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(Front the Examiner.)
The public took very little interest in the frivolous
inquiry at Chelsea, and they take as little in the report
containing its valueless results. That report, with the
evidence, is now before us ; but we have little to add to
what we observed last week upon the subject. Had the
statements of the commissioners in the Crimea been ever
so untrustworthy, it is obvious they were not to be
shaken by the investigations of any possible commission
sitting in London. It was not a case of two courts of
equal competence and authority investigating the same
matters, using the same means to arrive at truth, and
entitled to equal respect and credit ; btit, independently
of this consideration, the public were satisfied on the
whole, not without reason, with the information col-
lected by Sir John M‘Neill and Colonel Tellocb, corrobo-
rated as it was by the entire stream of correspondence
from the scene of mismanagement and havoc.
At all events, the public convictions were not to be
disturbed by the counter-statements of the very parties
implicated, a description of defence which, except in the
hall of Chelsea Hospital, was never admitted by any
court assuming the name of justice.
The report before us, therefore, carries as little weight
as any document of the kind ever possessed, even were we
to forget how favourably to the accused the tribunal was
constituted, and the purpose it was notoriously intended
to serve. The Chelsea inquiry would never have been
heard of, hut that GoVernment, having rained rewards
and employments upon some incapable men, were
anxious to invalidate as far as pos•ible the evidence that
condemned the givers no less than the receivers of 1111•
deserved public honour-.
Before, however, we take the final leave of a subject
as discreditable to our rulers at home as to the atithers of
our disasters abroad, let us offer a few comments upon
what is called the acquittal by the second batch of com-
missioners of the personages who appeared at their bar.
Save in the case of Commissary General Filder, we do
not find that the position of these officers have been at
all improved by the report. The Chelsea Commissioners,
indeed, declare themselves satisfied that Lord Lucan and
Sir R. Airey used every exertion to meet the difficulties
they had respectively to contend with, and are not justly
chargeable with mismanagement and neglect ; but what
their particular exertions were are unluckily not set
forth ; what they managed well we are still ignorant of;
what they did not do, what they did not manage, still
remains all the public is acquainted with. If Lord
Lucan, for instance, did his best to save the horses of
his brigade, if he did anything to save them, why are we
not told what it was that he did ?
The Land Transport service did something by the ex-
periment of pitting, the Sippers and Miners did some-
thing also, by making the best use of such slender
resources as they bad ; but as to what Lieut.-Gen. Lord
Lucan did we are still as much in the dark as ever, ex-
cept that he snapped at a subordinate officer who made
a suggestion, probably the hest that his emergency ad-
mitted of. The commissioners tell us that "Col. Griffiths
does not appear to have ever contemplated erecting any
shelter, but merely digging a drain in front and rear."
Perhaps so ; but this was contemplating something, this
was at least thinking, this was showing himself a superior
animal to the helpless horses, as well as to the equally
helpless Lieut.-General. Lord Lucan can cavil at
the exertions of others glibly enough ; he gave the com-
missioners his valuable opinion upon pits, which he said
"might more appropriately be called graves." Even if
graves they were, they were surely as becoming graves
for our horses as the maws of the Crimean vultures, to
which his lordship, in his taste for graves, gave the
practical preference.
The commissioners speak slightingly of the few men
who, like Col. Griffiths, exercised their intellects in the
terrible emergencies of the period ; their sympathies are
manifestly not with British officers who think ; Lord
Lucan and his fellows had the considerable advantage of
being tried not only by their professional, but their intel-
lectual peers.
For Sir R. Airey, the Quartermaster-General, what
did he do? What case did he establish to justify the hon-
ours heaped upon him ? We cannot find that, beyond
making formal requisitions, at which he seems to have
been expert enough, he did anything whatever that night
reasonably have been expected from an officer in his high
command, and who, as the Times has well remarked,
was up to the day of sailing military secretary to the
Commander-in-Chief—a post that gave him the amplest
opportunity of knowing all the probable wants and defi-
ciences of the army, Sir Richard Airey was in a posi-
tion to have known beforehand the probable deliciencies
of the service in the several articles of bedding, clothing,
tenting, and butting. It he was ignorant of the state of
things, he was unfit for the post tie held at home ; if he
was aware of it, he must have known the futility of his
orders and requisitions. But when were some of his
requisitions despatched ? " With reference to tents."
