The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-28 00:00:00

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aXy Lend,—l esaaot per ps Witer to remain un-
lIIWIPBIO4- lad vet dew _ lave thought pro-
mo se to meet, that • the MO by yes in Lim-
Useat•Ceisall !Minutia% see been violated la
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time of post ham sad say thaeletime, I patent, agree
gigues, tint It Is • waste of thee he bold any farther tow-
smeogooolo. • y with one, who, at such a time ea
Idli. ow the cases to whisk I have alluded, sad
while have essMed se deep a feeling of indignatios la the
Cies .Yd, Yew lerdship Is ileitis at liberty to publish
sad I reserve to myself the riOt st
groisin7.=Th eresider it necomary.—l have the beam
le be. my lads Twat *lama sonnet, "A. LaTARD."
Sir, it has beta said by the boa. patlessa opposite that
*are Is a Mature of themes and fortunes in military pee-
mottos. If we saw a party of gamblers, and one man inva-
riably threw double situ we should naturally suppose that
the dies had bees tampered with. It is tree that there are
shuns ; but we geserally find that the chances fall apse
thou who have the least need of them, and upon penult
who base either high connexions or party interest in this
douse. (heer, hear.) That question I shall shortly bring
before the house, in its most extended form. I believe the
wont:" is prepared for the discussion of it. (IL ar, hear.)
I believe it is no longer • time for tampering with the feel-
ing of the people of this country on this subject. That feel
lag Intends to every branch of the public service. I will
show—in a few days—what I believe to be the public
isollag—that the public interests ere sacrificed in
every department of the public service to private and
party influence. Let me take the ease of two gentlemen
who have been referred to. lam told that the rules of the
military service are inviolable. A gentleman named lie.
Seale has two relatives in this house. He entered the army
Is December, 1833; he joined his regiment in 1884; he went
to the Crimea late in the autumn ; he was not present either
at the battle of the Alma or at the battle of lake/mann ;
sad yet begets • captaincy without purchase on the 23rd
December, 1854. Yet lam told that it is an inviolable rule
of the service that no man should be promoted to a esp.
tabu; under two pests' service. If Captain Hentage bad
distinguished himself, I should not be the man to say in
opposition to him that the role should in no
ease be violated ; but when I see the rule
violated is his case, though he has not seen &evoke,
Ido say that this rule is evidently not as inviolable as the
laws of the Modes and Penises. (Laughter) What is
the neat case ? Lord Restate Cecil entered the army in
1831 ; and is December, 18.54. he was selected for • captaincy
la the Guards. (Cries of " Qustios.") The ministerial
bench cries " question." Question ! why, I am told that thi•
aan Inviolable rule, and you will sot allow me to show
that when interest is at stake you Oar* amen for inviolable
rules. (Interruption from the oppeeklea aide) I will not
be put down by boa. r atiemea as the ether side. Lieet
Blacken, of the Gauls, joins the INII Regiment, and he
is prosiest at all. the widows la the Crimea. Fur
611/Vine he is recommended to the government. d
What
is the result ? HO is transfoned to the Guards,
and although he has sera eleven years service,to Is placed
beneath Capt. 'lentos. and Lord Rutin Cecil, one of
whom has seen only eleven months' service, and the other
only two or three years' service. There you have rules
peaty violated. I tell the hones that I hold myself re-
sponsible for these accusations, and I tell Lord HarAnge
that I em not prepared to retract them. I wish we bad
the power of examining some Officers who could give as
information on the subject. I wish Col. Crombie could he
called here to state how he was compelled to resign is
order to m.ks room for two officers who were beneath him
—those two being Lord Surshenh and Lord Hs/dines
son. lam told he was never apprised of his being on half-
pay till he saw the notice in the Gazette. That state.
meat may be true or It may not. A person in my pee"
tion is obliged to depend, in • great degree upon
others for his information, and he may of nurse be mis-
taken. Ifl have done wrong to an individual, I shall be
happy to get up in this house and acknowledge it.
But son is the states of things that there is scarcely any
appointment, whether in the army or elsewhere, which the
public does not believe to be connected with thou who
make the appointment. What happened only three days
ma ? I see in the Gazette a gentleman who is named on
the staff of the Turkish Contingent, with the local rank
Of brigadier-general. I tura to the "Army List," and
I find that Colonel Cunaiagbam, the gentleman to whom
I refer, has married • daughter of Lord Hardinge. (Derisive
laughter.) Yea, hon. gentlemen may laugh, but I say
that, when such thing. are of constant occur-
rence, they justify great suspicion on the part of
the public; and I say, moreover, that at a moment like
this, when our army is in such a critical position, and when
disgrace has fallen upon the country, the country is no
Imager is • temper to tolerate even an approximation t
what I most call jobbery. With regari to the inviolable
rule to which I have referred, I may state that Colonel
Wilson was not aware of its existence. Such, then, is my
statement to the house. I will not retract what I have
said, because I do from the bottom of my soul believe it to
be true, and I do behave that if others dare get up aed say
what 1 base said they c mild mike • similar declaration.
