...heavy field artillery thus becomes unavoidable, some diminution of the arm at large should take place, partly on account of the expense, and partly on account of the slowness of ttie movements which the substitution of heavy for light artillery would entail on the...

...is in the South-Western. The companies are rather disinclined to employ this mode of communication, partly on account of the expense, and partly on account of the inconvenience ; partly, also, because the accidents which require this communication are not sufficiently...

...plans have been formed for the formation of a third naval port in Sicily, but they have been abandoned partly on account of the expense and partly on account of the absence of shelter from wind and waves on the south coast of the island. On the other hand, the plan...