The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-19 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 19.

IT is adds that the division on Mr. ROPORICIII
moths will take Om tonight. The gauntry will
bete, with a view to ratans dike, bow every mem-
ber votes, sad who absent themselves. The public
ere completely mastered the ease. They are is pos.
seen= of all the avidness submitted to the aelnelegsl
Committee, and a great deal more. The sal.mt has
teen eandried in Parliament sad out of dears kr
moaths. Men's minds are made up; sad every mid
her who votes against evidence and ream, and
every member who shrinks from recording his vote,
•will have to account at the hustings for his eandoet.
The House of Condoms swan get rid of the dill-
salty by voting the pesetas. question without in*.
coverably stedtifying and degrading itself. Months
ego it voted, by a large majority, that the sooounts
of the condition of oar army in the Crimea were of
such a nature as to render a solemn inquiry into their
truth indispeasable. A Committee was appointed,
imposed of members friendly to the present
Ministers, of members friendly to their late col-
leagues, and of members opposed to both. The Com-
mittee was instructed to inquire whether our army
had suffered as much us was represented r--what was
the canes of its sufferings P-end who were responsi-
ble for them P It examined persons who had been in
the Crimea and witnased with their own eyes the con-
dition of the army ; ponces employed in the different
cams of Clodrameat connected with the management
of the war ; and the Ministers who had taken a
responeible part in that management. After a
protracted inquiry, the Committee reported that the
sufferings of oar army had far exceeded what is the
seersary sonsequence of warlike operations ht the
Andy that its extra anfieriap had remelted from the
shameful seal-arganiesties of our Government depart-
meats, and from want of doe foresight sad energy to
weed or compsmits tor those thiamin on
the part of the responsible Mini ids Awed
with the conduct of the war. We &Abe.
rate judgement of the Committee has bed nab-
sated to the Hood of Gemmons, aloe, wish
the dichosa, written and oral, upon whisk
It rats. It is now the duty of the House, site
impaling the ambasices of the report with
the widens, to declare whether they are well •
ill founded; sad if they an well-founded to visit
with its coadiga omen the offending Ministers. To
shrink from the discharge of this duty will her in do
pen al the Home °likened% to trifle with Om pi.
these at the nation, to omit the performance of am
of Its most vital obligations, to abdicate its find
tied. Such conduct would convict the House, se
a body, of frivolity, incapacity, utter deadness to
a mead of its important dense. It must say " Aye"
or "No" to the declaration submitted for its adop-
tion by Mr. Roducx, that a brave army has been
wantonly °congaed to unnecessary suffering, and
that the Ministate who have done this have incurred
the grave oeuvre of the nation's representatives.
The paltry Wisdom by which it Is sought to divert
the House of Commons from the washers. .r
duty cannot bear the slightest or most cursory
examination. It is alleged by Mr. Lows and others
that to blame Ministers for the mismanagement of
the war may give umbrage to our ally the Emperor
of the Fames. The House of Commons hes already
disposed of that argument. It declared that there
wee nothing in it when it voted that the
inquiry should proceed. And there is nothing
in it. The inquiry and the proposed sen-
tence of oondenuestion have no reference to

