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ni « Kfe ; ItAmaakuMOtftaJum < witae »> jtkmto parwmMn ihg-offioaKofrftke . Ajhnuak yf ihad-accepU ^ briber- If . tib * . butttod a » frat * ick ** ra *> iM > fe equal ftothfiHsamplef it iw * lejMtadbH a «^* hat < ft «[ o « nt 47 * appenad « Ife-waapoflsible tP < Yfr > j »« fcnlfc miyhfc . be changed on it 3 transit to . th « plaee < of . aiM ^ mMrfy op atjtha ^ xUu »> of ; sMpmenk . Ii . was-pos-r sibl $ < 4 oaj khlit theqperaona employed ; by s witness * o carry the « wii > le * ta Itepkbxd , for comparison with the > bulk ? miofet ohang » ith » . « amples-on thB Tray ; but one gwafc
chedfeagain&t thai r-was ,-. that . the sarne individuals whor received the samples at the Admiralty received the bulk . atJteptfond . * He did . not know an instance in which a sampls * had ' . been- changed *' andean ,, inferior artiolei'sub * - stitBted in ; bulfc . The witness nevertheless said that the A ^* iii « Hy had - had great experience of the roguery of tflvrnw who supply stores—particularly with respect to powcrred meats ^ and mustajd ; to such an extent , indeed , thafcstha Admiralty had established a . manufactory , of mustard for themselves . SukH ©* Boas , lieutenantHGeneral of the Ordnance department , . aad now actingin the room of . Lord Raglan , saitt hoidid think the service suffered from the absence otutheelfaster-Generat ; and Sir Thomas Hastings Comptroller of storesat the Ordnance , gave some , businessdetatte ^ iritferxespect to army clothings
THtrRSJOAY-- The examination of Sir Thomas Hastings-was continaed . He- said there was a difficulty about enforcing a contract'with Kynasfcon and Co * - for warm clothing , andiho'told the . Board , of XJrdnanee that , asdt had been entered- into- by a minute of one board , it ought not to rbe . quashed x > r rescinded by Mr . Monsell , the clerk of the ^ Ordnancer He did . not inquire into the cause .-of tbis ^ asjfc-would create an unpleasant feeling . ; but . the conteaet musfrhave : been stopped by Mr . Monsell or by SietHeir-Koas , or the two r might have done it jointly . Some . © fothe . requisitions for warm clothing were-verbal j bufti the witness-objected to . this , and expressed an opinion ~ : thafctthe < public business could not be safely
transacted : in that way , and . that they should be : reroxrfe&aad authenticated . Since the change in the Board ofG « dnancej . tbe business was = carried on both verbally and in writing , and a large portion of theirasinesswaa caarfed . ion- in ¦ this -way—things in the routine of the ontoetgoingtoa in the-usual way , thonghr he . 'thought it wa « lDo *? a . 'properfnw » y of doings , business * . It . was subsecpttntly ^ decided , that the contract above mentioned shoskLbe continued ; but he doubted whether any record wawk ^ pt of iit ^ the whole , pro ce edi ng bjeingJuTegnhutv When the samples were approved of , theyvwere sent ' from the Ordnance to the Tower , sealed with the seal of th ^ -Board of-Ordaanoe ; but- the seal-lay about at . the 4 > r ^ n ^ p « yp , ¦ ¦ « nd anybody could , get it .. He did not see ,
however ,, to ., whose interest it would be . to change anyv of . the samples . ' Upon the Chairman asking iuooK haw . he accounted for . the . fact of socks ~ the Bf ^ wfre . ^ VH *"" -being sent pot for the soldiers , he said thoj » iW «« ra . great deal of hurry and pressure . He . did . not £ binksithe story probable ; but . it . was . possible . It thij " prwihlft" also that the . shoes-sent , out were too Binaljw * . B ^ erring ^ to . thetents , he . di « cr «« uted the ^ asertaoa «* hatiBome of » them . were old ; but , if . 8 uch was ? the caaiyoMwas ^ pronsibility rested with the storekeeper . Tha coloaaiUtof regiments supplied ascertain-proportion-of the booto < and shoes ibriha army , . aud-tha Ordnance the , rest to ascertain-extent ; and he believed the . coraplainta that hadrbeea . jnade of the : boots and ahoea . in the-Crimea , re-r ferwd to tiwo supplied by tha . colonels ,: and ~ not to those furpiabed >> byj the-Ordnance , which underwent a rigid ex ^ tpinatiaa beforeitheyfwere . sent out . The Ordnance ,
