The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-27 00:00:00

HITME.

Lord PALMERSTON, in rising to MOTO for a new
writ for Montrose, said—Sir, I cannot simply confine
myself to the bear motion which I have placed in your
hands. (Cheers.) I think, sir, that I should
not be doing justice to the feelings of the house
if I were not to express some feelings of regret,
which are shared, I am sure, by all who hear me—
(cheers)—and some feeling of respect for the memory of
the gentleman whose loss we have now to deplore. It was ,
said of an eminent man in former times that he gave up
to party wkat was meant for mankind. Now, the re-
verse of that might be said of our late colleague, Mr.
Hume, (Loud cheers.) For the party to which he
devoted the labours of his life was his country, and be-
yond his country the interest of mankind in general.
(Cheers.) Sir, we have known men who have gained
for themselves an eminent position in this house
by placing themselves at the head of a faithful
band of friends whose object it was to acquire political
power for the purpose of governing the country. Mr
Hume was a remarkable instance of a man who
gained an eminent position not only in this house
and in the estimation of the country, but also
established for himself a name which may be said to
have been not only European, but which extended
far beyond that limit. (Hear, hear.) He was a
man of whom it may be said that he took the lead in
every measure of improvement which has of late years
been carried into practical application. He had an in-
dustry which nothing could tire or overcome. His
perseverance was baffled by no defeats ; but, although he
was frequently opposed, and met with frequent rebuffs
in his political contests, nothing ever passed between
him and those whom he opposed that left any traces of
resentment. (Cheers.) It was once said of a person
who held a high position in this house, that any bitter acri-
mony which might have been created by his party conflicts
never went beyond the doers of the house ; but he might
say of Mr. Hume that, with him, any feeling excited by
his party conflicts never went even to the door of the
house. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord concluded by ex-
pressing his conviction that both sides of the house
would be disposed to do justice to the memory of their
late colleague. (Cheers.)

Sir J. WALMSLEY said he could venture to add
one remark to the well-merited sentiments to which the
noble lord had given expression. The late Mr.
Hume was a man of whom it might be said that he never
made an enemy or lost a friend ; and he hoped the house
would not let that opportunity pass without some me-
morial of him.
Mr. BROTHERTON also tendered his testimony to
the worth of the late lamented hon. gentleman.
NEW WRITS.
Mr. HAYTER moved that the Clerk of the Crown
be instructed to issue a new writ for the election of a
Commoner to serve in the present Parliament, in the
room of Lord John Russell, who had accepted the office
of one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
Sir J. PAKINGTON said that, in consequence of
the motion which had just been made, he wished to put
a question to the noble lord at the head of the Govern-
ment. He found it stated that Lard John Russell had
accepted the office of one of her Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State ; and he wished to ask whether the
office the noble lord had accepted was the Secre-
taryship of State fer the Colonial Department ?
If the noble lord had accepted that effice,
he (Sir J. Pakington) wished further to ask whether
Lord J. Russell was about to proceed on his mission to
Vienna ; and, if so, when he might be expected to return
to this country ? He (Sir J. Pakirgton) wished further
to ask whether there was any under Secretary of State for
the Colonial department, and on whom the duties of that
department would devolve in the event of Lord John
Russell proceeding on his mission ? (Hear.) He (Sir
J. Pakington) might venture to say from the limited
experience he had had in that office, in his opinion,
nothing could be more seriously inconvenient to the
transaction of public business than the protracted ab-
sence of the Minister connected with it, and at present
there were several questions of great interest before the
Colonial-office. (Rear.)
Lord PALMERSTON replied that his noble friend
had accepted the office of her Majesty's Principal Sec-
retary of State for the Colonial Department. Tho noble
lord would proceed, ....everthelese on his mission to
Vienna, and in the meanwhile his.ALord Palinerstionat)_
lion. friend, who :lately held the office ,the d
lord had accepted would undertake to be answer-

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4 able that no public inconvenience shout 4 arise
from the temporary absence of the noble lord. There
wag, howevor, as the right hon, baronet well 10.1evii, a
permanent Underi Colonial Secretary. It was itus•os-
sible for him (Lord Palmerston) to state what would. be
the precise period at which his noble friend would rete rn
to this country, but he had no reason to suppose, which-
ever way the negotiations in which he would be engai;ed
could turn out, that his absence would be a protrpcted
one. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. HAYTER then moved for a new writ for the elec-
tion of a Commoner to serve in Parliament for the..bo.
rough of Halifax, in the room of Sir C. Wood, who h ad
accepted the office of First Lord of the Adruiralay.
(Derisive laughter.) The hon. gentleman also mov ed
for new writs for the borough of Radnor, in the roc ,ra
of Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, who had accepted office as
Chancellor of the Exchequer—(hear, hear)—and for For.
farshire in the room of Viscount Duncan, who had +ac-
cepted office as one of the Lords of the Treasury.

