The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, PRIDAY EVENING, MAY 161 1856.

l.1N?;`31, =A' keIXIGI) aENTALF.

IYIANCHESTER, R.ACii.l.l.—(This Day.)

T-73E CRIMEAN INQUIRY.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

Yester3ay the beai.l of general officers re-assembled
shortly after H
The Judge-AdvoCate announced that be had written to
Sir Charles Treve!yao, informing him that his statement
had been laid before the board, and that every raciiity
would be afforded to him to take part in the proceeding,.,
if he wished to do so, and that he had received the fol-
lowing reply :

WILTON STAKES.

Magnifier
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Duchess of Sutherland

Three ran.

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"Treasury, 15th May, 1856.
" Sir,—l have bad the honourof receiving your letter
of yesterday's date, informing me, by desire of the Board
of General Officers, Coat Commissary-General Filler will
come before them to-day, to make a statement relative
to the management of his department during the late war,
and to call the attention of the Board to a statement
signed by me, in explaration of the arrangements
made by the Treasury in reference to the supp:y of forage
to the army in the Crimea,' and that if, under these cir-
cumstances, I should wish to take any part in the pro-
ceedings, every facility would be afforded me for that
purpose. _

Seven ran.
DERBY HANDICAP.
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Fourteen ran.
STAND PLATE.

"In reply, I beg to state that as I have no reason to
complain of any part of the report of the commissioners,
and as a full explanation has been furnished of the pro-
ceedings of the Treasury in reference to the supply of
forage, which had been clinmented upon in a previous
statement by Mr. Filder, I do not consider it necessary
to avail myself of the permission which Las been kindly
given by the Board of General Officers to appear before
them to-day.--I have, &c., _ _ _

Prince Plausible..

Nine ran.

LORD J 0111,7 RUSSELL AT STROUD.

STROUD, TIiunSDAT.
m Last night Lord John Russell, taking advantage of
the Whitsuntide holidays, delivered his promised lec-
ture to the " Stroud Mutual Improvement Society," on
the " Study of History," and the large Subscription-
room and galleries were crowded to excess by persons of
ail ranks and both sexes. W. H. Stanton, Esq., taok
the chair.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, after some remarks on ancient
history and historians, addressed himself to the history
of modern times. He cited the free states of Ita'y as the
first which made progress in arts and letters, pointed out
bow Rome had 'decayed through the neglect of religion,
traced the awakening of Christianity through the energy
of Lu her, and the religious controversy which led to
• the war of the Reformation, which began in the 16th
century, and could not be said to have been con-
chided until the end of the seventeenth. The history
of that great epoch bad not been related by historians
worthy of the subject. He then came to the study of
modern history, especially in connection with Spain,
France, and Great Britain. Up to the reign of
Philip 11. Spain had flourished, but that monarch had
imbibed the opinion that men were not to be allowed
to bold opinions adverse to those held by the church and
by himself, and this led tu the most dreadful wars and
the separation of the Low Countries. In Spain itself,
by means of the lequisition, all opposition was success-
fully destroyed. Every dawn of the Reformation was
stifled—first, by the sacrifice of all independenoe of
mind, all exertion of intellect, all the rewards which
induce men to pursue the paths of history ; and,
secondly, Philip 11. gained it by the loss of his sub-
jects. The history of France was different, not so
much in principle as in degree. With a' mo-
narchy which might be said to be absolute, public
opinion became totally at variance with it, and men of
