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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 7. 1856

The Board retired to consider the question, and after now to say that there was a nice paint in the report, and
an absence of 20 minutes returned into Court. that it was the hutting of the men and not the horses
they referred to. The commissioners had also made a
The Judge Advocate-General said that he had been
directed by the Board to inform his lordship, that after mistake with reference to the distance of the cavalry
stores,
which were never less than two miles from the
the intimation that had been conveyed to him that his camp. The noble lord then read various letters which
ho bad forwarded to the proper authorities,
complaining of the fatigue and overworking of the troop
horses after he bad to provide 500 efficient horses at the
order of the Field-Marshal. In the heavy brigade, be-
tween the 12th and 27th Deo., 381 horses were used on
commissariat duties, 143 for regimental forage duties,
picquets 40, deficient for forage duties 8, so that
allowing each horse to carry 14 cwt., that brigade
lost the supply of 12 cwt. of food daily. In the
Light Brigade there were but 201 horses ; 122 of
these were used for commissariat duties (making 503 on
transport duty), 72 on regimental forage, and seven for
orderlies. After they commenced the commissariat duties
the horses fell sick and died rapidly. In one day no less
than 29 horses died. He made several appeals against
this extra and destructive duty ; and filially, three
days after the 25th, he was relieved from them.
The noble lord then addressed himself to another
part of the report with reference to the shelter for horses,
in which the Commissioners say, "Considering, also,
the suffering and severe loss of horses from exposure to
the weather in the commencement of the winter, there
appears to be a want of Promptitude or ingenuity in de-
vising for them some temporary shelter such as saved the
baggage-horses of the Sappers and Miners at Balaklava."
He contended by a refereima between the two cases that
this was a detraction on the part of the commissioners
that could not be supported by any sophistry, and that it
showed the animus of the commissioners and the malig-
nity of their report. The noble lord was entering in.° a
minute consideration of this part of the commissioners
report, when our despatch left.

case, like all the others to be inquired into, would be
reported on to her Majesty on its own merit., the
majority of the board were of opinion that 24 hours'
delay was necessary for his lordship to enter on his case,
and that the board were willing to accede to the request.
Lord Lucan expressed his thanks to theßoard for that
decision, and said that still being of opinion he should
be in a disadvantageous position without his case were
separately adjudicated on, and at once, he had no objection
to go on, if the board would allow him to enter a protest
against this decision on the minutes of the inquiry.
The Judge Advocate-General said, that the board
would report separately on each case to the Queen, and
from that decision and arrangement they could not de-
part.

Lord Lucan said that did not appear to bins satisfac-
tory, and urged to be allowed to enter his protest.
the Judge-Advocate•General said the Board did not
understand his lordship's request.

After some further remarks, Lord Lucan said ha was
desirous of placing a defence of his conduct on record.
He had no desire to cause delay, and if the Board would
receive his protest ho would proceed, else he must avail
himself of the 24 hours' delay.

