The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-05 00:00:00

MISMANAGEMENT IN THE CONDUCT OF
THE WAR.
(From the Daily News of this day.)
There is a little episode oomkeeted with the War
which should not be overlooked. Lord Raglan
obtained authority from the Government, in De-
cember last, to send to India for two regiments of
English cavalry, should he deem such an increase
requisite for the army in the Crimea. His Lord-
ship did think the reinforcement necessary, and
did send to India for the Dragoons—the Tenth
Hussars and Twelfth Lancers—numbering 600 men
and horses in each corps. The order arrived at
Bombay for the former regiment to be despatched
forthwith, via Egypt, to the seat of war. In an
incredibly short time the corps was brought down
from their up-country station—Poona, nearly 100
miles from the Presidency--and embarked for
Suez. Great credit is due to the officers of the
Bombay' Quartermaster-General's department for
the quickness with which the embarkation was
managed, and still more to Admiral - Sir Henry
Leeke for the admirable arrangements he made for
the Hussars and their horses on board ship. With-
out any delay, the corps was started for its desti-
-ration, and in due time arrived at. Suez—acco-
mplishing a sea voyage of nearly 1,500 miles, with
the loss of but four horses out of six hundred.' In
Egypt every arrangement bad been made for the
transit of this great number of horses through the
desert, and the regiment arrived at Cairo with-
out an accident of any kind, somewhere about
the middle of February. Here they met an
order from England directing them not to come on
to Alexandria until transports should be ready at
that port to bring them on to the Crimea. The
consequence is, that the regiment, after being hur-
ried away from India to Suez, have now been up-
wards of a month at Cairo—one of the most un-
healthy. towns in the world;: air this season for
'Europeans—doing nothinc, whatever. The latest
advices from Brila,klava, dated the 21st March, in-
timate that the Jason had juat been despatched to
Alexandria for the purplso of bringing over tho
10th Hussars. But judging from the number of
men and horses taken out last year in the Hima-
laya—a vessel more than one-third larger than the
Jason—this latter steamer will not be able to
bring mare than 200 out of the 600 men belonging
to the 10th Hussars now at Cairo ; so that 400 of
that corps, and 600 of the 12th Lancers, who by
this time have arrived at Suez, will be left for
some weeks longer in Egypt, because DO transports
have been provided for them at Alexandria. And

this, be it remarked, whilst It;laklava is full of
ships and steamers of all sizes. Is the Home Go-
vernment or is Field-Marshal Lord Raglan to
blame in this matter ? From strong presumptive
evidence we should say the latter. The former
gave his lordship permission to send to India for
these troops, and, no doubt, left him to make his
own arrangements for their transmission to the
Crimea. The English authorities knew that
Lord Raglan had at his disposal many more trans-
ports than were needed to bring twice the num-
ber of Dragoons now in Egypt to Balaklava, but
either his lordship or his lordship's Quartermas-
ter-General—most likely both—seem not to be
yet fully awake from the sleep they have been
indulging in all the winter, and to have ima-
gined that the Indian authorities would be as di-
latory in sending the regiments from Bombay, as
Lord Raglan and his Staff have been in everything
connected with the campaign since the army ar-
rived before Sebastopol. If General Canrobert or
his staff had been guilty of so flagrant a want of
arrangement regarding the embarking of French
troops, the delinquents would very soon find them-
selves at perfect liberty to walk about the Boule-
vards of Paris, and with very little chance of ever
holding another command. But not so in Eng-
land. The very fact of being brother to a late and
uncle to a present duke makes amends for a vast
quantity of sin in this country. In military matters
we don't apparently, as yet, accept the axiom that
he who fails in an undertaking should be obliged
to make way for a better man. The Czar of Russia
fully understands this rule, and acts upon it ; but
in England an officer, with a handle to his name
and family interest to back him up, mtmahyfeersucceed or
not. If he does, he will be lauded to the skies,
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THE REV. MR. DOYLE AND CARDINAL
WISE AN.
(From, the Times of (las day. )
It will have been seen from our assize reports of
yesterday that a verdict has been obtained against
Cardinal Wiseman by a priest of his own persua-
sion in an action for libel. As the authorship of
the libel was not denied, nor any justification
pleaded, the jury had simply to consider the
amount
required,oft and these they set at
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enter
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illustrations of the discipline and usages of the
Romish church that it would be unwise to pass it
without notice. It is not every day-that such an
insight is obtained into the doings of this commu-
nity, and we therefore recapitulate the leading par-
ticulars of the case for the benefit of our readers.
The Rev. Mr. Boyle, the plaintiff in the action,
is au Englishman, and was educated for the Romish
church, partly in this country and partly abroad.
In 1825 he joined the order of Jesuits, and in
1833 was ordained priest. In 1846 the " Pro-
vincial Master " of the Jesuits in England
invited him to take " the' last solemn vow '—a
proceeding by which, it seems, he-would have placed
himself "at the disposal of the Pope foi foreign
missions ; or, in other words, have become
liable to be sent to any part of the world at the
Pope's discretion. If he had refused to take this
vow when formally called upon he would have
been subjected to dismissal from the society, and
this dismissal would have entailed loss of credit.
However, he succeeded in escaping the difficulty,
for upon his representing to the Provincial that,
although he would take the vow if commanded, lie
had objections to doing so, he was released from
the obligation, and permitted to quit the society on
satisfactory terms. Shortly after this ho was ap-
pointed " second priest" at Islington. Here he
found a large church, capable of holding 3,000 or
4,000 persons (though the whole number of Papi_sls
in the parish, according to his own estimate,.*
but 1,000 or 1,506), and an aged -vicar, who lived
lodgingsdgings because he would not incur the r übr