say the commissioners, "it appears that Sir Richard sent
home a large requisition in consequence of the destruc-
tion of tents and marquees in the storm of the 14th of
Nov. This order was not complied with until the May
following." Storms were never dreamed of, it seems, in
the Crimea—the stormiest climate in the globe, as every
schoolboy knows. After the tempest lags the requisi-
tion for the tents. The steed is stolen—lock the stable
door ! This was the providence of the Quartermaster-
General. The tents of course did not arrive for months.
Disease and death are the results. Yet what is the con-
clusion drawn by the commissioners ? "Therefore,"
says the Report, "the Quartermaster-General's depart-
ment is completely exonerated from all blame on this
head."

How forcibly are we not reminded at every step of
this miserable narrative of Mr. Grote's remarks upon
the fatal expedition to Sicily under Nicias :—‘• Some-
times petty trifling, sometimes apathy and inaction,
sometimes presumptuous neglect, sometimes obstinate
blindness even to urgent and obvious necessities, will be
found operative at every step, whereby this fatal arma-
ment sinks down from exuberant efficiency into the last
depths of aggregate ruin and individual misery."
Neither in Lord Cardigan's case nor in Col. Gordon's
do the commissioners pronounce the same general for-
mula of acquittal as in Lord Lucan's and Sir Richard
Airey's. Lord Cardigan's complaint was--
"That the commissioners had charged him with hav-
ing contributed to the ultimate inefficiency of the Vett
Brigade by his refusal to adopt a suggestion which,' in
the opinion of the commissioners, was calculated to im-
prove the condition of the brigade—viz., the send'ag the
troop horses down to Balaklava for forage."
Two suggestions to this effect had been made to Lord
Cardigan, the state of the roads rendering it impossible
for the Commissariat to transport the forage in question.
The matter is thus stated in the Crimean Repert, with
his Lordship's refusal to comply with either suggestion,
and the natural results :
"This proposition appears to have been brought speci-
ally under the notice of Lord Cardigan by Lieut.-Col.
Mayou, Assistant Quartermaster-General of Cavalry,
who states that his lordship declined to accede to it, as
he had previously done when a similar proposition Nas •
made to him to send the horses down for hay before that
supply failed.

"Tile whole brigade remained in this state till the 2d
of December, when it was directed to return to its pre-
vious position, but by that time'the horses were reduced
to such a state from starvation that they could no
longer bear the weight of their riders ; they had to be
led down, many were left on the ground in a dying state,
and of the remainder 17 died on the load before they
could reach their former station—a distance of only about
six miles."
Lord Cardigan's frivolous defence is as follows :—First,
he thought it uncertain whether the supplies were to be
obtained. But the Commissariat officers had certifiel the
fact. What becomes, then, of Llrd Cardigan's uncer-
tainty ? 2dly, he thought that the journey to fete!' the
hay and barley would have caused a greater loss of
horses than actually occurred frsru insufficiency of sup-
plies. This is what Lord Cardigan calla thinking. It mar-
vellously resembles not thinking. The proposition was
made before the horses were exhausted to such a degree
as to make a journey of seven miles so formidable; and,
the seven miles performed, the horses would have been
fed, and further exhaustion prevented. 3dly, there were
military reasons for not reducing the number of horses at
the position of Inkerman, and Lord Raglan's orders on
the subject were positive. This is the most absurd alle-
gation of all. Military reasons for retaining at Inkerman,
or anywhere else, horses in a state of famine. For mili-
tary purposes, of what use could they have been ? And
if useful for military purposes, they could not have been
too weak to go to Balaklava. This is a depth even
below Lord Raglan. But mark how one little fact
demolish9s this poor defence from the foundation ? If the
reasons were military, and Lord Raglan's orders posi-
tive, the subject should have been brought under Lord
Raglan's notice. Was this done ? The commissioners
report " there is no evidence to show that Lord Raglan's
attention was particularly called to the proposal of the
Assistant-Commissary-General that the horses should be
sent to Balaklava. What steps, therefore, might have
been taken had that proposal been brought under his
lordship's notice can now be only matter of conjecture."
