The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-28 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL ELECTION.

TEE ARMY BEFORE

I TIM NOMINATION.
Yeltterday the Destination of candidates for tin
reproisstation of Liverpool is parliament, took plat* at the
htes, Is frost of the Tows Halt.
twillauy hostilities kashmir bees observed, the
1 Mayor, J. A. Tostx, Seq., invited pestles's* who bad Gas-
didates to propose to come forward.

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Mr. Tzomu LITTLIDAIX proposed Mr Osage Bonham
as a ataa of great esealaerolal imperious, a hard 'worker, •
sound proesataat, aid &staunch supporter of the cosativatioa
hi oharsh mad Mato.

Alderman FRANCIS B=ata seconded the nosalaatioa, and,
as the forme speaker had dwelt somewhat long on Sr
George Boaltain's merits, applied biassU to expose Mr.
liwut's defect". This speaker placed the sontest before
the elestoes se em between coaservatient and radicalism. I
Mr. Gnome Hamm. proposed Mr. Joseph Christ..
pber Evart as a gentlemen u decidedly protestant as Bit
George Bonham, bet one who would not join in persecuting
wow who were opposed to his views. Mr. Bwart, to a
sound commercial experience, added intimate knowledge of
their laureate, and trout his long connexion with the town
was well able adequately to represent them in parliament.
He was for having the right men in the right places. Sir
Charge Bonham at Hoog-Hong, Mr. Been, Liverpool's
representative, is Mu British House of Commute. Let
them la making their selection secure a man who would look
for merit sad seek to advance worth.
Mr. Rosmanox GLADITOXI seconded the nomination.
The MAYOR that asked if there were say other ceadidate
to propose, and there being no response,
Sir G. Bolutais then came toward aid proeseded t.
state his views, but the element made his sesserks fre-
quently inaudible. He said he certainly Muni' sot, upon
his own 'peewit, have presumed to put himself leeward fee
the honour of representing that peat and Impesgat elm
stituency ; but the gentienten who had called Wm these
bad sonfidenee in his commercial keewledgii, but which he
was afraid they had rather overvalued. He had Wet 20
years an their oolohiee—in mimics that were entirely oons•
menial—sad during his residence in these parts it was ise•
possible for him, seasideriag his Intimate oonnexlen with the
inhabitants, not to have acquired a considerable amount of
real commercial knowledge. Without reference to the
obssreatioas the opposition had doss him the honour to
make upon himself, he woeld repeat what he had pre-
viously stated, that he we. a follower of the great cower.
retire party. And if the honour was conferred upon him
of being their representative in parliament, be would be a
follower of Lord Derby ; sad he would render his support
M the commercial institutions and to the moutitutioa.
(Chan.) Hs should also adhere to the principles of our
esdermed faith, which were in a prosperous mete. and he
wed* ecomentrate all his ability and energy upon the carry
hag et questions brought forward for the public, good. (a.
Vales: How much did you get for Hong•liong ?") He
got 11,0001. a year and that was not halt enough. (Boars
of laughter, and Immense cheering.) Be had been 000bl-
derably abased by a gentleman whom name he did not
know, and all of whose observations he did not hew,
and he would now finally settle the point that
had bees alluded to—he was not in favour of the )[''-
tooth Grant, and he would oppose it. (Cheers.) lie
agreed with some of the speakers, that it was a matter of
serious regret that religious topics shoaid be discussed in
connexion with polities; bet, as these matters had been
named, he gave his answer, and what he stated upon them
he would do. That he was ant an orator he had before told
them; he was certainly not born one, and his antecedents
had not hem of a character favouring his making any pro-
gress. (Hear, hear.) However, it be were elected as their
member, he would take care that be would clearly state his
opinions to the House of Commons upon any point that
mime before It. (Cheery.) lie had not the eloquence nor
the figures of speech of the gentleman who had preceded
him, but they (the conservatives), as reasonable men, would
regard "deeds," not " words," as their motto. (Loud
cheers, which continued some time.) With regard to the
war, probably they desired to hear something. (Hear.) He
belleesit that if Lord Derby's administration had been in ex-
isammeat the time there was a probability of war, the chances
ermialbee they would have bad no war at all—(" hear, " and
sireseeleey would have put a good front on theirdeter-
miairem, sad very likely avoided it. (Chews.) Bat it
they must have had a war, the people would have been in
a better position—at all swab, it would be admitted they
Weald or could not Lave been in a worse one. (Loud
sheen.) There were two local questions which appeared
M elegem &motion in this town—the first was the tows
dews, the taking away of which would never be sanctioned
by him. (Hoch cheering.) The other was that of centra-
lisation, the object of which was to deprive large towns of
their municipal institutions. This would be a serious thing
es aided Liverpool. It was equivalent to telling the
ty it was unable to manage its own business, but
mast be managed by those who kaow nothing at all of it.
