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Spain, when I could amply have defended myself from an imputation made, but was prevented from so doing be cause an explanation would necessarily expose to the enemy the intentions of the Government which I was thee serving. (Hear, hear.) But here there is nothing of the kind—here the question is simply the provision made for the material wants of an army. I must say I have ne con fidence in the Government upon this subject, and it is most important that every part of this matter should be inquired into pablicly and above-board. (Hear.) There was an instance not long ago of secret inquiry somewhat remarkable in its: circumstances. I will not mention the exact date, but there was an imputation made affecting the character of an officer of high rank, connected with two or three ducal families—an imputation certainly very discre ditable. It was brought, in the first instance, before the late Duke of Wellington, and I venture to think that upon that occasion the illustrious duke did not proceed with all the equity which might have been expected, and was to be desired. The papers were taken away and locked. up. How ever, it so happened that the matter was brought under public discussion, and then it became desirable to take some step which would save certain noble families from annoyance; and what was done ? There was a board, as it was called; two or three old gentlemen of my acquaintance were placed on it; and one or twa of theta were in se low a state of health that they were quite unable to examine minutely and scrupulously into a difficult and disputed question. But a lawyer was given to assist them—a De puty Judge-Advocate-General—into whose hands the whole business, of mourse, fell ; and what was the result ? Some eight or ten officers of the highest rank appeared be fore the board, and made statements as to a particular fact ; they were supported by two eminent scientific wit nesses ; the court was closed; and then what was the find ing ? Some gentlemen of rank and position had come for ward and said they could not think that the officer in question—their friend, so honourable a man—could have done anything to forfeit good opinion. Well, the gallant officers, who had little to do with drawing up the finding, at last said, " At your lordship's desire wo have proceeded to inquire into this matter. It has been an excessively painful task, and we have been met by very conflicting evidence—infaot, the evidence is almost balanced on either s id e . Some of it was of a character which would not have been received in Westminster-hall, but we are not gentlemen accustomed to split hairs. Subject to these remarks we find the hon. and gallant officer perfectly in nocent of the whole charge." I do not know irhether this board will exercise similar ingenuity, but I have not the least doubt that an attempt will be made to induce thins to do so. (near, hear.) Now, with that recent case in our recollection, what is to be thought of the secret court which, in the first instance, the noble viscount informed us was to be constituted on this occasion ? The warrant constituting this court states, I think, that the object of the Goverenient is to elicit the truth ; but, if that is their desire, I think all the documents bearing upon the subject should be pldced before the house, and that no nortion of them should be withheld and concealed. (Hear, hear.) There are, howover, particular documents which we cannot extract from the Government. We do not ask for opinions; we ask fur returns and facts, and these facts are of the meet frightful description. The truth is that the Government are fearful to disclose them. (Hear, hear.) It appears—l think on page 37 of the report—that papers detailing such facto have been laid before the Government, and in other parts of the report it is stated that the average deaths in the army from sickness were 30 per cent. The house must not suppose, however, that that was the Ices of all portions of the army trem sickness, for it was pro bably in some cases :)0 or GO per tent. We find from the report that some regiments lost only 5 per cent. ; and we fiud that, 'while non-commissioned officers and soldiers were perishing, as it is stated, at the rate of 35 per cent., the mortality from sickness among the commissioned offi cers was only 3or 4 per cent. What could be the cause of this difference ? It was not attributable to the clim a t e , but. to neglect of the non-commissioned officers and sol diers. We find that in the cavalry and artillery and in some of the regiments encamped near Balaklava the loss was small, compared with that suffered by those por tions of the army which were in more exposed positions; and yet the average loss was 35 per cent. To what con clusion are we led when we find' that 35 p ercen t . was t h e average mortality, and that in some branches of the army the loss was only 5, a, or 7 per cent. ? It must be that in some portions of the army the lose was 50 or GO per cent. (Hear, hear.) I will go even fur ther than that. It has been reported in the public press— and, as we know, hitherto the public press has been pretty nearly accurate—(hear)—thet some of the regiments which went out with a strength of 900 or 1,000 men were abso lutely nearly annihilated. Now we want the documents which will show whether this loss was attributable to the misconduct of those who had charge of the regiments. It ie stated that one regiment—the 4Gth, I believe—disem barked in the midst of very heavy rain, and on reaching the muddy shore nobody took the least notice of them. The men were unprepared for such hardships, and I believe the consequence was that iu 36 home or so the regiment al most disappeared. Now, if the Governinent refuse to give in the specific dottiments which will prove these facts, does it not show that their object ie concealmeet? (Hear.) Is such conduct consistent With the statements in the warrant appointing the board of inquiry, that they aro "desirous - that the truth should be made manifest ?" (Hear.) I will call attention to another most iniportant matter. In con sequence of the gieat mortality which took place among the troops, the medical officers applied themselves to trace the progress of disease in each of the regiments, to ascertain the number of booths from wounds and disease, and to compare the losses of regiments occupying different posi tions in the cone try. The information thus obtained ,is regarded as most importent and valuable, not merely by military surgeons, but by medical men generally; and, from its bearing upon medical science, a strong desire exists among the profession that the returns sent in to the Government should be made public; but, notwithstand ing the reiterated applications which have been made Oft all sides, the noble viscount has particular reasons for withholding these returns. It has been intimated that. perhaps they may be produced hereafter. That may be the most convenient course for the Government to pur sue, and they may be influenced by very good reasons. It is alleged in the report that while the troops were suffering from that dire disease, scurvy—and many • on. gentlemen may, perhaps, not be aware that when curvy affects large bodies of men it is accompanied by imoheee and a variety of internal complaints—there wore 20,0001 b. of lime juice in store, and we ought to know who declined to issue someportion of that lime-juice. (Hear.) Scurvy may bo checked to a greater or less degree by pro per regimen. Well. there was rice in store, and why was not that issued? (Hear.) Diarrbcea was prevalent, and it is alleged that medicines suitable for that disease bad been provided; but they, were not forthcoming, and why were they net issued ? Then, in many of the regiments the men were so muds affected by scurvy that they were enable to eat biscuit, but no bread was to be had. At that very time the French troops were supplied with bread, and now and thee, with great kindness and consideration, they made presents of bread to our men. I remember that on one occasion we received 20,0"e9 rations of bread from the French. When our horses were perishing for want of straw, General Canrobe r t sen t us three small sips laden with straw as a present. Now, if there are any documents in the possession of the Government which will throw light upon this subject, is it not proper that they should be placed upon the table? (Hear.) I say that these aro most serious matters. (Hear.) The whole question has been raised and discussed. I (mite agree with the right hon. baronet opposite that it would have been ranch better if the discussion had been postponed—(hear, hear)—but the Tinder lidecretary for War would not allow it to be post poned. (Hear and cheers.) He has gone into the charac ters anti qaalifications of the officers of the staff to show that they deserved to be appointed to high situations. (Hear, hear.) During p er t o f th e ca l am i tous period to which I have referred General Airey was ill, and Colonel Gordon acted as his factotum, When I saw that Colonel Gordon was appointed to the office of Deputy Quarter master-General of the army I confess rfelt some alarm. (Hear, hear.) Wby do I say so? Because I have seen that when this country is involved in war the chief situa tions on the staff and in the most important departments of the army are forthwith filled from the desks of the Horse Guards. ("Hear," and laughter.) The men who are to occupy almost every important executive office—at all events the principal offices—on the staff are brought from those desks. I believe that some of the officers en gaged in the present war in these departments had not been in the field for 44) years ; some of them had not seen service for 20 years; and the greaterpart of them had never met an enemy; nevertheless, they were supposed at ense to possess a perfect knowledge of their duties. We may ex pect that Colonel Gordon will become Quartermaster- General, and in the next war he may be Quartermaster- General of the army in the field, or even Commandee-in- Chief. Now, what is may knowledge of Colonel Gordon ? I should not have thought of alluding to this subject un less I had been provoked into doing so; bat I said I w as alarmed at the appointme n t o f Col. Gordon, because an in cident of a serious nature took place between thet officer and myself, and I think the attacks which have been made by an hon. member upon the generals of division justify me in mentioning it. On the 23d of October Col. Gordon informed ins he had received an order from Lord Raglan to direct .me to take my division down into the Valley of the Tchernaya and to attack and capture a Russian convoy ofl,ooo carriages. Me also told me that the Duke of Cam bridge was ordered to turn out his division for my support. I was astonished at this order. I had, with my staff offi cers, been observing the enemy ; we had seen no trace e a convoy, and I do not believe there was any such convey. If I had taken may division into the valley, and had been followed by the Duke of Cambridge in support, we might have been placed in a most awful position, for the enemy were posted upon precipitous heights, and could hare directed npon us the fire of 20 guns, so that they might ham, smelled um without it being possible for us to return a single shot. I therefore said to Col. Gordon—" I thi ek _ there must be somo mistake about this." " Oh, no, there is not "I certainly think somebody must be mistaken, and so, before I move any of my troops, go back to Lord Eag le,' and tell him what I say." With some reluctance this gentleman went back and