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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVEN IN (1, DECEMBER 4 1855.

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COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Before Lord Campbell and a Common Jury.)
LEWIS V. EVANS.

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This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a coke
and coal merchant, of Vauxhall-street, to recover of
the defendant, a veterinary surgeon of the borough, the
value of a horse alleged to have died from the unskilful
treatment of the defendant. The defendant pleaded not
guilty.

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Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Oglevie were counsel for
the plaintiff; Mr. Chitty for the defendant.
The plaintiff's case was that the defendant, who pro-
fessionally attended his horses, saw the horse in ques-
tion on Saturday, the 24th March, and declared it to
be suffering from the mange, which he said he could
care. The horse was sent on the following morning to
the defendant's infirmary, where its head, neck, chest,
and belly were rubbed with something prepared by him.
The horse was taken home and became restless, rubbing
his head, pacing the ground, and showing symptoms of
great pain, which increased during the night and con-
tinued the whole of Monday. The defendant was sent
for, and on his seeing the horse he admitted it was in
great danger, and according to his instructions it was
washed with soap and warm water and taken great care
of, but the symptoms of irritation and pain increased,
the horse foaming at the mouth, rearing, kicking,
and destroying the manger. The horse was on
Wednesday taken out for exercise, when it fell
down and died. It was taken to the knacker's-yard
and opened, and the intestines found to be perfectly
healthy. The plaintiff's brother in-law who attended
to the horses, said the horse in question was purchased
lame for 301., which complaint the defendant cured, and
that the horse when it died was worth 701.
The defence was that the plaintiff did not take proper
care of the horse after it had been rubbed with the
liniment, which consisted of train oil, sulphur, and tur-
pentine, The defendant considered the horse when
purchased lame was worth about 171. or 131. A horse
suffering with the mange was considered to be value-
less, because the disease could not always be cured.
Mr. Vines, a member of the Royal College of Veterinary
Surgeons, examined the horse at the knacker's yard, and
considered it died from inflammation of the bowels and
stomach, which complaint arises from a variety of causes.
The defendant now said, that when he saw the horse,
after it had been dressed, he found it in the yard, ex-
posed to the cold March winds.

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Lord Campbell, in summing up, said be thought the
plaintiff had failed to make out a case of negligence and
want of skill on the part.of the •defendant.
The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.

Men, ancrlew-as partiettlarlrstrtrek with theryceuthe-
ful appearance of the men of a regiment which
(Prom the Times Special Correspondent.) I arrived at Kamiesh on Monday? There. is scarcely
any use in keeping up an appear:tine& et a -"diary,
CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, ! for one day is uncommonly like another. Prepara-
TUESDAY, Nov. 20. 1 tions for the winter are evident on every side.
As if to mock us for our self inflicted miseries of, Wood, canvass, little bits of glass, tar, and
!
last year, the weather continues to present the most pitch, and, above all, nails and 'tacks, are
delightful contrast to the storms and rains of this eagerly sought after. At the head-querters' sale,
time twelvemonth. How many lives, how many on General Simpson's departure the other day, a
repu'ations, might have been saved if the Novem- hammer, hatchet, and saw sold for 2/. 15s. A bag
ber of 1854 in the Crimea had been at all like the of nails was disposed of by auction the same week
same month in this present year ! lip to the mo- for 403., and on counting the contents it was found
ment at which I write there has not been a day there were only 130 nails in the bag. Friendly
since last April in which military operations could little felonies of planking and such things are not
not have been undertaken. Either last year was
unheard-of, and the greatest favour you can do a
remarkable in the annals of the Crimea for its se-
verity, or we are enjoying a season of exceptional friend is "to let him have a of board about
six feet long by a foot wide ; piece or, " The captain
mildness. Storms have lowered over us and
says, sir, as how he'd be very grateful if you could
passed away ; dark skies have threatened us and
give him a bit of glass about three inches square,
melted into floods of golden sunbeams. The wind
sir, for his winder." The heart soon grows hare
seems to be busied in tossing the French steamers
cloned
at sea and keeping the mail late, which it succeeds under such constant pressure, and ono is
obliged to refuse " a couple of tenpenny nails"
in doing very happily, so that our letters are be- .or "the loan of the hammer for an hour" with the
hind time with the greatest regularity. Up to this
1 sternness of a Brutus. - e
period nothing has happened which 'could have Mr. Stafford is going, it is understood, to move
affected the health or efficiency of the army—the for/an inquiry into the grievances of the medical
disaster of November 14 could not have occurred department on the meeting of Parliament.
