The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-19 00:00:00

:.inked, sad pat in a position that so am
ma to Cope with.'
- „Tee &die, of Dr. Illessies were farther oh.treeted by a
..gg‘ct of authority with the purveyor, wise claimed to oat
iii.peiniently, under the instructions of the Beeretarreill-
wo. Whelf one purveyor had hem pronounced mg la
wool board uoliggor the active duties of his odes, iwd
_,..a viatO6sid, be was retained in this mpontolle
litark Ippeerbot authority. All doubt as to the amide.
7a07-gifie purveyor would have beta temoved by per}
ons from the fiseretary-at-War. These wart- ,
=I, Nat vista the 141 th of
beeNovembe. i..z
"'a your committee must declare it to their opinion...bat
yams attaches to Dr. !deceive, inasmuch as he old not se
idoeMetely the circumstynces of the hospital ; he stated
this he wanted nothing in the shape of stores or medial
ismfats et the time when his patients were destitute of the
mosseoest neceaseries.
With this confirmation by Dr. Dumbrock, Deputy.
isepeetOt eeeee lof Hospitals, of tte +lode testimony
swing to this painful subject, pout committee are totally
eta lees to comprehend the report of Dr. Hail, mire cape
siggy with regard to the Barrack Hospital, the teen. of so
ot misery and suffering. The Duke of Newcastle at ills
Mist the disgracetul eonditi n of the It spitals was Hest
upught und-r his notice in the middle of Octoher.' Dr.
sio "'seat Scutari from the 3rd to the 23rd of that month.
De, Ball'. report seems to have misled both Lord It roam
ma the government at home, and to have occasioned much
delay te measures taken afterwards for the remedy of the
eii. which might have been attested earlier in their

