The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARC IT 8, 186 5.

was that Russia was at war with us. It was the opinion
of a celebrated commander that no little war should be 1
carried on. Now, in his opinion, the war in which we
were engaged was a very little war. He (the Earl 'of
Orkney) thought it could not be denied that Russia was
a magnificent military nation. • To meet that power, we
had an army totally incompetent to cope with it ; in-
deed it could hardly be said that we Ind an army in the
Crimea. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer had been
more liberal than he had been, and a greater amount
of money had been expended, there was no no doubt that
the struggle might have been brought to a conclusion
long since. The war was not being carried on as it ought
to be. Various places were spared. Odessa and Anapa
were among those places that ought to have been
destroyed. He thought that one of her Majesty's
Ministers ought to get up in his place and state
why those places had been spared. The noble
earl here detailed the amount of sickness that had pre-
vailed, and said that there was not an assurance office
in London that cared about effecting a policy on the
life of any one proceeding to the Crimea except at exor-
bitant rates. Reverting to the deaths of the officers and
men the difference occurred in this manner. The moment
sickness entered a regiment it caused disorganisation, the
menbecame careless, and it was impossible to prevail upon
them to take the slightest care of themselves. The
officers adopted common precautionary measures, and
this simple fact of itself accounted for the differ-
ence. Such was the care of the officers for
their men, that their horses, actually their own private
property, had been slain in bringing up provisions for
them ; and this he need scarcely say was, in the position
that the officers were placed, a great loss. Having vin-
dicated the conduct of the junior officers, and said that
the best feeling prevailed amongst them, the noble earl
then moved for the returns. (Throughout his speech the
noble earl addressed the house in a most indistinct
manner.)
Lord PANMURE said he had no objection to the
returns moved f)r by the noble earl. No return
had come home from Lord Raglan complaining of
the manner in which the subaltern officers had acted.
He could gather from the observations of the noble earl
that some slur had been thrown upon the officers, but at
the proper time he should be prepared to vindicate the
conduct of those gallant men. So far as the conduct of
the war was concerned, he believed it had been carried
on with as much vigour as it was possible. He would
endeavour to obtain the returns the noble earl had
moved for.
The Earl of GRANVILLE suggested that the re-
turns should be moved for in the ordinary manner.
The Earl of ORKNEY was understood to withdraw
his motion.
Their lordships then adjourned.

officers must be on the sick list fourteen days before
they may be removed from camp ; or if any such order
existed in the camp, and by whose authority ?
Mr. PEEL was quite ignorant of such an order.
SHERBURN
_IIOSPITAL.

the harbour or not. Between the time of hi s
landing at Balaklava and the commencement of sieg e
operations, &c., he had an opportunity of seeing how tb e
troops were occupied in camp. They did not Appv tr
to be doing anything beyond simple military del oy
at one period of the time, for about a fortmigt it,
and it struck him they might have been Ed-
vantageously employed in ma'sing a good road Vie-
tween Balaklava and the camp—but, of course, he
could rot say that they ought to have been so occupie d.
It often struck him as being very injudicious that latl,e
vessels, chartered at an enormous expense by the Go-
vernment, should be kept in harbour for weeks at a
time merely as stores, when the cargoes might have
been landed and placed in depots at Balaklava,
and the ships been allowed to continue their sailing 'lay.
He was given to understand in the camp that thvre4 was
a divisional order against the men going beyond a cer-
tain distance to fetch brushwood or fuel for their fires.
After sickness broke out there was great difficulty in
obtaining medicines. He understood that by some:
mistake the medicines had been accidcetally
left at Varna and had not been sent on to Scutari. If&
presumed the duty of superintending the landing of pro-
visions devolved upon Captain Christie and Commi isary-
General Fild er. _ _

Mr. MOWRRIY asked the Secretary of State for
the Home Dapartment whether it was the intention of
the Charity Commissioners to propose a new scheme for
Sherbarn Hospital, in the county of Durham ; and, if
so, whether any, and what, progress had been ma le to-
wards the approval of such scheme ; the mastership of
the hospital having been vacant more than a year, nearly
a year having elapsed since an inquiry by the commis-
sioners' inspectors, and vacancies having, in the mean-
time, occurred among the recipients of the charity,
which it had been impossible to fill up ?
Sir G. GREY said a new scheme had been prepared,
and would be shortly promulgated in due form.

The committee adjourned at a quart:r to four &Clock
until to-morrow.

