The Sun. — London, England, 1856-04-29 00:00:00

r weeks, or 'arias has° eal of their f March, in the Straitg , 3els of wa r cuation, bY out the said ioon as the etch, i n the ACE• i of peace concerned ), and eln. 'MS, VirC 3 r • !gti Bailiff r, a tranr) f the regi• Ls to pagg I immense enced with d the Pro. g-at-Araigt led, and it to Tempi.' ay. Staves. muster. ~ a nts at ,rms. and on the Hats off," flouriih of ighter, the ing but an at cheering' e revenges able classes f trumpet s was ma de, standing is that the le ino3t .oclarnatia Bar, th e •suivaat of Irumpeters, wa y, rode Ld sounde d City Mar ie replied► 9 into the , )r Pence. done, o' d ;hal, pre' to th ❑tea her read en d Nl3.rsh:;,l to to the citY? nation Wig iff haviiig eat towards d of Wood• 3 crosp o the continued , wd of boys' roclarnatico )11 returned the line of usual ; in t the whole able clasi,eo !dings. LO sr, and the ace. he Cruiser, the fleet at and Pearl, )11 Sunday. . Seymour/ ;ernoon to also went 0 Spitbead er in tow s are to be tpwards of 'of Wool ;•, for the that esta tnnuation. of the regi ieve, quite 21st, [alts ; the r: the 3d, 39th, 62d, mt are on 66th, and re iiefd to ear. )ay. ) n, N.W.; -Arrived-- ills ; Mary Diligentia, isbon. .:7. coast of non. ed —Hope, the latter arles Coo iltar ; Mi- t. Aubin, -Atalanta, ad Marie, ra Milford, [obile, for Eoz ning. Black Sea. [ornin,g. P. Farley, i Louisa, Nantes ; mdam. nr, Mar ica ; Dol- ;anday. [onday. r.) 10 a.m. rin. Ado ; Elpid, dl:tn I. !Ei a.►l. n ; James lays out for Lon mstward fire took , tailors, contents ring to r adjoin tore and )rty Was MOy P Tr E T AND COIVINERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed quietly, but the demand was steady. The sales were estimated at 8,030 bales, and consisting of about 1,000 American (speculation), 250 Pernam and Maranham, Cid. to 7d. ; 50) Egyptian, 7d. to ncl, (503 speculation) ; 1,500 Surat, 43d. to sid. per lb. Advices from Antwerp report favourably upon the cotton and wool markets there during the past week. i The news from America of the improve ment n the quotations of cotton regulated the market, which exhibited an upward tendency. The business transacted was considerable, and the following rates ruled with• firmness :-2,600 bales American good ordinary at:3ll to 32 centimes per kilogramme ; good ordinary ditto 33c. to 341,c. Public sales of wool were held on the 24th instant, which attracted a large number of buyers, and the prices obtained denoted a rise. These comprised 1,188 bales Buenos Ayres, 52 ditto Limb's, and 48 bales Australian. The receipts on the French railways during the Week ended 14th April are just issued, and exhibit a favourable increase compared with the corres- Ponding w ee k i n 1855, as well as the receipts for the year, as follows : 1856. 1855. Fr. Fr. 901,486 950.098 13,360,098 12,096,649 • 619,0A9 577,876 9,007,4532 7,325,658 • 769,152 702,50 10,285,153 8,971,183 375,511 254,500 7,037,697 4,430,093 919,103 910,690 12,695,918 11,420,58 739,597 716,920 10,859,331 9,896,447 Orleans Western Paris and Lyons.. Lyons and Mediterran. Northern Eastern At a late hour yesterday afternoon the Board of Fade returns were issued. From these it appears that the total declared value of exports from the United Kingdom for the month ending March 31, Was 9,448,5701., being an increase of 2,137,266/. compared with the like month in 1855. For the Month the increase is perceptible in coal and culm, cotton manufacturers, cotton yarn, earthenware, haberdashery, hardware, linen manufactures, silk Manufacturerers, thrown silk, woollen manufac tureres, and woollen yarn, but there was a falling ofr in beer and ale, machinery, and one or two other articles. The importations of the principal articles were large r for the month as respects live animals, cocoa, Wheat, barley, oats, Indian corn, flour, guano, ii-Inp, rice, brandy, Geneva, sugar, tallow, and a tob's and sheep's wool. There was a diminution compared with the same month last year iu coffee, ?urraaits, palm oil, raw silk, spices, rum, tea, to- D ace°, wine, and cotton wool. The shipping ac counts exhibit an increase in the amount of tonnage employed in the foreign trade of the United King dom for the month of 213,58 r) tons for the entries Inwards and of 151,971 tons for the clearances out- In the coasting trade for the month 81,903 tons More were employed than in the corresponding !mouth of 1855 for the entries inwards, and 76,038 tons in the clearances outwards. The unsatisfactory manner iu which most. of the • Public accounts are' arranged has led to the publi cation, by Mr. C. F. Cotterill, of an Improved Arstract of the Public Accounts of Revenue and e xpenditure." In this small, but useful work, B,l.lggeStiCilii are made, which, if adopted by the v overninent, would impart clearness, brevity, and accuracy to the quarterly and annual financial atatistics. The U n ity J o i n t St oc k Banking Association having obtained its Charter, proposes to commence ti ainess . ou Ist proximo, when a new principle in tanking will be thoroughly tested. From the tiPpo . rt which the Directors anticipate from the tf,utblic g enera ll y, i t i s expec t e d that success will - 0 end the ope r ations of the Amociation. A alipulct haal - ;3en loaned containing an account of the origin, progress, and prOspect of the Company. The report of the directors of the Sambre and Meuse Railw a y C om p an y has been issued iu anti cipation of the meeting. The directors proposed that a dividend of 3s. 6d. be declared on each share of the original capital of the company, payable at the offices of the company on and after the 26th of May instant, provided a sufficient number of pro- Pkietors, either personally or by proxy, and repre senting a requi si te amount of stock, be present to legally constitute the fneeting called in Belgium for the 9th inst. The proclamation of peace iu the City has tem porarily impeded business , and the dense crowds that assem bl e d around the' Royal Exchange ren dered the streets in that neighbourhood impassible. The Funds are heavy at the reduced prices of yes t :rday afternoon. TLe rug ours of a new Ilan and the Ministerial difficulties check purchases, and the market remains in a heavy condition. Con sols for money were 92 to 921, but they have since been 911 to 9*. For s,ccouut they are dull at 92 to 921. The March Exchequer Bills are 2s. di:- count -to 2s. premium. The New 3 per Cents. were 918 -a ' and the Reduced 93 1 to 91 . Bank Stock is 21.2. In the Foreign Stock Market no recovery has and s at The following stocks have changed hands at the annexed quotations :—Me,xican 3 Per Cents. 21k, ditto for the Account 211 ; Russian 5 Par Cents. 1041 ; Spanish 3 per Cents. 431, ditto New Deferred 231 ; Turkish 6 per Cents. 9 r , ° 7 ditto for the Account 96,/ ; Dutch 4 per •-sent. Certificates 93k. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 7 ; Mexican, 22 1 ; Peruvian, 77 78 ; ditto 3 per Cents. , ,4 " 11 56 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48 50 ; Russian, 10t 6 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 94 6 ; Spanish 3 p er C ellts. 444 ; ditto Deferred, 231 ; ditto Certifi eateN 4 5 ; ditto Passive, 6 7i. Railway Shares are generally rather firmer, although they have not wholly recovered the de cline of yesterday. The rates charged for " carry ing over' are heavy, and the operators , are chiefly engaged with the adjustment of tho account. The foreign shares are quiet. Milling, Banking, and Miscellaneous Shares are generally at previous rates. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. (From the Oaciai Lin., riiwi ne,*- done. Ilnak Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Atinnitios„, 3 per cent uoneots Annuitiog 92 1 11 2, 3 / 4 11 2h 2 New 3 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, expire sth Jau. 1860...... 3, 3 / 4 - India Stock COl 013 for Acconnt Exchequer Blue, 24d. March. Juno. £IOOO £5OO 4mall — — 1 25 d Ditto Bonds, 1858, 31 per Cent 9S i Ditto, 15159 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent., 12 Gull 63 Equador Bonds Ditto New Consolidated l5l hiexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 1822, LI St., 5 per Cent lO4 , ; i bpanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 44 Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Gent. Turkish Bonds, 6 per cont. 954 Ditto Account 96 i 6 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. evidends on the above .evablA I,' I ,ondea. