LORD BURGHLEYsaid, he rose to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether, in consequence of the remonstrance of Her Majesty's Government, any promise or security has been given by the Russian Government that the graves of the officers and men of the British Army, who are interred in the Crimea, shall be protected and held sacred in future?
§ LORD JOHN RUSSELLreplied, that three despatches had been written, bearing date respectively the 31st January, the 4th February, and the 24th May, remonstrating with the Russian Government on the desecration of the graves at Sebastopol and its neighbourhood. The Russian Government, in reply, promised that a full inquiry should be made; and they said they had every desire to preserve the graves in a decent manner. They also said that there was some difficulty in doing so, on account of the graves being scattered; and he (Lord John Russell) had been told that the land on which they were belonged to divers persons who were not amenable to the Russian Government. Her Majesty's Ministers had directed the Consul General at Odessa to place a person in charge of the British cemeteries, at a salary of £100 a year, in order to take care of them.