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office of purveyor hao bete, with four 'scorner*,
daseestieued for co thy year., sad there wet Witicelty in
both; a person competent to perform these duties. The
skews of Mr Ward for this post was not tornanate ;
emegg other proofs of hi• militates, it appears that where
sitegetry was iwitituted into the amount of the ,0ree,,,,.s
mono so athount could be produced of any stores later
Ulu toe tad of August. Woes it is remembered that the
joetOneacy of these wows was a source of much suffering,
tj wit of more fatal resultsa it must be °bogeyed thot heavy
to
repocsibOsty attaches to the CommandertireChiet of tbe
1,,,,,,,. en°, acting on the repsentstiou of the Ostutow
mane Otherol. retinued Mr. Ward to his ofilw, alter he
ba been pronounced unfit to discharge its duties. The
simpottoy.at•War had said, t There caw be no vineries to
wi Mt Ward, as I will promise, if he is not efficient, we
vot remove him.' When, however, the appointment bee
boa mode, the Commander of the Force. had thoule
leathe sod led tee decision of the Medical Baud.
The spoeuthent of Mr. Wreford, who seas sent out as putt
thyor in thief, did not remove these difficulties. The di►
pact dunes ef Ile. Wei ford tied Mr. Word were out wader-
sod by three cakes., and the connotes woo increased by I
bet othertainty. Mr. Maxwell, the commithi in, r wEo was
met to inquire, seems • ii have returnid undecil, d in .Apni•la
as le whits of these two (dicers was answerable for the
mole of Worts.
"Toe *primary's depirtmest at &uteri was in no bet-
tor 'sedition; his chord was the geo-rol det At, not only for
toe hospitals, but fur the army in tt e East ; yet he hod so
entiest of hi. stores, sad n made an 'wry in his hooks
Ism the 14th of September to the ?Sib of N member. Your
eramituie are not aware under whet instructions he was
wag ; but the late Secretary at War admits that ouch cow
egg wit a gross desolation of duty. It is moreover Mani
hat that the government had been deceived in regard to
*al hospital ,tort; slue 51f. S. Herbert had stated in
the Hoses of Commons, • There hero been all =inner of
firms to be g• me thiamin before these litotes could h• issued;
with plenty of materials, the forms Were sq cwobrouo, that
they suer cold be produced with the rsovtil ore sssss y
Is
the parrots of • military hospital.' It is now proved
that if there ours cuuohr us forms inconveeiencieg the I
service ot the hospital, and ag aaaaa tit g the sufferings of
the patient.. there were at least no forms to protect the
yobbo purse Rosiest lieWigthee or pewits ion. The die.
Ines is tness hospitals would have been more severe
sad the sufferings more acute, it private charity had act
elesold le to entrees the evils of official mismaingemst.
agisown di& had been discouraged as superfluwas wee
goutually ffeand to be essential for the hue of the patients.
" Whim the quantires of hospital stores whietf were at
ham hawed are costrasted with the scarcity, or rather the
shoelace dearth of them at Scutari, and wren the state of
the purveyor's accounts is remembered, it is ice- oasible net.
fib brobasr a suspicion that coma dishonesty has bees preils-
Mini a reseed to these stores. From the !Wilms in the An-
p, it appears that, before the /4th of July, 6,717 bad.
9 001 beds and polliastes, 7,140 complete bpapital
5 0,0 linen and flannel shirts, with a full proportion
ether articles, and tateneils of all
lied descriptioesip'ped by
were
dthind by the Medical Board to be supp ai'd sh.
Ile Board of Ordnance. A committee of tho Routs could
set efficiently prosecute an itiveitigation into the diaappear-
sate of then gores the subject well deserves the con.
literates* of the esecutive over
" le order to show the urcadful discomfort of the men,
and the neglect on the part of the authorities, it may be
safficiect to ata'e that in the Barrack Hospital ot Scutari,
doriog the month of November, while there' nitre ah wt
2,000 petit ate in that hospital, the whole number tat shirts
washed was oily sit. At a later period it is lair to add that
this gl aing evil was mitigated.
"Major Stacey, either unprovided with special instruhis
pons for such an emergency, or uusequad with
power, awl authority as meanie/ commaucloct
ni , appears to
have then completely paralysed in his attempts to gofer°
the hospnals under his (doers. Ile was uoprovideti with
staff. Mr. Stafford netts th.t bliij r Sillert was afraid to
later the responsibility of dirt ctiog p..ymeot for the labour
of 16 Turks, required fir the removal of the worth buithocts.l
There is abundant proof throughout the evidence that the
military officer in comuthwl at any station where general
licepitals are trahlishid possemes authority to direct ex-
pooditure, and to meet all cues of emergency or mteelity
beyond those provided for by the established iegulpos of
the Wu-office.
TOP immediate measures taken by the authorities at home
—when the cooditioos of the hospitals was .more truly
brought to their knowledge by the press and by. private
laformation than it had been by the medical officers—were
the appointment of the Commission of Itittuiry, and the
instructions to her Majesty'. Ambassador at C. nstantioople,