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent., 12 Guilders Ditto 4 ner Cent. Certificates Rquador Peruvian Dollar Bands, 4i p. c. 58i Consols for Money Ditto Account (May 8) THREE O'CLOCK, 92k 1 MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ 15s to 5/ 174 ' • clover do., 4 1 15s to 6/ 10s; and straw, 11 7 s to 1 / 11s per load. A fair demand. CUMBEP.LAND.—Meadow hay, 3/ ISs to 6/ Oa; clover do., 41 Its to 6' 108; and straw, 11 is to 11 Us per hiad. Sunni!. moderate and traslti firm. WHITECHAPEL. Meadow hay, 3/ lOs to 5/ 16s ; clover ' l _o., 41. 104 to 6/ 12s ; and straw, 11 6s to 1 / 11 s p er load. Wilde steady. COLONIAL. SUGA.R.—But little business has beon clone in either foreign or colonial, for either exports ion or home con sumption. Prices, however, continue firm. The con sumption generally is steadily increasing. Numerous public sales are announced. COFFEE.—A goad business has been done in Plantation Ind Native Ceylon, at full rates. Mocha is also in good demand, and good qualities fetch high rates. RICE.—No business . of importance has taken place, the sales having been confined to a few parcels of the lower descriptions, at previous prices. RUST.—The demand has slightly fallen off; prices, how ever, have ruled steady, and previous rates were fully Maintained, particularly for th, better qualities. TALLOW.—The market is steady. Tho stock in hand is 1 309) casks les= than at this time last year. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted at 4Gs Cl. to 4fis. 9,1. per cwt. The first edition of Victor Hug .'s '• Contemplations" 'was exhausted at Paris one (lay after the lerue. _ _ It is stated as 'positive that Prince Dolgorould, Prirwipal aide-de-camp to the Emperor Alexander and Minister .at War, will be the new Russian Ambassador at Paris. The Embassy will be placed (11 a footing of much splendour, and will probably Furpasi all the others in the magnificence of its .0 • s___ -..,__.„ MARKETS. (TlllB DAY.) RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day 25 3 / 4 26 3k•- 8i - 16i -17 d 15. -- 121 13j 88 - 00 59. - 60 15 - 16 • se ..... Paid, 1 . ...." ... 16 - 17 93- 91 33 - 35 23 - 25 76 - 78 60 - 62 26i -27 j ••• ..... 88 - 92 7 - 8 94 95 78 80 124 1 . /6 102 'O4 604 61 57 59 70 -- /5 6 - 7 p 5i fit 87i 83 61 - 7i 101 103 991 - 1031 (1 p yP , 94 - 95 ••• '.. ••• - 1 4 721 - 73} 12 - 44 •M.• • OM 13 - ~. .. 53 - 55 j :44 - 3,.r 33i ~ OOP ..... 76 -77 64 -6.. i - 31 15 - 16 541 - 87 63 - 6,1 , 1 - i;i lotlo3 25 -- 27 'c3 105 75 77 45 .7 4 ! 15 7+l fl 71 73 4 -- 2 1); id! 10 ! 8 -6 37 19 - 4i - -- 6 8 - - s;pi 8i 8i pm.- 2 p 6 ( 24 94 2t - air 11 1 - 401 41t _ 221 - 23 • • • 81 - 7 4 16f -17 i 75 77 86 g 7 - Si, 21i 221 63 - 6i 3i - 3L; 251- 2 A 30 - 3a 99 - 100 122 - 127 124 128 108 - 26 109 12.3 - 128 iii 1 12 . # 19 - it - • • '•".. • • 7 - 51 - 6 4 414 - 42 rzi. - 9 561 - 56 r 4 - 56 2J -- 2 ..• ''''' •' --- i 91 - 1i 1 4 2 - 21) ... - pm 5 35 - 36, • ..• -- • Business done this day, RAILWAYS. A.mbk. Noting. Boat. sail Eastn. Junot BailVinena irming. Wolverh 3tour Valley ......, Itirk e and. Lanesli. & Cheshire Janet Do. CheAL•. & Birk. £5O and £25 Cow ' Do., £20... styth &Tyn 5 origins £25 (issd. at .C , 15 Bristol and Exeter Caledonian. Caren. and Cardigan Cheater & Holyhaal Cork and Bandon_ . 7.10rk, Black, & Pas:, Cornwall Do. A Do. B Crier Junction Dr.hlin&BolfastJune. Dun. P. & Joe. East Auglian Eastern Counties.. Kart. • T.lnion. A Sti Do., B. 'Do.; New East Kent Lnueashire gdinbu rgh do Glasgo ,- Fidinb.and Peebles Edin.Prtb &Duudt, Forth & Clyde Jan.:. Furness 1 , no. Extension Glasgow &S. Wg‘st Great N. of Scotlnd. Groat Northern Do., A. Stock IDo., B. Stock IY) Qt. Stll. &West. are. 100 Great Western . 100 Du. Stour Val,. 84111 Ghia. Stk all - Irish South-Fauttert all Lancaster & Carlisle 1.4 Do., Thirds 8 Do. New Thirds NO I..neash.andYerk ,-, ; . - Na., wet. aiding g ' all Liv.Criny.tSouthpt all hondon & Black wall 100 Load. Bright & S.CA. [OO Loud. and N. Westn 16 Do. Fifths 5i s D0.101.0h.,M&T1,..0 2A Do. Eighths 100 t,onflort and S. Wear, all Do., £5O all Do., £4O 311 LucladrryeseoleralLe all !,rotadrr7. & Entrl3k. 1. , X) Aalicb.Shef.t Lint+ 'l2s. , Mat, Itt Lin. Un 1 Metropolitan 1.00 Afhllarta ......... IOC) Der}; all 4 1:1 , 11(1. G. West. (Ira. all :)o. Half Shares 1.1.1 ,4c-weastlo all Nwpt. Aherg. & art'. 8 NTewrl all Newry Warrenpoin tad Rostrevor.. 1 0 .iorfollt • , :ortbn.Countiestha 'Borth jlrp,+r RaP.& Dock Stock So., A. Stock B Stock Do., E 3 Gxutrantod N. Kestern—llerwic' Do. do. Estension (I.N.E. 'tura Do. Le , ds Po. York North Londot .&S.Wstrn., Ham: - stead, and City gorth Statifortlsitin„ •lerth Western V. & S. Westrn.Junc. 'neaten, Hinckley, 10:r., Wore.. Wolv. -hir,zlc :13,Attith 18cott1811Mitiis.nd... 'haropshire Union South Devon South Eastern • South Wales S. Vrkeh. & Riv. Dun Do k. Sr.Wol Stockton it Darli titc !kton & litztlep TALC vale Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Hay. P.& IL Ulverstone & Lanes Vale 0.1 Neath Watortl. & Kilkonn: Wnterford&Limer Went Cornwall West End of London and Cryetal Palace. Do. A ......... . .... Do. B ,West London IWimbledn & Croydon kntwor,t4l. Ott rat ml Do. 5 p, c. Oblgs. con in Mi, at par till '64 Ardennes olgian EaYtn. June 4eziers to Ora , sassA. ilombay, , Barods, an ClentiA:l I ndi Do. nemeram t)atch Rhenish._ Festorn of France Do. New IPP.s . t g. 5 p. 90. . p.c.Bnds.,'s7 GeCt,long• Melbou ne guar. 5 per c, nt. . Do., Lon. allot., do, Pd. Hof Caaad 1 Do. .................... Do. Cert. of Deben.. con. into Stk. till Do. Comp. 6 p. e., do. Gt. Central of Franc( Gt. Indian Peninsnl: Great Luxembottrt: Constitnted Do Oblizatiorr , Do. re-is. :orftthSh. Gt. Western of Dans , . a Shares ............. Do. New ........... Dr). %is., payable's7, with option till '55.. !)o. do., P. '56 Do. do., '76, p. Dr,. do., '73, without' option iiarnilton Ri Toront) Do. 6 per cent. ...... Lake Const. & Ba.sl l Lierre and Turnhout Lucca f,T. nit. 5 p. c.p Lyons and Genevr.... Lyons 4ir MeditArrau Wadraf, , gm^. 4 p.e Do. New 0., SP. c Do. 4i p. c. Exten Maria Antonia Do. do. New lemur & Liege (gni interest) Do. (ox interest) Vorthern of France D0.20/.Shs. Do. 201. 3 p. (fmy.l . l.&Ams.Sfis. NorwegianTrmakPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Rome and Frascati.. loyal Danish RoyalSwtdish...„. Do. Obligations Sambre and Mouse_ Do. 5A p. cent- Pref. Scinde, guar. 5 p. c Do louthern of France 3t. Andrew's an' Quebec (A)... West Flanders e. Prof &N. W. of Ara. nr. West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden ... Zealand JOINT-IST4)OIK BANKS. ' astra - 94 93 4 25 5 Bank of Egypt 10( 30 Bank of London 40 (crt. Uol . :k.&1.41. C 2 50 5 tl 5 ;; r t i a(l. t rt l°' N B Flank 20 4 Ohrtd.. ROL oflndi.z, kastralia, & 100 50 City • 63 - - 65 64 100 100 20 ::omnaercial of Lona ... -_ 31; 1 20 at! Eng. Scot. & Ana. Cht 151 16, 20 all Loud. Chart. Bk. o Amstralis. l7 18 26 5 i)itto New w 3 2 d 50 9 0 I indou and Coot 31. 10k 50 Land . &E. Bnk g. Col p. par 2▪ p 5() I(' London Joint Stock. 100 10 London and Paris.... 4 -- 2 d 7 100 20 Loud. & Weetminste) 100 35 'rational Pro.of Eng ... 20 10 Do. Now ........... ••-• • 50 22, National of Ireland. 20 all' N• ew South Wales,— 41 43 25 all . O• riental Bank )f Oorporati-n . 4l 43 20 5 Ottoman Bank # P s i ' 100 50 ',loyal British 25 di Anstralia 25 111 .. Inion of Mistrals 69 - 71 70 ()Os New 76 8 '5O 10 'pion •f (o ,n, „ ; ; ,a a •• • 10 3 Western Bk of Lou' 4:3 ol 25 5 a 20 20 5 20 18 10 all i 4 4A 36 /5 .00 .00 2' 26 a)) 14 14 Z 94 9 15& 61 60 1011 9 4 i i 21 70 4 69a THE NUN, LoNI3OI4. TUESDA:v AvENIN6-; ApitiL 1866. . • r: [Pe.lO. r 4 T a^. 1 , 1. I.Pasin CornpanF. London & N. West. Caledou E. Un. 132 E. C Ot.nirtmi. E. Count. C&ldoulma. at. Wean Th.. New. Berw. Y. N Do., .. D 0.., all All 10i 11)0 S. Easton Do Peto & Co. Norfolk Do L.& N. '4°V . & Stekton & Darlivat. Nridland..l En. Coun. E. Count. D 0...... D 0........ . Do Gt North Laneash Yorksh. T. Brassey .MClean * - .3tockt. Darlingt Do yesterday. 