the greatest eminence in France actually destroyed by
their pens the powerful monarchy which they assailed.
Then followed the French revolution, of the horror: of
which all had read. The noble lecturer then came to the
history of our own country, showing how our liberties
had been established by John Hampden and his com-
panions. On the subject of the American war of inde-
pendence he spoke strongly. Men, he said, of the
greatest political ability had opposed that war, and the
objects for which it had been waged by England.
The Earl of Chatham, Pitt, Burke, Fox, Lord Rock-
ingham, Sir G. Savile—all descounced the attempts
of this country as iniquitous, allegin 2t that they would
inflict great injury upon this country in the event of
failure, and that it they succeeded they would set an ex-
ample of tyrannical government, and would weaken the
principles of government in this country. The manner
of our separation from the United States was to be re-
gretted more than the fact of that separation, for they
were told by travellers in the states of new England
that the books in which the children and yonne men
were taught at this day contained accounts • of that fatal
contest, describing the successes of the Americans ; how
bravely they bad fought, and how they had achieved
their independence against the attempts of the Briti- h
king and the British Parliament. He was looking
the other day, with a very different ohject to the pre-
sent, at the form of oaths taken by New England
statesmen, and he found that they swore never to
obey any successor of George 111. We might say
that this was unwise on their part, and that the contest
having ceased long ago they ought not to recollect it ;
but he (Lord John) must own that what had been done
was an effect that might have been foreseen of the injus-
tice of our attempt to enslave those people. That was had
seed producing bad fruit, and we might observe that, fol-
lowing the same teac7aing, whenever there was any triflipg
dispute (between this country and the United States,
there were not wanting persons who endeavoured to
inflame it, who endeavoured to induce the Americans to
believe that we were always wishing to get an advantage
over them, or to establish an authority which we had no
business to claim. 'He was afraid that those harangu-s
and excitements—so utterly groundless as he believed
they were with respect to the disposition which they
puted to this country—were in fact nothing but the conse-
quences which Re are deriving from the sins of our fathers,
and that the animosii;y then excitederemaans to the pee-
sent day to be visited on us. If this wer3 so it showed
how careful people o u:;•ht to be that they did not encour-
age any contest but that which they felt thems:lves per-
fectly justified in; andhe hoped it would wear itself out,
and come to an end ; for of this he was fully persuaded,
that no nations, by reason of their consanguinity,
reason of their language, by reason of their
similarity of institutions, and the great cause
which all uphold, eneht be better friends than
the Monarchy of Greilt Britain and the Republic of the
United States. (Loud cheers.) Alluding to the subjee,
of religious tolerance the noble lord remarked on the dis-
abilities to which the Roman Catholics in this country
had been so long subje‘it. Our principles of government
led to freedom, and those principles must be made uni-
versal. We must do as ,;he Parliament of England ha= of
late years done, with but one exception, and give free
scope to religious opinions. In conclusion, his lordship
advised his hearers in the study of history rather to study
the history of some partelcular period, than to have at
heart the mere dates of the whole history of the world.
It would be a waste of ti me merely to collect in the mind
a series of dates or an epitome of events. They should
trace events to their causes, and follow them to their
consequences.--His lordship spoke for nearly two hours.

