London, March 20. The Duke of Newcastle has ordered the 
recall of Lord Lucan; Lord Panmure has published Raglan’s letter 
attacking him, and Lord Hardinge, the fabulous Lord High 
Constable of the British Army, has refused him an investigation 
and a military tribunal. In spite of the opposition of two 
ministries, of the Commander-in-Chief in the Crimea and of the 
Commander of the Horse Guards* in London, Lord Lucan proved 
in a detailed speech in the House of Lords yesterday that not he, 
but Raglan alone was responsible for the sacrifice of the Light 
Brigade at Balaklava” and that the Aberdeen and Palmerston 
Ministries had sacrificed Lord Lucan to the displeased public in 
order to save the obedient, feeble-minded and tractable Comman- 
der in the Crimea. The public monster had to be satisfied. A 
half-completed letter found on the body of General Cathcart 
addressed to his wife and dated November 2, three days before 
the battle of Inkerman™ and a week after the charge of the Light 
Brigade at Balaklava, is decisive on this question. This letter says 
word for word: 

“Neither Lord Lucan nor Lord Cardigan was to blame, but on the contrary, for 
they obeyed orders.” 

In an article on the Vienna Conference,” The Times today makes — 
the characteristic comment that should the Congress become 
a reality, the main difficulties were [to be] expected from the 
Turkish side.“ Within the framework of the four points the main 

1855. The Times, No. 22006, March 20, 1855.— Ed. . 

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concessions would have to be extorted from the Sultan, not from 
the Tsar.’ 

Yesterday The Times mystified its public yet again with the 
“authentic” announcement that the great bombardment and final 
storming of Sevastopol had undoubtedly taken place before March 
19” Whence this sudden turn from desperate hopelessness to 
sanguine superstition? The Times began its Crimean campaign 
against the overthrown coalition and its “ceterum censeo’* that a 
Committee of Inquiry was necessary at the very moment that 
Gladstone threatened its monopoly by the proposal to abolish the 
stamp duty and to limit the weight of newspapers that can be sent 
for one penny by post to four ounces—less than the weight of 
one copy of The Times. No sooner was Gladstone overthrown, 
than his successor, Sir George Cornewall Lewis withdrew the Bill, 
and The Times, hoping that everything would remain as before, 
suddenly transformed its bilious view of the Crimea into a mobile 
panorama, radiant with hope of success, in which even the army, 
whose obituary it published three months ago, has become active 
again. Today its view is again darkened, because yesterday Sir 
George Cornewall Lewis, against all expectations, himself brought 
in a Bill to abolish the newspaper stamp duty. The animosity of a 
writer of retrospective reviews to fresh news! The Times ejaculates. 
Lewis as everybody knows was editor of The Edinburgh Review. 

We shall return to the Bill as soon as the details are laid before 
the House of Commons, but meanwhile note that it is a concession 
to the Manchester School which retains the merit of having 
untiringly agitated for the introduction of free competition in the 
field of the press. The concession of the Palmerston Ministry to 
the Manchester School is a captatio benevolentiae’ in case of the 
dissolution of the Lower House and new elections.