The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-20 00:00:00

SPORTING.

TATTERSALL'B--MoNDAT.
Notwithstanding the r at Warwiek, then was a pretty
good muster of members at "me Corm" taday, end, outdoing
all things, a lair amount of bob= was transacted.
Ilte quotations at the dose were es fallow
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MR. ROEBIJCWIS
Yesterday, the eleventh day of the sitting of the
easeadttes, was mespied with the exusleatioa of Mr.
Aagestas Stafford, M.P., who went oat to the East as
tourist Cr amateur. A gloss deal of the hoe. patentee's
evidences We. reeapitulatory of his epee* oa the same sub-
ject in the House of COMMIS,* He said he visited the hos-
pitals at Scutari every day sad never met with say opposi-
tion, active or passive, but with every civility from the offi-
cials. He represented to the Duke of Newcastle that the
French bad opened a hospital at Smyrna, and suggested
that a shells, ea* should be opened for the Beglish. With
the exception of the summer months Smyrna was perfectly
healthy, and the facilities for landing the silk were may
great. Being at Scutari on sufferance, and not beet sere
that his presence would be acceptable, and that he Alla
possibly be dismissed, he thought it better to retook OM
direct suggestions, but wrote letters to the deposemeate
One important suggestion relating to the " necessaries " wee
attended to. The state of these necessaries gave him the
dierrbea, and they were quite sufficient to do so generally
The hoe. member here proceeded to describe the interior
nastiness of the Turkish " necessaries "it Scutari. The
flood of filth was an inch deep, and the effluvium I
frightfully offensive.. After inspecting them through- I
out the hospital he represented the matter eel
Dr. Werner and Dr. Menzies, the chief MAW
beads of the hospital, who indeed had had the
matter represented to them several times ; sad Dr.
Mleregor told him he had frequently made represtielles
Sons on the matter to the superior department. The
want of proper management and government at Scutari in
his opinion was the source of all evil. He never saw any
government instructions given out at Scutari, and this
resulted in great irregularity and confusion, so much so
that he was at a less to know where one department
began and mother ended If Dr. M'Gregor bad brought in
••dozen men to clean these places, be would have been imme-
diately stopped by some other department; in other words,
by the " routine. ' (Laughter.) The cleansing of these
Aegean " necessaries" appeared to be the business of nobody.
Each department seemed to say, it's not my business, and
seemed to be like the man who did his duty and nothing
more. Dr. WOreger agreed with him that the pestilential
state of the "necessaries" would engender hospital fevers,
diarrhea, and gaagressed wounds. lie (Mr. Stafford) sug-
gested that eight men, with wires and bamboo canes, should
be employed to lush these " necessaries " out ; but he hoped
that their own soldiers would not be employed fee the pur-
pose, he not liking as en Englishman to see his country-
men exposed to the chance of death from these proceedings.
He asked Dr. M'Gregor why these places were not cleaned
out, and he said he had not money. He (Mr. Stafford) was
quite overwhelmed with the answer, sad offered to give
Dr. M'Gregor a credit of 2001. for that purpose. flubw
quently the neeesearicerwere cleaned out,on representations
of this being made through Dr. M'Gregor to the superior
department.
The Chairman—What was the name of the person in the
superior department ?
Mr. Stafford said he did not see that it was necessary le
mention names.
The Chairman—lt was • duty Mr. Stafford owed to the
public, the committee, and himself, to divulge the name et
the individual.
Mr. Stafford hesitating, the room was cleared for upward.
of half an-hour, and on our readmission,
The Chairman again put the question, and asked what
was that the situation of this officer ?
Mr. Stafford—lt would be impossible to describe his situa-
tes without giving his name.
The Chairman—The decision of the committee is that you
mower the question, and give the name.
Mr. Stafford (with considerable relinitance)—lt was the
ecesmandant.
The Chairman—Was he commandant of the garrison, er
of the kespitai ?
Mr. • d—Of the hospital, I should say, but lam
act quite certain.
The Chairman—What was the name of the commandant
at Scutari ?
Mr. Stafford—Major Sillery,. but that gentleman 'bowel
every disposition to do all in his power for them. He
thought it would be desirable that the committee should
have copies of the instructions that were sent out for the
government of the hospital, and described the appearance
of the sick and wounded when they landed at Scutari. It
was at once painful, fearful, and ghastly. Many of the
sick and wounded died soon after for want of nourishment.
He had never seen human suffering greater than when
affected by the pangs of famine, superinduced by diarrhea.
He personally supplied the sick and wounded with food
and otherwise seised them. Many of the sick and
wounded when they landed were covered with lice sad ex-
crement, and his own clothes were
Tne lice on their clothes were like letters on a sheet of paper.
