The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-17 00:00:00

THE LATE LORD RAGLAN.

Under date of the 29th, the correspondent of the
Times has the annexed account of the death of Lord
Raglan ;
Among the general orders promulgated yesterday afternoon
was the following :
The Field-Marshal has the satisfaction of publishing to the
army the following extract from a telegraphic despatch from
Lord Paumure, dated the 22nd of June t— •
I have Her Majesty's commands to express her grief that so
much bravery should not have been rewarded with merited
success, and to assure her brave troops that her Majesty's
confidence in them is entire. _ _ _

Within a few hours after this order had appeared, the elec-
tric telegraph brought the melancholy and startling intelli-
gence from head quarters to the various divisions that the
Field-Marshal was dead. It would appear that he has lately
—no doubt from the constant strain on his mental and bodily
energies—been far from well, and the death of General Est-
court, to whom he was much attached, the unsatisfactory
result of the attack on the 18th ultimo, and the unhealthy
weather since, broke down a constitution already enfeebled by
age and long service. The following tells its own melancholy
story : MORNING GENERAL ORDERS.
Head Quarters before Sebastopol, June 29.

No. I. It becomes my most painful duty to announce to the
army the death of its beloved commander, Field-Marshal
Lord Raglan, G.C.8., which melancholy event took place last
night about nine o'clock.
No. 2. In the absence of Lieut.-General Sir George Brown,
the command of the troops devolves on me; as next senior
officer present, until further orders are received from England.
No. 3. Generals of divisions and beads of departments will
be pleased to conduct their respective duties as heretofore.
J. Simrsow, Lieutenant-General.
There is great feeling of regret evinced throughout the
camp at the loss of Lord Raglan. His death appears to have
at once stilled every other feeling but that of respect for his
memory, and remembrance of the many long years he faith-
fully and untiringly served his country.
The cause of his death is stated to have been diarrhoea,
which terminated in cholera. The body is to be conveyed to
England in her Majesty's ship Caradoc, and will leave very
shortly. It will, I hear, be accompanied by the whole of his
late lordship's personal staff, whose duties will then, of course,
cease. Colonel the Hon. W. L. Pakenham will conduct for
the present the duties of the Adjutant-General's office.
We have now but very few generals left to command divi-
sions or to act as brigadiers. Sir G. Brown left Kamiesch
this morning for England ; he had, I believe, previously
heard of the dead( of the Field-Marshal, but his medical
advisers insisted on the necessity of his at once leaving the
Crimea. General Pennefather, as you are aware, has been
gone for some days. Generals Estcourt, Sir John Campbell.
and Colonels Yea, Shadforth, &c., are no more. General
Codrington, on whom the command of the Light Division
now devolves, is in anything but a satisfactory state of health,
and is at present on board of a man-of-war at Chersonese.
The division provisionally under the orders of Colonel
Shirley of the 88th, the only colonel of the division who
remains of those who led their gallant men from Kalamita
Bay to Alma and Inkenalan. General Barnard, it is under-
stood, takes command of the Fourth Division, and, for the
present, the duties of Brigadier-General will, with few ex-
ceptions, 'devolve on the senior officers commanding regi-
ments. The siege is " dragging on." The firing for the
last two days or three has been a little more active on the
part of the enemy, particularly at daylight. A report on the
supply of water in the tanks of the different divisions has,
I believe, been forwarded by the commanding engineer to
head-quarters, and it is in contemplation, in consequence, to
move a portion of the Land Transport Corps to the
neighbourhood of Koranni ; but it seems to me that the
supply, though not of the purest or most pellucid kind,
is not reasonably to be complained of, and continues
in sufficiently ample abundance. Some little amount' of
unpopularity, I am told, has fallen on Sir Edmund Lyons, who
hitherto has been the great favourite of all his officers. The
Naval Brigade have been up here for many a long mouth of
frost, snow, wet, cold, and privation. After weathering -the
past winter, they brought through their men in better condi-
tion than any other corps in camp. No doubt many of the
officers volunteered for this duty with the hope that they
would obtain, as they have proved they deserve, their promo-
tion. A " death vacancy" among the lieutenants occurred a
few days ago in the Naval Brigade, and by the usual Custom
of the service, should have been conferred on one of those who
had worked with it all along, but Sir Edmund Lyons selected
for promotion a midshipman serving in • the St. Jean d'Acre,
who happens to be a son of Sir James Graham ; directed that
a board should be held to pass him to his next step—that of
a mate ; and before he had been in that rank a dozen hours
signalled for him to come to breakfast, and handed to him his
commission as lieutenant. I regret to hear that there are
complaints on the part of the Commissariat and Land
Transport Corps respecting the " navvies." It seems the term
for which their services were engaged has expired, and they
will now only work when they please, and have, in fact,
become exceedingly idle. The consequence is, that the whole
system of getting up provisions by the railway for the divisions
in front is deranged, and much valuable time is lost in also
bringing up shot and shell to the trenches.