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London, England, 1855-05-11 00:00:00

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EXAMINATION OF MR. SIDNEY fig:
BERT BEFORE MR. BOEBUOS C
MITTEE.

(From the Times of yesterdcti)
mitt° °II
The evidence given yesterday before the Nal _ rather
the state of the army in the East presents in a,o lole
striking form the virtues and vices of Herbert' 001
nagement. The witness was Mr. Sidney oly,ootie,
it is needless to say that, like the Duke of S r thoS
he gave his evidence with all that good teniP__eu'ob to
candour, and that modesty that contribute so "` out,
tshtaetecdh,aracter of the true English gentlernee' ()dela ,-
when we look to the facts thus candidly aud_aill for 0
they go, itthiesy itrahrpOTibcolensnidoetrabtole 00 t the °9tt
down f our military administration. Ind till iss
place, it appears that during last year, 50.
chorgiol
February, Mr. Sidney Herbert, instead of di,°_,getiare
one system of duties of equal and uniform (itched,
for neglecting which. he might have been ialer;wit
feleiglhtthat, as bresik,
was engaged in a variety of transactions,
antraealliffiel ,
1 some officious, some extra-official, and some isci
—in fact, dividing themselves into half-a-dose,atiot tar
categories. When be entered office he founa
00t lear
Secretary at War already exercised "Pafferebieb, i°,ll
ranted strictly by his official position, bti,t, tgoispree°'
long course of years, had grown upon bite. . to thetur
cessor had every now arid theu made a fora,' Oltever WI
appropriated regions of Government, and ivila... for e%'
had won with their own sword and bow-n', forot
ample, improvements and alterations of Miluteisboon:
the organisation of pensioners, and the astable of th°
3f regimental sohools—had become the aPP6°Agsooll,,:l
office, though foreign to its theoretical irlea'orehle;i
distinction of duties could not but be unfartdorie;ol
exactness of performance. Here were twe c_e'f the " i
official duty, and, after the reconstruction of the sido%
Ministry, we are introduced to a third. '''' joss,
_,'
rHeleirobveertthteheDnuk‘e‘ uonfdNeretwoocakstale,grweahtiedhe,al of hils ii °re
per/AP:il viit"
cisif
not the business of his office to do." oie Pe„loah- be
regard to the Medical Department were pure J;rl feet,
of
and he could originate, nothing ; nevertheless,a'tioo, toy.
urged Dr. A. Smith to extend his plan of 00.3riaud Pr' a
direct notice of a dispute between Mr.Guthrt3._argeol° to
Smith on the question between additional stanfbe
in is
additions' regimental surgeons, and referred 'smih, di
to Lord Raglan, who decided against Dr. j'io the re-'
fmaevootusr_ofuoatwtiascehlyin,gasthite
taudrndsitoiounta.l surgeons sidneY 11.61.0.
As. Mr. „4600 j
bert had voluntarily taken cognisance of
etidleit4o yard
bert
no wonder that he also voluntarily referr
or &hip, dir
Raglan, and as little wonder is it that his 100 pelt,
ing, in his turn, undertaken the spontane° able. 1, 0
charged it so as to give himself the least tro to le o 0,
There is an old saying that y‘ou ougilt not.ore' arta
gift horse in the mouth ; and certainly it is ewe t
not 0f "erode°.
emus to scrutinise the immense erne).- t 000 r- oie.
labdurs undertaken by Mr. S. Herbert. 13°4. the reolc
man will generally decline a gift hmor
osue,th:Ts oe ;I:
that he must not look into his
that Parliament has now ample warning not
describinOn
irregular and gratuitous services. After
_h dietincios
good deal of mismanagement, without sunaoa st_et
of persons as to let one knew whose fault ii t) ~, f It°r.,
Mr. Sidney Herbert says, in the first peorsoce,rs siolhoni;
up a correspoedence with the medical Fhs and, tiiielt
purveyors, urging them to exert theneseiveaitieles re' eens
all things, to purc'ease on the spot
"list their P iy
were available, and to let us know woe liltdesa.
