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London, England, 1856-05-08 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 8.

Two days ego we pabliehed a dement promul-
gated by the Emperor of Russia, which we ream-
mend to the serious attention both of oar own military
authotities and of those civilians who topsider mili-
tary matters beyond the pale of oddities. The Em-
peror of Roast., it seems, having received detailed
reports concerning the military hospital of flimphe-
ropol, sad having perceived with profound regret
that the authorities bad not taken active measures for
the well-being and medical treatment of the patient.,
indicts &severe censors on the officers who neglected
their duty. As the subject-matter of complaint is
the military hospital, it might seem that the
censure could not by possibility extend higher
than the ehlsf medial oiliest who had sharp
of the establishment complained of. Bat meth is

not the shallow wisdom of the Rilifian Government.
Hie MAMMY *edam, indeed, the chief medical oili-
est of the Military Hospital of Sebastopol and the
director of the dispensary, who have been guilty of
therreabsees,to be brought boraces Council of Wsr,snd
in the meantime to be placed under arrest. But his
MAJESTY also indicts his censure on the Physician.
General of the Stag an actual alumina, of State, for
set baying stopped the disorders and abuses which
marred ; on the directors of the military hospitals
of the Booth and of the troops in the Crime, for
having failed in their duty of superintending the
hospitals and their ibternal management ; and lastly,
ea the lieutenant general formerly charged with

the duty of vigorous supervision, and upon his sae-
onne. Now this is the jut method of Misting
censure. When abuses occur in may department et
military administration it is both "cowardly sad
vile" to visit with official indignation the men
subordinate. Military government is a system
absolutimn, and as the commander-in-chief reaps meet
of the glory sublimed by the success of these salt
him, so ought he in justice to bur moat of the blew
which attaches to their failures and their shone
comiege. Hsi' bound to accept the advantages with*,
disadvantages. The righteousness of the Russian era
temisforcibly preesed upon our attention at thepresent
moment. At the very time when officers high in com-
mand an censured by the Emperor of Rusne. we are
witnessing an inquiry into our own military failures,
In which it seems to be laid down u an axiom that
above a certain rank no censure must in any way be
aset—nay, the very names of the chiefs must never
be mentioned. Dc,norh is nil nisi bosuns. Bet still
it Is vain te think that thus to 'out the play of Huila
omitting the character of Hamlet can conduce either
to the benefit of the country or to the interests of
justice. Again and again attempts are made to
separate departments from eaoh other so com-
pletely es to make it appear that each of them is
absolutely independent; indeed, this theory his
been carried so far ms to have it said that the
whole duties of the army in the field an divided
between the Adjutant-General, the Quartermaster-
Gement, and the Commimary•General, sa if, for.
sooth, there were no Ocesmaudle-in-Chief at all.
Ben a notion is simply absurd. If acted upon it
mast lead to gross blinder, or if net to hijacks, it
must have the effect of sheltering those who really
deserve censure. The Cosamander.in•Chiel of an
army in the field is not a heathen god, who site
usual, the elude to watch the strife below; be is
the moving spirit of every department, and is respon-
sible for the good annum of every one of those de.
partisans Rh power is absolute. If any officer in
Incompetent he to bound to dismiss him. And when,
as in the nee of Lord RAGLAN in the Crimea, he knows
the individual history of every officer in the army, be
ie doubly responsible, because he hos the most ample
lessee of knowing when to select efficient oasts.
Bat this aware of the Rusks EMPEROR teethes
a farther lesson. It may show Sir Riau= AIRRT
and his friends; that Commissions to euremlee late the
audition et an army are net so utterly novel and un-
heard of as they would have us believe. It may show
them that eves the Emperor of Russia an fled mu
who have the Gunge to report deficisecies, and men
honest enough in his eyes to command belief. Bach
a circumstance as this may lodges Sir RICHARD to
believe that Commissioners, anus they make en
unfavourable report, an sot therefore to be deemed
corrupt, or sepable of falsifying returns sad garbling
evidence. And perhaps when Sir RICHARD has sous;.
dared these things he may be mime disposed to
acquiesce in the justice of thi rebuke which, for his
sun we regret, bat for the sake of justice we rejoice,
to find the Board most properly administered to
him. Ills quite true, as the Board observed, that
the toes in which Sir RICHARD MART has conducted
his examination has been too personal. Colonel
Tru.ocs and BM lone Mlien.t. may have com-
mitted mistake,, but it Is monstrous to suppose that
they have been so foolish as to have supposed
the evidence of any one of the witnesses ledeed,
the fasts of the case. u stated by Colonel Thuma.
with regard to this absurd allegation, an toe staple
and &Mose to afford any ground for the calamine.
amertisa. Harlot taken down the 'vides*, of
';;gritzßlLL Co' Z."•;esioners submitted
to Ma the draft of it. Certain shanks@ were
Made by the witness and amongst others a marina'
notes which Colossi Tomoce, thinking unimportaat,
sheik out. The copy so amended was sent to
C 01011•1 GORDON, to be submitted to Colonel Wat.
Tinutau.--who had by that time left the Crises—in
order to be corrected. The same copy was sent beck
to Colossi Tuu,sca without any sorreetion. Colonel

GORDON having himself moat carefully coreseted his'
own evidence, sent back Colonel Wrrisgs.a.L's
'eidetic* untouched; and therefore the pommis-
sioners, considering Colonel Wsransu. approved
the minutes of the evidence' submitted to him,
founded their conclusions upon it. It now turns
out that the minutes in question never were
submitted to Colonel WETHERALL, end there appear
to be several omissions to which the Colonel attaches
great importance. As yet we have no means of
forming any opinion upon the question of their im-
portance ; but one thing is quite clear, that if Colonel
Tui.Locn bu drawn any conclusion unwarranted by
the facts, he has dons so not wilfully, but because he
has been led astray by the neglect of Colonel GORDON
to transmit the minutes of Colonel Wrrnexta.i's
evidence, which he ought to have transmitted to that
officer. To accuse the Commissioners of wilful alters,

Con is not only absurd, but indecorous; and MD the
Board felt.

Now, however, it is high time to say that the manner
in which Colonel TULLOCH is Mated at Chelsea by
the party connected with the Horse Guards is utterly
unworthy of men in the high position which the mm-
beta of that party assume to occupy. No one who
has been present at the Inquiry can help feeling that,
whilst the task which Colonel Mums has under-
taken is Herculean, everything which insolence and
sneering superciliousness can do is done to disconcert
him. The Inquiry now being promoted at Chelsea
is, in fact, a contest between Colonel TufLoca and
certain officers of high rank who wish to be irre-
sponsible. Colonel Tuu.oco, a professional an, is the
supporter of the Minister for War, and not only the
military officers inculpated, but their friends sod rela-
tions in society make no secret of their feelings to-
wards the man, who, though • military aim, has
ventured to daemons their incompetency. To con-
duct even one ease—the ease against Lord Luton
—was enough to exhaust the powers even
of a prefsmional lawyer. But Colonel TOLLOCH
—alone, and without aid—ha to conduct the
oases whist every single officer who deems
his prefresional conduct assailed. Bush a task as
this might overtook the energise eves of a retained
weasel, and therefore it may well overwhelm tie
powers of a military man saaccustomed to legal pro.
seeding% who is supported by nothing elm except the
seem of having performed his duty. It emus that
the anxiety and exertion of Colonel Mucci have
already produced their natural dints upon him, and
that he is seriously ill. Under these cireametanose it
becomes the duty of the public, end especielly of Lord
PANYIIIII, who seat his ea his dimmable mission,
to give him the most determised support. We are
booed to say that Camel Tuz.r.ocz, as an able and an
honest man, has our hearty sympathy. Nor is this
sympathy the less requisite, imamate as Biz lonic
Mlieriu., being a civilian, and therefore unacquainted
with military details, may well feel some hesitation
before he exposes himself to the insolent supercilious.
ems of those officers with whom he would be brought
into contact in the hell of Chelsea Hospital.