.) Repeating his flied determination to do his best
the of Liverpool, and for the people generally,
hoa. gentleman concluded his address amidst the cheer-
ing of his supporten.
Mr. SWAIM is caning forward, war received with lead
sheers by the liberals, sad with strong disapprobation by
the tromervatives. He said it had ham with a gram deal of
hesitation that he had again oome forward to solicit their slit-
(rages; but when • certain clique of their opponents thought
proper to presume to dictate not only to their own party, but
to the great and enlightened constituency of this borough,
as to who should be their representative in parliament, the
liberal party had determined that they would not allow
the electors to be compelled to give their votes in obedience
ti the impudent dictates of a few. (Chews and disappm
nation.) Far be it from hint to disparage the character
of his honourable opponent; but he would put it to the
good sense of the electors, whether a person who had lived
hen all his life, who wee identified with their interest",
who bad had a commercial education, and whose whole
prosperity depended on his property is Liverpool, would
not make a better reiressatative than his hon. opponent—
(eheers)—whose name, he would venture to say with all
possible respect, he positively did not believe even fifty
membess of this community had heard of before his !Mead
Tom Bold had brought him down as a candidate for the
vacant seat (Lied chews, and cries of " Oh, oh.") He
hoped that the bitterness of party feelings, which had so
long deemed the contests lo this borough—party feelings
which he had d mondani, he possibly could to lemon—
he trusted that these would all dissppear, and that, as
sensible men, this town would elect practical persons, who
were willing to carry out practical Ineenref. (Hear, hear,
and Oh, oh.) If they had had practical men at the head of
some of those &pertness*" is this war, did they think they
would have had, at Balaklava, quays composed of trusses
and begs of rice, while our
spoor horses were actually
starving for food ? (Hear, bear., But the days of nepotism
had gone by—(hear, bear)—gone for ever, and talent and
Sums wield now be the qualification for Ake. (Hear.)
It was scarcely necessary for him to address them epee
topics connected with the town, he was so deeply interested
is it; bat there was a question alluded to by his friend, Mr.
Thomas Littlidale—and when he spoke of him as a friend,
be hoped he had still retained his friendship—and that
was in respect of the tows dues. (Hear, bear.) He had
so hesitation in saying that when the matter same before
the House of Commom be would to his utmost support the
right of Liverpool to those dues—(" hear," and cheers)—
'Mich he himself sincerely believed were the legal pro-
perty of the inhabitants. (Cheers.) There was another
remade, in whisk he bad taken the deeper beerest—he
awe' edweedsm Me me maid bemused the Newssheet&
Juba Fakiegten wittiest lessehing M thlak this Meglead,
boasting of her great Insatiable', should be se he behind
W the other countries on the continent-4mb as Austria,
Prussia, and Denmark—on the educational question. (Hear,
mar.) H. knew that there was a great difference et
upon the matter, but he earnestly prayed that
of all denominations would agree and unite in
the blessed work of devising some measure satisfactoey to
all, that would give the people of this country the mama-
sages of education. (Cheers.) He would support the pre-
sent ministry in every good measure that might be brought
&maid, but he honestly told them that if be went up to
parliament, be went there free and independent; he would
not pledge himself to anything ; be was independent in
mind and is fortune, and nothing would Latium him to
swerve from what he believed to by for the best interests of
the country. (Lead cheers.) To them he am appealed—
by all the ties that hound man to man for the arm-
een of their children, whom they hoped to Cherish,
the ei sesta= of odaeatiia ought to be regarded with
vital latent*, la order that one day the child may by
his talent and sanded stand in the proud position be
then occupied of aphids; hie fellow•towasaesa he their
suffrages. (Eleaewed sheers.) By all those ties he
to them not to bask of *blameable individual who
thosee hot of the eases of which be was ea advocate; and
Aaies 14 id they were true to themselves, they weld
ttelotsrp tbereirrou each as Liverpool had never wit-
sassed. (Loud abuts.)