95 - 97 94 - 98 11 - 13 133 -- 135 41 41 104 - 106 IFI 110 - 116 20 -- 20 92 - 94 Wiltikorlrst it - QIl 56 45 - 47 133 - 135 fsr‘inesg this day. 3 • 2id THE MILITARY 80,!.1R,D OF INQUIRY. PREFE: (Thiz a.y.) 314 -32 i ir,cpired of him many things, and he gave them answers according to the best of his recollection. Sir Richard Airey was exammed on some details con• ne3ted with the position of the troops in the Crimea, &e., and j pit ~Pestn. ItENCE SHAKES. 117 - 120 113 119 84 90 Colonel Tulloch having been heard in support of that rortion of his report to which Lord Cardigan took ex ceptior, The Court adjourned. a : iii 96 - 98 15 - 17 57 6i `l ( >7 112 97 102 $ $ 1P 124 , —12 i IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY). The LORD CHANCELLOR took hie seat on the woolsack at the usual hour. 110 9 Pm Pm The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented several petitions against opening the Crystal Palace on Sundays. Petitions against the abolition of Church-rates, until an equivalent had been provided, -*ere presented by Lord Berners, the Earl of Cawder, and Lord Redes. dale. 69 -- 71 The Board met to-day at the usual hour. The case of the . Earl of Cardigan was proceeded with this morning with the sitting of the Court. The Judge-Advocate General called upon Lord Car digan to paint out distinctly the passages in the Cammis sionere' report to which he objected. Lord Cardigan said he had not asked for an inquiry ; but he would read a statement. to the Court, in - Which he would point out the ohjectionable parts of the report. His lordship then read his statement, iu which he stated that the Royal Warrant alleged that certain - officers had demanded a full inquiry into charges which the Commis sioners' report had brought against them ; but that so far as he was concerned, as he bad already stated in Parlia ment, and which he now repeated, he bad not demanded any inquiry. On the 'publication of the report he ad drssse f a note to the Secretary for War, containing such remarks as appeared to him (Lord Cardigan) neces , ary on a first perusel of that report That letter 'had been laid on the table of Par liament, and he was ready, to wait a deliberate coneideration of it in that place. It having been de• aided that the Royal Warrant should issue, he cordially accepted the oppeitunity thereby given him of more fully entering into a statement of the facts, having no desire to shrink from any inquiry into his conduce. He proposed to call attention to those portions of the re port which dealt with the question of the sufficiency or insufficiency of the means of transport for the cavalry, and also that of the forage, and with that which espe cially referred to the condition of the Light Cavalry bri gade, which he commanded, and in which the correct ness of his discretion with respect to the management of the horses had been impugned. The noble earl then gave a brief summary of his joining the light brigade on the 23d May, at Scutari, and how be was engacee front that time to the battle of Balaklava, when 370 horses of the light brigade were put hors de combat in charging the Russian batteries, and their being subsequently moved to the height's of Inkermao, near Sir De Lacy Eeeees, who commanded the 4th division, where they remained till the battle of Inkerma k n. Up to that time forage was -tolerably- well" supplied. His lordship said. the Commissioners' report appeared to charge him. with contributing towards the subsequent inefficiency of the Light Cavalry brigade by refusing to send his horses upon the difficult service of bringing tip forage from the stores at Balaklava, and he said that at that time his horses were in .so wretched a State from starvation as to be unable to carry their riders, aud.were dropping down dead from exhaustion daily, and that circumstance he brought under the notice both of Lord Raglan and Lord Lucan. When the brigade moved to the front and were a greater distance from Belaklava, the supply of forage gradually diminished. Previous to the storm of the 14th November, the transport service was insufficient to keep the horses supplied, and after that it was impossible for him to supply hay to the brigade. There was some bay at this time at Baiaklava, but from the bad state of the roads, and the commissariat being deficient of the means of transport for carrying it to the front, the supply sen sibly diminished, and, on many occasions, the supply did not exceed 41bs. or slbs. of hay a horse--at the best never exceeding 10Ibs. or 121bs. of tiny a horse. His lordship then detailed the actual supply of forage to the horses after the et arm, which was the same as that already pub blished it, Lord Lucan's case. The noble isri, in eluci dating his statement that he did everything he could to promote the comfort and health of his men and horses, said he should mainly rely on the evidence taken before the Sebastopol Committee, so that it would be unneces sary far him t r trouble the court with many witnesses. His lordship was about to read the evidence of Lord Lucan before that c munitteee when The Judie Advocate-General said that as that evidence could not be tieen as evidence by that Court, it would be better for his lordship not to refer to it. Earl Cardigan said it was impossible for him to pro ceed with his case without referring to it, and be then read the parts which referred to die precautions he had taken to provide forage for his horses, &0., and the difficulties be had to contend with, which have already been published. His lordship next referred to his suffer kg from ill health, and his being obliged to resign his command on the 20th November, and that be was sue c•-tided in that command on the 30th by Col. D Merty. From the time of the storm on the 14th, up to the time of his resignation on the 29th', he did everything he could to provide sufficient forage for his horses, but was enable to provide it ; and the small supply the horses had of barley was diminished from the want of nose bags. With regard to his statement, that the Heavy Brigade was better supplied with forage than the Light ;brigade, and contained in his letter to Lord Pane:tore, ha (Gerd Cardigan) at that time believed it to be correct, but now that fresh figures had been supplied ho found he was incorrect, and these figures showed a di&rence in the percentage of the mortality amongst the horses of the two brigades ef two percent. only, making it 12 per cent. instead - of 10 per cent, as he had stated. He was ready to give the CommissiOners the advantage of that increased per centa,ge, but it must be borne in mind that the actual numerical losses appeared greater in the Heavy Brigade than in the Light Brigade ; and in con clusion said that the evidence of Lord Lucan before the Sebastopol Committee, who was a witness acquainted with the place and the difficulties they had to contend with, fully bore out the opinion he Cardigan) formed of the horses of the Light Bi igade being unfit for transport diity, and was confirmatory of the justness of the discretion he exercised on that occasion. The same opinion was en tertained by the C .rumander-in-Chief of the army. The conclueion of his Lordship's address was received with applause, which was immediately - suppressed. ' His Lordship then called Assistant-Commissariat- General Cruickshank—When he made application to Lord Cardigan for horses for transport duty between the 14th and 28th November they were refused. He made a similar soplication to Lord Lucan, and he re plied in a similar wanner that the horses could nut be sent down ; he was under the impression that he made several such applicatieris to Lord Luca!), who on each occasion refused them. It was not his (itir.Craikshanks) province to inquire why and wherefore they were re fused. His Lordship declined putting any further questions to the witness, and he then retired. Earl Cardi :4 an then informed the court that he had no more witnesses to cal'. Mr. Cruickshank, in answer to questions from the board, said that he met all the commanding of ficers on the 15th or 16th November, relative to providing transport horses, and they all agreed to send a eeitAin number to Balaklava fur forage, and in c msequence of that he made application to Lord Cardigan, and afterwards, by