wants were, and what their future want% to IJ°r to the
be." Now, the medical officers had to 100 . hirrir;ceve
lan, and also to Dr. A. Smith,
Duke of Newcastle , but here we find nclittir Of
nd exPe h el fd
letters ur • • • ging increased exertion .a tO VI - .ce° OP
the spot from Mr. Sidney gerber, gr•
le lied
were not at all accountable. A'S 24 piers 81;,, II
to
oeems to have lacked physical energfiarge f. 031001
have had small private reeo.o6, A eanleati°r!' sell
nervous tem bead,,for °I. ber hir°
peramezit, and no to °twit, Slril
as Lord
ahoot Stratford was not the in „ that ..---. iv
hospitals, it. i
"8 not surprlo6l iouti/e6 -tot
Herbert's
gratuitous and extra.offiela ji
IA DerbsP°' ft"
of their
doing too little, then for doing
itis very
intended effect. and throuchey 0
00
We shall be t°'"' `• • tells et
, WM) e • ,
for Yery hard to find fault with ratin°lo'
rather first for being bound by routine, "1:1 or ir
casting it aside. We beg to reply that there %:,, of cry
to have been this neglect of form at both eobove Pe
process. Orders of this character ought to bo jert 0,
ceeded from the highest and most unquest,i°flice di°,
rity. They ought to have gone from the vilt", he'reao 0,
castle's own department ; and he ought ric't had rt, of
ployed his colleagues as irregularly as if it rate'
private business of his own. Among Othero 0004
these irregular communications there werectratforti the
of supply opened at •Constantinople—Lord haul,
Mr. Smith, the Commissary-General, and bees tv ,
two stools the hospitals seem for a long "- or
fallen to the ground. , Olt ,l'
While the impropir officer, the Secretary" a'allet 400
to: d
to.
11
1,
,0 e
writing letters to Scutari, recommending rre,,erdocifwri
rations, which lettees were generally clisrePtheP-ie 1
proper officer, the Commander of the Forces,,ieed, belit
was doing nothing ; till at last, being inve'l,lool„," of
Dr. Hall to Scutari to see whether the cell se 0;04-
well-founded. Quite, in harmony with alik:-beloirkioeir
omission and commiesion, Dr. Hall brougny eve,
that the state of the hospitals was perfen,'44 fof
tory. Of course, it was much more satieffia'ritoot_ jill
anything the Doctor had seen in the v, ineill
Scutari, as we have been told before, '°14,0 thrb't ttl
icompared with the hospital at Balaklava, uees %pa
. n its turn, compared with the hospital oargif ;°°_,.oce° I
camp, which the exhausted soldiers were
circae°o3P-bolf
to escape to from the trenches. Cinder the or °Di 11°Ir
it is not to be expected that Lord Raglir)!th t'etli'tr
in the Crimea, shondd be encumbered o'l erol DoOP
pail's at Scutari ; but we must say that seas t 0
#.O P o',
sand sick and wounded men ought that Aeon' Le ve
left to the irregular and unofficial ext•iiiedhej,io '
philanthropic Secretary at War. The °wept it
sult is too. well remembered. At this rnc og Ifbli:
matter of much less consequence to sae' Wl%O. on
wrong,—that is, who was the orgin 01 th.eh thete.eo;o
much for the Medical Department, to Whreol.3, di 0 tbi
part of the examination yesterday iv" nialitlOPAileelet
The clothing seems to have been treated with Ails 001:i
same well-intended irregularity. After descrid tbe 8 h
large share be had volunteered in this Pairt that be
Mr. S. Herbert mentions with just Pri,ciseteottrre ts at
received many letters from Major-GO. Pbe errs e 1
ye
,1)1
ing in terms complimentary to himself of• the tbo,o e
had been made, and the liberality with whnit: T_Ablrl soot
had been treated in the supplies sent the° oi-e,,,t, 0-0 •
naturally elicited the question whether sateenevoom,
emanated from him or from the War Pe„,Ptbe,Yheso;4
the answer was that, wishing to relie.,,,r; of "h"reorhoti
Newcastle as much as possibre from s°,7 wit"ho " t
tails, he bad taken a great deal of trot'"? that for the
to the different articles of clethiog, btli;E, eloh,4° towedt
made a minute of everything that Was t° be
line t ,teti
duke's signature, so thrie the order Sidney fie,•oolso
Ordnance. Nevertb eless, Mr. Sidi:l44o tin of_,.' i
himself personally thanked for these suPP`abo oreecerrio 0
by the Admiralty frcen the Ordnance, at; theseP herve
Secretary of War, Lion' the suggestion 01,,,0r f ~o
at War ; though even that does not eeiee ;irieo...
