The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-28 00:00:00

THE CRIMEAN COMMISSIONERS

The Warrant by which a board of general officers
is appointed to investigate the charges against Lord
Cardigan and others, contained in the reports of Sir
John M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch was on Tuesday
laid on the table of the [louse of Commons by
Lord Palmerston. The general officers named in the
Warrant are—Lord Seaton, General M'Mahon, Sir John
Bell, General Rowan, Earl Beauchamp, General Peel, and
General linollys. All the officers are well known as men
of experience and judgment. Of Lord Seaton it is needless
to speak. Sir John Bell is an officer of great experience
and sagacity, who obtained very considerable reputation in
the Quartermaster-General's Department under the Duke
of Wellington. Under the direction of Lord Seaton, who
is to act as President, there is every reason to expect
that the inquiries of the board will be conducted with skill
and impartiality, and the whole case ably summed up and
clearly stated. The advisers of the crown have judiciously
counselled her Majesty to name no officer to act under the
warrant who has served in the Crimea. Any officer who
has at any time formed part of the expeditionary army
might have been liable on the one band to suspicions that
he might be conscious of shortcomings of his own, and
therefore disinclined to press hard upon the accused ; on
the other, that be belonged to a minority disappointed at
not having been consulted, and therefore disposed to
regard what has been done with a jaundiced
eye. The course pursued by the board of investigation
will be nearly as follows. The letters of Lord Lucan and
Lord Cardigan, which have already been published, will be
laid before the board. Statements from Sir Richard Airey
and Colonel Gordon will next be read. The board will
then proceed to the examination of evidence. Sir Richard
Airey and Colonel Gordon have indicated the witnesses
they wish to have examined. These have already been
telegraphed for, and will arrive in this country in the
course of a fortnight—before the board can be ready to
.examine them. It is to be presumed that any officers, or
others, now in the Crimea, whose evidence the board may
deem calculated to throw additional light on the subject of
investigation, will be made forthcoming with equal
promptitude.
We have authority to state that the Military Court of
Inquiry about to be held in reference to the Crimean
report will be perfectly open and public,. and that it will
be invested with every form which can give solemnity and
value to its proceedings. The object (of the Government is
simply to ascertain the truth of certain grave accusations
against officers of high rank contained in the evidence
taken by Sir John M'Neill and. Colonel Tulloch, and by
them submitted to the War Minister.—Globs of last night.

ABSCONDING OF A BANKRUPT CHARGED WITII FRAUD
AND PERJURY.—On Tuesday information was forwarded to
the different metropolitan and city police stations, that a
merchant named John Claus, of Liverpool, had absconded,
being charred with embezzling part of his estate and effects,
and also with the offence of perjury, in wilfully and cor-
ruptly giving false evidence upon his examination before the
court of bankruptcy. A reward of £5O will be paid to any
person or persons who shall apprehend the said bankrupt.
He is supposed to be secreted in the neighbourhood of ths
Strand or Fleet-street.

LATES 11 INTELLIGENCE.

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THE CONFERENCES,

PARIS, WEDNtgVAY

There has tech no Congress held to-day, and the
sitting will not be held until to-morrow (Thursday),
in consequence of some arrangern`ents which were
required to be made for the comfort and conveni-
ence of the plenipotentiaries in the interior of the
building 111 C 7 c h they assemble.

It is understood that in future the Confer-
ences will assemble three days' a week, namely,
on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; the
intervening days being required for the arrange•
meet and drawing up the minutes of the proceed-

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PRUSSIA

Despatches dated Berlin, the 26th instant, state
that the intelligence announcing the brief duration
of time for which the armistice has been concluded
at the Paris Conferences, had been p'raductive of a
discouraging effect in the Prussian capital.

SARDINIA

A despatch from thitini dated the 26th mentions
the departure on that day of General de la
Marmora.

SWEDEN

STOCKHOLM, FEB. 27

A commission, consisting cf officers of engineers,
with the Crown Prince fir its head, has been
appointed to devise plans for the fortification of
Stockholm, and Mallear, and to consider proposals
for the defence of the kingdom.