—none of those poor fellows would have perished I will now proceed with my diary, which is ne-
in the mud between "the front" and the harbour cessarily very meagre in incident, and, indeed,
whose bones are now turned up by the labourer's there was no event to chronicle subsequent to the
spade as he works on the roads. The country is terrible catastrophe of the 15th. -
open in very direction to carriage, man, or beast ; The manner in which this great disaster was
the trenches are dry ; in fact, the weather presents caused is said to be this :—" Some French artil-
contrasts of endless variety to that which prevailed lerymen were engaged in shifting powder from
last year, and affords ground for infinite specula• case to case in the park, and, as the operation is
tion and comment. There is no reason, however, rather dangerous, every care was talon to pre-
to suppose that the English army would have had vent accidents. The powder was poured from one
much reason to congratulate itself on the fact that case into the other through copper funnels, and
clemency of the season had averted the evils which no fire was allowed near the place where the men
want of roads, excessive fatigue, and a false posi- were so employed. As one of the soldiers was
tion would have entailed upon them, inasmuch as pouring the powder out of a case ho perceived a
it is certain the bad weather paralysed the enemy, fragment of shell gliding out of it into the funnel,
cut off their reserves, impeded their transport of and, not wishing to let it get into the other
food and of reinforcements, tied prevented their case, he jerked the funnel to one - side ; the
making another attempt—not at Inkerman, of piece of shell fell on the stones, which were
which they had to their cost learnt the strength, covered with loose powder, and is supposed :to
but from the Traktir bridge, or at some other have struck fire- in its fall, for the explosion took
point of the Tchernaya then in their possession, place at once. Miraculous as it may appear, the
from which they could have debouched into the artilleryman who was, as it were, in the focus 'of
plain of Balaklava, and made a grand attack on the explosion, escaped alive, and is only slightly
the rear of our lines. Although those lines burned and scorched. His comrade, who held the
were greatly strengthened, and the profile altered other case, was blown to atoms. Another strange
and improved, when the rumours of the Russians incident was the death of the commandant of
gathering force towards Baidar a ith the intention artillery for the day. He was in or'neitr the -park
of assaulting us prevailed, they were far from being at the time of the explosion, and as soon as he had
perfect or unassailable last November. We now seen everything in order as far as possible he went
learn that the country between Tchongar, Perekop, off to have a look at the French batteries in and
and Simpheropol was in such a state that it was with about Sebastopol, on which the Russians had
the utmostdifficulty the garrison of Sebastopolcould opened a heavy fire. As he rode along a cannon
be fed, and that very strong reinforcements were shot struck off his head. Such is the story. The
kept for weeks waiting at Odessa, Nicolaiefl, and escapes that day were astounding. Clothes were
Cherson, till they could march into the Crimea, and torn off men's backs ; the chairs or beds on which
were, finally, detained till the spring of this year. they sat, the tables at which they were eating, the
But for these impediments the Russians would have earth where they stood, were broken and torn by
had a prodigious army about Sebastopol this time shot, shell, rocket irons, shrapnel, grape, canister,
twelvemonth or early in December, and if they and musket balls, which literally rained down upon
were indisposed to try another Inkerman they them. It was fully two minutes ere the heavy
could certainly have pressed us much harder in the volleys of bursting shells ceased, and then sullen
trenches and tried our men by strong and repeated explosions for an hour afterwards warned the spec-
sorties, to which, as it now appears, their hard- tator from the scene. Some of the balls and
worked and exhausted garrison was not adequate. pieces of shrapnel, which must have been pro-
At times it was difficult to march even a battalion jected a prodigious height into the air, did not
from the army of the Belbek or Mackenzie's Farm fall to the ground for a minute and a-half after
into the city or to effect the usual reliefs. If to the last of the explosions. For two minutes,
these considerations be added the notorious senti- which seemed as many hours, the terrible
ments and opinions of persons high in authority, shower endured, and descended on the camp.
