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might be, it should be exerted to the preservation of t.;:,-471 6 • ?
—peace at any price, short of dishonour. And, r bathe '-ais '3‘,14'% '"lt'e, tie:
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the Provost kindly wished, ha iztiht come back with e 4Q--,
consciousness of having done his duty, or was destined to .:; v,-,/
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lay his bones in a far country or under tLe blue sea, he po- a S
trusted his future conduct to the end of the chapter would 1611"
be such as to cause no one present to regret the friendly
, and affectionate greeting they had given him that evening . '
(Loud cheers.)
Sir A. ALISON in an eloquent speech, which was much I
cheered, proposed the next toast, " The Army and Navy."
He was pr.-sud that the city of Glasgow had been the first to •
acknowledge the services of the Crimean heroes by a public
banquet, and it was to the honour of Greenock that it had
taken the lead in according similar honours to the navy.
Admiral MONTGOMERY, on the part of the navy, and
Lieut. J. A. 2. NICHOLSON responded for the army.
Mr. R. STEELE gave "The Health of the Member for
the Burgh," who was unavoidably absent.
The Earl of GLASGOW, in a highly eulogistic speech, pro-
posed "The Health of the Member for the County and
Lord of the Manor."
The toast was drunk with all the honours and one cheer
more, and appropriately acknowledged by Sir M. S.
STEWART.
The Duke of ARGYLL gave "The Memory of the Heron
who fell in the last War." He said—You will see by the
arrangements of this evening that a very difficult task has •
been imposed upon me by the Provost. When I say a diffi-
cult task, I mean that it is one in which it is extremely diffi-
cult to do justice to the feelings of others or to one's own.
I am to propose to you the memory of those who have
fallen in the late great war. I need hardly say that every.
thing that has been said as applicable to the living must
still more come home to our hearts and judgments as ap-
plicable to those who are now dead, and who have fallen
ander the sufferings, the miseries, and the misfortunes of
war. At the same time, although much that I have to say
must necessarily be but a repetition of that which has
been said, and said with infinite power and heart as sailors
always speak, by my gallant friend near me to-night, there
area few observations which I should be glad to make in
reference to those feelings which arise in connection with
the memory of those who have fallen in the late war. We
are accustomed to speak of the 6 years, or nearly 40 years
which preceded the commencement of this war as if it had
been a period of profound peace. It has commonly been
called the " Forty Years' Peace," and so, undoubtedly, in
One sense it has been. During that 40 years there were,
indeed, contests in which the arms of Great Britain were
engaged; but they were, for the most part, upon distant
scenes of action; they did nob come home to the under-
standings and feelings of the people so much as the war
now concluded. I remember very well being told by the
late Lord Harding° that, during the whole campaigns o f
the Duke of Wellington, in which he took so distinguished
a part, he had lever seen so tremendous a fire, or the Bri-
tish army placed in a position of greater peril, than in the
tremendous action which took place on the Sutlej in the
Sikh war, when Lord Harding° was Governor-General of
India. You will recollect the strong sensation for a mos
went created by that event ; the panic in the country
when the late Sir Charles Napier was sent out to take the
command of the army in India. But it was a passing
danger, the contest of a moment ; in a few short weeks
the agitation of that period had subsided, and we were
again accustomed to talk as before of the peace that suc-
ceeded the great revolutionary contest of the last century.
Now some results did ensile from these long years of
peace. You all must remember that not very long before
the commencement of the late war there was a strong party
raised and organised in this country for the purpose of
depreciating the services of the army, and I very well
recollect that a distant association was formed, in which it
was laid down as a rule that at their public dinners the
usual toast of "the army and navy" should be omitted.
New, gentlemen, I believe that these persons were not
actuated by any sort of personal hostility to the army, but
they entertained what I believe to be very extravagant
notions in reference to some earning millennium of peace, a
period that never will come until the nations are very dif-
ferently constituted from what they are at present.
