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Jo° f4l O f? ost- At y Cl°oll' ClO Its, / cit3 o ;o ol i iJC OO O 0 ( t• .; 41 0 94;1; L.l o ' eh, h ot , " 15 0.11 ,0 f littli e 'tY; olierof j y t 0° - ri', bili v ; e tt* re _ i f ;„ P' r ,"4? DC ) t)1°.1 11 ; 0 0 0 .1 00 0 02 IS° 11 1: 3 ,1 , 0 . 4 „l s G ri ri t, r l: t a ,slarrirs MONT , t BLANC Area 2 . e clock, and Every Night (bu gaturday). sr e ,'„, s, Gallery, Is. Toe Mernin/ Representations "esdAY Thursday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock. — Piccadilly.' ap ° G . Y.---171i63iCOLLEGE London. ) I ttee n Lit"or TP..NN r.a.g, will commence a COURSE %g on D ESC ' RIPTIVE GEOLOGY, on FE DAY eact, ;i• 26, at Nine o'clock. The Lectures leceeding Wednesday and Friday, at the same e hour. will li E. W. W, JELF, D.D., Principal. 10 zq ---- Z,, N, A - ' 1 AND NORTH-WESTERN 11,,,r1B11:::ILWAY.—NOTICE for FEBRUARY. %C.. Thif,,t.,,,LA`S TRAIN' leaving London at 7.a.m. will leave I,:i i ) . el b,,,i mass P assengers to Edinburgh and Olasgow w.ll be ' we train l e „ inn London at 6.15 am. instead of at . qt, ' BY Order. ~. t/ti x Who , ( \I 11 t ' ° n ice. Eusten-station, Jan., 1555. BLUSH. kilut_tittBPJ, 'WESTERN RAILWAY.- 1 4 ,7 , ..t th ei :: ~ IITRIBT MAIL TRAIkTS DISCONTINUKD.— On 4 11 l estz l i , n ' t ' i r ebru , ,ry , t in consequence of orders from the Postmas -I,4l6s44teet,titilitoeir p,;ssengers nor parcels can be conveyed beta een pvhekte.!%tll leave Paddln, the West of Entd,,nd ; or between London 1,.1,t tr e ,., 1 1 . i;. South Wales by the . night mail trains. In Hen placet eight o'clock p.m., which ;Ott t pLtep e ZiTlisrlure for all p in the West of England. I, tt eli el 'ek t e preela will be conveyel by the same train at t 1 1 4% 44 . 1f°,113 Birmingham, bhrewsbuiy, Chester, an , 4 ,11 , will k e IS'iotit ee ._ ari 17p-train during the night, leaving Bristol at tri Ler at 11.41 NI% and Cbes:er at 8 , 0 for the conveyance of otr . a" l'arcels to ' l ondon.— . l ord . er ' ot the B d ''' tton, j an CII Its A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. ''."-----larY 2G 1855. ti . 4 N NO TICE OF DIVIDEND. ~ i sTP D NE P s I , loN T s4r, • Ash' UItANCX AD IN STMENT AS T , ico 3 b Att-iteLt. Emir, Lormorr. 1, 4 iot l Der X TS krtt. tent. or the UALT:YEARLY INTEREST, at the tent to ? r a nnum on Deposit Accounts to 31st Decem- Po t , eeliTer /Litt d, ancl payable daily. t, 4, f th e e 0 „ PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. pus o `, i nvesting Money are requested to examine the s•nt rr t , -u ePosit: Prospectuses and Forms for Opening S U.4 aPPlleatiou. tg i ,, -14 ASSURANCE SOCIETY, OF po • " 'London - 4Oppy • NCREASED FROM ONE-ILkLF TO t !lt i p,efr eet , roUR-FIFTII9. Tiit ofwith this Society now will PARTICIPATE IN i„. 4- te ennt alne _ne Net Prolits of the Society, accordint to the zylt t‘ ernh ts uin the Society's Prospectus. i n ' e quived by this Society for insuring Young Lives PanY other old-established offices, and Insurers Mill all rick by au ample guarantee fund. in ad ' cura ulated fimds derived from the investments of 1 4 1 '4„, 14 a1tp, kui - 'nses bY the Office. Of anylft:btained at the Office in Threa.dieedle-street, 0 , Agents of the Society. ‘"44I4CLES HENRY LIDDEEDALE, Actuary. l itiL'Xttppb c , oi l a ~-"b CATERERS for PUBLIC ENTERTAIN 4, r•s)Sl:ts - .I :_ a utt scale, and PRIVATE PURCIIAnERS. 4 l'•Ich:oun o - 1 - 5 ULLOCR are directed by Messrs. h r " li t ho, n i - and to SELL by Auction, without reserve, at Ott lametnan2ll. High H o lb orn, on WEDNESDAY next, at t 4 tat n a ki 0R,,,,,d' t he elegant sERVIOES of CHINA, GLASS, 4 t ht,,,,t 4 , __DIENTAL ITES, manufatured expressl for I,' ; ,i iDdi en 4,7l'eyors to the r M efreshment c derartment in y the ) 1,,N1, N for f r 1851 i embracing dinner, dessert, and tea and t ‘kt •' NI , toty _oln 12 to 60 persons ; 6 large size Sheffield plated tt,lait,,s w a ir e ' and chocolate pots, sugar basins, cream ewers, Ih r ,' tr0,, 1 _ 4 4 e e ,2 l, slivers, epergnes, candelabra, hot water and tt p i a t , ,,, , litt l. , a m p'irseileent_ree dishes and warmers, plates, e ta o nkar ou d l s u . kit &th ''asframes, sauceboats, &e. ; also, th , et •t day' a nd gilt sideboard, and table ornaments.. May \,. 0 4 t e ,,,, L Srlor. . Catalogues may be had on application, or )( 4 , , _ "" , ,,..,,,,........ 48. ~t,l 4 ,yr ie it4l4l l i th e i,, OPTICAL, and PHILOSOPHICA.L INSTRU -,, told SO'. o f A , the late firm of Messrs. WILLIAM 1) 1 4 'Slts ,' .°, 5 0, High Holborn, retired from business. t t ti . .N a t thei r ei bt/ LLOG I TC. will SELL by Auction, k',a ti • 14 . th e - reftt Rooms 211 High Holborn, on WE DNES b„"I4, atm a ',r_aluable remaini ng STOCK, comprising a 4-feet 1 t tl, tie , e al_ict oni ` e ,f!et, a 3-feet, and a 4-feet renewing telescopes, r ?teop e ,, u al and navy telescopes, lacernal and genio ;ltE, 'I, h a ,!'eleseo,.„ lr PFinps, a nine-jar battery, galvanic. troughs, .7 1 0,; , 114 tan. ; l4: - . , Mirrors, sets of magic lantern slide* vaunted 4,;'111,,, , bet n , Pebbles four fine lenses, 12 to 15 Inches me an before "i tlyT ilr a ~..11 1' ' Catalogues will be ready six days prior, 'Ate dg -on recel t the sale stamps, and the effects will tAT a A p „, al . ai, lqt - 41 'eet . titrt ., llo e -°lll li g 2f the ASSOCIATION for the N r ,uth , L ,....05 0u , the TRADE of the PORE of LONDON N O t tl i ;, e 'Mary, WlJ:lf L held at the chip H •raz tii , E vil sg at . :r in la t n h e e , ..q:, , ,,,,,,,,, ,i or - WILLIAM JOHN Qtst 4'l, It w„ Frederick Beslev, Req ., seconded by Charles kka'„4!lOpe'lhaerra t i ,, ant ruuttsly resnl; ed, Nt.„..7ees,„ - „Pert te a i t ' , ' I N and has been from time immemorial, a loN''ufittt o `„,' suti t - I s, end through all parts of which the public lib4ad ~t " and to.and u nrestricted access. That, by the acts of ( a ) Pts i Z tbe, k a a tbe t i n ' a gseat acts of the East and West India, 1.011- .' , tis,,„',,t,, iovi Tn , ' are t i ; n ek Companies, the docks, wharves, and t i ' L t a be t The I' l ' Ile 6 -sai nred to constitute part of the said free and 'la ese, , 4l„ 'Nett to all the burdens, restrictions and con , 'lets. , Nat,f4rei'443's t hereof and are to be held at to ;11 intents and - ant aa ;act,, a et I nert of the river frontage. That, by the ex an; ° titer u -,. t u „„id acts of incorporation and subsequent Lard.'s oth e ,, ~srart ~,': elle,' of the right of the public to unrestricted ' uties ; „,"triti,,,Nrcss was enacted, exempting all lighters Lard s n a r n d eej o , - Zt til' th e docks of the said companies from dock ,-'" ber - ,.. 414 ' Ye ",,''t ' "nilunity have been in the ac ive pos -4,11,, --4 e p ari a l , , t f ,„ Nell express right of exetaptibn for ufa ',,platkallid t o d e a n?ent, ~t)y the bills of the said dock companies stifitti l l g ted ri e t r e th e „! proposed to repeal these exempting cr'lltio ' a Meeti " ""antzunity of their express, prescriptive, bZhol "a tbet,, l l, U natlie ln t , th j'S, - 11 / 3 , and - ,naly pledges itself to offer every' possible „ . .'4l; ~s , ,f 4lt ba b a lt the ~, 'his confederacy on the part of t he dock it." it i nto - Pri t'il , -nt ract with the Public, on the .aith of I, - ale*, ageneZ S Were conceded to them, and hereby re- I N, , ti nk ' 4 l Of Jam T ee niAbittee fbr that purpose. i Nil. L.,2eln'tted tolva -uutinan'm 'Yresolved Nl ' 11 be n ' ,it ` a ,, rn aY Nicholton seconded by Tho -1 40, g7 ell , Cooper, Sm ith , '---t `tt committee , consisting of Mess-s. teak4tesztoc k eese , wrigh . t th a , n w . ~ ~ ..„.• Hail, Pillow, Cutling, Curtig, . ‘tinttesiee,yr_ysthe for e. ,„W riz u 4 strtleY, with pwer to add to esolutions ponetct. i i i l .. l, " a' q., Was unanimously elected Treaster4 ; AR. tin c l ,f• RiVoto n . tzbs , th.` 4l ey arr. Beslc , , ‘at t , e,,,,,." Mitt, „„., 3. sceonded by Mr. 'Rather,- 0, 1 m y gear of „, as unanimously elected Secretary.. ~ 1 1 4 tilt 'tilt,,,, air. Nicolson It was ordered that the proc e, - I, kl tpp, a n4l(, -4 , • tat'at " 1 Y r ' n r :qr. Besley, seconded by Mr. Nicholson, it was 4 13 il l , . t . ,e. h, ,,,i _ ''''4 ''lt•ll,,, l :43 of the meeting be given to W. J. Hall, Esq. , -. 'au chair. / ell , ; J. HALL, Chairman. W. J I ,ert,,, ;Dtio,,, SIDNEY Skl ITU, Secretary. lri m kers a'''.‘ie.,'•V,:ll,l),C received by the Treasurer, at 12 and 14, ° -eta *t 1 4, 44 e. ' altd Messrs. Smith, Payne, and '----- -. 2 _. 4 " :11 . , 1,4, , ta Smith, 144 •N1,,,,i tilt 4 ". I tansion•house, Jan. 27, 1855. the fol/1404).1).11, P eA SIISTO ARGYLL ROONIS. ii,k4, O ista U L nl lSie ". l l 2 l 9 ,b, 1855 ' D ring the course of this week Vt llll kh'e ..„,".. ~,, Atib l l,'. l s pl 3 ,-.— b U Laurent's Orchestra :—Oyer ilk - .' 4 lli n6 ;,ellite e R ,' ~ al tz a es e - d Ge y rmania (iirst time) Bernard ; .IL' ‘ eit e 7 1 4) ft "' a ass; La Sultane Bosisio ;Le Carnaval de /;,74tilt, , Yead;i p • tAtirent, with Variations for all the principal . 4 - ' , fitti, l 7 %Arbo n . i , a ' Jerome s'ol Dieze (first time), Latnotte ::%Str a :' La Ifrk: ‘ , 110 1 du Pastel, Liunotte ; Lucia, TinneY ; A ll :4hi4 4 T heZ il —sk a (first time), Carbon. Polkas : La San. tp hfq '' ... La,, '-aYe3,ll Laurent. Warshauer, Strauss. Gallop, 'l'l l , T hEttle n " I• ellt. p r i • 1 kt, der th relative , c ' et-A-Piston, M. Boalcourt. '44l3ll,ssio_rehestra. m n Pat Corn btained t the music rePOBl - On e shinibiloo:ts rpe b n e a o t Eight ; a commence at half. ItqyA li htl oo bit Alf 13°L YTECIINIC INSTITUTION.— st ; Ole D t , til l '' , t r , ,rust Miss 7-4bINGS by Miss GLYN.—It is respeetftiPy Ao' t l i ° 1.4,„, - llits,u„LYN will TIESIJ ME her DRAMATIC R RAD- It, 4 . to", cli Th„,!-_,x EVENING the Ist of Februar‘ , and con tirki ••,, () II k "..uay Evenings' at Eight o'clock, until further k 2 , ' 3 ' , ISt F e b 4 aY Evening thel2th February. 1 11 44 3 , l! ' t h Feb '''' • • • ..... The MERCHANT of VENICE. Au, 3, F eb,., ...... .... •• •• • . oTnauo. " .' ls ttil' ............. maCBETH. 22, Feb ......... .. 1, q rey •• • • .... • ...... ILLNLET. 4, li l t N ,, '.• • . ............... ROMEO and JULIET. ,1,,„ Bth N„.!rcll .......... .. ... KING JOHN. 14 11C i uSM" , 1 Stalls. ...........:... ANTHONY and CLEOPITRA. \kttkropel:),, • 2s. and 3s. As the Pit Stalls have been (N N •,,..Zre a ,. 18 r espeetfelly requested that Visitors will It ii --- ------..._ ESEND ST a I lt k i' , Zlier 1.. PACKETS. kets ~Zeilkets call at the Greenhithe and Pnrfleet Pies Pito,:t the Piers as underlined (weather permit •'' T ERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND- 1i t .,...., „—.,:•• I,?