The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-24 00:00:00

mentioning die exception- • The first instance wee the age
pontoon of Lord Lucia, sad subsequently the appal*
meet of Brigadiers Tlneas sad Golding. The latter WO
met in tt:s contry.
By Mr. Layard— Aad no official no*lth was takea of Ode?
Den 1' grave ermaideve rand( reepeasible for
onant of Woe Winos P—Of none, if I felt an
so gnat as to Justify me to twonsend her MOOS, be,
assail not to staid* it, It would have been my duty W
have due se.
A' cotton await of reepousibllity fell oa you from thine,
who made the appoiatiant P—Yes.
Mad you, as Seautiny at War and he the Colonies, 111"
whole scheme of the impsditioa, the equipwat of the NOW
=nude, the amediat donne required as applicable at that
peribd for the army, tba snow of the land transpeet—bad
you ell these mitten of detail brought under your Miss es
Seontary at War Won the 'audition' was seat en P
No; but es regarded the commissariat, haviog ozplallaul
those wise bed the managenent of that department what
the duties were to be performed, sad the amnia' of noon
to be supplied, I expected them to carry out the requisite
arringemests for supplying the amount of provisions sad
twiner". As regards the stores, I looked in the same
way to the Master-Geonal of the Ordnance, and to the
Booed of °donee, for the supply of stores; but,
at the same time, I do not men to say that I by any
means dineted myself of all care on these matters; for, with
the ineepthin et supplies to the onntaissariat—that being an
Independent department, I did not interfere with to the
mote (latent that I did with others—l took constant oppor•
%unities of inquiring into the amount of stores ordered by
sash different department, and occasions arose frequently in
which I ordered the quantities supplied to be even doubled
en their amount.
By Sir J. ?Wastes—The first idea that the forces
would winter fa the Crimea was alter the battle
of Inversion, and it stomp when the troops en-
snared before' Sebastopol, sad is consequees of
the desire to take the plane, it woo obviously sa-
to wintry those, unless the neediness was to be
entirely absadosed. At thisjuneture Ms grace took special
steps, sad entered • qaaadty of woAlea clothing of all
descriptions, hulas weed= hate, sad want/slag te the
best of his belief dist staid isolate te ths asaidiat sedum
army. He did this tidy la the mouth of Ave* sad be
bad realms M lON** the mists Win sumo* Boa the
isafortsaateeiremsbase *Os lass *them fa the Priam
Thole wen retro supplies, est 'Whitely served sat Is do
twroaooppsa Thor. woo ma addition* supply of 40,000 pair of
Maslow, a large gesatity of weales under dathing,
60.000 or 70,000 teals jerseys, seeks, drawees, sod
mittens. Depots el limits sad rum, dog., were maim* to be
formed at Constantinople And from the Moat it bessmsoor-
lain th t the army was to winter In the Orissa as bawd
supply of fresh want sad of everything gigs was stmt gat.
"'eluding WI, whist was foraged.' la a mmllaual stem*
Sir C. Trey**, swim wham the somialoariat wag, ler
formed him hew Ilse Is timo of these 'Maw There was
a Tessera of Mops is is of assualtina in this army Owned
at Malta at the gad of November, bat the Onnimander 4e.
Chief did not Whom him that the treep
bastossear gola
from overwork is lite Wanes before Be
grace was not ewe, that la December an offer wits MUM
by a Sundt telt.tl 10 provide the English goveranisst
with 10,000 loanisi lesiva ; but there were several sass
of that deatelptism al do Pareigwelles • but at that=
thus was a Ming holing grist thsamjinymeatof
troops. The Ileirshi hem Laid &ilea whim Ma tams
troops was efts the poossen ea the troops booms yaw
serious. The la vita ths hen. member refers is
dated " Nev. 0, bails ilshating*"
By Mr. Ilosbash—lf to *he was made by Mr. Charles
Mashy is Dossmitar Is hada 10,000 Spanish Guerilla
troops for nishielas ths saes, I have not the slightest
doubt but that I sill love been made acquainted
with it at the clay hat I do not recollect the
alarmastaass. I ransobse several offers being made
of Potteries. sad Spool* troops, and the govern-
swat were et Wain, alter they bad made inquiries
ea the tubing, that it was net desirable to employ
such troops. I may state that when it was known that it
wee Intended to have recourse to • foreign legion, from 40
to 60 application • day came to the government frees the
satinets of Emig. countries. (A laugh.)