(Cheers.). But still more, gentlemen, that feeling arose
not merely from political and economical errors, but from
a strong tendency to depreciate what are really the noble
virtues of the military character. (Applause.) People
had almost come to forget what those virtues are; they
had come to consider mere courage in the field of action as
almost the only virtue which the military man is called to
exhibit. Now, Ido anticipate as one result of the late
war—as one result of the feelings which must ever gather
round the memory of those who have fallen in it, that
there will be a better and more just appreciation of the
high qualities which constitute the real soldier. (Ap-
plause.) My belief is that these virtues are intimately
connected with other virtues which lie at the basis of all
civil as well as of all military reputation, and that without
these virtues there never will be a people which can be
really great. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I will not attempt to
define to you what these virtues are. You have to look to
the conduct of the men who fell not in the field of battle,
but under pestilence and famine, during the late memo-
rable contest. You have, above all, but to look to the
character of that great man in whom all those virtues were
summed up and typified as they never have been in the his-
tory of the world before—l mean to the character of Arthur
Wellesley. (Cheers,) Allow me also to associate with his
name the name of one who in those virtues, as well as in
his scenes of contest, was his close, his inseparable cora-
panion--I moan Fitzroy Somerset. (Cheers.) Gentlemen,
I was grateful, I must confess, to my gallant friend for his
well-timed remarks in connection with the services of the
army and of the navy. He recalled to your recollection
the character of the late Lord Raglan. I need not tell you
that, in now mentioning him again, I do nut wish for one
single moment to touch upon those questions which have been
matters of controversy in regard to the conduct of this last
war. Suffice it for me to tell you, and I think I can tell
you safely, that the history of that war has not yet been
written, and that it will bo for another generation to judg a
entirely of the conduct of the late Lord Raglan. As far as
my own means of observation can go, I can sincerely say
that there was no nobler specimen of a British soldier ever
born than the late Lord Raglan. I mention him now not
as a general, because on his capacities in that respect I
neither seek nor do I care to pronounce any opinion what-
ever, I mention him simply as a soldier who fell at his
post of duty ; not, indeed, by the bullet of the enemy, but
by the pestilence that walked at neon day among the gal-
lant ranks of the British army. (Cheers.) And now, I can
only say in conclusion, that I trust throughout every class
there will in future, and for many years to come, be a
juster appreciation of what I have called the nobler virtues
of the military character, that you will remember thatofdan-
ger, in
their devotion to duty, not merely in the very face
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civilians in their respective walks of lite. (Cheers.) I give
" The memory of the late Lord Raglan."
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Sir M. R. S. STEWART made an eloquent reply.
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expressive phrase at the time, "their fire was snuffed out."
The assault, of course, could not be made. The bombard.
ment was ordered for 1 o'clock, and then had been counter-
manded. But that was a very dilcult thing to do with an
allied fleet—with every man burning for distinction it was
almost impossible— so they went at it, and they behaved
admirably. But what was the consequence! We showed
every weak point the enemy had, only to enable them to
repair the errors and add to the strength of their fortress.
That noble fellow Todtleben—he must be a Scotchman, he
only wished he had, " todtled," but—Todtleben made good
use of it ; and when he (Sir H. Stewart)—looked over

the batteries on the north side after all was over and peace
proclaimed the commandant of the Wasp Fort—so called
by the sailors, because it was stung so badly—(a laugh)—
showed hint different works, and said "Yes, and our
prayers were offered daily that the fleet might attack
again." (Cheers.) Had they attacked again there must
have been a great deal more damage done to the fleet than
on the lith. Without troops to take possession they
knight have fired away their ammunition, and come away
damaged ; the enemy would fire a shot after we had re-
tired, and would then say they had beaten us. (Cheers.)

He would like to say a word in reference to a man who was
now no more. He believed that there never was a com.
wander of more noble or generous spirit or cooler in the
kour of danger than was Lord Raglan. (Cheers.) He knew
that sooner or later justice would be done to that great
man, but at the same time he was persuaded that the posi-
tion of Lord Raglan was not generally understood in this
country. He made a remark to Admiral Lyons, after
coming from a conference, that ho did not believe, if even I
the Duke of Wellington had been in Lord Raglan's place,
he would have been able to do more. It was a difficult
position for a man to occupy the command of merely a
portion of an army. The great Napoleon himself had said,
better one indifferent commander than two good ones. No
action, however brilliant, could be conclusive in its results
unless it was vigorously followed up. The armies of Eng-
land and France on first landing in the Crimea were nearly
equal, perhaps that of England was superior. Marshal St.
