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London, England, 1855-03-22 00:00:00

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IMPE MA L PAR LIAM ENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS EVENING.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

THE PATRIOTIC FUND.

The Earl of ALBEMARLE begged leave t.) ask the
President of the Council whether her Majesty's Govern-
ment had received any despatch from the Governor-
General of Canada relative to the contribution of a certain
tribe of Indians towards the patriotic fund ? Out of the
evils that have attended this dreadful war this good has
Leen obtained—that it has created a general
,sympathy
throughout the country amongst all c asses of
her Alnjestyhi subjects in favour of the wives
and families of our bravo soldiers and sailors fighLing
the betties in the Crimea. ((Tear, hear.) Thu
enormous sum of 1,000,000/. has already been made up.
Amongst the contrihntors towards the fund were the
adult criminals of the London Reformatory. Institution,
who, not having any money cf their own, applied for
permission to abstain ~cgo, the meat that was allowed
them in the course of one day, .in order that the value
might be a lied to . the fund. (Hear, hear.)
Re understood that the sum of 1001. wai made up by
the Rd Indians from their wigwams, at a meeting
which took place on the 4th of this month. lle wishe
t ► ask whether any notice of the fact had been sent home
to the Government here by the Governor-General of
Gina& ?

Earl GRANVILLE said that he.W not received tiny
information of the fact, but he would make inquiry into
the subject.

THE LAW OF PARTNERSHIP.
The Earl of DERBY asked the Government whether
it was their intention during the present ses-,ion to in-
troduce a measure for the'ainendment of the law of part-
nership ; and if so, at what time it was pro-
bable that such a measure would be introduced ?
His reasons for a •king the question were these:—lt was
known that there was at the present moment a prospect
of a considerable deficiency in the supply of materiale
for the manufacture of paper, and two proposi-
tions bad been brought forward for the purpose of
meeting the deficiency. A Mr. Sharp bad writ-
ten upon the subject, communicating some very
important facts. From the statements of that
gentleman it appeared that the fibrous plants in the
West India Islands could be most extensively used,
and on one estate alone in Denierara, 160,000 plantains
could be cut down, which would yield 250,000 tons of
material out of which paper could be manufactured, but
which now was allowed to waite. (The noble earl here
produced several specimens of paper manufactured from
this material, which he handed to the Marquis of
Lansdowne, who appeared to examine them with
great interest.) Now, the existing law relating to
partnership, and t'e granting of charters was calculated
to prevent the invest►uent of capital in such speculations
as those to which he had referred, and he wished to
know the intentions of her Majesty's Government on
the subject.
Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY said that a bill
was in preparation to amend the law relating to part-
nership, and he hoped it would remove the evil com-
plained.of. It would not be brought forward prior to
the Easter Recess.

After the presentation •of a few petitions for the vipur-
ous prosecution of the war,
E4rl GRANVILLE said that it was the intention of
the Government to move the adjournment of the house
for the Easter 11..!cess from Friday week until the fol-
lowing Monday fortnight. - •
Their lordships then adjourned.

SOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS EVENING.)

The SPEAKER took the Chair at four o'clock, when
there being only 30 members present, the hr use stood
adjourned until to-morrow.

ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL COM-

MITTEE.-(THIS DAY.)

(Continued from, our first edition.)

Dr. Smith.—Examination continued by Mr. Layard.
—He thought Miss Nightingale and her staff of nurses
bad effected much good, and he had received reports to
that effect. Mr. Wreford superseded Mr. Ward as pur-
veyor. He had served in the Peninsula in a similar ca-
pacity, and about ten years ago was sent out to orga-
nise a medical department for the Turkish army. He
was between 60 and 65 years of age. He had sent home
reports complaining of the utter impossibility of
making supplies with the requisite despatch and rep-
lathy, in order to meet the demands which pressed upon
him. The purveyor was responsible for keeping the
hospitals clear.

kr. Layard—A.ssuming then for a moment that the
hospital was in a dirty state, and you were called upon
to punish some person for allowing that state of things
to exist, whom should you punish ?
Dr. Smith—The purveyor, if I found he had not done
his duty. (Laughter.)