_,ye. t t , ' PIZ4 SUNDAYS •Z f a N l 4 11 to' Time 1 ?, .ca O 1 6' n~ qua •it t ?' qu artA " tro r , 143 Wl an 11° anet tUrch-street Station to all parts of Loudon I,A tv 4 r. , ULAG horn the 'kii:stF;!,_n_ the Fe n the fol & ,... t,, t , 4t "ra h Fenehure S tati on. ~, ,,t , ,,,. . i _ 1:1 -,,_-, .. SortnAre. . A . re hil t.. , , .., -- ---,_ ii _ v ,_ 11 I Fen- 5 - v 1 i -s- --„, , - - 11 church 'd ,F. t g .0 '• ..' g i Street, 4 8 g .. N , • --..... d i,i -, -% ---•-• -____ _____ _ .... .—.— - : --- 1 i -- -- -- , 1, To ,or from )I:,' 4r: ll b Or o ., c'itricl " " , l an 11,;,'AT 4ro, Mlct i. , Lonon... (te k „erid ~,,aekwati or Wools ‘ok et to th isTsl I ntermediate Plei for ;o r 0 1? 2:. welve month, sr, •13 31 •;t o u 134 4. r• k onk Ai had of th, Terrace Pier Fore Cabin. Saloon. 10d. .. Is. 2d. ish id. .. Os. 10 , 1. al.. id. .. Os. Id. .Os.; Six Months. V. Os. ; e Collectors on board the Gravesend. Th.,, ''' FIP. r , 4 14111 ::4 4 , 44 INir ------ rt, 'et) --"XITIEci OF YOUTH AND MATURITY, ....., Prie s 2 1, illustrated with cases ; free by post for 30 " Et 1 7 n stamps, 0 4 21 14 e "il S DEBILITY; ti„...1 1 , t ati, ot , ,„ ry a ry a , With' ",,,YRlPtenas, and Cure.—An essay on Spar sAti'tti, 0 , Inme Tragical Observations on a safer and more ta, 'IN 'sti) of treatment of the diseases of the Generative ts4 b, o4 t h e i n t 3, 4 ü b ri - v it i_he use of the Microscope in detecting and ',4 tales, ac Y of 00ittlrY e xamination, the real cause and effect of s'Qt,t,,,eident ovalPlt. Whether arising 4 4 - nib, 6 Years;mate, followed by practical remarks, founded from solitary habits, tag t 4 i 4 el ' 1 ,414 3 , , r:Perience in the treatment of Impuissance,. 4 4 e atirj, ( h 'o, nuto44._e_al Weakness, Spermatorrhosa, &c. To will la wltyll t h . lut a on 'tf . les on . the Physiology of Marriage, with pre -' ra Po, A nger„ ule evils emanating from empirical practice, ~a 4t , itsor,? Trsenhadies advocated by various writers oil D 4 . ny. e N, Is t 1 . 3 - "Ard-UEL LA'MERT, M.D. t l jkli t 4 o edlel ito l % ° T i. t t tt-S QijA R E, LOND 0 N, Testlttatnorary.ttt_e,rculated Member of the University , of Rdin- IN,„ e,,,,,.0 of .A.oo„!_ar ?f the London Hospital Medica. Society, theaiilitio,,,,-2t,laii; 01,44,...cys il, London, Sr-c*, 87.thatlottrfal con kililavute o, ltb-, z i".;4 11 1 this treats, ill e is to poi: ae on . and „peewee, t 4 er ot,44lPreit:Zanced nit)re mtnsoryabiints'yol, degradation tl in Mau tit,Ziellta4 of dis oa l : s e decay at, all stages of Life than, perhaps, any t hl r ob v., Y eocix_e k nown to modern patholjglsia. ti, t ,l t t i talli: . ttl o,a,,.nded to persons entertaining secret doubts of Its perusal is f ed -4,l sappi n ' u oon, and who are conscious of having hazarded Otlii . ablo eas, and privilegea to which every human being is I.,,tiletme* .litely th t Zirl g v,',DersonaelessarYthatall know, that there are ka '` . .... - 1 — ' e vOtis Management which cannot be violated without .- .' L of . Pen alties, and when wisdom and regret succeed "a 1-"nitig Ln's'lnSiderat 04„ ao, „. atod ~„__ the e se lf - Indulgence, how these penalties *, th,,,. 4 1 ; evil ',0"147,. sting of their bitterness may be removed, 'lhalßeroot:c2reoly 'consequences maybe avoided, and above all, in 4 011 10 t, to tyh tet u t . tY rree of physical infirmity or functional a at ett oa 14 ha% fb r he timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. ! . .11% 1 , 4 114t ei t he treabrta series of years been engaged in an extensive iattii ~ ,z,,, wi r b OOO too of these delicate complaints, whic have 4t'n their ° i nflict gre g t el eFa ll 7 confided to the care of ignorant tt. ot ,.. ll \r4,,,Pret e „ toll3 a injury on those who are induced to place ,tt err g , " N an ' d c o., ~._ , „„4 , ,,-.,0., 3p, '''...7 Li e had, price 22, of Messrs. 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TRIESEiI AR, No. 2, effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIESEMAR, No. 3, us the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which unfortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TRIESEMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, aro alike devoid of taste or smell, ind of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet table without their use being suspected. Sold in tin cases at 1 is. each; free by post, 2s. extra, divided into , eparate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemant, Rona, &c.—To be hied Wholesale and Retail in London of Johnston, 68, Conahill; Hannay and Co., 63. Oxford-street: and Sanger, 59, Ox ford-street ; ft. 11. Ingham, druggist, 46, Market-street, Manchester ; H. Bradbury, bookseller, I)eansgate, Bolton ; J. Priestly, chemist, 52, Lord-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street, Dublin ; Winnall. bookseller, High-street, Birmingham. DR. CULYERWELL ON NERVOUSNESS, DEBILITY, AND INDIGESTION. Also, on Urinary Derangements, Constipation, and Haemorrhoids, Is. each, by post Is. 6d. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. " Abstentia multi curantur morbl." ♦ popular exposition of the principal causes (over and careless reeding, &c.) of the above harassing and distressing complaints, with an equally intelligible and popular exposition of how we should Jive to get rid of them ; to which is added, diet tables for every meal in the day, and fall instructions for the regimen and observance of every hour out of the twenty-four. Illustrated by numerous cases, &c. LIGHTS AND SHADE 3 OF MARRIED LIFE. " He which that hath no wif, I hold him lost, Helpless, and all desolat. 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Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the magistrates and chairman of quarter sessions, cotnplain ing of the expenses incurred in prosecuting petty larcenies, and praying for a reform in the criminal law of the country. The noble lord entered at some length into the prayer of the petition, and said he was exceedingly glad to see his noble friend, the Lord Chief Justice, in his place, and hoped that the attention of that noble lord and the Government would be directed to the subject. He therefore begged to lay on the table a bill to alter the present law. The LORD CHANCELLOR said be was exceedingly glad to inform the noble lord that a bill of a precisely similar object had been prepared, and was about to be introduced in the other house. He entirely concurred with the noble and learned lord that it was time a- mea.- sure was passed to meet the evil. He did not state this much with the object of stopping the noble lord ; indeed he thought it was desirable to have both bills printed. Lord CAMPBELL hoped that the present session would not pass away without the law being altered. LORD LYNDHURST AND THE MINISTRY. Lord LYNDHURST postponed his motion from Friday till the Monday following. THE CHARGE AT BALAKLAVA.—NEW MILI TARY DECORATION. Lord VIVIAN asked.the noble lord the Minister of War whether he had any objection to lay on the table of the house the exact words of the order to charge, in asmuch as there were two versions of the order given, the one being imperative and the other was of a dieure tionary character. He asked, therefore, whether thby would have any objection to lay the order on the table, or a copy of the original order issued by Lord Raglan. He ale() wished to know whether he . understood the noble duke rightly that it was the intention of the Go vernment to give to the army in the Crimea a clasp for Balaklava ? The Duke of NEWCASTLE said he was not dis posed to lay on the table the exact words of the order to which his noble friend referred, for the reason that the circumstance attending it had led to a correspondence which had only recently been brought to a, close. (Hear.) He did not think, therefore, that it would be fair to the parties con cerned to lay that order before their lordships until the whole of the correspondence which had taken place was ready to be produced at the same time. With regard to the second question with respect to the Crimea medal, it was intended to give that medal to all those who had taken part in that campaign from its commence ment to the present time. With regard to the clasps for Balaklava, it would only be given to those engaged there. He would take that opportunity of stating that it was the intention of her Majesty to institute a cross of military merit, which should be applicable to all ranks of the army, from the general in command to the youngest private in the ranks. The principle to be adopted in deciding how this order shall be conferred shall be by adjudication of a jury of persons occupying a similar rank to that of the persons whose names shall be given as deserving the order. BILLS OF EXCHANGE BILL. This bill was read a second time. THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Earl GREY then rose and said—My lords, the subject to which I propose this evening to call your attention is one which, in the present circumstances of the country, is of such extreme importance that I assure you I feel very painfully bow unequal I am to the task I have undertaken; but I en tertain so strong a sense of the urgency—of the absolute ne cessity—of some such change as that which it is my purpose to recommend, that however unequal I may be to the proper performance of this task, I have not thought myselt at liberty to avoid it. Before Igo further, I oughtiprobably to offer some apology for having taken the somewhat unusual course, after giving notice of my motion for Thursday next, of bring ing it under your lordships' consideration to-night. My rea son for doing so was this :—I had learnt, in common with the public, that certain circumstances which have recently oc curred rendered it not improbable that some changes might take place with reference to the administration of the affairs of the army, and it appeared to me—and I found also, from communications with noble lords on both aides of the house, that it appeared to them—that before any such changes were carried into effect it was desirable that this house should have an opportunity of expressing its opinion upon the principle on which such changes should be made. I intend to move that your lordships should agree to a resolution declaring your opinion that serious evils have arisen from the present division of authority and responsibility in the administration of the affairs of the army, and that therefore the business re lating to this most imp3rtant branch of.the public service, which is now distributed among various different offices, should be placed under the immediate control of a single aml well organised department. I must remind your lordships that twice in the course of the