By Mr. Boebsek—The Prism was ant on the 14th No-
vember, sad I heard of it by telegraph on or aunt the 20th
or 21st November. I then took immediate steps for put-
abasing and ordering as much warm clothing is the mans-
factariag districts as would make up for that which was lost
in the Prince, and by the time that the telegraph news of
her loss was ooulrmed a gnat quantity of that clothing had
arrived is Loudon and was ready for shipment, and the rest
was shipped shortly afterwards.
By Mr. Breauton—The Charity was one of the easels in
which the wens clothing wee shipped to supply the place
of that lost In the Prince. I cannot a, this moment remem-
ber the Dalian of the other ships. The Prince ematained
midi. al MOM u well as warm clothing. It was stated that
the medical stores were shipped under the heavy ordnance,
as well in the Pence as in other vessels. When I heard •
statement of so disgraceful a character as that, I called upon
the Ordnance math )) i ) ios to explain it, and they poritieely
denied the truth of it. I also appointed a COMMillgan of
three gentlemen to inquire into the matter—one from the
Admiral' „salutes from the Ordnance,
_and another from
the War t—and they retorted that it was not
the fact that those niched stores were shipped ands the
Orduancre MOW& The captain of the Prince was drowsed
in her.
By Lard figraser—l egasidsrad the oirsameMass most
VIM as *lase wassail as boort sued if thaw
ItVtrilsogahl slaw where the dilfarsat Moos Win pissed.
*root lasoevenisses. It apos that Wu Ins
as batmen the admiralty and the Ordains that proper
tudenteafts of their relative duties which ought to have
existed, sad *M led to the reconstitution of the old toast
port board. I never received any information as to the
receipt of the goods by the army. The commissariat
&nutmeat wee constituted the general storekeeper. I sus
always of opinion that that duty would overburden tbn
oteasnimorist, but my opinion on that matter did not pru
,nigh. I thought the Ordnance ought to have bad • separate
slots department, quite independent of tbe muds.
waist, aid about the month of August or September I
called the attention of the Ordnance department to the hot
that the arrangement wee not working well.
By Mr. Roebuck—Arrangements, but net gerbils lay
successhd ones, were made to supply fresh meet* the army
during the winter. I believe the supply has bola worms&
better since January. I was very *onions indeed to sourly
the army with preserved meats is cans, like these used by
Goldner, and I urged the point upon tlis Adminity. They
advertised for tenden, bat they probably get alum* by
the tricita that had bees previously played opsa this as to
puttied meats, and the matter tell to the grass& But
Inge quantities of preserved vegetables, the produal ef a
Preach invention, wen out out. I do not ragollut any
report being seat home in reference to those particular new
tables, bat 1 know that soldiers do not generally look spa*
preserved vow:tables with any favour. For instanee, tidy
do not like preserved potatoes stall.
By Mr. Layard—l believe during a portion of the winter,
fresh meat was supplied to the troops twice a week. A part
of tLe army may have been without fresh meat for • week,
bat not the army generally.
By Mr. Roebuck—A large amber of the trautgorts were
left at the command of the army, *sprawly he rs =
of conveying fresh mat and other starlet ier it sad
transports were est soogleied for that parrot, it or
soattary to our isigatisa.- Tie Bret step that wee takes la
reopen to providing bets was taken after the latelligasse of
the battle of 'shames* I had plaits of huts mat e. 5 at
my wisest, and gas of *gm having bus 'proud, I gave
orders tot their pogrom** god as fast es *ay owe pre-
pared steamers were appoiatid Se wavey thesis the Bast.
As, honest, it was found to be difficult to get slossagre in
sufficing* number to carry an article of such balk to wood
for hats, I also directed Lord Stratford de HAAN' to pew
oars ell Ow wood he wild at Constaatiaggis for *a law j
pees of tionstruatiag huts, and I sent outs y d asp
pan aid Misers to superintend their . I also
net est instructions to Lord Weetassedliel te seed out
wood from Trieste for the mate peruse. I gesolud from
the Foreign. Mites an sinew to *a appiMalise I had made
to Lord Suatterd, to the situt that read staid set be pro-
ctored at Constantinople, whisk mesh surprised me, for I
had thought that wood +asses* the staple amities of the
pantry mond Constannegio.
