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

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—Traffio re-
turn for the wt.* ending April 11,1856 £15,200 5 2
Corresponding week last year 18,140 1 9

Daerease in 1856
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending April 12,
1856 .£12,239 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 RAILWAY.—Traffio return for the
week ending A ril 6, 1856 £21,942 13 2
Corresponding woek last year 18,198 17 8

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. —Traffic re-
turn for the weok ending April 13, 1856 L'21,191 18 6
Corresponding week last year 18,991 11 4

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD TtAlLWAY.—Traffic return foi
tha wool: ending April 12, 1856 £4,096 8 11
ilorrespontling week last year 4,555 1 4

Increase in 1856 .

£4ll 1 4

GLASGOW AND SODTII-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending April 12, 1856 £5,970 0 9
Oorresponding week last year 5,363 8 7

Tncrease in 1856
CORK AND BANDON RAILWAY.—TraffIo return for week
onr;ing April 12, 1856
Corresponding week last year 244 18 0

FRIT,EDOM 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 ssrvices and character, by con•
ferring upon hire the freedom of the town. The General
has resided in that district for above six months ; he ie
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 acknowtedement. The ceremony took place on
Thursday —Ldinburgh Courant.
A DEAF JURYMAN —At the Sandwich C
linty Orilla,
on Thursday, a journeyman carpenter, named Marley,
rouelit 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, seized him by the
collar, fl iurished 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
the 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.—SoutA-Eastern Gazette.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE STATE EDUCL-
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 House of Commons on Friday
last. la the most crowded house of the session, am d
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 James 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—
namely, the last seven resolutions out of the twelve,
though after a feebly-laboured defence of them. Hap
pity, he persisted in pressing his first resolution, having
received the promise of the support of the Government
to that alone ; and he intended, if he had carried that,
to propose other four resolutions, 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. Peking-
ton, Mr. W. J. Fox, and all the sections of State E luoa-
tioniste, 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-
stone'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 are disposed to take up the song of
Miriam. Compul-ory education has thus received its
death-blow, just as it emerged from the womb of specu
lation into existence as a Parliamentary object. This
miserable bantling of Lord J. Russell has been strangled
in the cradle. The English spirit and English sense of
the House of Commons, rallying after a wretched dream,
in which the doctrinaires sat upon it like a nightmare,
have burst the bonds which the Philistines were weav-
ing about it, "as Samson his green wither." 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 loca
and compulsory rates ; and onithat account, as .much
as on any other, the House of Commons regarded Lori
- J. Russell's plan with indignant disapprobation.--Leeds
Mercury.

AK.4IMY f •yws ‘T. 4, .

THE MILITARY BOARD OF INQUIRY.

[A. part of the following appeared iu our impression
of yesterday :---]
The Board of General officers reassembled this morn-
ing at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, at the usual hour.
' The proceedings each day attracts a large number of
the public, and amongst them are a great number of
ladies, especially within the bar. These latter, probably
from past experience, and not within to miss the pro-.
ceedings, from being personally acquainted with many
of the officers connected with the inquiry,' finding the
form of proceeding adopted by the:Cenrt.to be exceed-
ingly tedious, have provided themselves with an amuse-
ment, in the shape of " Knitting, netting, and crochet,"
and other lady-like_accomplishments of the present day.
Lady Chelsea, and many other ladies, displayed great
industry in these branches of profitable amusement
daring the greater portion of the day.:
Lord Lucian inquired if the monthly. return of the
baggage animals, in the Crimea, had been obtained from
the. War-Office t

The Judge-Advocate-General said that an application
hal been made for them, but the answer was that there
were no such inturna.

