The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-11 00:00:00

TER NUN, LONDON

ai gay IMMO ttm. the Poprwtoi made io 111111 not give
such a true account of their state as they ought to have
done, and Lori Raglan was too far from the spot to
attend t.) their condition himself.

The Chairatap—Then that is to say that Lord Raglan
received untrue reports ?
Lord Harding—l don't say that. M opinion is
that Lord Ra,4iati did not receive sufficient information.
The Chairman—lt appears that Loid Ra Jan sent Dr.
Hall to Scutari, to report on the state of the hospitals.
The report he sent in was that everything was in capital
order.

Lord Hardinge—l don't blame Lord Raglan.
The Chairman—l don't blame Lord Raglan. I blame
Dr. Hall. I want to know if there Las been any in-
quiry instituted into Dr. Hall's conduct for making that
report!
Lord Hardinge—l am not aware.
The Chairman—Whose duty was it to have instituted
such an inquiry ?
Lord Hardirge—l should say Lord Raglan. But this
is asking my opinion ou points on which I scarcely
think—

The Chairman—l am not asking your opinion, but I
want information as to the mode of proceeding wito re-
gard to the army, and on whom the responsibility in
such matters would fall. My desiire is to ascertain who
is the proper person.
Len Hardinge—lf, according to your account. Dr.
Hall made a report which wai not justified by the state
of the hospitals, I should say he was responsible.
The Chairman—Well, then, has any inquiry been
made into the conduct of Dr. Hall ?

Lord Hardinge—l am not aware.
Mr. Roebuck—Mr. Sidney Herbert in his evidence
yesterday stated that be wrote to the persons in the
command of the hospitals at Scutari, he being Secretary
at War, and I wish to ask you whether it is your opi-
nion that any benefit to the pu'Jlic, service arose from
that interference, and whether the commandant at Scutari
was under the command of Lord Raglan ?
Lord Hardinge—l believe that Mr. Sidney Herbert
was right in doing as he did.
The Chairman—Then you think his interference was
beneficial to the public service ?
Lord Hardinge—Undoubtedly he was a Cabinet
Minister, and was in direct communication with the
Duke of Newcastle. I think what he did was quite jus-
tifiable. Not only the act itself, but its effect was pro
ductive of good. All the attempts on the part of Mr.
Sidney Herbert to relieve the sufferers in the hospitals
at Scutari were not only highly praiseworthy, but were
productive of great good.
Examination continued—He had no reason to believe
that the forms in use in the army relative to the issue of
provisions were in any way inconvenient. The inconve-
nience arising from the military depot being at Chatham
had come under his notice. It only showed the
poverty-stricken way in which we were situated
with regard to efficient military hospitals. There was an
hospital now in course of erection at Portsmouth, but
he thought it advisable that others should be erected in
other places—and the sooner the House of Commons
voted the money for them the better. In my opinion it
would be advisable to establish a good military hospital
at Devonport.
After a few further questions, the examination of
Lord Hardinge was brought to a termination.
Dr. Mapleton, who proceeded to the East in the capa-
city of private physician to Lord Raglan, was next called.
He said he saw the general hospital at Scutari in May,
1854. It was then partly in the occupation of the
Turks, but there were some English patients there.
He saw the hospitals again after the expedition had
left Varna, and was himself indisposed and confined
in the barrack hospital for several days. The bar-
rack patients were at that time much in the same
state as has been described by different persons subse-
quent to that period. He did not—think anvtl ing was
done to remedy this state of things. Lord Raglan him-
self was at first in command there. He considered
that the troops were sickly at Varna, and in his
opinion the food supplied to them was bad. The bread
in particular was bad, and he represented the matter to
Lord Rigian, woo empoweied him to take every means
to remedy the evil. The bread was sour and was truth
calculated to predispose the troops to bowel complaints,
which were followed up in almost all cases by cholera.
Many different opinions were entertained by officers and
medical men in the army relative to the bread. Many
of them did not dislike it, or consider it improper ;
but, in his opinion, such bread must conduce to bowel
complaints. The suhject was represented to Commissary-
General Filder, and the bread afterwards improved. The
meat was indifferent, as it was impossible to eet good
meat in Turkey. With regarl to the clothing he did riot
think it was what it ought to have been, and
be quite concurred in all that Lord Hardinge had: said
on that subject. He approved of the leathern stock at
present in use in the army—particularly in its adapta-
tion to hot climates, because it did net absorb the
perspiration, and when taken off at night the wearer
was less likely to catch cold. With regard to the sick
and wounded he recommended that every single man
who became unwell should be sent home to Eng-
land, and not left there. If this, and his
other recommendations, had been carried out, he was
convinced much saving of life would have resulted. He
was notfa.vourable to an hospital at Sitirna. He thought
the climate was preju icial to health. He was acquainted
with Smyrna, anti di.i wit approve of the place for an
hospital. He did not approve of the tents used in the
army. He th,,ught tents of the description used in
-Upper Scinde could have been far better adapted to the
purpose there, and lam- more healthy. At the time he
left the army he did nut consider it was at all in a satis-
factory state.

The committee aljourned shortly, before four o'clock
until Monday.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

(THIS EVENING.)

