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THE GREAT TOBACCO CONTROVERSY. at a , D r• SEXTON wi'l LECTURE on this imnortant topic daily t r .„ .4 2t r half-past 7 p.m ,at Dr. KAHN'S Ml.T.Einf, No. 4, CO'.( n lin r ir a : t . Leicester-square. The Musttum, which now stands wholly c3r i t e „, e d in the world, and the rarity and complet( ness of whose e) t ,.... 13 have already acquired for it an Ewopean reputation, and t rie Vled the warm commendationof the press in Old lo and other coon new - is ,open daily, for gentleme n o ly, trorn to 10. A ectaro 1 5 de ivered by Dr. KAHN at hilf-past 8 p.m. precisely. Ad- Ul ° ll . 0 te„,_ ne Descriptive Catalogues of the Mu cum, con- Lectures as delivered by Dr. Khan, gratis to the visitors. OPAL COLOSSEUM. Patens—Her Majesty the Queen and TT.R.H. Prince Albert. under the Management of Dr. B A.CHHOFFN ER, F.c.S, A TRONOMY and Haydn's Oratorio of the CR r lON. A on the Wednesday and Friday Evenings during I ent D r. 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They so p e rfectly resemble the nateral teeth as n ot to he distinguished from e original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before u sed . Ili ' method does not require the extraction of roots, or any palnflil operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth rendered sound and useful in mastication.---52, Fleet-street. At 'Mae from ten till five. JOZEATTS COPAHINE, or SACCFIARATED CAPSULES; approved of by the erren , h College of Physicians, luc Z ssfl aY administered in the Paris a nd London Hospitals, and acknowledged by them to be the best rem ed y for a certain disorder. "ee " Lancet" of Nov. 6, 1852.) A copy will be for warded on appli frion. is-L._ '""' i " per 100, 4s. 6d. ; 50, 2s . 9d. 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In-door patients sre admitted At the flrompton Establishment, for one month. and for a longer Period if recoramended by the medical officers. The number of per sons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for the last three years about 400 cases each year. Since the foundation of this Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under evely farm of this dreadful malady, have received the benefits of this Charity. A Weekly Mani manage Its affairs, and every informa tion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application to the Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to continue this great work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be Paid to William Loxham Farrar, E=q., the Treasurer, 66, Lir coln's ton.lelds ; Messrs. Coati and Co., Strand ; and at the secretary's Offices, 167. Piccadilly. _ By mien_ W. J. COCKERILL, Secretary. OPAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Patron—The QUEEN.—Founded 1828. The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone; no re- Commendation is required. During the past month the following number received the benefits Si This Charity, either as' out or in-door patients, on their personal aMicati on : Week ending 7th November.... 2,154 Ditto 14th November ..... . 2,043 Ditto 21st November • • 1,972 Ditto 28th November 2,309 9th and 30th Novembe r •• •• ...... 269 Total in November ••• • • • 8,747 Of which 2,77 5 were new cases, the remainder (still under treat inent) having been admitted previously. The clergy of s.l l denominations have unlimited access to the REnvY expenses are inevitably incurred in aftording such eaten give relief. The Committee. therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of like Public. The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors, Yearly elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual General Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursday, at 4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the business, when any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board being at all times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanation. The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly depe ndent on volun tary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, John Masterman, Esq., M P., Nicholas-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Berries and Co.: Ransom and Co. ; Prese..ott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co.: Barclay and Co.; Denison and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gurney, and Co.;Nisbet and Co., Ber ners.street ; Masterman and Co. ; and a t the kospital. Clothing for the destitute patients will be thankfully received. By order. J. B. OWEN, M.A.. Chairman. WO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE MB CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, AND LITRE COMPLAINTS, COUGH, ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION. AND DEBILITY. U BARRY'S delicious HEALTH-RESTOR ING REVALENTA ARABIC A FOOD saves fifty times its testis other remedies, and cures the above complaints and their consequences, such as hemorrhoidal affections, flatulency, disten slon, acidity, heartburn, nalpitation of the heart, nervous headaches, hysteria, neuralgia, deafness, noises in the head and ears, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, erysipelas, erup tions of the skin. impurities and poverty of the blood, scrotbla, dropsy, rheumatism, gout, nausea and sickness during pregnancy, after eating, or at sea; low spirits, spasms, epileptic fits, spleen, general debility, inquietude, sleeplessness, involuntary blushing, paralysis, tremor ors, dislike to society, unfitness for study, loss of me mory, doluSions, vertigo, blood to the head, exhaustion, melan choly. groundless fear, wretchedness. It is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor interferes with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. Supported by testimonials from the celebra ted Professor of Chemistry Dr. Andrew Ure, Dr. Shorland, Dr .Har vey, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Gattlker, Dr. Wurzel', Dr. Ingram, Lerd Stuart de Decies, the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart ' and 50,000 other well-known individuals, whose health h as b een • restored by this useful and economical diet, after all other means had been tried in vain for many years, and all hopes of recovery aban toned. noysis by the celebrated Professor of Chemistry Andrew Ure, M.D., F.R : S., &c., &c. 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The Eat]. of ELGIN gave notice that, on Tuesday next, he should move for certain papers, and call the at tention of their lordships to the state of our relations with the United Sates. THE SUCCESSION DUTY. Lord MONTEAGLE called the attention of the house to certain returns, which had been moved for some time since, in reference tb the Succession Duty. At the period the Succession Duty Act was passing through Parliament it would be recol lected that it was calculated that the duty would return a very considerable sum. It appeared, however, that it had returned about one-third of the sum that bad been estimated. The house must feel greatly sur prised when it was told that upon the order being served upon the particulardepartment for this return, an answer was given that no separate account of the Succession Duty was kept. The noble lord said he should take ano ther opportunity of calling their lordships' attention to the subject. INCOME TAX BILL. The Earl of DERBY gave notice, upon the second L eading of the Income Tax Bill , w hich w ould p ossibl y Take place on Monday or Tuesday, he should make a few observations, which he deemed especially neces sary, as a dissolution of Parliament was so near at hand. CHINA. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGII, in moving for the production of papers relative to the manner in which the Chinese treaty had been carried out, said it appeared to him that when we were extremely strict with the Chinese Government as to the execution on their part of the stipulations of the treaty, it behoved us to look to our own observance of the treaty also, for the purpose of ascertaining whether we had been strictly correct in the performance of the obligations which the treaty imposed on us. Three of those obligations were entered into with the view of preventing illicit trade. The 12th article stated that " a fair and regular tariff of duties and other dues having now been established, it is to be hoped that the system of smuggling which has hereto fore been carried on between English and Chinese merchants—in many cases with the open connivance and collusion of the Chinese Custom-house officers—will entirely cease." If that tariff was a fair one it was but reasonable to expect that smuggling would cease, for the only way of putting down smuggling was by esta blishing a reasonable scale of duties ; but the case was different with regard to articles whioh remained under prohibition. The article went on to say, " The British plenipotentiary will also instruct the different consuls to strictly watch over and carefully scrutinise the conduct of all persons, being British subjects trading under his