The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-30 00:00:00

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ha this conatry are of sari ---a
assiz- ; that
mamas (I speak fun myself) can discharge them without
wag sensible that much just fault may be tinted with the
meaner ia which they are discharged. I bass not the
Meet doubt that that applies to my noble friend. lam far
tree Baying that he has such an exemption from all the in-
Amities of humus nature, that he has been able te devise
me/rater, and do everything in the right manner, and at
the right time. But if you think that he hi. not dented
\based with assiduity and great ability to the duties
ei his °Mee, you are =Waken. (Hear, hear.) You may
pees a vote te se 00000 my noble friend; von may shelter
yourselves for the moment behind the opinion of the =e-
mcee; bet if yea could have your committee of inquiry,
and if you could know the proceedings of my noble friend
(and there are many who will give their vote for rash a
sommittee to-night, who, if they had this knowledge, would
shrink from giving it)—(hear, hear)—if you get a majo-
rity, and succeed is Goering him and the government to
which he belongs with unpopularity and obloquy, I tell you
confidently—and mark my words ! than by this time twelve
months, when the state of the facts is disclosed, there will
be, among the jest and generous people of Ragland, a strong
reaction to his favour. (Hear, hear.) To come sow to the
state of the army itself. What are the grounds alleged for
this mein ? Yoe are going to condense my noble friend
and the government on account of the condition of the army
In the Crimea. You have an impression that there are no
roads, so depots, no clothing, no houses, no fuel, little
food, a went of ammunitien, and great confusion at Bala.
klavt—(than from the °pp./6600)—and I mast not for.
get to say, that the hospitals are defectively organised.
(Hear, bear.) Now, I beseech the house to recollect for
how long a time it is that these complaints have been rife
in this country. If you go back, you will find that it is
slue the middle of the month of December. Parliament
wet on the 11th or 12th of December. The affairs and the
state of the army were fully discussed in this house. The
home heard the statement of my right hon. friend the Secre-
tary of War; they believed that statement; and I believe
they were jastilled in giving it their credence. Complaints, of
scene, there were at that time; but complaints there must
be of every army is existsces ; and I thick you will epee
that it was not the duty of my noble friend with reference
to every eagle complaint, or to isolated rases of hardship,
to writ* to • man like Lord Raglan, engaged as he is in s
gigeaUo enterprise, with such vespocsibtlity epee him, just
as though he were at the head of some ordinary department
in Somerset House, and requesting him to make a report
upon the matter of somplaint. The duty of my noble friend
was to give heed to those complaint, and when they assumed
web &character IS to show that, either from defective organi-
sation or other causes, there were grounds to believe the
evils to be extensive, the,, to have made each
represeatatieses se were necessary in Ike hope that
the appliestioa of prudence and energy would remove
those eels. I say that it wet the middle of
December before the complaints seamed that character;
and I sac bone out by this—that though there was discus-.
lon in this house on the state of the army in the middle of
Dumber, the house In general was satisfied with the state
of the army. (Hear, beer.) Then from and since the
middle of December these complaints have become rife—l
may my, unhappily redundant. What was the duty of my
noble friend ander thew circumstances, and what was the
utmost he could do? Was he to recal Lord Regise ?
(Hear, hese ) I hear a solitary cheer, but I apprehend
that it is not the sentiment of the house. (Loud cheers.)
Lord Raglan either deserved your confidence or he did not.
Bat if he was to have your confidence, it was necessary
that he should have it whole and entire. It is impossible
fat may men to discharge the duties incumbent upon him,
' "Mb duties as have rarely been combined in the hands of
Me ihihidual, salmi he feu the full confidence and full
• aMplegitef the goverment sad parliament at home. Was
die dales of Lord Raglan to blame ? Did the go-
mamma err in that? Did the incompetent Kittle. er
of War show his lecorepetcncy in that choke ?
Why, it was approved by the uaiversal voice of the coun-
try. (Hear, hear.) Were the events that followed of a
mom to slake the esmildease of the country in Lord Rag-
hat Os Ibe essleary, you have voted him your saani-
momo—mot ally year nnanintens, but your enthusiastic
Ibeebe Ilts his beillbet services la the field. (Hear, hear.)
NM bee maferred upon him the highest homers
dgesst
whist le li her power Os bestow. Aar bead= the duty
et Wed illi dm MM, laid Raglan ha. wombat gat',
eel = Ile pesters, namely, the dog of giving
Rh end to that alliance between Baglaad
MB Few" efiralPsirt is all very well for ea to speak in
• Ibis hum bei moo him the practical task of leidelebies
AM slim bee fella. (Hear, bear) I begone awe
. mess* be ewe 'plai= ea the war yla which Lerd
Ms asieldesil bet dames Re mys that it humlit:
alum every beetle V his mid no maintain sal mane
that alliance; and be has not only maintained it in
form, he has ealsested it with the warm spirit
of generous attachment. (Hear, hear) I think there
cannot be two opinions ow the way in which he has done
that. You would not, therefore, I suppose', neat Lord
Reflex, although letter may have appeared in some of the
newspapers, or even articles written by the editors of news-
papers, stating that he ought to be recalled. (A laugh.)
