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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1855..

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of an action at law, to enforce a judgment in any part of
the United Kingdom.
The house then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading.
Against it
Majority

aOthing was wanting but means bf transport to faci-
litate a considerable movement into the interior.
The siege train was never landed at Yarn; though it
arrived there about July. It was unprovided with
horses to draw it, and consisted of guns of large calibre.

SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock.

The bill was accordingly thrown out.
TEA DUTIES DECLINE SUSPENSION BILL.
This bill was passed through committee.
MARINE MUTINY BILL.
This bill was passed through committee.
SUPPLY.

At the conclusion of this eviueuee the committee"
adjourned (it being twenty minutes t.) four o'clock)
until to-morrow, wben Dr.Vaux, of the Harbinger, will
be examined.

LIVERPOOL RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELPGRAPH.)

The report of the Committee c•f Supply was brought
_ _

TYRO STAKES.

Arnaud

On the question that it be agreed to,
Mr. PALK took the opportunity of directing atten-
tion to the state of our cavalry force in the Crimea,
which had been greatly reduced by disease and disasters,
a-id he complained that they were about to be reinforced
by a body of young men and raw recruits. It was to-
tally impossible to make a cavalry soldier in less than
eighteen months, and he was af,aid the reinforcements
we were sending out would be unequal to the task they
would be called upon to perfa-m.
The report was then agreed to.
MUTINY BILL .

Baroness

Five ran.
SPRING CUP.

Prince Plausible
Lady Tatton

Eight ran.
LIVERPOOL STEE PLECTIA SE.

W and e rer
Freetrxhr
Maurice Daly

This bill vva3 ccnsidered a 3 amelided, and ordered to
be read a third time tolinc.rrow.
EXCHEQUER DILLS.
The Exchequer Bills (17,183,000/.) was read a third
time and pa;-ed.
SECRETARIES OF STATE.

Twenty ran.
AINTREE PLATE.

Meld ..
Banbury

The Secretaries and UnTe;S:crt.ta;resoiState (louse
of Commons Bill) NAae pasSed through committee.
The other ordtrs were then disposed of, and the house
adjourned at five o'clock.

Eight ran.
SCRAMBLE HANDICAP
Kennyside Hero
Young Hack

ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL COM-
MITTEE - (THIS DAY.)

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

The inquiry was resumed to-day at twelve o'clock.
The space in the room allotted to the public was again
crowded throughout the proceedings.
The first witness examined was General Bentinck,'
commaader of a brigade of Guards. He stated that
they left Southampton in Feb., 1854. and remained at
Malta till the middle of April, when they went to Scutari.
They were under canvas during the whole time they
were at Scutari, though they occasionally experienced
some difficulty in provisions. They made the passage
from Scutari to Varna in a steamer, and the transport
was very well eonducted. They encamped at Varna
under canvas, and they were well supplied with provi-
sions. The troops were not sick when they were at
Varna, but they subsequently became so when they had
moved up the country—and he attributed this sickness
to the bad climate at that season of the year. The
original strength of their division was 2,500. They left
Varna on the 29th Aug., and after that sickness, stopped
short. The camp was kept clean, and either himself or some
other superior officer was always riding about to look
after the removal of any nuisances. When they landed
in the Crimea it was between Eupatoria and Old Fort.
The weather was at first rather wet, but it was after-
wards fine. He supposed there was no means of land-
ing the horses, or they would have been sent up. They
landed on the 14th and marched on the 19th. They
were then without tents, but they could not have brought
them with them. Some of the men were without
knapsacks. The reason for that was, that when
a soldier was fully equipped, the whole was con-
sidered too heavy for him, and the blanket in some
eases was used as a knapsack, the latter being left be-
hind as more likely to be safe. As soon as the actions
in which they were engaged were over, means were
taken to remove the sick and wounded to the ships,
which was done with stretchere, as they had ao horses.
The wounded were so removed within a few hours after
the battle. Six or seven medical men attended his bri-
gade, but he ought to have had twelve, which at first
he had. He did not consider this number sufficient
under the circumstances in which the army was placed.
The duty was performed as well as it could be ; but, in
consequence of the vacancies occasioned by sickness, the
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in their blankets, but the officers had none. He left after the
battle of Inkerrnan, and they had no verybad weather up to
that time. The troops had not then received any winter
clothing, and much uncertainty existed as to whether
they were to winter there. They were well supplied
with provisions—the greatest difficulty which had to be
contended against being the want of fuel. He did not
know when the ambulance carts were first landed. As
to their utility he thought they were too large and too
heavy, and required too many horses to draw them.
The posture in which the wounded were obliged to lie in
them must be very painful, and had been complained of.
He had observed the French ambulance system, but he
did not preferitto ourown. Most of the tents sent to them
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well satisfied with his commissariat officers. He
attributed the diseases of the encampment not to
the salt meat supplied to the troops but to overwork and
exposure to the climate. The officers had to carry their
own tents, and rations for the day as well as accoutre-
ments with which the privates were sot encumbered ;
which was inconvenient for them, and in some cases
occasioned excessive fatigue. When we left the sanitary
condition of the camp before Sebastopol was very satis-
factory, and he saw no dead bodies of hur.ses or other
nuisances lying about. He never heard of an tispecial.
arrangement for the supply of winter clothing
before he left. He attributed the subsequent
sufferings of time men to exposure to the wea-
ther, hard work, and want of proper clothing.
He visited his hospitals constantly. The men had no
mattresses to lie on. lie thought hospital tents were,
under certain circumstances, well adapted for their in-
tended purpose. The r.,ad from BAlaklava was not in such
a had state when he left, but it would not have remained
so in winter. It might have been hardened with stones,