I believe there is no one scarcely in this country who does
not Iroise. that party and family connexions are the main-
spring of pronotious. In unction-m.l would say with regard
to Colonel Wilson, that he is in no way to blame for what
I have stated. My statement was based on the" Amy List,"
and Colonel Wilson im, I repeat, in no way to blame for
• what has been done in this matter. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. C. HARDING R said he was not ring to eater into
the question which had been so ably treated by the hen.
sad gallant member for Huatingdon (Gen. Peel). He
would not add one word to that statement; neither would he
add anything to what fallen from his hon. hind the Under-
Surveil at War. He rose for the purpose of =akin • ono
remark with menace to • very sear relative of his, to
whom the hon. number for Aylesbury had just alluded.
(Hear, hear) The bon. member seemed to insinuate that
Um appointment or Col. Cunningham on the Turkish Con-
tiagent, with the local rank of brigadier-general, was more
or lees a job. Now, he begged to say that Col. Cunningham
hcd sun service in China under Lord Gough, end, besides
that, had been in every titian in the Crimea.(Chters.) If Lord
Raglan and his Koval Highness the Duke of Cambridge
were appealed to, he ventured to say they would declare
that there wu not • b officer in the Crimes then bin
gallant relative. (Hear, hear.) Yet the hon. member flu
Aylesbury bad taken that opportunity of censuring as
appointment which was so well deserved. The hon. mem-
ber's inaccuracies were certainly of no common order.
Molar E +art was • meat ezeellent officer, who owed hh
promotion to no interest what ; bat he certainly did not
take a first-class certificate ; he got • special undue@
for proficiency in military drawing. With regard is aid
hon. member's statement that there was no officer en the
staff who had taken • first-class certificate, he
begged to my there were no less than five—
Colonel Cameron, Colonel Stirling, Colonel Morris, Major
Hackett and Major Sankey. (Hear, hear.) Yet the hon.
member went to Liverpool and said then was not • sloes
officer who had done so. lie would leave the case in the
hands of the bones. Let them decide who was right sad
who was wrong, who was smadalou sad who was not male
slaloms. (Cheers.)
lir. SYR° said, many hon. members might not be swore
that the appointments and promotions in the Foot Guard@
did not rest with the Commander-in-Chief, but with the
solace's. He was desirous of stating, on behalf of Lord
Strafford, the colonel of the Coldstream Gaud', that what*
ever reopens bility attached to the appointments and pro.
'maims of which they bad heard so math that night, it
rested with him alone, and he wu perfectly
Eared at all times to justify them according to the exist-
military regulations, and the well knows order of pre-
*. applicable to each particular case.
Glued LINDSAY mid the hoc. member for Aylesbury
had aot addressed himself at all to the case in point, but
bad simply dealt in generalities. Ho accused Lord Harding*
of meladmmiatratioa, and when asked either to retract his
statement, or else to explain in what manner, in this par-
dealer case—in no other—Loa Hudinge had bees
guilty of maladministration, the boo. patina's avoided the
point ; and, though he said he would sot retract, be had net
• shown that Lord Harding. bad ozonised the slightest haw
use over his son's promotion. (Hear.) The bon. member
said Captain Heneage was not at the battle of tokenism*.
Why was he not there ? Because hiewas serving his onus-
try in the trenches—(hear hear).—and ever since that tints
he had been almost constantly under the fire of the enemy.
la Cept. Heasage's Nee the role bad, as the hon. member
(Kr. Lulled) observed, been broken through. At the cow
meaciensat of the war he was jerkier ensign, but all the
ensigns above him having been swept off, and he having
bees constantly under the fire of the enemy, Lard Strafford
promoted him at the expiration of two years' envies. As
regarded Lord Eastace Cecil, his case was this. A gentle-
men celled on Lord Strafford and informed him that
Lord Cecil was moat anxious for service. He told
him that when the 43rd was engaged at the
Cape of Good Hope, Lord Cecil exchanged into it for the
impose of seeing service, and that, being too late for bertha
theta, he went to India for the same purpose. Lord
Strafford, considering this undue' very meritoriou, sad
wasting Olken, gave Lord Cecil • commission. This was
the history of the matter. Lord Ruston Cecil happened to
to be a son of Laid Salisbury. Lord Suairod had told
him that he was usioubtedly acquainted with Lord Salis-
bury from haying mel him in the House of Lords, but that
be was politically eggseed to him, that their acquaintance
hod nothing to do with the vgehteseet, bat lie gave Lord
Eastace Cecil the lusanali en besiege he found that
be was maims he semis*. • Re ought also to
state that is setheigamme et the extreme rapidity
with which vaimasies bad arisen of late, eleven other oaken
hod been peemehd he their services Is the Coldstream.
daring the pad year, the greater put of them having came
fns ether Waists. He must say it was very unfair, to use
the eldest Istm, Ita the hon. geatismaa is go down to the
.sunup and Mite the pebble by annosallms every as. of
thigh was Mama the iiiskteet feaahtlea.
Ostemil NORTH mid be MO merely to supply an
Salleldes with regard to the NM ii Lard Burghersh. Before
the battle of Clullianwallab, that ashis lord was serving as
' idle de camp to the Governor-Omenl of India. Owing
to the root whisk there had been amen the
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