in acknowledging my remittance and parcels : —• f De tels temoignages de sympathie venant de

1 ' Anglefcerre nous font du bien a Tame . Jusqu / ici nous avons plutot eu lieu de nous sentir le cceur attriste , et veritablement ulcere , a l'endroifc de la grande Bretagne . Merci ! merci , du fond du cceur / He promises to write more fully shortly ;

but as he is at work from morning till night in the cause of the sick and wounded , he has little time to spare . The total amount I have received to this day is £ 160 . For the information of your readers I am able to state that the French Protestant Committee are making rapid progress in

fitting out a flying , ambulance for the seat of war , and are about to open an ambulance hospital in Paris . Additional funds appear to be urgently needed for these undertakings , apart from the requirements for relief and assistance to those

who are already in the field . Miss Monod experienced considerable detention at Saarguemines ,. but has now safely reached Sedan with the hospita l - nurses under her charge . With a view to absolute security in the transmission of any funds that

maystill be sent to me , I have , through my own firm here , opened a credit with our Paris bankers , Messrs . Davillier aud Co ., enabling me to write them every evening , to pay over to my wife ' s cousin , Mr . H . Monod , the Secretary of the above committee , the equivalent , in francs , of whatever money reaches me here in the course of the day . ,: