rags that would not hold together, " while
their knapsacks were on the Black Sea, their
squad-bags at Scutari, thousands of pairs of
trousers missing, thousands of coatees unused,
and tens of thousands of great coats, blankets,
and rugs, filling the Quarter-Master General's
stores, or the harbour of Balaclava; " or
whether he shows the Board to attribute the
non-supply of those vital essentials, to the
deficiency of transport to the front, whereas
that very kind of transport was at that very
time going on with shot and shell and the
like to an enormous extent, and whereas Sir
John Campbell and Sir Richard England
both positively stated to the Board, that they
had never received any intimation whatever
from the Quarter-Master General, that such
things were to be got for the sending for, or
were there at all ; or whether he shows it to
be alleged as a reason for not issuing coatees
to the men, that they were too small, " by
reason of the great quantity of under-clothing
worn by them," at a time when the
identical men are to a dead certainty known
to have had no under-clothing whatever; or
whether he shows the Assistant Commissary
General's accounts to pretend that within a
certain time three hundred and fifty thousand
pounds weight (in round numbers), of
vegetables were issued to the starving troops, of
which quantity two hundred and seventy-
three thousand pounds weight (in round
numbers), are afterwards admitted to have
been destroyed, while the greater part of the
rest was scrambled for in Balaclava harbor
and never issued; or whether he shows
that when the Chelsea Board compassionate
the Commissary General for having no transports
to get fresh meat in, while the soldiers
were dying of diseases caused by salt meat,
there were Sixteen available transports lying
idle at their moorings in Balaclava harbor;
or whether he shows the same Commissary
when the men were dying for want of lime-
juice, never to have reported to Lord Raglan
that there was the small item of twenty
thousand pounds weight of lime-juice stored
there, in the Crimea, on the spot, ready for
use; or whether he shows the Chelsea Board
in their Report, after all the mischief is done
and all the misery is irreparable, to be still,
to the last, so like their own championed
Incapables, as, in their printed report to be
found quoting evidence that was never given
and assigning explanations to witnesses who
never offered them; in whatever he does
from the first to the last page of his Review
of a Board whose constitution and proceedings
were an outrage on common sense, the
lights of Colonel Tulloch make the lights of
Mr. Hayward darkness, rout the whole host
of spirited replyers with frightful loss and
discomfiture, and show no toleration whatever
of the First of April.

To us, who admire that institution, and
love to contemplate the provision made and
making for it, this is no service. We regard
Colonel Tulloch as rather a dull man, wanting
the due zest and relish for a joke, and
conscious of no compunction in knocking a
choice one on the head. Yet we descry a
kind of humour in him, too, when he quotes
this letter from the late Duke of Wellington
to General Fane.

"I wish I had it in my power to give you
well-clothed troops, or to hang those who
ought to have given them their clothing.
"Believe me, &c.,
" WELLINGTON."

—which is really an " éclaircissement"
extremely satisfactory to our odd way of thinking,
and perhaps the next spirited reply on
record after Lord Lucan's.

Consenting, in the good humour with
which this pithy document inspires us, to
consider Colonel Tulloch reconciled to the
First of April, we will pass to a cursory
examination of some more of its stores.

A contribution to the general stock, of a
rather remarkable nature, has been made by
the reverend Ordinary of Newgate, in his
report to the Lord Mayor and court of
aldermen, as we find it quoted in THE TIMES
of Wednesday the eleventh of February.
The reverend gentleman writes (in singular
English):

"I have often thought, and still think, that
the origin of garotte robberies took place
from the exhibition of the way the Thugs in
India strangle and plunder passengers, as
exhibited in the British Museum. However
valuable as illustrations of Indian manners
such representations may be, I could heartily
wish that these models were placed in some
more obscure position, and cease to be that
which I fear they have been, the means of
giving to men addicted to crime and violence
an idea how their evil purposes may be
accomplished."

Now, setting aside the fact notorious to all
men—on the first of April— that the desperate
characters of the metropolis are in the habit
of fatiguing themselves with the study of the
British Museum, and that the worst of the
Ticket of leave men may be invariably
found there, between the hours of ten and
four, annotating their catalogues with great
diligence, we take leave to protest against
this reverend gentleman's doctrine, as
utterly nonsensical in itself, and surpassingly
insulting to the people. Here indeed is our
old enemy SLOGGINS, with the broken nose,
the black eye, and the bull-dog, at his old
work in a rampant state! Because Sloggins
abuses, nobody shall use. There is habitual
drunkenness in the house of Sloggins, and
therefore there shall not be temperate enjoyment
in the house of Moderation; there is
perversion of every gift of a gracious
Creator on the part of this beast, and therefore
the gifts shall be taken away from
a million of well-conducted people. We
declare that we believe the cruelty