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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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• MUTINY RILL.
Mr. Caterert stated, that in the progress of the Bill he should
move to tenve out the clause for enlisting men for unlimited
service. • -
The Speaker said, that world come on after the Bill had been
read a third time; as an Amendment in its body.
Sin P. 11rnsinTT stated, that he now ruse, in obedience to;
notice given by.his Noble Friend (Lord Folkestone) to move,
that ; clause F.o added to the Bill preventing, in future, any
°Meer in the Army from being' cashiered, and dismissed from
the service, unless he should have been found guilty by a Court
Martial. This regulation, he conceived, *would not interfere
with the Perogative of the Crown; but be productive of much
benefit to the service, Mad highly satisfactory to the Army
and to the% Country at large. lie wished to extend to Mi-
litary Officers a degree. 'of protection • they had never en-
joyed, but to which they were surely emitted, in order
that they might not be exposed to dismissal from the army,
through the base insinuations of disappOinted
His object was to prevent Officers. who from their merit
were entitled to remain, from being forced to resign.—
He contended that no Officer ought to be dismissed from his
rank or pay, unless some substantial charge was made .out to
the satisfaction of a Court Martial. After enlarging upon the
obvious policy of such a regulation, the lion. Baronet con-
cluded by moving a clause to the above effect to be added to the
Bill.
TateSECRETARY ar frAn was sorry he could not comply
with the proposition of the lion. Baronet, who bad notautde
out any fair ground for so material an alteration in the military
system.
Loan For.nrsTonn supported the clause; and insisted, that
the Hon. Baronet had stated ample grounds for its introduction.
Ilis Lordship recommended the Hon. Baronet to withdraw the
clause, and introduce it in a separate Bill.
Sin F. BVIIDETT said he had abstained from any strong case,
though he had many, of hard oppression, to elucidate ; but yet
he would, in the mean time, concur with the stigostion of his
Noble Friend, and bring this important matter before the
House in another shape. The clause was accordingly with.
drawn.
Mn. CALCRAPT said, he had a clause to propose, which was
to reduce the Mutiny Bill to that state in which it was last
year, with respect to the enlistment of men for a limited service
had been attended with great success, and he considered the
measure attempted by the present :Ministers, of slraqing from
the Militia, as both expensive and oppressive. The draft of
16,000 men cost the country 640,0001. which fell mostly on the
poorer portion of the landed interest,
Tun SECRETARY AT WAR was averse to the clause, and
contended, that the unlimited service was more congenial to the
feelings of a soldier, and less expensive to the country at large.
The question was called for, and a divigion took place, when
the clause proposed was negatived by IS9 to 116.
The Bill was read a third time and passed.—Adjourned.

TUESDAY, MARCH 15.
Mr. Parnell moved for an Account of the gross Amount of
the Value of all Exports from Ireland to America. and of
American Produce imported into Ireland for the last three
years ; also of the quantity of Linen exported from Ireland to
America, and the Tonnage of Vessels employed in the Trade
between Ireland and America, for the last 10 years.—Ordered.
The lion. Gentleman next moved, for an Account of the
Amount of the Expence attending the Governumnt Expresses
sent to Ireland. He said this was a 'Aka worthy of enquiry,
as Government was in the habit of sending intelligence to a
Newspaper, published daily in Dublin, to the exclusion of
news from all the others. The news thus communicated was
' always concealed for some hours, and was extremely partial.
lie, also moved, for an Account of the Expenses attending the
Transmissal of Government Dispaches from London to Dublin._
via Holyhead, from the Ist of January DAM, to the Ist of
January last.
Sir A. Wellesley stated, that the money spent in that way
was extremely well applied. It only amounted to 70001. a
ear. The Newspaper alluded to lry the lion. Gentleman war.
The Correspondent, certainly not a publication strongly attacht.d
to. Ministers ; and the only reallon why it was so favoured, was
the fact of its being' the only chilly evening Paper published
in
Dublia.
Mr. Huskisson presented Copies of the Orders in Council
vtder which certain Americas .ships, bound Ise French porta