By Me. Lenard—By the Ow I found that wood gas* not
be poured from Ceeeteetiesple, the eaussary *sprigs had
bogs MOW hos Trieste sat hew home. Supplies were
abs slat sat free Malta, se that Is the amen gate there was
=reed seat for huts for far more an 26,000 men.
so mach wood was out out from this country as
weldburs made huts for that number. I apprehend the
pdastal muss of the troop' not having bad W benefit of
doss us (or suds a ler gtb of tints, was the want of means
he asevsying the weed from Balaklava to the frost. I do
sot believe it was the fast that the huts were seat oat with-
's& as*.
By Me. Bosbuk—lt was sot until the 22nd December
that the commissariat was placed under my direction, and,
therefore, very few direct communication were resolved by
me from that department before I left office. I was well
aware, from the complaints made to me by private indi-
✓iduals, sad also from sunniest+ in the newspapers, of the
failure of the tramped salads from want of forage and
from expense to the sold ; but I never received any official
isthmian el that, nor say notplaint front the Commis-
Serial Dapartanent that the short comings of other depart,
meat. peemated them (the commissariat) from euseutieg
their duets. Certainly no information was gives to me
as to pesbable failure of the road to the front before
that hie as plan. 1 remained entirely in the due
upea that /sit.
By Odessa litasay—lt must have been quite the sad of
Reeember sun a we took steps to have the railway ine
ommemil, but I sew* number the exact date.
By Mr. Swelesek—The Wanner of Betaking was trader
the retool of the Adair** mid, when I heard of the bad
epee Y whadt it was, I esmm*aseted with them ea the
arab=d seek snit Nags amen is um Moonedv.
the es the laud. I teethed "1".
Copia** la seenestas sulkl* thepr""
item hat ages et ea came& abagessw awl"
say aril* I have Ind soospialMs of A*** Bose*
stiptir dat Pastat: sat if sage poem had
It make et tame mad did ma man greek ow

the !mho is es their pert, and ad em math I hail as this,
is the selestles of the suelleal effithdp. That sestffit
wholly with Dr. Andrew dm h. the heed of the meek*
beard; and pesperdy NOD bobs a medical men,
Mr. Itoeheisk--Wbem did yea first deursdie en sending
out nurses Ile dated ?
The Deke of Newesathr—lt soot have beim about tied
middle of Oelebth batl molly obsoort remember.
Mr. Beebnilli—Whet iiiisesdpen lemma desm out ?
The Duke of Ifewthith—The em/MM
of nurser lel
the hospital was mooted* this matey at an early suge,
before the army left this seentry; but it was not liked by
the military satherithe. It bed bees tried on fanner Goes-
amis. The clan of women employed as nurse. had been
very much addicted to drinking, and they were found
even mon callous to the sufferings of soldiers is hospital
than men would base been. Subseqaently, in consequence
of letters in the publie press, and of reumniendatithe made
be pullets= who had retarsed to this country from Boutin,'
we organ to sossider the subject of employing name. The
diflivalty was to get a lady to take in hand the chugs of
onperinteudieg and directing • body of nurses. After
hewing sten one or two I ensue despaired of the practise.
bility of the matter, until Mr. Sidney Herbert suggested
Miss Nightingale, with whom he bad been previously
aequainteJ, for the work, and tbst lady eventually under-
took it. I have been blamed in the public onus in referee*
to the condition of the sick on board the Kangaroo mid the,
Dunbar ; and I wish to say that when that instal wee
brought to m) knowledge I sent for Dr. Smith and urged hitt
to all for the fullest explanation of all that had taken gime
on board of those ships, and I informed him that I ellisnid
not be satisfied with aa ordinary denial, but that I sheen
reknit* a report as to time and place, the names of the me-
dical mos, and, indeed, of everything connected with the
eh transaction. When I heard of the deficiencies in the
supply of medical comforts I communicated with Dr.
Smith, who told me that it was impossible It amid be
true, considering the great quantities of those eamforte
that bad bean sent out from this country. The first
complaint I heard of that kind was before the army
left V aThs. I called on Dr. Smith for an explanation,. and
be showed me • list of the articles that bad been sent out.
