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Courtenay's experience in the treatment of stricture to have equalled, if it has not exceeded, that of any of his contemporaries ; whilst we most certainly krow of no man to whose care we would sooper intrust the treatment e: a severe case of stric• ture."—Medical Circular. IMPERIAL PAR LIAMEN T. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at 5 o'clock. OUR RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES. The Earl 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 States. THE SUCCESSION DUTY. Lord MONTEAGLE called the attention of the hot:tie to certain returns, which bad been moved for some time since, in reference to 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 had 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 TA BILL. The Earl of DERBY gave notice, upon the second reading of the Income Tax Bill, which would possibly take place on Monday or Tuesday, he should make a few observations, which be deemed especially neces sary, as a dissolution of Parliament was so near at hand. CHINA. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH, 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 iricit 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 cave was different with regard to articles which remained under prohibition. The article went on to say, " The British plenipotentiary will also instruct the different consul+ 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 timing 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 conduct 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 will 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 :Towed 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 he 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 teaks a monthly re turn to Canton of the passes granted to vessels proceed ing to Hong Kong, together with the nature of their c argoes, 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 Canter), showing the names of Chinese vessels arrived at Hong Kong, or de parted from that port, with the nature of their cargoes ; ordern cland clandestine by an h il e l s e e ga a l rr t a r n ad g and the Canton author . ities will apprise the Custom e- all l rs officers averted. stationed I t t a s t h n e e cflevse hmoeuastess and at the precautions,fiveports neces sary to ascertain whether ports under the cover of ises' th in e ayb fth t - t Hong Kong, in pursuance o apr had made the return mentioned in the article to the proper officer a t ined in the report of the referred to to a statement con a . who, in speaking of that vision of the treaty. A. noble lord, the other evening, had , übt desirable that the pri ♦ilege said, " While it fla , shall rut be conceded vilege of hoi,ting the British flag► nial treasurer to Sir J. B.owrllll, shall appreciate the advan settled under it in the colony hstantial benefits it con without proper securities, it is desirable dint Chinamen tag e of their position, in the substantial this country, it that very Permanently beneficial to fers." The colonial treasurer said, "If anything will be lands, sin ce it hold crown lessees entitled to Chinese settlers or cro eye tem of eranting colonial registers, particu'arly to respect ablethe prevent' has tended to increase the coasting trade for th e for Ice * " NOW, the g'' e and passes were granted re, , it . rs manufactures of India—such as cotton, opium, have ion of illicit trade, t of illicit been used fur the encouragernen trade iu o the great they P lu m. (Hear, hear.) Op lUal was appeared to article of trade,but 'Without opium, the export trade from this country and th d d of thia country would o epen encieS not have been increased by the alteration in the law. He thought it desirable that returns should be laid on the tat.le showing what had been done in the way of earry ing out the articles to which he had referred, and that it would be sufficient to limit them to what had occurred ' during the last five years. As their lordships would not have many more opportunities of addressing the house before the dissolution of Parliament, he wished to take the opportunity 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 t from the public sources of information the expedition was to consist of several heavy vessels of war, four re giments of infantry, and four batteries of artillery. t When the noble lord the Secretary for 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 there 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 vanc-d claims under the supplementarytreaty of 1843, to which the strange:t 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 contest, and the intentions of the Government ought to have been communicated to India by the mail of the 10th Jan. in stead of the mail of the 10th March, in order that due preparations might be made for providing a native force to support the troops about to be sent fr irri this coun try. If such orders had been sent out to India on the 10th Jan , it would have been possible, with very great exer tion, to have placed a proper forc e a t Si ngapore b y t h e second week in April. It the orders were only sent out 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 a t 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 purpoAt. But even supposing there should be a sufficient supply of ships, they woull meet the 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 Kong would be exposed in the midst of a dense Chinese population, and the encouragement which would be given to the Chinese by the delay which had taken place in forwarding the boasted power of England, on which we were apt to rely. Tben, again, our operations would commence at the most unhealthy season of the year—that season which had been 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 relied upon, but it appeared from them that more troops were to be placed on board 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 sea in a crowded