The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-02 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1856.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TnuasoAT, MAY 1.
The ISznicaa took the chair at leer o'clock.

The Dewsbury, Batley, and Heekniondwike W ter Bil
was read a third time and passed.
The But Kent Beelway Bill and the Imperial Hotel Bill
were withdrawn.

THE CHELSEA INQUIRY.
Mr. PALK begged to ask the Under Secretary for War
whether the examioathme already taken beff re the mart
of inquiry now sittiog, and presided uv. r by Sir Alexander
Woodford, would be laid upon the table of the tour., and
when? Whether her lbjesty's r.verewient sontemplated
say measures for the mere ancient oreanisation of the
medical sad h.spital staff, and e f the co• mn•artat, or
whether it wu iateaded to redoes, those dtp utak. ate to the
mime remit establishment which was foiled so inefficient at

the birthing out a iii...iiL;;i77:.7lrete;;Ti,"--;::ITr.
that a militia regiment hid beam called out for mashie within
the lea two or throe days?
Mr. PEEL slid that no geed could arise from the pub-
lishing of • mere fragment of the court'. proceedings.
(Hear.) Hader the warrant by which It was constituted,
the board wee directed to transmit its report to the Horse
Guards, and se report bad as yet been revolved then which
would be laid befeee the house. Ot war.' some reduceions
would be leads le the liediest and hospital eteff ; but it sal
'abraded to retain it epos an *Solent (otitis,. No militia
regiment bad et late bats embodied for permanent service,
and it any bad been called out it must have been one of the
disembodied regiments for training ud 'incise.
THE RECTIFIED FRONTIER OF BESSARABIA.

Bit H. WILLOUGHBY asked if the goverement would
lay epos the table some map or plea which would show the
propmed mew bmiadary of Bemarabie.

Viesoisot PALMBRBTON—That boundary it so aeaa•
rately described in the words of the treaty, that if the hoc.
baronet, or any other hos. somber, will have the go: sese
to look et any good asp of the district they will he able to
trees it without difficulty. It begin at the see, end goes on
till it touches the road described, which it follows till It
ante.. at the Talpnek: then it crosses that rind and goes
up the river to another point on the Prath. That lmadary
has not been Ind dam' upoa the ground, bat a onnelssioner
Is to to *minted for the purpose of going to the spot, in
order to nark it out; and therefore the only map that
scald be gives would be a copy of eons good nap of MA-
&via earl Beciaribis, with a limo drawn on it according to
the words of the treaty. The new boundary leaves the fro
of Irani, the islands of the Danube, and the Salt Lakes, on
the Moldavian side. It rune parallel wit► the Proth, and
leave. all the lower port cf it, and all that elan be navigated
by gunboats of any sine, within Moldavia. (Rear, hear.)
Colonel FRENCH—P.O%Bp' the noble lord can now
answer the questing which I put to him the other evening,
whether the jihad' at the south of the Danube will
belorg to Russia ?

Lord PALMERSTON—Of Gonne those Islands will be
included from Rorie by the new boundary. They will
belong to Mollawie. (Hear, bear.)