nndsr the . great pressure upon ., them at the time , pro- - cured / , the ? assistance of ? the firm of Messrs . Howell andoJSayttDr in packing , the stores , and-. those gentle * m es ^ 'i "ffi-fTip ^^ Mwltipg that duty , did so on the un > deiateading'that , they should .. not ^ be abla to institute thai * , rigjd * inspection into the article * they packed whJah w « 9 cuiUwaary ; with the Ordnance . ; but ' they mod » r ) a ^ . general ( inspection , which , w « Si . satisfactory out the- ? whole . t With , f respect v to . the-.- supply ; of . tools , by * thowOrdnaoce , jthe witness said-, that . the ^ story ¦ told to thervconamittee . by Sergeant DawBonithat the heads of , the , r pjofcaataa in ; the Crimes < cane - off at every blow * stiiMknwithtthem , . w « u » 'iaipo « Bibley « beeame thethelve . of ^ evejyjpickaxa supplied by the' Ordnance- wa&i&o < con ~ strutted . that every'blow only the- mon < finuly fixed -it * . int ^ -tb « 'head of the axe .- He , could not beueve < tha * R the mass of the tools supplied w *» 00 bad as . had be « ni described .
Mr . rGrantwos then recalled , and said that the seal with'Which the samples were stamped was kept locked , upland'did-not lie . about loose in the . office ; and lie beUvved it-to be utterly impossible that the samples could Jiave . been tampered with . In answer to a qucatioo-pui ; rby , Sir John Pakin ^ ton , ho statod that ho had not ; received ' a letter from any official person , in the Gritiie * in which it was suggested that the roasting and grinding ,, the . unroasted coffee would , be capitalamusotnent . td the floWiiars ; but he thought Commissary-QeneraJTJTtaer once made a remark of that kind to him In tnfc course of ' a . conversation he had had with , that FaMfftowH '¦ ' " FB 0 > AYSttXB $ 9 Mq Boatings was , agajUv examined , . and gay © .
teafcunony . with respect •* to several matters of Ordnance details . One oft the chief ? pointaia- bis evidence . had refers enceito . the misconduct « f two ; officers at . Woolwich j bufc he declined ito give their names . ; The M »» tear > rOen « ral of-the , Ordnance , he said » has / full < powers to « . dismiss , officers wfto- miaconducbthemselvea ^ but in thia case the l matter was taken in hand bythe . WhrMmister , though that was a very unusual thing . . Sir Thomas , alluding : tohia disapproval-of ordering rifles at Xifige , said that it would cripple the Birmingham trade , and udded that , in case of an invasion taking place , without a supply from Birmingham they could not arm the population . If there should . ever be an invasion , as Birmingham wiis located in the centre of the kingdom , it would furnish .
arms in any quantity . The Duke of Newcastle listened most attentively to all he said on this subject . He should regret exceedingly that it should appear that he had opposed the obtaining of that , number of musketa , but he wished to explain that it was his impression that such a step would quite destroy the gun trade of Birmingham . They had not received a single musket from Belgium . By teaching the manufacturers there how to make a new species of arms they could be sold to other countries , and might be turned against ourselves at-any time . 152 , 000 muskets were ordered at Birmingham , of ' which' 83 , 991 had been delivered . He-had not heard of any complaints made by the-contractors as to delay occasioned in obtaining patterns- for the arms required .
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THE BOMBABD 3 IENT HAS BEES" SUSPENDED . That IS , emphatically , the wax news of tliis week . Afterrtili our . enormous , expenditure of shot and shell' —after the incessant ** pounding" of a fortnight in dtiration ^ -this marvellous fortress seems to be a 9 impregnable , as ever ; the different batteries rise again- every morning , Antaeus-like , with fresh strength from , their temporary abasement ; and tho Allies stand breathless , and wondering what they shall do next .