which will lie found in the Appendix. Tbe cothraittee con-
sider this lest step to have been as iojudieletts we it was tin
availing for the warpath for which it was intended. If the
division and uncertainty of uspousibiiiti Was S. serious
evil, the evil could only be increased by the interference of
soother authority, [memo neither relation to nor eolllllniOn
with cur military administration. The instruction to the
Althaseedor to provide on application money and !rep ins
for the wants of the hospital* would t eem to thiry that th
nth° a iti a . at home were as little aware as the eboullandent '
Moult of the powers he possessed over the oommisaaries
sad pane) on.
•
" Tee w tit of an energetic governing authority, with as
adequate staff to maintain constant inspection and of icielth I
discipline, appears to your committee to have Is-, ti the chief I
came of all the evils, 5,000 ur 6,000 men—althgh in how
pital, require the care, superintendence, and co ou
otrol of as
eficient a 1 officer as much es the moaainuctier in the
he'd. Mr. Herbert says, that ' Major Santry ought not to
bees been left in the command hise hospital ; his Military
rank was not sufficient ;' that ' belief Seas, 'that Meier
Ilillery worked very indefstigably in big department, see
cording to his own light, but that he was not a mar of the
rank is the army and the weight which be ought to have
had, to be at the bead of an establishment of such
ve *e a gigao
tic character c' that a general officer ought to has ap.
pointed from this country with full authority. Lord Har-
ding. states, ' that toe command at S:utari oughbito have
been outlasted to an officer of higher task aod greater la-
'hence.' Ad Mr. Herbert further states, that the g
thareat t
pressure our these hospitals, and the great calams
occurred is team, tool place while they wets under the
command of Major Siker>.
" It may sot have been possible for Lord Raglan to have
spared such an officer with a sufficient staff fir this serviette
in the pressing circumstances of his position in the Crimea.
Your committee nutlet that measures were cot earlier taken
either to reinforce the staff under Lord Raglan, so as to
have enabled him to provide more effiaiemtlyufor .ilis com-
of
sand, or to trend out on the emergency. a general officer
sufficient rank from Harland. While the Matter was seh. I
sequenni under consideration at hdme, Lord Regis* ago
pointed Lord William Peale, who mounded Major Silkily
in the beginning of Dec-mber. The Duke of Nowcierlo seas
special instruetions to Lord William raulet on the bilk et
January, which were followed by Mr. Herbert's tanker is-
struc•ions on the 18 h. It is fair to' Lord William" Patina
to add, that a general amendment in the stet/ of e
com-
the
hospital took place from the time of his sinuning th
mad. '
ut r ' i b remark,
Your reattaittee, in conclusion, Canna
that the first real improvements in the lamentiffle rendition
of the hospitals st Seaton are to be attributed to-private
raigestions, private 'union., and private benevolence.
(Hear, hear.) A fund, raved by public subscription, was
administered by the proprietors of the Tenses newspaper,
through Mr Macdonald, an intelllgrrit" and :emigre aunt.
At the suggestion of the Secretatpat-War Mar tfigiltingsle,
with admirable devotion, organised a band of Burrs and
aidertaok the care of the sick and winded. T aya 'Hoa.l
Jocelyn Perey, the Roo. and Rev. Sides, 04olphie
Osberae, and Mr. Augustus Stafford, after a petioaal in.
spathes of the hospitals, furnished valuable reports and
segienions to the government.' •By theee.ssesee much
seeing was alleviated, *a spirits of the man were raised,
sad slay lives were 'solid. (Hear, hoer.)
" Your committee have now adverted to tbit cffief points
coatained in the replies to &born 2T,000 qutitionlveed ia
noticing these various subjects Wel' hive' divided them
under diadem, heads, in order fairly to apportion the re-
sponnbility.
YOUr committee report that the suffering of 'the army
resulted mainly from the efrennarsece under which the
expedition to the Crim a was Ingertaken soil executed.
The adminiatratioa which ordered that ezpeditioo had us
adequate isformstioa as to the Amount of the forces is
the Cornea. (Hear, bear.) They were pot acquxilafed with
the strength of the fortresses to be attacked; or with the
mouth" of the country to be itthoffed. They hoped and
stewed the expedition to be immediately sueneestuA and as
they did not foresee the probabilitg of a protracted vigils,
it ame no provision for a winter Molgillato SVairlaijne
"The patience and fortitude of army e Illili
admire% n and gratitude of the nation an Whose behalf they
have fought, bled, and safferms Their heroie 4410ur. sad
w
equally heroic patience ider sufferings sad piiyatio.N, have
glees them claims epos their gouda 1it46..7141 Mihail!'
be gratefully acksowledged. (Cheers.)
"Tour committee will now cloth their report waft hope
that every British army may in future display the valour
which this noble army has displayed, anti that none may',
hereafter be 'zeroed to such sufferings as are recorded is
these pages," (Loud cheers )
The report was thes ordered to lie as the table.