Then I want to knew what you would have done? Would
you have recalled some of his subordinate officers, when the
emplaints became rife? Would you have recalled the
head* of the Medical Department, or of the Commissariat,
eie the Qaartermaster's or the Adjutant-Genera's staff?
(Hear, bear.) I fully admit that the facts made known to
government, especially since the beginning of December,
have been of such a character as it was impossible for them
to overlook. But it was their duty not to recal the
officers of Lord Raglan without communicating the
complaints to Lord Raglan himself. The confidence they
reposed in him made it their duty, their absolute duty,
la plata of oommon justice and deceive, to sek Lord Raglan
le investigate those complaints—to remind him of the
power whir* he had in his hands—to let him investigate
those ecimplaiats, and then act according to the but of his
jadgmeat. I will
wash the Minister of War has pursued. He bar received
*ma Lord Raglan an answer to the statement he made in
the month of December; and measure., we trust, have been
taken which will lead to an improvement in the condition
of the army. The boo in,ronet who spoke last says that it
is easier to prevent than to remedy evils. I admit that is
so ; but he has not shown that those evils could be prevented
by anything that depended upon the government, or upon
the war department. The offinn of the army are respon-
sible to Lord Raglan; Lord Region is responsible to the
government; the government is reeponsible to the House of
Commons. You may say, " All this takes a very long
time, and in the meantime the mischief is going on." ,
That is perfectly true ; but the quit-eon is, can
you fiad a shorter way to the remedy ? The government
could not find a shorter er.y to the remedy by recalling
Lord Raglan ; for the country would have cried out against
it. They would not find a shorter way to the remedy by
re-calling his dean without making any annutuaication to
him, so that he might hear their statement of facts, u well
as those which have been made known in this country.
They would not pursue either of these Mane S. It is for you
to say whether you will dismiss the government or not he-
lm they have had the opportunity of bringing these smelt
matters to au issue in the only way which is open to them.
(Hear.) When you move for a committee of the whole
house to inquire into a great national espedi-
tion, what you mean to imply by that is a
vote of want of confidence in the administration.
Any proceedings which you may take in consequence of
having passed such a motion yen will take with the whole
power of the house and in the face of the country. Bet is
it to be supposed, or is it not, that this inquiry is to be in-
trusted to a select committee ? I think every man must be
prepared to answer " Yes" or " Ne" to that question. My
right bon friend (Mr. Walpole) says a select committee ta
to undertake this inquiry. But that is tot the prevailing
sentiment. (Hear, hear.) The prevailing sentiment is
much mere like that of the hon. member for Aylesbury,
who says it is perfectly aSsurd to think of voting for such a
motion. Well, but why does he vote for such a motion?
Why, because it will despatch the government. Well, my
bon. friend, if he will allow me to call him so, is not very
nice in his choice of hastrameets. The priest of
old, when he was going to sacrifice a victim, washed
his hands and put on his sacrificial garments before
be plugged his knife into the heart. But my boa. friend,
whoa be hos that object in view, really does not seem mach
WI NN is what audition his bands are. (Laughter.) The
mob of Oa make in his view is simply that it will do-
roteltionsarlillaSOLlhe (Reaewed laughter.) He dose not
it. be doss not defend it; he abandons it, be
eelliellege it ; he Boys it is unworthy and ridiculous, and he
b dela. It is all very well to say that there is no limita-
tion on your powers written in your journals. No doubt
pen may if yen plum Molise to Masan any business is
this home. Tea may mess that a select committee be ap•
pelMeil to Inaba the Moines, of this house, and take the
bees el OM semillse la lies et yaw ewe votes; you may
if yen phase strip ponnelves of your baregralie fa
sad devolve theft ea • few of your riasmissre. Bilktia
that mower the of them who seek le we the
army ? (How, .) Will that warm ohs wpm of
these who wise le seeieleia the dignity sad Weems of the
country. (Hoer, leer.) Will that answer the ppaarpeam el
those who may wish Memoir's to be an dm aiettsslee, 1
and, as an abeieberadem, to enjoy the illefigellie of this
hetes sad eel _ iat ? Does the ben. ember BR Mee-
bary really Hi • man of Milk! mil ifinfirallaria
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