"C. E. TREVELYAN.
" The Right Hun. the Jud:e7Advocatc.-."
Mr. Filler, in commencing his statement, referred to
his reply to the misrepresentations of the commissioners
which had been laid before Parliament, observing that he
now wished to make some additions to what was therein
stated. In page 15 the commissioners chorged him
with supplying unwholesome, instead of wholesome and
nutritious food to the army, and the general character
of the report was a censure on his department for mis-
management, imprlvidence, and want of energy in at-
teoding tl the supp'ies of the army. He proposed to
address himself to the general spirit of the whets, as
will as to the specific charges, to show that the
statements which it contained, so far as they related
to his department, were at variance ith actual

:acts. There were many difficulties in the way of sup-
plying the large army in the East, arising from the, sud-
denness of its movements, the unfavourable position in
which it was pliaed, being so far from supplies, and the
impossibility of foreseeing the misfortunes that attended
it. Under these circumstances it was not surprising
that his efforts to supply the mine' should not have been
attended with the success which might have been wished,
though he had used every possible exertion. Of these
qualifying circumstances the commissioners had taken
no notice in the reports. The commissariat in the Cri-
:pea had to perform most onerous duties, and yet the
commissioners charged him with want of foresight—not
in the discharge of the duties of his own department
alone, but in neglectine. to interfere in matters over
which he had no control. The great difficulty was with
regard to transport, and in Bulgaria, where the army
was supplied from the resources of the country, no dif-
ficulty was experienced.. Everything was done that
could be done to keep up the efficiency of the Land
Transport, though not with such success as he could
have wished. There was great difficulty in getting sup-
plies to the camp, Owing to the bad state of the road
from Balaklava. No one could imagine the condition of
that road during the winter. The French did not suffer
on this account, as the ground between tneir stores and
the camp was very different to that between the English
stores and their camp. Supplies to the English had to
traverse a morass. With regard to the want of forage,
the commissioner had omitted it to be only fractional, and
it had been shown in evidence before the board that the
mortality amongst the horses was not attributable to any
waut of food, but to the commissariat transport duties.
The sea transport was also deficient, and in reply to his
constant applications for additional transport ee received
letters from Admiral Boxer, stating that no mere vessels
could be spared for this purpose than were already em-
ployed in bringing oxen and other supplies from Con-
stantinople. Lare quantities of fuel were in store in
November, and an order was given early in December
for it to be issued, but the difficulty was in getting it to
the front. The army received notice that rations of
charcoal could be obtained from 11,:a,klava He was
anxious that the Spanish mules when they arrived from
natio, should be employed in this service, but they were
ordered to be employed only for carrying huts for the
men. These mules had great advantages with regard
to fodder, but they began to fall off like the other horses
of the army, and the loss amongst them was not less than
30 per cent, in the first five weeks after their arrival.
On the 30th of Sept. he wrote to Sir Chas. Trevelyan
for 2,000 tons of hay, to which he received a reply stat-
ing that it was impossible that so large a quantity could
be supplied, and it was promised that 357 tons per month
should be sent to the East. In reply to this he (Itir.
Filmier) wrote again to say that that quantity was not
sufficient ; that 580 tons per month would be required
for the artillery, cavalry, and commissariat animals alone,
and that not less than 860 tons would be necessary to
supply all the wants of the army. So little notice ea ,
taken of this that up to the Ist of Feb. he never re-
ceived more than 200 tons of hay per mouth. Hod, r the
circumstances in which they were placed, he did not
think it was too much to expect that the horses of the
army would be sent down to Balaklava fsr their own
forage. There was no great deficiency of forage in store
at this. time, and the cavalry horses were receiving 8 lbs.
instead of 10 lbs. of hay, and the rations of the baggage
animals suffered a proportionate diminution. In the
storm of the 14th of November a large quantity of forage
was destroyed, and for a time he was left almost without
any in store. During the winter of 1854-55 every energy
was employed by the commissary at Constantinople to
get forage, but only a very email quantity could be ob-
tained, and that at a very high pi ice, and in proof of this
he placed in the hands of the board a tender fur the sup-
ply of chopped straw from Constantinople. He then
referred to the quality and nature of the supplies to the
army, upon which he said the commissioners had been
too hasty in drawing their conclusions. It was found
necessary with the salt meat diet to issue vegetables,
and an order was given by Lord Raglan to obtain sup-
plies, and a quantity was obtained from the Black Sea,
but not sufficient for a large army. In April and May,
1855, he sent to the Consul at Trebiz md to provide a
quantity of vegetables, but he was unable to do se. In
December some were received, but they were in a bad
state, and but for that perhaps there would have been
no deficiency. The returns would show that when there
was a large quantity of preserved potatoes in store there
was an un willingness on the part of the men to take
them ; that there was none taken during November and
December, and that the men did not begin to take them
till January, 1855. With regard to the lime juice, as it
was sent out by the medical department in the absence
of special instructions, he concluded that it was intended
only for hospital use, and Dr. Hall reported that he did
not recommend it to be supplied to the army till the
arrival "of large quantities. Two thousand pounds of
lime ,juice were sent from England on the 19:11 Dec.,
1854, tut the order from the Commander-in-Chief fur
its issue to the army generally was not given till the
29th of January, 1855.

LATER DEPARTURE OF MAILS FOR THE MEDITERRA-
NEAN, INDIA, &c.--The overland mails for the Mediter-
ranean, India, Ste., via Marseilles, will in future he made
up and despatched from I:iondon on the evenings of the
10th and 26th of each mouth, instead of on the mornings
of those days, as heretofore, except when the 10th or
26th of the month tails on a Sunday, on which occasion
the mails will be despatched from London on the morn-
ing of the following day,—.By cmnmancl of the Post.
master-General, Ro Muni Hill, Secretary.—General
Post office, May 13, 1856.
LATER, DEPARTURE OP MAILS FOR THE BRITISH
FORCES IN THE EAST.—Th a ordinary mails for the Bri-
tish Forces or the Transport Servioe in Greece, Turkey.
and the Black Sea, or for the British military hospitals,
will in future be made up stud despatched from London
on the mornings of Tuesday and Saturday, instead of on
the evenings of Monday ar d Friday, and supplementary
mails will be despatched out the evening of Tuesday and
Saturday.—By commaud of the Postmaster-General,
Rowland Hill, Secretary.--General Post-office, May 13,
1856.

