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London, England, 1856-04-17 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON AIM SOUTH-1 ASPEIIN RiTLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending April 11, 1.56 £15,200 ii 2
Corresponding week last year 18,140 1 9

Decrease in 1856
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending April 12,
1856 £12,289 9 4
Corresponding week last year 13,912 2 9
Total of the half-year to this date, 1856 160,338 11 3
Total of the half-year to this date,lBss 146,060 12 3
GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
week ending A ril 6, 1856 £21,942 13 2
Corresponding week last year 18,498 17 8
LANOASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILINA Y. —Traffic re-
turn for the week ending April 13, 1856 £21,194 18 6
Corresponding week last year 18,991 11 4

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending April 12, 1856 £4,996 8 11
Ootrespondiug week last year 4.555 1 4

Increase in 1856 .
.4, GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traftte re.
tam filf-tke week ending April 12, 1856 £5,970 0 9
Jorresponding week last year 5,363 8 7

Increase in 1856 £6o6 12 2
CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for week
onding April 12, 1856 £2so 13 10
Corresponding week last year 244 18 0

FREEDOM OF INVERNESS TO GENERAL PATRICK GRANT,
C.B.—The new Commander-in-Chief of the Madras
army, General Patrick Grant, being about to leave this
country to enter upon his important trust, the magis-
trates and town council of Inverness resolved to mark
their sense of his high services and character, by con-
ferring upon him the freedom of the town. The General
has resided in that district for above six months ; he is
a native of Strathspey, and was connected by marriage
with the family of the late Sheriff Tytler ; and all these
local claims, added to his brilliant services in India, and
the marked distinction just conferred upon him by her
Majesty's Government, were well fitted to call forth this
public acknowledgment. The ceremony took place on
Thursday.— Ldinburgh Courant.
A DEAF JURYMAN.—At the Sandwich County Court,
on Thursday, a journeyman carpenter, named Marley,
brought an action against Rear-Admiral D'Arth, of
Knowlton-park, for assault. According to complainant's
statement, it appeared that on Sunday, the 9th March,
the admiral and his household had been to Chillenden
Church, as had also the plaintiff ; and all were return.
ing. The servants of the defendant were in advance,
and the plaintiff joined them, and Was in orderly and
friendly conversation with a young female, when the de-
fendant suddenly rushed upon him, seizes him by the
collar, flourished his walking stick in a menacing man-
ner in his face, and almost threatened to annihilate him
for daring to speak to his servants. The jury, having
retired, returned with a verdict for the plaintiff. Upon
che judge asking the foreman what damages they found,
the latter did not appear to understand, and the judge
on putting further questions found that the foreman was
deaf and had not heard a word of the evidence. Ulti-
mately it was arranged that the case should be tried by
another jury at the next court. —South-Eastern Gazette.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE STATE EDUCA-
TIONISTS.—We offer our warm congratulations to the
friends of freedom of education on the signal overthrow
and utter rout sustained by Lord John Russell and the
State Educationists in the Howe of Commons on Friday
last. la the most crowded 'house of the session, mill
extraordinary excitement and interest, a division was
come to beyond all that we could have hoped. Finding
the practical and executive part of his plan demolished
by Sir Jamee Graham on the previous evening, and
evidently condemned by the feeling of the house, Lord
John on Friday withdrew all that part of the plan-e--
namely, the last seven resolutions out of the twelve,
though after a feebly-laboured (Pence of them. Hap
pity, he persisted in pressing his first resolution,, having
received the promise of the support of the Government
to bat alone ; and ho intended, if he had carried that,
to propose other four resohitions, though modified ac-
cording to the amendments of Sir John Pakington and
Mr. W. J. Fox. The house, therefore, went to a divi-
sion on the first resolution, which was -- "That
it is expedient to extend, revise, ' and consolidate the
minutes of the Committee of Privy Council on Educa-
tion." Upon this motion Mr. Henley's amendment,
" That the chairman do now leave the chair," moved with
a view of defeating all the resolutions at once, was put,
and on this, their strongest vantage-ground, the united
forces of the Government, Lord J. Russell, Sir J. Paking-
ton, Mr. W. J. Fox, and all the sections of State Educa-
tionists, were defeated by a great majority. To add
to the emphasis of the decision Mr. Henley himself
had twice offered to withdraw his amendment, partly
because he thought the first resolution unimportant,
and partly out of courtesy to Lord J. Russell. But such
was the determination of the house to inflict a decisive
and memorable defeat on the education schemers that
they refused to allow the amendment to be withdrawn.
Thus Lord J. Russell has brought the educational cam-
paign, for which he had made such great preparations,
and which he opened with such solemnity and such high
promise, to as unfortunate a termination as any upon
record. After a single day's debate (to use Mr. Glad-
atone's figure) he abandoned more than half his army, in
the hope of saving the rest ; he withdrew the shattered
remnants under the protection of the Government guns;
he took post on a vague resolution, which enabled him
to rally (with the aid of the whippers-in) State Educa-
tionists of every colour and a considerable part of the
Whig rank and file; and, in spite of all, his camp was
stormed, his colours and guns taken, and his army driven
into the sea. We am disposed to take up the song of
Miriam. Compulsory education has thus received its
death-blow, just as it emerged from the womb of specu-
lation into existence es a Parliamenthaarys
been strangled
object. This
miserable bantling of Lord J. Russell
in the cradle. The English spirit and English sense of
the House of Commons, rallying after a wretched dream,
el which the doctrcnaires sat upon it like a nightmare,
have burst the bonds which the Philistines were weav-
ing about it, "as Samson his green withes." Secular
education and local rates may also be said to have been
demolished by this crushing division. Indeed secular
education was seen to be the necessary consequent of Inca
and compulsory rates • and on that account, aq muei,
es on any other, the House of Commons regarded Lore
J. Russell's plan with indignant disapprobation.—Leeds
Mercury.