The show of heads area the preceded with, mad iodated
, la le
fte ikla favour of Mr. limit, Gad led to vediennes cheering

tboa doomaadod cot behalf of ilk George Boa-
haw, sad tloo Mager assoomood that A would take pleat
WIMIIITOW (Weds, *day), to opsusst eight and doss at four,
&slack.

Air Oozes Lomax thee a vote of thinks •03
the Mayor. Mr. Swot the iaoMee, w ' hich ga
carded by sestiaostleam meth, elowd begin %MOW th s
e
tor,,codoesdie Loin temsdnaled almost twangy siestas
Immediately after the spooks at tha asesir,auma, ma
eaSsawy essair, eserressl with tbs Caf,stitationg
AseseleVies, serial nags., behalf of the* body, soca
the of that the Mural cooKedass. Joseph
Christ Root, was basMsthis dosage, being
the et the and eskrieal lamas racket
Cer.ipany, Irbil had &outlast with government for the co-
silence of soil.. This is a mere rues, mad speaks little
tur the peelessimal skill of the moon is patios, as b 5
tee. 3 021 Gas. 111. e. 46, it is poWmad
WA =Ma *mica. pesamisa
which Pee dlehel:llfri "'WI 10 matrasis,
AO, by say issesperated tooling vAmpaai, ace to any sow
I, peel thee *Adel eeleelethitt V. more shoe ten perseasm
where the soatnet shall be WA* for the general Maeda if
the tesPe7." It it was othsrehe, half the Hens of
Cosmos would be diseao',iftem hemea4 shares La raii.
ways carols, oath. fe,m, and Mr.
Anderson us all ev,seetadßar& mad pkilet asadenies,
and yet him sesta tig pariLwat ;
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MR. RORBUCY'S COMMITTEE.
lIIs
Fsea drille:liqintirletLeasetediej eweisted y
anodfmaaneCiangtienin en;
Sidle Way in the Crimea, sad of the sick sad wounded et
Bentarl. From the evidence printed for the use of the cons-
Mane.
to it would appals that theha ve pat upwards of 6,000
the witnesses and have remind 6,000 mowers
=illuthilesinqoiry commenced, or at the rate of between 400
ad KO postdates and replies per day.
The first witness examined yesterday was Mr. William
May Flower, meistaatthurgeon to the 113 rd Regiaset. thee
Crimea of which Instated when it left this country for the
Crimea was 1,020 strong. They lost about 60 men while
encamped on the Bosphorus front cholera. The medical
staff tonsiaterl of one sergeant, three amistante, cue hospital
=. and some few orderlies, which ha thought was .
SS as • medical staff. They took out a large regi-
meats) medicine chest and panniers, with general medical
appliances. The medicine chest, about the size of a table,
who left at Varna, being too heavy for carriage further into
**Crimea by the ponies of the country. The medicine
sans contained a good supply. He arrived in the
,Crimea ou the 14th of September. The panniers
eentaioed gement medicines, lint, splints, eke , and they
were complete small medicine chests. The opium was
very soon exhausted, but they obtained further supplies on
requisition to the purveyor wh they wanted more.
Re had within beyond the supply furnished by the pu-
ska' on the march to Sebastopol. A small bell teat was
furnished for the sick on their landing at Varna, but the •
regiment was about three weeks without tents. The dew
weavery heavy, and the men suffered in health from expo-
sure. The hospital bedding and medical comforts remained
on beard the Avon, and the bedding was only brought oat
ten weeks after they landed. They had to. stretchers
when they landed, and they were sufficient, he thought, for .
the wants of the regiment. Seine of these stretchers were
loss on their way. There venue means provided for the
transport of sick. The first day they got a Ingest' to
are them. They left a great many men to die on the
road, basing no ambulance waggons. Some were on the
beach, but they were shipped again. If they had had lit- •
Mrs or males they could have brought these sick
men on. They suffered chiefly from dysentery and
diarrtthea, and some seen after followed the army.
and others get to the ships. The bend carried the
stretchers and the medical instruments. Two ambulances
were afterwards supplied to his division, but be did not
think them enough. They were very heavy, and he thought
the French mule system bettor. The knapsacks were left
en board ship, and the men complained of the loss of them.
