The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-18 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.)

The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter before four,
but there b,ing but 36 members present, the house
adjourned till to•morrow.

THE "CO

[INT-OUT."

Jas. Kershaw
Thos. Meagher
B. M. Willcox
W. A. Wilkinson
J. T. Deyereux
Sir J. Wahnsley
Geo. Hadfield
J. IL Smith
Hon. P. J. L. King
Brotherton •
J. V. M-.quire
11. Berkeley
Sir S. Bignold
Thos. Barnes
Blend. Spooner
Captain Seobell
Wm. Rrown-1
E A. J. Craufurd
Geo. Ridley

Wm. Williams
Sir J. Anderson
Tnos. Thornely
T. Hankey, jun.
Sir E. Perry
J. Ewart
Wrn. Ewart
Rich. Davison
Colonel Adair .
Sir A. Agnew
A. Pellatt
Right Hon. H. Fitzroy
G3o Dune in
J. Bell
G. E. IL Vernon
C. Forster
Alex. Hastie
Sir G. R. B. Pechell
Right Hon. A. Christopher

TEE MILITARY BOARD OF INQUIRY.

[4l part of tho following appeared in our impression
of yesterday :—]

The Board of General Officers reassembled this morn-
ing at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, at the usual hour.
Lord Lucan was recalled, and further examined by
Colonel Tulloch—He said that in carrying up the Com-
missariat stores for the cavalry two horses were used
—one carrying stores, the other rode by a dragoon,
which took a double number of horses to do the work.
It would have been improper to have allowed any of the
dragoons to have walked, considering the state of
roads and the weather.

Lord Lucan said that he proposed, at a future stag(
of the proceedings, to call Major Connelly to prove th,
inaccuracy of the month's returns.
(_73lonel Tulloch submitted that any explanation re.
quired had better be given by Colonel Yorke.

The Judge-Advocate-General said the board txoulti
consider the matter.

Colonel Tulloch said he bad no further witnesses
call the.a. He had summoned a witness from th
Crimea, a captain of a transport, who he expected wouf
arrive in this country about the 20th of the month
Should he not arrive by that time, he (Col. Tullocle)
would close his case without him. Colonel Pottink,
whom he had propose] to examine, was unable to attend
Lord Ln,!itn, suggested that Colonel Tulloch should i,
form the Board what his witness was likely to prove.
Col. Tulloch said he had no objection to do so.

The Judge-Advocate-General said that waa not twee:
nary—(to Mr. COmmisaioner Filder) -4 believe you
to make a statement to the Board in. reply to observa
tions made by Lord Lucan during this inquiry.
Mr. Filder—Yea, to 4bservations made by Lord Liman
on Wednesday, the 9th inst.

The Judge-Advocate•General—Do you intend to cal

evidence ?

Mr. Filder—.No, only to make a statement. He pro
tested against certain letters which Lord. Lucan had ad-
dressed to him relative to the foraging of the army, and
which he had read to the Board, ,being received in evi
derma without his (11.1% Filder's) answers t.o them,
likely to prejudia4 his ease. •• He submitted that these
letters should be rejected fnin he: evidence wallow
Lord Lucan put' in the answers. ...He (11r. Filder)
unable to do so,*becisuse all hie 'official papers were io
the POsieSsibn'Of his successor in the Crimea.
Lora Lucan sai4 he, had no objection to put in anti
aneWers he had. He belied ed he. had but two, beau
the newer to his letters. generally came through the
Quarterrnaster•General. - •
Mr:-Filder asked for copies of these 'letters to be pro-.
cured. He then continued his written statement to the
Board, but from the low tone of • voice in which he ad-
dressed the Board there rfas great difficulty in under-
standing its purport. We understood him to camrnenc
by saying that he denied the' assertion of Lord Luca
that; his baggage apj.inals were not properly ra.tione,
during the month-of August, and handed in returns to
prove the c.intrary. He then referred to that part Of
Lord Lucan's statement with reference to the 'inex
perieneed officers of the Commissariat department

Bulgaria, and read a portion of Lord Carciigan'a statv-

ment before the Sebastopol Committee in—which his
' lordship expressed himself satisfied with the Commi4sa
.riat arrangements in Bulgaria, and that the officers of
that department were intelligent and active men, when
• The Judge-Advocate-General said be thought it would
be batter for Mr, Filder to call Lord Cardigan as a wit-
ness than read his statement.

Mre Filder said be had no wish to do that.
The Judge-Advocate-General said the Board had the
• evidence of Lord Cardigan, referred to, before them,
and would rather he (11r. Filder) confined himself to a
statement of facts than read the evidence of his lordship.
Mr. Filder then entered into a detailed account of
the qualification of his respective officers for the duties
they had to perform ; and, in allusion to Lord Lucas's
statement that a maximum price ought to have been
fixed, for the purchase of forage, instead of acting
as the department bad with respect to it, said it
•
would • have been impossible to have adhered to
it ; it would have been constantly evaded, and no
benefit could possibly have aearned from it. The
• next .. point was the statement of Lord Lucan,
Wherein he charged.,tbe Commissariat "department with
want of forethought, nn'a a (4ficiency,of arrangement .a in
proiiding forage for the troop horses in their transit
across the. Black Sea, whilst ou their march in the
Cititils4, and during their encampment on the plateau,
• • and subxeqtiently in the valley of Kadikoi. Lord Liican
slid that the rations of the cavalry horses were re-
dueed in'the Crimea by the Gommissa.riat department
"thout the authority. of Lord .Raglan. But he (Ur.
; Filder) could prove the contrary by a copy of a memo-
random he addreBed to Lord Raglan, dated Balakrava,
-1" 9th Oet., 185,4,- relative to the supply of forage to the
cavalry horseA, ilia his lordship's reply thereto. In that
. , littemoiandr;in he informed Lord Raglan there were but
1,40.1,0,00.11,;of hay on hand, and as there was some
i_44414- thatthat imelticatwwith regard to, the supply, he informed his
quantity would be sufficient for
To
• .
LIMO rations of JO lbs., 250,000 rations of 6 Ibs, and
elllloso6rations of 5 Ihs ; and-as there were 7,000 ani-
mals to be fed, and the rations would last but 20 days,
die suggested that the short rations should be supplied.
.• To that Lord Raglan returned for answer-" Until
more hay le received f E Constantinople
rora no an.l or
-it will be hindent to limit the rations to that cluan-
* Lay." Somamations were issued of 6 Ibs, and to the
,troop horses of the cavalry 8 Ihs, and the artillery 101bs,
god which WlL,ContinUed UP to the time of the storm.
Option was given to the officers to have the reduced
orjhe full quantity ":..rations of bay; of chopped straw. The
baggage ar.iruals and the officers bad full rations. During!
the stvtaa a quantity of bay was boat, sad great thee. '