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but he must say that he apprehended that the opportunity
had now gone by.
Lord W. POWLETT supported the motion.
Mr, FREWEN thought it important that there should be
a naval officer on the committee, and should therefore vote
for the motion.
Colonel DUNNE said the Government seemed afraid to
have a naval officer on the committee, and yet a naval officer
was indispensable for the due prosecution of the inquiry.
The whole question turned on the neglect of the transport
service, and unless a naval officer was on the committee it
could not have the confidence of the country.
The house di tided—
For adding Sir G. Pechell to the committee 61
Against it
Majority against the motion —3B
POOR REMOVAL COMMITTEE.

On the motion of Mr. BAINES, the name of Mr. John
Ball was discharged from the committee, and that of Lord
Naas substituted.

THE TEA DUTIES.

The house went into committee on the Customs Act, and a
resolution for suspending the reduction of the duty on tea to
ls. till one year after the declaration of peace was agreed to.
The Exchequer Bills (17,183,0001.) Bill was read a second
time.
The house adjourned at half-past one o'clock.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MARCH 1.

PROMOTION IN THE ARMY.

Motion made and Question put, " That an humble address
be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graci-
ously pleased to take into her consideration the present
system of Promotion in her Majesty's Army, under which
non-commissioned officers rarely attain to the rank of com-
missioned officer, and scarcely ever to that of field officer,
and humbly to represent to her Majesty that it is the opinion
of this house that the said system is injurious to the public
service, and unjust to the private soldier in her Majesty's
Army, " The house divided ; Ayes, 114, Noes, 158.

AYES.-114.
Acton, J. Forster, J.
Anderson, Sir J. F'vc W.
Ball, E. Gardner, R.
Ball, J. Goodman, Sir G.
Barnes, T Gower, F.
Bass, T. Greenall, G.
Biggs, W. Green, Capt John
Bland, L. No.
E.
P.r.
n C
Gwyn,eni.
elli Chas.
ilouverie,
Bowyer, G. Hadfield, G.
Ilramley-Mooro, J. lianmer, Sir J.
Bright, J. Basile, Alex.
Brocklehurst J. 'Wile, Archd.
Brockman, E.D. Heywood, J.
Browne, W. Heyworth, L.
Campbell, Sir A. Howard, C.
Challis, T. Nutehins, Z.
Cobbett, J. M. Ingham, R.
Cobden, It. Jackson, W.
Cogan, W. H. F. Keating, R.
Cowan, C. Kennedy, T.
Craufurd, E. 11. J. King, P.
Crook, J. Kinnaird, A.
Crossley, F. Laing, S.
Currie, Raikes Lang ton, H. G.
Dent, J Laslett, W.
Da Yere, S. Lee, W.
Dillwyn, L. Lindsay, W.
Divett, E. Mackie, J.
Duke, Sir J. Macgregor, John
Duncan, G. Maguire, J.
Duncombe, T. Mangles, R. D.
Dunlop, A. Marshall, W.
Ebrington, Viscount Miall, E.
Ellice, E. Milligan, R.
Ewart, W. Milnes, li.
Fagan, W. Morris, D.
Fenwick, IT. Mestyn, T.
Ferguson, J. Mowatt, F.
Forster, C. - Murrough, J.
NOES-158.
A'Court, C. Gsulburn' 11.
Adair, R. Graham, Sir J.
Adderley, C. Greaves, E.
Archdall, M. Greene, Thomas
Baring, 11. Gregson, S.
Baring, Sir F. Gray, Sir G.
Baring, T. Grey, R.
Baring, F. Grogan, Edward
Bellew, T. Grosvenor, Ld . R.
Bennet, Capt P. Hale, R.
Itent:uck, G. Halford, Sir 11.
Beresford, Rt. Tin. W. Hall, Sir B.
Ile:lceley. C. Hamilton, G. A.
Bethell, Sir R. Hankey, T.
Brains on. P. W. Harcourt, G.
Brand, 11. B. W. Ilarcourt, Col. F.
Brotherton, J. Hardinge, Bon. C.
Buckley, Gen. Ileathcote, G.
Carnac, Sir J. Hen?age, Geo. F.
Cas:lero;se, Viscount Herbert, S.
Cavendish, G. Herbert, Sir T.
Ce,;il, Lord It. Hervey, Lord A.
Chelsea. Viscount Ho Wain, Lord
Child, Smith Jqinstone, Sir J.
Cholmondeley, Lord Jones, Capt. T.
Christie, Samuel Kendall, N.
Clive, RN Kerrison, Sir E.
Colville, C. R. Knatchbull, W.
Cimper, W. F. Knox, Col. B. W.
Dalrymple, Viscount Knox, W. S.
Dering, Sir E. Langton, W.
Duckworih, Sir J. T. Lennox, Lord A. F.
Duff, J. Lenin', Loi d 11.
Duncombe, 0. Liddell, H. G.
Dunne, Col. Lovalne, Lord
Du Pre, C. Luce, T.
Egerton, E. Lushina ton, C.
Elcho, Lord Macartney, G.
NI liot, J. - Macgregor, Jas.
Elmley, Vie. Malins, R.
Emlyn, Vis. Mandeville, Vie.
EustonsEarl In eux, Sir 11.
Filuser, Sir E. Mlles, W.
Fitzroy, llon. H. Milner, W.
Floyer, J. Michell, Dr.W.
Forester, Col. Molesworth, Sir W.
Fortescue, C. Monck, Viscount
Franklyn, G. Morgan, 0.
Freestun, Col. Mowbray, J.
Frewen, C. Napier, J.
Gilpin, Col. IT. Newdegate, C.
Gladstone, W. North, Col. J.
..itadstone, Capt. J. Pakenliam, T. H.
Goddard, A. Pakington, Sir J.