The commissioners did well' after this to abstain from
a positive opinion in favour of the Earl of Cardigan's ca-
pabilities. We have said that the case of Mr. Filder is
the only one which is improved in consequence of the
inquiry at Chelsea. The Commissary-General seems to
have shown (subject, of course, to future discussion)
that the Treasury was the department really to blame
for the miscarriages which have hitherto been laid at
his door. It would appear, among other points, that
the incomparable arrangement of sending out the green
coffee was due to the sagacity of the officials of White-
hall ; and—what is of still more importance to Mr.
Filder
e seems to have succeeded in shift-
ing upon cast
he—same domestic authorities the respon-
sibility for the deficiency of forage, to which, as he ex-
plained, "step by step all other deficiencies were mainly
attributable."
The Treasury will, of course, claim to be heard upon
this subject, so that at present it would be unjust to
pursue it further. We have, indeed, already exhausted
our space, and have only room to quote the just and
eloquent observations with which the Times has dis-
missed the subject of our Crimean misfortunes from the
province of journalism to that of history :
" We need not speak of Lords Lucan and Cardigan,
and of General Airefg appropriate adjutant, Colonel
Gordon, It is wonderful to flail to what men the dosti,`

CHELTENHAM, SATURDAY NIGHT.
The attendance at the different sectional meetings at
the college was not se good this morning, and it will be
seen from the following list of papers read in each sec-
tion that only four out of the seven met to-day.
SECTION A.—Mathematical and Physical Science.--
R. Mallet--Provisional Report on Observations with
the-Seisometers Dr. Whewell—On the Reasons for de-
scribing the Moon's Motion as a Motion about her Axis.
J. Symons—On Phenomena recently discovered in the
Moon. Twinning—Models to illustrate a new met
thod of teaching Perspective. Professor Hennessy—On
the Physical Structure of the Earth. —Maxwell—Oo an
Instrument to illustrate oiosot's Theory of Rotation
J. T Graves—On the Ceeijeuence nx =n x (mod.P),
p being a prime number.
SECTION B.—Chemical Science.—This section did not
meet to-day, on account of the excursion to Cirencester.
SECTION C.—Geology.—Rev. P. B. Brodie, M.A.,
F.G.S.—On some new species of Lias Corals. Rev. P.
B. Brodie, M.A., F.G.S.—On a new species of Polli-
cipes in the inferior Oolite. Professor Hennessy—On
the Relative Distribution of Land and Water as affect-
ing Climate at different Geological Epochs. J. W.
Salter, F.G.S.—On the Great Pterygotus, "Seraphim,"
of Scotland. R. Etheridge, F.R.S.E.—On the position
of the (Lias or Tries) Bone Bed, geologically and pale-
ontologically considered. M. Moggridge.—On the
Time required for the Formation of " Rolled Stones."
H. C. Sorby—Description of a Working Model to illus-
trate the Formation of Drift Bedding (a kind of false
structification). E. Vivian, M.A.—Researches in Kent's
Cavern, Torquay, with the original MS. Memoir of its
first opening, by the late Rev. Jobe M'Every (long sup-
posed to have been lost), and the Report of the Sub-
Committee of the Torquay Natural History Society.
Capt. Woodall.—On the Evidence of a Reef of Lower
Lias Rock, extending from Robin Hood's Bay to the
neighbourhood of Flamborough Head. Lieut. Ayton,
Bombay Artillery—On Gold in India.
SECTION D.—Zoology and Botany, including Physi•
otogy.—This section did not meet to-day, on account of
the excursion to Cirencester.
SECTION E.—Geography and Ethnology.—This sec-
tion did not meet to-day, on account of the excursion to
Cirencester.
SECTION F.—Economic Science and St itistics.--W.
M. Tartt, M.S.A.—On some Statistics bearing upon
the Relations existing between Poverty and Crime,
Richard Bearnish, F.R.S.—On the Statistics of Chel-
tenham. Edward Clibbon—On the Tendency of Euro-
plan Races to become Extinct in the United States. R.