who advocated the abandonment of the siege, and The distance to which fragments flew exceeds belief.
the retreat of the army from the Crimea after the It is difficult to explain it by mere names of keen-
battle of Inkerman, it will be seen that our pros- ties. One piece of shell flew over Cathcart's-hill ;
pects would not have been much better had weather another killed a horse in New Kadikoi. Some
like that we now enjoy prevailed last winter. One struck men and horses in the Guards' camp. One
of the best soldiers in the army, and our only flew over my but ; another struck the ground
general—a veteran of great and varied experience close to it ; another went into the camp of the
—was so struck with the dangers and falsity of our Land Transport Corps, behind it. Mrs. Seacole,
position that he strongly advised the Commander- who keeps a restaurant near the Col, avers that a
in-Chief to withdraw our army, and renew the at- piece of stone struck her door, which is three and a
tempt on Sebastopol in another form this year. half or four miles from the park. In the Land
The inconveniences to which the famous flank march Transport Corps of the Light Division 14 horses
had subjected the army became more apparent were killed and 17 were wounded. Pieces struck
every dayafter the failure of the first bombardment. and damaged the buts in New Kadikoi. Appalling
The flank march was opposed, or was viewed with as was the shock to those who were near, the effect
disfavour, by officers of great authority, and by was little diminished by distance. The roar and
one whose sagacity and skill are seldom deceived concussion were so great in Balaklava that the ships
in military operations, although he is not a soldier, in harbour and outside at anchor trembled and
and does not command on land. It is now evident, quivered, and the houses shook to their founda-
at all events, that if we were where the Russians tions. The ships at Kamiesh and Kazatch
were last year, not one of them could ever leave reeled and rolled from side to side. Mules and
the Crimea. horses seven and eight miles away broke loose,
The descent on the Crimea itself was a bold and galloped across the country wild with flight.
stroke towards, the capture •of . Sebastopol. The The noises pealed through the passes at Baidar like
battle of -the Alma left the approach to the city the loudest thunder. In fact, the effect resembled
open to us whenever we liked. Prince Menschi- some great convulsion of nature. Many thought it
kofrs flank march to Bakshi-Serai and Simpheropol, was an earthquake ; others fancied it was the out-
although somewhat ridiculed at the time, is now burst of a -volcano •, others that the Russians had
considered a judicious and daring movement, but got hold of Lord Dundonald's invention, and that
it certainly uncovered the north of Sebastopol, the they hal just given it a first trial. Indeed, one
Tchernaya, and Balaklava ; and as it was deter- officer said to another, as soon as he recovered breath
mined by our generals to abandon the dashing cha- and could speak, " I say, that's a nice sort of thing,
meter of the expedition, and to assume for our is it not ? The sooner we go after that the better."
