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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-03 00:00:00

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MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1856

THE report of the Crimean Commissioners has
proved, as was long since anticipated, a most
prolific source of Parliamentary discussion. But,
in all that has been said, we cannot find any one
syllable to convince the public that England has
not lost in the East one of the noblest armies
which has ever left this country, and has to redeem
the highest military prestige with which any nation
has entered ort a war. No one denies that we have
lost such an army, with its provisions, horses, and
other animals, in a campaign which the most
ordinary military knowledge and foresight has
since rendered infinitely more lightsome and
agreeable to the soldier, than the every day routine
of garrison duty, and military life. No one
attempts to gainsay all this. We lost an army by
the sheer incompetency and neglect of its com-
manders. Under these circumstances, it became
the duty of the Government to endeavour to fix ,
the responsibility and criminality on those who
are really guilty. They did not institute an
inquiry at home, but they sent their Commissioners
to the spot where the appalling tragedy had been
enacted. They elicited evidence from officers who
had commanded in the trenches ; soldier, who
had escaped death from starvation as if by a
miracle, and from all those, who as living
witnesses, confirmed the voice from the graves of
Balaklava and Catheart•hill, still exelaiming—"We
" came to fight in our country's defence, but we
" were starved, and perished by our commanders'
" ignorance of their duty, and neglect of our
" valuable lives?'
On this spot, and from these reliable sources,
the Crimean Commissioners derived that informa-
tion which they have given to the world in their
report. And they have so far discharged the duty
for which they were sent out, as to fix the burden
of the Crimean dirge on the shoulders of those
commanders who played conspicuous parts in the
most appalling scenes of destruction. Is not this
enough for Englishmen, whose sense of justice is
equal to that of any country in the world? Are we
to suppose that Sir JOHN M'NEILL and Colonel
TULLOCIi hare dared to lay before Parliament and
the public, evidence derived from partial or corrupt
? Or that they did not behold with their
own eyes, T while on the heights before Sebastopol,
on the valley of the chernaya, and in the town
and harbour of Balaklava, sufficient to convince
given by their witnesses
them that the testimony
was correct in the main, if not to the letter. Those
who have any doubts on these matters are entitled
to no consideration, as they amount to a direct
impeachment of ordinary understanding. And
the people of this country must, therefore, view
the appointment of a Royal commission, to sit in
judgment upon the report of a former commission,
as one of the most singular procedures ever yet
adopted. The Crimean enquiry has brought to
light sufficient facts to justify the appointment of
a court-martial to try those whose conduct has
been impugned. Their cases should be left in the
hands of the regiments or divisions to which they
belong; and any departure from the course laid

witnesses