Lord Lucau said it was to be regretted, -and he sup-
posed he must do his best without thenA:
Sir A. Woodford said that he believed there were such
returns, but that they were in the Crimea. .
The evidence,of Sir R. Airey was then preceeded with. .
lie was examined by Col. Tulloch.
Sir R. Airey said that, it was the custom for all orders,
to be obeyed, and he presumed they were acted upon
with reference to the disposal 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, in accordance with orders, until other materials'
?/sze-, obtained. -These—skins were used 1111,--Tr *he.
camp, but whether they amounted to 3,000, the number
of horses that died and were slaughtered, he could not
nay. 2.. 6d. 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 inf ,rmation before making their report, he observed
that he had no wish to Censure that report. He was
examined as to matters unconnected with his depart.
ment. He answered the question& 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 Commissioners had returned to the
Crimea from Constantinople, where they bad gone in con-
•,e, mecca of the cholera, they could have obtained the in-
formation required fr3m the other departments on the spot.
He had no idea at the time the Commissioners were
in the Crimea that their duties referred to anything
more than that inthcated 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 England arrived on the 16th December, and
others on the 25th, and four more 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 buttine. ; but he thought it
would have been better had the Commissioners gone a
little further and examined Captain Keen, an engineer

officer, vho was sent, out specially in charge of the
huts. Ho 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 ou whom
to throw doubt, they might as well have cast it on one
department 113 another. When the Commissioners c-nn-
menced their inquiries lie had no idea they would have
taken a retrospective view in order to censure any of the
officers in command, but that it was with a view to take
measures for the future, and prevent a repetition of what
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 intiinate,l
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 believed, have removed from their minds any such
impression.
By the Judge-A dvocate•General--The cavalry could
not he removed to Kadikoi before Dec. in consequence
of military considerations between the allies. The French
horses were not sheltered until after those of the Em,-
list], 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 su'asequent 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 L Ord Lucas's
request that an engineer officer should be placed at his
disposal to provide shelter, because they did not a 4( for
it. He gave no explanation why the ground had not
been broken in the middle cf December, the order al-
luded to having been issued on the Bth and 12th of
November, beeau,e 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 th had ap-
peared in the Times, signed by Col. Yorke, denying that
the sth Dragoons were in the Crimea at the tine the
Commissioners had stated.

Col. Yorke, of Ist Dragoons, who used crutches, was
then called, xnd was examined by Col. Tulloch—lle
sail that the document handed in was a monthly rct.iro,
dated let Oct., 1854, and signed by him, but it was net
signed on that date. A portion of the re2;ir4ent was at
Balaklnva on the Ist, but that portion which he com-
►nanded did not arrive until the sth. That, di,crepancy
arose from the return, although dated the let, 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 yen put in that authority
Colonel Yorke—l have already done so.
The witness was then further examined with reference
to other return., and in addition said he had written a
letter to the TI;711e8 in consequence of finding it had
been stated that his regiment was in the Crimea whe❑ it
was not. He had 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 sue-
poee that your return is correct, when it states that on
the lst of October your head-quarters was at MAl(lava?
Col. Yorke—lt was kept open for me under ♦ery pe.
culiar circumstances because there was no other person
to sign it. I was at sea at the time with the head-
quarters of 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 Lucan 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 centage of the loss muelh.
than it really was. He charged " maign
y
notin
on the part of the Coritnis:,ioners,
reference to the particular part of their repress
inbut with
every-
regard to the total incorrectness of the fig tairtes
suggestion
poafr tc ofol
Colonel
thing the Commissioners had stated.
report., page 37, relative to the
Griffiths for providing shelter for the horses was a very
animadversion indeed, and it showed that he and
severeot h e r
officers
were deterred from doing their duty from
violence on his (Lord Lunn'') part.
By the Judge Advocate-General—He believed Lord
W. .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
b 3 a necessary act. FL did not complain of the
recital of Col. Griffiths' statement in the report, but it
wasithe unfair inferenceswhich the commission had drawn
from it. He was prepared to give Col. Griffiths' state.
mint relative to the threat of arrest in the moat positive
manner—threatening to place an officer under ar-
.•est for whit Colonel Griffiths complained of
vas likely to deter others from making similar
suggestions, but he denied that he Lad made such a
threat. He (Lord Luca.n) complained of the Commis-
sioners receiving, as a fact, the statement of an officer,
when they had an opportunity of examining other wit-
nesses as to its truth. He conceived the charge of want
,f 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 doing shelter

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his haying the command of the Leavy, brigade, and that
it was his duty to do the best be could-for his men and
horses.

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The Board then adjourned for a short period, Oa
their re-assembling the evidence of Lord Logan -was pro-
ceeded with.

