Note 159 — ACTION AT BALAKLAVA. 25th. October, 1854.

All inventions and resources were pressed into service during the war: photography lent its aid; a telegraph and a railroad were ultimately constructed; and Soyer made his culinary campaign; but from the first the leading public journals had their representatives in the field. The letters of Mr. W. H. Russell, the special correspondent of “The Times,” were eagerly read by all, and the above has been extracted from that gentleman’s work, “The British Expedition to the Crimea.”