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SIR WILLIAM NAPIER AND THE
FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—lt appears that Sir William Napier is not
satisfied with having been answered by the Financial
Reform Association, nor with having answered and
refuted himself. He must still write, and still de-
mand to be replied to. He charged the association,
by a garbled quotation from Tract No. 4, with pub-
lishing what was untrue. The association quoted
the whole passage in reply, and gave their authority
for the facts—the Parliamentary estimates. The
tract stated that the money voted by Parliament for
the " clothing" the army did not provide the soldiers
with all their clothes, but only with a part of them,
and that they were furnished with the remainder
through the quartermasters of regiments, in payment
of which their daily pay was put under stoppages.
Whereupon he and a colour-sergeant proceeded to
tell how coffee and sugar for the soldiers' mess were
bought at shops, and how a corporal marched the
cooks or their deputies out of barracks to buy those
articles ; and next he went at great length into the
regulations relating to district courts-martial! The
association stated that the quartermaster and his chief,
the clothing colonel, had the clothing and equipment
of the soldier between them. So they have. They
may not be joined in business, nor divide the profits ;
but the soldier is divided between them. By showing
that the soldiers go to the town grocers for coffee and
sugar, it is sought to be inferred, if the statement
have any meaning, that soldiers may provide them-
selves with " regimental necessaries" at whatever
market they please. Articles for " messing" are not
regimental necessaries, though they be the necessaries
of life. The soldier in all his " necessaries" must be
regimental. He must take them from the regimental
store ; a penny iron spoon at twopence ; a sixpenny
knife and fork at tenpence or a shilling, and so forth.
And these are the facts which any private soldier will
testify to. So with changes in the kind and fashion
of the " necessaries '-" the unworn, or halfworn article,
when a change of fashion occurs, must be replaced at
the expense of the soldier's daily pay.
It was stated that the clothing-colonels of regi-
ments derived a profit from the clothes furnished
(their pay being about 86,7001., and their profits
about 7.5,0001.) to the regiments. Whereupon Sir
William Napier proceeds to tell of the "checks" that
are placed upon those clothing colonels to prevent the
issue of bad or inferior clothing to the soldiers, and
ends by stating that three regiments, and, he believes,
" two others are in the same predicament," have been
served with bad clothing (query, low-priced ?) by
their clothing colonels, notwithstanding those checks
of " inspectors," and "a board of general officers."
And because the Financial Reform Association have
not thought fit to keep up a controversy with a con-
troversialist thus refuting himself, he again writes,
and demands to be replied to.
His demand for a reply shall be met, but not by
following him into questions relating to the internal
discipline of regiments, which have no connexion
with the financial questions at issue. The letters re-
ceived almost every day from soldiers, since this dis-
cussion arose, amply prove how deeply they are
aggrieved by the system which Sir W. Napier ap-
proves so highly for the " protection of the soldier."
But instead of quoting them, the association prefers
to quote the evidence of the clothing-colonels and
army contractors examined by the Select Committee
of Parliament in 1833.
Sir T. M. Brisbane, at page 292, is thus reported :
"I am fully aware that by Government contract-
ing for the whole cloth required for the army, in
place of these contracts being made by individuals, a
great saving would be effected for the public, and a
more uniform and at the same time a better quality
of cloth might be the result, as, from my experience
in inspecting regiments, I have perceived great va-
rieties in the quality of the cloth, as also in the
colour, from not having been so well dyed in some as
in others."
In page 293 of the same Parliamentary document,
Lieutenant-General Sir R. 11. Vivian says; of the
clothing system as then and now in operation :
" According to the present system, the interest
and the duty of the colonel are at variance. His in-
terest is, that the least possible expenditure should
take place; his duty, that his regiment should in
every respect be efficiently clothed and appointed. It
would be idle to deny that instances have occurred
in which the latter has been sacrificed to the former."
This officer, however, like all the other clothing-co.
lonels examined in 1833, did not see how the system
could be changed to afford a "saving to the public,"
and for this reason,—
" As respects the colonel I see not how his in-
terest is to be protected. Upon what principle can
the allowance be determined which he is to receive in
lieu of his off reckonings ? If on the average of the
present reduced establishment, it is obvious it will be
unfair upon him, for it is well known that in a war
a regiment is worth double as much as in peace."
And again he says,
" The difficulty arising out of the interest of the
colonels, and the much greater advantage derived
from regiments in war than in peace " (by the men
being killed off,) " appears hard to meet."
But there are also the saddlery and other " appoint-
ments " in cavalry, out of which profits are made.
Lieutenant-General Fane, clothier, saddler, &c., to a
cavalry regiment, gives (page 279) a reason why the
saddlery should be furnished by the colonel rather
than the Government—why the profit should belong
to the colonel rather than " the public ;" a reason
which expresses an opinion of the honour and good
sense of regimental officers such as " the public "
would not have expressed of them. He says :
" Under present circumstances the officers of a re-
giment feel an interest for their colonel, which leads to
much care for his property ; I think the same amount
of care would not be extended if the articles belonged
to the public."