returned with the same order, but with the slight qualification that his lordship was willing I should exercise my discretion in the matter, and that Ishould do nothing against nty own judgment. " Well, sir," was my reply, "you must find eat that this convoy really is where y ou say it is before I sacrifice my opinion on the subject ; and, therefore, you had better go with Coll Herbert to the top of that hill, end if the convey can be seen I shall take steps accordingly." Accordingly, he, went up the hill with . Co.. Herbert, but they could not discover any convoy. The y came back, Poor Capt. Nolan, who was also despatched on a subsequent occasion from the Quartermaster-General's de partment, and fell immediately afterwards, accompanied ; Col. Gordon, and I told Capt. Nolan to go with another staff officer, examine the position, and return and tell me whe ther he did not think the troops would be completely compromised by any such movement as that indicated by Cole Gordon. Many attacks, which I cannot answer, have been made upon Captain Nolan for his conduct in another , affair, but I must say that his reply to m i on th a t occas i on showed anything but imprudence and want of sense. He assured me, aa I had myrelanticipated,. that if I moved the troops into the valley they would have been utterly compro mised ; and that fact induces me to ho) ii that some of tl-,e statements made to his disadvantage regarding the f oye r at Balaklava are not altogether well founded. (Hear, hear.) Very different to the behaviour of Captain Nolan was tent of Colonel Gordon, the favourite of the palace. (A laugh.) , When Colonel Gordon came back I said to him, Well, hays yon seen the convoy ?" '" No, sir, I have not seen it." " h, I suspect there is none." " No, I think it is there notwithstanding." (Laughter.) " Where is it, then ?" And this was the answer--" Why, I think it has probably hatted in some corner of the road." (Laughter.) Many peiions may perhapS think this rather a ridiculous anecdote, but unfortunately, might have lost 1,000 men if I had not hectta:te4 to comply with this imprudent demand. Colonel Ainslie:, who afterwards cams up from another division, reported that they had seen no convoy in the position inEli cated, I ut that there had been a convoy on the other side of the valley, four or five miles oft I wrote a very strong letter to Lord Rtgkri on that occasion, and I think it is my duty to state the fact here, when the officer of whom I am speaking is being ) I teed nearly at the head of the English army. That letter trill me. t likely bo found by the friends of Lord Raglan moug his pafere. I did not detail to his lordship the whole f these Earticul.r., but I toldhiga that Ca gadoa had vory THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING. MARCH 1, 156 good qualities, that he was extremely industrious and pos sessed many attainments, but that unfortunately those attain ments were fearfully neutralised by a total unconsciousness of his own incompetence and by a most prodigious opinion of himself—(laughter)—and I requested hisaordship, whenever he had any further orders of importance, to send them to me by same other officer. This was a serious letter to write re garding an officer of that rank. I have in my hands the an swer of Lord Raglan. If Col. Gordon had reported to me accurately the order he was desired to communicate, I am sure a man of high honour like Lord Raglan would have told me that no fault was to be imputed to the officer he had so employed. But no such thing. Lo r d R ag l an d oes no t i n th e slightest degree exonerate Col. Gordon. I will only read the passage in his letter referring to this particular case :—" My dear General, —Your letter has just been delivered to me, for which I am much obliged to you. I fear there has been some misconception in this matter. I had no idea of your under taking any serious operation. My object was merely that you should e iuse some interruption to be given to the convoy if convoy there had been, which it is evident there was not." (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Well, now, I ask the house if, after such an inculpation proceeding from me and I challenge the friends of Col. Gordon to search among Lord Raglan's papers for the letter lam speaking of—l ask the house whe ther it is possible to doubt that Col. Gordon on this occasion made a serious mistake? There was, too, another small affair which led me to think that Col. Gordon, in spite of his attainments, by no means possessed that judgment and dis eretion which the Government ought to have been assured he possessed before they placed him in so responsible a position. What I regret to perceive is that this is taken up as a per sonal question. Such unfortunately in too many similar cases is the practice of this house—as if the whole matter to be considered on this occasion is, whether the conduct of Colonel This, or Major-General That, or Mr. Commissary the Other has or has not been judicious. Now, Sir, I, who know some thing of those matters, think there are greater interests at stake and weightier considerations involved in this question. (Cheers.) It bears upon the death of manythousands ofgal lent solders, and I can assure the house that, though my physical health gave way, and perhaps would have given way in any case from my not being sufficiently young to bear all the fatigues to which my position exposed me, yet my sorrow at seeing the blind and inconsiderate conduct which was being adopted frequently disturbed that repose which might other wise have refreshed and restored me. In spite, however, of all this we are told that we must not inquire into this matter and that we are to leave other armies under similar circum stances to be exposed to similar evils. I believe 10,000 or 11,000 men are said to have died out of our small number, and if you aid to these the number invalided and sent into the hospital what a state of things it will disclose. Surely such facts ought to be inquired into most amply and publicly, yet it appears to me tobe very evident, from the concealments attemptel by the Government, that no such inquiry will take place unless- the public - continue to insist up n it. Whenever a substantive motion is brought forward upon this subject 1 shall think it my solemn duty to go into the case as far as my humble abilities will allow me. In the meantime I must say that the conduct of the hon. gentleman the Under-Secre tary of State for War, as the representative of the Government, as well as the conduct of the noble lord the War Minister, towards these commissioners is the most ungrateful and unjust that I ever hoard of. (Cheers.) About a week ago I was listening in another place to a debate in the course of which som . very pertinent and important questions were put to the War Minister by Lord Derby. The War Mi nister made a very plausiblereply, with all that pleasing self complacency which pervades his countenance when he speaks —(alaugh)— observing that he was the last man in the world to wish for additional patronage. Why, I could tell as much about the nepotism in the War Department as in any other department, I am told that one of the clothing officers, who have very handsome salaries on this account, is a nephew of the noble lord, and not a fe . v other appointments have fallen, I believe, to Maules and Ramsays. I have heard—the story was current at the time in the Crimea, and I have heard it a hundred times—a very good specimen, illustrative of the ex cessive delicacy of the noble lord with regard to the exercise of patronage. 'When the noble lord communicated to Gen, Simpson that he was to have the command of the army the telegraphic despatch ran to this effect :—" Lord Panmure to General Simpson. General Simpson is appointed to com mand the army. Take care of Dowb." (Laughter.) Now, General Simpson is a in lest man, and I think nobody has a right to blame him. (Hear, bear.) He has been one of the most unlucky warriors I have heard of, and I wish to heaven he had never been placed as he was, but I do not blame him, because he was forced to it. (Hear.) Can anything, how ever, be more egregious en the part of a War Minister than to force upon au old general a situation of such vast impor tance requiting the greatest pose ble energy and physical powers ? (Hear.) The poor general officer did not wish to have the command, but Lord Papmure insisted upon it that lie was a man of energy and resolution, and quite competent to discharge the duties devolving upon the Commander of the Forces at the seat of war. Well, as I was saying, together with the first news of his appointment came the strange addendum, " Take care of Dowb," Such incomprehensible message dis tracted poor Gen. Simpson's mind, and made it more obtuse than it naturally was (A laugh.) What could " Taking care of Dowb" mean ? (Laughter.) " Perhaps," said the gene ral, " it is some outpost or other"--(laughter)—because I am afraid poor General eimpson was not as conversant with the exterior defences of as extended line as a younger man would have been. The consequence was that in the usual way an answer was sent by the telegraph —an instrument to the ope ration of which I wish to God an end were at once put, for it has performed some of the most extraordinary antics that can be conceived—and that answer was, " General Simpson to Lord Panmure,—Rep ea t the message;" which is the u , ual way of saying " I don't understand what you. mean." Another message then arrived, an l the word " Dowb" was extended to " Dowbiggin," the name of a relative of the noble lord ; and then the mystery was explained and the message made clear and manifest, (" Hear," and a laugh.) Now, the hon, gentleman the Under-Secretary for War, in the oracular statement with which he has this evening favoured us—and I must say that when he deals with mili tary topics he does assume a degree of oracularity which I, notwithstanding my service hi the army of nearly 50 years' duration, would not venture to affect —(hear, hear)—has en deavoured to make us understand that the present Govern ment are unexampled judges of military affairs, and therefore I feel myself called upon to make a few observations on the subject. (Hear, hear.) As regards the tel-graph, I s t ay Say, in passing, that whoa the estimates are, introduced I sincerely trust that it will be found to be like the boots of last year, omitted altogether. (A laugh.) Mr. MONSELL—No, it will be included. Sir DE LACY EVANS—WeII, I am sorry for it, for it has caused a great many blunders. Let me just mention to the house a circumstance which I have been infonned of upon what I believe to be very good authority. The house is, of course, aware that a Turki s h C ont i ngent was formed under the command of General Vivian. Now, I have watched the progress of that Contingent with great inte rest, for I have a very high opinion of General Vivian, and I was very anxious to see formed in Turkey the nucleus of a regular army well officered, and all the accounts which I have heard of that contingent have confirmed the partiality with which I have always regarded it ; but I must sey that the favourable progess which it has made is not to be attri buted to the- Minister for War, but has taken place in spite of him. Now, the house has, I dai e s ay, h ear d th a t t h at con tingent has been ordered to a variety of places by our great War Minister. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) At first they were stationed on the Bosphorus, and near the Dardanelles was a body of irregular cavalry under General Beatson, with Bashi-Bazouks, who were certain to get up quarrels and p'ay all kinds of antics if nothing were given them to do, and it was clear, therefore, that they ought to be sent as quickly as possible to the scene of action. This, however, was not done, but it was determined at last to move them, and I have it upon very good authority that in the course of, I believe, six weeks, about nine different destinations were telegraphed by the War Department to that unfortunate contingent. One day an order arrived that it was instantly to proceed to Shumla, and Commissariat officers were sent to make the necessary preparations. In about two days, I think, another order arrived that they were not to go to Shumla, but to Eupatoria, and there also Commissariat officers were des patched. Then came au order that they were to go to Varna, then to Kertch, and all these varied destinations were as signed to the contingent by that great personage at the War office, that second Carnet— my Lord Carnat, in fact, ("Hear, hear," and laughter.) Is not such a state of things most pitiful and deplorable? (Hear, hear.) Then, again, the Dragoons ordered to Kertch found that the country about Kertch was net adapted for the cavalry at all, and, conse quently, had to return to Balaklava, the horses, meanwhile, suffering most severely, and it being found necessary to throw many of them overboard ; but when they arrived they were not allowed to disembark, but were informed that they must go back to the Bosphorus, and so for 29 days, for no purpose whatever, those horses were kept on board ship. That, sir, is a specimen of the manner in which the War Department conduct their business. (Loud cries of " Hear," There is another subject to which I wish for a mo ment to refer, although I wish that the initative had been by taken hon. gentlemen on the other side of the house. An lion. and learned gentleman on that side of the house (Mr. Whiteside) has given notice of his intention to provoke a dis cussion upon the circumstances which led to the fall of Kars, But, as the Opposition display so much forbearance towards her Majesty's Government—(hear)—I do not know whether that discussion will be brought on or not, and will therefore make a passing allusion to that subject now. The noble lord at the head of the Goverment did me the honour, about the 9th or 10th of Aug., of desiring me to wait upon him in or der to give him some expression of my opinion as regarded the army in the East, and of course it was my dety to fulfil the request of the noble lord. I must now remind the noble lord that three months and a-half before the fall of Kars, on the occasion to which 1 am referring, I pointed out to him the great anxiety which I felt for the danger in which that city was left. I will not relate what else took place upon that occasion, but I will only say that the noble lord did not appear to me to be as firmly impressed with the importance of the subject as I was myself. Kars was blockaded for sor 6 months, and yet no assistance was sent to that gar rison, and it fell, ito not hesitate to say that that disgrace ful and disheartening circumstance is to be attributed to the management of the War Department. An attempt has been made to throw the blame upon Lord Stratford de Redcliffe— an old diplomatist, and the War Department appear to have thought that he ought to be perfectly conversant with the carrying on great military operations ; but I say that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe did not accept the office of Minister for War—and I also say that all military operations in which we have taken or could have taken part ought to be most care fully and vigilantly watched and directed by the War Depart ment of her Majesty's Government. (Hear.) Had any at tempt been made to relieve Kars, the Turkish army would have afforded you most willingly all the assistance which it was in its power to afford. You were masters of the Black Sea, and had ample means for sending troops to any part ; but yet not the slightest assistance was given to that garrison. This is a very incidental method of referring to the subject, hut I have been led to make this remark by the lau dation passed upon the War Department by the hon. gentle ) man. Let me remind the house of what happened a few nLiogrhatspbearcbl;, said,inan o ther place. The n o bl e l or d a t th e h ead of the War Department, In reply to a question - put to him by " Sea what a vast superiority there is in the material state of the army in the present year as compared with last year." Now, I think that in making that statement the noble lord was treating his former friends rather harshly. a Th m e , e a ff n e d et w o h f at it, a i c h h fact, was I w as have t,o effectedsay , ‘' . for,S.;4! wli a ta nicewhile ho m man e n I . tinned the change which had. been effected, he carefully omit ted saying how it had been brought about. (Hoar.) I shall it has uot follow that example, and I n ow most distinctly say that been mainly brought abee hlh t isea b ru y .i)g t h h tl o b s d e e eo n C noi instructed tmr sayli l as ct i ee that d n h e at r ot s l an ion d . d g is e g n ra tle c eu e. an ( h H as ear t , depreciate Mr. Filder should ho made a scapegoat of. He was av ry ac tive and dili gen t man, b ut if none of the persons who ere communication with him knew what they were about, bow could a commissary -general be expected to understand every thing ? I say, ho wever, th at the commissioners conferred a . benefit by explaining t ) the Government that there was an abler man in the Commissariat Department out there than Mr. Filder: Who was it also that caused fresh provisions to be sent for along the various coasts of the Black Sea and the Bosphorus? Why, the commissioners. (Hear.) There were 1,500 miles of coast along the Black Sea and upwards of 1.000 along the Bosphorus, covered with cattle and provisions ; there never was an army in the world that had such vastmeans of transport at its command ; we had unlimited command of the sea, and an enormous amount of vessels at our dis posal, and, although these things were known, it was the commissioners who have been disparaged to-night, who first convincedlthe Goiernment of the facts. I speak, therefore, of the commissioners with gratitude, because of the material benefits which they conferred upon the troops. (Cheers.) I fear that they are in a very perilous position ; at least, I will not sly that, for, although they have incurred the displeasure of the Government, they are men of too much independence to care for it. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman has not been content to pass the commissioners by this evening without notice, as was done a few nights sinc e by th e no bl e l or d ; b u t he has ventured to impugn oven the veracity of those gentle men. (Hear.) Sir, Ido not regret the absurdity of which the Government have been guilty in publishing the reports of those commissioners. They first publish the reports, thereby Making known to the world that they approve of them; and they then come down and say, " We are not sure that those reports are correct, and therefore we will have another com mission." They do not stop there even, but they do their best to disparage and impugn the veracity of the commissioners. I rejoice that the Government have committed the gross blun der, injustice, and inconsistency that they have upon this oc casion, by publishing these reports ; because, independently of the proceedings of the commissioners having saved the lives of some thousands during the last six or eight months, an d having immensely contributed to the efficiency of the troops, the reports of the commissioners and the evidence with which they are accompanied will remain on record as a menace to incompetence and to Governments who may be willing to plow favourites instead of competent men in high stations, and will point out to the staff, commissariat, and military of other armies, and perhaps of other ages, what ought to be done to protect the lives and health of an army in the field. (The gallant general was warmly applauded on resuming his seat.) Mr. GORDON would not have addressed the house on that occasion, but the remarks of the hon. and gallant general upon a gallant relation of his really left him no choice. He had listened to those remarks with some sur prise, as well as with much pain ; because he knew that his gallant relative had always felt great pride in the good opinion which he believed the gallant general entertained of him. (Hear, hear.) He had heard Colonel Gordon say that it was a proud moment for him when a veteran officer like the gallant general selected him after the battle of the Alma, when the Quartermaster-General of his division had been temporarily disabled by a - wound —selected him from another division and another service (for be was then in the Adju tant-General's department), to fulfil the duties of Quarter master-General of his division. (Hear, hear.) It was true that that appointment did not take effect, because Colonel Gordon had been appointed the day before to a situation on the staff of the Quartermaster-General of the. Crimean army. He (Mr. Gordon) felt certain, however, ho would hear with much pain that the gallant general had seen reason to change the opinion which he believed ho had once held of him. (Hear, hear.) The gallant general's censure of Colonel Gor don had taken the form of several charges. He said in the first instance that Colonel Gordon had shown a disposition in his evidence to shift the blame from his own shoulders to the shoulders of other persons—to get rid of all the responsi bility and to throw it upon others. Ho (Mr. Gordon) was happy to be able to state that that was not the opinion of the commissioners themselves ; and, in proof of that, he would read an extract of a letter which his gallant relative had received from Sir John M'Neil only a few days before. " Greater candour," said Sir John, "greater care to avoid asserting anything too much,- and greater readiness to furnish every information in your power, it was impossible, I think, for any man to have shown "Th e is is so strongly my impres sion, that I have frequently spoken of it, as well as of the excellent arrangements of your office, which enabled you at once to refer to any point on which information was required." (Hear, hear.) That was Sir John M'Neil's opinion —an opinion which would no doubt be considered as entitled to at least as much weight as that of the gallant general. (Cheers.) The most serious charge of the gallant lecinber, however, was one of a very grave character indeed. Ito had , informed the house, with considerable detail and at some length, of a conversation which he had had with Col. Gordon when the gallant colonel was the bearer to him of. a certain order from Lord Raglan. The gallant general had repeated that conversation in order to ground upon it a very serious charge of misconception of orders and of misconduct—for he (Mr. Gordon) thought it deserved no less a name. (Hear.) He (the hon. member) was not himself a military man, and his gallant relative was unto tunately not a member of that house. (Cheers.) He cou:d not pretend at that moment to enter into any details of the transaction, but he thought there were many in that house who would agree with him iu think ing that a grave charge of that kind ought not to have been brought forward without some notice being given to Colonel Gordon. (Loud cheers.) If Colonel Gordon's conduct had indeed been such as the gallant general had described, it was his (Sir De L. Evans's) duty either to have taken notice of it at the time, or to have held his