THE MILITARY BOARD OF INQUIRY.

[A. part of the following appeared in our impression
of yesterday
The Beard cif General officers replese.embled this morn-
ing at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, at the usual hour.
The proOeedinge each day attracts 'a large number of
the public, and aeloiivt them are a .grea,t• number of
ladies, especially within the bar. These latter, Probably
from past experience, and. not wishing tb inias 'the pro-
eeelings, from being personally acquainted with many
6f the officers cennected with the inquiry, finding, the
form of proceeding adoptcel by the C4urt tn be exceed-
ingly tedious, bays provided thetneelvee with an amuse-
ment, in the shaPe cif " Knitting, netting, and crochet,"
arid other lady-like acewnplishmente of- the present day.
Lady Chelsea, and many other ladies, displayed great
industry in these 'branelice of profitable aususement
during the grsater portion of the day.
Leril Lucian inquired if the monthly return of the
baNage enimale, in the Crimea, had been obtained from
the War-office ? ' ' •
The Judge Advocate-General said that an application
ha I been wade for them,. but the answer wasthat there
were no such returns. • ,

Lord Lucan -said it, was to be:reeTetted, And he sup-
pose-1 he must cln his,begt without them. ..
Sr A. Woodford said that he believed there were such
retuens, but that they were in the Crimea...
The evidence of Sir R. Airey was then,practeeded with.
Ile was examined by Col. Tulloch.
Sir R. Airey said that it was the custom for alt orders
to be obeyed, and he preens:netl they were actOd upon
with reference to die disiiipSal of the skins of dead animals.
The skins' of the various animals that died and were
slaughtered were no doubt used. -in-covering the living
•animals, is aCeordeeice vt;filibiasrs, until other materials
were obtained. These skins were used all ever the
camp, but whether they 'amounted to 3.000, the number
of horee;e that dietcand were slaughtered, he could not
say. 2e. Gd. per Skin was paid for every horse's skin
properly cured. With reference to his former evidence
relative to the Commissioners not having obtained suffi-
cient hif ninuition before making their report, fie observed
that. he had no wish to censure that report. He was
examined as to matters unconnected with his depart.
meet. He answered the questions relating to his de-
partment as fully as possible, and referred the Commis-
sioners to the proper departments for answers to the
others. If the Conimissitiners had returned to the
Crimea from Constantinople, wherethey had gone in con-
se,luenco of the cholera, they could have obtained the in-
formation required from the other d epartments on the spot.
lie bad no idea at the time the Commissioners were
in the Crimea that their duties referred to anything
more than that inslinated by the blue book, viz., an in-
quiry into the commissariat supplies. The answers
which he gave to their questions relative to his depart-
ment he considered sufficient and Complete. The first
huts from Enelaed arrived on the lfith December, and
others on the 25th, and four snore vessels arrived with
huts before the end of that month. He was charged
with their distribution, although there could be no doubt
that in strictness it belonged to the commissariat de-
partment. This Was the first time regularly-built houses
had ever been supplied to an army. It was nothing
more than hutting materials sent out in a new form. At
the proper time he should enter fully into the duties of
the quartermaster-general's department. The Commis-
sioner's did not act wrong in examining his department
relative to the dates of the butting ; but he thought it
•
would have been better had the Commissioners gone a
little further and examined Captain Keen, an engineer
officer, who was sent, out specially in charge of the
huts. He thought without reference to his papers that
Lord Lucan's statement before the board that the
cavalry up to 25th of January were not to be supplied
with huts at that time, because they were required for
the army in front, was substantially correct. The great
pressure for them, and the hardships suffered, were
principally then in' front, where the men were fighting
day and night; and Lord Raglan's desire was that every-
thing should first be done for the sick, and then the in-
fantry division in the front. He was far from thinking
any blame' was attributable to Lord Lucan, or the
cavalry, for not providing shelter for the cavalry. If
there was a doubt in the Commissioners' minds on whom
to throw doubt, they might as well have cast it on one
department as another. When the Commissioners com-
menced their inquiries he had no idea they would have
taken a retrospective view in order tonensure any of the'
officers n command, but that it was with a view to' take
measures for the future, and prevent a repetition of whit
had occurred. He could not recollect a conversation
between himself and 'the Commissioners as to the pro-
priety of examining Lord Raglan personally.
By General Peel—The Commissioners never intimated
to him that any want of promptitude or ingenuity had
been displayed in providing shelter for the cavalry.
Had they done so he could have given more specific
answers to the questions put to him, and such as would,
he belieseed, have removed from, their minds Angsuch
•
By the Judge-Advocate•Geineml—The cavalry could
not be removed to Kadikoi before Dec. in consequence
of military considerations between the allies. The French
horses were not sheltered until after those of the Eng-
lish, and not until just before he lett the Crimea. He
knew one French officer who lost 70 horses out of 120.