Thomson Jopling—On the Mortality among Officers of
the British Army in the East. The Rev. C. H. Bromby,
511. A.—Suggestions on the People's Education. Pro-
fessor Richard Hussey Walsh—A Deduction from the
Statistics of Crime for the last Ten Years.
SECTION G.—Mechanical Science.—Dr. Green —On a
New Railway Freak, invented by 111. Sioco, of Paris.
James Thompson, C.E.—Report on the Measurement of
Water, by Weir Boards. G. Ronnie, F.R.S.—On the
Development of Heat by the Agitation of Fluids.
EXCURSION TO CIRENCESTER.
Notwithstanding the gloomy aspect of the weather
nearly 200 ladies and gentlemen started at 9 o'clock by
a special train on the Great Western line for Clieh:enbam.
The distance by road is about 15 miles, and by rail up
the beautiful Stroud valley more than double the dis-
tance. The objects of inspection at Cirencester were the
Royal Agricultural College and the Roman remains
which have been discovered here, and for the reception
of which a building has been expressly built by Earl
Bathurst.
The college is an imposing structure, situate about a
mile from the town of Cirencester, and adjoins the
magnificent park and woods of Earl Bathurst. The
principal front is 190 feet long, and it includes a large
dining hall, library, museum, lecture theatre, laborato-
ries, class rooms, private studies, kitchens, and servants'
offices, with apartments for the resident professors, dor-
mitories, &c. There are about 100 students. The farm
buildings, &c., are of the most modern construction.
The town of Cirencester itself was originally a British
city, called Caer Cori, from its position on the small
River Corin, now called the Churn. The Roman name
was Coriniutu ; and, as it stood at the intersection
of the Feeseway with the Ermin and Ikenild-streets
it became a town of considerable importance, and was
regarded as the capital of the Dobuti. Vestiges of the
Roman vellum and rampart are still visible, and a fine
collection of Roman remains have been excavated, and
are now deposited in a building erected especially
for their reception by Earl Bathurst. These ,consist
of a beautiful tasselated pavement, discovered in the
town of Cirencester itself about six years ago, betides nu-
merous articles of domestic use and ornament, brooches,
armlets, knives, spear heads, steelyards, compasses,
keys, &c., of bronze, of exquisite workmanship. In ivory
wad bone are many curious objects, such as salt spoons,
pins, bodkins, knife-handles, etc., with articles in glass,
es beads, vases, bottles, etc. There is also a large collec•
tion of pottery, some of which is most elaborately and
elegantly ornamented. Besides these, several sculptured
tombstones, fragments of architecture, &c., and the
private collections of individuals in the neighbourhood,
were for the occasion added to the museum. The rain
ceased about midday, so that the party was enabled to
walk out and enjoy the excursion.
COLONEL SIR H. RAWLINSON'S LECTURE.
Last night one of the most gay and brilliant assem-
blages of the learned and fashionab!e ever brouzht toge-
ther in Cheltenham met at the College to hear Colonel
(late Major) Sir 11. Rawlinson lecture on recent disco-
veries in Assyria and Babylonia, with the results of cunei-
form research up to the present time. This was the best-
attended meeting of the series up to this time. Half-past
8 was the hour fixed for the opening of the proceedings,
but before 8 o'clock the room was crowded to the doors.
Sir 11. RAWLINSON said the subject was one which it
would be impossible to compress in one lecture, and
therefore he would only take up the salient points.
First, he proceeded to explain what cuneiform inscrip-
tions were, and then showed how they were to be deci-
phered. The learned traveller gave a most interesting
account of his visits to Ecbataaa, and his daring and
successful attempts to scale the heights of Basuton, on
which were—in spots supposed to be inaccessible—sets
of inscriptions in Persian, the Medean (as it was called,
though really Seythian),and the Babylonian characters.
Having got paper casts of these inscriptions, the next
test was to compare the Persian with the Babylonian
version. He soon found the Babylonian the most
difficult. The writing was not alphabetical, but idio-
graphic. Arbitrary signs were used to express sound.