last session of Parliament I called your attention to this very im portant subject. During the debate on the address in reply to her Majesty's graciam speech from the Throne, I called the attention of the Government and of your lordships to the great inconvenience which was certain to arise from the present constitution of the military departments, in the event of that war taking place with which wo were then threatened. About two months before the war broke out I urged as strongly as I could do that preparations should be made for it in this respect ' • and subsequently, after the war had commenced—on the 7th of April—l more distinctly called your lordships' attention to the subject. I then moved for certain papers, but, as I wished to leave the matter in the hands of her Majesty's Government, I carefully abstained from making any motion which would lead to a difference of opinion, and I only moved for papers about granting which there could be no difficulty. The production of those papers was acceded to by her Majesty's Government; and, as I have to refer to them, perhaps I may be permitted to pause for one moment to say that I think my noble friend, the noble mar quis below me, was quite right in calling the attention of your lordships to the irregular nature of the return which was in the first instance laid upon the table. I consider that, in order to enforce the respect due to this house, it was quite proper on the part of my noble friend to call attention to a return in which the very unusual course had been taken of including in the correspondence laid upon the table an elabo rate answer to the speech of the peer who moved for that correspondence. So far as I was individually concerned, I has not theleast objection to that answer having been placed upon your lordship's table. On the contrary, lam rather glad that your lordships should see what are the arguments which can be advanced in this manner in reply to those which I have uSed` With regard to that part of the letter which controverts certain statements made by me, I will say that the most important of these statements—those relating to the arrangements of the troops in the West Indies—were founded upon official correspondence which was laid upon the table of the other house in consequence of a motion which I made in 1840, and if any of your lordships will take the trouble to refer to that return, which is in the library of this house, you will find that it bears out to the very letter every word I uttered. The remaining part of my statements, which was contradicted, and which does not rest upon that paper, was founded upon reports made to me officially when I was Secretary at War, by a gentleman whose accuracy I never in any one instance found at fault, and upon whom I have the most perfect and entire reliance. But, re turning from this digression, I beg to say, that the object of the motion which I made last year was not to call for any ex pression of opinion on the part of this house, but to direct the attention of your lordships, of the Government, and I will also say of the public, to a subject which it appeared to mo required very serious consideration. Nor do I think that I was altogether unsuccessful, or that I failed in making some impression upon the Government, because, although the noble duke, now at the head of the War Department, argued at great length, in reply to my speech, that the existing arrangements were perfectly satisfactory, and were working admirably, and stated that he bad no doubt they would con tinue to do so, and that he anticipated no difficulty in carry ing on the war under those arrangements, within about two months from that time it was announced that it had been found necessary to divide the Colonial and the War Depart ments, and to appoint a fourth Secretary of State to take the exclusive charge of the Department of War. I hold in my hands a paper which had been laid upon the table of this house—in consequence of an address to her Majesty which I moved before Christmas—explaining, so far as it does explain, that division of offices. I cannot help expressing my great disappointment that that explanation should bo so imperfect. (Hear, hear.) I confess I did expect, when a measure of such importance was adopted, that there would have been some regular and official record of the manner in which it was to be carried into execution (hear), that there would have been some minute by her Majesty in Council, such as has been made on former occasions, or some other equivalent official document, accurately defining the limits of the duties of the new office which had been created, and pointing out how business was in future to be conducted. I cannot help thinking that the absence of any such formal document proves in it self that the measure was a crude and ill-digested one. I must add, my lords, that from what we know of the measure from this very short account of it, and from what we learn from the public newspapers, it is, in my opinion, anything but satisfactory. I would remind your lordships that in bringing this subject under your notice last year I pointed out two great objections to the existing arrangements. The first was that the business relating to the administration of the army was divided among far too large a number of independent departments ; and the second was that the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, whose authority was supposed to keep all these independent departments in one line of action, had far too much to do to enable him to execute that task. Now, it is quite true that, by the arrangements which have been made, the second of these objections has been removed. A Secretary of State has been appointed whose special and exclusive business it is to take charge of all that relates to the conduct of the war ; but the first, and by far the most important, of those objections remains altogether untouched. You have as many indepen dent departments as before concerned in the administration of business relating to the army. Nay, I should rather say that the objection has been aggravated, because, instead of simplifying a machine which was already too complicated, what you have done has been to introduce a new and un necessary department, and the only step in the nature of a consolidation which has taken place was the transfer, on the 22d of December, of the Commissariat to the War Depart ment. I cannot, however, call that a consolidation at all. I cannot, for my own part, understand how a description of business involving so much detail and so many matters of finance can be conveniently dealt within an office constituted like that of a Secretary of State. I certainly think it is a description of business thatwould be more properly united to departments which are more conversant with pec un i ary transactions and with matters of detail. The other depart ments continue precisely as they were. You have still the same number of entirely indeffendent departments, and your only security for their working harmoniously together is that they may be made to do so by the common and superin tending authority of the tiely Secretary of State, I. CODA help thinking that the experience of the Admiralty might have taught us that the expectation that these independent departments would be made to work well together by one superintending authority of this description could not be realised. I may remind your lordships that when the Navy Beard and the Victualling Boards were distinct departments under the Admiralty, although they were entirely subordi nate to the Admiralty, it was found that difficulties and de lays were constantly occurring, and the inconveniences at length so great that Parliament—in my opinion very wisely —abolished the independent boards, merged them in the Ad miralty, and brought the whole business relating to the navy under one single authority. But the Navy Board and the Victualling Board were far more completely subordinate to the Admiralty than the various departments of the army are to the - new Secretary of State. One of the army depart ments is presided over by a Cabinet Minister. You k l ave, a Secretary at War and a Secretary for War, both in the same Cabinet. Again, you have a Commander-in-Chief—a Minister of very considerable authority—who takes the ov yeroeuigehladvier, too,eet l on business relating to his own le as d u e re pa f tm theei S the Master-General of the Board of Ordnance possessing a very large independent au thority, and the same is the case with the Commissariat. It pleasure seems to me, therefore, that it was vain to expect that so cumbrous a machine would work with the necessary promp titude and vigour. I think it was easy to predict, from the commencement of the war, that a machine so constituted would not be found to answer. Unhappily, the anticipations to that effect which I entertained the moment I heard of the measure which was contemplated have been far more than fulfilled. I have only to point your attention to the calami tous events of the last few weeks and to the present position of our army in the Crimea in order to convince your lord ships how far this system has failed to provide for the satisfactory management of military affairs. I will not attempt to harrow your lordships' feelings by describing the present lesetion of our army in the Crimea. I will not attempt to go through any details Of 'the various ads of the mismanagement to which that unhappy condition is attri butable. I wave any advantage I Might obtain for my argu ment by doing so. in order that I ma y spare your lordships and myself the pain of dwelling uPen - such topics, and also that I may avoid the risk of making those observations which I mean to direct against the system appear as if they were intended as personal censures upon individuals. It is suffi cient that I should assume that your lordships are well ac quainted —indeed, who is there who is not well acquainted —with the present state of the army in the Crimea ; and, knowing what that condition is, I would point out to you that the statements which have been made by her Majesty's Government in their own defence afford the strongest and the most conclusive arguments in favour of that view of this subject which it is ray object to press upon you. My lords, you will remember we have been told that ample stores of every description have been sent to the Crimea --that food and clothing and medicine, and everything required for the comfort and convenience of the soldiers, have been despatched in quantities ample, if not profuse—that mules and horses have been bought for