THE SICK AND WOUNDED FROM THE
CRIMEA.
Colonel HARCOURT wished to ask the Under-Secre-
tary of War whether any of the offers said to have been
made to the Government by the London cr other hospi-
tals, to receive a certain number of the sick and wounded
who have come home from the Crimea' had been ac-
cepted, or whether the Government had themselves
provided the necessary accommodation, and whether
they had made, or were making, arrange,tnents for the fit
reception and treatment of those who may hereafter
arrive from that quarter !
Mr. F. PEEL said that the authorities at the hospi-
tals had been informed that the Government would be
willing to avail themselves of their offers, if necessary ;
but the Government had made ample provision for tfee
reception of the sick and wounded, and accommodation
for 1,600 wounded soldiers had been provided. (Hear.)
UNIVERSITY MILITARY PROFESSORSHIPO-
Mr. GROGAN wished to asked the Under Secretaly
of War—the-Parliament having voted a sum of 4001. n
the last session for the establishment of regius professors.
ships of military surgery in London, Dublin, and Edin-
burgh—what Steps had been taken for the establishment
of such professorships in London and Dublin, and ve-eu
we may expect that such professors will be appointedit
Mt. F. PEEL said that a Regius Prefessor of
Military Surgery had held office for some time fn
Edinburgh, and the system had been found
to work so well that it had beell'79posed to introduce
it into the Universities of Londbi 'au:. Dublin. The
matter had, however, been in abe7,-Ince, but as he saw
no reason why it should longer remain so, he should
take steps forthwith, in order tla.et thus° professors
should be appointed. (Hear, hear.)
IRISH BILLS.
In reply to Lord NAAS,
Lord PALMERSTON said all Irish bills must be put
off until the Secretary of Ireland should be in his place.

LAW OF PARTNERSHIP.
In reply to Mr. MArANs,
Mr. CARDWELL said if the Government did :Not
take up his Bill for Amending the Law of Partnership,
he should be prepared to take it up, but he must com-
municate with his successor at the Board of Trade be-
fore he could give any definite explanation in the mattor.
SERGEANT SULLIVAN.

On the motion for going into Committee of Supply,
Mr. F. FRENCH took the opportunity of again bring•.
ing under their notice the case of Sergeant Sullivan,
who carried the colours of his country at the Battle
of the Alma. The sergeant's conduct was honourably
mentioned in the despatch of the General, and yet the
noble lord at the head of the Government had thou Fit
proper to treat the case with such cold indifference asito,
have already checked the volunteering into the British
army. Had Sergeant Sullivan been in the service of
the French he would have received his promotion on
the battle-field, but he was only a soldier in the ranks,
and his merits were therefore passed over in
the British army. (Hear, hear.) He should
be glad, however, to know if the Government were dis-
posed to take the claims of Sergeant Sullivan into their
consideration, with a view to his promotion? (Hear.)
Sir J. WALSH took exception to the bon. member's
description of the battle of the Alma. The hon. gentle..
man said the success of the battle was due to the bravery
of the rank and file ; now, if the hon. member meant
that there was not equal credit due to the officers he
was greatly mistaken.
Lord PALMERSTON was sure that the hon. mem-
ber did not exclude the officers from his eulogium.
(Hear, hear.) With regard to the case of Sergeant
Sullivan, he repeated that it was left to the command-
ing officer of each regiment to recommend one non-
commissioned officer; the officer commanding the regi-
ment in which Sergeant Sullivan served had recom-
mended another non-commissioned officer for promotion,
and Government had no alternative but to adopt it,
Mr. WHITESIDE said it was no't enough to promote'
only one non-commissioned officer in each regiment ; the
area of promotion ought to be enlarged. (Near.)

THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR.
Mr. LINDSAY objected to their going into commit.
tee to vote money for carrying on the war while the
system of carrying it on was so defective. He bad re-
cently returned from France, where he had opportunities
of seeing how differently things were managed there.
He found the Minister of War, a very unassuming man,
sitting in the midst of his business, and on the
walls of this Minister's office there was a map
which was so arranged that it showed at a
glance the position of every great army in Europe. The
Minister told him at once upon his putting the ques-
tion the amount of supplies which France had at Mar-
seilles, Constantinople, the Crimea, and Sinope. And
how ho was able to give them information was this : he
had fivc,liirtrobore- .I,:cieportaisentri employed ender his
immediate direction, and these directors made reports of
the state of affairs daily. Now, if he bad asked
ft r such ixforreation from the English War
Minister, it would not be given because it could
aot be given to him. Our system was too much
encumbered with red-tapism to admit of its success—it
was a procrastinating system and the sooner it was
amended the better. (Hear, hear.) To give details he
would mention the transport service with which he was
somewhat familiar. The house had already voted
7,000,0001. of money for carrying on the transport ser-
vice. In that service there were 250,000 tons of regular
shipping constantly employed, besides 100,000 tons of
[ hired transports—(hear, hear, hear)--and all this
immense tonnage was required for furnishing the
supplies of an army consisting of only 25,000. (Hear.)
Why, good gracious, there was tonnage enough to sup-
ply the French as well as the English, if the transport
service were only properly managed. (Hear.) That
branch of the war, as well as others in the war depart-
ment, demanded an immediate change. Seven millions
had been charged upon the country for this service, and
yet more was demanded. (Hear, hear.) How was this
state of affairs, however, proposed to be remedied /
By the appointment of a transport corps. Now they
all knew what a corps meant, it was simply a system of
' shifting responsibility from one person to another. Let
him have one man who was responsible in preference to
three where neither was responsible. (Hear, hear.) Let
him have one man who should be responsible—respon-
sible to the Minister at War. They need not go out of
doors to find such a man, they possessed such a man in
the Admiralty, and he thought it was only due to that
gentleman—he retered to Captain Milne—to say that if
any promotion were to take place he thought that gentle-
man ought to be selected for the exertions he had made
in connection with the service. It might be said that
so much money ought not to be trusted to one man, but
then he would be responsible to the Minister-at-War and
to the Admiralty Board. (Hear, hear.) Without
troubling the house with details, he would refer to the
sum paid to the West India Mail Packet Company for
the transport of 17,000 tons, which was at the rata of
upwards of 600,0001. per annum. • He did not complain
of the company receiving that sum ; but the fact was,
that company was already receiving 240,0001. for the
use of their boats in another department of the
Government service—he meant the postal service.
Give this 600,0001. for service in another way., these
were unfortunate questions, but the service of the
country demanded that this sum of money should be
properly applied, which at present he thought it cer-
tainly was not. Perhaps the house would allow him,
before siting down, to offer a remark on a few words
which fell from his hon. friend the member of Ayles-
bury, during his able speech the other evening, in which
he had been accused of wishing to sever the aristocracy
from the people. Now he (Mr. Lindsay), as one of the
people, hoped that the day might be far distant when
he should see the aristocracy severed from the people.
As one of the people, he was proud of the aristocracy ;
but, at the same time, he cared not whether it was a
scion of the house of Bedford or of an unknown man
who governed them, provided his system of govern-
ment was sound and good. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. ALCOCS thought the magnitude of this war
could not be over-rated. We were at war with a country
territory.
having a population of seventy millions, possessing at
least a ninth part of the ontire globe, and defended by
an army numbering, in ordinaryof ti'mhese; u
of a million of men ; and yet we had at-
tacked Russia only upon one point
We had attacked her there with the torce of arms,
without endeavouring to bring any moral force to bear
upon her through the instrumentality of such coun-
tries as Norway and Swede*. On the other side, the
nations of Asia had been equally neglected, and there-
fore he contended that the war had not been carried en
with that vigour which its exigencies and magnitude
demanded.

Mr. BAILLIE wished to have some explanation with
regard to the new land transport service about to be
attached to the army. Was that service to be of a
permanent or a temporary character? He must remind
the house of the statement made by the late Secretary
at War, that the army was without a waggon train, with-
out a Commissariat, without a Medical department, and
wanting a competent staff, and it was somewhat strange
that, knowing this, he did not make that extraordinary
statement to his colleagues before the army was sent
out to the Crimea. The fact was, the house must insist
upon having some one Minister responsible for the
administration of the eutire army, or the country would
be doomel to witness far greater disasters than those
a statement
which had been encounteredikrasi in
retfhere Crimea.
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the member for Gloucester
InaMder.byGEtpiettgGaginDttlaNdmD
(Admiral Berkeley) that there was little to complain of or
to reform in the transport service, said that he had since
hearing that statement made inquiries which had satis•
fie 1 him that it could not be substantiated, but that on
the contrary there had been much mismanagement in
this department, arising from its having had no
single and responsible head. As instances of such
mismanagement, he would mention the case of the
steamer Eagle, which was sent down the river to ro.
coivo acids, and when she arrived at the place at which
she• was to receive them, it was found that there was
4'l°4a MAiderAble quantity in the held tuder the