Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-15 00:00:00

COLONEL NORTH, M.P., ON MR. BRIGHT
AND MILITARY DISCIPLINE.

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The annual meeting -of the Bartbui.y agricultural

n the ,afternoon the
members dined in the market-room of the Red Lion
Hotel. Colonel North, M.P., occupied the chair, and

the Rev

11. Holbeach, the
,Mayor of Banbury, Mr. IL Norris,
Lieut. Brickwell, &c.
The usual loyal toasts having been given,
The Chairman proposed " The Army and Navy." Ho

said he was satisfied from what he knew of the good
qualities of the army—their gallantry in the field, their

Sovereign, and their devotion to the country, that they
Were worthy of the estimation in which they were held.

as he did, in a count• which fur-

of the country, he trusted they would allow him
to refer briefly to a speech in reference to the army, re-
centlydelivered by Mr. Bright at Huddersfield. (Cheers.)

political ; but there were some passages in it in refer-
/IT Pr. fank +ll,-• 3 1. • l•

le army

The lion. member for Birmingham, in his speech at
Huddersfield, went on to say, The Horse Guards is a

confirmed by every fact that comes to my know-

management of t

der its diree-

tion, is a management where interest and jobbery
reign supreme, and where the -interest of the nation
at lark and fair dealing to all applicants for pre-
ferment are very little considered." Now, with regard to
the control of the army, the direction of the forces de-
volved upon the Duke of- Cambridge,-and he believed
that very few men held the opinion of his royal highness
which 'AIr. Bright appeared to entertain. (Cheers.)

t a Wien irn the country who had more

Bright, who would presume to say that the mana
ment of his royal

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.ipreme, and where •tlic
large and fair cleanup,

to all applicants for preferment are- very littl'e
considered." If ever ally man had devoted his
whole energies Hto the improvement of the con-
dition of the army it was his Royal. Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, and it was most unfair
that such an attack, should have been made upon
him by Mr. Bright. (hear, and cheers.) The hon.
men committed' upon his member for Birmingham went on to say--"In a free
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country like this I yonder that certain things are per-
mitted which now exist. r have been engaged for the
last two months in pronring the discharge of a soldier,
if I may call him so, for he is not.a man, nor indeed a

young man, but a boy, who was only fourteen years and
a month or two old when he 7stas-entrapped by the re-
" , It has taken the father of that bov, I
st April or Ma`•, to procure his dis-

charge, and it has only been Obtained at length on
account of the urgent remonstrances that I made ;
for memorial 'after memorial has gone to the Horse
Cuards,. and to his Royal Highness the Puke of Cam-
bridge, which, memorials have been 'replied to in the
usual fashion, nearly meaning We have got
yOur son in our barracks; he has the oath he
has taken the shilling ; and, be he man or boy, we will

among you, think of a boy, fourteen years of age, being