operations a strategical character, to which they Ho was persuaded the Russians had thrown some
had no previous pretensions, we were obliged to new and unheard-of instrument of destruction into
look out for harbours, and the inlets of Balaklava, the camp. The sense of bearing was quite dead-
Kamiesh, and Kazatch met the eye and fixed our ened in many persons, and their nervous systems
destiny. Then came the period during which, it.'s:, not yet rceovorad the ahnelc, an that any
without tet or ninarance, of esweips at interfer- sudden noise startles them. The French harl six
ence or prevention, the Russians, recovering from officers killed and 13 officers wounded; 65 of their
their surprise and alarm and flocking back to Se- men, mostly of the artillery, were killed, and
bastopol, under the directions of a man of extra- 170 men were wounded, of whom many will never
ordinary genius began the rudiments of the vast recover. The destruction in money value of articles
works which baffled our efforts for 11 long mouths appertaining to the siege train was very great, and
of toil, suffering, and bloodshed, heroically endured if the cost of the import of fresh articles be added
and overcome. Now it is perceived that if the ad- the sum will be considerable. But when we come
vice of Sir George Cathcart had been followed the to men—to those gallant fellows who survive the
city might have been ours by a vigorous assault on battles and thedangers of the campaign—we fear the
the day after we arrived on this plateau, for the loss is irreparable. What value can be placed on
ships alone could never have defended the place, those noble artillerymen of the siege train who, with
and the greater portion of the feeble garrison, such little praise or encouragement, have stood by their
as it was, consisted of the equipages, or crews, of guns in so many bombardments, and who have ac-
those very ships. The enemy when they retreated to quired skill, practice, and hardihood in the greatest
the north side would have been as impotent as they siege the world ever saw ? It is to be hoped .that
are now, and Sebastopol, in all its beauty, and with the non-commissioned officers of the artillery will
all its vast stores and riches, would have been in our be rewarded for their exertions by the selection of
possession. That is the hypothesis as to the result one of their body to fill Mr. Yellon's place. He
of vigorous action from the south side. But had rose from the ranks of the corps, and when he and
we approached the city from the north side, there Mr. Hayter were appointed as Commissaries of the
can be no doubt that the forts would speedily have Land Train great was the commotion in Wool-
fallen, the fire of the shipping could have affected wich at such unusual promotions. Latterly,
our operations very slightly, and the only inconve- indeed, they are better off, so far as their pro-
f ience would have been the want of a harbour. spects of rising in the service are concerned, for
The anchorage is good all along the coast up to many sergeants of artillery have received corn-
Eupatoria, and, except on the great gale of the missions in the Land Transport Corps, and are
14th of November, no damage would have occurred found most valuable and efficient officers as
to our merchantmen or men-of-war riding off the quartermasters of brigade. The day before the
coast. The mouths of .the Katcha, or even of the explosion an accident took place in the Redan,
Belbek, when the fire of the battery which just which was also attended with melancholy re-
reached the water was reduced, could have been suits. The following aro the particulars. On
made available for landing such stores and ma- the 14th Samuel Goodram, No. 6 Company C)ld-
teriel as we required. With the northern forts streams, another old soldier of the same regiment,
the whole city of Sebastopol and the remainder of named Betts, and a serjeant, were on duty in
the fleet would have been ours, our army could the Redau, and the two men went into ono of the
have reposed on its laurels for the winter in an im- casemates to remove some powder and rubbish
pregnable position, a year would have been saved while the serjeant remained outside. Scarcely had
in the war, and the Crimea would have been the men entered before an explosion took place,
cleared of the Russians early in the spring of this which blew up the magazine and covered the men
year. Such is the hypothesis respecting operations and the serjeant with earth and sand. Goodram
from tho north side. Such are the discussions which was blown into the air, and was then thrown down
arise in the army now that it rests from its labours amid fragments of gabions and falling earth, which
and sees a vanquished army gathering strength in buried him to the depth of five or six feet, and Betts
a position which appears torus impregnable or un- was so terribly burnt that Ile died within an hour
assailable. As to future operations it is not be- after the explosion. Goodram was dug out
coming in me to speak, but the Russian General quite dead, and both men were buried in
must be a man of extraordinary confidence if the Guards' cemetery
_next day. Thus were
he thinks he can extricate his army when the two excellent soldiers lost to the country,
spring comes from the grasp of an enemy which and lam the more particular in giving the names,
already clutches the whole of his coast, is este- in order that I may relate an anecdote of poor
blished at two points in his rear, and has four dis- Goodram at the attack on the Redan which I heard
tinct bases of operations, with sufficient troops to at the time, but forgot to mention till this moment.
