The Press.
London, England, 1856-03-22 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

11 aVal anb Vilitarg itttilignitt.

The Royal Warrant granting a fixed sum of
money in lieu of pensions to widows of officers killed
in action or dying from the effects of wounds has
appeared with the following scale :-
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• -
To the widow, widow and children, father, mother, sister

or sisters, of
Cavalry. Infantry.
lAeutenant•Colonel 10,175 .... sl.sm
Major 4,675 ....
Captain
Lieutenant
Cornet
Ensign
But it shall in no case exceed the sum of money actually
paid, in conformity with the regulation price, by the officer
for the purchase of his commission or commissions.
Various regulations follow in the Royal warrant re-
garding the disposition of these moneys in the event
of the officer dying leaving only certain relations.
The ninth article of the warrant permits any person
of the class mentioned now enjoying a pension 'littler
the old warrant to exchange the same for a sum of
money upon making application at the Wax-office
before the 23rd of October in the present year.
The Military Board of Inquiry to be held in the
Great Hall at Chelsea Hospital is unavoidably post-
poned for a short perio'i, owing to the indisposition
of the president, General Lord Seaton. The pre
liminary meeting, it is expected, will take place early
next week, when the court will adjourn for about ten
days, bef,re the real business of the inquiry will be
entered upon. Colonel Wetherail, Director• General
of Land Transport in the Crimea, is en route home,
to attend as a witness ; and the Field Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief has directed that several officers
on leave of absence from the Crimea shall not return
to the East until the breaking up of the Board. The
Earl of Cardigan is assisted by Mr. Merewether,
Q.C., in preparing his answer. Sir Richard Airey is
also preparing his answer, assisted by Mr. Kinglake,
Mr. Towers, Colonel Steele, and Major Hackett.
Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, it is generally believed,
does not return to the command of the Black Sea
Get. The gallant admiral's private baggage has
been disembarked from the Caradoc at Marseilles,
and forwarded home.

General Sir George Berkeley has been added to
the commission of general officers appointed to in.
quire into the allegadons in the Crimean report, in
the room of General Sir Thomas M'Mahon, whose
health does not permit his attendance.

Lieutenant-General Lovelace Walton succeeds to
the colonelcy of the sth .Fusiliers, vice General Sir
John Grey, deceased.
Rear-Adairal Sir F. M. Berkeley, K.C.8., in-
spected the gun-boat division at Spithead on Wednes-
day.

Sir Cohn Campbell and two divisions of the army
in the Crimea will, it is expected, embark direct fur
Canada on the conclusion of peace.
Captain Horatio Morgan, engaged in recruiting for
the Turkish Contingent Land Transport Corps, has
received a countermanding order from the War•
office. The contemplated addition to the corps is
not at present to de carried out, and upwards of 100
men, lately enlisted, have been discharged with a
fixed sum as compensation.
Le Baron Joseph Smola, General au Service,
Colonel Wurrab, and Captain A. Wissiacke, Austrian
officers of high military rank, are et present on a
tour of inspection through the naval and military
arsenals of the kingdom. During the present week
they have visited the fleet at Spithead.
Great works are being pushed on at Dover, in re-
pair of the fortification, and in preparation of bar-
racks for a large force.
Mr. Commissary• General Filder has published
his reply to the grave charges laid to his door by the
report of the Crimean Commissioners. The reply,
which deals with the charges seriatim, is necessarily
of great length, and enters minutely into all par-
ticulars. He admits that some partial " deficiencies
of tood did unfortunately take place, but denies, in
the first instance, that they were of sufficient amount
to have any important effect on the health of the
troops, and, sucondiy, that they were caused by any
want of effort on the part of the Commissariat to
prevent them. Also, that the injurious quality of the
food supplied to the troops was fur some time inca-
pable of being remedied ; and that during the period
when the troops were without vegetables and lime-
juice (which might have corrected the deleterious
effects of the diet), the Commissariat had not been
ordered to provide them ; and that when so ordered
the issues of both were regularly maintained as soon
as the necessary arrangements could be brought into
operation. That there was neither neglect nor indis•
position on the part of the Commissariat to provide
fuel, but that it was furnished as soon as he had the
necessary orders to that effect to the full extent to
which the means of conveying it could be procured.
That the supply of fodder only failed of success
through causes which it was not possible to prevent.
That, although the Land Transport was for some