superintendence. On any positive instance of smug gling transactions corning to the consul's knowledge, he will instantly apprise the Chinese authorities of the fact." Now, it was desirable to ascertain whether the consuls had, in point of fact, carefully scrutinised the conthict of persons trading under their superintendence, and whether the Chinese authorities had been ap prised of any positive instance of smuggling in the manner specified. The 14th article was couched in these terms :—" An English officer will be appointed at Hong Kong, one part of whose duty well be to examine the registers and passes of all Chinese vessels that may repair to that port to buy or sell goods ; and should such officer at any time find that any Chi nese merchant vessel has not a pass, or register, from one of the five ports, she is to be considered as an un authorised or smuggling vessel, and it is not to be allowed to trade, whilst a report of the circumstance is to be made to the Chinese authorities. By this arrangemet. it is to be hoped that piracy and illegal traffic will be effec tually prevented." The object of that article was to pre vent piracy, and it was desirable to ascertain whether we had performed the obligations cast upon us by that arti cle. By the 16th article "it is agreed that the Custom house officers at the five ports shall snake a monthly re turn to Canton of the passes granted to vessels proceed ing to Hong Kong, together with the nature of their cargoes, and a copy of these returns will be embodied in one return, and communicated once a month to the pro per English officer at Hong Kong. The said English offi cer will, on his part, make a similar return or communi cation to the Chinese authorities at Canton, showing the nam es of Chinese vessels arrived at Hong Kong, or de parted from that port, with the nature of their cargoes ; and the Canton authorities will apprise tho Custom houses at the five ports in order that, by these arrange ments and precautions, all clandestine and illegal trade, under the cover of passes, may be averted. It was neces sary to ascertain w h e. t lo u e r r n t i h h e e tie c n e e r d s stationed e t at l e t the five h e ports had made t he e r ng in pursuance of that prl- 1 proper officer a vision of the treaty. A eth ic lord, the other evening, had referred to a Statementj con tainedin the report c.f the Bowring,colo nial who, in speaking of that repo rt, said, treasurertoSir "while it is no doubt d esirable that the pri vilege of hoi-ting the Britis h fl ag shall not, be conceded without proper securities, it is desirable that Chinamen shall appreciate the advan settled under it in the.colony tage of th eir position, in the substantial benefits it con fers." The colonial treasurer said, "litnything will be permanently beneficial to this tcousntrayr,ticuilsatrlllyattevl7pseyeEt-. tem of oranting colonial reps er , able Chinese settlers, or crown lePsseetsbeeneteitlasetdingtothraodlde land, s since it has tended to increas e ass the manufactures of were granted for India —such as cotton, opium, ' tc ." Now, the registers and pass es ~ . 0 the p revent i on o f illi c it trade, bu t they appe ared f .Ifie t it have been used .for the encoura.getuent o trade in o pi um , (H e ar, bear.) Opium was the g reat m article of trad e . With o ut opium, the ex p ort trade fro m this oountry and the dependencies of this country Would c --~ ~~~ ._..,_,_ ~ .. - . 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There is ne e tj loss of our allies. especially at a later period ,tiee Zer was far greater than our own—our allies, who arietze ( w w l o:u r n a b . t i b i teuhLtal when to the c u d oi e nd a. s til t lots go eoe er f u6 o t r juTdrtheir tdi wentoun . y eu T xt h el e ea r et e de ns and y o d ey hey they did not return till July, before which time the sugges tions they made had been anticipated and acted upon. There were other commissions sent out to the Crimea, and I am bound to say, without any disparagement of Sir John efeleTeill and Col. Tulloch, that the medical commission, con sisting of Dr. Gavin, Dr. Sutherland, and Mr. Rawlinson, conferred greater advantages on the army than it was pose able for Sir John M i Neill and Col. Tulloch to accomplish; because they took the medical arrangements of the bospi tals and the camp into immediate consideration, and ea; gested improvements of considerable importance. There fore, without any disparagement of them, I am b oun d to say that Dr. Sutherland, Dr. Gavin (who unfortunately died in the Crimea), and Mr. Rawlinson, the engineer, who was woutded in an action into which he had veutureet-did in my opinion render far more important services to the public and the army than it was in the power of Sir John awl Col. Tulloch to confer. But it is said that it was a great injustice to them to appoint the board of gene ral officers. That board was not appointed to revise their report. What were the circumstances which led to their appointment? Certain officers of rank, grant if you will both social and military, but officers whose repietation was dear to bias, had left the Crimea before Sir J. M`Neill and Col. Tulloch began their inquiries, whom, therefore, they could not examine upon the spot, but with regard to whose conduct certain statements had been made to them, and included either directly or indirectly in their report; and when that report came out these officers, jealous of their reputation, asked for an opportunity of giving that expla netion of their conduct which, not having been, in the Crimea at the time, it was impossible they could have given to the commissioners. That did not pass in secret or without public discussion. It was in this house that we were called upon to appoint some authority to whom these officers should make their statement. It was felt that it was not decorous that they should be writing let. ters to newspapers in answer to the report of the Cri mean commissioners, or making statements in Parlia ment. It was felt that the only course just, towards them would be to appoint some boards of military . officers, come petent to be judges of the matter, to receive their state ments, and hear what they had to say in exoneration of that part of their conduct which they considered impugned by the report It was not appointing a board of officers to sit in judgment on the Crimean Commission; on the con trary, it was an act of simple justice to those officers ; and whets it was done, it appeared to me that both Houses of Parliament sanctioned the arrangement proposed. There fore I submit that the motion is not one which ought to be acceded to by the house at the present time. The first part of it records fac e s which nobody disputes—the saffer ings of the army at the time to which it refers. The latter part consists of censures upon certain officers belonging to some portion of the staff. I think it would be un;enerons Si this time of (I,y to go back and censure their conduct, after that conduct has been subjected to investigation, when the matters have passed away and gone into the do main of history. The hon. gentleman hew expressed a hope that arrangements would be made for the better instruction of officers of the army, and that young man should not go into the army intending to pass two or three years as a pleasurable occupation, but that officers should consider the military life the business of their lives, and should de vote themselves entirely to the duties of their profession. That is the case in foreign services ; it is not the case in ours ; and I venture to think that it never will be so. (Hear. What is the state of things in foreign countries ? They have large standing armies, which are kept up in times of peace; men who enter know that they will be in the army as l o n g as their health and strength last ; they know that it is to be their profession for life, and they devote all their attention to it. In England we pursue a different system. We have in time of peace a very small army ; in time of war we are obliged to increase it, and increase it rapiuly. Officers who enterthe army in time of war must expect that a great many , e• them will have their services &spells, d eith. A great dif ference, too, arises from this—that our service is voluntary. The services of the contiuen t al e compulsory ; and voluntary service has in itself a voluntary spirit which pervades the whole being of the mail. It may have its inconveniences— no doubt it has ; but it has on the contrary advantages the loss of which would be dearly purchased by the adoption of the continental system. Therefore, whatever arrange ments the Government way make—and I trust they will be able to make them—for imparting to military officers more professional instruction than they have hitherto, per baps, had the means or the inducement to acquire—yet, d :pond upon it, that system which the hon. gentleman wishes to see prevail—that nobody should go into the army but those who wish to make it the study. business, and profession of their life—that system cannot be adopted in this