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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.--(This Day.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock.
The Gloucester Gas 8111 was read a second time.
GRAVESEND IMPROVEMENT BILL.

On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON this bill was
ordered to be recommitted.

Mr. E. BALL presented a petition signed by 291
shareholders in the Es-tern Counties RA way, repre-
senting capital to the amount of 341,0001. in that un
dertaking, praying the house not to sanction the
passing a bill for the purpose of raising illegal loans, and
extending the capital of the company by an addition to
it of three-quarters of a million.
The SPEAKER said the petition was informal, as it
related to a private bill.
The petition was consequently withdrawn.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE QUALIFICATION

THE MILITARY BOARD OF INQUIRY.
(This Day.)

The Board of General officers reassembled this morn-
ing at the Royal Hospital, Chel-ea, 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 wishing to miss the pro-
ceedings, from being personally acquainted with many
of the officers connected with the inquiry, finding the
f.,rin of proceeding adopted by the Ciurt 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.
Lurd Lucan inquired if the monthly return of the
baggage animals, in the Crimea, had been obtained from
the War-office I

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

Lord Lucan said it was to be regretted, and he sup-
posed 11.- must do his best without them.
Sir A. Woodford said. that he believed there were such
returns, but that they were in the Crimea.
The evidence if Sir R. Airey was then proceeded with.
He 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 skinsof dead animals.
The skins of the various animals that died and w,.re
slaughtered were no doubt used in covering the living
animals, in accordance with orders, until other materials
were obtained. These skins were used all over the
camp, but whether they amounted to 3,000, the number
of horses that died and were slaughtered, he could not
say. 2s. 6.1. 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

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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-
sequence of the cholera, they could have obtained the in-
formation required from 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 indicated 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 '2sth, 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
bad ever been isupplied ,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 hutting ; 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
hut.. He thought without reference to his papers that
Lord Lncan's -statement before the beard that the
cavalry up to 25th of January were not to be supplied
with hut-, at that time, because they were required for
the army in front, was substantially correct. The great
pre-sure 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
Laken 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 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 believed, have removed from their minds any such
impression.

By the Judge-Advocate-General--The cavalry could
not he removed to Kadikoi bel.re Dec. in consequence
ef military considerations between the allies. The French
horses were not sheltered until after those of the Ene-
lish, and not until just before he lett the Crimea He
knew one French otsficr who lost 70 horses out of 120.

By Lord Lucan—His answers to the Commissioners'
questions left the Crimea after General Simp-on had the
command of the army, and subsequent to the Commis-
sioners leaving the Crimea.
Sir Richard Airey then withdrew.
CA. Gordon was then called and examined by Col,
Tulloch. He recollected being examined by the Corn.
missioners in the Crimea. He gave them no information
of what was done on the order issued at L Ord Locau's
request that an engineer officer should be placed at his
dispo'al to provide shelter. becati,,e they did not a,k for
it. He gave no explanation wby the ground had not
been broken in the middle of December, the order al-
Inled 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. Talloch called attention to a letter thit had ap-
peared in the Times, signed by Col. 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
said that the document handed in was a monthly ret irn,
dated Ist Oct,, 1854, and signed by him, but it was not
signed on that da+e. A portion of the re.ticaent was at•
BAlaklava on the 1-4, but that portion which he com-
manded did not arrive until the sth. That discrepancy
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
returu ?

Colonel Yorke—By the full authority of the War
ffice.

General Peel—Will you put in that authority ?
Colonel Yorke—l have alrealy done so.
The witnee was then further examined with referem!

to other return,, and in addition said he had written a
letter to the Times in consequence of finding it had
been stated that hi:. regiment was in the Crimea when it
not. He had not stated in that letter anything in-
consistent with the return which was kept open till his
la! ding for his signature. [rile witness then read the
letter in question, which have an account of his proceed-
ing with his regiment, and the loss Gf 124 horses in their
transit across the Mack Sea.]
Colonel Tulloch—Then the War-office is not to sup-
pose th.t your return is c. rrect, when it states that on
the let of October your bead-uarters was at BAla.klava?
Col. Yorke—lt was kept open for me under very pe
culiar circumstances because there wag 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 I
Commissioners in their report with respect to the de-
ficiency of forage, although he was not named. His
object in camplainirg 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 ru port, but with
regard to the total incorrectness of the figures in every-
thing the Commissioners had stated. That part of the
report, page 37, relative to the suggestion of 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
i violence on his (Lord Lucan's) 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. rulloch— The placing an officer under arrest
might be a necessary act. He 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-
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 making similar
suggestions, hut 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 an opportunity of examining other wit-
nesses as to its trutb. He conceived the charge of want
of promptitude and ingenuity," di-played in providing
shelter, applied to him and net to Lord Raglan. It
might have applied to Lord Raglan, and if it v..as meant
to apply to him, he (Lord Lucau) had to complain of the
C nlimissioners not putting the matter in a clearer form
in their report.
We shall give the conclusion in our last edition.)