By Lord Lucan—His answers to the Commissioners'
questions left the Crimea after General Simpson had the
command of the army, and subsequent to the Commis-
sioners leaving the Crimea.
Sir Richard Airey then withdrew.
Col. Gordon was then called and examined by Col.
Tulloch. He recollected being examined by the Com-
missioners in the Crimea, He gave them no information
of what was done on the order issued at Lord Lucau's
request that an engineer officer should be placed at his
disposal to provide shelter, because they did not ask for
it. He gave no explanation why the ground had not
been broken in the middle of Decembr, the order al-
luded to having been issued on the Bth and 12th of
November, because it was not asked for. He was asked
no question about hutting, and consequently he gave
them no information respecting it, thinking they did not
require it.
Colonel Gordon then retired.
Col. Tulloch called attention to a letter that had ap-
peared in the Times, signed by Cel. Yorke, denying that
the sth Dragoons were in the Crimea at the time the
Commissioners had stated.
Col. Yorke, of Ist Dragoons, who used crutches, was
then called, and was .examined by Col. Tulloch--He
skid that the docement banded in was a monthly return,
dated Ist Oct., 1854, and signed by him, but it was not
signed on that date. A portion of the regicsent was at
Baiaklava on the Ist, but that portion which he com-
manded did not arrive until the sth. That discrepancy
arose from the return, although dated the Ist, not being
made up until the end of the month. It was a return
for the month of October.
General Peel—By what authority do you produce the
return ?
Colonel Yorke—By the full authority of the War-
office.
General Peel—Will you put in that authority ?
Colonel Yorke—l have already done so.
The witness was then further examined with reference
to other returns, and in addition said he had written a
letter to the Times in consequence of finding it bad
been stated that his regiment Was in the Crimea when it
was not. He hid not stated in that letter anything in-
consistent with the return which was kept open till his
landing for his signature. [The witness then read the
letter in question, which gave an account of his proceed-
ing with his regiment, and the loss of 124 horses in their
transit across the Black. Sea.]
Colonel Tulloch—Then the War-office is not to sup-
pose that your return is correct, when it states that on
the Ist of October your head-quarters was at Bslaklava?
Gil, Yorke—lt was kept open fer tne under very pe-
culiar circumstances because there was no other person
to sign it. I was at sea at the time with the head-
(pale ors ref the regiment.
The President expressed the regret of the Board that
Col. Yorke should have addressed a letter to the Times
relative to these proceedings.
Col. Yorke—l did it in consequence of what had ap-
peared in a leading article in that journal.
Col. Yorke then retired.
Lord Luella was then called and examined by Colonel
Tulloch—He complained of the animadversion of the
Commissioners in their report with respect to the de-
ficiency of forage, although he was not named. His
object, in complaining of it was to show it was incorrect,
and he was prepared to substantiate that assertion.
Page 20 of the Report, relative to the loss of the horses,
was not an animadversion on his conduct because it
made the per tentage of the loss much less
than it really was. He charged " malignity"
on the part of the Commissioners, not in
reference to the particular part of their report,
in
with
regard to the total incorrectness of the figures in every-
thing the Commissioners had stated.