country. It is not consistent with the nature of our institution , , with our national character and habits; we must take advantage of those who go into the army whether they mean to remain a long or a short time. We cannot be a military nation, but depend upon it we are a fighting nation. (Chews.) .Those men, as the hon. gentleman says, who go into the army in time of peace for the pleasure of wearing a fine coat, or obtaining amusement for a short 'jinn, a hen the war comes, you find them just as distin guished, for bravery in the field—for their endurance of fatigue, for their submission to all the hardships of the military life, as the first men of any continental army, who have been drilled, tutored, lectured, and worked up into something more like the abstract notion of a soldier. (Cheers) These men, when placed at the head of troops in battle, or charged with the defence of a place, were not superior to ours, whatever might be the differences exist ing between them in point of technical instruction or some of the details of their services. (dear, hear.) I should hope that the hon. member, having satisfied his mind by , raking that honourable mention which he has male of the commissioners, in which I entirely concur, and havini, ex pressed his regret for the sufferings of'the army in the early part of the Crimean war, though he forgot to men tion the great improvements in the latter period, I hope he sat down without saying what he meant to say—(s, laugh)—l hope that the hon. member will not press his mo- Lieu to a division, but let us now go into committee on the war estimates. (Hear.) Sir J. FITZGERALD considered that the appointment of Sir John .11.1`Neill ant Colonel Tulloch to inquire into the conduct of subotdivates, such as the commissary general, was in fact a cen , ure upon the commainting officer, who was naturally answerable for the conduct of those below him. General PEEL said he could not agree in what had fallen from the noble lore. He was aw&ra of. the ridicule to which he should subject himself if he attempte 1 to offer .ny professional opinion on what had taken place in the ;;rimes, and of the difficulty under which he laboured in ,peaking of those events in the presence of so many officers who had witnessed them ; but they might rely on it that the military profession was just as subject to the rules of zommon sense as any other. He saw no reason why the lion. gentleman who hat brought forward this motion, and other members of the house, should not be able to judge of the matters in question as well as military men. de had served on the board of general officers contrary to cis own wish, for he saw from the first that it would do no good. He had arrived at a strong opini en that the calm mitis in the Crimea arose from circumstances which it eras not in thapower of any individual to avert. Lord Panronre had expressed the same opinion. But unfortn agely it Was always the practice to try and fix responsi elity upon iudivi Wale so as to throw the blame upon them, He was convinced that Admiral Boxer, Captain ,Jhristie, and Lord Raglan, sal all fallen victims to sense , ess clamour, founded on the authority of anonymous (tor , respell lents. (Hear.) Instead of attacking individuals, 'se would remodel the system. He did not for a moment underrate the hardships which the army had endured from the middle of November, 1854, to the end of January, 1855. It was impossible to do that, or to exaggerate the e atience and heroism with which they had been sus edued. (Rear, bear.) But admitting these hardships, tie still believed that nobody was responsible for them. No toubt the commissioner. had done their duty most con ,eientiously, but the extent of their services had been some what over-rated. An address had been presented to them from Liverpool, ascribing to their exertions the preserva tion of the army from impending failure and disgrace. He must t-ay that the army was never in danger of that. (Rear.) What were the facts? The commissioners did it arrive in the Cr imea till the lath March, and from that dine forward the army was in as good a state as it possibly could be. But it was not in their power by their instruc tions to do anything more than to inquire and report. The only suggestion they hail made was about additional bread in the rations and quinine. They were sent oat without the ntention to blame anybody, and they ought to have confined themselves to a statement of the facts. Hail that -tatement been accompanied by the expression of an opinioa :uch as Lord Panmure had come to, - that the calamities in Uhe Crimea arose from circumstances which nobody could control, there would have been no necessity for the board of general officers. He 'was actuated by no personal feeling towards any one. He had near relations in the Crimea, but, they were all regimental officers. He was only anxious to do justice to everybody concerned. (Hear.) Mr. S. HERBERT said this subject was one of a very painful character, and he regretted that the question had r a s having desirable passed t o d thr r o a u w gh a tbheeenserceoripmenceatcsAllmpmaiugsnts,fetehl afte r a , titet was veil of oblivion over everything - which would appear to imply blame or censure. No doubt when an army took otaif fo ei r essh th : : n t e . :isie T ian hey were the field after a long peace there must be great inexperience, great difficulty, great confusion. He admitted that the error made by the Government of which he was a member was attempting too much with too little means. He not now called on to try the Chelsea Board ; no doubt the said frankly that they w teth e true re e th autumn tha t bla me had acted conscientiously, though they might have fallen f i o n r t into they error. w e r It t m w a a d s e i i u i n made e e ran i : made before the arrival of Sir J. ancl CAL Tull och, transport was divided from the Commissa riat , was laid down, and other alterations the railway took place. It was a service of great difficulty and delica cy, and h e th ou ght it must be admitted that they perfor m ed. thfulness and the painful and invi- Hoes duty assigned to them witlif a e (Hear.) The questi on was not, whether some officers we re relit ° r . were not to blame—whether the men who were board _ce of general sent was to blame—b u t w h e th er out to the Crim to make inquiries exe cuted their tr ust faithfully these two faithfully and ablco untry and the and whether the Crown had marked unmistakeable manner in a proper and ) the services which That was the they performed. (Hear. friend speak question. He heard with regret his noble no ) He somewhat disparagingly of these services. No, although their re. understood his noble friend to say thata,dno higher credit pert was valuable and acted uP'spoifiicet'llre who had been sent than the reports of the medical offices view. The report of the out. He could not assent toatinsble mine of information on eommissioners was a most valuable bssed. But was that theonly which many „eiee3gy-esewndeured ? He hew d from a medical service the-drinent he placed confidence, that not tuan, on whose uffer i eg from privation and overwork, only were the tro o p one cause which, more than any other, but that there w ud that was the scurvy, which arose from led to disease ' a on B elt meat and hard biscuit. (Hear.) toe long fee" mg long feeding on salt meat and hard bi scu it the From too Ise eine affected a fte rwa rds scury and however great the va puns --c ' - - w hich• rieties of oisease they were the result in the commencement of that one this ease—scurvy. He understood, thou g h of course he had no k no wledge of it himself, that it was a peculiarity of every comm issariat that they issued salt meat as long as they could, and for this reason that the trouble was onl y in is suingit, and not in collecting it. But Sir J. MeNeill took lenders to Mr. Filder for the issue of fresh meat and bread, and though great obstacles had been interposed, he sue zee tett its establishing bakeries, by which the troops were 'applies' with bread two or three times a-week. (Hear.) This proved of great advantage to the men. He said, there. fore, that besides the report, these were most important services which were rendered by the commissioners. The report of the commissioners was a narration of facts; they [PRwE 4D. STAMPE that only 2,376 of them were given out, the galtant gent rat's account of the matter being that "it was never con templated to give soldiers m._re than one great coat, especially at a tittle when additi,nal warm clothing was daily exptcted." That appeared to him to be a very einguler reason; and if those great coats - had all been issued there was no doubt they would have saved the life of many a poor wretch who perished, nut of starva tion, bat of cell and Exposure. (Hear.) . Another point which still remained unexplained was the issue of green coffee to the troops ; and' he trusted, for the sake of the man who gave the order, that his name would never transpire. (Hear.) Sir J. IVl 4 iNeiil and Cel. Tulloch attri buted the great mortality and distress