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the country. The Guards regiments would be re-
duced from twelve to ten companies of 700 men
each. The eighty three line regiments (exclusive
of those in India) would be reduced from sixteen to
twelve companies, each regiment to be 1,000 strong.
This, with the 12,000 commissioned and non-
commissioned officers, would give a force of 95,000
men, while it was proposed to take a margin of
10,000 for the loss the army would sustain next year
from the Limited Enlistment Act coming into opera-
tion. The army would be divided into 105 regiments,
forty•one at home, forty in the colonies, and twenty-
four in India. These regiments would be separated
into eight service companies and four depot com-
panies. The service companies would be formed in
seven divisions and fourteen brigades, three regi-
ments and eight service companies to a brigade, each
with a full complement of staff officers. The depot
companies would be formed into consolidated depots,
three regiments in eaoh. With respect to the
cavalry and artillery, no great reductions would take
place. In cavalry regiments for the future 400 men
would be maintained for every 300 horses. The
artillery would be employed on garrison duty, but
140 guns, divided into field batteries of four guns
each, would be permanently maintained fully horsed
and equipped for immediate service. The foreign
legions would ba disbanded before the autumn,
when a twelvemonth's gratuity would be paid to the
privates and three months' to the officers. The
land transport corps would be kept as a nucleus for
an establishment, and the commissariat and medical
corps reduced to the extent of the acting junior
officers.
The vote was then agreed to.
On the supplementary vote for 101. on the
1,000,0001., Mr. F. PEEL, in reply to a question from
Colonel Dunne, said that the Army Works Corps
would be disbanded immediately, the officers obtain-
ing one year's pay and the men one month's as
gratuity.

The vote was then agreed to, and the house re-
sumed.

The Annnitie 4 Redemption Bill and the Transfer
of Works (Ireland) Bill were read a third time and
passed.

ST. JAMES'S PARK.

On the report of the Committee of Supply being
brought up, the vote of 3,5001. for a suspe nsion-
bridge over the ornamental water in St. James's-
park was opposed by
Lord ELcilo, who objected that the beauty of the
park should nit be sacrificed to public convenience ;
but, if that point were overruled, that the expenditure
of public money should not be intrusted to the
Board of Works for this purpose until the plan or
design had been previously seen.
Sir J. PAXTON said the plan for a bridge had been
changed several times already ; and thought if a bridge
were necessary some well-digested plan should be
first proposed.
Sir B. HALL said it was in consequence of repre-
sent tions made to him by inhabitants on both sides
of the water that he had proposed this bridge, which
woul be of the lightest possible character consistent
with durability and with the weight it was to bear.
Mr. DISRAELI thought it would be more prudent,
where so much doubt existed, to pause until a
sounder opinion as to these changes could be ob-
tam ned.

Lord PALMERSTON thought such a bridge over
the ornamental water would be a great public con•
venience.

Mr. BARROW and Mr. K. SEYMER having spoken
against, and Sir J. SHELLEY and Sir T. ACLAND in
favour of a b►idge, the house divided, when the
resolut►on of the committee was affirmed by 119
to 93.
EN,

ESTATES COURT (IRELAND).
Mr. HORSMAN, in reply to Colonel Higgins, said
the Government had taken into consideration the
recent decision of the Court of Queen's Bench in
Ireland upon the case of Errington v. Rorke, with
the view of obviating all alarm on the part of the
purchasers of property in the Encumbered Estates
Court.