Arnaud and Lord Raglan ware of the same mind as to
tactics, but it was to be remembered that the French
generale were changed three times, and as the war pro-
ceeded the French army was greatly increased. The peon-
liar circumstances which thereupon arose would be under-
stood without kis dwelling upon them. (Cheers.) He gave
every possible credit to the honesty and perfectly bona
fide alliance the Emperorof the French wished to maintain
with us; but it was not to be expected that with an army
of 200,000 men every officer and man would be of the same
opinion ; indeed it had been a marvel to him that the alli-
ance had been so well preserved, and it was a credit to both
armies that it had been. Then it was to be recollected
that, according to etiquette, the French general commands
She French admiral, and the French admiral was senior to
our admiral ; and this together with other arrangements
served very much to complicate matters. He had the
greatest respect for the French, and he believed they had
the same for us ; and one result of this struggle in the
Crimea would be that it would be a long time before they
had their slumbers disturbed with the idea of a French
invasion. If they went to war again, however, each must
have his own part to play—a single commander with a
single corps. He would like to say a word about the
Malakhoff and the Redan. That was a soldier's question,
and it might be admitted that as a sailor he would speak
impartially on the subject. He had been a witness to the
taking of the Malakhoff, and if they would allow him he
would read an extract from a letter which he had written
from the Crimea to a very particular friend—his own wife.

"Those who have seen the Malakhoff and the Redan
know well that no comparison as to the difficulty of as-
sault exists between them. In the one case deep trenches
a ere cut in yielding soil to within 25 paces of the ditch,
having the Mamelon in the rear, keeping up an incessant
hail of shot and shells up to the very instant appointed for
the assault,l and capable of containing any amount of
troops in reserve, as well as a capacious place d'armes at
the termination of the sap. In the other case, that of the
Redan, was a hard rocky soil impossible to penetrate
much beyond three feet in depth, and the termination of
the trench at a distance of 280 paces from the parapet.
No possibility of forming any place d'armes, and the
whole advance open to a murderous fire from bat-
teries on both flanks of the Redan. Tho Redan itself, too,
perfectly open to ifs own rear, where 1,000 men could
march abreast to its defence, whereas the Malakhoff, being
closely fortified in its rear, was peculiarly capable of being
held when once entered. And it was nobly entered and
nobly held by our French allies, who, confident in them-
selves, resolutely declined to allow any portion of the Bri-
tish or Sardinian troops to join in its attack, although it
was repeatedly urged upon them, knowing, as every one
did, that the Malakhoff was the key of Sebastopol, and
that, if the attack on it failed, the remaining points of at.
tack, even if successful, could not bo held for one hour.
Oh, let us not blame our soldiers for not holding the Re-
dan ; they gave material guarantees' at Alma, at Inker-
man, and at Balaklava that no troops in the world can
surpass them in courage and conduct, and in that brave
and truly British quality which our friends call solidit6,'
and we know by the familiar name of pluck.' " (Cheers.)
Many an intelligent Frenchman had avowed that he con-
sidered it fortunate for the allied cause that the English held
the right at Inkerman—(cheers)—and at Inkerman there
fell one with a heart, one of the boldest, truest, and most
gallant that ever filled a soldier's breast,a man belonging to
the county of Renfrew, whose family had been long con;
nected with Greenock, whose name was inscribed upon one
of its streets, and who had given his name to a hill in the
Crimea where many a gallant soldier lay—the memorable
Cathcart-hill. (Great applause.) He did not think there
was an officer in the British army more promising, or of
whom more was expected than Sir George Cathcart. He
knew him well, ho had heard hundreds speak of him, and
many speak of him with moistened eyes after he fell. Ho
had the spirit of a soldier and the patriotism of a Scotch-
man. (Applause.) He was afraid he had already been very
long-winded. But considering himself as in some me'.
sure an unimpeachable witness, especially where military
matters wore concerned, he wished to read an extract from
the first report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Sup-
plies for the British Army in the Crimea. He could bear
his unqualified testimony to the truth of it. Sir Houston
then read the following extract :
" It is a great satisfaction to us to find, on most of the
important points, a remarkable concurrence in the testi-
mony as to matters of fact. The sufferings of the army in
the course of the winter, and especially during the months
of December and January, must have been intense. We
have not noted all the particulars related to us, many of
which wero unconnected with our inquiry; but we may
state that it has been only by slow degrees, and after the
frequent repetitions of similar details, as one witness after
another revealed the facts that had come under his own
observation, that we have been able to form any adequate
conception of the distress and misery undergone by the
troops; or fully to appreciate the unparalleled courage and
constancy with which they had endured their sufferings.