THE MASSACRE OF ENGLISH SAILORS AT I
HANG° -FIRING ON A FLAG OF TRUCE.

Oisplain DUNCOMBE said he wished to ask a question
of the First Lord of the Admiralty with regard to a state.
Rent which bad appeared of a murderous outrage which
had been committed by the Russians on die crew and officer
of one of her Majesty'. boats in the Baltic. He wished to
know whether any despatch bad been received on the
sables% and whether the right hon. baronet could state tie
facts of the case.

Asides mach emotion on the part of the house Sir
COMMIS WOOD then lead the detai)s as given is mamba
column.

Mr. BEADLAM asked whether there was any truth is
the ■tateseet that mime of the officers were engaged in
taming soundings under the protection of the flog of UDC,.
Sir C. WOOD—So far as any report that has been
received by the government goes, I believe that that state-
ment is wholly untrue.
Sir C. WOOD then laid the despatch upon the table, and
it was ordered to be printed.
ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM.

The delude upon Mr Loyard'a motion was reamed by
Lord OODERICH. who iterated upon the necessity of re-
form in camas branches of the clod and military senesces,
end ',messed regret that the government should have in-
terpreted the resolution into a vote of confidence.
F. PEEL replied at arme ler g,h to the allegations
urged by lir. Lapsed against the administration of the
army.
Mr DRUMMOND, Mr. J. M'Ongoon, Captain LINDSAY,
ann Ur J. 0. PHILLIMORE, having ,pokes,
Mr. DISRAELI attempted to show that nig labours and
sat, wives while in office entitled him to assume the cha-
racter of • veteran administrative reformer. Mr. Darnell
then defined the principles on which the civil service should
be reorganised. Admission t, the service ought to ha re-
gulated by fitness; the exertions of efficient !tractional.s
ought ti be better remunerated; and the public service
ought to be considered a profession where the lofties: prises
were placed wi-hin the roach of every employe who dia-
played energy sod talent.
Lord PALMERSTON entered upon a general defence of
the course now being pursued by the government in the
miiitsry administration, the consular establishment, and the
civil service. The renown of the country never stood
higher, nor were its prospects ever more bright. In accept-
ing tee amendment, he declared that the government en-
dorsed with perfect sincerity the pledge it conveyed toe
carrying out, in toe best and readiest slasher that could be
found porsible, the prineirde of Administrative Reforoi.
A motion for adjournment hay Lg been rejected, the
house divided on the resolution.
For the resolution 46
Arainst it
The debate on Sir E. B. Lyt.un'ti amendment was then
adj .urned to Thursday.
The bowie then adjourned et half-pest two.

MR. LAYARD'S MOTION.-THE DIVISION.

The following constitute the minority of 46 who
ented tut evenlng for Mr. Ley .ei'li motion :
Alexander, John Langtce, 11. G. Peed. 3. 11.
VAR. James Lealett, William Roebuck J. A.
Bowyer, G.orge IA!, Willi m lichee/rid, W.111.m
Brockman. E. P. Lindsay. W. B. Fr:obeli, Captain
Blown. Humph. Lout, Robert cozily. Vii cent
Coteka, Richard Maguire, J. F. %snick. J. B.
Minya, L. L. Mentry, R. D. Tnocapeoo, George
Land" Illia.l, Ronald Tite, William
Muslim, CAI 7 Michell, wi.liam Vane*, Jo .n
11mgeruld, W. R. B. Nowt. Francis Warner, Edward
101. W. J. Murrough, J. P. Williams, Whilans
Goderieb, Viseour.t Oliteir... riegjamin Wise, Ayalgord
Grows, Ederarl Gluey. A. J.
Groi .n. iggrard Parker, R. T. TZLIASAL
IladSeld, George ?fibril, Sir G. IL Laymd. A. H.
Realign. IL 8. Pellatt. Apeksy Clifford, H. AI.
King, Ilea. P. J. L. Price, W. P.