his suggestion to Lord Luean, the Divisional Commander. When the first application was made for horses the roads were not very bad, and at that time it was thought the horses could have gatie from the ca op to Balaklava for the forage. It had never occurred to him that if the trans• port mules had taken the forage half way, the cavalry horses could have conveyed it the remainder of the dis tance to the camp. It had been arranged that no delay should take place at B daltiava in loading the animals. He knew of no instance when the LightiCavalry Brigade which came under his notice, had to wait for barley at Balak lava. Lord Lucan, who was present, out of regimentals, a , ked to be allowed to explain what occurred with re ference to the application for horses, which was at variance with what he (Lord Lucan) believed to be the case. The Court assented. Lord Lucan then entered into a statement of how he acted with reference to such applications, and denied that he was applied to by Mr. Cruickshank to supply horses, except on two occasions, which related to Inker man, and as he had on a previous occasion stated his objections to these horses, he requested the orders should he given in writing. Mr. Cruickshank persisted in the truth of his state ment, and that, in consequence of his applications to Lord Lucan, his lordship saw Lord Raglan on it. The refusal of the horses was a subject of conversation throughout the camp. Lord Cardigan said he had no recollection of having' suggested to Mr. Cruikshank to apply to Lord Lucan. If he had done so there would not have been anything extraordinary in it. It was the duty of the divisional commander, and not the Brigadier-General to provide the transport animals that might be required. A long discussion ensued between Lord Lucan and Mr. Cruickshank relative to this point, each persisting be was right. The Court adjourned at two o'clock, and on ine re assembling of the Board, Col. Tulloch proceeded to make some remarks en Lord Cardigan's statement, but before doi* so, The Judge Advocate-General inquired of Lord_Car• digati it he would have thought himself justified in dt• taching any portion of the forces under his command for any particular duties without the consent of the Lieu tenant-General commanding the division ? Lord Cardigan—Certainly vote General Searlett was then called, and in an ,, wer to que•tions from the Judge-Advocate-General, said that the foraging parries sect fe,m the heavy brigade into Belakl i ava were very much delayed by the want of beats and the general ebstructiens in the harbour in time landing of barley. Some time the men were occupied four or five hou're in loading. and he was obliged in con sequence te call upon his eflicers for returns of the time -the men were so eocupied. The men sent down had some times tea assist in unloading the barley from the ships from the want of sailers. He was not certain if the horses had ever returned without forage, but he thought they haA. The light brigade was situated two and a half miles and the heavy brigade 3A miles at the time he alluded to fr ,in Balaklava. Col. Doherty was also called and said that a fortnight after th h e a l v 2 ir t ) l g m a o n v et'b average, er tl hosts , on )nly were about 2 n bad con dition, i bs.or bares ley per day. He made no application to be allowed to send to lialaklava f. , r forage, and his reason for riot aonlying was because he heard from other commanding oflieers teat their applications had been refused. At fiist it would have been pr , cticabie to have sent the horses to Baiaklava (the Th or Bth of N o . veruber), but not afterwards. He might have applied 11 he lied not heard that others had been refuse,!, hut he did not think of it at the time. lie never heard that it was pos'sible forage could have been herd at Balaklava if the her es were sent for it. He knew the horses were in a bad state, but he did not know if there was any forage for them at Balaklava, not having been there. The horses after the 14th were too weak to perform tie journey to Balaklava. If th tre was no forage fir tee bor-e=, the alternative of course was that they died. The only way in which forage could be obtained was by it, being snt to the cavalry, or the letter fetching it. Pert of the month of November he was sick in his tent, and was unable to attend to duty. The Commissioners SECOND READINGS. On the motion of Lori REDESDALE, the Blenheim Estate Bill ; Butterwicks Estate Bill; and Lianidloes in Newton Railway Bill, were reed a second time. MARRIAGES IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. Lord BROUGHAM called their lordships' attention to a petition from the county of Cumberland which he bad presented last week, complaining of the conflicting state of the law on the sus ject of Marriages in England and Scotland. As the evil arising from this state of things was very great, particularly as regarded those who resided in the neighbourhood of the borders of both coun tries, he thought that no time ought to be lost in endea vouring to apply a remedy to it. He had introduced a bill on this subject in 1853, but from the advanced period of the session it failed to become law. He had tried on sevend occasions since to provide against this evil, but without effect. He had now the honour to introduce a bill with the view of remedying the abuses whichatpresent existed. The first object of the measure was to pre vent the evasion of the English marriage law by parties removing across the Scottish borders. and there con tracting a marriage that was deemed valid by the law of Scotland. He proposed, in regard to all per eons not natives of Scotland, that there 'should be a • residence of at least three weeks in Scotland as a condi tion precedent to the marriage. He also proposed to givevalidity in certain circumstances - to Scotch marriages with a view of, providing for the legitimacy. Of the children and preventing divorces taking place except for causes which Were recognised by the English law as being sufficient to justify such proceedings. The main principle of the bill was to assimilate as far as possible the marriage laws of hoth countries. The Earl of MINTO hoped the bill would be eiteaded to both sides of the border. The bill was then read a first time. THE TREATY OF PEACE. The Earl of CLARENDON laid on the table a copy of the Treaty of Peace, lately entered int) between England, France, and Sardinia, on the one hand, and Russia on the other. The noble earl also laid on the table the various protocols in connection with the Treaty of Peac4, and then gave notice that the papers should be taken into consideration by their lordships that day week. Their lordships shortly afterwards adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—.(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Edinburgh Municipality, the Filey Water, Ulster Railway, Wakefield Gas, and the West Haul Gas Bills were severally read a third time and paNed. Several petithns were presented against any grant for religious purposes in Ireland. Viscount GODERICII moved for copies or extracts of recent correspondence respecting alterations in the or gani.,ation of the Indian Department in Canada.— Agi eed to. THE NAVAL REVIEW. Mt. PEACOCKE a•ked the First Lord of the Admi ralty whether the wine and refreshments furnished to the persons on board the Pacific,_at the late naval re view, were coral Acted for and provided at the same rate as those for the Tr twit and Perseverance? Mr. OSBORNE said the Pacific was chartered by Mr. Qoatermain, at seven shillings and sixpence per head. The Transit and Perseverance were not so supplied, but the officer of the mess was told to provide a cold collation and some of the best sherry that could be obtained for the Houses of Lords and Coin ,rnons. (Laughter.) That arrangement W 34 not well carried out. (Mar, hear.) 