The Express.
London, England, 1856-02-04 00:00:00

=PORT 07 TEI CRIMEAN COMMISSION Or

INQUIRY.

The loorozpootod mart of Die John *Neill lad
Nicola nabob, the essanhalemerseppolated twelve swaths
tiara, t. iaveatigate the .as et the 'applies to the British
way I. the Crime, was issued ea Saturday, to th• fern
of a velaselaeas Blae-book of 432 part, with as alleadiz
of 121 nee..

la the fire--. 5
report (for there me two) the sommissimers
Mate they aseartelood at Scutari, the first sees of imwhy,
shot the sick arriving there tree the Crimea were wady
all @offering from diseases attributable to improper food,
mad that the prmisious supplied to the ormy daring the,
Wiater—emaistbm chiefly of sin neat sad biscuit, with at
vim loseßaient supply °lmitable*, wore misdated, in that
sissoomemess is midi the troops were plastid, to,
Robes these diseases. On this subjeet they W-
illa ad/110W M • seevereatico with Dr. Sather-,
land, the gaudery seessimiefter, who ereilesed,.
hoes the result of his prefesiosel peon., the infor-
matics they had obtained as to the causes of the prevailing
disarm The echos@ sad mortality ismorig the troops are
raps» 1 to have bees esemelve, which Is stributed entirely'
to overwork, eepoinuts to wet sad cold, improper food,
lanlic'eat olotkiag dodos great part of the winter, sat
impeefecit Molter hem beleseat weather. Moe of the •
excessive labour end the exposes which they had to
undone wee owing la the want of suificieut means of
land trassert, whisk It won the duty of the somnissarias
to provide. flemetirme the feed, as well as being bed
Is heel?, was imsemerly .00hed, and this mph was at-
tribeMble to deleiersey of fuel, er of seam to massy it
hem Relahlava to the cum, beds of whisk matters were
seder the eammieseriar. According to the returns fur-
ebbed by this &wham; there was sever any deadest»
at Dalsklas of the supplies required for the daily odious of
the army; yet the rotors midis by the rosreaudieg-dicus
sad vests rashers show that, In the Fourth and Light
Diehl's", the is.. were bequest], ea ilwm-qoarten, two-
thirds, sad saes ball »thee of mast sad rem; m two
oesesicos they had only mutter ratios., and at ems day they
bad nese at ell. Of rise the Nash Division did not get
my ter the Int tea days In Jam s», nor for three ether
days la that mos», while • brigade of the Light Divides
malted for six days is that moth only half the anal
gsaiatity. The Whets of this sooty supply, who we lad
the ceausississes sekoowledghig that the full retires wen
isindlaieet to saaletala the etroegth of sea vadergelag
hard labour sad much exposure, may he readily conceived to
have bees »jerkins in the extrema. The deficiencies in the
sopplia provided by the onsmissariat are summed up is •
striking paragraph of the report. The deficisocies from
whisk the 'nay suffered mast, vs ere sold, wore " a del-
dewy of fresh moat, a defiskasy of vegetables, • dedchmey
of fresh bread, partings/1y for the sick, and more especially
for those wham game were affected with esirvy, • deficiency
of feel, a Mildewy of hay sad straw, to each an must
that enough meld sot be preened to fill the palliasses of
the risk, sad, above all, • defidesq of land transport, to
which many of the ether &Reiss:is are mainly to be attri
bated." There won a deficiency, thereto», of everythieg
which was required to maistaht the health and strength of
the ems The pest come of the dimes indused or aggra-
vated by the more of the supplies was evidently the waist
of vegetables and fartameous food yet, while, the
troops were suffering le health on this mount, there were
lying at Balaklava and firstasi 370,575 Its. of rice, 38,478
lbs. of preserved ;Oaten, 61,200 lbs. of mu, sad 135,846
lbs. of Scotch barley. This statement octal scarcely ho
erodible were it not embolisa in the report of the commis-
domes, mad substantiated by the store aocoustA The daily
ratios of ries ordered on aciestut of the 111•1111,111:4 of
diarrhea asses Me hems, ins discontinued on this 15th
November, whoa the period for which Lord Raglan had
ordered it expired, at which time the above modem quan-
tity was mailable. The Seeps, most of whom would
tithes have 'offered • diminution its the supply of salt
meat, were iodated te believe that the supply was ex-
hausted, and Lord Raglan ',peon to have been under the
maw !spreads&

The Cotamissieners pay a remarkable tribute to the high•
sealed courage, pettiest* urethra, and general conduit
which, throughout the coaapeign, hu distiogniehed the
troops ander sash tying Gulleastanoes. The fdlowiag
observatioss sboald be widely read;
"The mafferhip of the army la the course of the wisher,
sad esposially Merles the smiths of December and Jsaaary,
mast have lases *tease. We have not noted all the particu-
lars related to at, may of which were sausasoted with our
laqtaby ; but we may state that it has bees only by slow de-
-1 gross, ad after the frequent repetition of smiler details, as
ea, mimeos after mutter revealed the facts that had some
ander his owe oburration, that we hays been able to form
' any adequate sow:optic& of the distress and misery under-
' gess by the troops, m fully to appraises the unparalleled
enrage ad constancy with whish they have endued their
safferiage. Great Britain has often had reason to be prowl
of her army, but it is doubtful whether the whole range of
military history furnishes aa example of an ermy exhibit-
*, throughout a long campaigo, qualities as high as have
distiainalahed the forties seder Lord Raglan's command.
The strength of the mu gave way under excessive labour,
weighing, exposure, sad yeivatioa ; bet they never mur-
mured, their spirit nem failed, and the ensetr. though
for outnumbering these, never detected in those whom he
wountered say sigma of weakness. Their numb re were
redueed by dimes sad by essealties to • handful of meat
compered with the great extent of the Rees which they
constructed and deluded; yet the army bated its
immildesoe is itself, and um demeaded from its askaow-
lodged military pre-eadnence. _ _ _

"Both sea and,mars, when le reduced that they were
hardly It fur the lighter antis, of the camp, monied to be
emmed the sem re sad prasr work of the trenches, MN
t►ey should threw as *Mee mount of duty spat their
aim:aims ; yet they maistaimed every foot of ground against
all the effort of the enemy, and with mashers so small
that, pert apt, no Mho( troops would even have made the
attempt.

"Batwing sad priastioa have froquently led to arias.
la amiss ss la otbse oesnmanitier, bat offences of a softens
obarastes haw bora unksona in tit* British army le the
Cringe. Not ono withal Whew has boon anamitted,
own alive& to have boon eanawitted, by a soldier, and la-
tomporsses his boon tors.

"Beery (me who hams anytbiag of the erestitatiou of
*Garay meat feel that, whim troops so madust themselves
throughout a beg campaign, the odlosn must have dose
their duty, and sot t►e example. The conduct of the men,
therefore, implies the highest easomiant that ma he pawed
apes their °Seen. They bare not only shored all the
danger sad ispeeure, sad most of the privations w►ieh the
um had to madame, bet we everywhere fousd indiestatme
of their solbeitude foe the welfare of Woes who woes under
their commas& mad of their eaustaat readiness to employ
their private amass is pressetiag the comfort of their atm."