transport, and have been sent or have been ordered, with provender for their support, to the East. You have been told all this, and I have not the slightest doubt that you have been correctly informed ; but, though all this has been done, it is unfortunately but too certain that, owing to the defects of organisation—these defects the existence of which the noble duke very frankly acknowledged in the short session before Christmas—these supplies have not been available at the time and place where they were wanted, and because these supplies were not Ise available when and whero they were required, our gallant army has been reduced to its present condition, its losses by sickness and death, brought on by fatigue and by want, infinitely out - numbering the losses occasioned by battle or by preventible diseases. We know this. It is acknowledged on all sides that from the want of organisation these unhappy conse quences have resulted. Then, let me ask, how is it that errors having such fatal consequences have occurred i To that question, my lords, I am quite unable to return a complete answer, but I think we can form a very safe judg ment as to how these errors are, is part, at least, to be ac counted for. These mistakes---thcse errors, are, I think, the natural, if not the inevitable result of that complicated and cumbersome mode of administertg business which has so long prevailed in this country. They are, indeed, the na tural and necessary consequences of that cumbersome and complicated system of transacting business. It is because you have had a Secretary at War, a Commander-in-Chief, a Board of Ordnance, and a Commissariat Department, carry ing on a yoluminous correspondence with each other, with the other departments of the Government, and with the officers serving abroad, that, in such correspondence, the essentials of what was to be done have very often been lost sight if, and mistakes and errors have taken place, and, when mis takes have not occurred, the mod ordinary arragements haye only been effected with a loss of time which, in war, is too often a loss of everything. I will not trouble your lordships with more than one or two instances of the mistakes to which I refer ; but although I am elisions, as far as possible, to avoid touching upon particular errors and blunders, still, as an example of the working of the system, I think it is neces sary that I should mention one'or two cases. One of those cases we have heard of for the first time this evening, and I certainly regard it as a very remarkable one. We have , learnt, from the question of my noble friend on the cross 1 benches, that an offer having been made to her Majesty's Go vernment by a most eminent engineer —Mr. Nasmyth—a man of European reputation, and the Government having deter mined to employ his great talents in manufacturing artillery of a certain description, while he was in full work, meeting the requisition of the Government, the work was suddenly interrupted and suspended for, I belieyo, as long a period as a fortnight, owing to some misapprehension between the dif ferent departments. (Hear.) I read, too, the other day, in the newspapers a correspondence with regard to the cowry of the army with candle stereo: firm in this country— Price's Patent Candle Compaay=a,,Xlrm known, not merely commercially, bat for its success in wliati .luty call ono of the greatest philanthropic 011'1,3% ever inado—(hear, hear)—sco ing how grievously the army was suffering for want of fuel o from mere patriotic motives suggested to the Secretary at War that it was very desirable that a contrivance cklled " candle stoves," which was extrbmely portable, should be supplied for the use of the troops, and that thereby the great difficulty of carrying up heavier stoves from Balaklava might be surmounted. It seems that-this suggestion or offer was made to the Secretary at War before Christmas; it was at once entertained by him, and was referred to the Board of Ordnance. Mr. Price, or the conep au y , was for a long time without hearing from the board; they complained through the public papers ; and the result was the publication of two letters which I cannot help reading, illustrating, as they do, the mode in which the present System works. The first is from the War-office, and is as follows " War-office Jan. 3. " Sir,—l am directed by Mr.'Sidney Herbert to ' thank you for the anxiety and zeal you have shown for the welfare of the public service, but ho regrets to say that he has no au thority to accept any tender—that must be done through the Ordnance Department; and Mr. Herbert has requested that no delay should lake place in coming to a decision on the matter. I am, Sir, yours most obediently, " GEORGE D. RAMSAY." Well, I don't wonder that the Messrs. Price, having received that letter from the Secretary at War, thought they were quite safe in applying to the Ordnance, and thatthe neees sary authority was, at all events, to be obtained there. But it appears that these arrangements aro so complicated that ver y often the heads of departments do not know what is the pro d p r e4 for the following is th e answer received from t h e Board o f Ordnance Ordnance, Jan. 18 , 1855 . W— 4 , 431. G en tl e men, —With reference t o your l et t er o f th e 13th de q d u ; quarter to which particular applications should be ri inst., a ddressed to the Lieutenant -General of the Ordnance, requesting to know whether the Government is likely to require any, and what quantity, of your candle stoves /or the use of the army in the Crimea I have the board's com mands to acquaint you that they havei no cognisance what ever of this subject, not any communication having been made to them respecting Messrs. Price's stoves. They are, th„ e f or e, unable to give you the information you desire as to the inteation of the Government with regard to these stoves. I am , Gentlemen, your obedient servant, " J. WOOD." I really think that it is very remarkable that the Messrs. Price, being referred from one office to another in this man ner, did not give up the business altogether. They did not do so, however, but they went next to the War Department, and this is an account of what occurred when they went there On receiving the Ordnance letter we went to a third office—that of the Secretary of State for the War Department —to try if we could there get an answer to the tender. We found that it was under consideration, but that two difficul ties existed in the way of its acceptance_ first, that a num ber of ordinary stoves, with orcli na — LT fuel for them, had already been sent out, so that Government was doubtful about sending any a these new on es except for some spec i a l purposes—such as warming camp hospitals ; and, secondly, that in all hospital matters it was necessary to consult the proper medical authority, and he had been ill, so that his re port had not yet been received, but was daily being looked for, and on it being received our company's tender would be answered." •• - - by yn the e e shortestk quickest possible time. d v l ee y stoves a ea conveyance. onnn Now, my lords, that was a matter whi ch, if it were to be use ful should aall,t have w beenas to be sentuseful o As fast as they could b 4 g ot read y th ey should have been started to the Crimea, if t he y were to be o f any use at all. But the suggestion was made bef ore Christ mas ; and here I find, upon the 22d of January, Messrs. Price still w a iti ng f or a de cision, and the subject still under cons ideration, and hung u up, while they are driven about like s huttlecocks from one office to another, and, ;at last, waiting until the director of the medical department is well enough to give an opinion upon it. Really, this is an instance which is in itself an epitome of the result of the whole system. (Hear.) I am sorry to go into these details, but those who have not themselves been concerned with the working of those depart ments cannot understand the question without having one or two of these particular instances brought before them. Take one more case —that with reference to which I asked a ques tion an evening or two of the noble duke. I asked whether it was true that the 91st Regiment had been sent to the Cape and that the ship which ought to have brought it back had come home empty, because orders had not been sent to the general commanding on that station. The noble duke said that it was true, and he stated certain c ircumstances explain ing how it happened. Those circumstances were, that the noble duke had written to the noble 'viscount the Com mander-in-Chief, informing him that the regiment was to come home, and that he had also informed the Lieutenant- Governor of the Cape that it was to come home ; but no de spatch had been written to the military authority at the Cape. The Lieutenant-Governor being a civilian, and having no authority over the troops, undoubtedly the general in com. mand had a right to expect that a despatch would be ad dressed to him. (w ean ) I do not express any opinion whether in the circumstances of the case he ought to have been satis fied with the information received through the Lieutenant- Governor or not. That is a question which it is quite unne cessary for me to enter on ; but this is particularly clear that it ought not to have been left to that chance. Ho ought to have had direct orders from.his superiors in this country to forward the regiment. I see exactly how this arose—it was precisely from that division of authority of which I am com plaining. The noble duke thought the noble viscount had written to order the regiment home, and the noble viscount, upon his side, believed that the noble duke had given orders., Viscount HARDINGE—Orders were gi ven. Earl GREY continued — The noble viscount says, that orders had been given ; but in all official correspondence I have always found it most strongly insisted that orders to military authorities were not to go through civil authorities, and that when there is a civil governor of a colony orders for the removal of a regiment should be addressed not only to •WM but also to the °Alcor iLt caungladi (Hear, 1100 That is a rule which I, in my experience, never knew departed from, and, when I had the honour of holding the office of Secretary of State for the Colonies, certainly if I had departed from-it I should have had a remonstrance of a kind which f should by no means have liked to receive from the then Com mander-in-Chief, the Duke of Wellington(hear, hear)—and a very just remonstrance it would have been. Viscount HARDINGE—Perhaps it will save time if I state what the facts