'rile Ilituala7a was con tacted for at ss. Ed. per head. There was no par ticular contract for the Home:: of Lords aed Commons. IRISH CONSTABULA.RY. Viscount CASTLE ROSSE asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether the Government intended to intro duce any measure, during the present session, to enable them to alter Vie relative proportion in which that por tion of constabulary force charged upon the consoli dated fund was at present distributed among counties in Ireland ; or to apportion the burden of supporting the advocates no aggressive policy, but lie says it was the first duty of Em:land, by,the aid-cf judicious counsels and by the employment of judicious -judicious agents, to attach Persia to her interests—to develope ber resources, to strengthen her army, and so to obtain an influence over ber Oovernmeht by the adoption of wise measures that might constitute her a formidable barrier against the aggression of Russia in the Eat. The Whigs adopted that view, and the memorable expedi tion to Affgbanistan was justified upon the principle which it involves. Acting upon that principle, Slr Jobn Cam Hobhouse—wbose scholarship I have often had reason to admire, and who was well acquainted with the affairs of the East--wept the length of contending that if Russia sought to obtain influence in Persia and to secure Herat—a city of great importance from its position in Central Asia—this country would be justified, with a view to the protection of India, in declaring war against the Czar. Sir J. C. Hobhouse makes some further ob servations upon the subject, which I shall read to the house :-- " The intervention which I particularly allude to was the intervention on the part of the representatives of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, which was totally incompatible with the very safety of India. Count Simonich advised the advance upon Herat. Hon. gentlemen are now so familiar with the importance of that city and state from its posi tion in Central Asia, that it is unnecessary for me to dwel on it. This, however, I must state, that the best autbo rities had laid it down as amindisputable fact, that that city and its immediate dependencies are the most import ant of all the cities and states of Central Asia, and that the master of Herat is in a position, both in reference to Persia and to the Affghan States, to hold the balance, if he has any considerable power, between the parties who might contend for empire much further, and with much greater proximity to India. But Celia Simonich did not confine himself to giving advice. At the very time that the British minister, in consequence of instruction from Lord Palmerston, retired after fruitless endeavours to prevail upon the Shah to relinquish his intentions, Count Simonich remained in the neighbourhood, and ac tually, it might be said, superintende,i the siege, and an officer a distinction who had been in the Russian service assisted at the siege, and I think I recollect, was killed there. But it did not stop there. The intervention of Russia did not stop with the mere appearance of the Rus sian ambassador at the siege of Herat. Forsooth a treaty was entered into—it will be found in the papers before the house- by which in the most summary way the lawful Sovereign of Herat (the teal representative of the ancient dynasty) was to be dethroned, and his dominions were given to one of the princes of Candahar, a brother of Dost Mahomed. By that treaty an entire change was to occnr in the whole of that important part of Central Asia ; and who does the House of Commons think was the guarantee of that treaty ? No less a person than the Russian am bassador, and rhold a proof of it in my hand." That was a very strong argument to maintain in this house, but still he justified a sanguinary war upon that ground. lam now going to quote a letter, which was not in the published papers, but which is completely confirmatory of these opinions. It is a letter which was sent to me by Lord Auckland, and which Sir A. Burnes, after his retirement from Cabool, wrote to Sir W. M'Naghten, an unf rtunate but not undistinguished countryman of my own. It is in these terms :--- " Jan. 3, 1838. "It is clear thar the British Government cannot, with any cre(iit or justice to itself, permit the present state of affairs in Cabool to continue. The counteraction applied must, however, extend beyond Dost Mahomed Khau, and to both Persia and Russia. A demand of explanation from the Cabinet of St. Petersburg would, I conceive, be met by an evasive answer, and gain for us no credit; be sides the policy of Russia is now fairly developed, and re quires no explanation, for it explains itself, since that Go vernmeut is clearly resolved upon using the influence she possesses in Persia (which is as great there as what the British commaud in India) to extend her power eastward. It had better, therefore, be assumed at once that such are her plans, and remonstrate accordingly." Now no political writer I have been able to consult, and no experienced officer of the Government, has ever yet argued that you could consider this question with re -1 ference to Persia or to Asiatic Turkey alone. Their in terests are not merely incidentally but substantially con nected, and all the authorities upon the subject argue with irresistible force that the past history of Russia shows that when she wishes to make war on Persia she leaves Turkey at peace, and that when she wishes to make war on Turkey she leave: Persia at peace, because the combination of both might be inconvenient to her in the execution of her plans. The noble lord opposite knows better than I do what passed after the peace of 1814. A promise had been given by Russia to restore the territory she had takea from Persia; and Lord Cath cart eedeavoured at St. Petersburg to obtain the fulfil , ment of that promise. But Russia evaded the obliga lion on the ground that she never restm ed what she bad once obtained. She afterwards said to Per sia that the Araxes would form a convenient boundary between her and that state, and insisted that it should be adopted. I heard an hon. gentleman a few nights ago ask the noble lord at the head cf the Govern ment whether ho had talon any means to have the road completed between Trebizond and Bayazi:3, for the pur pe,si of promoting the interests of commerce in that re gion. If the lion. gentleman who put that question will run his eye along the map from Trebizond to Erzeroum, and from Erzeroum to Bayazid, and from Bayazid to wards Persia, he will find lie will arrive at the town of Hee, which is the entrance for our manufacture.; into Persia. The road employed for purposes of commerce runs through that town. There is no fort between it and the Caspian Sea ;' but there is one a 'little above it at Abarrabard, where Russia has placed a strong fort. That. supernumerary foice upon a more equitable principle than that which regulates the present 2.y-tein ? Mr. HORSMA.N said a better distribution of the constabulary of Ireland could no doubt be made, but an act of Parliament was required for the purpose. - If the present Irish bu.iness was disposed of in eufficient time, a bill would be brought in during the present session upon the subject. TEIE PE .CE TREATY-. Lord PALMERSTON laid upon the table of the house, by command of her Majesty, papers relltive to the conference lately held at Paris, and also a copy of the treaty of peace. The noble lord than moved that the papers be taken into cinsideration on Monday next. Tue motion was agreed to. DAY OF THANKSGIVING. Lord PALMERSTON said, by an order in Cannel], Sunday next had been apppinted as a day of general thanksgiving for the return of the blessing- of peace. WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS. In answer to the question of Lord J. MANNERS, Lord PALMERSTON sail it was intended to adjourn from Friday, the 9tb, till Friday, the 16th of May. FALL OF KARS. Mr. WHITESIDE then, in a full house, rose to move the fallowing resolution:— " That, while this house feels it to be its duty to express its admiration of the gallantry of the Turkish soldiery, and of the devotion of the British officers at the Siege of Kars, it feels it to be equally a duty to express its conviction that the capitulation of that fortress, and. the surrender of the army which defended it, thereby endangering the safety of the .Asiatic Provinces of Turkey, were in a great measure owing to the want of foresight and energy on the part of her Ma jesty's Administration." The hon. and learned gentleman spoke as follows : I claim, sir, the indulgence of the house while I endea vour to prove that