The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-10 00:00:00

-ay-s`rect a,;(1 it remained there until the even-
,ng of the murder, when she took it away, an,-,
-,aid she was about to get it a situation at a gree, .
4rocers. She used to pay 21. Gd a week for its keep anti
,ad paid 54. Tin) child bore prisoner's maiden name.
The medical evidence having been given,
Mr. Baliar.tine, iu a brief address, commented upon
the evidence, and urged that the ill usage prisoner had
received from her husband had so preyed upon her mind
as to render her not a responsible agent.

Mr. Ju-tice Crompton then summed up, and briefly
commented upon the evidence, and said it would be for
them to say whether they thought she was consci ins of
the act she bad committed.

The jury almost immediately found her guilty.
Mr. Justice Crompton then passed the usual sentence
of death, telling the prisoner not to entertain any hopes
that her life would be saved.
The prisoner was then taken out of the dock in an al-
most senseless state.

Lord Cardigan that, notwithstanding, as he (Lord
Lucan) had said the horses had deteriorated in condition
previous to their embarkation at Varna, that the Light
Division horses were in good condition ?
Lord Lucan said he differed from that opinion, and
rend an extract from an order he issued at the time,
pointing out the had condition of the horses of the light
cavalry, and calling on the officers and men to use their
best and strenuous exertions to procure forage for
them, and for the men not to continue longer mounted
than necessary, and that the pace should be as slow as
possible. He had issued 72 orders for the care of the
horses. The condition of the horses on landing at
the Crimea, from what they had suffered whilst at sea,
he could scarcely recognise them.
The Court adjourned at half-past 1 o'clock, and re-
turned shortly after two o'clock, when the examination
of the noble lord was proceeded with.
The Judge-Advocate-General then called upon Col.
Tulloch, and asked him if he had any communication to
make to the Boar.] ?
Col. Tulloch then addressed the court, in the course
of which he said that anything he said was not to affect
his colleague, who was unavoidably absent on that occa-
sion. He proceeded to defend the conduct of the Crimean
Commiesianere, who had been actuated in the dis-
charge of their public duties with a desire to
do justice to all parties ; -and however much many
gallant officers might feel annoyed at the statements
contained in that report as savouring of hostility towards
them on the part of the Commissioners, he begged to
assure those gallant officers that such was not the case,
but that their desire had been to present a temperate
and moderate report, and which he believed it
had been considered by her Majesty's Government
and the public at larise. He was most desirous
of giving any officer who might suppose him-
self aggrieved by any statement ho might have made
the fullest opportunity of clearing himself from such
allegations. From the tone Lord Lucan had adopted in
addressing the Court it might be supposed that the
Commissioners were actuated by personal motives is
noticing his conduct ; but for himself he might say that
be had no personal acquaintance with the noble lord,
and had never sees him before the commencement of
this inquiry. Whatever the noble lord might think of
it, he (Colonel Tulloch) was confident that her Majesty's
Government and the public considered that report,
as he 11%d already said, a very temperate and mode-
rate one. The gallant officer then entered into
the remarks which Lord Lucan had made against
the manner in which the Commissioners bad calcu'ated
the mortality amongst the horses in the Crimea, and in
reply to his lordship's statement that the cavalry was
not in the Crimea on the 6th of October, ho produced
documents from the War-office, showing that the head-
quarters of the various cavalry regiments engaged in the
East were at Balaklava at that date. With reference
to the mortality amongst. the horses, he found that the
average strength of the Heavyßrigade during the months
of N.w. and Dec., 1854, Jan., Feb., and March, 1855,
was 727 horses, and that there died during that period
501 (not including those that died in action), giving 77
per cent. In the Light Brigade during the same period
,he average atrergli was 457 horses, and during that
time their died, exclusive of those in action, 394 horses,
;lying a mortality of 92 per cent. Teat was a more
fearful mortality amongst horses than had ever occurred
before, or that might possibly ever occur again, and it
was not to be supposed but that every possible mode had
been had recourse to that could be adopted or ingenuity
to devise to save tl:e lives of the horses on which the lives
of so many men depended. He next referred to his
lordship's statement, that that portion of the Commis.
sioners' report with reference to the number of men en-
gaged in hutting the troops was incorrect, and said that
in December, 1854, the number of men in the Crimea
of the Heavy Brigade, including the sick who had not
been sent to Scutari, and officers' servants, was 1,030,
In the Light Brigade at that time the number was 730,
making together about 1,760. The Commissioners had
stated that not above one•fifth of the number of men
had been engaged in that work, and he found
that the largest number so engaged was 180 men of the
Light Brigade, and 60 of the Heavy Brigade, making
together 240 men, falling short of one-fifth of the nuns.
her of men by 100, and that, again, he thought, showed
the Commissioners had no desire to exaggerate the real
state of things in the Ciiinea at that time, or of bringing
charges against officers without foundation. The gal-
lant officer then proceeded to read the whole of that
part of the report which Lerd Lucan considered
animadverted on his conduct, remarking that it was
not an animadversion on his lordship's conduct. He
had only, in that report, stated facts. There might
hays been reasons why certain things which the report
stated had not been done were not done, and all the
report stated was that they had not been done, leaving it
to the War Department to ask fer an explanation. All
the Commissioners had to do was not to inquire into the
conduct of the officers in the Crimea, but into the state of
the stores. He contended at some length that there was
no animadversion in the report on Lord Lucan, whose
name was not mentioned, and said that there was but one
instance where an officer's conduct had been animadverted
on. That ()leer was not in this country, and be be-
lieved he had not yet discovered it ; but should he do
so, and ask for an explanation, he (Col. Tulloch) .hould
be ready to defend hie conduct. The gallant Colonel
next proceeded to show that the statements of the Corn.
missioners relative to the hutting of the cavalry were
correct, and that during the bad weather shelter could
have been given to the horses by adopting a mode simi-
lar to that suggested by Col. Griffiths, arid Teat a list of
the ;umber of spare sails on board the vessels of
war available to shelter the horses. Had ingenuity
been et t to work to devise shelter for the
horse', independent of these vessels there were a num-
ber of sai!ing vessels and transports in the harbour of
Balaklava in the month of November, whose sails might
have been made use of for shelter, and many of these
vessels were in the harbour as st ire depots, and would
have no use for their sails. The Heavy Brigade in
Novernbr r numbered 946 men, excltisive of officers, and
the Light Brigade 560, making about 1,500 men.
These men, if they had been set to work (calcu-
laVng nine cubic feet for every three horses),
might have du' a trench round the horses and erected
mud walls higher than..the hors' knee., that would
have afforded them much shelter. After some further
remarks the gallant (Beer asked to be allowed to call
evidence.

Tne President—Do you wish to put any questions to
Lora Lucan ?
Colonel Tulloch—Yes, a great number by and bye ;
but I should wish fist to examine a few officers. -EN
then called