peace about it afterwards. (Cheers.) Certainly the gallant general ought not to come down to the house with a story which there were no means to refute on the instant, a lth oug h h e suppose d hi s gallant re-. lative would be prepared at the proper time to furnish a satis factory explanation. The hon. and (pliant general might perhaps say that he hail been provoked by the speech of the hon. gentleman the Under Se.cretarysfor War; but he was afraid, from what had fallen from the gallant gentleman, that he had anticipated some reference to Col, Gordon. The only document he had read was a letter from the late Lord Raglan. Nil the gallant general always carry that letter about him ? (Cheers.) The gallant general also stated that Colonel Gordon had made an inaccurate statement with regard to knapsacks; but the gallant gentleman would find that there was evidence, in the shape of a memorandum, with regard to the wishes of th e genera l s o f divisions onthat subject. There was only one other part of the hon. and gallant gentleman's speech to which he would now refer. The gallant general more than once stated that Colonel Gordon was a favourite of the court, and alluded to his courtier like spirit. Now he (Mr. Gordon) must deny that his gallant relative had at all owed his promotion to court favour. Col. Gordon was not a soldier who had merely attended at court. He had been employed on active service for many years. He was iu Canada during the rebellion in 1843, and he had been engaged iu arduous professional duties, and not in duties of a merely regimental character, since that time, He had re ceived the highest certificates of scientific skill, and he trusted, therefore, that the house would not believe that his relative had owed his promotion to mere court favour. In conclusion, he (Mr. Gordon) would venture to make an earnest appeal on behalf, not only of hie relative, but of the otner °incurs that were about to be summoned before the count of inquiry. He would appeal to them in the strongest language against the injustice of prejuding this question, by going further into matters of detail, or by discussing fur ther the pros and cons of a question not then before the house. (Cheers.) Those gallant officers had already difficulties enough to contend with. They had enough to contend with in the natural desire of the public b find out some persons who should be responsible for what had occurred, and in the ad verse articles of that great organ of public opinion the cen sure of which the bravest of them would be unwilling to face. (Oh, and cheers.) Ho would appeal, therefore, to the sense of justice and honour, not only of the house as a body, but of individual members, not further to prejudice the ques tion, as they must do if they attempted to f,;o further into a discussion for which that was neither the proper time ner the proper place. Sir DE L. EVANS (in explanation) stated that, after the battle of the Alma, Major Vaux came to him and said, " My cousin wishes to occupy the vacancy which has occurred through your quartermaster being disabled :—have you any objection 1" He (Sir De L. Evans) replied that he had not, but there had certainly been no offer on his part to Colonel Gordon. (Order.) What he wished to say further was some thing to the credit of Col. Gordon. He wished to express his conviction of Col. Gordon's merits and his attainments ; but he did not wish to see him in a responsible situation, Mr. GLADSTONE regretted the latitude that bad been given to the debate. It was just to say that he did not think that latitude in any degree owing to the speech of the right hon. gentleman the member for Droitwich. When he heard the speech of the hon. gentleman the Under Secretary of the War Department, he thought it was easy to anticipate what was to follow. No doubt that hon. gentleman had been actuated by a generous regard to the characters of those officers, but he must by that time have been aware that he would have acted, if not with greater geuerosity, at least with greater prudence, if he had refrained from the course he had pursued. He (Mr. Gladstone) lamented the introduction of the names of General Airey, of Lord Cardigan, of Lord Lucan, Col. Gordon, and some other officers whose names were more or less affected by this report. He still more la mented the introduction of the name of Sir J. Simpson into that discussion. With respect to Col, Goi-don, he would ob serve that that officer was not the head of the quartermas ter-general's department, he was not charged with the issue of army clothing. From the speech of the Under-Secretary of the War Department one would suppose that Col. Gordon was the officer charged with that department. He was nei ther the head of the department nor was lie the person charged with duties the performance of which had caused so much dissatisfaction. He regretted that the house was called upon to say anything with respect to the position of the Cri mean Commissioners either in their relation to the Govern ment or to the country. When be had seen the notice of motion of the hon. member for Sheffield, in which he stated " that there was to be a commission of general officers to report upon the report of Sir John M'Neil and Colonel Tulloch," he (Mr. Gladstone) felt there could be no ground for such a statem nt as that. He felt sure the Government would uphold the commissioners who had undertaken so important a duty, under such painful cir cumstances, as inquiring into the condition of an army whose sufferings bad harrowed up the feelings of that house and the country a year ago. He felt sure the Govern ment would give no grounds for the charge that a com mission was to be appointed no inquire into tho report of those commissioners. No one could read the warrant for the appointment of the commission without adopting the opinions of the hon. gentleman opposite. When he, in conjunction with his friends the hon. member for Carlisle and the hon. member for Wiltshire, chose rather to quit their offices than consent to the inquiry by committee• into the state of the army, he said that the report of such a committee must ne cessarily be feeble and futile as well as unjust—that that com mittee would have no power to suggest improvements, and that the house would not act upon its conclusions. Had those assertions been verified or not ? The fate of the motion of the hon, member for Sheffield, last summer, beat an veered that question. - The appointment of Si r J. M'N e il an d Col. Tulloeh was au act in which neither ho nor his friends had any share, but he would say that when the names of those gentle men were announced by the noble lord at tho head of the Go vernment, every one felt that no two individuals better quali fied by their character, their abilities, their exi,erience, acti vity, and intelligence could have been selected to form such a commission. It was stated at the head of the warrant that "a beard of general officers are to inquire into the statements contained in the report, and on the evidence oa which the report is founded." And the hon. member for Sheffield in his speech distinctly challenged the Under-Secretary'for the War Department upon this subject. He said, "Are you going to re-try the repot tof the commission ?" That challenge was unanswered. He (Mr. Gladstone) had listened with anxiety, but without hearing any acknowledgment of the labours of the commission. He had not heard of any benefit resulting from it, or of any intention on the part of the Government to uphold it. He had heard that there were discrepancies be tween the report and the evidence. If such were the case it was the duty of the Government, enjoined alike by prudence and good faith, to bring the discrepancies to some settlement and issue. The warrant was not more definite on the prin ciple, on which it proceeded thin in its title. It did not define the persons into whose acts inquiry was to be made. The commission was authorised to try nobody except those against whom animadversions were made in the report. Was it true that the report contained great animadversions on officers ? There were but one or two passages which could be construed into animadversions. Dr. Hall had been censured; but it might be questioned whether Lord Cardigan had been animadverted on or not. That noble lord had, with high spirit and honour, written a letter explaining those parts of the report which related to himself, leaving his case with confidence in the hands of the Crown. The question of the position in which Sir John M'Neil and Colonel Tulloch were to stand before the commission was the most important point con , idered. Those gentlemen had not been authorised to inquire into the conduct of officers, and they had adhered with singular fido lity to their instructions. They were ordered to collect the facto of the ease, and to suggest remedies. The reports were a collection of facts, and the commissioners had done no more than obey the orders and instructions which wore given to them. It might be said that out of facts inferences arose which were prejudiciar to the character of officers. He (Mr. Gladstone) regretted that the precedent afforded by the cora minion app eintad after the battle of Clara bad not been fol. lowed in the appointment of the Crimean commission ; if it had the report of that commission would have been clearer than it was. Were the facts stated by the commissioners in the main untrue? The Under-Secretary for the War Depart ment thought that there were two points in which the report required rectification, and they were only cases in which the opinion of a witness did not appear to be reported with per fect precision. He (Mr. Gladstone) thought a short-hand wri ter should have been sent out with the commissioners ; with their own pens and their own hands they had taken down the mass of evidence which then filled a largo blue-book ; and he was only astonished that a greater number of carers had not occurred. It did not require a great deal of trou b'e t ) rectify those errors; it was the duty of the do partmeut to give the parties power to explain those errors by access to any documents necessary for that purpose. He had not found fault with what the Under Secre tary for the War Department had said, it was with what he had not said. He hoped the noble lord at the head of the Government would bo able to tell them in what position Sir J. M'Neil and Col. Tulloch stood before the Government in regard to their report, which, in his opinion, had earned for them the gratitude of the country. He hoped the noble lord would assure them that however loose the wording of the war rant was with respect to what the commission was to inquire into, that the intention with which that body had been ap pointed was essentially the same as that appointed after the Convention of Clara —simply of investigating the military responsibility of the officers whose conduct was impugned. He thought the limits of the inquiry should be defined be fore the commission sat, or it would be too late to attain that object. Mr. WILKINSON made a few observations, which were inaudible in the gallery. Lord PALMERSTON—Sir, I think that the course which those proceedings have taken has sufficiently proved that the hon. and ledrned gentleman who made this motion has not et ircised a sound discretion is choosing the present moment for introducing it. My hon. friend the Under Secretary of State for the War Department has been much blamed by many hon. members who have spoken, for having entered into the details of the matters to which the motion of the hon. and learned gentleman referred. But if anybody w ll take the