THE EARL OF LONGFORDasked Her Majesty's Government, Whether arrangements have been made to repair and to maintain in future, the British Cemeteries in the Crimea? The noble Earl said, that no action had yet been taken to carry out the good intentions expressed by the late and previous Governments. Commissioners sent out by the War Office had reported how the cemeteries could be maintained. An English gentleman resident in the Crimea was willing to undertake the superintendence, if authorized to do so, and the Russian authorities had given a willing consent. Other nations had acted differently in the matter. The Russian cemetery was a noble military monument; the French cemetery was equally well maintained. The graves of the British soldiers were abandoned to the beasts of the field, and their monuments broken and destroyed. It could not be the wish of the Government, or of the people of this country that that state of neglect should 1397 longer continuo. He therefore made the inquiry according to his Notice.
THE EARL OF PEMBROKEsaid, the subject had been for some time under the consideration of the Secretary of State for War, and that a Vote for the repair and maintenance of the English cemetery in the Crimea would be submitted to Parliament next Session. The Government were also in correspondence with the Russian Government on the subject, and had to thank them for what they had hitherto done in the matter.