The number of characters in the Babylonian was 360 or
370, independent of what they bad been accustomed
to call idiographic signs. He described the process by
which he had arrived at a knowledge of these ancient
writings, and how contemporaneous research had been
made by Dr. Minsk in Ireland, and by certain conti-
nental literati, who had arrived at the same translation
as himself, thus confirming his views. Ho then came to
the result. The greatest value of these results of cunei-
form investigation was the particular reference to,Scrip-
ture history. Up to the investigation of cuneiform in-
scriptions there had been no means of testing the histori.
cal history of the Scriptures. They found the same
names in the same order, and the events described the
same, but with some difference in colouring, as the As
Syrians were not likely to record their own defeat.
There were three periods of cuneiform character. First,
the Chaldean period ; two, the Assyrian ; and three, the
Babylonian, and he explained the history of each period,
with the kings ruling in each. He also gave an interest-
ing account of his discovery of two cylinders in an anci-
ent building, which cylinders bore inscriptions supposed
to have been written by Nebuchadnezzar (in the cylin-
ders "Nabu-kadun•uzzur"). In conclusion, he pointed
out the value of these discoveries, through which they
were able to fill up approximately a history of 1,000 or
1,500 years, which before were entirely blank ; and they
were also enabled to verify Scripture. At a time when
the German school was attacking the authority of the
Scriptures he thought it most fortunate—he might al.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.
By the royal mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain
Leitch, we have advices from New York to the 29th
ult. She has brought 371,332 dollars in specie on
freight.
Among the passengers is Mrs. H. B. Stowe, of
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" notoriety.
The Indian has arrived at Quebec, the Arabia at
Halifax, and the Ericsson at New York.
In the Senate, a bill amending the diplomatic
and consular system had been passed, and a resolu-
tion, tailing on the Presider:it to • communicate
whatever
__infiarmation he might have respecting
affairs in California with—feference to thwo
of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee, and
whether application had. been made by the Gciver=
peratiemar
nor of that State for aid in enforcing the laws, was
adopted. A petition from Commodore Vanderbilt,
that a contract be made with him for carrying the
mail between New York and Southampton, had
been presented. A bill was also intro-
duced authorising a contract for monthly
trips between the two ports for ten years,
at 16,680 dollars the round trip, the service
to be increased to semi-monthly trips if considered
necessary.
In the House of Representatives, Mr. Sharman's
amendment to the Army Appropriation Bill w.ls
adopted, and the bill, as amended, passed. The
amendment, it will be recollected, provides for the
practical suspension of the alleged laws of the Kan-
sas Legislative Assembly, until Congress shall de-
clare whether those laws were passed by a Legis-
lature chosen in conformity with the organic law.
It also recommends the disarming of the militia,
and the recall of the United States army, but makes
it,the duty of the President to use military force
to preserve the peace, Suppress insurrection, repel
invasion, and protect the persons and property of
the citizens of the territory against unlawful search
and seizure on the highways of Missouri and else-
where. Mr. Dunn, of Indiana, moved a substitute
to the bill an nullieg certain acts of the Kansas
Legislature, dec., which was agreed to. The bill
was passed by a vote of 88 to 74. It re-organises
the territory, provides for the restoration of the
Missouri restriction, prohibits test oaths, and all
cruel and unusual punishments, and
.provides for
the release of persons confined for political offences,
and for the dismissal of all the prosecutions now
pending.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Courier and Inquirer alludes to a remarkable charge
made by a Buchananite organ against the British
Chancellor of the Exchequer. He writes :--__
" The Pennsylvanian, the central Buchanan or-
gan, proclaims the truly humiliating fact, that the
Chancellor of the British Exchequer has subscribed
$lOO,OOO for the use of the Fremont and Dayton
Clubs, as a means of securing the success of the Re-
publicans, and thereby of breaking up the union of
these States. This financial transaction must
be considered important and gratifying for
several reasons. In the first place, every well-
informed politician knows that the lower order
of democratic scribblers and slang-whangers never
begin to shout, 'We are sold to the British 1'
'Beware of British gold !' and other shrieks of that
character, until they have become entirely despe-
rate, and have lost all rational expectation of suc-
cess. The country always takes heart when demo-
