The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-14 00:00:00

TAB READ-QUARTERS STAFF IN TEE
CRIMEA.

Colonel Wetherell will, it is understood, 'mew
Colonel 31.11ardo, till the latter can return to his
stand.
The Head. Quarter, Staff is new as follows ;--c arommid.
I issChief-Bir W. J. Codrington, K C.B. Aides de.C4l,.
Ito the Commander.in•Chief—Captain the Hon. g.
Campbell, Rifle Brigade ; and Captain Ponsonby, Glondisi
I Guards. Chief of the fiteff—MajorGeneral C. A. 31144.
!ham, C.B. Aides-de-Camp to the Chid of the Stat..
I Major Lewis and Captain Brie. Quartermaster-G*ll.N_
Colonel the Hon. Percy Herbert. Assistant Quartarratater.
General—Colonel the Hon. A. Harding.. Depety
ant QuartermastarsGeneral—Captain Wilke, nth; cipt
Tomas, 23rd; Captain Vaeher, 33rd; and Captain Hsu.
ntersley, 14th. Military Seerstary—Liaatensat Wow
Blase. Assistant Military fleeretary—Major Boyle, Got
Burgeon to the Commander-in-Chief—Dr. Fowler failk,
AdjatanteCienual—Colonel Paaenham, C.B.
Deputy Adjutant. General, and Deputy Assistant Adjs.
tantsGaserni—Lientenant•Colonel Kennedy,
Thompson, 4th; Captain Laird, 77th; Major DoebinuT
Prusapal Medial OMeer—Dr. Hall.
The wart °waists of a troop of the 11th Hassan, ado
Captaia Vansittart, sad of twit companies of the Bide Brt
gad*, under Major Fyers,

MR. TITS, MP., AND CAPTAIN SCOBRLL ON
THE WAR.
1

Mr. Tit. and Captain &obeli were pretend at the
dieser eheesedleg the Christmas show of stock and pcuite
is eceinezieta with the Bath and West of England Aped.
torsi Society, held at Bath on Tuesday. After the mud
preliminary touts,
Mr. Chsmixr Boss gave " The Health, of the Mambo,
for the City of Both," a toast which wee received with Ivey
mark of respect.
Ceptsia Boons= rose to respond, and havingbeisl
referred to the subject of egricultun, said he would pia.
coed to the question of paramount importance—the
There wee so question that the artful precoedieg, tad
ambition of Russia were so fixed, so moulded, and ss so.
tan led into every part of Europe where she maid nub yy
diplomacy, and she had such a deep-laid scheme
w thin her power the territory which now behind ~,
Turkey, that, if she had suocamaded, her strength sussed fam
been so great that no man could tell what the tomumbia,
would have been to the liberties of Europe. la that man
they were really contending for liberty—(spplases)
were z
contending for heodoco,for so sure as Easesp
so sure would there be slavery, or attempts at last to
the world, and create a great military gorinissat
They bad therefore something to fight for, and their ~sops
had fought well ant nobly. All he wished was that thee
mild see greater advantages held out to every elms of dei,
army. (Applause.) Many advances bad been made hot*
impeoviag the condition of the officers, and rightly •IA
If they died in battle the money they gave for their eft.
minis*, wee returned to the families that they left babied
them. Then again there were pensions given to the dime
widows. He only wished they could see this systemia was
way extended to the private soldiers. (Apple/asocial!:
as mush laid down hie life the officer did; but the
was this, that though we gave the private soldim a mil
pension as long as he lived, if he died in battle, cc ben
west after betide, his family did not get a penny Wads
seuatey. He did wish that amid be remedied. (Appian,)
They had heard a good deal of "the right men is the right
pleat." One Commanderie• Chief had died, and mania
hese recalled, or bad resigned, and now they had a third. Hs
treseed they would find that third to be "the eight Mil
the right place." (Applause.) This was of wet common*
to them, not oily for their national glory and saushetim,
but as the dispensers and payers of immense rums of um
to awry co the war successfully. Fighting side by efi
with a noble French army, and with a smell Inky of
Sardinians, it was also of equal importance that we she*
Mate este to establish our military reputation. With ma
pact to the navy, a great many men were longer is gee*
the first step than 14•6 of family isfiasace were is 'Wog
bur steps; or, in other worde, many men were lager is
tieing to be midshipmen than others in reaching the psi.
doe of post-eaptain, which was tantamount to that of
esioesel. Such was the state of things Wee a
=icat Admiralty—en Admiralty that was come*
lfg followers by political Kitts, and thereby pushing
ea men of parliamentary or any other anal Wise*
te the exclusion often of men of merit. (Applassa.)
With respect to the prospects of peace, he wee OM of them
who thought that we really ought to teeth Bowie tad be
ambition mast he kept down, and that she could ass tiith

=try give vent to those angiy end sellth pasha Sid*
her into this war. (Applause.) We art the gal
safe securities, and he trusted we should mow asses Rd
wee not sale. (Applause.) He knew then was as d
ssting e safe peso, but by fighting for it. We awl Mail
the sword when thee thesword wee drawn. (Arsine)
we could keep the sword in the scabbard it wield Ma
Messing, but after the sword was drawn it wee he the emit
last the longest and could strike the hardest who wield gst
the best terms. (Applause.)
Mr. Tim, in returnieg thanks, observed in reforms $
the war, the whole mind and feeling of ,England am em.
barked, he believed, in that question. It was a war eV*
appeared to him one of the holiest in whisk we had MI
embarked. As to the prospects of Emma be seafm=
appeared to his mind not to be very ihtletillg. He
anything that came from Austria; she could kindly be dm
NM mew any more than she was shame twelve seethe op
If she had bees sincere then, the war sightless lambs*
put an end to. However that might be (sad his l
aspiration was that it might turn out to be true), he Mad
til
that, if they lived to meet another year in Beth, sight
see this terrible war at en end, and be enesegela Is
beating their swords into ploughshares. (Applies.l
this might be so, but he very much doubted it.
was one point about the terms of peace which he bed mem
men adverted to. They had heard of the four mkt* id
he wished to know why Russia should not be side* pay
her share of the met of the war. (Applause.) Hs sew
lasted that the time was when a pesos was sada with
France, and whoa ate was unhappily bumbled at ths mg el
the great war, that she was called upon to psy her sillier
towards the war is which we had then embarked. (Ip.
Same.) It might be that this was Quixotic, it night be
that we should be asking too much, but it did appear tads
that that was the mode, politically speaking, by which we
must make Burris . feel. Her aggrandizement meet need
am herself by Femme on her finances.—Bath CA701_2....„0416