of the army in the Crimea to departmental inefficiency. The Board of Gene ' ral Officers, on the other hand, attributed it mainly to ' the want of forage for the mules and horses of the com missariat department. But in any cam the fault must lie somewhere. Requisitions for fodder had been made by Mr. Filder over and over again to the proper autho rities at home ; and be (Mr. Palk) perfectly agreed with the Board of Officers that Mr. Filder had a very tangible ex3use. Sir C. Trevelyan, reasoning for himself, and be lieving that he was a better judge in England than Mr. Filder was in the Crimea, had failed to send to the com missary-general those supplie., on which, by the verdict of the board at Chelsea, the efficacy of the army depended. The commissioners took a different view of the matter. If hay and chopped straw were difficult to procure in the Crimea, barley to any extent might have been obtained at Constantinople ; and upon barley the baggage animals might have been supported for months. However generally free from blame Mr. Filder might have been, there had been a want of ingenuity and contrivance on his part ; and he (Mr. Palk) must give it as his reluctant opinion that, making every allowance for the difficulties of Mr. Filler's position, that gentleman had failed in those great ex-rtions which the exigences of the case and the neces sities of the British army demanded at his hands. (Hear.) He trusted that what he (the hon. member) had said had sufficiently proved the necessity Vera was fora thorough revision of our military system. If he had the honour of a seat in the next Parliament, he should be ablitu prove it by evidence which had latfly been published, that the system of officering the Briti=sh army was not ade quate to the wants of the. present day, and that: in order to secure greater efficiency, the house must insist upon a regular and complete education for the military life. (Hear, hear.) If that were done, he thought that without in the least impairing the high cearacter and gentlemanly bearing of the British officer, a very great improvement might be effected ; but that could never be attained while the aroay was regarded as a mere pleasant pastime fur a few years. (Hear.) The manner in which the Crimean commissioners had been treated was not the least painful part of the affair. Colonel Tulloch was asked at Chelsea, whether the report of his c league and himself had received the approval of the Govern ment I Col. Toll soh thereupon wrote to Mr. Peel, de siring to be furnished with a letter to that effect. An what was the hon. gentleman's reply ? Mr. Peel sale, that Lord Panruure did not think it desirable to depart from the couree which bad up to that time been pur sued, namely, that the Judge-Advocate should be the medium of communication between the War- ,ffice and the board ; that .all the documents in the War-office were at Col. Tulloch"s dispersal, but that there way no formal approbation of his report in existence ; and . that, finally, Cot. Tulloch might very legitimately refer to a speech of Lord Patmereton, which would be found in the 140th volume of Hansard, page 156. A most correct letter. It delicately insinuated that Col. Tulloch ba ,- ) been gui ty of a breach of routine ; but it gave him the information he required. The house bad heard a good deal of late about routine and red tape. He (Mr. Palk) did not know inch about the meaning of , the phra-e, but surely that letter was a good specimen of the. thing Since the Chelsea inquiry, a banquet had been given to the Secretary for War by his entb usiastic admirers, at some place in Scotland ; and the noble lord in a pn , a prandial speech, made some remarks laudatory of Sir J. M`Neill. A still more gracious mark of the approbation of her Majesty's Government had more recently been afered . to the commissioners—namely, the very munifi cent and magnificent sum of 1,0001. each, which, how ever, for some reason they had considered it their duty not to accept. He (Mr. Palk) thought the Government were bound to have accepted or to have controverted the report. If they regarded it as unfounded, they ought not to bare laid it on the table ; but being on the table, and the noble viscount having expressed his approba- tion of the document, it was a cruel injustice to summon a Board of General Officers, not to controvert' the re port, but to eualle certain officers to make a statement, in which they were cautioned not to criminate themselves —a statement by which they might remove from theit shoulders all the blame that might attach to them and by inference place it upon those of the Crimeati C 011113119- sioners. The hon. gentleman concluded by moving the I resolution. Mr. BLACK was very relicts lt to trespass upon the house, hip. if ile remained inlent,;he should not be acting -- handsomely towards Sir J. M‘Ninll, whom be was proud to cad his friend, or to waris his constituent., who took a very deep interest in this question. He had lately had the honour of presenting three petitions, praying that some reward ghoul , ' be c,mferred upon the Crimean Commissioners—one of them from the Lord Provost and magistrates of Edinburgh in council assembled; another from private merchants of the city ; and the third, numerously signed by persons of all classes and poli tical parties. The Commissioners had done their work well. They sat 55 days and examined more that. 200 witnesses, and they did not desist till they were com pelled by ill health. They took the evidence iu the fair est possible maener ; they sent a copy to eaca witness 0 be revise 1; and in only two cases was the evidence with out the signature of the witness. The report of the com missioners was a vain sble record of the errors and de fects of cur military system; and if the martial proeie. , of men who bad defeated the armies of our foes was liel6 worthy of the highest honours, what reward did they not deserve whose labours and suggestions might on some future occasion save the lives of thousands of our coun try men I Sir J. M‘Nelll well said that if the Govern ment had wanted the inquiry to be a sham, they should have selected other instruments. But when their report was laid on the table it was thought necessary tr at :erten, officers highly connected should be screened The board 0 1 general ( Ulcers did its work to admiration ; they found no- body was to blame for tee miseries which our brave soldier, had endured. The board did not treat the commissioner , so tenderly, but they made statements which by it. ference irneugned their conduct. (Hear.) It was sai that Sir J. lq`Neil and Col. Tulloch had done no uncle than their duty ; but had Lord Lucas, Ler.' Cardigan Gen. Airey, or Cd. Gordon, done more? (Hear, hear. He (Mr. Black) hoped that the noble I , ri would eve, now bestow upon t he Crimean commite-ioners same fitting reward for their great services. (Cheers.) Viscount PALMERSTON—In reference to an impres sion which might be produced by the speech of my hon. friend, I have to state that there is not the slightest ground for asserting there was any intention on the part of the Government that the investigation of these two commis sioners should be a sham. (Hear.) There is nothing in the manner in which they were appointed, their investi gation was conducted, and their report received and acted upon, which can afford the slightest ground for such a cm elusion. (Hear, hear.) The commissioners were selected on account of their knowledge and fitness for the task ; they performed that task with great credit to themselves and advantage to the country ; and her Majesty's Govern ment have, in my opinion, fully expressed their sense of their merit. (Hear.) With regard to the speech of the hon. gentleman opposite, I must say it appeared to me to be a complete anachronism. (Cheers.) It might have been a speech very much to the point two years ago, when the suf ferings of the army were such as he described ; when her Majesty's Government, stimulated by the i m ptdse given them by this house, were anxious to give a remedy for those sufferings; and when, in point of fact, an appropriate re needy was applied. But really, at this time of day, when the war has bpen brought to a close, when peace has been restored, and when a year has since elapse], to go back to what was the state of things in December, 1854, does seem to me to be not the most useful application of the time of this house. (Cheers) My first answer to the hon. gentle man is, that the sufferings of the army had ceased nearly twelve months before it left the Crimea, and that whereas during the first winter it was in is state of great misery and destitution, it was afterwards placed in a condition which excited the envy and admiration of our allies, and which was infinitely better than that of the French or Russian army. In fact, the condition of our troops in the Crimea .could in no respect be surpassed by that of an equal num ber of men in any part of the world, even at home. (Loud cheers.) The speech of the hon. gentleman was, therefore, only a recital of calamities