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CORRESPONDENCE OF The FREE PRESS.
Letters from England.
No. INV.
The Rosovck Comn,uee-Thc Ne,c Houses Of
Parliament
NO. XIV


The Ro'ovck Commitee-Tbc New Houses Of
Parliament,
LONDON, March 10. 1855
No, Il up stairs is famous place Just
now. Things are going on in that little room
in which every Englishman feels personal
interest. You need no policeman to show
you the way follow the crowds of military
officers and members Of Parliament, plain
citizens and working men. who are fockng
towards the door of Westminster Hall. and
you will be carried upstairs by rs a tergo
to the door Of No. Il. Squeeze yourself in .
if you can, by the " Public Entrance" In
side the bar sits Mr.. Roebuck and his ten
colleagues, and before them stands the Earl
of Cardigan undergoing examination relative
to the Crimean Expedition, His accounts
arc clear, straight forward, and definite
The public outside the bar listen very in
tently to every word Of his evidence, and
halt Il dozen reporters are taking it down 1t
requires no sagacity to SEQ that this inquiry
is the result Of an Irresistible feeling which
pervades the whole country, and the deter
mination to have it was no party fiction, no
opposition "sham, but srrang from a strong,
honest indignation which would SPARE neither
aristocracy nor cabinets. One government
has fallen and another has been shaken in at
tenpts to withstand the universal clamor for
the Committee Of Inquiry, but the British
public have carried their point against the
do & In. Al 4
circumstances Of another 4 very polite
message is sent to the Lords begging them to
, allow tho Dukes of Cambridge and New
castle, and the Earls of Lucan and Cardigan
to attend before the committee, but their
Lordshirs know very we'll the meaning of
this courteous request &c namely, that the
great British nation are knocking impera-
lively at their brazen doors and domandin.
an account of their doings Dukes and Earls
though they be, there is no alternative for
them \ committee of Her Majesty Com
mons have required their attendance. and
/ they must cen leave their soft crimson
benches and trot upstairs to No. II.
! As yet no new facts have transpired from
? 'H' t'''i'Nu 'hc ne
} worst accounts given by the correspondents OF
/ the press, have, however, been fully confirmed
by the testimony of those who were on the
| spot and had every means of knowing and no
motives for exaggerating, it is proved that
from the outset the Commissariat has been
sadly inefficient, the transport service not
only defective but almost without organiza,
ton, and the labors exactcd of the men such
as the human frame under no circumstances
can endure. The examination of the Duke
of Newcastle is awaited with much anxiety
not only because his official reputation is in
volyed in the disclosures he is expected tc
make, but because he will help us to ascer,
tain where the blame ought to beattached and
the remedy applied.
We will now leave the hot aud crowded
! Committee Room. -, take advantage of our
admission to tbs pan of the new Palace t.
make observations ON its architecture and ar
fragments, As we step from the COMMITTEE,
Room We find ourselves in n very long CORR
dor indeed it We have ever seen one of hall
its length, We have never seen its beauty com
! bined Herewith. As We turn and look