Tlie suspension ( which took place on the 28 th of April ) is said to be merely temporary , -and owing to a desire not to exhaust our ammunition before the-arrival of reinforcements which are expected shortly . A despatch from Vien « a , dated May 2 nd , says , that anthentic information has reached that city that the bombardment was to bo resumed iu a few-days ; but of course this is merely in the clouds . In tho meanwhile , we know too well that our pains have been thrown away ; that the town is not reduced ; and that , as Sir Charles Wood told us in the House , on Tuesday , on the authority of a telegraphic despatch from Balaklava , the Ruscian force stationed . between tho Bolbec and - Mackenzie ' Farm
has-been-strengthened by two divisions . Thus , our telegraph , has as . yet brought us nothing but cold comfort . Tho engagement between tho French and Ilus * sians on the night of the 13 th ult ., of which we gave an account last week , was the result of a sortie of the-latter upon the former , or rather of two successive sorties , one immediately following . tho repulso of the . otb . 01 v The second-also , was driven book by our : gallant ¦ allies , with ' great slaughter / These attacks were made ' from the Flagstaff Battery ; and , as if to revenge themselves , the French , a few days
later , took up a position , in front x > f that battery , from which ; however , they have since been driven . , The English are engaged in pushing forward another advanced parallel ; iu doing , which , they were so greatly pestered by the Kussian rifle-pits that the work was for a time stopped . Two of these pits were therefore attacked and carried on the night of tho 19 th , though not without considerable loss of lite to us as well as to the enemy . These ambusuades wcro under the Mamelon , ill front of tho Malakoff Tower . The Russians have abandoned tho batteries of Can reening Bay .
Our- men complain greatly of tho Hlightness of their earthworks , through which' the Russian shot and shell burst , and scatter death broadcast . Tlioy are also again sadly overworked ; but . they are , iu good spirits after all'their disappointments , and . their health 'on the whole is improving . Captain Ohriatie , late of tho transport service , has arrived at Kiuniesch , where ho was to be tried by court-ninrtial r chiefly f 6 ir the loss of tho Prince . THo Russians are straining , every nervo to defend the town to tho loft ; and our only hopp . seems to bo in a complete investment , and a struggle with the army , in the field . On this , subject , the Herald correspondent says : "Up to two . months . past , to pvest the north of Sebnatoppl would have been , easy ,
Nowij sucb , av « t 6 p > wiU . inrolve < batitfes . 'tO'AvlMeh . Alma : 4 and ' Inkewnanawemv skhunaahes , . aa-. w © . know- that ; beyond thfr / Toberaayft every height . is < fortifled > and -. tlutft the-.- wildf mountain 1 road < which ! leads « from :: Tnhourgaumvf to * Maokenzia ' s Farm ^ bristtet * witht redoubts at -every ^ raniue / ' Y ^ t ,. if we ^ do , not invest , ' .. it seems w © -have ' -noUung- ^ kie ior it . than to depart .. The . Flagstaff tBattery , thftjliedan ; the Malokofi ; and : other works , w « re thrown up by tue : Ruasians » 8 tnoe last . 6 uuimer »—sonje ^ even . siuoe the- battle of Altha ; : yet , . though these batteries have been imJf ruiood . fcy , ouv nre > : and ! temporarily silenced , they . seem * tdl as . impregnable as » ver . - . _ - - ....
KCSSlAir SrOVEMKNTSr . The Russian-army in the tield seems to be dtvindling away ; or to bo doomed to inactivity . We hear x >{ men marching away to our right flank and Tear , and of others descending from Mackenzie ' s Farm towards Baidar and TchoTgoum ; but they arc swallowed up , as it were , when they enter the nxvines behind us . The army of the Tchcrnaya is visibly decreased . The men are probably dranghted off to the north side of tho town ; for the encampment of thfc enemy at Hollandta has been sensibly augmented , and the force at the rear of the Round Tower
ha » also been strengthened . The lines of the Russian huts on the heights over Inkerman along the Tchernaya remain unchanged ; but I do not sou so many men in them . They have a Tcspectnble force of ravalrv picketed outside Inkerman , and numerous batteries of artillery ; and their men are employed incessantly in throwing up great earthworks to the east and northeast of the place . These -works arc all beyond the range of the batteries on our right , and can only be intended to resist any attempt on our part to march round to the north side , or to turn the left liunk of the enemy . — Times Correspondent .
