The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-12 00:00:00

THE SrIN. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 12. 1856.

LINRB • A.d FIXED N' VA LS.

tools to work it. Ins other places the earth could be
thrown up to make earthworks for the protection of the
cattle. Shelter, under the direction of a railway con-
tractor, and proper materials, could have been provided
at the rate of two men per horse, in two days.
There were many places in the plateau, near Lord Rag-
lan's, where sites might have been selected where the
regiments might have been well sheltered. He had
seen for weeks together, wretched looking ani-
mals knee deep in mud, with no nose bag, and the
forage thrown on tile mud, nine-tenths of which was trod-
den into the mud before they could eat it. If there had
been an abundance of sail cloth, and other materials, 100
horses, allowing two men to a horse, might have been
sheltered in a week. Our army did not appear to have
paid that attention to the sheltering of the horses
as the French did, and the Sardinians, the first moment
they arrived in the country. He, could only speak
as a civilian, and not as a military man before the
enemy, but he considered that no railway con-
tractor with materials at band would have lost one-
twentieth the Amber of the horses that we lost, and
from the same causes.

Lvidn.
Cowan,

Ctostnr r,11.•
yesteris .

Badness
this lay.

Lord Lucan—Did you see any of the cavalry horses of
our allies under cover ?

Mr. Rawlingson—l am not aware that I did. I might
have seen them, but I paid no attention to them.
Lord. Lucan—When the Sardinian army came into
the field, had they any field duties to perform, and at
what period of the year did they arrive in the Crimea I
Mr. Rawlingson—l cannot remember the period of
the year when they arrived in the Crimea, nor can I say
anything about their field duties.

In reply to another question from Lord Lucan the
witness said that his remarks, as to the state and condi-
tion of the horses, had no reference to the manner in
which the horses had been fed. He meant by compar-
ing the leslcs of a railway contractor to refer to the ex-
posure of horses to wet and cold.

Mr. Bracebridge, who had been engaged in the
Crimea, entered into a detailed stltement of the quan.
tity of spare sails there was on board the ships in the
harbour of Balaklava, and said he wag of opinion that
had the sails been laid over the horses' backs during the
bad weather, the mortality amongst them would have
been less, and also that linseed at ss. per bushel could
hive been procured at Constantinople for mixing with
the 'Arley given to the horses, so as to have increased
the forage supplies.

S:r R. Airey, Quartermaster-General, was then called
and examined by Col. Tulloch. He said that orders were
issued on the Bth November to Lord Lucan to provide
shelter, which was renewed on the 12th. There were but
few available men in a cavalry regiment when in the
field for such work as that. The site of the cavalry
camp bad not' then been decided on, althongh there was
reason to believe at the time that where they were then
stationed would have been the site of the permanent
camp. It was his duty to know, and he did
know, the army was deficient of the necessary quality of
trenching tools. They were engaged in breaking up
the ground, and in operations of great magnitude. The
regulations allow but five pickaxes to a whole regiment.
He had issued as many as 46 to each battalion of the
army in the course of five or six weeks. The tools were
notoriously bad.
The Court adjourned at 4 o'clock.