DOWNING-STREET, MAY 10.
no Queen has been pleased to appoint the Reverend
John Wills Weeks, Doctor in Divinity, to be ordained and
consecrated Bishop of Sierra Leone, in the room of the
Right Reverend Owen Emetic Vidal, deceased.
WHITEHALL, MAY 9.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. James
Cruden to the church and palish of Gamrie, in the presby-
tery of Turriff, and county of BAuff, vacant by the death
of the Rev. Thomas Wilson.
WHITEHALL, MAY 10.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Frederick Ri-
viere, Gent., to be Lieutenant in the Artillery Ganpany
of London, for the term of five years from the date hereof.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 10.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Francis
Dutton as Consul at Adelaide for the King of Prussia.

WAR-OFFICE, MAY n:

let Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Regimental Serjeant
Major David Wale, to be Cornet, without purchase, vice
Hayes, appointed to the sth Dragoon Guards.
2d Dragcou Guards —Lieutenant J. G. Price, to be Ad-
jutant, vice Bridgeman, who resigns the Adjutantcy only.
4th Dragoon Guards—Assistant-Surgeon William Mac-
natnara, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Armstrong, who resigns.
;th Dragoon Guards—Troop-Sergeant-Major attrice
Day to be Riding Master.
4th Light Dragoons—Henry Harold tie Bourbel, Gent.,
to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Sparks, whose ap-
pointment has been cancelled.
Bth Light Dragoons—Surgeon Augustus Purefoy Lock-
wood, from the 7th Foot, to be Surgeon, 'vice Anderson,
promoted.
13th Light Dragoons—Edward Henry Ernest Kauntze,
Gent., to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Montgomery,
killed in action.
17th Light Dragoons—Cornet W. D. Seymour to be
Lieutenant., by purchase, vice Sir G. 0. Wombwell, Bert.,
who retires.
Coldstream Guards—The proper designation of the gen-
tleman appointed to an Ensigucy and Lieutenaiitcy, with-
out purchase, on 4th May, 1855, is Richard Hasel Thuraby.
Ist Regiment of Foot— Richard Llewelyn Robei ts, Gent.,
to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Heywood, promoted.
4th Foot—Thomas Tanner, Gent., to b 3 Ensign, by pur-
chase, in succession to Lieutenant Trevor, promoted.
sth Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Francis G llins, M.D.,
from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Franklyn,
who exchanges.
7th Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class Thomas
Moorhead, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Lockwood, appointed
Co the Bth Dragoons.
9th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Stair An-
drew Agnew, Gent, May 10; George Minchin Chadwick,
Gent., vice Dane, appointed to the 29th Foot.
11th Foot—Abraham Martin, Gent., to be Ensign, with-
out purchase.

' 15th Foot—To be Ensigns without purchase—Henry
Powlett Shafto Orde ; Henry Jardine tiallowes, Gent.,
vice Nunn, promoted in the 55th Foot.
' 18th Foot—James McGillycuddy Magill, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Esmonde,
promoted. To be Ensigns, without purchase—Hugh Shaw,
Gent. ' • Ensign Dickson Ricard, Gent.
19th Foot—Ensign Francis Davis to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Hedley, appointed to the 60th
Foot • Henry Thompson, Gent to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Davis.
20th Foot—Lieut.-Colonel F. C. Evelegb, from half-pay
; unattached, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Crofton, who ex-
changes Brevet-Major H. Crawley to be Major, without
purchase, vice Brevet-Lieut.-Culonel F. C. Evelegh, pro-
moted, without purchase, to an unattached Lieutenant-
Colonelcy ; Lieut. G. S. Peard to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Crawley ; Ensign E. A.
E'atricksonP to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Peard.
21st Foot—Capt. T. F. Hobbs to be Major, without pur-
chase, vice Haines, promoted without purchase, to an un-
attached Lieutenant-Colonelcy ; Lieut. Win. Henry Carle-
ton to be Captain, without purchase, vice Hobbs; Ensign
Arthur Grey Hazlerigg to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vile Carleton ; Robert Crossman, Gent., to be En-
sign, without purchase.
23d Foot—Brevet-Major E. W. D. Bell to be Major,
without purchase, vice Campbell, deceased; Lieutenant
F. F. Vane to be Captain, without purchase, vice Bell ;
Ensign J. Williamson to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Vane; Ensign T. F. Lewis to be Lieutenant, without
' purchase, vice Williamson, whose promotion, without
beenpuwith cancelledwithout
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Lewis. whose promotion on the let May, 1855, has been
cancelled. To be Ensigns, without purchase—Gustavus
William Henry Fussell, Gent. ; Arthur Hill, Gent, vice
Dare, promoted.
26th Font—Lieutenant T. W. Hutchinson to be Cap-
Mel:lrmo to be Lieutenant, vice Hutchinson.
tain. by purchase, vice Longrnore, who retires; Ensign G.

30th Foot—Thomas Charge Wray, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purclias-J.
33,1 Foot—Herbert E award Goorge Crosse, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase.
34th Foot—Ensign W. M. Dunbar to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Jordan, killed in action ; Charles
de St. Croix, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Dunbar, promoted.
40th Foot—William Dowman, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase.
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notw—itChhoaurt p
lesuMicohnatsree.sor Rodney Reyne, Gent.,'
_ 42d Fool—Thomas Mansfead James, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, itt succession to Lieutenant Bennett, who
retires.