There was a great want of drinking utensils at
Scutari, and the sick and wounded were so weak
that in going to the necessaries they had frequently to be
supported, and he undertook to help them himself. At
first they were greatly in want of linen, and the doctors of
the hospital were frequently changed. The soldiers did not
speak well of their treatment in the transports. He visited
the naval hospital at Scutari, which was kept in very good
condition. He visited the hospital at Balaklava. There
were no medical comforts or convenience', but plenty of
cursing and swearing; and the third time he went he was
turned out, but subsequently he received en order from
Lord Raglan for entry into the hospital whenever he Moshe
fit. The opinion of the doctors was, that while the dietary
condition of the army remained as it was, and the vicious
state of the bodies of the soldiers continued to suffer from
the monotony of salt pork, no medical aid was greatili
useful. If they wished to excite the most phlegmatic, s
produce irritation among the most patient of the soldiers in
the ranks, they had only to speak of green coffee.
(Laughter.) Many of them said they might as well have
sensed out to them pebbles. It acted, in reality, as •
drastic purge; and they had no means of roasting it.
The pea soup on board one of the transports at Scutari was
so thick that the spoon would stand up in it—(laughter)—
and the cooking was such that the peas were served eat a•
hard as bullets. He could not discover who was oesganehis
for the cooking. The behaviour of the medical sews ea
the whole, considering the numbers they had to attend ter
was very kind. He received a letter from the Duke a
Newcastle giving him the greatest encouragement to proceed
in his visits at Scutari. The soldiers suffered great incoa.
venienee from losing their knapsacks, and he did not know
what became of the vast quantities of stores sent out, but it
would be in the power of the committee to trace them.
When he visited the camp, he observed the clothes of the
English worn oat, and the quality of the materials was very
inferior to that of the French—it was more like green
baize than cloth. (Laughter.) At first there was a great
want of comforts and accessories at Scutari, but an unlimited
supply could have been obtained from the basun in
Constantinople by the authorities. When he saw that
the French bad opened a hospital and provided Sisters of
Mercy at Sinyrns, it struck him that the English should do
the same. He did not visit Prince's island, where there
was a large barrack, and he did not knew it would have
answered for a hospital. He applied to Admiral Boxer for
some assistance for the sick and wounded, but his Manley
was not of the most agreeable character. Admiral Dear
was a seaman of the old school—rather irascible and me
over civil but he did not know it was a notorious fact that
Admiral Boxer grossly insulted everybody who applied to
him on matters of business. (Laughter.) It was one et
the most inscrutable things to him that proper boats were
not fernishea at Scutari to disembark the sick and wounded.
They ought to have been made at Malta and sent out. No
disinfectant was used at the hospital at Scutari, and he was
always able to get preecriptioas made up. On his own
arrival end that of Miss Nightingale there was no
special place for dispensing medical comforts, and
Mies Nightingale set up a kitchen for herself.
Mr. Stafford baying described to the committee the
course of Miss Niglatiagale's proceeding on her arrival,
said the sick and wounded arrived in a perfect state of ev
haustlea—it was like the flickering of the lamp of life, and
they wanted suable comforts rather than medicines, and
see assistance as Miss Nightingale and the nurses could
afford. The beds were not numbered when he left Scutari,
and any register kept in the hospital he suspected was ex-
tremely defective. One man (Corporal Kelly, of the Am-
bulance corps) was reported dead, and be got permission
from his commanding officer to take the letter contradicting
it. (Laughter.) There was no regularity in the dining
hours and in the issuing of rations. There was a great want
of kitchen accommodation, which was totally unequal to the
demand. There was no washing done at first when he was
there ; and he did not know whose business it was to at-
tend to it at Scutari. The skin sad bones of the sick and
wounded were frequently, from lying on the decks,
quite raw—(sensation)—and it was painful to them w.
even to rest upon the Amu. The flood of siek and wounded A TICIST-OF-LEAVE MAN.—George Smith
were assisted by the kind people there, but there was • yesterday convicted, before Berjeant Adams, at Westmin-
delledellee for the Plating§ of Aida wilted,* et list. They ster, of robbery freer the person.—Coonies, an ex-officer,
washed by contract in the French hospitals. The coffee called to prove a former conviction, said: They call the
premier the Bishop of Durham, my lord, on the other side
could have been roasted at Coustaatinople. About fifty of
of the water, and be really can talk like a parson. He's one
the soldiers' wives were crammed into one small room, too
inadequate for their accommodation, and they were not the of Lord St. Leonards' men, my lord,—a ticket-of-leave man.
hest chimers. Lord Stratford de Retieliffe visited the I've known him 16 years, and a brother dam, of mine
hospital on one occasion, when all the doctors were called know'd him five before that, so that makes 10--all as a thief
upon to metre him in full uniform. He thought it was and companion of thieves. He was transported in 1860 far
very bad policy to appoint an ambassador end diplomatist, stealing a watch at Behar, Rms. and the first I saw of him
like Lord Regicide, commandant of the hospital at Scutari, after Am was ea, day last August in Smithfield Market
as the avocations were calculated to clash, and it mar added with two or three more gentlemen.—The Assistant Judge:
medial order, it would operate materially milikla eb=
to the " routine.' If only three articles were maned la a Gentlemen! what do you mean by gentlemen l—Witasses
Thieves, me lord. I've seen him five or six times elan by
a fourth. The Greeks, in their loses = the Surrey Theatre with swell mobemen. In 1848 he was
spirits, and they were sold, though it was 'mew, In convicted at Marlborough-street Police Court ; again in
the camp. 1849. In 1849 he was tried at Guildford for a robbery at
Captain J. Percy, who went out at the dinette& ofd. Mr. Epsom, but got off. And one day last August, an officer as
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Herbert to the hospitals at Scutari, and take I was with in Smithfield says to me, " ' says he, " why,
eeagnuies, was sent ezeasised. He said it would have, here's the Bishop of Durham come back ;" and I looks at
bees istintsibt• !saw uttio•holl_ nurses' corps at Seular'• him, and " Yee," sae I, "soitis ;" and was the first
Thee were about *Or hospital altogether
.__ eel know'd of his belsg let out on ticket of leave.—Sentence
whim he "al "t" -1" ""ma "•• were melt out mud deferred. This pumas remind 61. with his ticket of leave.