trouble to read the words of the motion which we aro now discussing, they will sec that those words compelled my hon ourable friend to enter into the details which he felt it his duty to introduce into his speech. Sir, the .motion of the honourable and learned gentleman is a censure upon the Government, far h tying appointed to military situations persons whose it nduct has been canvassed and i m p ugne d by the report the conam i ss i ouers ; an d my h onoura b le friend the * Mt er Secretary, for State but performed his duty in endeligouring to show that the Government was not to blam) for the appointments which the hon, and learned gentleman regrets were made. He shows that one of these apeointsuents took place before that commission was ap pointed; he shows that others took place be:ore the report was presented to the GoVernment, and consequently, oven if the report had adverted in stronger terms than it did to the conduct of the parties concerned, these appointments having taken place before the report was in the hands of the Govern ment, it was impossible for the Government to have acted upon a report of which they were not iu possession; there fore the hor. and learned gentleman's censure falls to the ground. I. think it is very unfortunate that the debate should have led to animadversions upon officers who will be allowed an opportunity of statin g their case to a competent tribunal. The hon, and gall an t officer who spoke from below the gang way began by lamenting that this debate had taken a personal turn, and yet the whole of his speech was nothing but a tissue of personal allusions, attacks upon individuals, and attacks upon officers, high and low, which I think really were not consistent with the generous character which my hon. and gallant friend, if he will allow me to call him so, always evinces. On calm reflection he will feel that it would have been more becoming the high position which ho holds, both in this house and in the army, if he had spared those attacks upon efticere below him—(hear, hoar)—attacks, I must say, not deserved by them from the person by whom they were made. Sir, it has been asserted that the course of proceed ings which the Government have taken is a reflection upon the commissioners who were sent out to the Crimea. I utterly deny the charge. (Cheers.) In the beginning of the last year two commissioners were seat out to the Crimea. Sir John M'Neil and Colonel Tulloch were- appointed to inquire into t:.e supplies of the army ; and another com mission, consisting of two medical gentlemen, both eminent in their position, was sent out to inquire into the medical condition of the army. Colonel Tulloch and Sir John M'Neil have performed their duties to the entire satis faction of the Government, and to the infinite advantage of the service (loud cheers) —and the result has been, that whereas at the time they went out great local confusioa and irregularity existed is all the arrangements connected with the supplies of the army, from the time they set those matters right to the present the army has been exceedingly well supplied, and regularity and abundance have succeeded to irregularity and deficiency of supply. (Cheers.) I must, therefore, beg to be clearly understood when I say, that her Majesty's Government feel much obliged to the gentlemen who performed those duties which they undertook for the very able and satisfactory discharge of their duty; and there has been nothing in the course which we have taken of ap pointing a board of general officers which implies the slightest reflection upon the conduct and proceedings of those two commissioners. (Hoar, hear.) What, then, is the state of the case ? Why, it is this—that the reports of the commis sioners contain statements which several officers consider cast reflections upon their conduct, and those officers have a right to expect that there should be afforded to them some means and some proper authority before whom they could give those explanations which it is due to their own characters to make. What better opportunity, I ask, could be afforded to them than the appointment of a board of general officers? Is it in debate in this house that such explanations could be better given ? I appeal to the example of this evening to show how utterly unsatisfactory such a course would have been, either to the persons concerned, to this hoes°, or to the country at large. (Hear, hear.) Would a select committee of this house have been a better means ? No. Would a select committee of the House of Commons be as competent to judge of matters connected with military details as a board of general officers, necessarily conversant as they must be with everything which will be referred to them? Sir, honourable gentlemen have chosen to t e e m ellerr views of the functions of this board from the title quoted at the back of the warrant appointing the commissioners. If, instead of taking detached words at the back of the paper, they had had the goodness to read the paper itself, they would have seen that the board of gener a l o ffi cers i s not to report upon the report of the commissioners, but that it is to inquire into matters the mention of which certain officers think has cast a reflection upon their character and conduct, to receive explanations, and to report their opinion thereupon. I cannot conceive anything less objectionable than the appointment of this board, for it seems to me to be the only proper method of affording to the officers iu epics ' tion that opportunity for explanation which they are fairly entitled to demand. I cannot go, therefore, with my right hon. friend,'who says that we ought to have followed the pre cedent of the convention of Cintra, because upon that occa sion the board of general officers were to report whether any military proceedings should take place in consequence of their investigation, In the first place the case was one very different from the present. On that occasion a simple mat ter, and one upon which it was easy to form an opinion, was to be inquired into; here the matters to be inquired into are much more complicated in their character. This board of general officers is called upon to report their opinion. That opinion may be either that military proceedings are required, or that there is no occasion for any further proceedings in this, that, or the other case which may be submitted to their judgment. Now, wo are told that we ought not to have laid the report of these commissioners upon the table of the house until her Majesty's Government had inquired fully into all the matters to which it related, and settled their opinions as to the conduct of every person whose conduct was in any I degree animadverted upon in the report. I should like to know now what would have been the call for this re port, what would have been the imputations cast upon the Government of wishing to conceal some grand dereliction of duty, toprevent the exposure of monstrous abuses, to pro tect delinquents, to withhold information? All this would have been said if, after taking these proceedings, and send ing to the Crimea for information and examination, we had refused to lay the report before-the house. Why, sir, there would have been a prejudice created in the public mind, and imputations would have been made, supported by prima facie evidence, en which would have been based the most serious attacks, for which no foundation whatever existed in fact. The only course I conceive which the Government could take was to lay the report, which contained a great deal of very valuable information, as soon as possible before Parlia ment, and then to give those officers who felt that their con duct had been impugned by portions of the evidence which had been collected and published, proper opportunities of making those explanations which it was dna to their charac ter they should make. The hon. and gallant officer appeared not to know the period at which tho discussion is taking place. Any person who had listened to the speech of the hon, and gallant officer, without knowing exactly what year we are in, and what the present state of things is, might readily have imagined that we are discussing at this time last year the state of the army in the Crimea. The hon. and gallant officer went back to all the unfortunate circumstances connected with the distressing situation of the army in the early period of its service referred to. Whit bearing has that upon the present state of things? Unfortunately when that army was landed there was a complication of circumstances, which exposed it to great and almost unprecedented hardships. The service itself was one of the most difficult character— difficult on account of the local service to bo performed difficult because the siege was to be carried on and the army to be supplied, that army being dependent for its sup • plies upon places differently situated, and i articularly upon a small port which afforded little or no convenience for landing stores, in which there was not room for transports to lie—and difficult because the arrangements were conducted by persons who were new to the position in which they found themselves. From all these circumstances the army was un fortunately exposed to difficulties and privations which no British army, perhaps, over before in the history of the coun try had to support. They did support those diffieulties most gallantly, most nobly. (Cheers.) They faced the dangers and endured the privations and hardships of the camp with the same courage and intrepidity which they manifested in the face of the enemy on the field of battle; and I consider that the fortitu le with which they bore those privations and hard ships reflects as much honour upon the British army as the valour which they displayed upon the fields of Alma, Inker- man, or Balaklava. (Cheers.) Fortunately, however, that state of things ceased to exist, and f r the last eight or ten months the army has boon in a totally different condition. The health of the British army is now, as we know, better than the health of auy other bady of troops in any other part of the world ; therefire, all the observations of the hon. and gallant officer, applicable to that period of distress, fall to the ground, because they refer to matters relating to a time gone by. So far from the mortality in the army in the Crimea now being such as the hon. and gallant officer represents, it is less, I believe, than that of an equal number iu any part of the United kingdom. Then with regard to the arrangements of the medical department, or the Quartermaster-General's department, the hoe. gentleman opposite (Mr. Stafford), who, much to his honour, has devoted that part of the year when he is not In attendance in this house to inquiring into the condition of the army in the Crimea, has most generously given his testimony to the admirable condition of all the hospital arrangemants in the Crimea, and that all the aiTangements connected with the supplies of the army are now as perfict as the nature of things can possibly. admit. (Hoar, hear) Well, sir, we are told that the Go vernment are to he blamed because Sir R. Airey was ap pointed quartermaster•general at home. Sir R. Airey was guarterniaster-general during the first period to which I have alluded, when the supplies and arrangements of the army wore not in a satisfactory condition, but ho was also quarter master-general of the army during the subsequent period, when the supply was well regulated, and all the arrangements were =dein the most satisfactory manner. I should like to know when Sir Richard Airoy, who came home on account of ill hea'th, was in this country, and the office of quartermas ter-general became vacant, who was the person whom the Government or the Commander-in-Chief could more fittingly cr more naturally have chosen to fill that situation than the officer who had had themost recent experieueo of its duties, and under whom those (nties had, during the greatest period, been performed in the most satisfactory manner ? (Cheers ) Therefore, the censure which the hon, and learned gentleman in this motion—and I am simians to the motion—wishes to .