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the soldiers, after remaining at home for five'
must necessarily go abroad for 15 or - sometime 20 ;
years. If, then, women married soldiers they did not ,
marry them for life like other men but, practically
speaking, they married them for five years at ithe;
most, And in most cases it was better for the women
that they should be separated from their husbands than'
they should go with them. If she had young chilvlrenQ
—and if she had children at all, they must be tder
five years of age—they were sure to die ; for more than
half the troops and all the young children that went
either to India or the West Indies, must necessarily
fall victims to the climate. If any new system respect-
ing soldiers' wives and children were to be adopted, he
thought it would be a hardship if it were specially con-
fined to the families of the troops ordered on the Turkish
expedition ; because the only peculiarity in the case of
those troops was that they were ordered abroad a little
sooner than they would have been if war had not broken
out. He understood that it was proposed to remove
the depots of all the regiments ordered abroad to the
Isle of Wight ; but he thought that that would give
rise to much inconvenience, and would cause the wo-
men and children left behind much misery and distress.
Those women earned their living chiefly by washing,
and though when the regiment was ordered away they
lost a great part of their customers, they were not entirely
deprived of the means of subsistence. He thought that
the best they could do would be to make the town
from which each regiment was removed to go abroad
its home until it returned again, and he ended as he be-
gan, by deprecating anything that would hold out any
further inducements to women to marry soldiers.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE agreed with what had
fallen from the Earl of Ellenborough as to the undesir-
abieness of holding out any undue encouragement to
women to marry soldiers ; but he thought it had hardly
been justified by anything that had been said by the noble
and learned lord, who had carried out in his private
capacity the recommendations he had offered to the
house. He thanked the noble and learned lord for
bringing the subject before the house. He could assure
him that the subject had not been neglected by the Go-
vernment, who took the subject into consideration when
it was determined to send troops to the East.
The Earl of DERBY said he had heard a rumour that
a regiment which had recently returned from Canada
had been ordered to the East. A considerable number
of the men had married in Canada, and their wives, who
were ignorant of our language, were left behind. He
inquired if this was true.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE said the matter had not
been brought to his attention, but he thought it very
possible that such a circumstance had occurred. If it
had it was an exceptional case, and he should feel it his
duty to inquire into it.
Earl PO WIS suggested that the wives of soldiers who
went abroad for garrison duty should be allowed to go
out with their husbands in greater numbers.
The returns were then ordered, and their lordships
then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.

Lord BECTIVE took the oaths and his seat for
Westmoreland.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
On the'motion of Mr. W. PATTEN, Earl Jermyn was
discharged from further attendance on the Committee of
Private Bills (group 2), and Mr. J. G. Smyth and Mr.
Grenfell were added thereto.
The Birmingham Waterworks Bill and the Lanark
Police Improvement Bill were ordered to lie upon the
table.

PETITIONS.
Mr. C. BRUCE presented petitions from Elgin and
Strathbogie against the Education Bill for Scotland.
Mr. BAILLIE presented a petition from the Con-
sultative Council of British Guiana on the subject of the
duty levied on sugar, the growth of the colony.
Mr. MULLINGS presented petitions from certain
electors of Canterbury in reference to the leave given for
bringing in a bill for their disfranchisement, and praying
that that bill should not pass, and that the petitioners
be heard by council against it.
Mr. BUCK presented a petition to the same effect
as the foregoing from the corporation of the borough of
Barnstaple, which he moved should be read at the table,
and which was reri by the clerk accordingly.
Mr. PIGOTT presented a petition from Reading
against the Oaths Lill.
Mr. MIALL presented 21 petitions from London,
Lincoln, Swansea, Manchester, Salford, and other
places, praying for free admission for all classes to the
universities.
Mr. BOOKER presented several petitions from
Worcestershire against the sale of intoxicating liquors
on the Sabbath. _

Mr. G. DUNDAS presented a petition from Auck-
land, New Zealand, praying for the withdrawal of mili-
tary at elections of the Legislative Council there.
Petitions were also presented by Mr. WICKHAM
against the Oaths Bill, from the Abbey Wesleyan
Chapel, Bradford ; the Richmond-place Wesleyan
Chapel, Bradford ; the Kirkgate Wesleyan Chapel,
Bradford ; Low Moor .Wesleyan Chapel, Bradford ;
Centenary Wesleyan Chapel, Bradford ; and from the
inhabitants of the Chapelry of Thornton, in the parish
of Bradford, in favour of closing public-houses on
Sundays. From, the members of the Bradford Lodge
of Odd Fellows against the 4th clause of the Friendly
Societys Bill.
Sir B. HALL presented a petition from the inhabi-
tants of .Marylebone, assembled at public meeting, in
favour of the Reform Bill.
Mr. F. SCULLY presented several petitions from
places in Tipperary against the proposed inquiry into
Conventual Establishments.
Mr. LUCAS presented also petitions from Tipperary
to the same effect, and from places in Scotland against
the,Lord Advocate's Education Bill for Scotland.
Mr. ROEBUCK presented a petition from Sheffield
in favour of University Reform.