I believed some auidett had taken plan on the arrival of
those articles, and I gave orders for additional supplies of
medical comforts to be sent out. Lord William Paulin
was appointed to the superintendent* of the hospitals early
Is December. Before that I had not been informed Whelan,
of the state of the trausport ships between Balahlan and
thenstantisople. Long previously to that I had blued •
sosuaission to inquire into the state of the hospitals, and
the niedieal treatment of the soldiers generally. The two
medical geatlemen on that commission were seisetsd by Dr.
Smith, and the banister, who was the other member of it,
was recosamendial 'to me by Mr. Sidney Herbert.
By Lord fleysioar—The commission was not issued
before the oommissioners left England ; but the aliens of
it were folly stated beforehand in conversations which
I had with Mr. Maxwell. the legal member of the com-
mission. A commission is • technical document, and re-
quires to be properly drawn. Other weighty matter,
pressed for say consideration at the time, with which I
was too muck occupied to draw up the commission before
Mr. Maxwell left; but it was sent out after him two days
alter he ulled. I cannot account for his sot getting it until
a fortnight after his arrival at Constantinople, sakes by
some delay in the mail.
By Mr. La yard—Originally, it was only a commiseles of
Inquiry, and I think that was an omission on my yen. I
did not, however, at the moment consider that they would
hold themselves precluded from making suggestioas am the
spot. Subsequently, in the mouth of January, further in-
structions wars sent to them, desiriog them to make sup
'salons to Lord W. rattler. It was, however, left to Lord
W. Paulet to carry out those suggestioss. They had se
power to enforce him to de sti.
By Mr. Roebuck—Whoa the commission arrived at Bala-
klava, Lord Raglan could not have been ignorant of their
appoiatment. my impression is, that Dr. Andrew Smith
sent to me any letter cantabile; recommendatioas as
to the clothiers of the troops. My conviction is that I never
saw his letter on that subject ; bat ha may have drawn my
attention is coeversation to the necessity of making thalweg
in the cloth•ng of the troops. Ido not think any blame
attached to the military secretary for not sending Dr.
Smith's letter to me. That blame would rather 'Web to
Dr. Smith himself, for not making arrangements for bring-
ing that letter ander my settee.
By General Peel—The letter Involved a change of the
slotting of the army, and that was a matter which would
devolve ea the commander-is•ehlef.
By Lord Seymour—The subject of hospital ships was
to me, but certainly not by Dr. Smith, and re-
=lt
early ea the 11th of lB6l. It was suggested
ft me subsequently, and Mr. Sidney Herbert and myself
Mitirtiers to the Admiralty, 1 think shortly after the
of the Alma, to have stamen sent out to be used
es hospitals. Those hospitals mere prepared, but net until
after some delay had takes pies.
By Mr. Levied—ln the mores of last year I told Dr.
/Ladner Smith that he was Is set wholly under my direc-
tions, sod that if then was thisessforward any deficiency in
the supply of seedeeel oesersto. I should place the supply
Of *ere siding seder Ike esentiesariat.
By Mr. flashoet—Cesplaista were not Med• tome
about green Who having been issued t the army until
low after the inconvenience resulting from the practice I
had bees felt, and until supplies of roasted coffee had been
substituted. The commissary.general had an ample supply
of mosey at his te.musthel, and, with the sanctum of the
general commanding the army, bad power to purchase
whatever be wanted in the country which the country was
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to supply. The purveyor of the hospital was similarly
*powered.
By Mr. Layard—Gnat difficulties and delay having
taken place in the supply of port wine for the hospitals,
through the intervention of the forms which had to be goat
through, I gave orders that thou forms should be dispensed
with in future.
The committee thee, at 20 minutes 04 o'clock, adjourned
Until this day, when hie Grace the Duke of Newcastle will
I be moiled, and fanner examined.

MORE "PRACTICAL JOKING " AMONG
OFFICERS.

CANTERBURY, MouraX Rearing°.