SHARP PRACTICE . Some time ago I was watching three Freuch Chasseurs " potting away" at a liusaiuu who was sitting with hid legs dangling over the sides of a precipice , aud now and theu returning . their fire . The French knew the man quite well , and admitted that he was so good a shot they did not care to expose tlivmsvlves too freely . All their bollt > full short of the man ; and , after he had received three or four rounds from each , he raised hid ritie , down' went the Chasseurs and somebody else , " ping " flew the ball through the air , and , "' plop" it cauic against tho rock behind which tho foremost Chasseur was crouching . Tlio Fruuchman picked up the piece
of lead quite flattened out and broken , and showed it to his comrades ; and then they resumed their practice , the result of which I did not wait further to ascertain . Many of the Russian riflemen are excellent shots ; but the majority of them arc not equal to our own or to the Freuch Chasseurs . Au amateur in one of the batteries , auxLoua to see-vvliaL kind of shoutiug the enemy would make , held his " wideawake" just above the parapet ; iua moment , two bullet * went through it , and one of them took a faucy to the gentleman ' s fore-linger and to a bit of auother finger , and carried thein away with it , so that the unforLunatc experimentalist will be able to speak with authority on tho question of Russian sborpshoot ing . —ldanu
KXPUOltINO THE MIWKS . 8 TATK OF KEHASTOPOI .. It was stated that the French would explodo their mines ( foiujadea , I boliovc ) this evening ( Sunday , April l . ) th ) nt four o ' clock ; then tho time was deferred till tux o ' clock , and flnnlly to an indefinito period of the evening , and the groups of spectators , tired of waiting on tho hills , retired to their tents . Tho Field- Mawhal and his » tall ' were among the number . At ' half-past eight o'clock , however , three pillar * of red flame hurtled through the air with an appalling crash from under the batteru's oi the Flag-staff Uastion , blowing up the parapets and platforms of tho outer work and laying it in ruins . 1 he fourth and principal mine was not exploded , as it was found to be close to the gallery of a Russian mine , and so far the explosion failed , and tho French were unahlo to make such a lodgment as was anticipated ; but they rushed in and cstablinhed themselvo * in the course- o tliii
night in a portion of tho outer work . Tho Kussinns , belioving the explosion was a signal for a general assault , ran to their gun « , and for an hour their butteries vomited forth prodigious volumes of fire and »» " > against our line : * from 0110 extremity to the other . I »« force and fury of their cannonade was astounding ; but , notwithstanding- the length und strength of the lire , it caused but little damage to the works or to then- ucfunderH . . A Polish dcsortcir huHco . no in , who report * that «^ miHHcd a golden opportunity ln . st Monday . H appears that thaJtiuwinna weru apprised of th « landing and Jinire / i of tho Turks , and received information which , led tn « m 10 believe wowore about to attack Liprau < U ' M army . » ' ^« ry
. _ available man was nont out of Sebiwto 4 . ul «> ' » . f >» n |« ' « y last , aud when wo opened lire on Monday morning tlioy had only 8000 men iu tho place This accounts Un their bilonco and for their uurpri . so . l ^ or two days tnoy wore working nUght , aud main to «« l U > " » r >» " *" ; from JJnrundi ' H army ( o the town again , and they navo now 28 , 000 men insldo . Tho de » ortcx flay » " tho pinto is a perfect hull . " Tliuecaru WO French Hick nnci wouudod iu tho hmtiiUul ; . no Eu tf U »» - Til ° bwi'H *
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Leader (1850-1860), May 5, 1855, page 414, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2089/page/6/
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