The packs, consisting of blankets, boots, etc., were very in-
etenvenient for them to carry. About 'iv sick, after the
battle of the Alma, were seat on board ship from his regi-
ment, from cholera, in 'rata waggons, by the ceromiseariat.
These areas were vety slow and uncomfortable, and very
jolty. The state of the field hospitals after Alma was very
bed. The sick and wounded were laid on straw in the farm
yards on that measles. He saw the French hospital after
the battle of Alma. It consisted of a farm building, with a
number of tents placed in a half elide, with an operative
table in the middle, and every other conventeace, and the
wounded were properly and well cared for. The English
had no operative table, and all the French operations were
finished the day after the Mottle, and the sick removed. The
sick of the English were about three weeks
without tents or marquees. The tents used for
the sick at first did well, but after rein became wretched. •
They were Oct waterproof, and were made worse from the
ground being covered with mud. The men were wet
through nearly always, sad there ware no means of drying
their mud-covered garments. The smell was very offensive.
There was no boarding to he had, but merely the bare
ground for the sick. The men laid in their clothes, which
dried on them. He attributed much of the mortality that
took place to the hospitals being in that state. They had
very few orderlies that knew their entries. Some of the
best died on their way from England. There was a de&
'limey chit fiy of opium, one of the most important medical
agents, as the men were suffering chiefly from cholera and
diarrhea, in whichanes it was a most important drug.
Requisitions were constantly sent to Balaklava for it, and
sometimes a small quantity would come back, and some-
times none. The men generally had fresh meat till lately,
and wine and sego, but not always in sufficient quantities.
Lately the supply become better. The fresh meat was
boiled in a sort of soup. During the lest mouth of
his stay fresh meat was given to the sick, bat
latterly the g I troops had salt provision.
About the middle of October, during the heavy rain, the
deism increased considerably. The mode of lire, hard
week, no change of clothes or diet, and exposure, med the
general sickness and mortality. They got their baggage
about tea weeks after they landed, and the knapsacks were
landed two months after; they were brought up and piled
in the middle of the camp, and were not issued to the men
until a few days before he left. lie heard that this was in
ooaseqneace of an order from the colonel of the regiment.
Mr. Layard—Then even although the men were perishing
for want of clothing, their knapsacks wen not given to
them ?
Witnees—No.
Mr Layard—What were the men doing?
Witness—Digging some large holes or pits fourteen feet
in diameter, for placing the tents in to prevent them being
blown away; but the tents were not placed in them, because
the holes became filled with water. (Laughter.)
Bir J. Pakington—How did the digging of the holes in-
terfere with the distribution of the knapsacks ?
Witness—l was told that the withholding of the knap-
sacks was en inducement to the men to dig the holes. (Re-
newed laughter.)
Sir J. Pekiegton—Who vim the colonel of the 63rd ?
Witham—Colonel Deltoid.
Sir J. Pakington—Was the officers' baggage piled up in
the camp ?
Witness—No. He attributed much of the illness of the
regiment to the want of clothing, and up to the time he
came away some of the men had not changed their clothes
at all from the time they landed in the Crimea—from the
middle of September to the end of December—nearly three
months, but lay in them day and night. The 63rd lost 100
in killed and wounded at Inkermann, and after that re-
ceived about 90 saes as reinforcements. When he came
away it was difficult to know the number of men left, but
there were about 300 fit for duty and 200 sick out of the
1,020 that left Ireland. They sent the sick from the camp
is the ambulances as long es they lasted, and on the wag-
gons of the 00131111illinilt, and latterly on the French mules.
The covering of the men in the trenches was only that of
their usual sloth's with the blanket for 24 hours together,
ezpreed to all weather. He beard the men say they had
generally been two nights out of three at work in the
trenches. The regiment had rice for a month at Gist, but
after that it was disoontieued; and when the want of supplies
wee represented to the commissariat, one day they supplied
owe ration only, a portion of which consisted of a cabbage
between tial4e-doses men. They had tea twin a week.
