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GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY
COMPANY.
At the THIRTEENTH HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING
of SHAREHOLDERS, held at the Offices of the Company, on Mon-
day, the 29th day of April, 1856
J. G. FRITH, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Company, in the
chair—
The Company's Seal was affixed to the Register of Shareholders.
The Directors' Report having been read,
It was moved by the CHAIRMAN, seconded by A. S. A YRTON, Esq
and
Resolved—T. That the Report, together with the Accounts now
read, he approved and adopted.
It was moved by A. B. RICHMOND, Esq., seconded by F. W.
Simms, Esq., C.E , and
Resolved—ll. That Mr. W. Nicol, of London, and Major Swan-
con, Captain Barr and Mr J. R. Hadow, of Bombay, be, and are
hereby, re-elected Directors of the Company.
It was moved by AMBROSE MOORE, Esq., seconded by' JOSEPH
THORNTON, Esq., and
Resolved—lll. That Mr. William Bird be, and is hereby, elected
Auditor of this Company.
tSigied) JOHN GRIFFITII FRITII, Chairman.
It was moved by 11.-11o3aters, Esq., seconded by M. Caswcoun,
Esq , and
Resolved—lV. That the best thanks of the meeting are due, and
are hereby tendered, to the Chairman and Directors, for their atten-
tion to the interests of the Company.
It was moved by A. B. RICHMOND, Esq., seconded by M. Caaw-
COUR, Esq., and
Resolved —V. That the thanks of the Meeting he conveyed to
Mr. Nicholson, the Superintending Director, for the activity and
vigilance which he has manif,sted in conducting the affairs of the
Company.

(Signed) CORNELIUS NICHOLSON,
Superintending Director.

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TILE MILITARY BOAR!) OF INQUIRY.

[A. part of the following appeared in our impression
of yesterday.]

The Board re msembled at the usual hour.

Mr. Assistant-Commissary General Crookshank asked
the Board to call upon the Adjutant-General or the
Quartermaster-General to pro.duce Lord Raglan's letter,
containing an expression of his lordship's disapprobation
cf that conduct for which he (Mr. Crookshank) was
placed 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. Crookshank said be did not believe such a letter
was in existence. Lord Lucan had expressed a belief
that it wa,, and he (Mr. Crookshank) wished it to be
produced if it were in existence. The correspondence in
connection with his arrest paised between Lord W.
Panlett and Mr. Filder.

The Court cave no intimation of their intention to
comply with Mr. Crookshank's request.
Sir R. Airey was sailed on to retsume his statement,
but before doing so asked Colonel Tulloch if the notes of
the evidence of Colonel Wetheirall, 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 I

- Colonel Tulloch said he believe& they were. The evi-
dence was taken by him, and c‘r:as in his own hand-
writing. Colonel Wetherall's evidence was mixed up
with that of Colonel Gordon's; and when the evidence
was sent to the latter for correct ion, he re-wrote it,
sending back only the copy.
Sir R. Ailey—Where are the original minutes!
Colonel Tulloch—Colonel Gordon has got them.
Colonel Gordon said he had never had any other do-
cument in his possession than that now produced.
The Judge-Advocate General-14eneral Airey wants
the original minutes taken by the Commander in the
Crimea.

Colonel Tulloch said he could niot sea why this appli-
cation was persisted in. Colonel Wetherall and Colons
Gordon could both be called and ec.uld state if there was
anything wrong in their evidenet% He would make
search for them, but his belief wari that there were none
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 question from the .3-ridge-Advocate-Gene-
ral,