~ -~/--- .y„ti- 4~~ -' z cast upon the Government for h av i ng appo i n t e d , amen; From the London Gazette of Last Night others, Sir Richard Airey to the office of quartermaster general of the army, is wholly underserved. (Hear.) lam ready to take my full share of responsibility as one of her Majesty's ministers for that appointment. It was, in my opinion, a good appointment, one which the Government were justified in mating, and by making it they did good service to the country. (Rear, hear.) Then again, with regard to Lord Cardigan's appointment, my hon, friend the Under Secretary of state mentioned, even before the commission went out, that every man who knew anything of the merits of the army would do Lord Cardigan the justice to say that he is a most distinguished cavalry officer. (Hear, hear.) Two or three years ago I remember talking to a general officer of great distinction, who had served in India, as to the merits of the different officers who have been under him, and he told ma that the , two best cavalry officers whom he had ever met in the whole course of his service were Major- General Cureton, who unfortunately fell fighting, and Lord Cardigan. (Cheers.) Therefore, Ido not think that the Go vernment did wrong in choosing Lord Cardigan as inspector general of cavalry. It seems to me that the motion of the hon. and learned gentleman is neither well-timed nor is it sound. If it was meant as an opportunity for canvassing in this house the conduct of officers whose conduct is about to come under the review of the board of general officers which has just been appointed ; if that is the motive, I think it is a mistake on the part of the hon. and learned' member, and a mistake which the house will not sanction by adopting it. It is a mistake to call upon this house to discuss by anticipation, and without explacation, which can be given by the officers, the matters which the board of general officers is about to in quire into ; bat if the hon. and learned' member intends by his motion to censure the Government on account of the ap pointment of these officers, I say that that censure is not de served, and I think the house will not be disposed to ge witu the hon. and learned gentleman in that respect: (Cheers.) I again repeat that it is most unjust, both to her Majesty's Go vernment, and to Sir J. M‘Neill and Colonel Tulloch, to re present that by the constitution of the board of general officers we are establishing a commission to report upon a com mission. •We are doing no such thing. We are appointing a board of general officers to receive explanations from those who think themselves aggrieved by that which is contained in the report of those commissioners ; and so far from any-, thing which wo have done implying the slightest disparage ment upon the judgment of Sir J. McNeill and 'Col. Tulloch, I state in the most unqualified manner that the Go vernment attach the highest value to the labours of the commissioners. They were chosen because we knew thein both as men of high character, great ability, and great discernment. (Hear, and cheers.) I am sure that the public service has derived the greatest benefit from the inquiries, the report; and the suggestions winch were made, and from the improvements which have been made in that department of the service to which their inquiry was directed. (Cheers.) I should hope, sir, that the house would not pursue this as an inquiry into the conduct of officers, but would be content to leave the matter in the bands of the board of general officers by whom the investigation is to be con lusted. I thick the names of those officers,, and their high character and standing, in the service, will be a sufficient guarantee that it will be conducted in such a manner as to elicit the truth, that it will afford tn the officers a full opportunity of vindicating their character, and that the result will be both satisfactory to them, to the house, and to the country. (Cheers.) Lord LOVAINE tra,tecl that in the inquiry which was about to take place an opportunity would be afforded to the relatives and representatives of that gallant man who so long commanded the army in the Crimea (Lord Raglan) to defend his memory from any imputation. He was the more anxious on this point because, at a very trying period, the noble lord the member for the City of London was the only person connected with the Ministry who came forward to defend the deceased general. Lord PA LUERSI ONT—As tho court will be open, those who are interested in the character of th e di s ti ngu i s h e d man referred to will naturally be represented during the whole of the proceedings ; and I am sure, quite sure, the Board of General Officers will give the relatives of the late Lord Raglan, should they think that anything that has passed at all reflects upon his memory (though I cannot anticipate anything of that kind); an ample opportunity of affording ex planation. Lord C. HAMILTON complained that a near relative of his (Col. Gordon) had been attacked in a most uncalled for, he had almost said cowardly, manner, by the hon. and gallant member for Westminster. (Cries of " Order.") What could be the object of relating such an anecdote after so long a silence ? The thing was clearly premeditated. The hon. and gallant member said he should not have mentioned the matter but for the speech of tho Under Secretary for the War Department. By what magic could that speech have put the letter in his po:ket ? The facts of the case were these. A gallant colonel of artillery having noticed a convoy in the distance, and at a point falling within the district of the gallant general's (Sir De L. Evans's) division, forwarded information of that fact to Lord Raglan. His lordship instantly sent to Col. Gordon, and requested him at once to mount his horse, gallop to the gal lant general's division, and request him to cut off the convoy if possible, as the arabas composing it would be of the utmost service to the army in its then position. ,- Col. Gordon had never seen the convoy—he knew nothing of it, except what be was told by Lord Raglan. He instantly mounted his horse, and hastened to the gallant general's quarters. The gallant general demurred ; he saw no convoy, and had seen none, and appeared indisposed further to trouble himself in the matter. Upon this Col. Gordon returned to Lord Raglan, and put him in possession of the facts. Then it was that Lord Raglan—and not Golonel Gordon, as the gallant general had said, and raised a laugh in so saying —suggested that perhaps the convoy might be hidden in a turn in the road, and again sent Col. Gordon to the gallant general on the sub ject. Now, such being the facts, he put is to the house whether it was manly and staightforward in the gallant gene ral (Sir De L. Evans) to make the charges which he had be hind the back of Col. Gordon ? The gallant general com plained of the inexperience of Col. Gordon. Did he compare Col. Gordon with himself ? If so, he (Lord C. Hamilton) thought that the inexperience of Col. Gordon—who obeyed his orders —was preferable to the experience of the gallant general—which prompted him after the battle of Inkerman to no better suggestion than that our army should retire to their ships. (Cries of Divide.) He (Lord C. Hamilton) be lieved that he had only done his duty in exculpating his ab sent friend, and ho called upon the gallant general for some explanation. See pia layearo--re e Limn,: le, a ...side's that I have been totally unprovoked in this matter. I stated that tl e Under-Secretary of State for War had attacked mc, and other Generals of Division, on the ground of a s t a t emen t made l eyCol. Gordon, that he would not receive the knapsacks sent out for the men. I stated that such was not the case, that they were never offered to us; and does the noble lord think that I have uo right to defend myself when thus mis represented. I say that lam justified, after the attack made ou me and other Lieu .enant-Generals of Divisions, then in the Criynea, of vindicating them and myself ; and I say, after the allusions made by the Secretary of State, it is my duty to say so, that, while Col. Gordon showed great zeal iu the service and attachment to it, I do not think that he shows that discretion which is so desirable should be exercised by those in high situations. (Hear.) The noble lord has alluded to a conversation which took place between me and Lord Raglan after the battle of Inkerman. I was at the time iu great distress of body, and I may say of mind also. On the evening of the battle of Inkerman, seeing the immense loss we had sustained, I did say to Lord Raglan, " My Lord, will you pardon me it I say, that from the-great loss we have sus tained to-day arrangements ought to be made for obtaining a position for the army on some other point, rather than in cur the risk of greater reinforcements coming up for the enemy, and which might prove disastrous to us in our pre heent state." (Cheers.) And if any one will reflect on the state 'we were there in, they will see the justice of what I stated. Lord Raglan, however, did not make the slightest remark. He did not invite any discussion. (Hear.) We were allvery much subdued by the losses we had sustained that day. I was in very bad health myself, and suffering great distress, and I did think that if it was possible to remove the army to a safer position, without pressing the siege during that wintet, the lives of a great many men would have been saved, acid e was not sure but greater success might have attended their arms. (Hear, hear.) Mr. F. PEEL said, in explanation, that the gallant general was perfectly mistaken if he considered he (Ur. F. Peel) made any attack upon him. He was specifying instances of the difficulties which Government had to contend with in this matter, and as one of them, he said this eese of the knap sacks was stated by Colonel Gordon unsupported by evidence —that was denied by the generals referred to, but he did not say to whom the greatest credence was to be given, (Loud cries of " Divide.") Second Captain John Everett Thring to be Captain, vice Maberly. Lieutenant Albert Henry Wilmot Williams to be Se cond Captain, vice Tiring. Captain William Manley Hall Dixon to be Lieute nant Colonel, vice Askwith, made Supernumerary. Second Captain William Magrath King to be Captain, vice Dixon. Lieutenant William Smith Maynard Wolfe to be Second Captain, vice King. Captain Henry Montreseor to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Eerdley Wilmot, made Supernumerary. Second Captain Lambert Henry Folks Greville to be Captain, vice Montressor. Lieutenant Chas. Fred. Cockburn to be Second Captain, vice Greville. Brevet-Colonel Collingwood Dickson, C. 8., to be Lieu tenant-Colonel. Captain Henry John Thomas to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Dixon, made Supernumerary. Second Captain Hugh Bent to be Captain. Second Captain Thos. Robb. Glanville to be Captain, vice Thomas. • Lieutenant Henry Hamilton Conolly to be Second Cap tain, vice Glanville. Second Captain Henry Jervis White Jervis to be Cap tain, vice Campbell, made