cracy begins to brawl 'Bribery and corruption,'
and to rejoice in the prospect that the whole tribe
of bloodeuckers are to be driven from the doors of
the public treasury. Again, if the British Govern-
ment has really begun to ship gold to aid in Fre-
mont's election, the tide of exchange will turn ;
and the golden flood will set to and not from Wall,
State, and Chestnut-streets. Money will become
abundant and business brisk ; and all sorts of
stocks will go up except Buchanan stock, already
the poorest stock in the 'market. It will be remem-
bered by all who participated in the memorable
contest of 1840, that the Van Buren men kept up
pretty well until the British gold began pouring
into the coffers of their opponents, and then they
acknowledged there was no use in struggling
against fate and the ' British Whig-s.' The conse-
quence of their despair was, that ' Van was a used-
up man' before the canvass was half over, and that
he came out at last with 60 votes out of 275. This
shows the irresistible power of British gold. On
that occasion the British gold was bought to buy
Democrats with, who brought good prices at first,
but before the clue of the business season became
a mere drug, and could be had for asking. The
same thing will be witnessed again. It is a great
mistake to suppose that only $lOO,OOO has been
subscribed, but this arises from the inexperience
in money matters of the vigilant Democrats, who
have ferreted out this transaction. The truth is
that the whole of the last loan of 5,000,0001. was
authorised as an electioneering fund to aid the Re-
publican candidate. Nor will the bargain be a bad
one for the British. For it is understood that, if
the Colonel shall be elected, he is to abolish slavery
in South Carolina, and send all the emancipated
negroes to the British West India Colonies, as ap-
prenticed and indented labourers, at $5O par head,
thus enriching himself at the same time that
he plays into the hands of the British Abolition-
ists, who aro planning the ' extirpation bf slavery
all over the world!' A dissolution of the Union
would follow of course, for how could the Union
exist after the negroes were gone ?"
• A commercial treaty had been agreed to between
the Venezuelan and United States' Governments.
Another of those fearful accidents so frequent in
the United States had occurred to the steam-boat
Empire, while on her voyage from Fall River to
Boston, by which seven persons were killed and a
large number maimed and mutilated. When near
Point Indish the starboard boiler of the vessel
burst, driving the steam through the furnace, and
through the blower-box, and into the engine-room,
and between the decks, destroying or scalding
severely all whom it encountered. Mostb of the pas-
sengers had retired to their berths, and when the
explosion occurred men, women, and children,
seizing their life preservers, rushed into the cabin
in their night-dresses in the greatest consternation,
imagining that the vessel was on fire, and giving
vent to their fears in loud shouts and screams. In
a few seconds the body of steam filled the saloons,
and the frantic passengers rushed wildly to and fro
through the suffocating vapour seeking to reach the
open air, and making confusion worse confounded.
The cries of the wounded were heard above the
din, and added to the horrors of the situation.
The captain promptly caused the engine to be stop-
ped, and, assisted by those of the passengers who
had escaped injury, endeavoured to alleviate the
sufferings of the injured and dying. With all ten-
derness and despatch the wounded were picked up
and taken to the saloon, and although no medical
man was on board to advise, they did what they
could to ease their sufferings. Oil, flour, and cot-
ton were applied to scalded parts,
and other means
of relief were resorted to. It was feared that a
large proportibn of those who are scalded would
die, as many of them had inhaled the burning
steam. The wounded presented a terrible spectacle.
Every spot on which the steam had struck was
scalded so ely that the skin peeled off at the
touch. An investigation into the cause of the
accident was to be held.
Mr. Herbert had been acquitted of the murder
of Keating, the waiter. The decision had created
much comment and indignation.
The Illinois had arrived at New York with the
Californian mails, and 1,649,896. dols. in specie.
The Committee of Vigilance were always in session.
They continued to expelfrom the city all the rogues
who had for a long time past infested it. On the
24th of June the excitement in regard to the move-
ments of the committee, which had been lulled
almost into acquiescence, was revived by one of
their number being stabbed in the street by David
S. Terry, one of the judges of the Supreme Court
of California, while the said member of the com-
mittee was attempting to arrest a notorious charac-
ter. Judge Terry was immediately arrested, and
taken to Fort Vigilance, as the rooms of the com-
mittee aro called, where, at last accounts, he was
undergoing atrial.
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