vessel, it was not in an efficient condition for service. The vessels destined for the Chinese seas would have to pass the Cape in the middle of wintr, and would be ex posed to all the difficulties of the ocean. Now, with a view to the preservation of the health of the troops, he wished to mae a few suggestions to the noble lord 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 troops, but give them the opportunity of collect 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 complete ventilation. Again, in the state of feeling which now existed in Caine, 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 dependence could be placed upon India for a supply of salt meat, and that article must be 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 th em t o an y 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 could be so contrary to reason as to send troops in large ships if there were no small ships to which they could be transferred. If orders for the native troops bad 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 China. Ile trusted the noble lord would read some of the despatches written during the last war, which would supply him with a good dea' of useful information. 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. Ceokburn. 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 also to throw out another suggestion, and that was that every precaution should be taken against allowing fire-ships to approach the ships sent out with mope. 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 be 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 carried on. A noble lord opposite had defended the destruction of the suburbs of Canton. No w in looking over the accounts ef the previous year, he had read with great satisfaction a despatch from Lord Palmerston, who was at that time Foreign Secretary, in which he distinctly required those who bad 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 probability of taking the course pursued in 1842, but we were not now at war with the Emperor of China, but with the people of Canton and Commissioner Yeh, and our operations ought to be con• fined to Canton. He had 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 erecting 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 be 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, would then retire from the contest. The noble earl concluded by moving for the production of the papers to which he had alluded. Lord PANMURE 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 Bi itish 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 woul I 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, thwhich should always he considered, it would boa matter of economy if our operations were conducted from this country. The reason 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 sending 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 ways 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 ho had the satisfaction of informing him that the transports appointed tr, convey the troops had 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, so 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. Long before the cal. and store departmen ts would have made ever y pre troops could arrive the heads of the commissariat, medi them with supplies, and orders paratiou for fu.rn6hing bad been given to obtain supplies of fresh meat, which would be so necessary to the troops in that country and during the hot season. Orders bad else been given f the laying in of a quantity of salt meal - , preservedmeats, vegetables, biscuite, and everything that was necessary for the maintenance of the troops. With reference to another portion of the -noble earl's observations, be would say that no movement had been made against the friendly ports of China, and he hoped that there would never be occasion for us to be in a sate of warfare with them. The whsle quarrel was with the Cantonese, and no par ties could have been more anxious to keep up friendly relations with us than the inhabitants of the four other porta, who had been always twitted 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 said 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 Seymour wool I do nothing but what the necessities of the cage required. With reference to the conduct of operations at Canton, he was sure their lordships wool , ' 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 (Ldrd Panmure) thought, 'a work of supererogation. No doubt, when the commissioner who was to be sent out arrived, and- had made a survey of the whole state of things, he would not fail to act, in the first instance, in such 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 reasen by such means as would cause the least 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 Panmure) could do was this—to make the force sent out in every way effective, to use every effort to keep the health of the troops up to the highest standard, and to secure supplies not only 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 place 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 be trusted that in all the exigencies to which it would be exposed, an Almighty Power would watch over the army which bad been sent out for a purpose which he (Lord Panmure) would maintain was only a necessity. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGLI—I am afraid that it is as I said, and that it is intended to conduit those ope rations 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 without the assistance of a native force. When a force was composed of troops from the two armies in that climate some inconvenience was found 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 weather set in the native troops were useless ; and as it was his opinion that if the position in the Canton river could be maintained no operations should take place on shore till the col I season set in ; in that case the native troops would fail. There was one sujsct to which the noble earl had adverted which he hat not noticed, and that was with regard to the troops being sent cut in large vessels like the Himaltya, which could not go up the river. The troops must be sent 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 required at Hong Kong a regiment was stint from the Mauritns. 