Great Britain has often had reason to be proud of her
army, but it is doubtful whether the ►hole range of mili-
tary history furnishes an example of an army exhibitiag
throughout along campaign qualities as high as have die-
tinguished the forces under Lord Raglan's command.
The strength of the men gave way under excessive
labour, watching, exposure, and privation; but they
never murmured, their spirit never failed—(cheers)—and
the enemy, though far outnumbering them, never detected

At the Mansion House on Friday, Edward Horace
Montefiore was charged with uttering a forged bill of
exchange for 5,3001., with intent to defraud the London
and Westminster Bank. Av
—8 way remanded for a week.
SHIP ore FIRE.—LIVERPOOL, Dee. 19.—Last evening
a fire broke out iu the lower hold of the ship Ida, lying
in the north-east side of the Queen's-basin, laden with
cotton. The fire brigade, under Mr. Hewitt, were
speedily on the spot, and owing to the daring and intro.-
pidity of the firemen, who at the risk of suffocation forced
their way to the seat of danger, the flames were extin•
guished without much further damage having been
sioned than that caused by the enormous body ofn_wn°aeteor.
which was necessarily thrown into the hold. One
coat.
the fire policemen fell into the hold and sustained
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pound fracture of the knee, and he, with
who had been half-suffocated, was taken tot
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the use of a naked light in the hold.
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11,8801. An assistant-clerk is asserted
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abluetthe entire inquiry has not yet been completed.
As may naturally be supposed these revelations
have occasioned considerable surprise, especially as the
accounts are understood to have been regularly audited.
Both parties, it seems, have practised these frauds for •
lengthened period, and, it is believed, hive in n„,,,,,
degree acted in concert. Having absented themselves
from business, the authorities have adopted measures
for effecting, if possible, their apprehension. The an'
flexed circular, issued to the churchwardens and over-
seers of the different parishes, confirms the default of
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in those whom he encountered any signs of weakness.
Their numbers were reduced by disease and by casualties
to a handful of men, compared with the great extent of
the lines which they constructed and defended ; yet the
army never abated its confidence in itself, and never
descended from its acknowledged military pre•eminence.
Both men and officers, when so reduced that they were
hardly fit for the lighter duties of the camp, scorned to be
excused the severe and perilous work of the trenches, lest
they should throw an undue amount of duty upon their
comrades; yet they maintained every foot of ground against
all the efforts of the enemy, and with numbers so small
that, perhaps, no other troops would have made the at.
tempt. Suffering and privation have frequently led to
crime in armies as in other communities, but offences of a
serious character hare been unknown in the British army
in the Crimea. Not one capital offence has been committed, '
or even alleged to have been committed by a soldier, and
intemperance has been rare. Every one who knows any.
thing of the constitution of the army must feel that, when
troops so conduct themselves throughout a long catimai
the officers must have done their duty and set the a --gn'
example.
The conduct of the men, therefore, implies the highest en-
comium that can be passed upon their officers. They have
not only shared all the danger and exposure, and most of
the privations which the
men had to undergo,
b
everywhere found indications of theeirir solicitude forut w
the
welfare of those who were under their
their constant readiness to employm their command,priva tct meansa n dof
in
promoting the comfort of the Doubtless there has
been, as there must always be, beetnter management in some
regiments than in others, but
among much that was pain-
ful in the evidence that we have heard, it was always Bra.
tifying to observe the community of feelings and interests
that appeared everywhere to subsist between the men and
their officers,
seemsand alwayswhicht
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roduregimentalee ' of the Bri
tish armyw rlee referred with
ad pleasure to the kind reception which the army and navy
h
received at the hands of their countrymen on their re-
turn from active service, and predicted that when the coun-
, try's extremity did come the fruits of that kindness would
exhibit itself. With regard to his appointment to another
coramand,he would assume it with a determination to do his
duty, to preserve his own temper, and to maintain his coun-
try's honour. Mr. Cobden himself was not a greater friend
of peace or more sensible of its advantages than he was ;
and in the position he should holi, wiatover his infttleUee

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