Tas Treaty of Peace hsa, it seems, been picked up
by that metaphysical individual, the Metropolitan
Board of Works, mach in the same way as Mar ia'.
letter was picked up by the pompous Nakao.
The poor steward had some excuse for his folly : he
wee the victim of a deception. Bat why should this
Board for the suppression of offensive smells—
why should this body of London edilee "tang argu-
ment' of state, and put upon themselves the trick of
singularity ?" Neither Mr. Wit.xissow nor any
one of his colleagues has been "born to greet-
nessow has achieved greatness, or has had great-
ness thrust upon him." Yet, in spite of the
sensible remonstrancee of Mr. BIDOOOD, this Board

mut, forsooth, presents dutiful sod loyal address to
thi Quzu, on the restoration of Pisa.

Now, why should this most metropolitan of boards
insist upon becoming so extravagantly Cosmopolitan P
Why should these delegates from parishes Its,. the
mud and filth in which they are boned to spend their
energise, sad, like so many boll-frogs, protrude them-
selves from their official home of liquid sleigh to lift
up the voice of croaking approval! What special
mission has the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers
—even although a eorpointion—that it should carry
to the Throne a congratulatory address, Not
even the metropolitan parishes think it noes.
easy to do so; and, therefore, why should the mere
delegates from parishes take upon themselves so
ostentatious a duty P Their business is with main
pipes, essepools, and cleanlinem—not with the down-
fall of Sebastopol or the destinies of Europe. They
have nothing to do with war or peace. Even if London
were in the hands of an enemy, the Metropolitan
Board of Works I. precisely the body whose services
would be continued by the conquering general, and
whose functions therefore, under any circumstance.,
are never likely to be interrupted—so long, at least,
as the citizen desires a pure atmosphere and mo-
derate cleanliness. It is impossible to imagine
how these busybodies, with Mr. WILKINSON at
their head, have deluded themselves into the sup-
position that this Board of Works has any, even
the remotest, connexion with the Pesos. Nothing
but a restless desire to keep themselves before the
public can have induced them to agree to any such
pompous shines as that proposed. Bet let them
rest assured that nothing except a fixed resolu-
tion to persevere in their humble duty can win
for them the approbation of the public. As
yet they have achieved little or nothing. Let them
cosine themselves within their own province.
They have, as Mr. BIDOOOD told them, to improve
the pablie streets and the sewers of the metropolis
—not to exhaust their intellects in composing pelf.
deal coogratulatlons. The first address which the
Board ought to present to the CIOKIIN should be an
address in which they will set Meth the benefits
whisk they have confined on their fellow-eitisens by
diminishing dbiense and promoting personal comfort.
The foolish daughters*/ year modern farmer icstead
of milking the *awe end superintending the dairy
waste their time in belabouring the toys of a giogling
piano. Mr. Wixtuxeos and his friends sees bent
on committing the same Indianola mistake.

Al? TRUMP or THE UMW KIMODOM.-
• &putative, cossetted with Ute prepaid inhibitioe of
the Art Tensing of the Hafted Kingdom, had yesterday
the hamar of as isterview with his Royal Highness Prism
Alien s% Buckingham Palace. The &petition assisted of
the High Sherd of Lancashire, the Mayor of Maaabeeter,
Sir Jobs Potter. Mr. noses Bosley, Mr. T. Pairbeirs,
sad Mr. Joseph Heron, the tows clerk. His lival High
seas wee pleased to espies his approval of the project.
The Guaraatee Fead has already reached the saw of
60.0001.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE PEACE FETE.—Her Ma-
jesty will be moompesied tassonow by Priam Albert,
by elm Priming Royal, the Prises of Wales, the Dembees
of Kest, the Deka of Cambridge, sad other memben of
the royal tangy, sad sill be attended by a amorous suite
is fall anitalrf sal/ores. M. de Penigay, the WOSA Am-
, busatior, sad Mama liranaow, the Rumba plenipotentiary
at the ista eelt."l,l, with mum ether dhotis/tabbed
memben of the nips diplonsliqu, w.Y .be Mend
is the easbasseden' gallery. The Crimes, Malin
ale will fern her Majesty's guard of hams', lam
his. Waded from various nemesis, and will Wag •
body of met lees the. flee hundred *tram. Amos, the:te
are time if the asset diatlagaished heroes of lakessama
sad Belaklam.

Saturday next Is to be a shilling day at fita Crys-
tal Palate. The imp ieties. sad* fee her Majorty wW
female. the loeateiw will Vey, aid the tea band of OM
Royal Artillery will be la attookaor.