The names of the new Board of Crimea Commissioners have
been announced, and they are such as to command respect. At the head of them is Lord Seaton, and they are all of them military men of acknowledged ability and rectitude. Nevertheless, the very appointment of the Board is a confession that there is some- thing unsatisfactory, either in the conduct of the War Depart- ments which joined in promoting Sir Richard Airey, Lord Lucan, and Lord Cardigan, or in the conduct of the Commissioners who went out and became virtually the accusers of those officers. It is en appeal from the two men, Sir Sohn M‘Neill and Colonel Tulloch, who represented the civil administration of the Army, to their superiors in rank, representing the more military tradi- tions; the accused being military officers charged with miscon- duct in the civil rather than the military sense of duty. Thus the accusers are likely to be the better judges ; the judges in appeal are likely to sympathize with the accused ; and the official 'departments which override all have taken imperfect security for a thoroughly satisfactory decision.
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