Mr. Ellice—lf the purveyor had not done his duty in
this respect, I take it that the medical officer might re-
port him to the commandant, and he would heve autho-
rity to remove him
Dr. Smith—The commandant could not dismiss him,
but he might place itim under arrest, with a view to
subsequent inquiry into his conduct, and might ap-
point a substitute to act in the meanwhile. All
tlle winter clothing was submittal to him before it
was sent out. Steps were takes respecting winter cloth-
ing as early as May last year. He was not aware
that the troops were without clothing in November. He
thought he might safely say that there was a quantity of
flannel and other warm clothing beyond the ordinary
issue to the army on board the Prince when she was lost
off Breaklava. He had had no specific or official
reports relative to the inefficiency of clothing
amongst the troops. The reports of Dr. Hall
stated time after time that there was abundance of
clothing at Dalaklava, which would have saved many
valuable lives could it have been got up to the camp.
He had heard no complaints of the want of provision for
the reception of the sick and wounded on their arrival
at home, nor of the state of the hospital at Ports-
mouth. He did not think the latter could be
complained of—as it was a new hospital, and
was admirably managed. No alteration in his position
as the head of the army medical department bad been
occasioned by the amalgamation of the two offices of
Secretary at War and Minister for War, with the excep-
tion that he had to address only cue department instead
of the two.

By
r. Drummond—Nearly double the number of
medical men had been sent out with the Crimean
expedition than
had ever accompanied any
army previously
reports
out from this country.
He had received
successful operations upon
the wounded by those Acoef
a thres,e.which were highly grati-
fying to him, considering
he
eireknneistanees under which
they were performed ;
valethat the perform-
ttthhee surgeon was
perform-
ance of some of these operations
patient, lying
himself on his knees in the mud, and
upon the ground, wa4, notwitlistandbiy,„antl„B,uof a
racter which could not be excelled cha-
London, with every professional appliance around him.
Mr. Drummond—Have you heard lately that it would.
be well if you would resign your office
Dr. Smith—l was informed that my health was break.
ing, and I consulted a physic'an, who told me I had
better wait until I had all opportunity of making my
statement before the committee. The physician recom-
mended me to resign as soon 519 I had given my evidence.
Mr. Drummond—Have you received official notice to
that effect from your superiors
Dr. Smith—l was told that the medical department
of the army was intended to be rc-organised, and I was
told in what Way that re-organisation was to be effected.
I therefore said that I must retire from the position I
held as soon as the proposed change was carried out.
That was the only hint I had on the subject.
General Peel—l think you E tat,,,d on Tuesday that
the various departments had acted most liberally since
the commencement of the war ?
Dr. Smith—Yes.

By Colonel Lindsay—The Government hal been put
to an expense of nearly 100,0001. for medicine and medi-
cal comfortg, namely, 9,000/. before the breaking out
of the war and 90,0001. mince.
The committee a liaurned at a few minutes before four
until to-morrow. The Rev. S. G. Osborne will be the
Brat wham called.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

( From the Mork:A9 Herald of yesterday.)