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 h e (E ar l Grey) knew no order for the sending of a force from this country bad been given till after the accounts which were received by the last mail a fortnight, ago. Lord PANM.IIRE—A. regiment sailed a month ago. Earl GREY—A regiment may have sailed a month ago from some part of the East, but no 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 Gr e y) wished to know if such serious intelligence had been received by the last mail, of which the public was not appyised, as to have led the Government to send out alarge 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 bad thought it necessary to withdraw from the position he had previously held in the, Canton river • that was the fi rs t i n ti mat i on they had, ,that h e thought tbat position could not be maintained with the force at his command, and also that the threatening state of things at Hong Bong 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 had been ordered to main tain. There was nothing in the despatches beyond what he had stated a few nights ago, and there was no objec tion to their being laid 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 be had asked for. He bad made inquiry at the Oolonial office, and he found that there were no returns for this country with reference to the registers and papers which twreearety requ had been b e ee o the fulfilment n n etrietlyearriedof thnute in the e y diff l e f the ren t Chinese ports whatever was done in that 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 bad 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 ports, 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 had been given to the Chinese authorities under the treaty ; but be was informed that in 1851, instructions were sent net to Sir G. Bonham, with reference to the numerous no 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 that smuggling was carried on by the connivance of the Chinese authorities. There was no such stipulation es 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' IA at by the Chinese authorities ; and accord. ingly his noble friend, Who was tlfen Secretary 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 o eoperate 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 not 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 is question on the table. The Earl of ELLENBOROITGH asked if there was any objection to produce the estimate of the expense in England and India of the operations in China in 1857 I 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.—(YEsnatair.) The SPEAKER took the Chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following private bills were read a third time ani 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 he committed. Mr. LANGWORTHY moved that, in the case of the Salford Borough (No. 1) Bill, aed the Salford Borough (No. 2) Bill, the examiners o f petitions for private bil l s have leave to sit and proceed to-rnorrow.—Agreed to. Mr. FITZROY moved the standing orders, providing for the suspension of privat e b i ll s in the present session, and for resuming proceedi ngs thereupon in the next session. The object of the motion wa s to put private bills in the same position in the new Parliament as they w E P T a s rliaLen L t E aL v t E. o their progres s throughere in the the present hoi T is l e c .— K Agreed to. Mr. SPOONER called the attention of the Home Secretary to the case of a man named :Voolton, charged with burglary at Ashover, and asked if ho 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 G. GREY said that in Fibruary, 1856, his attention was called by the Recorder of Biraliog• Mr. J. EWART asked the Pint Lord of tae Treaury if it were the intention of Government to make any fur ther recognition of the services of Sir J. Sl‘Ncill and Ca. Tulloch in the Crimea 1 Lord PALMERSTON sail that the Government bad made what be 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 th se gentlemen ; and, moreover, it had been intimated to them that it was the intention of Government to recommend them to the Crown to be ii - resentd each with a sum of 1,0001. as a more material mknowlAgment of their services for three months in the Crimea. These gentlemen bad thought fit to decline that offer, and it waa not for him t) question their motives. It appeared to him that the Crown had done all it clul I be advised to do. TIIE YEOHANRY. Mr. B. SEYMER asked the Cu/theellor 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 enrolltid members of the yeomanry corps I The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEQUER said, that in the event of sufficient cause nut being shown for the yeomanry - cavalry being called out for eight days' permanent duty, the Governme►.t was prepared to ex tend the Fame relief as on a former occasion, and remit the duty for the ensuing year. In reply to a question from Mr. LIDDELL, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that he would to morrow give en explanation of what he meant by a "sufficient cause." SMITHFIELD. Lord R. GROSVENOR for ➢Zr. Ker Seymer asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Govern ment was prepared to give effect to the recommen , latiou of the Smithfield Committee, ♦iz., " That the best 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 enjoyment and recreation of the public." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that in July last the report of the committee was sent to the City .Remembrancer, informing him that It was intended to introduce into Parliament a bill for appro priating the site of Smithfield. To that an answer was returned that the city authorities could not recognise the claim of the Crown to the land without its being substantiated in a court of law. To pre gent that pro ceeding a suggestion was made by the City authorities to make it a dead meat market, but the Government declined it, and requested the authorities to consider a plan for 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 rities. THE COUNCIL AT NIA LTA. 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 jutes of the superior courts iu Malta should not be eligible to seats in the Council. THE CA MP AT CURRAGH. Mr. COGAN 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 t Mr. F. PEEL said that two propositions had been made for the establishment of prisons at Curragh—one for the erection of a civil prison, and the other for the erection of a military prison within the limits of the Camp at Curragb. 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 CRIMEAN COMMISSIONERS. On the, motion for the house going into committee of supply, Mr. PA LK moved the following amendment t "That Sir John APNeill and Colonel Tnlloch 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 December, 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 departments." He said time flew rapidly, and events succeeded event in quick succession, but he thought they would all re member that it was not many months ago that, in com mon with the inhabitants of London, they assembled to welcome back to the shores of their native land the Guards of London. He was sure that all who saw them were struck by the broraed 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 not naturally a warlike nation; it delighted 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 universal feeling pervading the country, and that was respect 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 was at the beginning of the year 1854 that accounts first reached this country which convwsed 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 England, and by its wide circulation and by the means at its disposal, raised a large sum of money which it instantly sent to the relief of the sufferers. The country was roused, Parliament was called together ; and the member for Sheffield, in spite •f 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 Governmentappointed a commission of their own, and sent out to the Crimea Sir J. M‘lereill and Colonel Tulloch to inquire into the state of the British army. Col. Tulloch and Sir J. M`Neill personally examined the quartermaster and the surgeon of every corps, and they reported that the s ufferin g s of the army had been intense, that the departmental ar rangements in the Crimea had contributed in no incon siderable degree to the suffering of the troops, and they pointed out that the system hitherto relied upon had failed. 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 ments of the newspapers, which bad been over and over again contradicted in that house, were true. The Crimean commissioners also came to conclusions precisely the same 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 Varna, some to Gallipoli ; they were scattered all over the sea, and the soldiers did not receive them for many month s, some of them did not get them at all. Again, the knaysacks on this occasion did not contain the usual amount of ne cessaries carried by the soldiers. A great nuns' er of them were left in the squat bags at Scutari, an I he firmly believed that was the; origin of the distress and misery which ensued. The soldiers commenced a Fl ege without change of clothing, without the means of cle: en liness, without a second pair of shoes, and they we re rapidly reduced to a state of wretchedness which w,as sufficient to cause great mortality even if there we:re 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 Queen, and which it was the proud boast of the Minister of the day bad been sent out equipped with every re cessary, became a disciplined horde of starved and wretched individuals, prone to disease, -suffering from want,froaa positive starvation, from cold and wretchedness. After carefully examining the report he came to the con elusion that there was warm clothing upon the spot, an d that the reason why it was not issued to the troops v sa still wholly unexplained. Col. Wethera!l admitted '.here were 12,000 great coats in store in his departmeut, and that only 2,376 of them were given nut, the gallant gene ral's acclni,t of the matter being that "it was never con templated to give soldiers m re than one great coat, eTecially at a time when additi nal warm clothing was daily expected." That appeared to him to be a very singular - 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 perishetl, not of starva tion, but of col 1 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.) Sit J. McNeill and Cel. Tulloch attri- Ibuted the great mortality and distress of the army in the Crimea to departmental inefficiency. The Board of Gene ral Officers, on the other band, attributed it mainly to the want of forage for the mules and horses of the com missariat department. But in any cave the fault must lie somewhere. Requisitions for fodder had been made by Mr. Ftl ler over and over again to the proper autho rities at home ; and he (Mr. Palk) perfectly agreed with the Board of Officers that Mr. Filder bad a very tangible ex !use. Sir C. Trevelyati, reasoning for himself, and be lieving that he was a better judge in England than Mr. Fader was in the Crimea, had failed to send to the com missary-general those supplies, on which, by the verdict of the board a t Ch e l sea, 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 menthe. Ho vrever 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 exertions which the exigences of the case and the neces sities of the British army demanded at his hands. (Rear.) He trusted tl,at what be (the hen, member) had said had sufficiently proved the necessity there was fora thorough revision of our military system. If