The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-29 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT•

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TmaDAY, him A

TS" lea, met at 6 teelmit.
Loth BROUGHAM minsseed a pMles from IJaitarians
in • pt's, is Bases: ageism. shack Was; mad a petition
bin the Ompen ties et Pipmestit Is ihirear of the bill for
speedy trial ef ofkairot. The amble lied them said
fall with referees, to e sethetheat ke bed Mods ea s forma
~be ma the .Melt of thookve trade. be hod rewired •
semis it ben the BessElon Warm Miming what
be bad Meath title Mimed tithe Mathis of
meth Voile is slaves
is Dm% sof be SUSI to the feet ef tbe Sidenes
el anthem Impeetedi from 1849 sad HMO 1666, sadli the
Bad semades of the trade is 1854, Una el the lumber of
Maths Imperial in these years, 1,600 had been takes by the
pthes ia pemathes this law of Bruit ea that subject, sad
boil bees reslesth to freedom.
The But of DARNLEY peesseted • P•fitio• from
Bashosta sad Chatham' is favour of tkeiag pabliphosses
es Basdays.
The Duke of RICHMOND presested apetitios from a
phase la Banffshire ag Ann thereat to Maysooth.
MARRIBD SOLDIERS.—INCREASE OF PAY OF
THE ARMY IN TUB FIELD.
The Dabs of RICHMOND wished to riell the ablation
ends Bob's triad the Saretasy for War to a subject of
whisk he had gives him notice. His had observed fa the
newspapers advertisements calling on sechitects to send is
plan for sew banacks, which were about to be erected in
diffuse% parts of the errantry, and he wished to all the
attention of Womble friend tea matter of great import-
aim, and to lapin whether in the erection of sow barracks
else care would be taken to hays wants bsildtgs be
married soldiers, their wives and children ? Mein
sash be more degrading to hum nature this that
manied ma and their wives should be sleeping in the same
ZOOM with • number of soldien. He had been always lei le
believe that decency and propriety were the most impothest
outworks of chastity, and it was impossible to impost that
wastes who witnessed such scenes as mast mar in a Swath
room meld be otherwise than demoralised. Ho wished to
sell atteatioa to a plea with tepid to this matter which
had been eseeessfully tried. Is 1852, Colonel Alszader,
(lithe Mares army, was examined before the committee of
their lesdakilpe house which oat use Indian affairs, and he
slated that in the Madras army the practice of married men
and their wives living is the man building with the rest of
the men had bees abeadoned, sad that both the regiments
mad the women belonging to them bad been greatly im-
pend by the adoption of that course. He conceived it was
hardly mommary for him to call the attention of
his noble 'dead to this subject. Though mach had
bees dose to improve the audition of the soldier
by means of schools and reading rooms, the cultivation of
athletic exercises, and the distribution of medals and gra-
tuities for good conduct, yet much remained to be dose.
He did not see why a soldier in her Majesty's *orrice should
set be ma well off as a pauper in a workhouse, who bad a
dormitory is which he neither ate nor slept, bat had a day-
them, whereas the soldier too often, in barracks in this
thostry, was compelled to oak and at is the room in which
be slept ; and then was so comfort for him in his barrack-
room. He believed the experiment of day-rooms had been
broad most bessficial in the patients:racks is Leaden. In-
stead of the soldier havieg a room where he might go, with
a ire, by which he might road the papas or perioleals,
mad prepare his hot cocoa or soles, yes sow drove the
young soldier from his cheerless barraek-roam, where
so little feel was allowed, to the beenhop in the
low public-bow, where be began Wee habits of drunken-
nem, which were the space of all the crimes the soldier
committed. Ws talked of our gratitude to the brays men
who wore fighting is the Crimea, bet he wanted gratitude
expressed mere is deeds than in words. In the first place
take can of those whom the soldier loved, and then endea-
vour to elevate his character by giving him respectable
halite; and if that was doss the country would look
favourably on the soldier, and respect him as mach for his
conduct in quarters as they did for his heroic gallantry in
the field. He wished to ask his noble friend if say plan
each übe had sketched was to be carried oat in the erection
of new barracks ? He treated also that he might be allowed
to ask if the recruiting for has Majesty's forces was
pis( ea is a mitigatory manner, for though he for one
sever had, or should have, a doubt of the success of the
British army in say undertskieg in which they were
imaged, yet he should be glad to be informed whether the
gevernmeat bad taken seriously into their consideration the
theelets necessity at the present moment of patting into
the ranks of the army, not merely children of 17 or 18 years
di, bat young men with more formed eonstitutioak who,
theses they never could be beaver than those who were now
is the Crimean army, would have more standee to enable
them to undergo the fatigues sad hardships which were
inseparable from every war.