the general policy of the war. or to anything
ia.which oar ally is concerned; but solely to the
manner in which our own Government have dis-
charged that part of the task of protecting Turkey
which devolved upon them. The question at issue is
exclusively domestic, and no foreign :power has a
right to say a word on it. Nor has the &SPIRO&
expressed a wish or attempted to interfere, although
there is good reason to believe that an sin mei at
one time made by men in albs here to shied Itim
into such sawn* and unwarrantable interfeeenes.
Again, the news of yesterday—with all the
unction of a Mother Cole—assumes the law
page of hypocrisy, and exhorts Parliarneat
and the nation to leave the punishment
of Ministers to Heaven. There is no doubt
that Heaven in its own good time and mg
punishes all offenders whom the folly or crimimdity
of men permits to escape from the penalties of human
laws. But it is not the leas the right and the duty of
society to protect itself spinet future delinquents by
inflicting exemplary punishment upon =Wag of-
fenders. To allow the guilty to escape big
branded even by reproof, is to encourage them and
others to a repetition of the offence. The judge and
jury might as well be told to dismiss a convicted
pickpocket without puuiebment, because Heaven
would punish him in time. Lastly, Lord SEYMOUR
would have as believe that the exposure
which has been made by the Committee will
ensure better management for the future, and
that a vote of sensors is to be depre-
cated as a mere useless expression of vindictive
spleen; The answer to this allegation is, that the
'spasm.* has produced no amendment. At this
moment there is almost as much neglect and mis-
management on the part of Government as at any
period of the war. Not long before the abortive
attack spot the Redan, it was found that caresses
bad been mat oat by the Board of Ordnance which
had been manufactured fifty years ago, and which
had in that lapse of time undergone such a chemical
change as to be destructive to our own soldiers,while
they were useless when employed against the enemy.
Again, we were told lately that the army is now
amply supplied with porter; but this has since
been discovered to be a wilful misrepresentatioa, in-
sane& as only one division has been so supplied.
Nepotism is also as rank as ever in the adminis-
tittles of the army and navy, as witness the late
promotion eta near rebates of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S,
who had to be passed through an irregular examina-
tion to enable him to obtain it, over the heads
of brave and distinguished oilier% And winter
&Albin, which was mot seat to the Crimea in time
to protect ear soldiers, exposed without huts to the
inelesesacy al the meson, ham actually been forwarded
to the Crimea within these feff weeks. We need
e 7 notithig at present of the &BP= Ittsfoitil
• sad the sausdaloas delay is thaeele-
pistib.it of the fisaitarium at St. George's_s
igenstk7. These are bat sampler Of the
mama milessaagerasat of the wart but &V
ttaM to AM' that hltsibitY• seeded, and ishkt7
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ttla as dip Ps the seams departments of

Oromminsat upon whom the conduit of the
dooliree, es ever. Ministers on not to be
&NIA 111 s greater wesegy, or inspired with venter
Wig lig men exposure. Ts 3 sAlutoo alloss
Obst Owe more powerful Inuit be'
non um to
All those empty allegationibf Web it 111-._
to peened, the Home opOommenn uogiusio -
voting the previous gasman are Men eentsedooe a
the guilt of M in istsre,and appeals to ths moral cowardice
of members. Byattemptiag to get rid dlir. Bono ors
vote damson by the previous question, the partisans',
of Ministers sonless that they cannot &feed them—
that an unanswerable ease has been made eat *visit
them. By proposing to Ist sea esevield d gross
malverentin in allee neaps withedlllllllll% these
same portions exhort the How at OEM= So
gin way to an saanduats or eorrupt Muni= la
administer jostles with stein impartiality. Ms Ina
ply with such timid, time-serviss, dishonest WNW&
will be to hold oat impunity to all fetare delinquents
in cam

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No distinction can be made between the present
Cabinet and their late colleagues. It bee been proved
to demonstration that the policy of Lord Josef Rus-
s= has still many abettors in the Cabinet. Lord
Palau= has all along ostentatiously professed to
tread In the footateps of the Da. of Newcaerts.
No longer Bind) than last sight Sir CHAILL3II WOOD
pronounced elaborate eulogies on his cx- colleagues,
and expressed hie entire sympathy with their views
and approval of their conduct. We have shown that
themes gross and profligate mismanagement which
prevailed under Lord ADZIWIIIII continues under
Lord PALIMUITON. The present Ministers and those
who have within the last six or seven months seceded
or been expelled from the Cabinet are all equally
culpable. The acceptance of the resignations of
the latter was a recognition of their guilt ;
the vetoed to meet Mr. Ronuces vote of
ensure by a direct negative is a virtual
condemnation of the former. The unanimous voice
of the nation demands patice on these convicted