Supernumerary. Lieutenant Walter Chidiock Nangle to be Second Cap tain, vice Jervis. Second Captain Win. Lovelace Darnaresq to be Captain, vice Clerk, made Supernumerary. Lieut. Henry Strover to be Second Captain, vice Du maresq. Brevet-Major Gaspard Le Marchant Tupper to be Cap tain, vice Boxer, made Supernumerary. Lieut. Campbell Hardy to be Second Captain, vice Tupper. Second Captain Henry Heyman to be Captain, vice Baddeley, made Supernumerary. Lieut. Win. Wilberforce Hagan to be Second Captain, vice Heyman. Brevet-Major Dixon Edwd. Hosto, C. 8., to be Captain, by augmentation. Lieut. Lewis Fred. Hall to be Second Captain, vice Hoste. Lieut. Fred. Cockburn Griffin to be Second Captain, vice Fraser, made Supernumerary. Lieut. John Henry Peilo to be Second Captain, vice Warlow, mails Supernumerary. Lieut. Jne. Kelly to be Second Captain, vice Vandeleur, made Supernumerary. Lieutenant Charles John Dowse to be Second Captain, vice Orr, made Supernumerary. Second Captain Alfred Wilke Drayson to be Adjutant, vice Arbuthnot, promoted. Second Captain Reginald Onslow Farmer to be Adjutant, view Smith, who resigns the Adjutautcy only. Second Captain Dominick Sarsfield Greene to be Adju tant by augmentation. Second Captain James Frederick D'Arley Street to be Adjutant, vice Hastings, promoted. Second Captain Henry Walpole John Dashwood to be Adjutant, vice Freeth, promoted. Second Captain Wiliam Morris to bo Adjutant, vice Patton, who resigns the Adjutantcy only. Second Captain Frederick Close to be Adjutant, vice Colclough, promoted. Second Captain John Ba.wden Parkin to be Adjutant, vice Dyneley, who resigns the Adjutancy only. Probationary Veterinary Surgeons to be Veterinary Sur geons, viz.:—John Henry Carter, Edward Kelly, John tolton. Hall. Ist Regiment of Foot—Ensign George Turner to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice W. C. F. Kelly, de ceased. To be Lieutenants, by purchase—Ensign John Tymons, vice Gregory, promoted; Ensign 0. D. W. Hun ter, vice O'Connell, promoted. To be Ensigns, without purchase—Lieut. Thomas Arthur Mills, froui the 6th Lanc.A.;..e militia, vice Thomas, who resigns ; Lieut. John Richard Palliser, num the Dubli. Militia Artillery, vice Turner. sth Foot—Lieutenant F. A. Cnbitt, from the West Norfolk Militia, to be Ensien, without purchase. 7th Foot—Ensign H. G. Follett, from the e7th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase. 9th Foot—Captain C. H. Leslie to be Major, without purchase, vice Brevet Lieut.-Colonel F. D. Lister, whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1851; Lieut. W. Daunt to be Captain, without purchase, vice Leslie ; Ensign A. F. C. Rollo to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Daunt ; Lieut. V. G. Coates, from the Wost Suffolk Militia, to be Ensign, with ou t p urc h ase, v i ce R o ll o. 14th Foot—John Wilson, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Furneaux, promoted. 17th Foot—Assistant Surgeon Thomas Houghton Walker has been permitted to resign his commission. 20th Foot—Ensign J. H. H. St. John to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Parkinson, promoted ; Fredk. Gowland Horn, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase. 25th Foot—Charles Pell Heigham, Gent., to bo Ensign, by purchase, vice Cnnynghame, protested. 28th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon James Frederick Steuart, M.D., has been permitted to resign his commission ; Wil liam Cowl, Gent., to be Dispenser of Medicines. 29th Foot- , -Lieutenant John Bomford, from the Lan cashire Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Cochrane, appointed to the 89th Foot; Ensign John James Bailey to be Adjutant, vice Bruce, promoted in the 82d Foot. 36th Foot—Thos. M. Le Mesurier;Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice G ra y, p romo t a d i n th e 131 Foot ; First Lieutenant C. D. James, from the Devon Artillery Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Gledstanes, appointed to the 57th Foot. 38th Foot—EnsignS:i:Carroll to be Lieutenant, with out purchase, vice Belfield, who resigns ; Captain B. B. Thompson, from the East York Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Carroll. 41st Foot—Second Lieutenant Ajax Manera, from the Devon Militia Artillery, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Palmer, promoted. The first Christian name of Ensign Quayle is Mylr©a and not Mylred, as previously stated. 45th Foot—Thomas Apjohn, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Preston, promoted. 52d Foot—James Hill Bradshaw, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice King, appointed to the 9th Light Dra goons. Mr. ROEBUCK then said, seeing that he would, as usual, be in a minority, he would not put the house to the trouble of dividing, but would withdraw his motion. The motion was withdrawn accordingly. ARMY ESTIMATES. The house then went into Committee of Supply on tho Army Estimates. 51th Foot—Ensign Vare Temple Bayly to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Shiffner, promoted. 59th Foot—Lieutenant Launcelot Charles Brown, from the Hampshire Militia, to be Easign, without purchase, vice Rundle, appointed toad Foot. COth Foot—Lieutenant Henry Stephen Hodges, from the West Kent Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Warren, who resigns. 66th Foot—Major Frederick Hammond, from half-pay Unattached, to be Major, repaying the difference, vice Michel, promoted, without purchase, to an Unattached Lieutenant-Colonelcy ; Captain E. Montagu Davenport to he Major, by p urc h ase, v i ce H ammon d , w h o re ti res ; Lieu tenant James Galbraith to b e Captain, by purchase, Tice Davenport; Ensign Charles Valentino Oliver to be Lien tenant, by purchase, rice Galbraith. 69th Foot--Lieutenant Henry Charles St. George, from the Fermanagh Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Grote, appointed to the 95th Foot. 76th Fevt—Assistant.Surgeon John Macartney, fr om the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice G. A. 'Wilkinson, placed upon half-pay. 78th Foot—Lieutenant Edward Jackson Fitzsimons, from the South Lincoln Militia, to be' Ensign, without purchase, vice Barker, promoted. Tho first vote was for a sum of seven millions, to defray the charge of the land forces at home and abroad. Mr. MILES objected to going on with the vote at that late hour of the night. lie hoped it might be deferred until Mon day. _ Lord PALMERSTON said this vote was necessary, as the foundation of the Ways and Means Bill, which must bo passed without delay. This was only a portion of the stun to bo asked for, and when the remaining portion came on it might be thoroughly discussed. What he proposed was, that the house should agree to this vote, so that the whole of Monday evening might be given to the remainder. • Mr. WILLIAMS said that the vote amounted to 10 mil lions, and now it was asked to vote 7 millions on account. He should move that the Chairman report progress and ask leave to sit again. (Cries of " No, no.") Mr. J. M'GItEGOR perfectly concurred with the hon. member for Lambeth. He thought it would be decorous on the part of the noble lord at the head of the Government to allow this vote to be postponed. There had never been auy division on any vote relating to the war, and it was not his intention to oppose this vote, but he thought that time should be given for its consideration. 84th Foot—Ensign . laarry B. Crohan to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Maclennan, deceased ; Lieutenant Robert Fraser Humphrey, froirOhe Aberdeenshire Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Crohan, promoted. 87th Foot—Harding Giffard Follett, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice 'Lampert, promoted. 88th Foot—Lieut. Lewis Buchanan, from the Tyrone Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase. 93th Foot—Lieut. Francis George C. Probart to be Cap tain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major J. N. Sargent, whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of Oct. 6, 1851; Ensign W. H. Winans to he Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Probart; Ensign Robert Anderson, from the Renfrew Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Willaus. Mr. WILSON said that if this evening were allowed to pass without this vote being agreed to, the Ways and Means Bill could not be passed before Easter, and then the money would not be available for the payment of the army in due time. If this were granted there would be still a balance of three mil lions to be asked for, and upon that a discussion might take place. Mr. DISRAELI bore testimony to the accuracy of the state ments of the Secretary of the Treasury, and added that if this vote were not at once agreed to the public service would be seriously injured. Mr. WILLIAMS did not wish to stop anything that might be necessary for carrying on the war, but there were many items in the vote which had nothing to do with the war, and upon which he wished to take the sense of the com mittee. He should persevere in pressing it to a division if he stood alone. After some further discussion, Mr. WILSON suggested that a vote of 6i millions should be agreed to, leaving the remainder to stand over for discus sion until Monday. This was acceded to, and a vote for 6,-1 millions was taken. The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Monday. The house then resumed. The Consolidated Fund (1,631,005) Bill was real a third time and passed. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Edwin Winscom, pianoforte dealer, Croydon. Thomas Whitehead and Joseph Lassey, dyers, York. ANR. James Tomlin, Llo ß yd's K •rooru U s, PTS Royal Exchange, ship owner, to surrender, March 14, April 11, at half-past 12 o'clock, at the Bankrupts Court : solicitor, Mr. Keighley, Basinghall-street; official assignee, Mr. Whitmore, Basing hall-street. Richard Jenkin Polglase, Borough-road, and *Tripp's terrace, Commercial-road East, millwri4ht, March 7, at 11 o'clock, April 11, at 1, at the Bankrupts' Court : solicitor, Mr. Ashley, Old Jewry ; official assignee, Mr. Whitmore, Basinghali-street. William Al aechiaey, Plaistow, merchant, March 15, April 11, at 12 o'clock, at the Bankrupts' Court : solicitors, Messrs. Sule, Turner, and Turner, Aldermanbury ; vfficial assignee, Mr. Carman, Aldormanbury. James Media, Sleaford-house,Bsttersea-fields, engineer, March 7, April 19, at 11 o'clock, at the Bankrupts' Court : solicitors, Messrs. Lawrence, Plows, and Boya-, Old Jewry chambers; official assignee, Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-cham bers, Basinghall-street. George Davis, Wigmore•stroet, Cavendish-square, cabinet-maker, March 11, at 2 o'clock, April 8, at 1, at the Bankrupts' Court : solicitor, Mr. Patrick, Chancery lane; official assignee, Mr. Edwards, Sambrook -court, Basinghall-street. Jacob Wn. Henry Schafer and Win. Henry Brown, Fenchnrch-street, merchants, March 14, April 8, at oue o'clock, at the Bankrupts' Court ; solicitors, Messrs. 11`L-od and Stenning, London-street, Fenc'uurch-street ; otlichl assignee, Mr. Lee, Aldermaubuiy. Thomas John Nicks, Coleman- s t ree t, Cit y , repo ma k er , March 10, at 11. o'clock April 3, at 11, at the Bankrupts' MUTINY BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. EWART called attention to* the billet system, and especially the inconveniences of the billet system in Scotland, and hoped that some steps would be taken for placing it on a proper footing. Mr. PEEL said that every effort had been made, by the establishment of camps, to relieve the towns of having the militia billetted upon them. Mr. J. C. EWART said the inconvenience was very great hi Liverpool. Mr. HASTIE trusted the people of Scotland would be re lieved from the great inconvenience of having soldiers billetted upon private houses. After a few words from Mr. Craufurd, Mr. Ridley, and Mr. PeHatt, the bill was read a second time. FACTORY ACT. Mr. W. PATTEN moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the act with regard to the fencing off machinery. After a short conversation leave was given to bring in the bill, and the house adjourned st ten minutes past twelve. -- r - _ ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEB. 20. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Thomas , Blaikio, Esq., Provost of the City of Aberdeen. FOREIGN. OFFICE, FEB. 27. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Louis Chapalay as Consul for the Swiss Confederation in Aus tralia., Victoria, and New South Wales, to reside at Syd ney. • _ . _ WAR-DEPARTMENT, FEB. 29 Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Cornet and Sub-Lieute nant the Hon. Cecil Duncombe to be Lieutenant, by pur ehae, vice Hare, who retires. 3d Dragoon Guards—Cornet William Blenkinsop to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Swinburne, promoted. 2,d Dragoons—Robert Bainbridge, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Stewart, promoted. 3d Light Dragoons— Captain William Hone Davis, from the Reyal Dublin City Militia, to bo Cornet, without purchase. Bth Light Dragoons Second-Lieutenant the Hon. Everard Stourton, from the Norfolk Artillery Militia, to be Cornet, without purchase, vice J o h nson , appointed to the let Dragoons. 13th Light Dragoons—Cornet E. H., E. Kauntze to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Charnberlayne, promoted. 14th Light Dragoons—Cornet G. M. Dew to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Hathway, who retires. 17th Light Dragoons—Cornet Robert Bainbridge, from the Al Dragoons, to be Cornet, without purchase. P.OYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY. . _ Brevet-Colonel Henry George Teesdale to be Colonel, vice Pickering, made Supernumerary. Brevet-Major George Ashley Maude, C. 8., to be Lieu tenant•Co'.onel, vice Teesdale. Second Captain Charles Wright, to be Captain, vice Maude. Lieutenant William Howley Goodenough, to be Second Captain, vice Wright. Brevet-Colonel Noel Thomas Lake, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice made Supernumerary. Captain Evan Alaberly to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Lake. Court : solicitor, Mr. Marshall, Sion College-gardens official assignee, Mr. Bell, Coleman-street-buildings. Thomas Emerson, Miiton-street, City, builder, March 7, at 11 o'clock, Ap r il 3, at 12, at the Bankrupts' Court : solicitor, Mr. Hall, Mo orga t e -street; official assignee, Mr' Bell, Coleman-street-buildings. Alfred John Green, Chalcroft-terrace, Lambeth, brush; maker, March 10, April 10, at 12 o'clock, at the Bankrupra, CJurt : solicitor, M r . M oss, G racec h urch - street; official assignee, Mr. Jbason, Basioghall-street. Dullam Tamlyu, Tipton, chemist, March 12 ..a April 2, at half-past ten o'clock, at the Birmingham Dig' tiict Court of Bankruptcy : Mr. Smith, Horseley-heath; Messrs. Motterarn and Knight, Birmingham ; official as' signee, Mr. Whitmore, Birmingham. Henry Smith, farmer, Seclgeley, Staffordshire, Mar ell 13, April 3, at half-p as t ten, at the Birmingham District Court of Bankrupt c y : solicitors, Mr. Smith, Tiptoe: Messrs. Motteram and Knight, Birmingham ; official aa' signee, Mr. 13itt;eston, Birmingham. William Carter, jun., ironmonger, Leamington Priori, Warwickshire, March 12 and April 2, at half pas t tell o'clock, a's the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy solicitors, Messrs. Allen and Hodgson, Birmingham" official assignee, Mr. Christie, Birmingham. Thomas Smith, lace manufacturer, Nottingham, Mar ch 11 and April 8, at half-past ten o'clock, at the Ririnir4 . ham District Court of Bankruptcy, at Nottingham : soh: citors, Mr. Bewley, Nottingham ; Messrs. Hodgson an d Allen, Birmingham ; official assignee, Mr. Harris, N°''' tingham. Pring, bake-, Old Market, .Bristol, March 11 and April 8, at eleven o'clock, at the Bristol District Court of Bankruptcy : solicifori, Messrs. Bevan. and Gir hog, Bristol ; official assigree, Mr. Acraman, Bristol. Richard Gribble, Pilton, Devonshire, carpenter, March 12, April 10, a t 1 o ' c l oc k, a t th e E xeter D i str i ct C our t °f Bankruptcy : solicitors Mr. Gribble, Barnstaple ; Stogdon, E xe t er; official assignee, Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter. John Douglass, hosier, York, March 14, April 24, a t eleven o'clock, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy: solicitors, Mr. M ann , Y or k ; M r. Cl ar k , Leeds; olfoila assignee, Mr. Yoneg, Leeds. Charles Fox, cod-liver oil manufacturer, Scarboroug h, March 26, April 16, at t we l ve o ' c l oc k at the Leeds District Court of B'inkruptcy, Kingston-upon-Hull : solicitors , Messrs. England and Saxelbye, Kingston-upon-Hull; official assignee, Mr. Carrick, Hull. William Sothern, glass dealer, Liverpool, March 17 an d 31, at 11 o'clock, at the Liverpoil District Court of Bank' roptcv : solicitor, Mr. Stone, Liverpool; official assignee , Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. Thomas Burnet, glass bottle manufacturer, Blayden, Durham, March 17, at twelde o'clock, April 15, at half" past twelve o'clock, at the Newcastle-upon• Tyne District Court of Bank, uptcy : solicitors, Messrs. Bolding, POP. , and Simpson, Fenchurch-street ; Mr. Scaife, Newcastle' upon Tyne ; official assignee, Mr. Baker, Nowcastle-upon' Tyne. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Glass and Duncan, booksellers and publishers, Are ). street and Queen-street, Glasgow. Creditors meet in the Glob 3 Hotel, George•square, Glasgow, March 11, at Or o'clock. Peter Findlay, merchant and commission-agent in Gls" gow. Creditors meet in the Globe Hotel, George-agave' Glasgow, March 10, at twelve o'clock. John M'Arthur, provision merchant, Howard-street► Glasgow. Creditors meet in the Globe Hotel, George' square, Glasgow, March 10, at two o'clock. James &lenders, wright and packing-box make r ' Glasgow, Globe Hotel,Glasgow, March 14, at two. James Rowand, surgeon, Glasgow, Globe Hotel, Gla" gow, March 10, at two. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account minium., to the At 7th and mth Victoria, cap. 3 9, fcr the Week ending on Saturday the 23d day of Feb., 1856. ISSPR DE} AZTAIENT. Notos issued 24,3A,330 X24,390,K0 Dated the. 23th day of Feb.. 185 t. BANKING DE Proprietors'capital 14,553,0('0 Rest ........ 3,470,016 Pu')lic deposit: On c!uling Exchequer, Commissioners of tiskv- A Government debt.... 11,015,19 00 Other securities 3,459, r° Gold coin and bullion 9,015,3'7' Silver ba11i0n........ ---- £24,390, 330 C. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. :pAaTMENT. Government securities ..... (inel udg.Dead Weight Annuity) 11,946, 0 1 Other securities .. Notes 5 ,848,810 Gold and silver coin 6600 ing's Banks, and Dividend Aecounis) 4,141,r51 Other , ifroths , ...... 14,762,364 even Day and other Bills •• •• ~.. . 713,091 £37,64 0 , 055 M. MARSHALL, Chief cashier. Dated the 28th day of Feb., 1856. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, cow' puted from the returns ma d e i n th e wee k en di n g Feb. 2, 6 t 1855. exclusive ef the Duties of C us t om s p a id or Ws b ` e . thereon, on the importation there o f int o Gr e at Britain,* From the British Possessions in America 22s. Sit Aluscovado, the produce of the Mauritius Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies Average of the three foregoing descriptions 238. 91d• COURSE OF EXCH Am5terc14m............ 11 19.; AIME.- YESTERDAY. Gibraltar Leghorn ..•••••••••••• 22 /',, Genoa .......... t7N Milan .••••••••• •• •e •• Venice.........•...... Ditto, three months .. 12 134 Rotterdam ............ 12 2 Antwerp • ... •• •• •• •• •• 25 70 Brussels •••••• •• .• •• 25 70 flambnrgh •• • • v., • • • • • • 13 11% A.ltona .• • • •• •• •• •• • • • • - Paris • • .... 25 50 Ditto, three months 25 85 Marseilles 25 85 flourdeaux Ft ankfort-on Maine •... 12 % Berlin .• •• Vienna •• ...• io 13. 10 40 I ""'" A ars‘,..irC , aurit. •••••• • • • •• PIP .• 49x Cadiz • •• •• •••• •• •• •. •• ) Bkrcelona .• •• • • • • • • •• •••• ;wino.. • • •. .• aign(des that the ay the night—anti M by 44 Naples Palermo .... Messina .. • 1333(, Lisbo-i ......... •• • • 533 Oporto . • ... • • • • •• • • •• Rio J aneiro ..... . • • • • • • Buenos Ayres ...... •• New York, 60 days' sight Philadelphia •• ...... PRICES OF BULLION, piss 05. 1 Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Ccin Mexican Dollars 0 5 0 NOW Dollars 0 0 0 , Silver in bars BORNE HAILS. nails are sent from the general Post-ofice the morning—despatch.) Dayvvhen made ur From what Wn ei ' 00011TRISS. in General Post- Port due in Office, London.* Dispatched. Ett4 , and. -----" —.---..-- dmerica(byßrit.pack)N. Every Friday .. • • Liverpool ... Mar. 14 Americp. thy United Ste packet) .. .. .. ....N ..•• .. —•- Liverpool .. Feb. 27 America (by U. Slaty packet) ..........N '' •t •• • Southamptor. Mar. 2 1 Australia (via South ampton) ..........M •••••• •••••• • • SOuthamptoi Ditto (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of Good .N ! Hope) ............ ... •• • • Erneertai Africa (West Coast) ..N,23d of the mt, oo- .Plymouth Mar. 6 A.lexandria...... —.. Nl B , 9, 24, &30 of Dover ..., A1exandria..........A1 ,4 th g. 90 th of Two Southampto. Bahamas ...........m 17th of the milt, Southaraptor Belgium. .............1. Da11y....... 7,1 9th of the mouth Southamptot. Mar. 16. Buenos Ayres ...... —7O 9th of the month Cape of Good Hope ..N Various port Uns'lnl° Cape of Good Hope ..N.: Cape de Verde .... _ N 9th of the month iliaouthaMpto" Feb. 26 Ceylon (see India) Ceylon.. Channel 151e5... . ...N Mon., Vi r ed.,&FrP 1 Southampto Ira. ra.' 8 Chili_ „„, ~. ~...... , 2r1&17t.}-• of mon , Southamp to 1 Chinn Once a month.... mar. 4 Constantinople ~ „, , 8,13,18,23,28 o' Dover ..... Constantinople ~.... 14th Sa 20th of me- ,Southampto. Cont. of Euroi; aM 4r nTwic. daily ••• Dover .... TWI - di° Egypt (see India) France ........ M It. ;. 'Twice daily .... Do ver .... Tw mos"' , Gibraltar ..........11 '4,7,17, 20, 27 411 Southampton Greece (see India) tlreytown ....., „al 2nd & 17th of mon Southamptor ilamburgh .. ...„, „N 'Tuesday & Prid a:A London ..... a avatina n ~...... ~, Ai 2nd of the mort' Southarepi. i Mar. ; Holland ....... . III Daily • • • • • • .... Dover ....... ' v,., Honduras „, 51 17t i (!the mow), Southamptor lithofnion t 40th any.. Plymouth .. 4 & 20 In India (viaSOathampt.)3ol 4 rh I n di,, ( v i a marniiii,l3-, ,9thl'a 25th of mon 0 Dover ......I lonian &es ( see r n di a )l7, 17, ft 27 of mon D0ver...... 7, 9, 17, t 27 of rn.,S ou th ampto , Feb. 26 Ireland ........M & N twice daily .. .... Rol: head . ITV,' to ' sill L a i: a bo le n ir . a : 23d of month ..,. ' Li verpool ... uaacira y 9th of the mewl !Bouthampter Malta (see India) Malta . ..... N 8,18, &28 of mon Dover ...... 4 & 20 M Mauritius (see India) Mauritius ........ ...l . 14 th of the mont• Mexico ....•.•• a. •• ••lid ,lod 'f the monts . s outhampten yeb 26 1i,..1es N [Uhl stb2Bthofmon Dover .. ... New G rana d a A . 24 8a 17thof monc 'Elonthamptm., ... New Zea1and.......... By Private Slip .. Various port 'l7llO , rt. hi Papal States N sthihtli2sthofm on. D over . Pe n insul a ..,,, ......m rthl7th27thollmon. Southanapto . ; Peru ..............M 4 f .iiz 27th o f men. Southampton Port Natal N, idv Private ship... 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