use them all, and to concentrate a prodigious force The night before the attack the Coldstreams were
on any point he pleases. He may err, and if be on duty in the trenches, and were relieved some
does, and the blot is hit, the result will be fatal. hours before the assault took place. On arriving
The Russian infantry, in spite of his stubborn en- at camp it was found that a private named Samdug
durance and passive courage, is not equal to either Goodram, a butcher by trade, was missing ;
French, Sardinian, English, or Turkish troops. was feared that he had gone away to some
Every day shows us that it has no chance even to indulge in unfathomable potations, or hfaraom"tehue
against the latter when they are led and officered hit in some mysterious way as he
candle to the
by Englishmen or brave and skilful European trenches. But great wrong had be a
,n canteen
_....
" to have a
soldiers. Their cavalry in equal numbers will be gallant soldier, who had remaiziedenbehind from
ridden down like grass whenever they stand pure love of fighting and from a. desireth t the assault
against English or French squadrons ; and, go in at the Roosians."
hours, Goodram had
notwithstanding the excellence of their artil- would take place in a
few
trenches as the lery compared with other arms of their ser- secreted himself in the
off, and employed
regi-
vice, it cannot compete with ours for an instant ment mustered and march,s
snowing a
comrades left in
him
o n as
sof thati n
di memorable
as regards rapidity of motion or precision of at leisure time beforehis ni
coat and every fire. Prince:Gortscbakoff will be a grand strategist filling the breast of
avail-
opposed to very weak generals if he succeeds in able place about . private supply of 59
his person with cartridges from
saving his army and marching them scatheless from their boxes,
him before he had got his fill of
the Crimea. The health of our troops is excellent ; rounds would fail
when the storming party was advancing
fearing that his
the draughts which arrive are rather younger than fighting.
rifle in
is desirable, but they will get experience and in- from the fifth p
arallel Goodram appeared • •struction during the winter. They are admirably hand and joinedbeingregiment
the first private soldier it as a volunteer, and his
clothed, and fed as no army was ever fed before claim in the
arallbylewith the Russians, and
day. He was twice
—fresh meat, bread, and vegetables are issued to Redan the Redan, and was
all. Henceforth the men are to get fresh moat driven. out over and over
engage vein::
only three times a week, and bread only three again
encounters in these he received two wounds
--one
times a week, instead of every day. On the other
.•
the aide and one in the arm—but still kept up a
days they will receive pork or salt beef, and excel- in
when driven back by the last rush of the
lent biscuit. In respect of winter clothing, hut- fire ,
infantry
and forced
- enemy s
tine, and feeding, our men are immeasurably bett
the rest of our men into the ditch.
Instead, how-
seeter off than our allies, and it is not unusufal
ever, of retiring with the°
the latter eating in the English camp 43
.the others, as opportunity
Little offered, and keeping in the ditch
excess of our soldiers' cooking kettles. or getting under
c, Fran- cover in the parallels,
friendships have sprung up in this way.Goodram made an im-
ceese" comes over with his spoon, a smile,
an onion, promptu rifle pit on the broken glacis outside the
ditch, and there condiment,
and a bit of salt, or savoury to some _.
about dinner till his ammunition became exhausted, and his
sapper or grenadier, day after day, . inter- wounds painful
conversation,
time, indulges in pantomimic
larded with many "bones," and
regales
on good
rifle. Then he shouldered his arms and marched
soup and broth, to the great d
delight of the
enter- stiffly up through the trenches and across the open
.
d true entente till he He was,
.* tainer. Thus both are satisfie —a . i
leave
cordials is established through the medium of the 'we believe, tried for being absent without .
i Mines
is a loser. The reinforcements and for stealing his comrade's cartridges, but
like
stomach, and no-one
ed a %OW
to our ally contaiudike our own, wallY very young mself could not love condemn