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MR. ROEBUCK'S RESOLUTION.
(From the Times of !his day.)
The last news from the Crimea will have very little
the character of news to those who derive their informa-
tion from any other than official returns. " The re-
mainder of the British army, hardly 10,000 men, will be
reorganized, and defend the upper valley of the Tcher-
naya and Balaklava." Now, it is true there is nothing
inglorious in the position, nothing light in the duty left
to our countrymen. t is still the post of danger.
When it is noticed that there are associated with us the
French Imperial Chard and a large body of Turks, it may
be surmised that the next great battle will be in the quar-
ter indicated by these new arrangements. In fact, we
form the covering army, rendered necessary by the re-
cent augmentation of the Russian army in the field. But
how much has the enemy increased, and how much are
we diminished, when such an arrangement becomes ne-
cessary, when all that we can do is to contribute a con-
tingent to the covering army ! We are reduced, in fact,
to that " thin red line," which, doubtless, will still form
an effectual barrier to clouds of Cossacks And columns of
infantry ; but the scientific honours of the siege and the
glory of the assault are now resigned to the French.
This new fact will hardly be considered to weaken the
case for inquiry. The chief objection to that inquiry
was, that it might interfere with the operations of the
siege ; but our part in the siege itself seems now at an
end, and no injury to the common cause can arise from
the inquiry why the British army could no longer hold
its own. Everybody admits that there must be inquiry
some time or other, and one member of the Cabinet has
expressed an opinion that it ought to be made without
any delay. Mr. Sidney Herbert told his electors in
Wiltshire the other day that the losses of our army
"may, and must be, attributed to causes that require
a searching investigation, in order that the proper
remedy may be applied, and that the blame, if blame
there be, should fall on the right shoulders. This in-
quiry it behoves the Government to lose no time in in-
stituting." Rather unhappily, Mr. Sidney Herbert,
after claiming for Government the duty of conducting
this inquiry, betrays the bias, and consequently the con-
clusion, any inquiry by Government is likely to have.
He proceeds to ascribe the ruin of our army in
the Crimea to a popular jealousy of the existence of
a standing army in time of peace, in the face of
the fact that we have had a standing army sufficient for
any purpose of military erlucation during the whole of
the peace, and that Parliament has ever been lavish of
purpoon. When such is the result which
a Cabinet Minister expects from inquiry, there can be
little doubt that, in such hands, it will lead to no other
reform than simply more of everything—more soldiers,
more officers, more materiel ; more of all that Parlia-
ment has to vote, except only that one simple thing,
without which an expenditure of 100,000,0001. will only
bo so much money thrown away—promotion and em-
ployment by merit, and not merely by money, rank, and
interest. Bat when a Cabinet Minister tells the House
of Commons that it has ruined our army, and exposed it
to certain destruction in the hour of trial by keeping it
below the level of efficiency, that House of Commons
certainly will show much more meekness and hu-
mility than are common in Englishmen, if it either
gives up its demand for inquiry or leaves the inquiry in
the hands of its accusers. Were the inquiry to be con-
ducted at head-quarters in the Crimea, no doubt the re-
port would be decidedly against the departments at
home; and so, also, if any one department were made
the judge of the rest. In this case we beg to submit
that the House of Commons is the only fair umpire, in-
asmuch as it cannot exculpate itself, and will be driven
by the mere instinct of self-preservation to find out fairly
and fully where the fault really lies. We see no reason,
then, to depart from our original opinion, that the
House of Commons is the hest tribunal for the inquiry,
even though there may be good reasons in favour of a
mixed commission from the two Louses.
It is impossible, however, to pronounce upon projects
in the abstract, as they may immediately assume an ob-
jectionable form, and this we are very much concerned
to say is the case in this instance, Mr. Roebuck has
delivered his own cause over to the hands of his enemy
by the very extraordinary selection he has made for his
committee. Besides himself, he proposes Mr. Drum-
mond, Mr. Layard, Sir Joseph Paxton, Lord Stanley,
Mr. Ellice, Mr. Whiteside, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. George
Butt, Mr. Lowe, and Me. Miles. Such a tribunal may
be an inquisition, but it will not be a jury in the English
sense of that term. Eight of these gentlemen, consti-
tuting a most comfortable working majority, are noto-
riously of opinion that the late Government were chiefly
to blame, and that the same organisation in the hands of
a better Premier or Minister of War would have saved
us these disasters. The sense of responsibility might,
perhaps, lead Mr. Disraeli, Lord Stanley, Mr. Drum-
mond, and Mr. Roebuck himself, and even Mr. Miles,
to go deeper into the matter, but the ordinary partisan
would be much more disposed to give a more personal
turn to the verdict. Anyhow, every member and every
friend of the late Government would be fully justified
in challenging the constitution of such a committee from
this to Easter—as long, indeed, as the war is likely to
last. We shall not here criticise the names one by
one, for the simple reason that their value and
significance in such an inquiry are notorious to
everybody who knows anything about the matter ;
and we are quite sure that the worst enemies of
the late Government will not damage their own
reputation, or forego their own instincts of justice, by
demanding to see it tried before such a panel. The only
result of this singular selection to leave the game once
more in the hands of her Majesty's Ministers, who have
only to show a little more discretion than their antago-
nist, and they may make it a drawn battle. They may
either propose a committee of their own, somewhat more
fairly constituted, or the mixed commission we have al-
ready suggested. This is not the time for offering simple
obstruction to the declared wishes of the House of Corn-
mons. We cannot believe that, after so overwhelming
a majority in favour of an inquiry, it will suddenly be-
come indifferent to the object of its professed solicitude,
and permit the very men whom it drove out of power
to put off the inquiry, on which everything hinges, to
the Greek calends.
The position claimed by Government is, that they do
not resist inquiry, but only desire to postpone it to a
more convenient season—at all events, till the immediate
pressure is gone. This goes on the supposition that the
inquiry is not really required for the better administration
of the war, and that it can only be conducted in a man-
ner injurious to our cause. We are prepared to con-
test both these suppositions. Up to this very day
the mode in which the war is carried on—the- ap-
pointments made the recalls not made the half-
! measures the unintelligible measures adopted with
officers admitted fo have lost the confidence of Govern-,
meet, all prove that inquiry is wanted, and now more
than ever. It is equally unnecessary to assume that the
inquiry by a committee of the House of Commons, or a
mixed commission of both houses, armed with the pro-
per authority, must be conducted in a way to serve the
cause of the enemy more than our own. The House of
Commons might itself take care, by a proper instruction
to the committee, that no question was asked of this
dangerous character. Were the inquiry confined in the
first instance to the "past physical condition of the
army," as Mr. Roebuck expresses it, to the system cf
the commissariat and the medical service, to the conduct
of the officers in those two departments, to the condition
and management of the shipping and stores at Balaklave,
and to the land and naval transport services, we cannot
see what secrets of importance need be disclosed to the
enemy, or what officers of importance need be sum-
moned from the Crimea. Never was there a better time
for entering on such an inquiry in a candid, and even a
friendly spirit. The House of Commons, like the peo-
ple it faithfully represents, is deeply grieved at these
disasters, and will not rest till it has done its utmost to
obviate their recurrence, but it has no ill-feeling towards
Government, no desire to incriminate one man rather
than another, or any man at all, and only wishes to see
the system reformed as quickly and as quietly as may be,
and with the least possible inconvenience to the Govern.
ment, charged with the responsibility of the great war.