,eTsthi p
otr f the
report, page 37, relative to the sug, on Colonel
Griffiths for providing shelter for the horses was a very
severe animadversion indeed, and it showed that he and
'other officers were deterred from doing their duty from
violence on his (Lord Lucan s) part.
By the Judge-Advocate-General—He believed Lord
Paulett and Col. Hodge were present at the time
Col. Griffiths referred to, when he stated the conversa-
tion passed between them, and the threatened arrest was
supposed to have been made.
By Col. Tulloch—The placing an officer under arrest
might be a necessary act. He did not complain of the
recital of Col. Gtifliths' statement in the report, but it
wasls,he unfair inferenceswhicie the commission had drawn
from it. He was prepared to give Col. Griffiths' state-
ment relative to the threat of arrest in the most positive
manner—threatening to place an officer under ar-
rest for what Colonel Griffiths complained of
was likely to deter others from snaking similar
suggestions, but he denied that he had made such a
threat. He (Lord Lucan) complained of the Commis-
sioners receiving, as a fact, the statement of an officer,
when they had au opportunity of examining other wit-
nesses as to its truth. He conceived the charge of want
of promptitude and ingenuity," displayed in providing
shelter, applied to him and not to Lord Raglan. It
might have applied to Lord Raglan, and if it was meant
to apply to him, he (Lord Lucan) had to complain of the
Commissioners not putting the matter in a clearer form
in their report.. He was not prepared to say there was
any want of promptitude or ingenuity in devising shelter

displayed by the Quarterrnaster•General. He did. not
admit there was any want of promptitude or ingennity
displayed by any one.
Col. Tulloch said that his object in eramining Lord
Lucan on this point was to show that the CommissinOssis
had no intention of implying, by the paragraph n (ines-
tion, any want of promptitude, &c., any
particular officer, and that Lard Luca had.
no right to complain of it, and called on b -to
say how he assumed it applied to him, when it migbfc
equally apply to all officers in command and heads O
departments.
Lord Lucan said be could only infer that it did from
his having the command of the heavy brigade, and that
it was his duty-to do the best he could for his men and
horses.

The Board then adjourned fora short period. On
their re-nsieitibling the evideuce of Lord Lucan W 3 pro-
ceeded with.

He said it would be no aniroadYersion on him if it was
meant to apply to Lord Raglan and officers I.:uperior to
witness, but it .certainly was if it applied- to the officers
nnder Lord Raglan, non-conireisioned ofEcers, or mew
It waiimpossible co read that part of Vie report now
alluded to without believing that it was a s9notts ani-
madversion on the cavalry, an l as such it had beet' con-
sidered universally by the public. _ _ _

In reply to a question from Col. Tulloc4 whether that
portion of the report which stated but one•fitth of the
number ,of oxen only were employed in taking
down the sick and bringing up provisions was an ani•
readversion, his lordship said he supposed it meant. that
but one-fifth of the men were so employed, awl that
four-fifths were disposable for forwarding shelter, whems
the real fact was that but a few men were available fur
the work, and in many regiments there 'wera no men
available for it.

Colonel TuHoch proposed to refer to osrtain returns
made by Colonel Bodge and Colonel ITayow c.f the
availablo Tnec.

Lord Lamm said that he was prepared to show that
the returns were incorrect.