Norreys, Sir D.
North, F.
O'Brien, P.

O'Connell, D.
o.way, A.

Parker, R.
Patton, Sir J.
Pechell, Sir G.
Pellatt, A.

Perry, Sir T.
Phillimore, R. I.
Pl^,-ott, F.

Pilklngton, J.
Reed, J.

Ricardo, J.
Ricardo, 0.

Roebuck, J.
Russell, F. C.
Scholefleld, W.
&obeli, Capt. G.
Shelley, Sir J.
Smith, J. B.
Stanley, W.
Strickland, Sir U.
Strutt, E.
Sullivan, Michael
Thompson, G.
Vivian, H. H.
Walmsley, Sir J.
Warner, E.

Wickham, 11. W.
Wilkinson, W.
Williams, W.
Wise, A.

TELLERS

Gcderich, pis.
Layard, A. H.

Palk, L.
Palmerston, Visct.
Peacocke, G.
Peel, Sir R.
Peel, F.
Peel, Gen.
Pennant, Col. E.
Philipps, J.
Pinney, SW.
Portman, W.
Powlett, Lord W.
Price, Sir R.
Pritchard, J.
Repton, G.
Meant°,
Robertson, P.
Ruche, E.
Sawle, C.
Seymour, Lord
heymonr, IL
Shelburne, Earl
Shirley, E.
Sihthorp, Col.
Smith, Abe!
Smith, J. G.
Stafford, A.
Stafford, MaNuts
Stanhope, J.
Stanley, Lord
Steel, J.
Stuart, W.
Taylor, Col.
Thornely, T.
Tomline, G.
Traill, G.
Tyler, Sir G.
Vance, J.
Vernon, G.
Villiers, C.
Walcott, Admiral
Walpole, S.
Walsh, Sir J.
Walter, J.
hatman, J.
Whitbread, S.
Whiteside, J.
Whitmore, H.
Wilson, J.
Wynn, Lieut.-Col.
Wy rill, M.

TELLERS.
Hayter, W.
Mulgrave, Earl of

THE REASON WHY.

(Front the Derbyshire Courier.)