the resolution which I have risen to propose ought to be affirmed by its members.,l have but slender claims upon the notice of those lion. gentlemen whom I address, but it is my hope that, owing to the importance and the magnitude of the subject with which I am about to deal, I shall receive that consideration and attention which under other circumstances I might not be entitled to expect. From inquiry into the fall of Kars, and into the circumstances and the policy which led to that event, it would be impossible to escape, and if in the prosecution of that inquiry it should be found ne cessary to comment upon the political conduct or cha racter of public men, that duty, however disagreeable, must be performed, if to discharge it be essential to the interests of the country. (Rear, hear.) The hon. gentle man who opened our proceedings this present session of Parliament alluded in an eloquent and graceful speech to the position of that minister who by a glorious peace should terminate a glorious war. He sail, arid with some truth, that a minister so fortunate might well be contented to repose upon his laurels. I accept the sentiment, but I fear I must disturb the delusion which seeks to apply it to the circumstances of our day. Mine must to-night be a gloomy retrospect. I have to call the attention of my hearers to a splendid opportunity lost, I fear, for ever ; to the sacrifices of a gallant army; to the abandonment of the bravest of our countrymen ; to the military triumph of Russia ; and t the diem). pointment of the fond hopes of the nation. The attitude exhibited by Parliament during the last few months must, I apprehend, have produced a feeling of respect among the states of Europe for representative govern went. Calm, dignified, forbearing, Parliament has ab stained from observation upon questions of the deepest political importance, when to debate or to make com ment upon them appeared to be prejudicial to the inte rests of the public. (Iltar.) That forbearance must not, however, be confounded with indolence or with apathy. This house can be alive and active in the per formance of its duties and in the assertion of its autho rity when a suitable time for the exercise of its high fanctions has arrived. That time has now come. I can conceive no responsibility more awful than that which devolves upon a minister i.f the Crown who undertakes to advise his Sovereign to embark upon that which may be a bloody and a protracted war. No great war ever left a nation in the same position in which it f iund her ; and the advantages, the! efere, expected to be derived from its prosecution ought to he proportionate to the sa &file and to the loss which it must inevitably (Hear ) I can conceive a minister c.insulted upon this queetion revolving in his mind theanswer which he should give to his Royal mistress. I can conceive that minister retiring into his closet, glancing over the history of Russia—passing in review the provinces which she has n exed, the kingdoms which she bits incorporated, the mations she has conquered. I can then conceive him t arniog his eye--the eye of a statesman—upon the map of Russia in the East, and rising from its contemplation with a feeling of consternation and amazement—of con sternation at the result, of amazement at the infatuated policy by which that result was brought about. I can further conceive that Minister !arriving at a clear and saltisfactory conclusion that it was his duty to his Sore re:gn to advise her—under God's blessing—to grapple with an eneniv ti whose aggression submission would be dangerous. e the h“u se c a oel T itairnr h aost e cti ati question ji; commencedls(tico i whi t ch a l t a m onceal Ty t an t o l a y before immediate reference to the blue book upon the tab:e. There are arguments historic, political, and geographical, all tend ing to prove that. if war broke out between Russia and was would al ibveectoointehtehe responsibilityparam nt o d f u duty of a position M i 'Tniustrkereywihto to assist Power w h at e h t the realityright al tailed d i w mi . us , :sar author eup d ntp t ic ‘ o v eor i ,rit t thecer g Et ei nra r gto i l g f i: h tr right lh tract e means, our,t r interests.ay England, Russia, and Persia." was to I pli'll:ui-ibillule:)thit''.l3ehettoectayinterest which each of those states possessed in re lation to t he others, an I to establish that which ought to be the true policy of England in reference to Persia l , and in opposition to the designs of Russia. He fort is the same distance from Hoe that Kars is from Gumri—namely, about 23 miles. The constant policy of Russia in that quarter of the world has been that after she has made war upon another state she exacts an ire demnity at its termination, and if the indemnity cannot be paid she takes a province as a "material guarantee" for the fulfilment of the engagement. In fact, she obtains a mortgage which she intends to foreclose, leaving the mortgagor no equity of redemption. But her position now is that she holds the fortress of Abarrabard, within 23 miles of Hoe, and that whenever she pleases she can extinguish your trade by seizing on the town of Hoe. That was the state of things at the outbreak cf the war in 1853. Now a word with respect to the condition of Asiatic Turkey. It is not necessary to remind the house of the territory which Russia has already seized in Asiatic Turkey. It is a principle of ,her policy, never lost sight of or forgotten, that the vital strength of Tur key consists in her Asiatic provinces, and that, there fore, whenever a war begins between her and Turkey she must strike at that Asiatic territory. That is a funda mental principle of Russian policy. But there is a geographical consideration in the case, and a very serious one. What is the route of Russian power as against the Eastern empire of England, against Persia, and against Asiatic Turkey ? It is Georgia. But how can she get to Georgia She gets across the steppes of Southern Russia, passing along a causeway constructed by the Empress Catherine; and the defiles which her troops have to traverse in that quarter are commanded by hos tile tribes. Her great difficulty, therefore, has ever been to maintain a sufficient force in Georgia to enable her to carry out her designs against Persia and Turkey. The consequence was that the late Emperor Alexander d..clared he had no object of aggression, that he had already too much territory, and that he only wanted to concentrate the power be had already acquired. He looked about him and saw on the Black Sea) Pitte, Anapa, and the river Rion. They suited his purpose and he took them. From their neighbourhood a road passes on to Georgia, and thus Russia obtains an en trance to that province which she could otherwise only enter by the perilous passes of the Caucasus. These are facts which cannot be disputed, and to which any British Minister must at the outbreak of the war have directed his attention. I believe there is no more interesting or instructive study in connection with this question than that of the campaigns of Prince Paskiewitch in 1828-9. Military men have written volumes upon that subject, and have expatiated at great length on the consummate ability with which Russia has worked out her plans in that re gion. They tell us how Prince Paskie witch seized on the strongholds of Asiatic Turkey in a shorter time than had ever before been known, and conquered one fortress after another until he was left in a difficulty as to whe ther he should march from Erxe-outa ou Ginstantinople, or whether he should, as the Emperor, it is said, in tended, conquer all the vast countries stretching towards the Persian Gulf. Those provinces he ultimately left untouched, in consequence of the apprehended oppo sition of England to their Bemire. It has been asked why Prince Paskiewitch did not march on Trebizond ; and the question is important on account of some astounding revelations contained in this blue book. He had instructions to march on that city ; and why did he not do so with his victorious army ? The reason why he did not do so was that he found the road to Trebisond almost impracticable for artillery. I am not aware whether any doubt has been cast on the authenticity of that singular docu ment known as the