were. Precise orders did go out from my noble friend the Secretary of State for the War Department. These orders were precisely that the 91st Regiment was to re turn to England. The lieutenant-governor and the general commanding conferred together upon the pi opriety of that order. It appeared that there were 300 men under the estab lishment of 5,000 which it was thought prudent to maintain in the colony; and, in con=equence of the concurrent opinion of the lieutenant-governor, who received the order from the Secretary of State, and of the general commanding, it was decided that the 91st Regiment ought not to return. These are the real facts of the case, Earl GREY—I can only say, that if I made a mistake I was led into it 'by the answer of the noble duke the other day ; because I appeal to your lordships whether he did not distinctly state that I was correctly informed, and that the reason why the regiment was not sent home was because the military authority at the Cape bad received no direct orders himself (Hear, hear.) Therefore, if I have made a mistake I can only say that I am not r sponsible for • it. Now, see how this has worked upon the public service. You have not only incurred the unnecessary expense of the ship coming home empty, but you wanted that regiment urgently for the war in the East. A very fine regiment, which had gone through the Caffre war, and Consisted of trained and disciplined soldiers, was worth—l need not inform yonr lordships—two or three times the number of freshly raised men from this country, whom alone you could otherwise have sent. But you have by this mistake between the departments —a mistake, I say, directly arising from the multiplication of unnecessary authorities—been deprived of the services of that regiment which were so much required. Viscount HARDINGE was understood to say that his order bad not gone to the Cape, but that the order of the Secretary of abate qinte sufficient tv have warranted th.ce sanding home of the regiment. In consequence of the state of the colony, however, at that moment, and the arrangement be fore entered into that there should not be less than 5,000 men in that colony, the lieutenant-governor and the officer com manding both determined that the regiment ought not to be sent home. Earl GREY continued-,That is my case. The military authority at the Cape did not receive direct orders from the Commander-in-Chief because the order of the Secretary of State was sufficient, Viscount HARDINGE again rose, but being met by cries of " Order" he resumed his seat. Earl GREY—The noble viscount will excuse me, but I think that he had better comment upon this afterwards, in stead of interrupting me in the progress of my address. • My lords, I say that mistakes of this kind have had a most mate rial and most unfortunate influence upon the progress of our arms in the East; but it is an act of justice which I am glad to pay to her Majesty's Government—even if it were not ne cessary to my argument, of which, however, it is a most essential part—it is, I say, an act of common justice to her Majesty's Government to observe that the want of success which we have experienced in the East is to be accounted' for not merely by errors which have been committed since the commencement of the war, but by errors of much longer standing—errors in the management of the army which no Government for many years past has been able to avoid—errors of at least as long standing as from the commencement of the general peace in 1815. (Hear, hear.) My lords, I say that it is to errors in the administration of the army of that long standing that a great part of our misfortunes are to be attributed ; and I think I shall be easily able to convince your lordships that that is a correct statement. In the first place, let me ask you, is there any man who does not feel that the want of success in the East has been in no slight degree attributable to the deficiency which has existed of officers of rank and experience who are at the same time of such an age as to make them efficient iu the field ? Has not the want of a sufficiently wide field -of selection for general officers to be employed in the Crimea been one great difficulty with whisk her Majesty's Government have had to contend Does any man doubt that ? If not, let me ask how that deficiency is to be accounted for ? It is to be accounted for by the cir cumstance that during a long peace, in spite of many remon strances, you have adhered obstinately to - that system of promotion to the rank of general officer by seniority—and not by seniority alone, 4for, although I think that it would be absurd to expect by mere seniority to get general officers, even if confined to afters who were actually serving, our system is infinitely more absurd than that. A man rises to be a general officer not by serving, but by simply living upon half-pay. After he has once attained to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, under certain circumstances, he then, without doing another day's duty, and fit or unfit, rises by seniority alone to the rank of a general officer, and it is the only way in which he can obtain that rank. Let me show you the consequence. I had the honour of serving last spring upon a commission of inquiry, and it was proved by the papers placed before that commission, and it is stated in our report, that of the general officers employed during the last 29 years more than half had been above ten years out of active employment in their profession previous to being ap pointed to the staff as general officers—that many had been for periods exceeding 20 years unemployed—and that in one case an officer actually had done no military duty of any description for very nearly 37 years before he was so em ployed. Now, my lords, I wish to ask you whether you can expect, with such a system of appointing general officers, to have them efficient ? Can you expect that during peace, even all the important functions which g eneral officers have pei form in maintaining the efficiency of the army, by inspecting regiments, and seeing that on distant stations, and at the various garrisons, discipline is properly maintained—do you think it possible, I ask, howover excellent an officer a man may have been in early life, that ono who has been 37 years out of the exercise of his profession, and who is appointed because he has outlived all his contemporaries, can perform efficiently, even in peace, the duties of a general officer? You will find also, my lords, from the report of the commission, that the actual average age of the major-generals appointed at the last brevet under that system was no less than 60. My lords, I say that the consequenee is that it is actually impossible under this system that you should have any num ber of officers who have seen service in the rank in which you want to employ them, and upon whom, being at the same time of a suitable age, you could depend for service in the Crimea. The measures of the Government have, I am sure, been restricted by this system in a manner which must be most painful to them, and at the same time it has had no slight effect in producing those consequences which we so deeply deplore. Then, let me ask you whether the instructions of our army during peace is what it ought to have been in order to prepare it for war ? Let me remind you that it is only about two years since that you formed your first establish ment for teaching, with anything like a system, the use of improved fire-arms to the troops. The French had had esta blishments of that kind, in which the use of the Minie rifle was taught upon a most admirable plan and with the utmost care, for years. The deficiency was over and over again pointed out; but it is only two years or two years and a-half since such an establishment was farmed for our own army. But, more than that—l have it upon the authority of the noble viscount himself—that he has ascertained that one bat talion of our Guards, which ought to be one of our best, and almost a model regiment, had actually never had any ball practice for a space of three years. My lords, that was the manner in which the use of arms was taught to your troops. But, is it merely the use of their arms on drill —is it the mere knowledge of these things which makes a good soldier or a good officer ? Ought he not to know something more than that ? Ought he not to know bow to perform outpost duty, how to take advantage of all the acci dents of the ground for offence and defence, how to construct small works for similar purposes, how to build huts for his own shelter of such rude materials as are to be found wher ever warlike operations aro to be carried on ? Ought he not to know all the best modern contrivances for facilitating labour and for employing the joint efforts of large bodies of men with most effect in the prosecution of any work to be carried out? Ought not all these things to be taught to both officers and men ? It is quite clear that instructions of this kind would have been of the very highest value to our men in the East. I think it was Napoleon who said that, in all the armies of Europe there was a great deficiency in this respect, even in his day, and that they had much to learn in compa rison to the Romans, where in every legion the men were taught the use of trenching tools as well as of their weapons before they were considered to be available soldiers; and Napoleon, I think, said that, with an army of that sort, a good general would fight as much with the spade as with the musket. How deeply has the,want of this kind of instruc tion been felt in our army, and how much is its inferiority in some respects to the French army to be attributed to a defi ciency of knowledge of this part of the business of a soldier ? Why have they not known it? Simply because no attempt has ever been made to teach them. There has never been anything like a systematic attempt to teach your °Mem% and men that most necessary and most important part of their duty as soldiers. Would there have been any difficulty in teaching them ? Far from it. There is no reason why every soldier in the British army should not be as well instructed as the Sappers and Miners. I answer for it that, in a long peace, with proper arrangements, there would not be the slightest difficulty in devising means by which every single soldier in the British army, before ho took his place in the ranks, should have gone through a perfect system of instruc tion of this kind. Look at the indirect advantages which would have arisen from it. In the first place, we know now that the soldier, if he gets