he bad the honour of a seat in the next Parliament, he should be able to prove it by evidence which had lately been published, that the system of officering the British army WWI 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. (Rear, hear.) If that were done, he thought that without in the least impairing the high character and gentlemanly bearing of the British officer, a very great improvement might be effected ; but that could never be attained while the army was regarded as a mere pleasant pastime for a few years. (Hear.) The manner in which the Crimean commissioners had been treated was aot the least painful part of the affair. Colonel Tulloch was asked at Che'sea whether the report of his colleague and himself had received the approval of the Govern. ment I Col. Tulloch thereupon wrote to Mr. Peel, de siring to be furnished with a letter to that effect. And what was the hon. gentleman's reply I Mr. Peel said that Lord Panmure did not think it desirable to depart from the course which had up to that time been pur sued, namely, that the Judge-Advocate should be the medium of c immunication between the War-office and the board ; that all* the - documents in the War-office were at Col. Tulloch's disposal, but that there was no formal approbation of his report in existence ; and that, finally, Cot. Tulloch might very legitimately refer to a speech of Lord Palmerston, which would be found in the 140th volume of Hansard, page 156. A most correct letter. It delicately insinuated that Col. Tulloch had been gui'ty.of a breazh of routine ; but it gave him the information he required. The house had heard a good deal of late about routine and red tape. He (Mr. Palk) did not know much about the meaning of the phra-v, 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 enthusiastic admirers, at some place in Scotland ; and the noble lord in a post prandial speech, made some remarks laudatory of Sir 3. A still more gracious mark of the approbation of her Majesty's Government bad more recently been offered 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. Ile(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 have 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 enable certain officers to make a statement, in which they were cautioned not to criminate themselves —a statement by which they Wight remove from their shoulders all the blame that might attach to them and by inference place it upon those of the Crimean commis sioners. The hon. gentleman concluded by moving the resolution. 11.1 r. BLACK was very reluctant to trespass upon the house, but if he remained silent he should not be acting handsomely towards Sir J. M'Neill, whom he was proud to cad his friend, or towards his constituente, who took a very deep interest in this question. He had lately had the honour of presenting three petitions, praying that some reward should be conferred 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 wed. They sat 55 days and examined more than 200 witnesses, and they did not desist till they were com pelled by ill health. They took the evidence in the fair est possible ma' ner ; they sent a copy to each witness to be revise i ; and in only two cases was the evidence with out the signature of the witness. The report of the com missioners was a valuable record of the errors and de fects of cur military system ; and if the martial prowess of men who had defeated the armies of our foes was held 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 trymen ? Sir J. 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 that certain officers highly connected should be screened The board of general officers did its work to admiration ; they found no body was to blame for the miseries which our brave soldiers had ensured. The board did not treat the commissioners so tenderly, but they made statements which by in ference irneugned their conduct. (Hear.) It was sai that Sir J. lkl'Ne.ll and Cul. Tulloch had done no more than their duty ; but had Lard Luca:), Lord Cardigan, Gen. Airey, or C, 1. Gordon, done more? (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. B ack) hoped that the noble lord would even now bestow upon the Crimean com mis-ioners some fitting reward for their great services. (Cneers.) 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 con clusion. (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 lay the impulse given them by this house, were anxious to give a remedy for those sufferings; and when, in point of fact, an appropriate re medy was applied. But really, at this time of day, when the war has been 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, 1834, 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 mouths before it left the Crimea, and that whereas during the first winter it was in a 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, it was only the other day that I was conversing with an hon. and gallant friend with reference to thoeoCivatepritsehcpealemorsrpseactithglyne_ytactrnudde. campaign assured me that throughout the whole of that ca a ie e not tho suffer m h d ate nor materially knapsacks, in and t consequence.hat that there were ample supplies sent out from this country, and that owing to the want of proper arrangements m. hileth i o ms n ti t rg h uh e et spot th a t the e t did en thousand benefit gr e a b t y . e o t a h t e s w have been served out, but which were kept in s a to It is quite true that there w ere stores i n the Crimea Nhircel; nobody knew anything a b ou t , an d that there was forage at Constantinople, while the baggage animals were dying for the was swantent to o f i t t h in e th Crimea,Crimea. inash l i t is p l r m ic u e ch at i C t () i n s s t t o a ri be tinople. true, also, that an officer loaded ed with rice, to buy deplored A ll local confusion created by the pressure ; but arose entirely from the quite of tr importanttrue, and very and anxious services which had to be performed by men who had not been