- -
Lord Lyndlurst's lucid and masterly statement
Vast night on the policy of Prussia, and her position
with reference to the negotiations going forward at
Vienna, goes a long way towards setting both in
lan intelligible light, and towards disembarrassing
the whole question, of the perplexities in which it
has been the study of the Cabinets of Berlin and
St. Petersburg to involve it. There can be no
doubt that the position of Frederick William, ever
since the Western alliance has been consummated,
and those powers committed to a war with Russia,
has been, to a man of his irresolute temper, one
of .the most painful, we might almost say intoler-
able, that can well be conceived. His sympathies,
add those of his Court, are, and ever will be, Rus-
sianz 'while those of the decided majority of his
people are against the grinding despotism, of which
they are sufficiently near to witness the effects, and
so far as they'understand it, they go with a policy
which aims at the repression of an overgrown
power, whose influence on the councils of their
Sovereign they have long regarded with deep
aversion and ill-concealed impatience. The King
of Prussia doeS not possess. the strength of
will to overbear the public opinion of his people.
The memory of '4B is ever present with him. He
dare not pronounce for the Czar ; and the moral
influence exercised by the late Emperor of Russia
—the influence that the resolute ever possess over
the "infirm of purpose," held him aloof from the
overtures so frequently made to the Court of Berlin
to pronounce in favour of the Western policy.
Hence the apparent shuffling and vacillation of
Prussia in the events of the last two years, which
has placed .her at a disadvantage she cannot redeem,
and has ended in her isolation at this remarkable
and eventful juncture.
The position of Prussia at the peace of 1815 was
sufficiently strong to have insured her against the
condition of vassalage to which her Government has
been reduced by the oppressive influence of
Prussia has been rising iu importance and in power
ever since Frederick had left the impress of fns
great genius upon the military organisation and her
internal polity. He found her little advanced from
that congeries of unsettled communities, called
Prussia, which the close of the 30 years' war .had
brought together in a corner of Europe. He left
her a flourishing and powerful kingdom; but he
resigned his sceptre to irresolute, if not to faithless,
hands. The armies of the French. Republic and tit
the empire had ovel.run Europe. A league was
formed to arrest the progress of Napoleon in the
third year of the pre:Sent century.. Prussia was
invited to join it on terms alike safe and honour-
able ; but, instead of giving in her adhesion with
promptitude and decision, she ad ,pted that unsa-
tisfactory and evasive policy which ended then, as
it has now, in her being abandoned by the confe-
derated powers. She had then the temerity to
declare war against France, and to advance to the
conflict single-handed ; but_ the battle of Jena
taught her a lesson to be remembered, and opened
the gates of her capital to the French army. The
consequences of her weakness and presumption
were yet too fresh to be forgotten when, in 1814,
she was once snore and for the last time invited to
join the league which overthrew Napoleon, and
procured a lasting peace, and for her services
Prussia was rewarded with Saxony as an apanage,
together with a share of the ancient kingdom of
Poland.

We cannot help thinking that Prussia got better
out of the last European struggle than she bad a
right to expect ; and it is but truth-to say she hay
devoted the interval of a long peace to the improve-
ment of her internal condition, and to extending
and perfecting her military power. It is said she
can bring 300,000 fighting men into the field, and
she does not want commanders of high reputation
in their profession. Such is the condition of a
power that is content to be the vassal of the Czar
of Muscovy, and by a course of policy every way
unworthy of an independent state has been ejected
from the community of the groat powers now re-
presented at Vienna. _ _ _

With that perfect command of the subject, which
characterises his treatment of every topic he deals
with, Lord Lyndhurst last night reviewed the
policy of Prussia in reference to the great con-
tinental crisis which we are rapidly approach-
ing, and pointed out the weakness and danger
of admitting to the Vienna Conference a repre-
sentative of a state whose Government is radi-
cally opposed to the policy and purposes of the
Western powers. Prussia Cl.ll have no business at
the Vienna Conference except to embarrass the
negotiations, or, if the opportunity offered, to be-
tray those interests we are concerned to protect to
the death. The adhesion of Prussia to the WeA-
I ern alliance would be a more treacherous gain even