which are past and gone, and which were remedied in every respect . to which the speech related. (Hear, hear.) It is quite true that the sufferings of our troops were great. It is true that their knapsacks were left on board when they landed just before the battle of the Alma ; and it is also true that for some reason or other they did not reach them again until two or three months afterwards. At the same time I should state that that is by no means an unexampled state of things. Why, i it was only the other day that I was conversing with an hon. and gallant friend with reference to the Cape campaign, and he assured me that throughout the whole of that campaign, the men had no knapsacks, and that nevertheless they did not suffer materially in consequence. It is perfectly true that there were ample supplies sent out from this country, sand ri that owing troops toowiag did n the wantot benefit of e p n r e op t erbythem. I arrangements t : j oite spot h treat that there were ten thousand greatencroetahtekseenwnth.rniiceohmmwatohigith.ceti er w e b s i to di res w i q b u e i e t n e t s r e u r e v e t d h s o t u t t h , e r b e u w t knew anything about, and th a t th ere was forage at h lnt a o v boisdy e were dying for Constantinople, while the baggage animal , : the rice was as want il oo Constantinople.it t he i u tl Crimea, C r i m i nA e sau. ship t lt i i s e I true, i s loaded with that au officer quiteveith rice, to bus much it is to be deplored ; but it arose local confusion created by the anxious services which had to pressure performed of It oa o w a a o s sa n t o h t e f from true, and yen entirely from t n le: important en ::, war m departmentw ant of did arrangement not e e a n t d home—li f e out e n3p s s t ~r „ t had not been accustomed to its details forehai r id ul . (ge ar ' ) of all kinds to supply the wants of the army ; but l 'f was ITI owing partly to the rapid movements of the army ea, England to Turkey, and from Turkey to the Cri (e tt alt. partly to the necessarj separation of the dif_fer i 7 t 1 P meats, and partly to various eM v ent for sup circumstances, there was at first no erring a want of plying the army with fresh meat; h. there drhave supplie,l the those baking arrangements which :° were arranged and to thus , army with fresh bread ; the h o o t ep h i e t r : uses. 'u LONDON, Fit ID \' IiNING. MARCH 13, 1857. not have bean increased by the alteration in the law. He tlioneht it desirable that returns should be laid on the table showing what bad peen done in the way of carry ing out the articles to which he bad referred, and that it would he sufficient to limit teem to what had occurred during the la , t five years. As their lordships would rot have many more opportunities of addressing the house before the dissolution of Parliament, he wished to take the opprtunity of making a few remarks on our present position with regard to China, and particularly with re gard to the expedition which the Government were about to send to that country. As far as he could gather from the public sources of information the expedition was to consist of several heavy vessels of war, four re gimeets of infantry, and four batteries of artillery. When the nob'e lord the Secretary fir Foreign Affairs received the accounts of the destruction of the forts, of the shelling of Canton, and of the destruction of public and private junks, he was in possession of facts which must have satisfied his mind that tbere existed a state of war between this country and the authorities and people of Canton. He was also aware that Sir J. Bowring had ad vauc-d claims under the supplementailytreaty of 1843, to which the strongezt resistance would be offered by the Chinese authorities at Canton, and that Sir John Bowring had not any means at his disposal to compel the Chinese authorities to concede these points. This was the commencement of a long and serious eontest, and the intentions of the Government ought to have been communicated to India by the mail of the 10,h Jan. in stead of the mail of the 10th March, in trder that due preparations might be made for providing a native force to support the troops about to be sent fr im this coun try. If such orders had been sent out to Indian the 10th Jan , it would have been possible, with very great exer tioni', to have placed a proper force at Singapore by the second week in April. If the orders were only sent nut in March, he regretted to inform the Government that they would be of little or no avail. At the time of the ar rival of these orders in India there would be no vessels at Madras, and very few indeed at Calcutta, and there would be no sufficient means of conveying large bodies of troops, for not less than 20,000 tons of shipping would be requisite for the purpose. But even supposing there should be a sufficient supply of ships, they woul I meet !he monsoon in the Bay of Bengal, and on arriving at their destination would be in a shattered and disordered condition. Now let their lordships consider the injury which would be caused by this delay to British interests, the danger to which the British population, British pro. perty, and the British character of Hong Keng would be .xposed in the midst of a dense Chinese population, and the etc ,uragement which would be given to the °Meese by the de lay which had taken place - in forwarding the boasted power of England, on which we were apt to rely. Then, again, our opera'Aons would commence at the most unhealthy season of the year—that sea-on which had peen so fatal to our army in the previous war. He did not know whether the newspapers which were supposed to speak with the authority of the Government were to be robed upon, but it appeared from them that more troops were to be placed on b )ard the vessels than they were qualified to carry, considering the character and the length of the voyage. He knew from experience the con sequences of any error in that respect, for when a regi ment landed after being detained long at eta in a crowded vessel, it was not in an efficient condition for service. The vessels destined for the Chinese seas would have to pats the Cape in the middle of whet r, and would he ex posed to all the difficulties of the ocean. Now, with a view to the preservation of the health of the tro q3e, he eished to mae a few suggestions to the noble I,rd the Secretary for War. The first was, that instead of supply ing the ships with single awnings, which would not protect the men from either the sun or the rain, they should be furnished with double awnings, extending from stem to stern, which would not, only protect the troupe, but give them the opportunity of call ee ing the rain which might fall. It was also necessary to procure a better ventilation between decks, and every means which science could suggest ought to be applied to provide a corn plet3 ventilation. Again, in the state of feeling which now existed in Caina it would be idle to expect a supply of fresh meat from more than a few of the islands, and without such supply the health of the troops might be materia ly affected. He therefore strongly recommended that every means should be taken not merely for providing, but for testing the quality of the preserved meats intended for the use of the troops. At the present time no depeadence could be placed upon India for a supply of sa't meat, and that article must bo sent from this country. He looked with the greatest dis may at the probable result of the operations of European troops in China without the assistance of an adequate force of native troops, because in that climate certain duties could be performed only by native troops. Then, in what description of vessels were the troops to be sent! It might be quite right to send troops to the Crimea in a particular class of vessels, because they could be con veyed there in about a fortnight but if the troops were to be sent to Hong Kong in such vessels, they could not be removed in them to any other port. It was im possible that large vessels could be of the smallest use, for not one of them could anchor sufficiently near to the land, and nothing cool I be so contrary to reason as to send troops in large ships if there were no smal ships to which they could be transferred. If orders for the native troops had been sent out in January, they would have been conveyed in vessels of a small draught of water, and towed by small steamers that might have been useful in carrying on warlike operations; but if such orders had not been sent out there would not be a sufficient supply of vessels to carry the troops up the rivers of Coins. He trusted the noble lord would read some of the despatches written during the lest war, which would supply him with a good deal of useful infermation. The despatches from thence were written, if not from the dictation, at least with the approbation of the Duke of Welling ton and Sir G. Cr ckburn. They would suggest the in stant sending out of a proper proportion of followers for each regiment—not less than from 300 to 400 being abso lutely necessary. He would venture