blame Is to be attributed. (Hear, hoar.) It will be eon-'
tended, perhaps, that I and some of my colleagues of Lord
Aberdeen's government who left office after having accepted
it under the noble lord were opposed to the Turkish loan.
(Hen, hear.) True, but this is not the proper occasion to
argue that question over again; but this I will say, that
before I left Lord Aberdeen's g iveranwat, and ever singe,
I have been cpposed altogether to the system of loans. I
remember the advice, sound as well as poetical,
Neither a borrower, nor a lender, be;
for loan oft loam both itself and friend.
I was opposed also to the joist liability involved in this
partisular lon, and I had the greatea ci,j cries to the mon
gage of Eqpt. (Hear, hear.) I still retain thine &letting.
Ido think—l hope I may be wrong—that grave discussions
may Jet arias out of that transaction between the French
and English governments, I hope nothing more than diecea-
sins ; bet I was opposed, no rational person could be
oppored, to the givirg of some pecuniary anistattec. (Hear.)
Merlin ea I do from the hon. and I d member for
Aylesbury on many poison, I innately agree with him on
one—l think that a credit ought to b•robeen given to Gent-
eel Williams, authorising him to draw either on the Ambas-
sador, at Constantinople, e r the Treasury in Ecgland, for •
moderate oars, ray one or two hundred thousand pounds,
which would have been ample nal:lent for the provisioning
of EVIL (Hese, hear) I must say also there 14 every
probability that a few hundred cavalry seat to Kars in
ee General Williams has said, would, whet he had
obtained Mat brilliant victory, have enabled him entirely
to destroy the Runts& army. (Hear, hear) He &eked not
for gun., as there was • sufficient quantity is pantos, but
he asked for a few hundred artillerymen and a small force
of cavalry. I cannot bet believe that is the early tart of
the summer of 18,53 then might hive been not, without
detaching any portion of the Crimean forces, bat through
Rennent, tbe more direct route—a force which would
have borne results in the Asiatic campaign, and, combired
with a small ulnae. of money, would have enreised great
inflames on the fortunes of the war. Even if it were con-
sidered inexpedient to weaken tha force on the plateau in
front of Beba top. 1, still there was no insuperable objection
to meeting the wishes of Omer Pacha, and allowing him
to withdraw:from that position his Turkish veteran., and
supplying the r places by die Turkish Contingent. (Hear,
hen.) It has been sad that the latter were not suffici-
ently diteiplined for the purprse. Perhaps the hoes* will
permit me to refer to a great authority, which; all will toe
proud to remember and quote, and who had great aspen
ince in these matters—l mean the Doke of Wellington.
The Portuguese whom he had so constantly to employ
were imperfectly disciplined ; and the Duke, fa his owe
piny language when speaking of the effect on (*rein
troopt, nadir British command, of being wall paid,
well fed, and wall el shed, said that " teen
attentions go mach farther in rendering troops
effective in the field than ase amount of trait& g." Here
is the parings; "These troom do not want discipline so
much as a system of order wh eh should find them is re-
gular pay, good food, and gcoi clothes." (Hear, hear )
Now the Turkish Contingent had had these advantages f r
some time, and, in my judgment, might, when the question
of the withdrawal of Omer Pacha's troops was agitated,
have advantageously replaced them in the Crimea. The
Doke gm* on tray, "The Portuguese, who are now the
fighting cocks of this army, owe their menu mono I believe
to the care which has been taken of their pockets sad bel-
le*. than to all the instruction we have given them."
(" Hear,"and • laugh) Shewing that long training la his opi-
nion was as nothing cowered to British feeding arid British
pay node, British officers. Now, the Turkish Contingent had
all then advantages; end I moot help thinking that, with,
oat danger to the vrviee. they might have replaced Omer
P. cha's veterans, the latter depicting f r Ken. I have an-
,.ths r jetAion t o take to the mannemeet of then treatin-
g as which I think is not altogeth. r unfounded, although
the subject is somewhat delicate. lam bound to say, with
every 'desire to 'maintain the French allianee in ire lull
integrity, and while I would era no risk of say series,
misondentanding, especially as I am bound to aid that the
Emperor of that great nation has, as it apeman to me, =un-
tamed kin »Wiese with this mangey with consistent
still I think that, 'whip, not uenaturely, too
mach has been conceded to the prejudices, not well
sounded, of the French commander-in-thief. (Hear) Even
after Sebastopol sad Kars had both Wien, there was on
the p.rt of the Tethish g .vemment an t and material
desire to withdraw • pinion of their own army from the
Crimea, where ell sem nity for its presence had c sand, and
to occupy Trebisond erithotat delay, thus t ieg, in
ease the war e otinned, the further advance of the *lonian
army. Now observe what took place. On the IdthDleember
Lord Strati rd writes, that he had learned from N. De
Thouvenel that permission hal at length arrived from Pane
r Genteel Felinity to assent to the depatters of the
Egyptian infantry Ur Trebisond. This passage bean inci-
dentally on the ease of the government. They have been
sery much blamed for proveatiog that advance from
Baton. which Omer Pasha bad ro much wished
to see expedited; but the honourable member for