Lord Lucan—lt was hardly to be expected that he
could now produce ,aecurbte returns of the available
men and horses for this work.
Col.,Talloch waA.,prec.eeding to, examiaa Lord L-xerrn
relative to the disposition evinced by the Commissioners
in their report not to state au3thing dero-
gatory to the CaYalry which they believed
the evidence did not warrant, on -which Lord
Lucan said, that if the object of this examination
was to explain away his charge of " maligixity" against
the Commissioners, he expressed his regret at having
said anything of the kind. He was led to• say so from
the extraordinary ambiguity they had indulged in, in
drawing up the report, and the errors in.. the returns.
He did not mean. to say that the Commictioners were
answerable . for any false returns that might
have been furnished to them, but he thouoat they had
applied to the wrong officer for them, anid that they
had neglected sources from which they might have had
it. His correspondence would show that threw returns
were incorroot.

Calonel Tulloch then asked for returns to be pro•
duced showing the actual number of availabkie men and
horses for this work during the period named in the
Commissioners' report.
General Peel—To whom are we to apply for these
returns

Col. Tulloch—l presume they can be had from the
Crimea.

Lord Lucan—l doubt if then that the returns will be
foUnd to be accurate. His lordship then proceeded to
point out what he considered the incorrect statements
of the report relative to the non-erection of huts before
the middle of Jan., the distance of the stores from the
camp, &c. Ile said that long before that period
many huts had beim erected and used as hos-
pitals, notwithstanding many of his officers
stated the contrary with regard to the hospital
huts, in the evidence before the Commissioners, and he
read an order of his, dated 27th January, where-in it was
stated that the hospital huts were completed by that
time. He withdrew much of his objection to that part
of the report since it had been stated that the want of
shelter at this period related more to the butting of the
men than the , horses. By the marginal note in the
report it, had reference to the horses.
Col. Tulloch—The marginal note was not authorised
by the Commissioners. It was a mistake on the part of
the printer.
Lord Lucan, in continuation of his evidenco, said that
he considered the inquiry of the Commissioners was to
have been confined to the Commissariat supplies, and
that they very mneh exceeded their duty in going beyond
,it. He thought the Commissioners had nothing to de
with what had passed between himself and Cot. Griffiths.
The Judge-Advocate-General--Colonel Tulloch, will
you point, out in your instructions the passage that pre-
eluded you from inquiring into the conduct of any
officer ? •

Col. Tulloch—l consider there is nothing in them
that would justify our inquiry into the conduct of any
officer..
• %Gen.. Peel—You considered that the Government
would not have acted on your report without further
inquiry. ?
Col. Tillloch—Yes.
Gen. Peel—Do you consider that inquiry should have
been made before your report was published
Col. Tulloch—l can't answer that.
Col. Talloch to Lord Lucan—Do you not know that
her Majesty's Government have expressed their approval
of thia report, and do you still consider that the Com•
miasioners exceeded their duty
7.nnftea---T esul know nothing of any approbation
at disapprobation of it by the Government. If they have
expressed their approbation of it, I think they have done
it inconsiderately and hastily.
Colonel Talloch—Whose duty do you thin'lc it is to
provide shelter for cavalry horses in the field ?
Lord Lucan—The Commander-in-Chief of the army, if
he can do so.

G oneral Peel (to Col. Tulloch)---In what shape, by
whom, and on what occasion was the approbation of the
Government expressed with reference to the report ?
Colonel Tulloch—By Lori Panmure to Sir John
111`Neil and myself. It was subsequently printed,
which, I believe, also shows it was approved of, and
then laid on the table of the House of Comoro ns.

Lord Lucan then proceeded with his evidence, awl, in
answer to other questions from Col. Tulloch, ;said that
he considered it was equally the duty of the Quarter-
master-General as well as the Commander-in-Chief to
provide shelter for the horses, whether in villages or in
the field—if he could get it. It was impossible to say
that the want of promptitude and ingenuity a9plied to
the Quartermaster General. He might have done
duty, and yet sufficient shelter could not have teen pro-
cured. He attributed the loss of horses mainly to the
commissariat transport duties rather than to the want of
shelter, and under such circumstances no promptitude on
earth could have saved them.
Tulloch then informed Lord Lucan he had no
further questions to put to him, and his Lordship re-
tired.

The Court then adjourned till to-morrow, when Col.
Pottinger will be examined by Cul. Tulloch.
The Earl of Cardigan was present for the first time
to-day, during a portion of the day's proceedings, and
whilst Lord Lucan was under examination by Colonel
Tull och.

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