The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-16 00:00:00

ADVICE TO MR. ROEBUCK%

ANT bane" PM tell that it Is inexpedient to over-
lay a Gass with evidence. As ems as one point is
distinctly established, go oa to the next. Do not
task the memory and patience of the Court by mill-
ing more *Ramses to prove what has already beau
proved. It is II pity that Mr. Rom:ma's Committee

re not more mindinl of AU nazis. Of Donee it

sou necessary to begin by producing evidence to
show that the army in the Crimea had undergone
greater hardships, had been more reduced in num-
bers, than can be accounted for by the unavoidable
casualties of the war. This has been established
beyond a doubt by the evidence of the Duke of Cox-
BRIDGE and Lord Lucax. Upwards of twenty-
six thousand soldiers were landed at Old
Fort, of whom but • very, inconsiderable
number were cavalry t and at Inkermann, according
to the Duke of CAMBRIDOL OBij 13,600 bayonets
could be mustered. Some other and more fatal ele-
ment than mere sharp fighting and hard marches
must have been in play, or the number of the effeo-
tin soldiers could not have been brought so low.
Then with regard to the cavalry, it appears from the
evidence of Lord Ltcax that the effective force of
his arm was greatly reduced before the fighting
began. " During the passage from Varna to the
Crimea; said his lordship yesterday, "a fearful sick-
nese broke out, and it was not possible to find men
to mount the hones. He thought he must have
had 160 led horses. As it took a man to lead
a horse, every man who died on board ship
put two men hors de combat." The testimooy of the
Duke of CAJOIRIDGE and of Lord Lucax alone is
sufficient to show that our keens in the Crimea have
been far greater than can be accounted for by the
casualties of the war. What has been the cause of
this superfluous loss ? That is the inquiry to which
Mr. ROEBUCK'S Committee ought now to address
itself, instead of wasting time and confusing the case
by calling forward, day after day, additional whams§
to prove what no rational being now entertains any
doubt of.

The statements that have been made by almost
every witness who has been earsilinei paint invari-
ably to the same direction es that wide the inquiry
ought to pursue. Our soldiers in the °elms have
been badly fed, inadequately clothed, left widen& the
requisite shelter from the inclemency of the moms.
And when cholera, typhus, scurvy, and other disease.,
have been superinduced by this unpardonable neglect
they have been left without sufficient supplies of
modish*. And all these accumulated ills are trace-
able le the incompetency of the Commissariat, the
Transport Service, and similar departments. It would
be sheer waste of time to ferret out the details of the
imbecility

_ sad bungling of the anderstrappers in these
departments. Mr. Funs• has been placed at the
bead of the Commissariat : who is respoesible
ler the employment of • man whose ante-
sedents in the Peninsula wen not much
in his favour, and who, during the thirty
years that have elapsed since he was actively em-
ployed before, must have grown too old for the arduous
teak entrusted to him ? Who is responsible for send-
ing out, u his assistants, persons described by Lord
Luca?: as "young gentlemen just come from the
Treasury and totally inexperieued" ? Who is respon-
sible for sending out tools to be used in the siege
works which we are told by the Doke of Mammas
wee tried and pronounced sumervimabis at Chob-
ham P Who is responsible for the shipment d
muse sigglies of all kinds of stereo hem this
eountry vilberat 'minting any person to receive and
take this in charge when they arrived at their
destinalls• ? Who is responsible foe having only
Weed aims to Imo huts constructed in this country,
at • time whim be advance of winter had already
rendered tbss indispensable in the Crimea ? It is
clear that lithe Government °Mose at home, and in
the no-system Ipso which the persons employed in
them act, mast be sought the real source of the suf-
ferings and losses which have been undergone by our
army in the Crimea. To the exposure of the abuses
in the departments of Government at home con-
nected with the management of the war—of their
sins of omission and commission for which the
army suffer—Mr. Ronsuci's Committee ought to
have addressed itself ere now. The Committee is
trifling away time in unnecessary and irrelevant
investigation, instead of following up the
distinct traces of the real delinquents, which have
been pointed out to them. This may be owing to an

error of judgment on the part of the members, bat the
possible consequences are obvious. The attention of
the public may relax in communes of the weari-
some iteration of the same details,' and the no-pro-
gress of the inquiry; and the opportunity of insisting
upon searching reforms in our governmental depart-
ments may be lost. Already the whole red•tapist
clue are beginning to acknowledge among them-
seine that it vu a mistake on their part to oppose
the appointment of the Committee; that the Com-
mittee, by the way in which it is going to work,
promises to be an admirable safety-valve for
carrying off the surcharge of public indig-
nation which endangered them t and the mem-
bers of the Committee may rent assured that
if by beating about the bash, as they have hitherto
been doing, instead of going direst to the source of
the evils complained of, they frustrate the object for
which they were appointed, it will not be easy to
persuade the public that there has been no moss
arranged between them and the whole host of red-
tapists. To ;eve their own characters, if for no other
purpose, it le necessary that they should change imme-
diately their mode of proceeding. Let them without
delay call before them the parties in this country to
whom has been entrusted the charge of the Commissa-
riat, transport, and other kindred services. Let them
exact frost these perdu minute and complete 'manta
of all that hos been dons in the way of collecting
and transmitting stores of all kinds to the East. /At I
them call before them the Commander•in-Chief and
the Ministers who have had in their charge the
management of the war, and inquire what kind of
men they have appointed, and for what recommends-

tions. 0;u soldieW have hies the victims of a vicious

system : aad to have that system exposed and
reformed is the task that has been delegated to Mr.
ROEBUCK'S Committee.

All who profit by, and all who are superstitiously
attached to, the abuses which pervade our military
system and its auxiliary civil departments are col-
lecting their keen to resist the national demand
for army reform. No misstatements are spared
to extenuate the faults of the system. Einsory,
sham rase= are offered, las brewing drags, to lead
the public off the smut. Elaborate vindication. of
the system of promotion by E,nrchass are put forth in
Ministerial and Tory joervaals. Earl GREY proposes
to lower the prices of commissions in order to bring
them within the colaVass of sander purses. If Mr.
Roxiinca's Committee does net press its inquiries in
a more direct erw• peremptory manner than it has
hitherto done, it will contribute materially to the
mores of thr3 Fabian tactics of the combined oppo-
nests of army reform.—Deily News.

14 Poligonal catelderatione" have prevented M. de
neer, the knife of t►. Right I. the Biretta Clamber,
front swede. Ole Ink of kende( a Miatatty, bet the
hodfieradeseee mane t►at et►ee saabees of t►. same party
will be etseeltsi by the Vag.