tired of a military life and buys his discharge, has often great difficulty in main taining himself, owing to his understanding no useful de scription of labour. The Sappers and Miners, on the con trary, are so useful in civil life that it is actually difficult for the Government to keep them—there are such constant at tempts to bribe them out of the service by persons who know how valuable they would be in any employment to which they might bo turned. That instruction, therefore, costing nothing, would have led to a vast improvement in the soldier after his discharge. Nor is that all. There is another indi rect advantage which would have arisen of not less import ance. I believe that nothing would have so much contri buted to improve the British army as to have occupied some of their spare time by some useful employment of this kind. My lords, forced idleness and tedium have been the curses of the army. It is those which have driven your soldiers into those acts of drinking which have been the opprobrium of our service—which I am happy to say are now greatly diminished, although they still continue to a great extent. It- is those which have driven your young officers into those irregula rities, of which some painful exposures have lately taken place. My lords, I don't blame those young officers. Young men cannot be expected to submit to what are often very dry, and apparently uninteresting studies, with no im mediate result. If they have not some stimulus to it, and if they know that it will not have the smallest influence upon their promotion, how can you expect young men to devote themselves to studies of that description There would have been no difficulty in requiring that a competent knowledge of the scientific as well as of the practical part of their profession should be a necessary qualification for officers to obtain promotion. There would have been no difficulty in making them feel that those who took great pains and .acquired all this sort of knowledge would advance their chances of promotion ; but I know that the opinion in the army has been that such was not the effect of such studies. I have myself heard the remark made by officers—" Why should we take the trouble to instruct ourselves and get the highest place at Sandhurst, when we know that distinguishing ourselves in that way will not advance us at all if it does not rather create a prejudice against us I" I firmly believe that they were wrong in that impression ; but I cannot deny that I have heard men say, that it would even create a prejudice against them, and would make them be regarded rather as what aro called !!*?..°" 9 47 Plan as rPRICE SD. practical officers. Now, my lords, look at the advantage of instruction of this kind, for your staff particularly. In this present campaign, is it net tho general cry of every man, that the want of the thorough instruction of your staff officers has been one of the greatest difficulties which you have had to en counter. I think that that is true. In the French army we know that no officer can serve on the staff until he had passed a most severe examination as to his knowledge of-every prac ticardetail. In our army,' unfortunately, that is not the case. But there is another circumstance which has increased the deficiency of your staff officers. It is this—more than 20 years ago a committee of the House of Commons pointed out that it' was very desirable that the same officers should not be engaged 'for too long a centinuauce upon the staff, and they recommended that staff officers should not be employed for more than five years at a time ; assigning as a reason, not only that it would be more fair to all the army, but that it would create a class of educated staff officers who wpuld be very useful in the time of war. That was the recommenda tion 'of a committee of the House of Commeus 20 years ago. How has it been treated? It 'has remained ,from that day to this a dead letter, and the recommendation has only lately been repeated by that commission to which I before referred, of which I had the honour to be a member last spring. I might point out other instances; I might refer to the want of improvement in the clothing, in the arms, in the artillery —to delays in adopting the latest scientific discoveries for adding to the powers of these arms. But I abstain from doing so. I think I have said enough to show your lord ships that, during a very long peace, our army was not managed in such a manner as to fit it for the emergency of war. I know it has been said, and upon high authority, that this state of things has been produced by the niggardli ness of Parliamont—(cheers)—that it is because we have not kept up our establishments upon a sufficiently large scale that these evils have arisen ; and I perceive, from the cheers which have followed my mention of this, that some noble lords are of that opinion. For my own part, I utterly deny the correctness of such a statement. (Hear, hear.) In the first place, the improvements I have pointed out would not have cost one single farthing—l mean to say, that every one of those improvements to which I have alluded might have , been introduced with the most perfect facility - without one !. single shilling of expense. But more than that—l deny that the House of Commons has shown that niggardliness which has been imputed to it. (Hear.) For 19 years I had the honour of being a member of that house, and I do not believe that in the course of those 19 years I was ever absent when military estimates were discussed. During four of those ' years it was my duty to submit them to the House of Com mons, and I will assert that in that time I never yet saw a single instance in which the House of Commons refused a vote of money which was necessary for the real efficiency of the service. (Hear, hear.) lamby no means sure that I could say the reverse with equal confidence—that they had never made giants with injudicious liberality. Well, I say, then, there has not been this niggardliness which is so often dwelt upon. Ido not, indeed, pretend to say that you have kept up establishments during peace sufficient to enable you, without large augmentations and without some time spent in Preparation, to enter upon - an offensive war. Certainly not ; and I hope and trust that this country never will consent to keep up its peace establishments upon any such scale. (Hear.) To do so would be to commit the greatest blunder which could be imagined ; because, independently of the expense, of the great drain upon the resources of the country, and of preventing the real increase of power which the accumulation of wealth in a kingdom creates, —independently of all this, independently also of the great evils arising from the jealousy which would be excited by such armaments in foreign countries—the just and natural jealousy which would exist in those countries upon finding that our arma ments were kept up on a scale sufficient at any time for offen sive preparations, which would drive them into a similar course, and would leave both parties pretty much where they were before—independently, I say, of all this, I assert that, if you do keep up these establishments upon such a scale, you will be in a worse situation at the b ginning of a war than you actually are now —you would be in a worse position for this reason. You would have your army still more full than it is of officers advanced in age and without experience in war ; and you would have your arsenals and harbours filled with arms, ships, and stores of obsolete pattern , and not em bodying all the improvements which modern science had sug gested. I firmly believe already that it would have been better for us if, on the breaking out of this war, we had been thrown to a greater extent upon the resources which we could create at the time, and if we had trusted less to those relics of a former war which were then in existence. I say, there fore, that over economy does not account for these evils. They arise from a very different source. Let me remind you how very large have been the grants which Parliament has made for the support of our military and naval establishments during peace. By a return which was laid upon the table of the house last session, it appears that the total money spent upon our army, ordnance, and navy during the 17 years end ing in 1853 was no less than 217,000,0001. 15,500,0001. an nually have been applied to this object, and will any man tell me that so vast a suns as 15,500,000/. a-year, if judiciously applied, is sot ample to keep up an armament quite sufficient for all peace purposes, and sufficient as a nucleus for more extended preparations when war takes place ? (Hoar.) When war breaks out you never want to commence offensive opera rations immediately ; there is always some time for prepara tion. For instance, in the present war, it was not until six months after the declaration of war that the expedition sailed to the Ciiniea, which we must call the beginning of offensive operations. Your expedition sailed, I believe, from Yarna in September, sshile war was declared in IParch. Even be fore these six months expired there was still more time for preparation. [Lord lIARDINGE suggested, that our troops bad been sent to Gallipoli some time before the end of the six months.] Yes, but Gallipoli was not an offensive operation. I ...Y. that emeeive operations did not commence until six months after the declaration of war, and UttiAl nearly twelve - months after war must have appeared so probable that vrepa rations might have boon commenced. That time, if well used, and if your establishments had been previously upon a proper footing, was ample for you to have made every effort which could reasonably be expected from this country. I repeat, thou, it is not to over economy that wo must attribute the ex isting evil, which has quite a different or i g i n . Th e fault 'is that to which I have already adverted—the division of au thority and responsibility. There i I a very homely saying that " too many cooks spoil the broth ;" and you have had too many cooks. (Hear.) What you want is something like the administration at the Admiralty. The Admiralty does per form every function with regard to the navy which one would expect to devolve upon it. It builds the ships ; it appoints the officers ; it gives ill the requisite directions with regard to manning, discipline, and provisions ; and everything is complete within itself. What is the consequence I No doubt there have been some errors of judgment committed, even by the Admiralty, during the present war. It would not be diffi