compiexi ty and irregularity of the traoet /fool e clirlf
small part of these supplies, after all, ler, °dlregili
being purchased there by our Ambase9. 10;0-
tion of our Foreign-office, and the reguronts.
action of some half-dozen other depart,
•....__-____________ 10 G-1/0
eridi. 03 00
Ale,- tiog li
ISTHMUS OF SUEZ.—A letter fro re 450 • „of orr
the Pays) informs us that the Ire •ereh per thr°-io.o
design of having the lethenes of Suez evigt t° pet ii
requested M. de Lesseys to pay aiwther with, the fetli 10
tinople in order to use fresh efforts ovba to e
0, p 0 0 j
Government on the subject. Said rge sultril'iciri,eibelo
said, written an autograph letter tothe
underte fieeoit
out to his Majesty the necessity of the 0/ the tree
the importance which it would give to one it the et
1
provinces of the empire, by briugiog re
Sp' 1; t'
trade of the whole world. i distrieteee 0,11,0er
THE POTATO TRADE.—In sever
; ,1. t...- yr-
ii,lo
appears to be a remnant of potatoe i° freelocihotib,
We have to note a shipment of 85 rfrern 61)for_Sol'
burgh for Newcastle, one of 107 te.," taorellieerrot
for Hartlepool, one of 34 tons from -,r°' ''' for 0 ete Al
lin, and one of 70 tons from Findhortit tbet poPed
At Fraserburgh, says our correspon(!e° ' beiog terb re
1131)1Y0 r re
If art
few transactions in potatoes, the sr- u oee et'
exhausted. nit, price is 14s. per bl)11: t ‘` Pet° 0'
correspondent writes that in this clistraito 00• t
poi°
getting scarce, and are now selling
4tooPrr
boll."—Banishire Journal. ~, IP --°' 04, II
Tile PORTSMOUTH ROYAL S.AILOP?iis,O sot)
0400 io
meeting was held on Monday, at Wiid the I`oooorip,'
mote the contemplated enfargonetconie i'ecceon'liport"
Royal Sailors' Horse, veti'.ch
dheaisr;_ade_ofErio;
bthet
Docir;
be ao
consequence of the incresviing
frecl_lanced, wieet o
Lion on the part of the 'seamen
The interest of the ocreeeen VMS e". i#,) ,0 seaote
d For' 00/, jfP e( 4
cumstance that her li.lajestY an • ,of 3 00 e di 0
recently contriLuted ei, joint donaattot,:tiooi 6. frotelitiet:
the object, aid have 'promised an
.at:',,Dtajeefi. yea! p
provided a suffic.wet amount can b _ (.It, to 05001° ,eer'',
sources to insure an extension ade9lo‘ ,r. A.,
rovicijor,
of the case. Tb e chair was taken
vat or
ot ,rhe f
jrce:,
Spencer, E.i.G., arise several naea,_lo7eetiug;io egnoltieei,
present to suppoit the object of t_u,,:tiitiou, elesol iioo%,
man traced the progress of the ip.' oc. ;4 0,0 fre,
urging the public to support tee
,5_,,,,,,, eoe ,
niousry agreed to. Several haw; 160/,
its claims to the sympathy of tee
announced, making a total of about
iPelletitui,e'eetelol
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