INDEX. 379 happily be shown that Ihe Queen diil not sanction this document? 295 — private letter accompanying the despatch, 29S — Lord Raglan's de- spatch in answer, 300 — the injury done to the public service by tasking a General engaged with the enemy to defend himself against his own Gov- ernment, ib. — Lord Panmure's recep- tion of the despatch of 3d March, 3ul — his despatch in reply, ib. — errors marking the despatch, 302— eagerness of the Government, including Lord Panmure, to remove the Headquarter Staff, 303— the difficulty that stood in their way, ib.— General Airey, 304 — he had become Lord Raglan's 'right- hand man," 305 — course taken by Lord Panmure, ib. — appointment of General Simpson, ib. — his instruc- tions, ib. — his report, 306 — his course of action, ib. — Lord Panmure's adop- tion of the report, 307— his letter on the subject to Lord Raglan, ib. — the danger thus at length- warded off, ib. Secession of the four ' Peelite ' Ministers, 307 — their successors, 3 8 — effect of the change, ib.— the late vote of the Commons, ib. — the appre- hended dangers of a Committee, ib. — the House unwilling to rescind its vote, 309— the Committee appointed, ib. — the import of this measure, ib. — our Government system brought under reproach, 310— the feeling not appeased by the reassembly of Par- liament, 311— violence of the language used in the House of Commons, 312 — Mr Roebuck, 313— other prominent members of the Committee, 316 — rejection of the motion to make the Committee a 'secret' one, 317 — the labours of the Committee, 31S— its report, 320— reports concerning the health of the army and care of the sick and wounded, 322 — papers of great value on the same subjects pre- sented to our War Department, ib. Proceedings and Report of M'Neill and Tulloch, the Commissariat Com- missioners, 322 — their 'animadver- sions' used as a ground for reviving the attacks of the previous year, 323. Enquiry demanded and granted, 324 — constitution of the Court of En- quiry, ib. — its proceedings at Chel- sea, 325 — the report of the Board on the 'animadversions,' 328 — and on the question of the road, 329 — the now cleared and narrowed state of the controversy respecting the cause of the 'avertible' sufferings, ib. — the wide import of a question which in terms only challenged Mr Filder, 330 — the part of the Report in which the Board showed the cause of the ' avertible ' sufferings, ib. Acquiescence of the State in this decision, 331 — vast accumulation oi authentic materials for forming a judgment as to the cause of the suf- ferings, ib. The Allied armies after mid-winter recovering health and strength, 335 — the French losses much more than compensated by reinforcements, ib. — the English, 336 — their long-con- tinued want of the hands required for making a road, ib. — road made at last by our men from Balaclava to Kndikoi, ib. — and by Bosquet's troops to the Col, ib.— the railway, ib. — the land -transport train under M'Murdo, 337 — our army at last re- lieved by the French from some portion of its toil, 339 — supplies of warm clothing, 340 — the endeavour to place our army under huts, 341 — this proved to be for the time a mis- taken measure, ib. — other wants sup- plied, 342 — symptoms of improve- ment discerned by Lord Raglan and others, ib. — the Crimean Army Fund, 343 — administered by Tower and Egerton, ib. — after 22d February, decisive improvement in the health of our army, 354 — restored health and strength of our army, 355. Sequel of the dispositions made by the French and English for the care of their sick and wounded, 356— the French hospitals, ib.— allusion to the causes of maladministration in the English hospitals, ib. — the nature of the task in hand, ib.— accession of a new power, 357— the aid proffered by Woman, and accepted by the State, ib. — Miss Stanley, 36 J— the hospital at Kullali, 362— the one at Smyrna, 364— hospitals in the Crimea, 365— the reinforcement of brain-power brought by Woman, ib. — her acces- sion on the 4th of November 1S54, 366 — the Lady-in-Chief, ib, — the sources and growth of her power, 36S — the aid she received from Mr Macdonald and the ' Times ' Fund, 376— the untiring zeal of our medical officers, 3S1 — their power to heal and to cure greatly strengthened by the authority of the Lady-in-Chief, ib. — the result of her sway, 3S4 — unde- signed trial of brain-power and speed between Man and Woman, ib. — the mortality in our hospitals not yet, however, forced down, 390— the san- itary commissioners, ib. — the change they wrought, 391 — thoughts that memory ought not to shun, 392 — problem raised by the memory of the winter campaign, 393,
