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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3.

Sour few months ago it was the general conviction
th et oar army in the Crimea hid eedered grievous suf-
ferings, and chat, however indomitably courageous the
regimental officers widths OM mot soldiers had shown
thismiyes in ic. ice, the general officers and the staff
hue by t cresubsottheirconduct,provedtheiriaoom-
p.• tetra Oa the Debate", Lord CARDIGAN bad eon-
ducted a tecounaktance in tech a mincer—mending
tothe INCOIIIIIt 01 kilirAT,mendiegoliket,Lord LCCAN—

that the to..r.s bid become utterly anserviceable. Tha
backs of the peer •nimale would net bear a saddle-
On the Dinube, likewise, one brigade of the Guards
was onsamptd its • position which Oxea PACHA
had pointed out u especially deadly. The
written wanting of the experienced Oars wes
ignored, and disuse and death were the consequence.
When the army was transferred to the Crimea the
management was so provident that for many weeks
the men bad not a cbsuge of clothes. The Co"-
atutoss-ix.CulllF was so farsighted that when poor
Commieury-General PILGER, in the madness of his
common sense, demanded again and again where the
army was to be a month hence, the only reply
vouchsafed was—that the Commander•in-Chief could
not tell. In the beginning of October it was deter-
minedio open trencher, to aim siege batteries, and
yet Ste RICHARD AIRIT declares it was only in
November that it was resolved to winter is the
Cameo. The army was posted seven or eight miles
from its supplies of feed and ammunition, and the
road by which alone these supplies could be
brought up was a quagmire. Lord RAG•
LAN'S plan wes to keep the army in front of
the enemy. No troops could be spared to make the
read, and therefore they starved. No roadmakers
were to be got at Constantinople, and noes were sent
for from &Wind; because, as Sir JOILY BURGOTNII
said, the idea never occurred to anybody. The
Government at home were kept so thoroughly
informed of the state of things by the offioera on the
spot that the first intelligence which reached the
Penis Misters' and his colleagues of the terrible
mafferings of the soldiees, and their imminent annihila-
tion, was the information of newspaper correspond-
ents. The Government itself, and the COIIIIANDER.
ix-Cniu, were so utterly incompetent to supply the
army with clothing and with the necessaries of life,
that a fend was collected, and successfully distributed
by three or four private gentlemen. The hospitals
were in such a disgraceful condition—partly through

the incompetence of an aged purveyor—that a baud of
heroic ladies was needed to remedy the evils; whilst
the soffit*, of the purveyor, after he had been declared
incompetent, were retained by the direct interference
of the

_ Lord Ramie. The is.
dignation of the annoy wee not to be euppretned•
Investigation upon investigation took place. Through-
out the whole of this painful history, the only men
who suffered rebuke were Lord LOGAN and t►e Com-
missary-General TILOS!". Of Lard LIICAN we my
nothing t bet the CONNISSAIT•GININAL, II it now
appean, seem to have been the only man
who had any foresight, or anticipated the
dial:satire which would certainly arise. If the Bri-
tish army in the Crimea had been weU fed, well
clothed, moderately worked, end ably handled, the
man who would have resped the glory would have
been the Commander-in-Chief, Lord Raoun. Bat as
the army suffered from starvaliou, nakeduese, and
overwork, the Commotoder-inChief, Lord RAGLAN, is
the man who must be held reepoesible. There may
possibly be circumstances which may render hie peti-
tion an anomaly in the history of war; bet until
these circumstance, are established, we are entitled to
swum their non-rxiatesor. An army of 28,000 men
within seven miles of the amplest resources, with the
soldiers perishing of starvation and overwork, and the
cavalry borers so red aced by want of feed that they man k
exhaseted by the wayside whilst they were led by their
riders—ransack history end producers meat Apar&
lel to this, in which the Cvmmander•io-(hid has been
held irresponsible. The cue of Lord RAGLAN may
be the Bret ; but we most observe that hie friends
have chosen a strange mode of defending him ; for
throughout every single investigation his name ham
bees suppressed—hie band ie nowhere visible.
Then facts having been established, the publie had
come to the conclusion that the conduct of our mili-
tary officers bad exhibited gross incompetence. For
a time, indeed, the incompetency was admitted. We
were conjured to remember that, after forty year of
peace, men had forgotten the art of war ;
that the Hone of Ominous had destroyed
nerythieg by its parsimony; that changes
were in contemplation, and were being car-
ried into effect. There seemed to be some spirit
ef repentance. Bat now that the storm ham blown
ever a change has come over the spirit of that dream,
The first thing that you see no opening a newspaper
fa the account of some banquet to some Crimean hero.
at which he fe generally preeseted with a ravel&
sent sword. The other day the late Qeartermeeter.
General Colonel PERCT HERBERT had this honour
conferred upon him, and some two bye ago Lord
CARDIGAN bad the mare lIIIIIIOIIy performed at
Leeds. Both then officers took the opportunity of
eulogising the conduct of the late Commander•in-
Chief, Lord RAGLAN, but neither of them stated any
single feet which should iodine any sensible man to es-
timate very highly the merits of that moat gallaatoeloer.
Colonel Fancy HERBERT talked in a foolish way about
the abase that wax poured upon the Doke of WEL-
unirots, and seemed to think that the fact of being
abused was an argument in a man's fame. The
cane are very different. At the time when the Doke
IMA rising into fame he had everything spinet him.
Faction ran high. The Ministry had great dialeolty
in supporting him, and even in their attempts to
support him were miserably shortsighted. Bat the
more his cordon was investigated the more sagacious
seemed his costae's, and the longer he continued oom-
mender of the , the - •he inspired onedence
all, be esieeted
admirabb jea-
n. Aallibleoil.
• of Bashed at
such a pedlimie
calossay. Teed
everything la hie
cried, "Con
• asked fee. He
, appointed his
emergency, and it
scrutinies', the
to make these
a most gallant
beaus In died
o to be elevated
new beams the
of to weep

tinder of the army the tore he 'tiepin
1 ; and achieved signal nooses. Above all,
his officers with siegalar sagacity and ai
I tics. He would not ender* inoompetence.
to pretend that, with the resources of
his feet, he ever placed his army is sash
Lord RAGLAN placed hie, Is a mere gals
. ,
Ractax, on the other hand, had everyt
11 (arose. Not a man opposed ; every sae
speed." He might have had what he a
. ,
had thr choice of hie offkers. He a
staff. Bat he was sot equal to the eser,
in clear that the more his (midget is set
# seers imbecile it seems. It is painful tt
observation, for Lord %cum WWI a
old man, and died at his pest. Bat bee
Ike a brave was, he is not therefore to
Into a steatitic officer. Bina it has nov
?, ' hellion for net, " pelting petty ace
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