Gen. Airey said it was difficult to point out the
bpwaisisicages
par-
ticular passages iniutihxeedrueport i to
le. They wePrewtot hew
hobjected,
e
of sentences in the e found in sentences,
whole of the London
his o f the
answers 37 t h page,
were
Prampu parts
rnths i theiraeentdi e
bitsn beingaij
report, to the end of the sixth line
He proceeded to say that beforz:
given to the string of queries scut
Tulto e
stated
t to him by the Com-
lr
rdinrixiinolni
nearrsy, Sirreport, J.l‘,4l:hNi
eileilina nd
some
epectsiffered had
thatmad et
h a
pe
thtaht:
:d spo
report
e before
mate-
rially from that which had been J
Parliament ;
and the very first sentence of
Commissioners had completed
would be found in the archives of the Secretary
The report
Secretary at War's
department, and he believed it Conte'
sion upon the conduct of himself rd Lorded noanimadver-
sion Lucan or
any other officer. That preliminary
took all the poison out of the report, he thought,
queries, and he
therefor© gave himself little more
them. Ho then proceeded to point
trouble about
Commissioners had been led into out that the
misapprehensions in
reference to the duties and powers of the Quart
ter-General's office by misconceptions as t
o er-Mae-
the
signature of checks and returns, and went counter-
into details
with a view to show how the system looked, and the
nature of the mistaken opinions which prevailed.
(Sir R. Airey) specially appointed C,,i. He
Wetherall as sub-
distributor of stores, in order to avoid undue,apearance of
formality ; and, in order to take additional care,p he
gave
instructions that no requisitions should be refused
with-
out especial reference to him, and the Assistant Quar-
termasters were ordered to go to the Commissariate
Stores every day, in order to make themselves ac
quainted with what there was available for the troops ;
and the consequence of this was, that articles which
he
'
did not find in the returns of the Commissariat
in Store-
keeper, the Assistant-Quartermaster foundthe
stores. He bad every reason to believe that the
sub-
departments had been administered in accordance
with the spirit of the general instructions. lie believed
that the chief sufferings of the army arose out
up
of the difficulty that was experienced in bringing
bales of goods from the sea to a camp pitched
'
` seven
miles off. (Sir R. Airey quoted extensively from the
evidence of several officers in support of his statements.)
The great wants were, however, labour and transit, and
as the sufferings of the men increased the dificiencies in
those respects were felt in proportion, and in order to
show that he took every means to get rid of official
routine, he mentioned that, by the regulations of the
War-office forms were issued with twenty-four blanks
to be filled up before a man could obtain a great coat
which forms however were thrown aside and another'
issued with Lord Raglan's consent with but one blank in
it to be filled up before signed by him (Sir R. Airey).
Regulations for warm clothing were issued faster than
the men could fetch it. The failure of transport and
the overworking of the men were questions which did
not touch his peculiar responsibility. He emphatically
disclaimed the possibility of any two individuals, whether
civilians or military men, coming to the Crimea
in the middle of March, and be able to arrive at a fair
report or opinion upon what could or could not be
done by the army there, placed as it was in a position of
difficulty—beyond all human conception—and in the
middle of winter. Sir Richard Airey concluded his
statement with an elaborate panegyric on the conduct
of the la's Lord Raglan during the time he commanded
the army in the East.
The Judge-Advocate-General—Do you intend to call
witnesses to-day, General Airey ?
General Airey—Yes.
The. Committee ajourned for half an hour.
On the re-assembling of the Board,
Sir Ri •
chard Airey, in reply to a question from Sir
W. Rowan relative to the army lauding in the

Crimea . without their, knapsacks raid, that the phy-
sical state of the men was sack that it was consi-
dered better they should land in as light rnarchingpler
as possible. Ou the voyage across the Black Sett the
men died fast from cholera, and they were thrown over
board .to an alarming extent. As this was the first
night of the army's bivouacking in the enemy's territory,
it was considered desirable by Lord Raglan that the
men should substitute a blanket and a change of clothes
for the knapsack. In Bulgaria the men had suffered so
much from heat that their knapsacks had to be carried
for them. The Commissioners conclusions with refer-
ence to the sufferings of the men from want ,of their
knapsacks were founded in error. Inquiries were made
every day as to the state of the men, and reports were
each morning laid before Lord Raglan.
Col. Wetherell was then called, and examined by Sir
R. Airey—He said that his evidence was taken in a
conversational manner by the Commissioners in the
Crimea, Col. Teillech writing down as much as he
pleased. He certainly did see it afterwards, but he did
not sign it. The printed evidence in the blue-book was
not the evidence he gave before the Commission-
ers, but the written document produced contained
something of what he said: The first time be
saw his evidence in a .collective form, ..was yesterday in •
that room. He had no recollection of the Commissioners
offering him his evidence for correction, and none that he
remembered had been made in it at his directions. The
evidence in•the blue book did not contain the whele of
his evidence given before the Commissioners in the
Crimea. Many explanations which he gave to account
for delays were not printed. The gallant Colonel then
3:orocecde4jtce-dekti tiittetapraieein4„
.Q.,Aeplained of by him-
m elf viden ceV 'and- after heAtilit scene further
eviderree,
The Court adjourn'ed at four o'clock.