accustomed to its details beforehand. ) It was not from want olbearangement at home—it ample stores because the war department did not send ou it was of all kinds to supply the wants of the'arme ; but from owing partly to the rapid movements a the arn r y i ' ru ea England to Turkey, and from Turke t , 9 y e dittehreent depart partly to the necessary separation of th it was not useute, and partly to various other causes. o wing circunistauces, there was at fir st po thers was e a want of plying the army with fresh meat; ra n,ement ftoortshuopse those baking arrangements which w ould army with fresh bread ; the hospital s have ereilia s r up ra p n l e i e e d d the N EWSPAP E r 4,6 Y 1 4 ----. badly ventilated, so that the sick d f- je,kt tage from th em w hi c h th ey might lala e ,..e''efe. • f - Ze .; ee ,' All these things are deeply to be rep st ';' l ` s'ee.'e a lar g e portion of the evils which were .pearaen wide have been prevented by better arrangeinejek! ( r.) lothisshion p r opo rtion or n u. an g o e na ntlean is m uc h m i s t a k en if h e thi n k s that Die in hn o t h t e a Fr o e n ro c h :u. s , he s n rm y freormsimo d il a ob r n c at h u t se a. s t y ae ie t he l ww oi re s s f o ha f re o lg u dr r ne a ap l te l t i or e s tuk es aans pfuncoira,oil e li sti at a later period of the sage, for — oz r imitationw h o a T t h o e n re e i time no doubt that tho com m i ss i oners did their dut . y exceedingly well, but when did they go out ? They went out late, and they did not return till July, befor e which tipenottheedsugges- Jobiseseinonasnsotnictiopauttetdo the Crimea, n ard n i T ti lTe ti' w — eL ina am berme say. without any disparagement of Sir John Iti`Neillanu Col. Tulloch, that the medical comaitol?, con sisting of Dr. Gavin, Dr. Suth er l an d , and Mr. w inson„ conferred greater aa vantages on the army than it w sible for Sir John Melsreill and Col. T u ll oc h to accomapslros; because they took the medical arr angemen t s of the hc:t tals and the camp into immediate co ns id era ti on, and :111 gested improvements of considerabl e i m p or t ance. Ther f: lore, without any disparagement of them, I am b ound to say that Dr. Sutherland, Dr. Gavin (who unfortunat e ] died in the Crimea), and Mr. liawlinson, the engineer, who was wounded in an action into which he had ventured, did' in my opinion render far snore important services to the public and the army than it was in the power of Sir John M'lsTeill and 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 reputation was dear to him, had left the Crimea before Sir J. M'Neill and Cul. 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 nation of their conduct which, not having been iu 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 newspaper s 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 beards of military officers, com petent to b 3 judges of the matter, to receive their-state , resents, 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 sic in judgment on the Crimean Commission; 'on the con trary, it was an act of simple justice to those officers ; and when 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 facts which nobody disputes—the suffer 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 ungenerous at this time of day 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 has expressed a hope that arrangements would be made for the better instruction of officers of the army, and that young men should not go into the army intending to pass twe or three years as a pleasurable occupation, bat that officers should ponsider themilitary 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 long 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 rapidly. Officers who enter the army in time of war must expect that a great many of them will have their services dispensed with. A great dif ference, too, arises from this—that our service isevoluntary. The services of the continent are compulsory ; and voluntary service has in itself a voluntary spirit which pervades the whole being of the mau. It may have its inconveniences— no doubt it has ; but it has ou the contrary advantages the loss of which would be dearly purchased by the adoption of the continental system. Therefore, whatever arrange ments the Government may make—and I trust they will be able to make them—for imparting to military officers more professional instruction than they have hitherto, per haps, had the means or the inducement to acquire—yet, (42end upon sit s that system which the hon. gentleman vKisßes- Wire prevail—that nobody should go into the army bull *these * who- wish to make it the study, business, and profession ortneeir life—that system cannot be adopted in this country. It is not consistent with the nature of our inetitutiene with our national character and habits ; we must take advantage of those who go into the army whether that mean to remain a long or a short time. We cannot be a military nation, but depend upon it we are a fighting nation. (Cheers.) 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 time, when the war comes, you find them just as distin guished for bravery in the field—for their endurance of fatigue, for their submission to ell 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. (Hear, hear.) I should hope that the hon. member, having satisfied his mind by making that honourable mention which he has made of the commissioners, in which I entirely concur, and having 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--(a laugh)—l hope that the hon. member will not press his mo tion to a division, but let us now go into committee on the war estimates. (Hear.) _ _ _ Sir J. FITZGERA.Lb considered that the appointment of Sir John Ill`Neill and Colonel Tulloch to inquire into the con luct of subordinates, such as the commissary_ general, was in fact a con• : ure upon the commanding officer, who was naturally answerable for the conduct of those below him. General PEEL said he could not