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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13.

THE motion of Mr. LATER") CO Thursday next will
open the whole question of the Crimean Tragedy,
and we earnestly hope that Mr. LATAID will be
more logical and discreet than he usually is, and that
the Government will be honest and outspoken.
The cue is pre-eminently simple, and requires only
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to bs plainly stated in ord.; to b; understood. &wady
fourteen mouths ago tke country rang with an agony
of lamentation over the miseries of oar gallant army.
Naked and toilworn, famished and thirsty, wasted
by the sword and scourged by the pestilence, that
army, victorious amid calamity, had become the ob-
ject of our keenest pity and of our most passionate
prayers. From the Quastr upon the throne to the
lowest commoner of the realm then was a mania of
charity. The Palucu despatched fur cloaks for his regi-
ment; noblemen and noblewomen contributed for the

offoers—wines, liqueurs, and monster pasties ; for the
comma men—tobacco, porter, sad brandy. Multi-
tudes stripped the clothes hone their backs for
bandages and linen for the sick. Storehouses were
crammed to overflowing with comforts destined for the
Crimea, and vessels were dessaaded in vain to convey
them thither. Indeed, such was the acenmelation of
stores when they arrived at their destination, that
there was neither room to land them nor room to stow
them away after they were landed. The state of
things was deplorable. And to the people of Eng-
land it was doubly galling, for, priding themselves
upon their practical capacities, they appeared to
the world as incompetent administrators. The
vein but ill-fated Doke of NEWCASTLE was swept away
In the torrent of public discontent. Lord PALMER-
STON'S foolhardy attempt to play WAT TYLER, and his
offer to conduct the investigation into the sauedalous
failure of our war system, was laughed to moors. The
House of Commons itself undertook the inquiry, and
under the auspices of Mr. ROEBUCK it established
the fact of suffering but failed to reach the cause.
Meanwhile, Sir JOHN WNZILL and CulonelTommat
were, by command of the Government, isvestigaiing
on the spot the origin of these &eaters. Their first
Report, affecting the Coninsimariat, was in the hands
of the Government lest Jane : their second Report,
affecting the Quartermaster, bears date January,
1838. This Report the Government cannot be permitted
to ignore, for the men who wrote it were appointed by
themselves, and as yet its accuracy stands unite,-
peached. It is indeed a memorable document. Un-
less the Conetaissioaers laboured under some miracu-
lous hallucination they have laid their finger
upon the mainspring of all the disasters of
the winter of 1864-63. Even according to
Mr. FREDERICK Pm, the Commissioners Inculpate
the conduct of Sir RICHARD AIM and of the Ron.
ALEXANDER GORDON. who occupied the .me Aim
of Quartermaster-General and Depety-Quirtenerne.

ter-Gesesel in the Crimea which tiey.no; ceoupy at
the Horse Guards.
The various individuals whose professional conduct
is stigmatised in the Report are mow preparing their
defence. It is only jest that we shield bear their
defame. Till that de►eaee is published we swerve
ear judgment. Nor are we the less disposed to pur-
sue this coarse by the fact that we have observed at
least one case in which we regret to say one of oar
contemporaries, in its eagerness to rapport the
aware* of a oorrespeadout, bee, we fear, done
swat justice to the widows. of the Qearter-
areater -General. The lamas= of incapacity we
will sot repast in detail : they have Ghostly appeared
is them columns. Nevertheless, it may be remem-
bered that is the December sad Janasry of that fatal
winter the misery of the troops was at its height.
Bat how shall we epitomise that dreary mese ?
Oa that bleak and barren promontory the men lay
en mad, with nothing over or wider them exempt a
blanket ce a greatcoat, often demehed with =Ware.
And yet at that very time, of the 10,000 rags in store
—which before the sad of January had ineressed to
51,000—.51y 800 were issued: while, of 26,000
blanket., not one was Ward. Though 11,000 great.
outs lay is store at Balaklays, cad 9,000 at fieatari,
the. was still a scarcity throughout the army.
Battalioas were dying of nervy, while 90,000 pomade
of limejaies—the specific for that dissaas—was
Is store at Balaklava : members of wretched men
were *Meted with morbutio gams usable to est the
lionit—bakera ovens, sad Soar in abundasee, sad
yet no breed. Thousands of plisse of porter lay
at Varna for a whole year, whilst the troops were
drinking ditch water. The cavalry eased fearfully ;
sad yet the bores* might have been sheltered sailed,
for there were materials for banding f sad if hay
mad cora amid not be brought to the bombe, the herein
might have bleu take* to the hay sad cora. They
were at lest takes, bet many of them were so weak
that they fell down and died free mere weakens
epee the red
No ems knew his duties. The Commandeft-la-1
Chid was apathetic', or too good-satared. The
Quartarniseter-General was *boreal of the supplies
at his disposal, or bad lost his head. The people of
Ragland and the Ministry justified a scarcity. There
was, in tact, altandaaffe. The fats of TANTALUS was
realimd :

Tatala a labels siting hdiset4 e %Pea
Manias.
The terrible fictions of mythology were trau
tined to Weal life. If the Report speaks tree,
Sir RICHARD AUDIT aid the Hoe. ALICE-
/ND= GORDON iseeegod the eternities of
the Infantry, whilst the Earls of LIMAN and
CARDIGAN did the eau elks far the Cavalry.
For them their delinqueseise my Lord CARDI-
GAN baa been Stied is the streets of London. due.
rated by the hands of the Qum herself, sad made
Inspeetor-General of Cavalry ; the Earl of Luca',
who threatened to pet as akar seder arrest for
proposing to teed the hones, he. got a regiment I
Bin RICHARD AIRRY la IC.C3 said the Hoe.
ALIXANIaI Gossett is C.B. ; aid these two hones
sow emery the is.. position at the Horn thuds
ter which they were feud iseesepetest to the
Crimea. How different has bees the fate of these hey-
hosam3pathista from that of the luckless metramor
who bad the Waimea' to pick up by mere saddest -
a dead lamb in a true of ezallest fodder. The
Haase of Lords, os hearing the story, was moved
to It. depths. The Minister of War sat by tele-
graph to demand the urns of the mute; sad the

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