This Morning, at our Guildhall, a charge was pre-
(erred belore the magistrates against Cornets Edward
Beemearten and Jobs Evans, both of the 6th loniskiling
)gmeisess, for meeting to fight a duel. The hostile res.
sestre, the fortunately prevented, arise out of a series of
seandaloua indignities to which, it is 'stated, the f •
officer (a quiet, in,.ffinsive young man) has been for some
time subjected at the hands of hie brother officers. Accord-
ing to reports current in the regiment some of these .. jokes"
Mee proceeded beyond the limits of common decency, and
gigabit specific allusion. The following may be mentioned :
*met Baumgarten's sword wu broken to pieces and the
alma of his helmet destroyed. Two buckets of water
into his bed, and his clothes placed in the
bath, while the chest cont .ining his clean linen was
filled with water. Sin panes of glue in Ws win-
dow and his looking-glue smashed. The chamber
utensils broken and placed in the bed, the door fastened,
as well as the window, while he was in his nom. His horse
(which net 80 guineas) hes been deprived of its tail and
toppet. In consignees of this treatment Cornet Baum-
garten sent Cornet Evans a challenge, as he imagined that
he was the ringleader is the affair; and Saturday last was
fixed for carrying it into execution. The parties met at the
time appointed, accompanied by Adjutant Webster of the
Depot, a surgeon of the tow., and other gentlemen. It ap•
peered, however, from to-day's examiaation, that Sergeant
Brodie, of the Ist Royal Dragoons, having suspicions of
what was going on, bad noshed the spot before the *Moen,
and on their arrival intimated to them that he should pat a
stop to what was proposed to take place. Adjutant Webster
immediately ordered him to leave the ground, and to con-
sider himself a prisoner. The adjutant then went off to
the barracks for a file of the guard to arrest Ser-
geant Brodie. While he was goo. the sergeant went up
to Mr. Baumgarten and said • Yva shall not fight this
thief, sir; you shall shoot me first." Mr. Baumgarten tried
'o get away, bat Brodie procured the assistance of some men
working in an adjoining field, sad ultimately Mr. Baum-
garten was detained and taken into a farm house. The
sergeant was returning to the barracks, when Adjutant
Webster and Mr. Hartoyp came up with sale of men. The
adjutant told them to arrest the savant, and to
" bank him down with the butt-end of their whines it he
made any resistance." The sergeant was then takes away
to the barracks. The above facts having been deposed to,
, and Mr. Antis, solicitor, having addressed the Mesh hr
the defendants,
The mayor and magistrates. having eesselted fee a flew
momenta, ordered the two defendants to eater into their
sera heads of 1001. each, and two suedes in 60L, to keep
*ogees, towards each other.
TN required bail was quickly found, sad the dawn left
with their friends.
A memorandum has been issued from the Hone °suds
la reference to a can of practical joking, to which refenaee
wee mode is the Daily News of last week, and in which
]nips Seeders and Neville' of the 30th Rutimeat, were
the aggroners, aad Ensign Polkas?, 60th Regiment, the
sem insulted. The memorandum, after glen( • sow
men of the facts of the ease, reprimands Brevet liepen
Csospbeil, 30111 Rapitnent, and CupolaTillbreek, Mil
litestrawat, mananding the depot mapanke of the imp*
irsim due ts, for having no)
learesdangediiieuely, mid
ersispromiaed the affair by to amp as
from the two easleas, of making Mown
complaint of Bangs Valium to Col. Peasy,_
_their 'sop
mending OffiCST . Badges Bandon aod Noville. it
le stated, may think themselves (animate Shot by
the" mistaken leniency " Is toms* theyhave sesepol the
novitable mosegesome of trio& vogationealike modnet.
A eery seven todaeo le shoo gives is Zings Neville,
whs. after apetedbintt se longs Psltneer, had ?gala ht-
embed that °Seer. The egbien, eammehts the "severest
diepleassre "of the Commander in•C if adored to be
reed in promo of all the Alamo of the depot battalion at
Istosey, with as sea muse that es* reetosimme of ang-
les siiesodoet ea the pert et leup Navas, Vientsult
limediave will eresider it bit duty to reminsend to the
Qom that that aloes name should be MINI boa the
11/0
lib of the array. The aiming oi Brigs PoNselvilasi=
onnosindnide far Imolai toosMei. all_ho M
Meats mined to bias by lop.lnredin end Neville r end
bed le set &nos so, la ravredissa with the of the orders
easy, Vienne salt io Mail lave deemed it Imporatint
spat him to whoa Ye men to bee IWO, fee removal.

Sir Roderick L Mureltioos, onsonted
to be seedested u the easeewie et die laM ek Hazy T.
De is Beebe.

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