He said it would be no anirnadversion'on-liiin if it WWI
meant to apply' to Lord Raglan and officers-superior to
witness, but it certainly was if it applied to the officers
under Lord Raglan, non-commissioned officers, or men.
It was impossible to read that part of the report now
alluded to without believing that it was a serious ani•
madversion on the- cavalry, an I as such it had been con-
sidered universally by the public. -
In reply to a question from Col. Tulloch whether that
portion of the report which stated but one fifth of the
number of men only were employed in taking
down the sick and bringing up provisions was an AM•
madversion, his lordship said he supposed it meant that
but one-fifth of the men were so employed, awl that
fouillifthe were disposable for for warding shelter, whereas
the real fact was that but a few men were'available for
the work, and in many regiments there were no men
available for it.

Colonel Tulloch proposed to refer to certain returns
made by Colonel Hodge and Colonel Mayow of thip
available men.

Lord Lucan said that he was prepared to show that
these returns were incorrect.
Lord Lucan=-It was hardly to be expeeted that he
could now produce accurate . returns of the available
men and horses for this work.
Col. Talloch was proceeding to examine Lord Limn
relative to the disposition evinced by the Commissicinere
in their report not to- state anything dero.
gatory to the cavalry which they believed
the exidence did not warrant, on which Lord
Lucan said that ml the objeo)- of tit* ArvNioe4on
way to explain awarai -charge of 'r" malignity" 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 Commissioners were
answerable for any false returns that might
have been furnished t,) them, but he thought they had
applied to the wrong officer for them, and that they
had neglected sources from which they might have had
it. His correspondence would show that these returns
were incorrect.

Colonel Tulloch then asked for returns to be pro-
duced showing the actual number of available 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 ?

Co). Tulloch—l presume they can be had from th•
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 statementa
of the report relative to the non-erection of huts before
the middle of Jan., the distance of the stores frora the
camp, &c. He said that long before that period
many huts had been 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, wherein 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 hutting of the
men than the horses. By the marginal note in the
report it had reference to the horse?.
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 evidence, said that
he considered the inquiry of the Commissioners was to
have been confined to the Commissariat supplies, and
that they very much etceeded their duty in going beyond
it. He thought the Commissioners had nothing to de
with what had passed between hirioself and Col. Griffiths.
The Judge-Advocate•General—ColonelTulloch, will
you point out in your instructions the passage that pro.
eluded you from inquiring into the conduct of any
officer ?

Col. Tulloch—l clnsider 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. Tulloch—Yes.
Gen. Peel—Do you consider that inquiry should have
been male before your report was published ?
Col. Tulloch—l can't answer that.
Col. Tulloch to Lord Lucan—Do you not know that
her Majesty's Government have expressed their approval
of this report, and do you still consider that the Cora-
missioners exceeded their duty
Lord Lucan—l can know nothing of any approbation
or disapprobation of it by the Government. If they have
expressed their approbation of it, I think they have done
it in -onsiderately and hastily.
Colonel Tulloch—Whose duty do you think it is to
provide shelter for cavalry horses in the field ?
Lord Lucan—The Comm trider-in-Chief of the army, if
he can do so.

G!neral 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 ?
C ionel Tulloch--By Lori Panmure to Sir John
111`.1Neil and myself. It was suosequently printed,
which, I believe, also shows it was approved of, and
then laid on the table of the House of Commons.

Lord Lucan then proceeded with his evidence, an 1, in
answer to other questions frini Col. Tuiloch, said that
he considered it was evally tile 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 implasible to say
that the want of promptitude and ingenuity applied to
the Quartermaster General. He might have done his
duty, and yet sufficient shelter could not have teen pro-
cured. lie 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 c ,old have saved them.

C 1. TuHoch then informed Lord Lucan he had no
further que3tioos t) put to him, an' his Lordship re-
tired.

The Court then adjourned till to-morrow, when Col.
Pottinger will he ex tinined by C.d. Tulloch.
Tne EArl of Cardigan was present for the first time
to-day, during a portion of the day's proceedinga, and
whilst Lord Lucan was under examination by Colonel
'full och.