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.
Mr. HORSMAN, the new Secretary for Ireland,
took the oaths and bis seat on his re-election for Stroud.

PETITIONS.
Mr. PARKER presented a petition from Preston in
favour of the Public Libraries and Museum Bill. Also
a petition from the same place, praying for the repeal of
the Beer Act of last session.

Colonel DUNNE presented a petition from an army
hay contractor, complaining that his contract had been
annulled in consequence of his having supplied Irish
hay, and alleging that the troop horses had from this
circumstance suffered greatly for want of forage. The
petitioner prayed that his complaint might be referred to
the committee now sitting upon the state of the army
before Sebastopol.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MUSEUM BILL.
The house went into committee on this bill.
On clause 1,
Mr. BUCK said this 13:11 would lead to a great in-
crease of local taxation, and it would be very oppressive
on small towns. He therefore moved that instead of
being made applicable to places containing a population
of 5,000 persons, the bill should be limited to places
where the population amounted to 10,000 and upwards.
Mr. MITCHELL suggested that the should be
extended to places containing 4,000 inhabitants, so as to
make it embrace rural districts.
After some conversation,
Mr. CARDWELL observed that the bill was merely
a permissive one, and he hoped its operation would
be made as extensive as possible.

Sir S. BIGNOLD and Mr. BAINES bore testimony to
the usefulness of the former measure, and declared that
wherever these institutions were established they had
been attended with great benefits.
Mr. HENLEY also thought that these institutions
were productive of unmixed good. At the same time
just means ought to be taken to prevent parties from
being taxed against their will.
Mr. SPOONER gave it as his opinion that the bill
would act oppressively in the case of small towns that
were connected with extensive agricultural districts, be-
cause those who lived in the out localities would be
taxed for a thing from which they could derive
no benefit whatever. The library was to be
established in the town, and they would he too far off
to avail themsel"es of it.
Sir E. PERRY said that objection could be remedied
by simply making these institutions lending libraries.
Mr. HENLEY suggested that the rating clause
should be so framed as to draw a distinction between
land and houses.

Mr. E WART said he would consider the suggestion,
and adopt it if possible. He had no objection to engraft
the system of " Lending Libraries " in the bill.
The amendment was then withdrawn.
The claws was agreed to, as were clauses 2 to 16, in-
clusive. Clauses 17 and 18 were struck out.
On clause 19,
Mr. HADFILLD moved the omission of the words,
" with the approval of her Majesty's Treasury."
The committee divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment 25
Against it 64
Majority —39
Some discussion Own arose as to whether the bill was
applicable to Ireland, and ultimately it was determined
that it would be as well that a separate bill should be
brought in for Ireland.
The clause 'am agreed to.
Ou clausf-! 22,
Mr. EWA [VT proposed to insert words providing that
these libraries should include newspapers.
Mr. Spooner, Mr. BArrovv, Mr. Fitzgerald, and Mt.
Whiteside objected to the proposal.
The ATTORNEY-GENE RA.L supported it, believing
that the attraction of a newspaper was the best antidote
against the beer house. The objebt of these libraries
was to wean the working classes from intemperate habits,
and the best way to do that was to give them the oppor-
tunity of obtaining political knowledge, which always
had great charms for them.
The committee then divided, when there appeared—
For the amendmelit 64
Against it ...
Majority
The amendment was accordingly agreed to
Sir E. PERRY moved the insertion of a proviso to
the clause providing that all libraries to be established
under this act should be lending libraries.
Lord STANLEY thought it would be difficult to
make those lending libraries which contained works of
reference.