agree in what hal fallen from the noble lord. He was aware of the ridicule to which he should subject himself if he attempted to offer any professional opinion on what had taken place in the Crimea, and df the difficulty under which he laboured in speaking 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 common sense as any other. He saw no reason why the hon. gentleman who bat 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. He had served on the board of general officers con'rary to his own wish, for he saw from the first that it would do no good. He had arrived at a strong opinion that the cala mities in the Crimea arose from circumstances which it was not in the power of any individual to avert. Lord Panmure had expressed the same opinion. But unfortu nately it was always the practice to try and fix responsi bility upon individuals so as to throw the blame upon them. He was convinced that Admiral Boxer, Captain Christie, and Lord Raglan, had all fallen victims to sense less clamour, founded on the authority of anonymous cor responlents. (Hear.) Instead of attacking individuals, he would remodel the system. He did not for a moment underrate the hardships which the army had endured from the middle of November, 1654, to the end of January, 1855. It was impossible to do that, or to exaggerate ttie patience and heroism with which they had been sus tained. (Hear, hear.) But admitting these hardships, he still believed that nobody was responsible for them. No doubt the commissioner, ha I done their duty most con scientiously, but the extent of their services had been some what ever-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 say that the army was never in danger of that. ( Hear.) What were the facts? The commissioners did not arrive in the Climes. till the 13th !starch, and from that time 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 had made was about additional bread in t'ie rations and quinine. They were sent out without thei ntention to blame anybody, and they ought to have confined themselves to a statement of the facts. Had that statement been accompanied bythe expression of an opinion such as Lord Panmure had conic to, that the calamities in the 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 is 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 been reopened. All must feel, after having passed through those Crimean campaigns, that it was desirable to draw a veil of oblivion over everything which would appear to imply blame or censure. No doubt when an army took the field after a long peace there must be great inexperience, y m w tuehre were Chelsea owh blameei l t s h ea too little 00 r l a i r t t, tihl that, : means, They H e great difficulty, great confusion. He admitt e d that the error made by the Government of which he w as a member no doubtwtlelerye though they might have fallen ihns w naso a ittdd s o naefo a crr wt t ar etonederkm.alcllypoentltdi conscientiously, was shto o qie o otyurui st l e y ;rue that the changes made were made before the arrival of Sir J. M.'Neill and C.l. T 11 h for they were made in the autumn of 1851, when the land transport was divided from the Commissariat he railway was laid down, and other alterati . 'ons took place.: It was a service of great difficulty mdiuoustsbdenatydneasistitgeldletahattetthheey p a id e r d f e o l r i m ca e c d y, th a e nd he thought it with whetherithsfoumlneess officerss painful and invi dious ability. was to blame —but whether these two men (Hear.) The question was ninotwere or were not to blame — whether the board of general officers w h o were sent out to the Crimea to mske inquiries executed their trust faithfully andably,country manner Crown bad marked in a proper and unmistakeable . ) That was the the services which they Perf°llned. ( r .. ge n a onle friend speak question. He heard with regr©t hricsieee. until , and the No, no.) Ile and whether the . the somewhat disparagingly of it bad no higher credit understood his noble friend port was valuable and acted e i p 9 d upon officers who had been sent t o ssaney,etehat, although their re. than the reports of the t in to that view. The report of the out. He could not aesen t a tta ed overwork.i c a 1 valuable mine of information on 5 a most d fi f d r e o an m ne e , commissioners was would be based. But was that the only wo_ placed confidence, e c s. o i n that not. which many charges man, on whose ''suffering from privation d was one cause whieh, more than any other, troops l only were the service and that was the scurvy, which arose from led to disease, f e eding . on salt meat arid hard biscuit. (Hear.) too long too long feeding ou salt meat and hard biscuit the From w hich e ? became affected by scurvy, and however great the gums .. va rieties of disease which afterwards manifested themselves, they were the result iu the commencement of that one dis ease—scurvy. He understood, though of course he teal ma knowledge of it himself, that it was a peculiarity of every commissariat that they issued salt meat as long us they could, and for this reason, that the trouble was only in is suing it, and not i n o o llectiug it. But Sir J. M. 4 .IS' eill took tenders to Mr. Filder for the issue of fresh meat prat bread, and though great obstacles hart been interposed, he suc cee led in establishing bakeries, by which the troops were supplied 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 Now ready, in 2 vols., with illustrations, 21s APILGRIMAGE INTO DAUPHINE. By the Rev. G. M. MUSORAVE, A M., Oxon. " A pleasant book of travel through many pars of Franc^, a.; yet but little trodden by the English tourist. Mr. Musgrave writes in a thoroughly genial spirit, which renders it almost as agreeable to read the pages of his book as it was to himself to pass through so many districts abounding in magnificent scenery, and the different towns which are so full of antiquarian interest.'—Messenger. 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