cult to point out some of those errors ; but still, upon the whole, the Admiralty has furnished to the country a most splendid fleet, and the efficiency of that fleet has not been impaired by such mistakes as have occurred with regard to the army, for you have had a fleet not only splendid in itself, but exceedingly useful. My lords, I say. therefore, that if you wish to apply a remedy to this state of things, you must consolidate the many independent de partments which have now concurrent power and authority with respect to the administration of the army. Unless you do that, you will effect no real good, and I must say that that consolidation cannot, in my opinion, be effected by the mere appointment of a Secretary for War. The Secretary of War has to direct not only tho army, but the navy. He is supposed to be the organ of the Government for directing all your warlike operations. Now, it seems to me to be quite inconsistent with this function that he should have under his charge all the details connected with the management of the army. Complaints would probably arise from the navy that they were put under the authority of a department which had authority over the army, and in this way jealousy might arise between the two services, as well as'a conflict of authority between Secretaries of State. What is really wanted is, as I have stated before, the consolidation of the offices of the Se cretary for War, the Commander-in-Chief, the Board of Ord nance, and the Commissariat. You ought, in my opinion, to have one single and well-constituted department, which should do for the army that which is done for the navy—that is provide an efficient instrument to execute the orders of the Government, whatever those orders may be. If you do this, I cannot believe that a fourth Secretary would be necessary ; for I concur with the noble earl who spoke upon this subject some time agt, that the real direction of the war ought to rest with the Prime Minister. - There is no other authority in the Government who can direct every measure of every sub ordinate department for the conduct of the war in the same manner as the Prime Minister, because when the country is engaged in war it naturally absorbs everything else. The business of the Treasury, of the Foreign-office, of the army department, and of the navy, are of equal importance in for warding the one common object, and, except the Prime Mi nister, I know no one who can direct all those departments efficiently. But I know it is said that such a consolidation would be objectionable, because it would place the command of the army and the patronage of the army too immediately in the hands of the Government of the day. (Cheers.) My lords, I know how much stress has been laid by many per sons upon this objection, but I am prepared to meet it. With regard to the prerogative of the Crown, which has been sometimes dwelt on; I will not repeat the arguments I ad dressed to your lordships upon a former occasion with re gard to this point, because, if I am not mistaken, the noble duke (of Newcastle) gave up every ground of objection of that kind to the change I proposed, and. said, the prerogative of the Crown was not affected by the question one way or the other—that all executive duties belong equally to the Crown, but that they are all equally exercised by means of responsi ble advisers, and subject to the criticism of Parliament. When you say there is an objection to putting the command of our army too directly under the Goverment of the day, let me remind you that the existence of a C o mmander -in -Chief, such as he is now known, is a very modern introduction. • Until after the revolutionary war , I believe you can find no in stance of a Commander-in -Chief during peace. You never had such an office during peace, and even during war the Commander-in -Chief wa s generally what his name implies, the commander of a certain portion of the army directly under his orders, and of which he acted as general. The pleasure of the Sovereign upon any point was then taken by the Secre tary of State or the Secretary of War, and not by the Com mander-in-Chief. The Commander-in-Chief recommended, but it was a member of the civil Government who took the pleasure of the Sovereign. It was not until 1812 that the C o mmander-in-Chief's office was placed upon the footing of a public department ; until then he was only an officer com manding a certain portion of the army. At the same time, I am ready to allow that, although actually this change took place not before 1812, yet substantially it took place at a considerably earlier period, and probably for 50 or 60 years the department has been what it now is. But, further than this, I hold that, according to the duties now performed by a Commander-in-Chief, his title is a misnomer. He is not Com mander-in-Chief. To my notion, the name implies an officer who is in military command of troops, who is constantly at their head and acting as their general. Now I need not tell your lordships that the Commander-in-Chief in this country is never seen at the head of troops—unless, indeed, it be at a birthday parade or a review in Hyde Park. Except at some state pageant of that kind, I say, the Commander-in-Chief never appears in command of troops, and his duties might be perfectly well per formed without his ever putting a red coat on his back. Ho sits in his office at the Horse Guards, and upon him there de volves the duty of organising and superintending the British army all over the world. It is a duty which, in every other country, is performed, not by a general commanding, but by a Minister ofaWar. In this country the Commander-in -Chief is a Minister of War shorn of a great part of his proper power and authority. He is Minister of War, with very little power over the artillery, with no authority in matters of expense, and with scarcely any as regards the provisioning, clothing, and arming of the troops. He is Minister of War deprhilv the t e f all the essential parts of his functions. 1 sa y , then, t , Obvious remedy for the evil is to get rid of this department, Appoint a general to command the troops in England, and under the direction of the Minister, to undertake the impor tant duty of watching over the discipline and the training o' the troops at home and of preparing them for service abroad when they were called upon. Let him be an officer who will train the troops in arms—not a Minister of War with a pen in his hands at the Horse Guards ; and as to duties of a different description, which now belong to the Commander-in-Chief, _ give them to a Minister of War—no matter what you call him —transfer to him the duties belonging properly to a Minister of War, and which now ale performed by the Commander - in - Chief. Among those duties I do not hesitate to say youmnst include the patronage of the army. I know how strong is the prejudice which exists upon this subject ; I know how many persons believe that you cannot, without danger, place the patronage of the army under the control of a member of the civil Government. But let me just point out how the present system works. Can any Minister be justly made responsible for the conduct of a department if he is not allowed to choose the instruments he employs—if he is not intrusted with the means of rewarding those who do good and faithful service I would ask the noble earl the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he would consent to be responsible for con ducting the for eign relations of this country if lie had no voice in the appointment of any member of the diplomatic body, froM the Attache up to the highest Minister acting under him —if he had no means of advaucing those who did well, or of , recalling thoSe who did ill? (Hear.) Would he consent to un dertake the management of our foreign relations upon these terms ? I think I cannot be at a loss for his answer. But with regard to the army, it is more particularly necessary that this power should be exercised by the person responsible for its efficicucy. Upon what does that efficiency mainly depend If there is one thing more than another upon which it depends it is upon the manner in which the patronage is exercised (hear)—upon the care taken to advance deserving officers, awl sternly refuse promoti3n to the incompetent. It is upon the care and zeal with which this is done that it mat ily depends whether your army is efficient or the reverse. Let m s e rv ice also y o o b i s t e d rs o 'e t tan n h i st t i e e v 3 e i r i y n i o s t t c h i ? d of e t p h a e r t c m r o e n w t of the p n w i th th • bli patron age. I have already referred to the diplomatic service. The naval service is the same, and throughout the whole of the civil service the different branches arc subject to the control of her Majesty's Government. I don't deny that abuses may be committed in this way. I should be the last to deny that under every Government, and in every time, Parliamentary interest and other improper motives have influenced the appointments and promotions in the public service. Such abuses, I am afraid, have existed, and while human nature is what it is I am afraid they will exist. I know no country, no form of Government in which they have been avoided, and the greatest and most difficult problem for the solution of a Government, is to secure the appoint ment of the right men to situations in the public service. Upon the whole, however, admitting the abuses which have taken place in the administration of patronage, I believe that placing it under the control of the responsible Minister of ' the Crown is the best security you can obtain for the due discharge of this most important duty. I know that a com parison has sometimes been drawn between the distribution of patronage in the navy and in the army. (Hear, hear.) I should be prepared for answer to take issue upon that as a matter of fact. I deny that for the last 60 years the distribu tion of the patronage of the army under the existing system has, upon the whole, been more pure than that of the navy. The abuses may have been of a different character. I admit that they have in some respects been of a different character. But if you will go into detail and scrutinise appointments, I will undertake to show you that the public service has suf-, : fared more in the army than it has in the navy during the last 60 years from injudicious appointments, made from improper motives. My lords, I cannot help stating that, even now, at this moment, in the Crimea, judging by results, I cannot believe that the patronage of the army has been exercised with so