The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-15 00:00:00

LAW OF SUCCESSION.

Mr. L. KING moved for leave to introduce a bill for
the better settling of the real estates of intestates. The
m' a 3ure which he proposed to provide Wal that where a
person died possessed of landed property, the law should
make for him a just will precisely in the same way as it
would make it if he died possessed of personal instead of
ral property. The hon. gentlemen cited many cases to
show the injustice of the existing law, and declared that
he had n• intention to assimilate the law with that of
France, or to interfere with the right of parties to will
their real property in any manner that they might desire.
Mr. G. VERNON seconded the motion, Tv hich he said
simply proposed to extend to land the statute of distri-
bution, which for more than a century and a halt
had succes-fully regulated the sum sions in the cases
of personal and leasehold property. This law of
succession applied to at least one half of the real
property of the kingdom, and as a practical man
he advocated its extension to the other half, believing
as he did that such a change would in no respect be ae•
Terse to the existence of aristoc, any in this country.
[Lire SPEAKING.]

ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL COM-

311TTEE.-(THIS DAY.)

(Continued fewn our fist edition.)

Lord Lucan in continuation said, the batch of mules
which arrived were consigned to his (Lord Iwan's) cart)
by Lord Raglan, and he had them all marked. He also
represented to Lord Raglan the desirability of forming a
complete transport train with them, which should be en-
tirely out of the control of the commissariat. Nothing
came of it.

Mr. Layard—Did you see any difficulty, considering
the resources of the country and the supply of mules sent
out, why an efficient transport corps might not have been
formed which should have relieved the cavalry horses
from any such duty as land transport ?
Lord Lucan replied that he would cheerfully have
undertaken to have formed one ; as it was, however, he
lost a large number of horses entirely on account of this
work, as the roads were in a frightfully bad condition.
Ile could not say he lost any number of men from this
kind of work.

At this period of the proceedings the room was cleared
for nearly half an hour for discussion relative to a letter
from Lord Raglan, which Lord Lucan wished to put in
and to the reading of which some objection was raised.
On the readmission of the public no further reference
was made to the subject.

In reply to Mr. Layard, Lord Lucan then went on to
state that a great number of horses were lost on the pas-
sage between Varna and the Crimea by over-crowding ;
and the removal of the partitions by which they were
separated. When the ivessel rolled those partitions
which remained gave way, and the whole mass if
horses fill about and crushed each other to
death. After the clothing was issued to the
horses, the condition of the animals somewhat im-
proved. It was quite unusual toihave clothing for horses
during a campaign ; at least he never knew it to be the
!age- He did not think waterproof clothing mould have
beeneon of any ;
it w
ny particularouli
thaveuti kelityapstfate wetrhasoff
thehotrhseesm, butwere
themrer.w_lasno warmth in them.
La yard class of horse stood the weather
the best ?
Lord Lucan—The horses
undoubtedly stood it by theof the (Masseurs d'Afrique
best—but next to these
our own troop hor:es went through
exceedingly well. In this respect
tfhey the weather work
to the French cavalry horses. The Russian
far superior
were scut into the camp were in good condition
nithioorses which
very good horses. They were not used for tnhe cavalry
and
were
in consequence of art order from Lord Raglan
to .
them to the artillery. He handed appro-
priate over 65 horses
to that portion of the army. No offer of tarpaulin for
the purpose of covering horses was made to him person-
ally ; he had heard such an offer was made by some
captain, but he did not know to whom. The first huts
raised fur the horses were by biinc,elf. He fetched his
planking with a few ba4gage horses attached to his divi-
sion—but hie greatest difficulty at fir,t was a want of
nails. When he came away the mentality amongst the
hewn ceased, They were all under cover.