will of Peter the Great. I am not in a condition to say whether or not it be genuine ; but it, is at least a remarkable circumstance that the author of that document bequ , aths to the successors of Peter, as a policy never to be forgotten, that Russia was to march towards the East ; that she was to overthrow Persia; to conquer Turkey ; and then, it was added, that the power which ruled at C o nstantinople must govern the world. All there facts were patent to the war English ministry, who had to consi der, when h war broke out between Russia and Turkey, what_ course they they should advise her Majesty to pursue.. I forgot to state that the lieutenant of Prince Paskiewitch, that t, famous campaign, was an officer knovvn tb,3; the put t n h a e m( right Mouravieff, and Russia, knowing ho w at the head of her man in the right place, placed b ar the outbreak of the army in the same quarter late war, leaving hi m to accomplish the work which Prince Paskiewitch had left undone. (Hear, hear.) I do not feel it necessary to enter, upon this occasion, i n t o any review of the origin of the war. I will adopt upon that subject the views of the statesmen who first embarked in it, and treat it as essentially a de fensive war—a war undertaken for the purpose of main taining the independence and integrity of Turkey. What was our policy at the commencement of the war in the year 1853? A French gentleman said to me last autumn—" I so admire the book of your Seymour ; it is so droll." However this might be, there was one thing in these despatches which was not droll. The Res- Sian Minister had said to Sir H. Seymour that it would be impossible to settle with Turkey till she had been set tled with by a defeat. To this the reply was, a reply which he (Mr. Whiteside) could not admire—that as long as the ends required wire attained, it did not matter about the means. This was au answer he could not reconcile with justice or policy. What hail been the condition of Turkey in 1829 ? Her troops were disorganised, her spirits broken, her people dispirited. In 1853, on the contrary, the people were enthusiastic, the name of Mahomet was in voked, the people threw money into the Treasury, and the universal feeling among the Turks was, that it was better to negotiate with Russia on the Pruth than on the Danube. England had interposed and prevented this— it might have been right for her to do so, but it then be came the bounden duty of England ssist her ally in to separate Persia from Turkish interests: This letter was written in August. One of the points with which General Williams was to inquire into was to discover a great general. He observed that Lord Clarendon was in want of a filet-rate general, and he hoped Lord Clarendon would have foaled him. LTo would have been of great use in the ensuing campaign. There is another letter from General Williams describing the state of the supplies, and above all the arrears of pay then due for the nine months. In the letter was a most important fact, that of General Williams pressing upon the attention of Government the state of our relations with r ersia. This letter was written in September. About December arose the quarrel between our ambassador and General Williams. What were the motives of Lord Stratford he could not pretend to ascertain, but the quarrel then began—if quar rel it could be called—in which one party gave no cause of offence, and the other never explained the reason for his feelings. He explained that General Williams had order( to mind copies of his despatches to Lord Stratford and to Lord Raglan, and then to have them forwarded to London, but the roundabout plan was wisely abandoned. At Erze roum, General Williams met with that excellent young officer Teesdale, and two other officers were sent him by the Government, so that the total of the contribution of the Government to the great war in Asia was five men and a doctor. These were, however, men such as could rarely he found elsewhere; these noble specimens of their race and country had gained the affection of an army which had declared themselves ready to follow them to death; and these wero the men who had been abandoned to a dismal fate. (Lout cheers.) In December, 1854, General Williams addressed a letter to the Secretary of State. It appears that the only or der given by the Ministry was touching the release of some ladies taken prisoners by Schamyl. This touched the gallantry of our Secretary. It would be ob served that General Williams had addressed fifty-four de spatches, and to them he had no answer. He (Mr. White side) held the Ministry responsible for these things, and when he said the Ministry, he meant the Prime Minister, whose duty it was to read all important documents. Gene ral Williams talks about the golden opportunities they were losing ; what were these golden opportunities but the opportunities of striking a blow at the power of Russia in Georgia, at Tiflis, and attacking that stronghold of Russia against Turkey and Persia. In January, 1854, Lord Cia renden wrote to Lord Stratford. In his letter Lord Claren don requested that the insult to General Williams as a Bri tish envoy should be redressed, and that his proper title should begiven him. No iv this was the only casein w hich Ge neral Williams was wrong; for the title given him in the Turk ish document referred to was as long as his arm. And yet this was the only thing in the whole course of the preliminaries in which our ambassador got the better of the commissioner. Now there were bold avowals in Lord Stratford de Rad cliffe's despatches that he had disobeyed the instructions of the Foreign Secretary, and this would give the house an opportunity of investigating the constitutional constitution to which he would further advert after he had read one or two more extracts. He understood that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe made some defence to not having replied to the 54 unavailing despatches. but that was before he condes cended to write to Col. Williams. On the 28th of Decem ber he wrote a letter, in which he stated Col. Williams had been hasty in his desire to obtain answers to his letters, and because he did not write to him as fast as he wished he communicated with Lord Raglan on the subject. The noble lord must be of a vary phlegmatic temper to write such a letter as that. (Hear.) It was plain from these and other letters that the documents alluded to were sent to Lord Raglan—it was plain that that noble and estimable lord had sent his opinions upon the question in dispute, and it was plain that his lordship's letters were suppressed. (Hear.) Well, Lord Redcliffe employed a certain gentle man of Constantinople—a Count Pisani—to obtain answers to a long series of queries. He performed that duty much to the satisfaction of the ambassador; but the Foreign Secretary would be a very innocent man if he believed a tenth part of the answers to the queries so reported to him. It was a somewhat remarkable circumstance, but one no doubt which would be well understood, that when Lord Stratford wanted anything done he went himself, but whenever he wanted a thing not to be done he sent this Count Pisani. Pisani trembled before a pacha. The pasha told Pisani what he liked, and Pisani told the ambassador, who immediately said " Pet that down ;" and in such a form it came to the Foreign Secretary at home. It 24 1 3- peered to him that from the beginning Lord Stratford de Redcliffe understood that he was violating his duty, and this view of the case received a strong c onfirmation from o mat the fact that, at the close of the volumeuantity which f con te ta r i e n o e l d . these despatches, he found a large q lected together for the purpose of defence. This circum stance reminded him of a man who committed a murder. e pur- He made his escape and e we h n e t ea h i odmlen.:awentnd manner, u f b o e r i n t gh whilst asked t L the reason for going hum , _ corresponding, Pisani was liff r ean t h v'c'e tt a trial which he k new must pose m o a i d S making n o g f t r u p a p r t e f t p o b a r e d r d n d e g e f e lt n e c Y d e c de f take place. Mr. IeA.BOUCHERE—Count Pisani is a dragoman. Mr. WHITESIDE—Yes ; be was aware of that fact. What did this country pay, he