if they could have spared the labour necessary, but they
could not. There were no depots in his division for
provision, forage, or fuel. If communication had been
cut off between the camp and Balaklava there were two
days' provisions in the camp.
At half-past one o'clock General Bentinck withdrew,
with the assent of the committee, in order to keep an
engagement.
air. Stephen Owen, the 'surviving officer of the Re-
solute, was next called. The Reimlute was a sailing-
vessel, and arrived off Rataklava in tow of the Golden
Fleece. They did not anchor there, for the nature of
the anchorage was not at all good or secure. The coast
there was iron-bound, and there was but little shoal
water. Supposing a vessel arrived, and a southerly wind
sprung up, she might " beat oft" Tbey remained in
s Captainhltew as
the harbour until the 27th or• 28th October, when
by
Capt. Christie. They then
taliiecyhowreedreizo, rthdeertendouotuhtoof it
the harbour in 35 fathoms water,
offwhich he did not consider a safe anchorage. The coin-
u Captain Lewis, and he
remonstrate
Christie several times re-
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the order
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to move out of the harbour, and
the danger which might arise of the vessel being
blown on shore if a gale should come on. It
rof
rested be believed with Capt. Christie to order vessels
out of the harbour. There bad been a southerly wind
previously to the gale, and
it went on increasing, and
warranted Captain Lewis in thinking that there was
imminent danger to the vessel if she remained in
her then position. There were 15 or 16 vessels
out there, ten of which besides themselves were
lost. He should think there were upwards of 500
men lost amongst them. As an officer, he thought the
anchorage was very unsafe. Only 28 were saved ; and
he thought that was quite a miracle, considering the
nature of the coast. He thought that the vessels in
the harbour ought to have anchored with their bows
"up" or "down" it, instead of broadside to it, as they
did ; which would have been safer, as when the gale
arose the rocks acted as a funnel, and bleW directly upon
them. The reason why the Resolute was ordered out of
harbour was not to make room for any other vessel, be-
cause no other vessel entered afterwards.
Captain Wriotesley, of the Royal Engineers, said he
was sent to Gallipoli to prepare for the reception of the
English troops, when their expected removal was an-
nounced. He was at Constantinople when the troops
arrived there. They were placed in barracks, were well
housed and supplied with food. The system of contracts
in a country like Turkey was very objectionable, as no
penalties could be enforced. The French system was much
superior. They took possession of any slaughter-houses
they could find, and if there were none' they immedi-
ately constructed them. The army left England desti-
tute of all necessaries in the way of medicines, tools, and
other useful articles. There was a large depot, he should
imagine, at Varna, for stores of all kinds. He had no
orders to make any preparations at Malta. The corps
to which he was attached had no direct orders from
England, but were under the direction of the Admiral,
and depended for information upon such casual gossip as
they could pick up. The only preparation made at
Scutari for the arrival of the troops was that the con-
tracts were signed. He was net aware of any contracts
offered to us, and declined, having been accepted by
the French. He was one of the first sent out, and
arrived at Gallipoli ten days before the arrival of the.
troops, which he first heard of through the commissary
who received orders to .effect contracts. Besides our
own men there were a corps of Mussulinen granted
by the Turks for land transport purposes. The
men who formed the ambulance corps were pen-
sioners. When the troops were at Varna it was sup-
posed that a campaign was intended, but the commissary
itself confessed that they could only despatch one divi-
sion at, a time. He understood that the Varna hospital
contained ample medical stoic. The expedition to the
Crimea bad been determined upon before he left Varna,
and ho understood that the supply's of all kinds were to
oestantinople. There was
be drawn from Varna and C
a, line of Turkish stereners in the Bosphorus, but ho
did not think it was possible to keep up a con-
tinua! supply of food, fuel, and ieirege to the army in the
Crean a by that means, ay the force was one of such mag-
nitude. -Fe La I referred to the Varna hospital. The
only principal complaint with regerd to it was that they
could not lit rid of vermin. The engineers' department
required 70 horses for the conveyance of the tools ; but
neither the engineers' nor the ambulance waggons were
suited to the horses of the country, which were small.
From his experienee as a soldier, he thought the body of
Sappers and Miners attached to the general body of
troops at Varna was decidedly insufficient. He should
call the Commissary Department a military branch, and
he supposed it required so:ne professional initiation in
those connected with it, to be atall properly conducts
f.
The great difference between. the French Commissary
th •meat
and ours was, that the former bought their alive.
and slaughtered it,
and employed bakers to make their
did. When at Varna
bread, instead of contracting am we