else) to throw out another suggestion, and that was that every precaution should be taken against allowing firs-ships to approach the ships sent out with troops. In the year 1811 that was a subject of the greatest anxiety, and every direc tion was given which experience could suggest to avert such a danger; and when he read, as he had done recently, of a fire-ship passing under the very bow of one of her Majesty's ships, he must say that he thought the allow ance of such an occurrence was not at all creditable to the authorities in command. One word with respect to the manner in which the war had been c Irried on. A noble lord opposite had defended the destruction of the suburbs of Canton. Now in looking over the accounts of the previous year, he had read with great satisfaction a despatch from Lord Palmerston, who was at that time Foreign Secretary, in which he distincay required those who had the conduct of the war in no case to burn or destroy a town, observing that it was a war against the Government, and not against the people. Reports were in circulation as to the prob ebility of taking the course pursued in 1842, but we were not now at war with the Emperor of China, but with the peeple of Canton and Commissioner Yeb, and our operations ought to be con fined to Canton. He bad heard with regret that it was the intention of Government to send out some important personage as plenipotentiary, with some person on the part of France, with a French naval force, for the pur pose of exacting from the Chinese some concessions which we had no right to demand. He objected to such a course of proceeding, not only because it would be unworthy of this country to take advantage of the opportunity of exacting from the Chinese Emperor that which we had no right to do, but because he deprecated any conjoint operations, and any conjoint proposals. Whatever the Government might determine upon doing he trusted they would act by themselves—that they would exact only those terms to which England was entitled, and having obtained those terms, woul I then retire from the contest. The noble earl concluded by moving for the production of the papers to which he had alluded. Lord PANMUIIE said it was impossible to conceal the fact that operations in China at this season of the year were matters which must attract the serious atten tion of the Government. But the state of affairs in China was such that not only the honour of this country, but the safety of British property and the support of British trade demanded that that state of affairs should be brought to as speedy a conclusion as possible, and he had no hesitation in saying that the policy of the Government would be, to use every endeavour to bring matters to a satisfactory conclusion in a peaceable manner, only ap pealing to force in the last resort. (Hear.) It was quite true that it was the intention of the Government to send out an officer of high character and position to negotiate with the Emperor of China for a renewal of the treaties already in existence, but he regretted to say never duly observed. It would not be the object of the Government to extort from China, even if we had a force there suffi cient to do so, any terms ;which were not just and rea sonable, and such as the justice of the people of this country would approve. But if the Chinese should refuse to grant those just and reasonable demands, it was not only the opinion of the Government, but he believed it was the opinion of the country at large, that the honour and safety and character of the British nation in that great empire demanded that we should not stop short of obtaining them. The question had been considered by the Government whether the necessary forces should be sent from India or directly from this country. Under all the circumstances it had been thought more advisable they should be sent from this country; as, in the first place, that which should always be considered, it would be a matter of economy if our operations were conducted from this country. Thereason was, there were 4 regiments under orders for relieving and reinforcing the troops in In dia ; they had been completed to their Indian strength, and were ready to sail for theirdestination; and by r•endiug them to China, if the state of affairs there improved, they could be moved on to India, and the expense of their transport would, as it al, ays did, fall on the East India Company, however, if they were detained in China, the expense of transport would be borne by the mother country. With regard to another subject referred to by the noble earl he bad the satisfaction of informing him that the transports appointed to convey the troops bad been so measured that they would not take more troops than they could well accommodate in a voyage of such length, and the vessels would not only take the troops there, but they would be their barracks while they were there, no that her Majesty's troops would not be under the necessity of encamping on shore, or be exposed tothe diseases which abound in that country. Lung before the troops could arrive the heads of the commissariat, medi cal. and store departments would have made every pre aud orders p a ration for furnishing them with suppliee , had been given to obtain supplies of fresh meet, which would be so necessary to the troop in that country and during the hot season. Orders had also bent given for the laying in of a quantity of salt meat, preserved meats, vegetables, biscuits, and everything that was necessary for the maintenance of the troops, With reference to another portion of the noble earl's observations, he woolut say that no movement hal been madeagainst the friendly ports of China, and he hoped th et there would never be occasion for us to be in a state of warfare with them. The whole quarrel wa s w ith th e C a ntonese, and no par ties could have be e n more anx i o us to keep VP friendly relations with us than the inh a bitants of the four other ports, who had . be en a l Na y s t w itt e d by the Cantonese with their readiness to admit the barbarians to inter course with them. As regarded the mode of carrying on hostilities, what he eaid on a former occasion on the subject of firing the suburbs of Canton be would repeat. He was certain that Admiral Seymour would not have resorted to such a proceeding as the destruction of the suburbs if he had not found it necessary for the defence of the position he occupied and the safety of his fleet. He still believed that Admiral Seyraour would do nothing but what the necessities of the case required. With reference to the conduct of operationg at Canton, he was sure their lordships woul I see at once that to fix on any decided plan of operations against that city, when the opera`ions were entrusted to an officer in whom the Government had the highest confidence, would be pre mature, and, as he (Lord Panmure) thought, a work of supererogation. No doubt, when the commissioner who was to be seat out arrived, and had made a survey of the whole state of things, he would not fail to act, in the first instance, in'euch a way as to lead to the securing of peace by means of negotiations ; but failing in that, he would endeavour to bring the Cantonese to reason by such means as would cause the leait bloodshed, while at the same time they were made to feel in every way the full weight of our power. But to lay down any fixed plan beforehand would, he thought, be essentially wrong. All that he (Lord Panneure) could de was this—to make the force sent out in every way effective, to use every effect to keep the health of the troops up to the highest standard, and to secure supplies net silly for the main tenance of the troops, but to see that in everything con nected with their restoration to health and the preven tion of diseases peculiar to the piece was provided for by the precautions of the medical officers. With regard to what the noble earl had said on the subject of awnings, the dress of the troops, and their protection from the sun, he could state that every requisite order had been given on that subject. Mora than this could not be done, and he trusted that in all the exigencies to which it would be exposed, an Almighty Power would watch over the army which had been sent out for a purpose which he (Lord Panmure) would maintain was only a necessity. The E sa a id, rl o a f a E d L th L a r it is BOißatOended to co n d uc t, th ose ope rations G am afraid that it is as I without the native troops of India. If so, you will lose half your force, and you will fail. Lord PANMURE said that at present it was their intention to carry on operations wittiout the assistance of a native force. When a force was composed of troops from the two armies in that climate some inconvenience was I fund to arise from it. In fact the troops were like the two buckets of a well; when the heats prevailed' the British troops failed, and the moment the cold weathers set in the native troops were useless ; and as it was his opinion that it the p ;sition in the Canton river could be maintained no operations should take place