much greater judgment and discretion than that of the navy. (Hear, hear.) This I know—and I see a noble lord here present who can confirm the truth of what I am , saying —that I know that there is in the army at this mo moment groat dissatisfaction at the recent promotions for ser vices —(cheers)—and I am told that it is the opinion of the army—whether correctly or aot I have not the means of judging—that men who were not really under fire—(hear)-- at Inkerman, or Alma, or at Balaklava, and who have never undergone all the perils and the hardships of the trended-- ' that men of this kind have received the promotion which has been denied to most meritorious regimental officers. (Hear.) I know not whether that allegation be true, but I thiak it is a pregnant example of the inconvenience of the existing sys tem that such an allegation and such complaints can be made, and that no man in this house can distinctly say, if the mistake has been made, who is responsible for it. Is it the Secretary of State for War, or is it the Commander in-Chief ? I think it would be one of the great adean- ' tages of the change I propose that in these matters any future responsibility would be brought distinctly home to one individual, and thus this great power of promotion, upon the judicious use of which the whole efficiency of an army depends, would be exercised under that check and under that feeling of responsibility which would then be created. (Hear, hear.) When touching upon promotion, I cannot avoid mentioning one other subject. Look at the medical staff and at the medical service. I believe there has been no branch of the service which has been so completely withdrawn from the control of the civil Government of the country as the army medical service ; and, I ask, do the pre sent state of that service, and the manner in which the duties have been performed, justify you in believing that that pa tronage has been so much more judiciously exercised than patronage in other branches of the service? I say, then, that you have failed in preventing those evils against which the measure was directed, by withdrawing the patronage of y oßut haveiet usesaczy. fromavoidin g th e regular a s c s o n o t f r tevils, he tat co rth tr e y rs . encountered. Iu the first place, the management of the army, the general responsibility for its efficiency, have neces sarily been thrown with the patronage, and the Commander in-Chief therefore has this power over the army. But you have given Me him, as I have already shown, with a crippled and divided authority, an authority powerful for destroying but powerlessinaction--strong to prevent the civil servants of the Crown from acting upon their own views in the management of the army, but weak in enabling them to act on their own. I have now touched upon the weakness and uncertainty of action which have distinguished our military arrangements, but, my lords, surely every one will agree with me that even in times of peace the management of the army ought to be one of the most important of the functions discharged by the executive Government of the country ; and in time of war ...q.nagement of the army and navy are clearly the two most importaiit of the duties attached to the Government. If this be true, and no one will, I think, deny that it is so, IS it either more or less than a palpable absurdity to say that, while we have a Government responsible to the country and to Parliament for the general line of policy which they may say that a o t n adopt, the whole control over the army s h a ll be g iven to military authorities, who shall enjoy a quasi independ ence in carryingt this moment t branch ,i,e. t o y then arepu b if BringserviceLm M the lords,l effects which have been produced by that kind of independence given to the military authorities, and I make that statement without hesitation, because I have pointed out tho errors which have prevented the War Department from adequately answering the expectations of the country. I have pointed out the errors of administration which have rendered that department less equal than it ought to be to discharge the duties attached to it ; but I assert that those errors have arisen from the want of sufficient power on the part of the civil Government to introduce occasionally those improve ments which have been known to be necessary. I believe that most of the Governments which have existed in this country for many years have been a ware of the great, the paramount importance of introducing various im provements into our system of military administration. I can assert that such has been the case with all those Govern ments with which I have had the honour of being con nected, and I believe it to have been the case with most other Governments which have of late years conducted the affairs of this country. It is now nearly 20 years ago since I had the honour of accepting the office of Secretary at War, and I can confidently state that I had discharged the duties of that office for a very short period before I perceived a necessity for the introduction of many great improvements, but under the complicated system of the present administra tion so slow and weary was the work of effecting the changes which I perceived to be necessary that, although I applied my best energies to the task, and although I hope I was not altogether unsuccessful in introducing some improvements, still I retired from that office with a painful' consciousness that what had been done was a small part indeed of what re mained to do. I believe that other Secretaries at War have experienced the same feelings ; because I have perceived that gentlemen who have successively held,that office have endea voured to follow out a career of improvement, and that yet all that has been done falls far short of what is necessary. I am. persuaded that there never will nor can be any effectual cor rection of the evils which I have pointed out until you place the management of the army, as all other branches of the Public service are placed, under the direct and immediate control of some one office presided over by one of the respon sible advisers of the Crown. It is a great advantage of our constitutional system that, in carrying on the public service of the country, you secure the advantage of great experience in the management of public affairs, and at the same time you check a too great adherence to routine. You secure the ad vantage of experience, because there exists a vast body of able and experienced men ; and those who hold office do so, it may be said, upon good behaviour, and at the same time you correct the tendency to routine which among such a body of, men would be sure to arise by placing every branch of the Government under some ono Minister of the Crown, who is responsible to Parliament and to the country for the manner in which the duties of his department are per formed. Practically speaking, Ministers retain office for a few years only, and by that means fresh minds are intro duced into the various departments of the State, and thus there is great facility for the introduction of improvements when they may be necessary. This is our system in the ad ministration of all branches of the public service, with the exception of the army, and what is the consequence ! The army has been under purely professional management, and the administration of it has for a series of years been in. trusted to officers who have risen to high rank in their pro. fession, and who are, therefore, generally men advanced in life, and on whom it is passing no reflection tosay —what, in deed, may be said of all other professional men—that they are indisposed to consent to any alteration in that system under which they themselves have risen to distinction, and which was in existence at the time when they entered the ser vice. But you place the administration of the army not only under professional men and professional management, but you add to that arrangement the difficulty that the chiefs of the profession have not their hands free to adopt any measure which they may think necessary, but they are checked at every turn by requiring the concurrence of other departments; and, from the manner 'in which the different offices are constituted, • - they have to contend against the natural jealousy of the - civil departments. You see now, my lords, in the events in the Crimea the re sults of such a system. It is to mistakes committed before the war began that it is to be attributed that the army is not in that state of efficiency and usefulness in which it ought to be. But let me not be misunderstood when I say that the army has not shown itself as efficient as it ought to be. I do not mean to deny its valour or its many great excellences, for I am as sensible of them as any of your lordships. No man admires more than I do the heroic valour they have dis played iu battle, and the still more heroic fortitude they have displayed under privations almost incredible. (Cheers.) No man, I say, admires these excellences more than I do, but the more I admire them so much the more do I desire of to m t i m e stem e. administration of the army placed under a av ment which will relieve it from those fmilts w hich I have which, long con sequences in foreseen would lead to those unhapPY unfortunately, I have seldom found any officer of high rank prepared to believe. (hear, hear.) My lords, I say that I admire the valour and fortitude displayed by our army, nor do I dou bt that their efforts, in spite of those faults to which I have adverted, might have been attended with success, had they been seconded by better arrangements. The errors which have been made are precisely in kind. what I an ticipated when, in the debate on the Address last year, I ven tured to predict to your lordships that, unless some great changes were made, we should not be many monalis'engaired i n a great war without meeting with calamitous results. I made those observations a year ago, and, although I felt in doing so that I was guided by reason, still I little believed that the prediction would be so soon and so fearftdly fulfilled. Er rors of the kind whichlfave been committed I did expect; but I must admit that in degree those which have been committed exceed anything that I could havebelieved possible. I think that what has occurred must form the subject of a strict in. q uir Y. There must have neon oomo great faultfi committed 3 04 4,2 46 , 3, 3 '" 105 16/ 67 6 16 7 50 4,67' 0 15 2,474 4, 131 7, 331 5,0 3 9' ,13 23 3 5, 562 7,432 "p I'-.' 9 39 , 05 11 St i i ji 9, , 640 ...79 1, , '6 i 3,63 M t 1 g 5, 7, 8,341