Everybody is blaming everybody else for the mourn-
ful disaster which bas befallen our expedition to the
Crimea. First and foremost the !Arne is laid on the
War Ministers. And most justly so. Whatever the
system might be, whatever the circumstances of the war
under that system and these circumstances, the late War
Ministers voluntarily undertook to conduct the war.
Had they succeeded in carrying on the contest with Russia
with only a moderate degree of success, had they even
succeeded in supplying with food, clothing, and medi-
cine, the brave men whom they have exposed to the ne-
cessary severities of a winter campaign in the Crimea,
the country would so far have been content, and the
War Ministers would have had the principal share of
the praise. As it is, they must bear the chief share
of the disgrace. As we proceeded in the war it became.
evident that the Government—and the people who had
taken their opinion from what the members of the Go-
vernment told them—had greatly under-rated the mili-
tary capability of Russia. But our army in the Crimea
has had to contend with a worse enemy than Russia.
No men could have contended more bravely or more
successfully than our troops have done against the Rus-
sians. But they have been starved to annihilation. A
want of the commonest foresight and common-sense
capacity for the management of every-day business on
the part of the heads of Departments, at home and
abroad, has proved an enemy too powerful for our once
splendid army.
But then the excuse for these culpable officials is that
the system prevented them from doing what they were
anxious to effect. Well, we believe that the corruption
and jobbing of years in the appointment of Government
clerks and officials has eventuated in a bad and inefficient
system. Bat had we had men of sagacious mind and
strong will at the bead of our War Departments, they
would have provided for our army in spite of the system.
It is not so much, as it appears to us, a better system
as better men to work the existing system that th
country requires in the present emergency.
But then comes our contemporary, Blackwood, and
takes a deeper view of the subject, and tells us that we
must look at principles, and blame ourselves. The in-
sane mania of reduction common to all classes, says our
contemporary, made our present inefficient system, and
lies at the root of the evil. Joseph Hume, says Sir F.
Head, the demon of economy, has destroyed our mag-
nificent army by the miserable system of retrenchment
which'he introdhced.

We are ready to admit that the country, and Joseph
Hume (who in that respect represented the feeling of the
masses) have carried retrenchment too far. Had we not
" cut down " •ur army so severely to a peace establish-
ment, we should doubtless have been better prepared for
war ; nay, the war itself might have been avoided.
But what caused the mania of reduction ? Wbat
raised up Joseph Hume, as a power in the state ? The
mania of reduction did not spring tip in a day. It gradu-
ally grew up after the proclamation of peace in 1815.
Nor wag such a mania, a necessary attendant on peace.
With pas and plenty a nation would rather be in-
clined to be liberal and lavish in its expenditure. It
was peace and poverty which led to the mania of reduc-
tion. The dreadful distress of 1816, " without prece-
dent," said Mr. Tierney, " since the Norman Conquest,"
the calamities of 1819, the agricultural distress of 1820,
1821, and 1822 ; the great panic of 1825 ; the agricul-
tural distress of 1829, and 1830, the panic of 1837, the
miserable vicissitudes of trade from that time up to the
panic of 1847—a1l these events had engendered in the
minds of the British public a very natural mania of re-
duction.

Are we to expect the English operative, or the little
trader, to think of British honour and British glory
while his family is starving ? Certainly not. Ignorant
of the causes of the national distress, the suffering
classes called loudly for the reduction of taxation at all
risks.

And if we now suffer the effects of this system, let us
know the reason why.

Peel's monetary system, by paralysing the national
energies, and again and again producing the most severe
national suffering, is the great moving cause which lies
at the root of all our national misfortunes.

If the British soldier has no sward, why has he not?
Because he has sold it to buy bread. Mind we don't
say that Peel's Bill has done all the evil. But we do
say that it has created national evils which would not,
without it, have existed, and that it has aggravated the
evils which were inevitable.

The reason why we have now been able to buy a
sword, and draw it, is, that Australian gold has alle-
viated the evils of a bad monetary system. But let not
the nation dream that they have done with Peel. He
has not done with them. With twenty millions and up-
wards to pay for war expenses, a restricted currency,
and consequently depressed trade, we shall, should the
war proceed, be forced into an inglorious peace to avoid
the unbearable pressure of the expenses of an honourable
war.
" Let the rich," says our enthusiastic contemporary,
"submit to a double income tax, the poor to enhanced
spirit, tea, and house duties." And so we verily believe
they would, with cheap money, and a sufficient supply
of it. But not without. Should England fail at this
important crisis, let it be remembered that Peel's Bill
is the reason why.