The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-29 00:00:00

ME CRIMEAN MILITARY INQUIRY.

FOURTERNTH ITINO.—THD3 DAY.
imistry was resumed this morning, whales
The Judge-Advocate, addreesiag Lord Cardigan, asked
..ether he was dealreus of 'tiding his c imp'sint against
the 'et ,rt • t tar commissioners, if so, the board wished him
in 'Not out, at once, the passages cf which ha complained.
Lord Cerdicen • aid the o '•sages were all well defined in
„wise.% sh ch he had to reed to the court; but before
raiding that statement he wished to state that he had him•
*lll demanded a, inquiry, although after first reading the
roper to had written to the Sfeletely of War upon the
sabred. That letter had bean laid before parliament,
but he now cordially embraced the opportunity of
go.s,; more rally into the subject than be had
bean able to do in that letoir. He then
teed a very love statement, of a geoeral aware, referring to -
:he general cheep,. sutp s.d to be brought against bin in
the report of the eomm•s•iorers, woich he sold seemed prin-
t. tidy to resolve themselves into one, namely, that
he had contributed to the subsequent inefficiency of
the cavalry, by refusing to send them upon a very
dangerous service toat of fetching up forage from •
Balaklays, at a time when they were dying daily
from sheer elhaast.on. Glancing at the various ate•
t: as cccapied by his brigade from their landing at
Versa up to the b.tt e of Inkermana, at the beginning
of November, he said that there had been, so far, no gnat
w:int of f.,rager, and contended that be had in all reaped'
acted in the way beet calculated to pr .mote the welfare cif
h.s brigade. To pray. th;. he should rely principally upon
:i.e evidence given before the Sebastopol committee, so that
would not be necessary for him tote ruble the board with
many wits . The noble earl was proceeding to read
eat ruts from the evids■re referred to, when

The Judge-Advocate isteipieed with the remark that
such 'einem cowl,/ not ba takes at evidence by the board;
sad it would therefore be better for Lerd Cardigan to pro-
mid with hie statement without Warring to tot Sebastopol
.ommittee.

Lad Cardigan said he did not see how it was possible
for hies to go on with his case, U he were not allowed
to take the course which he had marked out,
and than referred to certain remonstrances addressed
by ism to Lied Raglan and Lord Lucas epos the
intimated stay of his bones on the heights of lakermann,
where they were subjected to great aufferiogs, sod which
renianetrances welted in his obtaining permission to
remove a tot siderable poriith of his horses to Hinkel.
After the storm of November 14, there wee 'great defisiency
of bay, and he was often unable to gee more timbale., sad
a more dim lilt.. c r 121 be. at a time Lr oath lone.
Reining to a mat er which enacted him preciosity, he
that by pannirion of Lord Rigida, In consequence of
being eerionely ill, he slept on bind his yacht for Bee
weeks, and finding that this did not cordate the cleared
effect, sad that condoned illness precluded the hope of hi
ratan to active *thrice, he presented himealf relsetantly
before a medical board, and filially threw up his conianad an
the 29th of November. The cable earl then wetted that
he had, while in command of the Light Brigade, taken t►e
best steps in hie poser to prct et h a hors.), and emitted
that the sufferings of the horses rum principally from de-
ficiency of forme. Upon this point he read numerous au.
tracts from the 'enlace* taken before the Sebastopol Com-
mittee; mining up thew @struts with his own reracike
in a way 'bids made it difficult to decide which was nee
and which the other. There was, however, nothing new
is this portion of his ata•ement. emanating the martaLity
of bones in his brigade with that of the Heavy
Brigade and the Artillery, he tad that the former
had net been greatly to gums. He asserted that
the eammiarioners, in their report, bad drawn in-
fluences to his pecjudice, whits were entirely with-
eat foundation, mad at all events it wee quite an-
jestiliabk far them to nuke such severe strictures
es they bad dose upon a difference of lees of
hem between tie two brigades, ameantisg to no
le no mere this two per emit. in a station of meth than
teafeld dagger. Recurring to the question ef blame im-
puted to him for not sending ►ie hones to Belaklava fee
hip, be said that hie opinion swiscided with that of We
Lieutenaat-Omni and the Commander in-Chief ; tad be
thought the fi ca which he had adduced fully entitled him
to baud fns the coact an acquittal upon the awls
which had bees brouist agaiset hied. (App!suse.)
Lord Culligan this applied to be allowed to wads'
Hr. Deputy Commissere•Qasusl Crakkabeak, t►e eel,
witness whom it was at present his intention to
Mr, Crideket ash ta•d be mai* application to Lord LOOM
fer horses for trust ort dry, between the 14th and 28th ii
November, bat the horses were refund. He believed he
bed made repeated applicaloes ti Lord Lucia, who always
refused the bozos'. It case not his (wisest's) duty to oak
why they were refined.

ford audigas emd he had no more qamtions to pat to
Mr. Craieksbaok, sad no more witnesses to examine.
In reply to the Bo trd,

Mr. Cr•'ekehaak said that ho met all the semosaMag
olcen n November 16, whoa they all wood to owed •
mats somber of hones to Salablan f r forage,
and it was upon tin that he mai' applleaties
to Lord Loon ter the horses. The roads ware sot
very bad when the trot appleatios wee made, asd ft woe
thought the homes fogad go from dm °amp to Salaklan.
Had no copy of the npresastatio• made by hies te Lind
Lana ; had no publio penal i• his peeeessien.
[Pr ending wh•a our report left.]