The board having adjourned for about half an hour,
on their return, _ _ _

Mr. Filder stated that he was not prepared to proceed
any further with his case that day ; and, acccriiogly, it
wa, arranged that he should resume it this morning.
At the request of the President, Mr. Filder undertook
to lay before the board his original instructions from the
Treasury, written in February, 1354, in reference to the
provisioning and foraging of the expedition to the East.
In reply to questions from Gen. Berkeley,
Mr. Filder said these instructions did not contain any
directions as to the manner in which he was to obtain
supplies. On being informed that the army was g.iing to
Constantinople, he made requisitions both upon the
Treasury and the Admiralty, those upon the latter relat-
ng to biscuit, salt beef, &e. The commissariat were
nearly always well supplied up to the period when the
army embarked at Varna for the Crimea. He could not
account for the deficiency cf forage on board the tran-
sport ships during the passage.
In reply to a question from the Judge-Advocate,
Mr. Filder stated that there was always either more
hay or more chopped straw in Bra,laklava harbour than
could be landed ; and in reply to further questions from
Gen. Rowan and Gen. Berkeley, he said that the corn-
missariat staff was inadequate from the first, and that
had a forward movement of the army taken place in the
Crimea, it would have been impossible for the staff to
perform the duties which would have been imposed upon
it.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF YOICIC.—In consequence of the
illness of the Archbishop of York, who was suddenly
seized with indisposition. at his town residence on the
20th ult., and who has !tot sufficiently recovered to be
able to resume his episc )pal duties, the Right Rev. Dr.
Spencer, late Bishop of Madras, has been appointed to
officiate at the confiri nations and other ecclesiastical
ceremonies in the West Riding of Yorkshire which are
shortly to take place.
IMPERIAL BRAZILIA N MINING ASSOCIATION.—At the
balf-yearly meeting of this association, held yesterday,
the reports and accounts were adopted. The excess of
expenditure over retieipts for the six months endingthe
31st of Decembez. was 2,7341., and the assets, including
the reserve invested in the New Three per Cent. Stock,
amount to about 5,000/. The directors have been enabled
to reduce the g eneral outlay, and the saving effected
during the year 1855 as compared with 1854 has been
upwards of 3,000/. Operations at Clung° Saco and the
- other works are progressing, the latter reports being in
some respects of a less satisfactory character. The ad-
vices by the mail just due are awaited with anxiety, as
the future pri %spect4 of the undertaking will be much in-
fluenced by th em. In answer to questions, it was stated
that the last ci ~11. of 10s. per share had been well paid,
and that if the expected accounts proved unfavourable,
attention woo' d be given to measures necessary for
winding up. Che estatev of the company are extensive,
and the intro& Lotion of railway facilities in Brazil may,
it is thought, t iventually increase their value.
BURGLARY, I PITH VIOLENCE.--& few nights ago an
old gentleman,, named Pring, who resides in a lonely
spot, near the •village of Awliscombe, Devonshire, hear-
ing a noise in 'his house, got out of bed and went down
stairs. lie t' sen encountered a man with a handker-
chief over his • eyes, who immediately attacked him with
a pitchfork. Mr. Pring received several wounds in his
Corehead and IA stab in his side. He became insensible,
ai Id to all a; )pea ranee deal. When he was discovered
on the folio wing morning by a neighbour he was found
weltering in his blood. The house had been ransacked,
arti cl,ie had been broken in pieces, and several things,
among the rei lt a pistol, were stolen. Two burglaries iu
the sat se dist riot occurred soon afterwards, and, after a
vigilant searcl
two men, one of whom is believed to be
a ticket .of-leas re man, were apprehended and brought
before t he inai ;istrates residing in the district. The pis-
tol and atbisr trticles were found at a place called the
"Travel It :rsr Rest," where the prisoners had left them.
Mr. PHI I; 7 was too ill to attend the court, and the men
were exal 'illued in his bed room. They were committed
for trial.

Col. Gordon made seine explanatory remarks relating
to the evidence which he hal given before the board.
At the conclusion of his explanation he observed that
Col. TuHoch had stated that he could not reconcile Col.
Wetherall's evidence with regard to blankets with the
statement of the commissariat officers, and that that was
the reason why he omitted it from the report. That
being the case, why did he not put some questions to
him (Col. Gordon) on that subject ?
The board then adjourned till this day.

The half-yearly inspection of the Royal Sappers and
Miners took place at Brompton on Wedne‘day by Lieu-
tenant-Cen. Sir John F. Burgoyne, G. 0.8 , R.E., In-
spector-General of Fortifications. The whole of the
Corps of Royal Engineers were minutely inspected by
Gen. Burgoyne, who expressed himself to the Colonel.
Commandant as being highly satisfied with the appear-
ance of this distinguished branch of the service.
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THE S ',ToPPAGE OF THE SUNDAY BANDS IN THE
PARlis.— -At a meeting of the St. Pancras Vestry held
yesterdas , a deputation attended with a requisition,
signed b 3 about 500 ratepayers, requesting the vestry-
ball for a public meeting to elicit the opinion of the in-
habitantA with reference to the perf rmance of music in
the parks on Sunday afternoon. The use of the ball was
immediate ly granted, and the me:ling is fixed for Mon-
day evonitj, ! next at eight o'clock.
Brevet-1:i cut-Colonel Haatley's Company, No. 6 of
the 12th mat talion Royal Artillery, have received orders
to 11°1d them, 'elves in readiness to proceed from Wool-
wich the 1. "th in,t. for Leitli to relieve the 2d Com-
pany of the 6th Battalion, who are ordered to return to
head•qu4rters to prepare for foreign service.