on shore till the col t season set in ; io that case the native troops 'ocrtiot noticed, and that to which the noble earl wou id ha fa d iL adv i e l r was with regard to the troops being sent cut in large vessels like the Hiinal ,ye, which could not go .up the There was w w h a i s ah on h e e all h t a j river. The troops must be vent out in vessels of that size because they were intended to be their barracks ; but a number of smaller vessels were on the spot, and 15 or 16 small gunboats were about to be sent out, be sides which a number of the small vessels of the country had been taken up, which would be towed by small steamers and which could convey the troops to any point of action at which they might be required. As to the sending out of reinforcements being two months too late, he had to say that as soon as it was found that troops were reqeired at Hong Kong a regiment was sent from . the Mauritus. Earl GREY said that his noble friend stated that as soon as the necessity for an additional force was known it was sent to China. As far as be (B in Grey) knew no order for the sending of a force from this country had been given till after the accounts which were received by the last mail a fortnight ago. Lord PANMURE—A. regiment sailed a month ago. Earl GREY—A regiment may have sailed a mouth ago from some part of the East, but ho force from this country was ordered until late in last month. Since then a noble earl, a gallant admiral, had asked for the despatches which had been received from China, but none bad been produced. He (Lord Grey) wished to know if such serious intelligence had been received by the last mail, of which the public was not apprised, as to have led the Government to send out a large force. The Earl of CLARENDON said that there was no objection to produce the despatches in question. It was by those despatches that the Government first heard that the admiral had thought it necessary to withdraw from the position he had previously held in the Canton river ; that was the first intimation they had, that he thought that position could not be maintained with the force at his command, and also that the threatening state of things at Hong Kong required that a part of his force should be sent there. That was the first intimation they had that the admiral could not maintain the position which early in January he hail been ordered to main tain. There was nothing in the despatches beyond what he had stated a few nisslits ago, and there was no objec tion to their being laic! on the table. He would take this opportunity of replying to some of the observations of the noble lord on the subject of the returns which he had asked for. He had made inquiry at the Colonial office, and he found that there were no returns for this country with reference to the registers and papers which were required on the fulfilment f the treaty. If the treaty had been strictly carried out in the different Chinese ports whatever was done in tbat respect would be done by the harbour-masters there, and such proceedings would not be the subject of returns to this country. As the notices required to be given with regard to smug gling transactions, he had heard, on inquiry, that no correspondence or record relating to the understanding which was come to on that point between the Chinese commissioner and the British plenipotentiary had ever been sent home ; and there was no means of know ing how that article stipulating that means should be taken to guard against and to give notice of smug gling transactions came to be inserted in the treaty. Whatever was the reason it gave the Chinese authorities power to prevent smuggling at any of the five peril, and they might have prevented vessels found to be engaged in smuggling from any further trading. There were two or three despatches which recorded that notices ha I been given to the Chinese authorities under the treaty ; but he was informed that in 1851, instructions were sent oet to Sir G. Bonham, with reference to the numerous n :- tices which the British plenipotentiaries and consuls had sent to the Chinese authorities, to which no regard had been paid, and it was stated that there could be no doubt tbat smuggling was carried on by the connivance of the Chinese authorities. There was no such stipulation as this in the treaties entered into between China and France and the United States, and therefore in that re spect the British subjects were in a worse position than those of France, or citizens of the United States. Those notices were duly given, and it was clear that smuggling was conni , el at by the Chinese authorities ; and accord ingly his Roble friend, who was then Seem ary of Foreign Affairs, wrote a long despatch to our plenipotentiary re viewing all that had been done, referring to the non observance of the treaty and the neglect of the collection of their own revenue by the Chinese, and he said that if the Chinese did not choose to co-operate with us in the collection of their own revenue and assist in carrying out the treaty, we were not to be considered bound to carry out our part of a stipulation with regard to which we had never received their co-operation. But he directed that a note should be written stating that, if the Chinese authorities did no: co operate with us, we could not carry out the stipulation of the treaty. That note was com municated to the high commissioner, who returned a very vague answer, in which he said he was not aware of any smuggling being in existence ; so matters had con tinued since 1851. He could lay that despatch and the note in question on the table. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH asked if there was any objection to produce the estimate of the expense in England and India of the operations in China in 1857 ? No answer was given ; but the motion was put from the woolsack and agreed to, as we understood. The Lighting of Towns (Ireland) Act Amendment Bill was read a second time. The Commons Inclosure Bill was read a third time and passed. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YEsTBRDAY.) The SPEAKER took the Chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The fallowing private bills were read a third time and passed —Exeter and Exmouth Railway ; Price's Patent Candle Company ; and the Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway. The Portland Harbour Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Mr. LA NGWO RTHY moved that, in the case of the Salford Borough (No. 1) Bill, and the Salford Borough (No. 2) Bill, the examiners of petitions for private bills have leave to sit and proceed to•morrow.—Agreed to. Mr. Frrz ROY moved the standing orders, providing for the suspen-ion of private bills in the present session, and for resuming proceedings thereupon in the next session. The object of the motion was to put private bills in the same position in the new Parliament as they were in the present Parliament a 3 to their progress through the house.—Agreed to. TICKETS OF LEAVE. Mr. SPOONER called the attention of the Home Secretary to the case Of a man named Woolton, charged with burglary at Ashover, and asked if he had received any information from the Recorder of Birmingham that the burglar was well known to the police of that town, and that the learned Recorder bad suggested to the Home Secretary the necessity of withdrawing the licence? Sir 0. GREY said that in Fwbruary, 1856, his attention was called by the Recorder of Birming• liam to eighteen persons residing there with tickets of leave. Eight of them had conducted them selves well, and two doubtful. Of the remaining eight directions had been given to make inquiries re specting them. 'Three of them had since bean com mitted and their tickets withdrawn, two bad been con victed and sentenced to longer periods than their first convictions ; two had been cautioned, and (Ale who had kept a disreputable house had been cautioned, and he abandoned it. The remaining three had been warned by the police that if they continued their course of lite their tickets would be withdrawn. He had heard no thing further of these men, and he supposed the desire of the Recorder of Birmingham bad been complied with and they had left the place, for the crime of which Woolton was charged was committed at Ashover, in Derbyshire, and not at Birmingham. THE CRIMEAN CO‘IMISSIONERS. Mr. J. EWA.RT asked the First Lord of the Treasury if it were the intention of Government to make any fur ther recognition of the services of Sir J. It'lsTeill and TuHoch in the Crimea! Lord PALMERSTON said that the Government bad made what he conceived to be an ample recognition of the merits of the services of these gentlemen. They had been acknowledged in that house, and by letters to those gentlemen ; and, moreover, it had been intimated to them that it was the intention of Government to recommend them to the Crown to be presented each with a sum of 1,0001. as a more material acknowledgment of their services for three months in the Crimea. These gentlemen had thought fit to decline that offer, and it was not for him t 3 question their motives. It appeared to him that the Crown had done all it cool I be advised to do. THE YEOMANRY. Mr. K. SEYMER asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, whether, in the event of the yeomanry cavalry not being called out for eight days' permanent duty during the ensuing year, he was willing, in accordance with precedent, to remit the horse duty to the enrolled members of the veotnanry corps ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that in the event of sufficient cause not bong shown for the yeomanry cavalry being called out for eight days' permanent duty, the Government was prepared to ex tend the same relief as on a former occa4ion, and remit the duty for the ensuing year. In reply to a que4ion from Mr. LIDDELL, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that he would to morrow give an explanation of what he meant by a "sufficient cause." SMITHFIELD. Lord R. GROSVENOR for Mr. Ker Seytner asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Govern ment was prepared to give effect to the reelmmen lation of the Smithfield Committee, viz., " That the bet appro priation for the general benefit of so much of the site of Smithfield as reverts to the Crown would be to adapt it for the ej , yrnent and recreation of th- plibhc." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that in July last the report of the committee was sent to the City Remeinbrancer, informing him that It was intended to introduce into Parliament a bill f,r appro priating the site of Smithfield. To that an answer was retqrned that the city authorities could not rec9gnise the claim of the Crown to the land without its being substantiated in a c,.urt of law. To pre • ent that pro ceeding a su,zgestion was made by the City authorities to make it a dead meat market, but the Government declined it, and requested the authorities to nmeider a plan fnr appropriating it to public services. At. present no answer had been received by the Government, the question being under the consideration of the City autho• THE COUNCIL AT MALTA. Mr. KINNAIRD asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he had taken any steps to prevent judges holding the office of member of council at Malta? Mr. LABOUCHERE said it had been thought expe dient to recommend that an or!er in Council be passed, by which in future the ju iges of the superior courts in Malta should not be eligible to seats in the Council. THE CA MP AT CURRAGII. Mr. COG AN asked the Under Secretary for War whether there was any intention to establish a mili tary prison in connection with the camp at the Cur ragh ; and, if so, whether any steps had been taken as yet with respect to it Mr. F. PEEL sa►d that two propositions bad been made for tho establishment of prisons at Curragh—one for the erection of a civil prison, and the other fur the erection of a military prison within the limits of the Camp at Curragh. No decision had been come to with regard to either of the propositions. SUPPLY. Mr. FITZROY brought up the report of supply granted yesterday.—Agreed to. THE CRINIEAN CONIMISSIONERS. On the motion for the house going into committee of supply, Mr. PALK moved - the foliewing amendment _ "That Sir John M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch ably ful filled the duty entrusted to them of inquiring into the arrangement and management of the Commissariat De partment ; that the evidence in their report proves that, - in the months of Decembar, 1854, and January, 1855, the sufferings of the army must have been intense, and that great mortality was occasioned by overwork and ex posure, and want of food and clothing ; that the examina tions into this statement by the Board of General Officers materially support the conclusions arrived at by the Com missioners as to the want of organisation in the Quarter master General's, Commissariat, and Transport. Services; that it appears to this house that, from the report of the board, this inefficiency must be attributed to the imper fect arrangement or conduct of those depart►nents." He said time ft:ye rapidly, and events succ,teded event in quick succession, but he thought they would all re member that it was not many months ago that, in cam ' mon with the ialiabitants of London, they assembled to welcome back to the shores of their native laud the Guards of London. Ile was sure that all who saw them were struck by the brot zed and martial appearance of those men who had gathered fresh laurels in every en: counter in which they had been engaged. The people of London welcomed back the Guards with loud cheers, and the people of London that day were a prototype of the English nation at large. The English nation was no t naturally a warlike nation ; it deliglated more in the arts of peace and the enterprises of commerce ; but go where they would, into the manufacturing cities or into the agricultural counties, they would find one univer , al feeling pervading the country, and that was r,spect and regard for the army. They welcomed the Guards back, but in welcoming them there was one thing which marred the brilliant aspect of that day. While they welcomed the return of the Guards the thought would rise un hidden but unchecked, how many they had left be. hind them, not on the bloody field of war, but by the neglect of their country, by the destitution and the misery which the inefficiency of our establishments had occasioned. It wes at the beginning of the year 1854 that accounts first reached this country which convulsed it from one end of the kingdom to the other, that told of disasters greater than any that had yet been entered by British troops. So great was the outcry that the Times newspaper assumed the executive of E %lend, and by its wide circulation and by the means at its disposal, raised a large sum of money which it instantly sent to the reliet of the sufferers. The country was roused, Parliament was called together ; and the member for Shefileid, in spite of all the arguments of the Government, carried in this house a committee to inquire into the state of the British army in the East. The result of that committee was known to them all, and it was not his intention to take up their time in adverting to it, but the argument of greater force used against the committee was that it was unfair for a commit tee at home to judge of the acts and proceedings of those abroad. In consequence of that the Governrrsent appointed a commission of their own, and sent out to the Crimea Sir J. M'Neill and Colonel Tuffech to inquire into the state of the British army. Col. Tull ,ch and Sir J. M‘Neili personally examined the quartermaster and the Burgeon of every corpe, and they reported that, the sufferings of the army had 'been intense, that the departmental ar rangements in the Crimea bad contributed in no iocon -1 siderable degree to the sufferi n g of the troops, and they pointed out that the system hitherto relied upon had Ifailed. They stated that the mortality on all previous occasions sank into comparative insignificance, and by a return which had been made it was proved that the state mentsagain of na n t t r h a e d n e t w e d s p i a n p t e n r a s t , n w a h n i a c e h , w h a e r d e been true o T v e h r e and a v a e n r commissioners also came to conclusions precisely the sauce as those which bad been stated in the newspapers. When the British army landed in the Crimea they did so without their knapsacks. That, he was informed, was not an unusual course, and, under careful supervision, no great harm arose ; but in this case it appeared that the most common precautions which one would have thought would have been taken were unfortunately omitted. The knapsacks were sent, some to Yarns, some to Gallipoli ; they were scattered all over the sea, and the soldiers did not receive them for many months, some of them did not get them at all. Again, the knapsacks on this occasion did not contain the u.ual amount of ne cessaries carried by the soldiers. A great number of them were left in the squat bags at Scutari, and be firmly believed that was the origin of the distress and misery which ensued. The soldiers commenced a siege without change of clothing, without the means of clean liness, without a second pair of shoes, and they were rapidly reduced to a state of wretchedness which was sufficient to cause great mortality even if there were no fault to be found with the supplies of the army. The result was that in the course of a few months the army which had received the adieus of the Qiiten, and which it was/ the proud boast of the Minister of the day had been sent out equipped with every be cessary, became a disciplined horde of starved and wretcoed individuals, prone to disea-e, suffering tram want, from positive starvation, from cold and w ref chedness. After carefully examining the report he came to the con elusion that there was warm clothing upon the spot, and that the reason why it was not issued to the troops we still wholly unexplained. Cul. Wetherail admitted there i were 12,000 great coats in store in his department, and )