should like to know, for the large force of officials which we kept up at Constantinople ? First, there was the ambassador ; then the secretary, Lord Napier, who appeared to be equal to the ambassador him self; then an oriental secretary, and six or seven attaches. Why, then, should not this business have been transacted by one of those gentlemen, instead of by a Levantine count? For aught he anew the ambassador did not speak to any one of those gentlemen, or perhaps Count Pisani would undertake matters to which they would not for a moment consent. ( Hear.) He had been told that three English gentlemen had been specially appointed there on account of their knowledge of the Turkish language, but they never seemed to be employed in the performance of the duties of their soustry. Now having disposed of Count Pisani, he would turn to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, who after going through the queries, said : " But the well-known proverb, which contrasts the faci lity of bringing a horse to water with the impossibility of forcing him to drink, is no less true at Constantinople than in London or Pails. Unfortunately, too, the horses whose reluctance I have to overcome, are not without circum stances to excuse , though not entirely t o j ustify the slow ness of their pace ; " _ and then to this were appended some thatw which was. would remarks upon Lord Bacon and other writers. Now he (Mr. this—did d de L ) o w rd ou s l t d ra v t e ro n r t d ur d e e t ß o a la s' le he pursued such a ever have any hold on public opinion, or that any respect would be attached to his office wheat.) course of conduct as this ? (Hear, hear.) Could hiappeaL e ra tl a cl k i e ffe g' b r e e li m e s'' 'o rk to public opinion in the present day, if the acts he cam. mitted in plain violation of histtinel pub,lic. h d im uty i were protectedn an office for by the Government, which re which he had clearly proved himself unfit. Of what use was it to be moralising about Bacon, except to prove that a man might have great talents, and at the same time great vices, and that while cultivating lighter literatare be was neglecting the heavier concerns of State. And then he used thew remarkable words : " It. remains for me to say a word about my release to Colonel Williams. It originated in my desire not to an nounce m easures which might not be carried into effect, for I preferred giving him an answer in full, and then found I had not time." Why, word every that the noble lord wrote was iuconsis• tent with something ho had written before, Sometimes - .sr~ 4berdeen Do. N 0.2, 7 p. c. Do. Debentures i andTpw 10 pal 0. pref. 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Who could believe this, after the results of the war in 1828 ? When the war broke out in 1853, could any one believe that Turkey could fight Russia in Asia ! Why, she was beaten in see. r ral battles, and the only thing which saved their army was the summoning that admirable officer, General Guyon, to their assistance, who restored the army to something like a disciplined state, and whose only reward had been neglect and contumely. Then came the year 1854. Whet was the state of things at the commencement of that year? One of our countrymen had described the campaign. The course of Russia was one continued success, for our (sem therce was stopped, the Turkish armies were defeated in battle after battle, defeats- which might have been avoided if the advice of Gen. Guyon had beau followed, and the artillery was only awed by the abilities of Tabir Pasha, who had been educated in England, and who car ried with him English knowledge and English vigour. He had so well organised the artillery, that in the last battle the loss of the Turks was 3,025, while that of the Rus sians was 3,050. The remains of the Turkish army then retired to Kars. It had often been a question why the Russian army did not at once advance upon Kars. Their army was superior in number, the enemy was routed and broken. This consideration would introduce them to a personage of whom little had been heard lately—it had been said because he had made his own private terms with Russia—be meant Schamyl. (Hear, hear.) That chief made an expedition towards Georgia, and threatened to attack Tiflis. The result of this foray— for he could give it to no other name—on the capital of the Russian possessions in that part of Asia at that critical moment was to compel the Russian general to divide his army in order to protect Tiflis, and thus save the Turkish army from complete annihilation. It thus became evident that in the case of Russian invasion of Turkey her great stroke ctune from the Asiatic provinces, so the great stroke to be aimed at Russia should be in Georgia, which was the root of her power. A stroke at Tiflis put her under the necessity of retiring to protect her power, and this was what Schamyl did. It was now that the English Govern ment felt the necessity of stepping in, and it must be ad mitted that it was high time, if au English minister looked at bis duty, not merely in reference to Turkey, but in re• ference to Russia's designs against Turkey. But with reference to her designs against Persia and to our in terest iu the East, it was at least time for the Go vex nment to put itself in motion— and it did so by creating the materials for a blue-book. This blue-book was one of the most extraordinary ever written—it seemed to have been made out with a view studiously of perplexing its readers. But as to its matter, what was the course taken by the Government of England? The Turkish army was utterly deficient in food and sup _plies, it had lost several battles. Kars and Eraerount were threatened, the affairs in Asia were in a desperate state, and so at last the English Government resolved to send ont a commissioner. (Hear, and a laugh.) He was to pick up news in the best way he could, to communicate with the ambassador and with the ministers, and to make reports on the condition of the army ' • and with these in. structions it was decided that he should Ileavo England. It was Una that 1,,,rd Clarendon wrote him a letttor the day after, in which he was desired to restore the Turkish army by every means in his power. but what thore means were to be the noble lord forgot to state. He had no in- struction, no guide, except - his mother wit and his true English heart. He was, indeed, told that he might get instructions from our ambassador at Constantinople. What would the house think of this way of fighting lins- sia, when all we did, after all the misfortunes which we had taken upon ourselves to redress, to send out a com . missioner wlio was to tell our Minister-at-War what he ought to have known long beforo, the state of the army and the means cf providing fur it? It was true that the commissioner, regardless of the trammels of etiquette and by trampling them down, had of himself saved the army, and Heaven bless him for it. had be been in the Crimea, and had seen men dying by hundreds of starvation, with provisions in the house, and the door iloiod by red tape, he would have kicked it op‘o. It bad been said that Commissioner Williams received instructions from Lord Raglan ; if so, where were those instructions ? He had a right to ask if such instructions had ever been issued— whether the commissioner got them or not. was nothing to his present purpose. He divided the blue book into three parts—the first consisted of 170 pages, and contained the correspondence between our ambassador at,Constantinople and the commissioner; the second referred to the events of July ' • and the last contained the memorable despatch of Lord Oat endon, which put an end for ever to the hopes of our allied—he meant the despatch of the 7th of Septem ber. This book had bee❑ put out to make out a case for the Ministry. If any hon. member could lay his hand on his heart and say that he believed that the blue book esta blished that case, it would be his duty to vote for the Ministers on the present occision. It appears that the commissioner was w ell received by our ambassador at Constantinople. He received, what was not in his instruc- Vons, some information as to the state of things in Asia Minor. 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