19th.—Earl of Lucan's case.

20th.—Prussia.—Lord Lyndhurst's speech.

23rd.—The Militia.—Lord Panmure's statement.—Criminal
Procedure, Lord Brougham's speech.

26.—Royal Message—Convention with Sardinia. Court of
Chancery Bill in Committee.

27.—Militia (Ireland) Bill read a second time.

House of Commons.—Monday, Feb. 26th.—Supply, Army
Estimates.—Militia (Ireland) Bill read a second time.

27th.—Mr. Kennedy's Case.

28th.—Episcopal and Capitular Estates Bill read a second
time.

Thursday, March 1st.—Sebastopol Committee; Mr.
Roebuck's Report.—Promotion in the Army; Lord Goderich's
motion.

2nd.—Sebastopol Committee; Mr, Roebuck's application for
Secresy.—Supply, Army Estimates.—Bill for Third Secretary
and Under-Secretary of State in the House of Commons read
a first time.

5th.—Mr. Rich's Motion on Army Organization.—Ordnance
Estimates.—Tea Duties Suspension Bill read a second time,
and Ecclesiastical Courts Bill committed.

6th.—Recorder of Brighton; Mr. Crawford's motion.—House
counted out.

7th.—Public Libraries and Museums Bill committed.—
Judgments and Executions; Mr. Crawford's Bill thrown out.—
Secretaries and Under-Secretaries of State Bill committed.

8th.—Purchasers' Protection against Judgments; Lord St.
Leonard's Bill committed.—Tea Duties Suspension Bill read a
third time and passed.—Mutiny Bill read a third time and
passed.—Secretaries and Under-Secretaries of State Bill read
a third time and passed.

9th.— New Writ for Tamworth.—Ordnance Estimates.—
Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Bill read a second time.—Marine
Mutiny Bill read a third time and passed.—Ecclesiastical
Courts Bill read a third time and passed.

12th.—Supply, Commissariat Estimate.

13th.—Marriage Law Amendment; leave given Mr.
Heywood to bring in Bill.—Irish Pauper Children; Mr. Ball's
motion negatived.—Vacating of Seats Bill read a first time.

14th.—Friendly Societies Bill committed.

15th.—Real Estate; Mr. Locke King's motion negatived.—
Probate Duty; Mr. Williams's Motion negatived.—Factory
labour; Mr. Cobbett's motion negatived.—Purchasers'
Protection Bill read a third time and passed.

16th.—Education Bill read a first time.—Metropolitan Local
Management; leave given Sir B. Hall to bring in Bill.—Militia
(Ireland) Bill committed.—Lunacy Act Amendment Bill read
a third time and passed.

19.—Newspaper Stamps; Chancellor of the Exchequer's
resolutions.—Burial Grounds (Scotland) Bill read a second
time.

20th.—British Museum; Sir J. Walmesley's motion.—
Newspaper Stamps Bill read a first time.

23rd.—Dwelling Houses (Scotland) Bill read a second time.
—Education in Scotland; Lord Advocate's Bill.—Intramural
Burials (Ireland) Bill read a third time and passed.

26.—Convention with Sardinia. Newspaper Stamps Bill
read a second time. Criminal Justice Bill read a second time.

27.—Commissions in the Army, Major Reed's motion
negatived. Friendly Societies Bill committed pro forma. Report
from Committee of Supply brought up.