After some further discussion the Board refused to
give any other answer to his request than the above, or
decide on receiving the protest.
Lord Lucan said that no fault should be found with
him, and decided on proceeding, but would to-morrow
present his protest, and then it would be for the Board
to accept or reject it. He proposed to read first those
parts of the report to which he took exception, and, as
he went on, to ask three or four officers whom he
should call to rebut those statements, but not to call
witnesses in chief. His lordship the i read his de-
fence. He commenced by stating that he hoped
to be able to convince the Board that he was
free from the charges that had been brought against
him, and that the statements and charges were not only
unsupported by evidence, hut that they were at variance
with the truth. He contended that no loss of horses
could be charged against him, and that he and his bro-
ther officers did all they could to obey their orders, and
to carry out to the fullest extent the instructions they
received, and to promote as well as they could the effici-
ency of the men committed to their charge. His first
objection was to the? calculation of the deaths of cavalry
horses, which was at variance-with the truth. The re-
port stated that with reference to the effect of the defi-
ciency of forage and the other privations to which the
horses of the army were exposed they had ascertained
the loss among them from various causes (page 20), on
which they state that taking 6 months to 31st March,
inclusive, that 493 horses of the heavy cavalry died of di-
sease, being 47 per cent. of the whole wherein the gross
number of horses was 1,055,, of which 83 were killed in
action, so that the mortality from disea e was 50 per
cent. instead of 47. In the Light Division the number of
horses was 1,161, of which 489 were transferred to other
corps, andif that were taken into consideration the loss
from disease instead of being 38 per cent., as stated by
the commissioners, was in reality 65 per cent., and he
mentioned this, although it might be said to tell against
him, to show the fallacious calculations of the Com-
missioners, and that they had made the grossest mis-
takes it was possible for two gentlemen to make. His
lordship then proceeded to show the inaccuracy of the
Commissioners' calculations, by referring to their report
of the mortality of the commissariat horses, which, he
said, were equally incorrect. These calculations had
been made invidiously to damage the reputation of the
cavalry —who had to contend against bad weather, want
of forage, and exposure to weather, which bad not been
considered by the Commissioners in making their calcu-
lations. Mr. Commismary Filder bad stated in hie
evidence, and to that he directed especial attention, that
he always took very good care, when he bad forage,
that his horses should have the preference ; and he be-
lieved that, in fact, they were fed in preference to the
horses of the army. After referring to the belief that
the Commissioners had included in their returns of the
cavalry officers those of the baggage and ambu-
lance horses, and said he hoped the Board
would ask for a return of all the baggage and
ambulance horses in the Crimea on the first of every
month for the six months to which the Commissioners'
report referred. He trusted that then it would be found
that the loss of horses was greater in the transport de-
partment than in the cavalry. The whole of the Com-
missioners' figures were wrong, and he thought he might
repeat with regard to these gentlemen what had been al-
ready wittily remarked that nothing was so inc-rrect as
their figures except their facts, and to those facts he re-
ferred. He next alluded to the hutting of the horses
The Commissioners stated that the hutting for the
cavalry commenced in n• case earlier than tt • end of Jai.
Now the weather at thet ime was exceedingly bad. The
light cavalry marched to the valley of the Kadikoi on
the 2d Dec., but the heavy division, from the state of
the weather, could not march there before the 5,h Dec.,
when some stir for sheltering the horses commenced.
The army could not have taken an example then of hutting
from our allies, because until up to the 13th Feb. they had
no horses hutted. He had two visits from an engineer
officer to assist him, but up to the time of his leaving
the Crimea he had no assistance from any engineer offi-
cer to assist him in providing shelter for the horses.
When Lieut. Lennox, who wets appropriated to him for
that purpose, visited him, he thought he should
have had the assistance of ar, enginesr offi-
cer. He visited him for half an hour, promising
to return the following day; but bad never done so,
and he had not seen him since. Then he was to have
the assistaece of Major Hall, but in that he was dis-
appointed. The cavalry men at the time were sickly,
and at one time there were scarcely enough of
ra:n to look after , the horses, and he applied
for some Turks to assist him. He applied
for them, but he did not get them. On arriving at Ka-
dikoi he found that Osman Pasha, and not Sir Colin
Campbell, as he had previously been informed, was the
person to apply to for the Turks. He read hieinforma-
tion from Lord Bingham's journal, who was then his
aide-de-camp. Lord Bingham saw Osman Pasha on 3,1
December; but, being di,,satisfied with his answer, he
(Lord Lucan) called on Osman Pasha on the 4th Decem
ber, who promised him the required assistance from
Roostam Pasha. On the following day Lord Bingham
went to him, but the Turks could not be obtained ; and
the next day he (Lord Lucan) wrote to the Quartermass
ter-General, but without success ; and on the 10th
December he called the officers together, when
it was decided they should encamp on the
ground where they were, receiving the assistance of 150
Tnrks for one or two days only. On the 21st December
ho called the attention of the Quartermaster General to
the fact, that be (Lord Luc in) was unable to proceed
with this work, giving as a reason the manner in which
the dragoons were occupied on, duty and being deprived
of sufficient assistance from the Turks, and expressed
an opinion that with his then assistance he would not
be able to:construct sufficient amount of shelter, nor in
time to be of service to the cavalry horses, with the
artificers of the divisions and a small corps,of sappers acid
miners. - He. contended that the operations were com-
menced at-a much earlier date than that stated by the
Commissioners, and tbatthey were carried out by himself
and his officers with the greatest energy and determination.
The regiments furthest from the encampment were nets°
well provided with sheltering for.the horses as those in
the immediate neighbourhood of the sheltering erected
to which be had referred, from the want of facilities to
do so. On the 12th Lord Raglan called upon him for
500 effective horses, which paralysed his (Lord Lucan's)
exertions. It was tree, as he had said, he had the assise
tance of 150 Turks for a short time, but they were in
such a weakly and emaciated condition that he was
obliged 'to return them, fearing he would have the re-
sponsibility of answering for their lives. Humanity
also dictated that they should be no further worked, and
he sent them back to Roostam Pacha. The temporary
barracks were completed before the 17th January, and as
the stables were roofed horses were sent in. His lord-
ship then detailed the measures he adopted to ascertain
the state and condition of his men and horses ; and one
was to have a daily nominal return of the effective men
and horses in each troop, arid bow employed, which was
rather an unusual thing. The return from the 4th
Dragoon' Guards was addressed, by mistake, to Lord
Raglan, who, on reading it, said he was glad to find the
men were so well employed. The whole of the stabling,
he believed, was completed by the 11th February, and
for which he received the congratulation of Colonel
Shute, his adjutant, on the 13th, previous to his (Lord
Lucan) leaving the Crimea. That officer said to him—
"l congratulate .you, Lord Lucan, on having so suc-
cessfully accomplished what you always had so much at
heart—that of sheltering every horse under your con-
trol." His lordship next referred to Major Hall's
evidence relative to the quantity of timber avails
able in the Crimea for hutting purposes,
which he (Lord Lucan) proceeded to show
Wa 3 inadequate to the wants of 'the army. On one oc-
casion, when the baggage horses went for timber, it was
refused because the order was hot sufficiently and cor-
rectly drawn. He then wrote for permission to have
what was required for uprights and rafters at any time,
hut he was told that ceuld not be, done, because it
would be nut of order. Whilst, however, Major Hall
had timber-tinder his control no difficulty arose in' his
(Lord Lucan) having it. After that the hutting was de-
layed until nails could be procured from Constantinople
to nail the roofs on to the stabling. If it had not been
for these delays the stabling would have been ready 10
days earlier than it was. On the 17th January, 1855,
be wrote a letter to the Adjutant-General representing
the fearful condition of the cavalry at having to continue
in the discharge of transport duties, in which he made
another appeal on their behalf, for the horses were dying
fast? On the 12th December, from the effects of the
Commissariat transport, 426 horses had died—many
sank under their loads, and had to be left to perish. His
lordship's letters entered into a detailed statement
of the position of the horses and men, showing
in a pecuniary point of view the great loss the country
was sufferiugliorn the death of so many horses, remind-
, ing him that 800 horses cost the country about 60,0001.
His lordship said
he hoped he bad satisfied the Board
that the hutting eunmenced before the end of January,
as stated by. the- Commissioners. He com-
plained of the impression this report had • created
against him, and it Rap no answer for the committee

ONIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, APRIL 6.
The University rermons this day were preached, in
the morning by the Master of Balliol College, and in the
afternoon by the Rev. W. .ndrew of Worcester College.
The Reader in Experimental Philosophy (Mr. Walker)
proposes to commence a course of lectures on Franklinic
and Voltaic Elea ricity in the Clarendon on Friday the
11th inst., at 1 o'clock.
The days and subjects of the course will be as follows:
Friday 11—Electrical excitation, conduction, ste.
Monday 14—Statement of the principal hypotheses,
theory of the Leyden jar, &c.
Wedne. day 16 —Plizenomena of induction—in:lpm tance
of researches of Faraday, &c.
Friday 18th—Pbeenomena of discharge, by conduc-
tion, disruption and convection.
_ _ _

Monday 21st—Development of Electricity by steam.
Atmospheric Electricity.
Wedne.,day 23d—Disc‘weries of GA Irani and Volta.
Development of Electricity in a current form.
Monday, 28th—Different forms of ♦oltaic batteries,
measurement of effects, &c.

• Wednesday 30th—theories to explain the development
of Votaic Electricity. Effect.; of large batteries,
Those gentlemen who wish to attend are requested to
put down their names at the Lecture-room in the Cla-
rendon on Thursday next, between the hours of 2 and 3
o'clock, or before the First Lecture.
There will be an Ehction t i one Scholarship at Wad-
ham Cull, ge, on Monday, the 30th June next. It will
be open to Natives of Great Britain, under 19 years of
age. Candidates are desired to call upon the .Warden
on Wednesday, the 25th of June, at 5 o'clock, bringing
with them certificates of their parents' marriage, and of
their own age and baptism, as well as testimonials of
good conduct.

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IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY MORNING.

THE LAW APPOINTMENTS.
The selection of Mr. Christian, Q.C., to fill the
office of Solicitor-General has doomed to silence
columns of hostile criticism which would have been
sure to fill the Irish journals in the event of the
mantle having fallen on the shoulders of any one
of the other candidates whose names wore men-
tioned in the early part of the week. The Evening
Mail of last night candidly admits that the qualifi-
cations which ought to be considered indispensable
in aspirants to judicial stations are possessed in an
eminent degree by Mr. Christian. This gentleman
held the office of Sergeant-at-law for some time, but
threw it up under circumstances highly honourable
to his sense of professional duty. Since the esta-
blishment of the Encumbered Estates Court Baron
Richards has been, of course, prevented from going
circuit, and the duties of judge of assize necessa-
rily devolved upon one of the three sergeants. Now
Mr. Christian's enormous practice is wholly con-
fined to the courts of equity, and, as the Chancellor
sits nearly the whole time the assizes aro being
held, Mr. Christian felt that his temporary absence
on circuit could not fail to be injurious to th• in-
terests of his clients, so that rather than they should
suffer any inconvenience he cast off the coif, and
thus lost a step in the ladder of promotion.