The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-02 00:00:00

VIZ MILITARY BOARD Or Margins

(Thl3 Jr.)a

The Board re as3erni)le,ci at the usual hour.
Mr. Assists., t-Comniiisa,ry General Crookshank asked
the Board to call upon the Adjutant-General or the
Qoaiterrnaiter-General to produce Lord _Raglan's letter,
containing an expression of hii lordship's disapprobation
cf that conduct for which he ('Jr. Crookshank) Wag/
placsd under arrest by Lord Lucan.
The Judge-Advocate-General asked Mr. Crookshank
to state in which department he expected the letter
could be found.

Mr. Crooksi;ank said he did nut believe such &letter
was in existence. Lord Luella had expressed a belief
that it wa., and he (Mr. Crooksbank) wished it to be
produced if it were in existence. The correspondence
connection with his arrest passed between Lord VV•
Panlett and Mr. Fader.
The Court nave no intimation of their intention 0
comply with Mr. Crookshank's request.
Sir R. Airey was called on to resume his statement,
but before doing so asked Colonel Tulloch if the notes of
the evidence of Colonel Wetherall, handed into the
board in accordance with his (Sir R Airey's) request,
were the original notes of the evidence given by the
gallant colonel before the commander in the Crimea ?
Colonel Tulloch said he believed they were. The eft
dence was taken by him, and was iu his own ha"
writing. Colonel Wetherall's evidence was mixed uP
with that of Colonel Gordon's; and when the evidence
was sent to the latter for correction, he re-wrote it,
sending back only the copy.
Sir R. Airey—Where are the original minutes ?
Colonel Tulloch—Colonei Gordon has got them.
Colonel Gordon sail he had never had any other do•
current in his possession than that now produced.
Tho Judge-Ad voco.te General—General Airey wants
the original minutes taken by the Commander in t""
Crimea.
Colonel Tulloch said be could not sea why this
cation was persisted in. Colonel Wetherall and Colonel
Gordon could both bs called and could state if there was
anything wrong in their evidence. He would wake
search for them, but his belief was that there were 1300
others in existence but those produced.
Gen. Airey—The object I have in asking for the pro'
duction will appear hereafter.
In reply to a que,tion from the Judge-Advocate-Gene,
ral,'

Gan. Airey said it was difficult to point out the pc
ticular passages in the report to which he objected'
from their being mixed up with passages which were
unobj,ctioeable. They were to be found in sentenceh
parts and bits of sentences in the whole of the Landes
report, to the end of the sixth line of the 370 P3gt
Ile proceeded to Fay that before his answers .'ere
given to the string ~f queries sent to him by the Cour
inissioners, Sir J. M`Niel and Col. Tulloch bad made 35
preliminary report, which in some reTectsdiffered IDs
rially from chat which bad been laid before Parliament.'"
and the very first sentence of that report stated that the
Commissioners had completed their work. The rip";
would be found in the archives of the Secretary at We
department, and he believed it contained no animadver
sion upon the conduct of himself and Lord Lucas t
any other officer. That preliminary report, he thong •
took all the poison out of the queries, and is
therefore gave himself little more trouble abfb,
them. He then proceeded to point out that "0
Commissioners had been led into misapprehensions I
reference to the duties and powers of the Quarter-OW
ter-General's office by misconceptions as to the coin";
signature of checks and returns, and went into dets
with a view to show how the system looked, and the
nature of the mistaken opinions which prevailed.
(We shall give the conclusion in our last edition.)