The Committee of Inquiry into the State of the
British Army in the Crimea, of which Mr. Roebuck is
chairman, began its proceedings on Monday, the 5th
instant. All the members were present; and after the
committee had deliberated for some time with closed
doors, the public were admitted, and the room was
immediately crowded. The first witness was Mr.
George Dundas, formerly an officer in the Rifle brigade,
now member for Linlithgowshire. He had been in the
Crimea, unofficially, from the 17th to the 29th of
December; and while at Balaklava he had visited the
front every day, weather permitting. His statements
touched on a great variety of matters, which he had
already stated in the House of Commons. The cavalry
horses were picketed in the open air, without rugs, and
dying of starvation. At first he was supposed to have
said they had eaten each other's manes and tails, but
when the question was put distinctly, he said he had
not himself seen the horses eating each other's manes
and tails, but they looked as if they had suffered severely
from hunger. The artillery horses were better off—
perhaps they had sheds. There were some fifteen or
twenty tons of bran in bags lying ashore at Balaklava,
and trusses of hay floating about, he knew not why; it
might have come ashore after the wrecks on the 14th
November. He did not know whether the cavalry men had
sufficient food, nor how they got it; they were in rags,
and seemed in a state of great dirt and misery. The
infantry were mostly in rags: he understood that their
rations were short; that half-rations were common;
that they had no regular supplies of rice, which is a
specific for diarrhœa; they were badly shod; they had
little fuel, while an abundance of wood, the débris of
the wrecks, was floating in and out of the harbour.
The roads were very bad. The water at Balaklava was
very dirty, but there were no dead bodies floating about.
The graves in the burial-grounds were very shallow,
because of water in one, and the shallowness of the soil
in another. There was no regular pier; the best pier
was made of trusses of hay; but the water was deep,
and there were great facilities for landing from boats.
The main street at Balaklava was muddy. The hospitals
there were in better condition than he had heard they
had been. He could not speak with certainty as to the
state of the sick in the camp. The men would have
been well supplied had there been facilities for getting
up stores from Balaklava. The second witness was Sir
De Lacy Evans, but a good deal of what he said was
nearly inaudible. The scope of his examination extended
to the movements of the army before they reached the
Crimea. With respect to the encampment at Varna, he
said there was great difficulty in finding healthy sites,
in consequence of the want of water; but, during the
prevalence of cholera there, he only lost sixty men out
of his own division of six thousand. At the landing in
the Crimea, the soldiers had the option of carrying their
knapsacks. The tents were not taken on the march,
because means of transport could not be found. With
respect to the road down from the heights to Balaklava
Mr. Roebuck asked, "Could not a certain number of
men have rendered it secure?" General Evans—"I
think if a thousand men had been employed upon it for
about ten days, they could have rendered it practicable."
Mr. Roebuck—"Then why was that not done?"
General Evans—" The men could not be spared, as they
were so overwhelmed with work in the trenches. I
think, now, it would have been as well if they had been
employed on the roads: but it is much easier to form an
opinion after than before." As to the food of the men,
General Evans said—"There were difficulties; but
there was constantly a great pressure from the want of
means of transporting it, and there were contests besides
among the parties in charge of the commissariat
department. Those contests arose in consequence of the
persons who were sent out being utterly incompetent
for their duties. They might be very good clerks in the
Treasury, but they knew nothing about the duties of
the commissariat department. So great were the
differences among them, that I was compelled to write
to the commander-in-chief, and one by one they were
removed. I believe one died from disappointment
at his removal."  The commissariat ought to be
removed from the civil, and placed under military
authority.  General Evans repeatedly attributed the
loss of men chiefly to "overworking beyond all
proportion." "There was a difficulty in getting the stores
at Balaklava, which arose from no person being there
to sign the necessary documents, and those forms were
rigidly observed."

Sir De Lacy EVANS continued his evidence on
Tuesday, the 6th.—Commenting on the great deficiencies
of the transport and commissariat services, he
expressed his firm belief, that when the war was
commenced, it was never imagined that gunpowder, or even
the magazines to which he had referred, would be
required. Certain it is that those arrangements were
not made which were absolutely necessary. At Varna,
it was very evident that the army was waiting for the
results of protocols and conferences, while, on the other
hand, the Russians were still carrying on the campaign.
At that time the deficiency in the personnel of the
commissariat department was remarkable. There were
great complaints of the shoes and tools supplied to the
men.—His division was very inadequately supplied with
medicines. There was but little fault to find with the
medical staff. It may have been too weak. Speaking
of the hospital arrangements, he said that it seemed as,if
at first it was expected there would be "no wounds."
The ambulance carts were "too large and too heavy."
There was a deficiency of fuel and of tents.

The witnesses examined on Wednesday, the 7th,