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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28.

AN important contribotion has just been mad* to
the history of the campaign in the Crimea from the
pen of Colonel Tyttoett.• Into the details of this
publication we are not at present disposed to enter,
though it contains matter which may lead to discus-
sions in Parliament before the close of the impend-
ing session. Our present theme is not so much the
book as its author. The report of Colonel Truaen
and his colleague, Sir JOAN NEsiem., has been
subjected to a scrutiny of almost unexampled se-
verity, and has stood the test in every essential detail.
It is in itself a proof that the Crimean Commissioners
served the public with energy, courage, and judg-
ment. But Colonel Trtmen's labours were not at
an end when that report was concluded. Regard for
the interests of the army, and for his own honour as
a soldier, instigated him to stand forward in its de-
fence when assailed before the Chelsea Board. With
what firmness of character and acuteness of intellect
he discharged this task must live in the memory of
all who watched the proceedings of the Board--and
what Englishman did not? Alone and unassisted
Colonel TULLOCII waged the unequal contest against
an array of highly connected officers,srith their friends
and assistants, before a tribunal which was, to say
the least, sufficiently dispeeed to sympathise with
men of high rank when irritated by the criticism of
those whom they deemed their inferiors. In the
arduous struggle, Colonel Tettoen's health gave
way, and he was unable to take part in the con-
cluding proceedings of the Chelsea investigation.
When restored to health, he felt—as every candid
and dispassionate man felt—that in its award the
Board had paid undue deference to the suscepti-
bilities of the incriminated officers. The substantial
correctness of the report of the Commissioners in
the Crimea was, however, established by the report
of the Board, and many men would have rested satis-
fied with this. But Colonel Tea-wen—jealous of his

honour, as every soldier ought to be—disdained to
submit even to the indirect censure which he felt
to be implied by the attempts of the Board to
palliate the shortcomings of officials which he and
his colleague had been compelled to expose. In his
own justification, therefore, he has committed to
the press the observations he would have felt it his
duty to address to the Board had his health per-
mitted him to be present to the close of its pro-
ceedings. To these facts we have only to add
that in his original report, in his addresses to the
Board, and in his present publication, Colonel
Tvu,ocw has invariably preserved that tone of
courtesy, even to his opponents, which every
generous mind feels to be duo to its own self-respect.
The man who has played such a part ix, we un-
hesitatingly my, one of those rare characters who
have the strongest claims upon public support. To
great ability he unites that high principle which
alone can ensure the right use of ability, and
that acute sense of honour which renders a
deviation from principle impossible. The task for-
merly confided to Colonel Tut.zoen he has performed
with a degree of courage and zeal which guarantee
his being competent to render yet higher services.
And in the great undertaking of Army Reform there
is yet ample scope for tho active exertions of such a
character. Abases engrained by routine are difficult
to root out. Ordinary minds soon grow weary of the
persistent labour that is necessary to overcome
the inert mistance of old officials, who

will not be moved into new paths. It is
the interest u well as the duty of thaw who under-
take the management of public business to cherish
men who have evinced on honest and dauntless

spirit in the discharge of difficult duties. Such
men ought to be made to feel that their merits are
duly appreciated. Every reward couferred spun
them is en encouragement to others to follow their
example ; any coldness shown them is an indmee-
meat to timmum to seek for promotion by
lees worthy arts. Of Calomel Txxxoen we
know nothing, but from what we have seen
of his conduct throughout the Crimean inves-
tigations, and from our haling learned that for
twenty years, during which he has been constantly
employed in the War-offlee, he has enjoyed the eon-
Mem at the heads of the department. The con-
ferriag of hosorary distinctions, or of—what is name
coveted by men of Colonel Tr morn's stamp—op-
pertenities of performing important public services,
i. is the power of others. Bat as journalist,

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