Aylesbury has, I think, from local knowledge,
made that matter perfectly clear. In the gaily part
of the summer the way of Trehisood and Batcum
wee, ie a mil tary point of view, the most d r et, and incept
for artillery the most eligible routs ; but be that as it may,
the question, after Sebastopol had fallen, was whether a
mrtion of the Turkish army should evneete the Crimea
and po to Trebisond. Hear what General CoArington aye:
" I have written to G I Wheeler, est rasing to him
that the great object, as it seemed to me, was to get the
Turkish troops to Trebisond, and that if it was done at ell,
' it should be clone at one*, adding an offer of the assistance of
the British navy in fortherence of the object. His anew. r
was. that he could not consent to their leaving the Celia.
without the taxmen sanction of the Emperor of the French."
(Hear, bear.) That is to my, that the opinions
formed by the general commanding la the Crimea, back.d
by the *sestet desire of the Turkish government, were male
elogether dependent on the will of the French Emperor in
Pane. I know that this is dele,ate ground, but I hay •
trend it necessary to touch on it in order to show that, with
every toff ranee to French authority, the Turkish govern
sent was deeply mortified by the embargo thus laid upon
their few?, in Espatoris. la my opinion such a feeling
*mild be perfectly "lateral and well founded. (Hear, hear.)
Bet, sir, I shall be asked, since I find all these faults, why
Ido not vote for the motion ? (Ironic di cheers from the
Appetit:on ) nit is a question weich I am ready to &sewer,
and it Wogs me to tea amendment of the boo. or.-
b r for Donetshire. I lock upon that motion as
• ransomed. motion, asking mend, that no ver-
d.ct should now be pronouoc'd until we have become
acqrsinted with the protocols end terms of the treaty of
peace. Now, I cannot regard this motion as an ab.tract
question. It may be pnjudice, it may be kindly fowling to
old friends, but I cannot bring myself to say that Lords
Aberdare and Clarendon were deficient la foresight, or Lord
Palmerston in judgmeet. I would not say so if the question
were an obstruct one; bet it le not ab tract, it must be re-
graded with respect bth to tins and eireemetasen. With
regard to circumstances, I think then was great fens sad
justice in toe opini n pronounced by en impartial and In
telligeet epsetator—l mesa General Mansfiild . He says that
the noses of the fall of Ears are quits obvious. That it
was necessary, until Sebastopol wee taken, to keep
ecrecentee'ed in front of that place, every English,
French, Sardinia, and Turkish regiment. Further,
he says that the °muslin in the Crimes, and
that on the Asletie frontier, including Kers, must be con.
&lured as a whole, the key of the whole being Sebastopol.
Kan he admits to have been important, hut secondary;
lad he says that the result of the campaign did act at ell
surprise him. We seenteded at the centre point upon which
we encentrated our efforts, and we failed at the extremity
where we could not render say assistance. General Haas
field said, farther, that he bad predie:ed the malt, but
that the defence of Kars was a rp'ei.did feat of arms, pre-
ventleg the advance of the Russian nen, and had not
pesos intervened, would have had al important *Mot on
our (stare prospects. I do not wish to anticipate the die.
cussiou on the articles of peace, but I cannot forget that
peace has been ratified, that it Is on the table, that it
was prodders" yesterday. and, looking at that peon, I
must say that la my hash's judgment ell the objects, tie
principal objects of the war, have been fatly achieved la ao
honourable manner. (Hear, hear) I do not mean to
waste the time of the house, bet I must give a short sum-
mary of the terms of that pens. The Principalities, the
occupation of which by Seelig was the rroxintate eaten of
the war, have bees teemed from the grarp end thrall of that
power. To these Principalit,es oec-halt r,f Bosearatda has
be. e added, trending tee tonnes of I'mall, long occupied
by Rude, and wh c's had been wrested by that power from
Turkey. Tee navigatioa of the Danube is henceforth free,
guaranteed by Europe. (Hear, hear) The emenserce
of the &nine is rpm to the world; the Russian
fleet in the Bums is annihilated. No naval re-
ntal is to remain en the end, so military fortress that
hes been destroyed Is to be rebuilt. The stand-
ing menace to Sweden, Botnerned, has Mon destroyed, and
the Mined Iles are not again to be fortified. The stanoieg
means to Turkey is at as end, S-bastepol Is In rains. Ken,
the very nbjeci we are now diocesan', is restored to Tur-
key without en equivalent; the ageressive, aggrandising
spirit of Russia is arrested, and the tadependesee sad fete-
gri.y of Turkey are steered under the guerantes
panoply of Europe. Borth are 'he leading c sedition* of the
peace, and there (pointing to the T ry beechee) sit the
ministers who conometed the war to • prosperous mmehnion,
and neared that rater (Ministerial nein ) I tan
so bliad partiality ter tier 11-joaty's government.
I have assured when I thought censure deserved,
hat I most say that I think it would be soreness
and unjust so the sdmiebtrotion en nob a day, end in
eirnmstanese math as I have described, to declare that they
are altogether sinvolthy of the confidence of their enntry-
mos, mod had failed in forsidght and judemeat. Under
than elresmetanees I menoot vote either for the mottos or
the ostendoest. 1 rhigi give my vote is the missive.
(Lend sheen.)
Mr. DISRAELI—The right les. pathless the seasher