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CHESTER CUP.
13 to 1 apt Lord Howth's Mare Antony (t)
11 to 1 Mr. A. Johnston's Sotharam (I)
he to 1 Mr. Otevtlle's Muscovite (t)
30 to 1 Mr. James Thorp um Escape (t)
THE TWO THOUSAND.
B to 1 apt Mr. Payne's Potydors (t)
The favourite was "quiet." 3to 1 would have been taken to mane
money about Laud of the Wen
DERBY.
1$ to 1 apt Mr. Howard% EL Robust (t)
10 to 1 Mr. Oshalintsee 11Mossaa
11 to 1 Mr. Bowes% Omni= towline (t to 1001.)
1$ to 1 Mr. arry% lord ef the
to 1 Lord M
Damiumutani &Moir (Wmt)
33 to 1 Mr. T. Mare Itaster (I)
IS to 1 Mr. Mosswire Gehl= (t)
MI to 1 Mr. Edwards% Sieshead (t)
50 to 1 LadOsilres Maim (t)
St. Hubert was badiad far wpm& ef ROL at 13 to 2, 300 of which
was booked to one puma, who was slisimun of increasing his invest-
ment to 3004

WARWICK SPRING MERTING.—MONDAY.
A throzrorazu of S son each, with 10 added, for 2-yr olds and
upwards; optional selling weights, 800. Five hubs's. (3 subs.)
lb. Wood's Miss Hatch, by Infidel, 3 yrs, 201., 7st 131 b
(Kendall) 1
Mr. Mother's Rose, 3 yrs, 201., 7st 21b
Tn. Taut. Drum of 10 son sash, with 10 added, for 3-yr olds
end upwards; certain penalties and allowances. The mile coons.
(7 subs.)
Baron Kollendocts Schen, by the Provost, 4 yrs, ast 91b
Mr. Ewbank's Jack Shepherd, 3 yro, 7st (gtarmkltoni 21
lit. Dell's Pole Star, 3 yrs, 7m. (Kendall 3
Mr. Barber's Domino, 4 yrs, lot 91b (J. Foster 4
Tors WOODOOTZ STAZZO of 15 son each, 6 ft, for 2.yr olds; colts.
Sat 71b; Sides, lot 41b; those by stallions or out of muss which never
produced a winner allowed Mb. Five ruckuses. (7 rubs.)
Mr. Hol/ord's eat by Faugh.s.Sallagh, dam by Pantaloon.
lot Ilb (Kendall) 1
Mr. Luces's Ceres, 7st 131 b (Wells) 2
Mr. Pell's Mavournesn, Oct 41b (Wilms) S
TER WILLOOGIUST BASDICAP, of IS son each, 10 tt, sad b only it
declared, he., with 30 added; winners 51b extra. Gentlemen riders ;
prolassiouls elb extra. Two miles. (33 subs, Bof whom pay 6 son
each ft.)
Mr. lowdaa's Luis Davis, by Young Prism. 6 )r% bet 6lb
(Mr. Thompson)
Mr. T. hires Jonathan Martin, 4 yrs, Ust Mb (incl. alb extra))
(Owner)
Captain H. Ithys's Masts Horton, 4 yrs, tlOst llb (IncL 61b
extra) (Kendtll) 3
A Fast HANDICAP, of 10 son each, S ft, with 15 added. One
mile. (16 sate).
Mr. Warrington's Eiteflyer, by Simoom. 6 yrs, Sat 71b
(W. Whits) 1
Mr. Leash's Muter Slender, 6 yrs, 7st 91b (T. Chttet 2
Mr. luso Day's listhozpe, seek Get 1 llb (Crouch) 3
Tae Fumes/ PLAT, of 50 son., with 10 son. to the secondOM&
Two mites. Heats. Wu won in two buts by Mr. W. Cowper'aOmer
IPachs, 6 yrs, list 111 b (Owner), beefing six others.
LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.
CITY AND SUBIJRSAN HANDICAP.
7 to 1 sot Remus (t and cat)
11 to 1 Quince ft freely)
10 to 1 Seducer
13 to 1 Scher: ft
100 to II Eulogist t)
16 to 1 Billingbana (t)
METROPOLITAN STAKES.
9 to 3 apt Phonate,
9 to I Redlands (t)
10 to 1 Fandango CO
too to a Exile of Efln (t)
20 to 1 Epaminondas (t)
20 to 1 Casey (t)