peace upon lasting principles ; but to say the preient
peace was a glorious peace was toadyism to the Govern-
! merit or mere farce, and he hoped the Court would have
the a isdem to adjourn the discussion until they received
a little more information. from the Legislature. (Loud
cries of "No, no I" " Hear, hear," teed movement.)
Mr. READ spoke warmly in favour of the motion. 'He
would not say that the event about to be commemorated
was the termination of a glorious war; but it was cer-
tainly. a glorious peace. (Cheers.) The question was,
whether what had just taken place was an _honourable
termination of a great struggle t He contended that it
was, for everything had been by means-of it put upon
such a footing as must lead to lasting good (fleets. -He
could see why the con dderation of the subject shou'd
be adjourned. He found that the integrity of the Otto-
man power was preserved and its independence esta-
blished ; that the privileges of the Christian subjects, of
that empire were secured ; and that other great points
would be sting peace so far as diplomacy could make
it lasting. e concluded by hoping that the principle of
arbitration would constitute' the great element of deci-
sion in the future quarrels and differences betkVeen Go-
vernruente.
Mr. HOPOOOD differed from Alderman Sidney as to
the construction likely to be placed upon the 'language
and meaning of the address. There was nobody, who
would not receive gratification at finding that the hor-
rors of war were at an end, and to express that sentiment
in an address to the Queen would be a- singular way of
toadying to the Ministers.
Mr. Ross said, the treaty was a glorious one, and
would be remembered to the credit of the age. He de-
possessed the Wonderful material of her greatness in full
vipur, but that very display betrayed by its contrast
-tits wretched mismanagement which this country had so
much reason to deplore. The peace. would, he readily
admitted;be:a subject fit for congratulation if it were a
scribed the effects of the war as having greatly exceeded
the general expectation in the destruction of the alarm-
ing power of Russia and the accomplishment of perma-
nent benefits for the world, an f he believed that Turkey
would, if England did make more haste, appear fore-
most in the race of religious liberty.
Mr. JONES said he trusted the Court would be unani-
mous upon the subject. It bad been the practice of the
Court to address the Crown on the achievement of peace,
and the present was an occasion of sincere congratula-
tion on what was the greatest of all blessings.
Sir P. LAURIE supported the motion. The worse the
war was conducted the greater would he the necessity
for peace. He looked upon peace as a great blessing,
particularly when it put an end to mismanagement
among the other desperate evils attending it. (A laugh.)
Alderinan CUBITT said he was anxious fer peace in
common with his fellow-subjects, and he was surprised
to hear, as he did sometimes hear, that the peace just
ratified was a sham, a rotten peace. (Hear.) He had
read the treaty,
,He had read all the protocols with
great attention, and everything was as clear to hiniPas if 1
he had been present in the room in which the confer-
ences had been held. The treaty was founded upon most
equitable principles. He would not call the peace a
glorious peace. That was not the word, for the word
" glorious," applied to one side, meant " degrading"
upon the part of the other. (Cheers) It was a' fair
arbitration of all the difficulties which surrounded the
conditions of those principally interested, end which
were likely to arise. The allies went into the war with
an avowed object. They sought no aggrandisement,
and they required of Russia what was necessary for the
general security, and they obtained it. Nothing could
be more fair than the spirit with which the important
coeferences were carried on and the unanimity which'
"marked their termination. (Cheers.)
Alderman COPELAND said the proceedings of the
Court were premature. There were some explanations
nebessary as to the circumstances of the treaty. His
friend (Alderman Cubitt) said that the treaty was a fair
arbitration. Had the award been made I (" Hear, hear,"
and a laugh.) It would be agreeable to ascertain some-
thing about the commissioners appointed to regulate as
to the important business of the navigation of the Da-
nube and other essential matters before the Court came
to a detormi-ation, such as that which seemed to have a
majority of supporters in Court. They should think
of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. (Rear, and " No, no !")
The Court might rely upon it that there would be num-
berless disputes among the commissioners. (" No, no )
Why, he would ask, if the allies had a right to be
offended with Russia, had they not asked the Emperor
to settle the bilt ? (Laughter, and " Hear, hear.") Ho
must deolare in conclusion, that never was there a peace
which was looked upon with such apathy as the peace
which had been described as just ratified.
Mr. BESLEY did not understand why peoplp casilled at
the propositions. He had read the treaty and the pro-
tocols, and he was compelled to confess that Lard
Clarendon bad .praved himself, in the whole of the nego-
tiations, a much greater man than he bad ever sup-
posed his lordship to be. (Roar, hear.) There was uo
doubt of a secure peace ; he would not say a lasting
peace, because who in the present state of t he world
could expect any great permanency t But he looked
upon the mention of arbitration as most propitious to
the great interests of humanity. (Hear, hear.) He
would support the motion, but he would watch the ad-
dress, so that not a word would appear in it in favour of
the bungling of the Government.
Alderman ROSE said Alderman Copeland had asked
why Russia had not been asked to pay the bill ; but
the question was, whether Russia, if she had been able
to pay the bill, could have stopped the war. (Hear,
hear.) He argued strongly in favour of the motion.
Alderman KENNEDY'S proposition was then put and
unanimously agreed to, and a committee having pre-
pared the address, it was unanimously and amid loud
cheers agreed to.

ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES.

The correspondence relating to the conduct of
Mr. Crampton, the British Minister at Washing-
ton, has been laid before Parliament. There is
nothing in this large volume that has not already
been substantially communicated to the pulelic
through the columns of The Sun. We therefore
confine ourselves to the reproduction of the last
despatch from the Earl of Clarendon, which closes
the correspondence :

No. 84. TAR EARL OF CLARENDON TO MR. DALLAS.
Foreign-office, April 30,1856.
The undersigned, &c., had the honour to receive, on the
29th of January, from Mr. Buchanan, Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at
this Court, a copy of a despatch dated the 28th of the pre-
vious December, addressed to Mr. Buchanan by Mr.
Marcy, Secretary of State of the United States, containing
observations on a despatch which the undersigned had di-
rected her Majesty's Minister at Washington to communi-
cate to Mr. Marcy. Mr. Marcy's despatch was in continua-
tion of the discussion which had bcon some time pending
between the two Governments, on the subject of the con-
duct, which was alleged by the Government of the United
States to have been pursued by certain of her Majesty's
°floors in giving effect to the intentions of her Majesty's
Government to receive into the military service of the
Queen any persons who, corning from any quarter into her
Majesty's dominions, might there be willing to engage in
that service.

The undersigned has hitherto deferred replying to Mr.
Marcy's despatch, net only because it was more consistent
with the respect which her lAiajesty's Government enter-
tain for the United states, thoroughly to inquire into the
allegations contained in it, but also because it was just
and right towards her Majesty's Officers whose conduct was
impugned, to put them in possession of the charges brought
against them, and to give them that opportunity of expla-
n.tina and defence which was then fur the first thou af-
forded them.

The undersigned, before he adverts to Mr. Marcy's last
despatch, must express his deep regret that the Govern-
ment of the United States should have deemed it necessary
to continue a controversy on a question which Mr. Buch-
anan considered at the time would be finally settled by the
note of the undersigned of July 16, 1855—a note which Mr.
Buchanan said he would transmit with much satisfaction
to his Government. The undersigned had, indeed, hoped
that that note, together with his subsequent communica-
tions of the 27th of Sept. to Mr. Buchanan, and of the
16th of Nov., through Mr. Crampton, to the Government
of the United States, would have been accepted by a
friendly Government such as that of the United States,
as a satisfaction for any offence which that Government
might have been led by circumstances to think had, though
unintentionally, been given.
For what has been the course of the transactions which
have given rise to this correspondence ?
On the breaking out of the late war between the Western
Powers and Russia, the British Government was informed
that many persons resident within the United States—
some natives of the continent of Europe, and some natu-
ral-born subjects of her Majesty—were desirous of entering
into the military service of Great Britain. The British
Government, believing the information they had received
on this matter to be well founded, took steps to avail
themselves of this disposition, and gave directions that
any persons presenting themselves within the British North
American Provinces, willing to enlist and found fit for
service, should be engaged for the British army. But her
Majesty's Government gave the most positive orders that
in making arrangements for this purpose nothing should
be done to infringe in any manner whatsoever the neutra-
lity laws of the United states.
It was not doubted that such arrangements might be
carried into execution without any violation of those laws,
because those laws prohibit enlistments or engagements
only within the territories of the United States ; they do
not forbid citizens of the United States or residents therein
from leaving those territories, nor do they forbid such
citizens or other persons from engaging or enlisting in mili-
tary service elsewhere, when of their own free will and
without any previous contract or engagement they may
have left those territories.
The intentions of the British Government, and the ar-
rangements made to carry those intentions intoesecution
were not concealed from the Government of the United
States. •
Those intentions and arrangements were frankly stated
by Mr. Crampton to Mr. Marcy in a conversation on the
22d of March, 1855, and the only observations which Mr.
Marcy made in reply were, that the neutrality laws of the
United States would be rigidly enforced, but that any num-
ber of persons who desired it might leave the United
States, and get enlisted in any foreign service.
Up to this point, therefore, there was no misunderstand-
ing as to the purpose of the British Government, and no
difference of opinion as to the legality of the course which
that Government intended to pursue.
4 But the British Government soon found, by accounts

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