than that of Austria, for the Emperor is i)ouutl by

no ties of consanguinity to the House of Romanoft
nor has the Russian influence ever been so com-
pletely dominant in Vienna as at Berlin. The i:o-
-lation, therefore, of Prussia is, izud,:,:r existing cir-
cumstances, every way desirable—it is the result
of her own timid and insincere councils. The real
intentions of the Government of Frederick William
have been slowly and painfully developed, but they
are no longer a mystery now. The Government
has been labouring all along in the interest of the
Czar, and .has used its influence to bring over the
majority of the states in the Germanic Confedera-
tion. If it has not succeeded, the fault is uct with
the Cabinet of Berlin. Let that Cabinet take a
lesson from the events of 1803 and 1806. " His-
tory is the philosophy that teacheth by ex-
ample." The confusion which attended a faith-
less and presumptuous policy once may over-
take such a policy again. The conference is
not likely to be mere successful, in our
judgment, than the last as3emby of " repre-
sentatives" at the same place ; but at all events
they are saved the trouble of answering the objec-
tions of a power in the interest of Russia, and the
danger of reckoning upon a dispassionate judgment
when they would, in fact, be conferring with an ad-
herent of the enemy. For all these reasons, we
are persuaded the absence of Prussia from the
Conference, and the open declaration of her Govern-
ment for the Czar, will save endless complications,
and narrow the issue to be tried before all Europe;
but let the councillors and Court of Berlin know
that for all these thing 3 there is a fierce popular
power in Prussia that will bring them and the
Royal vassal to a dread account.

(From the Daily Il'etc3 of yesterday.)

Lord Lyndhurst is a great artist in his way. It
is the old punctilious way of deliberative discus-
sion ; classical in its apparent simplicity and direct
ness of ostensible purpose ; in clearness reachinc,
almost to perfection ; but sometimes cold, and often
narrow in the scope of its eloquentlogic. According
to the terms of the notice given by the ex-Chancellor
in the House of Lords, nothing more was intended
by him than to direct attention to the past and
present position of Prussia with reference to the
Eastern question. Everybody knows, however, that
these are the conventional terms in which Par-
liamentary warning is clothed, whenever the spirit
of admonition moves some independent member of
either house to give the Ministers of the Crown the
benefit of his thoughts, in the shape of a public lec-
ture. Conventionalities apart, it may perhaps be
said with truth that it is the attention of the public
oat of doors rather than that of the faltering and
finessing politicians who assemble to listen on the
occasion, that the Legislative Tribune seeks to
direct and fasten upon the subject he has in hand.
No man understands the tribunitian arts batter
than Lord Lyndhurst. In the course of his long
and varied career there are few of the great springs
of national emotion which he has not touched with
power, and with effect. Sectarian feelings, preju-
dices of race, personal antipathies, party passions—
there are none of the deep impulses that govern
political men that he has not by turns appealed to;
sometimes in the tone of lofty yet persuasive depre-
cation; sometimes in order that he might fan them
into flame. But it is curious to observe how, upon
all occasions, the texture and hue of his singular
style are the same. It is singular for its seeming
simplicity to the eye of the superficial—singular
for its real subtlety to the judgment of the dis-
cerning. Every great speech of Lord Lyndhurst's
that we can recall might be described as a mere
narrative of facts, a consecutive statement of de-
tails, a careful enunciation of particulars seldom
recondite, and for the most part undisputed and
indisputable. Yet herein lies the master-power of
the man, which may be defined as being the craft
of concatenation. Every item in the amusing ac-
count is placed in the position where its value ins
enhanced extrinsically by that which preceded it and
that which
is to follow it. In dramatising the facts
he has to deal with,: Lord Lyndhurst seldom allows
himselflticheantcvrhich is the advocate's as well as the
With a great ego poet's
foreshorteneye to
with reference to time and place.
the political picturesque, he
can at with
the chronology of circum-
stancesinterveningna: space that lies between
and the
keep
; and in. the ample
altered sentiments and motives view all that
chiaroscuro of omission
could tend to qualify or
man--for assuredly' he
the impression he
desires to produce.
in thepower of address-
The speech delivered last night in the
House of
by this
ariv
aTionrdaeurfeuql
old
iLselsrictlshobi
ing a great assembly at the ago
of eighty y
ears
will be nrkurally read with no little interest abroad
as well as at home. Age has not furrowed with a
wrinkle that gifted mind. For upwards of an hour,
without a pause, a hesitation, or aninaccuracy of
phrase,
Lord Lyndhurst held enchained the atten-
tion of the Peers while he recited the diplomatic
history of Prussia during the last year and a half.