TATTERS ALL'St,

(THIS EVENING.)

GREAT METROPOLITAN.
10 to 1 agst Pharsalus (taken)
10 to 1 agst Fandango (taken)

CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 agst Marc Antony (taken)
50 to 1 agst Weathercock (taken)
DERBY.
6to 1 apt St. Hubert (taken)
12 to 1 agst Grxculus Esuriens (taken)
25 to 1 agst Oulston (taken)
2000 to 3A agst Sir George (taken)

NOTTINGHAM RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

TRIAL STAKES.

Lady Vernon
Black Pepper
. Four ran.
NOTTINGHAM HANDICAP
Jack Leeming
Miss Allen
~Vtiitelock
Fire ran.
LITTLE JOHN STAKES.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.--(THIS EVENING.)
The SPEAKER took the chair shortly More four
o'clock.

NEW MEMBER.

Mr. BLACKBURN took the oaths and his seat for Stir.
lingshire.

LONDON AND SOUTFLWESTERN RAILWAY

BILL.

Coroner
Garnet
Slane fi!ly

Mr. CHAPLIN moved the second reading of this
and recalled to the recollec;tion:of the house that
the second reading was moved early in February, bet a
pledge having been given in a former session to make a
particular line, the house refused to sanction the second
reading until the opinion of the shareholders had been
taken upon the question of fulfilling that pledge. That
qeestien had been submitted to the shareholders, and
although the directors had been anxious to
carry out the proposed line, the majority of
the shareholders were yet against it, and they
had no alternative but to repudiate the pledge. That
pledge, which Pas given by a former board of directors,
had the effect of greatly reducing the value of the com-
pany's stock, while the system of extensions had so
much reduced the dividends that the shareholders
took the affairs of the company into their own
hands, and refused to sanction any new lines. They
regretted most sincerely that the pledge had ever been
given, and their inability to carry it out ; but, consi ler-
ing the number of lines which were about to be esta-
blished between Dorchester and Exeter, they felt that it
would he a ruinous step for the company to attempt to
make the line which Parliament bad pledged them to.'
Under these circumstances, and apelegisimg for the in-
ability of the directors to enforce the pledge, he hoped
the house would allow the bill to go to a second reading.
Mr. HILDYARD said a large district of country
had been deprived of railway accommodation by the
breaking of this pledge. The Great Western Company
would have made a line, but the South-Western
Company having pledged themselves to make a
better line. Parliament rejected the one proposed by
the rival company. It was preposterous to plead de-
pression in violation of the pledge, because at the last
half-yearly meeting the chairman congratulated the
shareholders upon their being able to divide five
per cent., but he declined to give them any advice as to
the pledge, and the shareholders agreed to leave the
matter in the hands of the directors. It was therefore
not the shareholders but the directors who were ;.es'pon-
Bible for the violation of the pledge ; and since it was
solemnly given, he hoped, the bill would be read a
,second time, and referred to the same committee
to whom the pledge was given, in order that a clause
might be inserted in the bill prohibiting the company
from dividing dividends until they had made the aban-
doned line.
Mr. LABOITCHERE observed that the com-
pany had undertaken to do a particular thing for a
valuable consideration and it would be a mockery
and a delusion, as well as a violation of all coin-
mereial honour, if the excuse of the chairman was al-
lowed to prevail. The company should have thought of
the test before they gave the pledge, and he hoped the
course suggested by the hon. and learned gentleman op-
posite would be adopted by the house. (Hear.)
Mr. BANKES said not only had the public interest
been slighted by this company, tut the interests of pri-
vate individuals in the locality of the proposed line bast
been seriously jeopardised.
Mr. HUTCHINS bad no wish to vindicate the con-
duct of the shareholders who had repudiated the pledge,
but he denied the responsibility rested with the directors,
b ecause they had fulfilled the wish of the house to sub-
mit this question to the shareholders, who had refused
to sanction the new line.

Ten ran.
GRAND STAND STAKES.

Eva
Helmet ...
Poor Maria

Mr. WILKINSON wished to point out the moral of
this case. Instead of simply accepting the pledges of
parties to make a line, who were supposed to have a
vested interest in the district where the line was to be
made, Parliament should first ascertain whether or no
the parties were sincere in making it and able to carry
it out.

After a few words from Mr. DEEDES, the bill was
read a seeond time, and ordered to be committed.
Mr. DEEDES then gate notice that tomorrow he
should move the suspension of the standing orders, with
the view of referring the bill to the former committee.