The sores wee always go. en, and had to be broken up by
MOMS halls, or manned with a stene, sod roasted or
'barred es the tops of the comp kettles. It tasted very
5 like carnal and water. (Laughter.) It might pm-
have anted the heath of the Ines, but he
not sag it would produce disease. Still •
it would nom, taken in that way, be wholesome.
After the 14th September, his regiment was not regularly
supplied with fatless. The meet would be stopped for one
or ten days,, and the rum Desna irregularly. &ratetimes
they were ea day without meat, and on one occasion they
were two flays. The Mamie bad hams, site.. at Balaklava,
se that they did not aurae so much. The men sometimes
bed nothing but biscuit ;. mid ea they they had no biscuit,
but mese. On as meadow nil the officers were ordered out,
be believed, ea a voyage el discovery for a lost consignment
of Wont, whisk it woe thought bed tonna its way to the
French camp. Hitt awn personal removal on sick leave re-
waited meetal &immune. He suffered very much from
tros•-bite, and dose the battle of Balaklava be bad to lie on
net had ganfodr
tan, which *coupled them eight den. No provision was
thklamadevawe,ehtber
thweeast.enTbbeieirdsktklie.
afttohneee sow
nths and
da
in his
910tob ecie'mwihnige ht
to e
Balabadonly. There were 26 orderlies, but they were either too
wiTitehree:laiderii: wedoniet.hhth7se
Milady es they could be,
ski or weakly to attend, and some of the sick
andme baren
bdltesocnkB ck
e "um.
on deck for say purpose the whole time of the voyage. They
were in a moat wretched gad helpless state. The captain
did all be could, and the rely conveniences the had were
large tabs to um, which were emptied during the
day. Between tweaty sad thirty died on the voyage.
The vessel was disabled ea starting, and it took eight days,
when it should wall have occupied about 48 hours. She
was subsequent% towed up to Scutari. The men were
altogether tea or alma day* on board the Victoria, and
moult not have died en momoresely if they had been taken
proper are or., sad net The Nish, when landed
et Bootsci, was loaded isugesidbil boats. sad:fie:believed,
then they 'wow well holland medical com-
forts. Dr. Halms ordorwairtta isras of dderoform was not
gone armed in by the raspy memos, who had seen a
red *.al of it used is the large Load= hfspitals ; but he
(withees) thought it nest useful in army medical opera-
tions , sad sever hesitated in using it in ease of wounds.
Itif.sed, it was now the soul application, and he did not
*Ask it it all dangerous in cases of amputation organ shot
, *srosussis.
wee Oho wait of conveyance.
meal ski of the army generally was inarmeed by night
atteaßltioadit to th•Plkialtal—woundedßaeftardidTßalakkhonotmelmniortaliva.
tyTaahoefygrartrelegvain.
en boars, and the last day of their
her, the risk was
toreithreasesspoLeatkriuma:wasexporareres.nsairmais,mir
sotOarilisilif.r...9thansted,pprodparalo:clafeoffstingsezellduhsadDeoboitnit:g.
landtasiseas daer CV*, when they anchored of Soutarl.
Ovoidal return metal that sateen men
Mr.
died as board, and that the Victoria sailed
and cue
ca the MIN sad wind on the 20th, being aia days loss
time what pea Mks.
MO ad am boom iamb of WNW, sessasisas to say whs.
aocklirOgramaiswereld,
asessikeeitheirlbab Peel—The
elpheessieveresr,4;erinuniadneetteloyed.
usidthis.:.
elesv a graledsal of Masai aid mestanty swag tromps was
the Inevitable remelt of as army waestateg whitest the
mums of tasaelceß teats, stratobara, !a.; but it gamma sot
have eeatikael as lacy oast they snivel at Beliklava.
If the mature of the apsnekew la So Sale wean have
Mewed the Naas ea sem Orate UM% Mesta haw bin taz
better. Aftss she Aiwa Soy literesibst ea Ms iiii. The
eras sit=gel ateswah set Moe as-
Tbe nuteoere at bottret 11 Alsoktbikall Iran —I the owdt eelladek having
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