Mr. EWART thought it would be much better to
leave this matter to the discretion of the managers of the
libraries themselveF.

After a short conversation the committee divided,
when there appeared,
For the proviso . 32
Against it...
Majority —l7
The proviso was accordingly rejected, and the clause
agreed tJ.
On clause 24, which provides that the libraries ani
museums should be open free.
Mr. CHILD moved the insertion of words to limit
the free opening to certain times. . . . _ _

Mr. ENVA.R.T said the bill was based upon the princi-
ple that these institutions should be open to the public
free of all charge, and he could not adopt the amend-
ment.

The amendment was negatived without a division, and
the clause agreed to.
Mr. MUNDT moved the insertion of the following
clause, viz. :—lf arty person shall give to any borough,
district, or parish having respectively such a population
as aforesaid, any booke, collections of mineralogy, na-
tural history, or works of science or art, sufficient in the
opinion of the council, board, or vestry, as the case may
be, for the establishment of a library or museum, then
this act shall be considered to have been duly applied
for, and shall take effect and come into operation in
such borough, district, or parish without taking the
proceedings hereinbefore made necessary for its adop-
tion, and such library or museum shall be considered to
have been duly established wider this act.
Sir B. HALL objected to the introduction of the
clause, because it would have the effect of taxing the
ratepayers without their consent, the converse of
which was the main feature of the bill.
The clause was negatived.
Mr. ENVART moved the insertion of the following
clause, viz. :—No person shall be assessed or rated to
any county, borough, parochial, or other local rates or
cesses, in respect of any land, houses, or buildings, or
parts thereof respectively, belonging to any library or
museum established under this act, and occupied by it
for the transaction of its business, and for carrying into
effect its purposes.
Mr. BAINES opposed the clause as being unsound
in principle, and likely to be unjust in operation.
The clause was withdrawn.
The preamble was then agreed to, and the house hav-
ing resumed, reprinted
the bill was ordered to be and
reconsidered on Wednesday next.
JUDGMENTS EXECUTIONS, &c., BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this bill,
Mr. MACARTNEY moved that the bill be read a
second time that day six months.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL should not like to re-
ject the principle of the bill, though he thought its
details were open to amendment, and, therefore, if the
bill was read a second time it ought to be referred to a
select committee.
Mr. NAPIER objected to a select committee, because
it would be nothing less than shelving the bill. Be-
sides, the bill was referred to a select committee last
year, and found to be impracticable. He had no alter-
native then but to say no to the second reading rather
than allow the measure to be continually hanging over

then,.
Too ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the bill proposed
to consolidate the law of judgmeuts both in England
and Ireland—a very laudable object no doubt ; but as
the bill had, been once found to be impracticable by
a select committee, he did not see the advantage of refer- ,
ring it to such a tribunal again.
After a few words from Mr. WHITESIDE, Mr. F.
FRENCH. and Col. DuNNE, who opposed the bill,
Air. DUNLOP thought it only right that judgments
obtained is one part of the United Kingdom should ex-
tend to the whole. and he hoped all parties would unite
fur the purpose of framing a bill to meet the case.
Air. BA.ILLIE observed that the law of Scotland and
England 'was so very dissimilar that he did not see how
a bill cou:ld be framed to suit both.
Mr. I. BUTT declared the details of the bill were
grossly d efective, but the question was far too important
to he left, in the hands of a private member. If legisla-
tion was needed, it should be brought in by the Govern.

went.
Mr. CRATJFORD, who had charge of the bill, said
its simple object was to substitute a registration instead