Lord PANMURE said that in answering the questions
pat to him by his noble friend, he would fa the first place
state his satire conviction that the questions were pat is
so spirit of hostility to the goventasest, bemuse the con-
duct of the noble dike with reformat to military subjects in
Statham, for a very long period, fully proved that he would
be the last person In be acteated by such natives. It was
quite tree, as had been stated by his noble friend, and it
mast be satisfactory to all concerned in the welfare of the
British army, that there had bees not simply a tendency in
the public mind, bet the seta of the Room of Commas had
tended to improve the condition of the soldier. Every one
who had been Secretary at War for years past, to whatever
party they belonged, had vied with each other in their
efforts to raise the military character to each a
point as to adios respectable perms to mead their
children into the army. Bet although there had bees
W establishment of schools and libraries, and in-
grained mesas for spiritual 'nitration had been af-
forded, and the temptations of amass' had been
removed, still he admitted with his noble friend that mesh
remised to be done for the comfort of the soldier. No
one said have heard the description of his noble friend, of
the condition of women living is beressirs, without seeing
bow degrading such a system most be, width exposes them
to witness every day the scenes which Geese is a barrack-
room. With regard to the future ocestracitios of barracks,
a eoessittee was sitting to take the matter into cossidera-
tios, and it had not yet made its report, nor could ke say
oat %bat palate they had decided. Bat there were two
points which he thought it the day of those who
were charged with the question' of the erection of
barracks to eassider in their report. Without day-
yams so barracks could be comfortable, for ',eking
sad sad/4 is sleeping-rooms was neither wholesome nor
beeranieg. In the next plan, if we were to has
married men is hernias, there should be selomamisdea
set slide he them. At the sums time he thief' to ape the
army without women attached at all. He did not am why
soldiers should sot do for thommelvem nosy this. whisk
wanes were sow employed to do ; sad ho did ad Ise why
young mea who alined should, during the Ime podsd of
enlistment of ten years in the legman,' and teetheek the
Cavalry, be permitted to marry at all. If dui pesiliss
was not granted the effect would probably be that dies
would be no privates married, sad all the married ma
would be non-eastaissloaed oaken, sad there would be..
difficulty in ludas aesommodation for them. Os the thei
question, then, he entirely .sneered with what had MIMI
from his noble friend. With regard be lie mead episodes
of his nogg* hilted es the smbj•st se Oa *Unlade' gar the
army, he had to say that it was impseilia and it would he
erns, is him to deny that the eilablibesent was fat below
the *Madan' which had been dist by parliament Ho
Gould not attribute that to say MOM he the service, be`
mass remits were wane( at the sate of 1,000 a week. Bat
still the amities had a brought the army up to the
number voted by parliameat as seminary for the was ; sad
although we were gaining men nay day, yet we were
searmarily Weise by the demands of the war great numbers.
The goveramsut had at one times, thought that the difficulty
might be overcome by iscressing the bounty. Bet in
assaltation with his noble friend lathe had of the army
and others experienced in the effects of taking the bounty,
and its concomitant advantages on the recruiting of the
army, he had been dissuaded from taking that step, and In-
duced to try *nether plan, which was such a novelty in the
Queen's meek* that he could not help looking to its being
euocessful. The proposition which he should shortly make,
sad the Alen whisk he intended to adopt, was Ibis. In the
case of all soldiers engaged in the field of action before the
enemy, beginning with the Crimea, he proposed to offer
them double pay, that is, that Is. a day should be added to
the pay of all men before the enemy. He presumed that
this should take place from the time the army entered the
Crimes, but he did not propose to pat the additional pay at
ones Into the pockets of the men. He thosght that In ordi-
nary times the pay of the soldier was salleisat. Hilo endue
espouses were pieced on him by his eoausaadlng offioar,
and the espendintre of the men was earefelly watched, be
thought the pay sufficient. Bet he proposed to do this with
the 'Raspy : that it should be invested in the savings'
basks, sad if a soldier survived sad returned home it
boeld be peid to him on his discharge; bat if safortenately
he should be killed, or wounded mad peosiesed, the se-
empulatieas should, in the Met ow, be paid to hit (ma fly

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the standard whit
I maid not attribute
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although we 1111,1
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sad the plan Irbil
cue of all soldier
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them double pay
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