Whatever military men in the pay of the public
may think of such reasoning, the public, who bear their
burden, will not fail to understand it.
As every clothing and saddler colonel of those ex-
amined by the Select Committee in 1833 admitted a
possibility of a change in the system, only on condi-
tion of their being fully compensated for their loss of
profits on " off-reckonings," and that not on the scale
of peace profits, but in anticipation of war profits in a
time of peace, there remained no reason to seek a
change.
The Lieutenant-General just quoted says,—
" There is no doubt that a change may be made
without any detriment to the colonel, supposing his
compensation be made fully equivalent to what, on
an average of peace and war, be receives."
But the reasoning of the Duke of Wellington was
more effective than the reasons of all else in prevent-
ing a change. His eminent military services and
high position obtain for him, and entitle him to,
much consideration. He occupies from page 273 to
278 inclusive in contending for the continuance of
the emoluments of clothing to such general officers as
are selected for those rewards, and for the continuance
of the sinecure governorships of garrisons, such as
Hull and Scarborough, on the ground that a change
of system would require an application to Parliament
for money to reward the services of those officers.
"It is needless," he concludes, "to point out the
evil consequences which would attend this novel mode
of proceeding," (the novelty of applying to Parliament
for money to reward officers !) "as well to the army
as to the King, to his servants, and to the constitution
of the country."
The argument of the " constitution of the coun-
try" settled the matter; the system of clothing and
tailoring continued, and the country was saved, not
from the expense, but from the destruction !
General Maitland gave a reason, page 281, why the
system should be altered. He said—
"No saving can be made without subtracting from
the colonel. No saving can be made by any sub-
traction from the soldier; therefore, no saving can be
made other than by saving the profits the clothiers
have gained."
This he proposes to effect by sending the material 3
to the regiments to be made up by the men. And he
alludes to the fact that the clothes are so badly
sewed, through the cheap manner of getting them up
(to afford a large profit to the colonels), thats , they
her
have to be resewed on arriving at the regiments
is a sensible suggestion, seeing that both officers
in o
•
and
this
men have so much spare time on their hands
bar-
racks, and find rational recreation ddesiffitiocautlitooto
aob-
tain ; and seeing that the highreiss
to
" obtain a re-
ambition of the regimental officer
he becomes a major_
and its tailoring, w
general; and, seeing, accordingto Sir William Na.
pier, that the clothing colonels are imposed on by the
manufacturers, manufacturers, and do not know bad. cloth fromgcode,
the army clothindg,,
the sooner regimental offictersget into practice the
better. The bad sewing o
small grievance to the soldier. It is now nise bnyo
women, who hare to find the thread they use, and
pay, have as much
who, earning their miserable
reason to be dolorous with the " Song of a Soldier's
Coat," as with the " Song of the Shirt," the l a
to them the more profit to the tailor-colonels.ess(Apnyd
the more safety to the "constitution of the country.")
Mr. John Pearse, one of the contractors, who gets
up the clothing for the colonels, says, page 70,
" It is impossible to say how many people are em-
ployed. I should suppose' as to the common work-
ing people, marry theuLaud;'VPs have no means of
knowing the number, because persons take from us

In taking down, a few years ago, in France, some
ortion of the ancient chateau of the Roque d'Ondres
; was found that the extremities of the oak girders,
,odged in the walls, were perfectly preserved, although
;hese timbers were supposed to have been in thtir places
for upwards of six hundred years. The whole of these
extremities buried in the walls were completely wrapped
round with plates of cork. When demolishing an an-
cient Benedictine church at Bayonne, it was found that
the whole of the fir girders were entirely worm-eaten
and rotten, with the exception, however, of the bearings,
which, as in the case above mentioned, were also com-
pletely wrapped round with plates of cork. The fixings
were completed by a layer of greasy-feeling clay, inter-
posed between the cork and the masonry, and the parts
of the walls opposite the ends of the timbers were of
brick. It would be very difficult to believe that these
extraordinary instances of the preservation of timber
were not to be entirely attributed to the cork plates, the
impermeability of which is well known, since the sub-
stance is not only used to contain different kinds of
liquids, but also to close bottles containing spirituous
liquors. With experience saying so much in favour of
a process so simple and inexpensive, it must be acknow-
ledged that it deserves to be tried, more particularly for
buildings of which we are more than usually anxious to
preserve the timbers.—Artisan.
HARBOURS OF THE SOUTH AND WEST.--Tha pro-
ceedings of the Cork Harbour Board, at their meeting
on Wednesday last, should be a topic of congratulation
to many of our friends. The petition drawn up by
Major Beamish, and adopted at the meeting, should re-
ceive universal support. Nothing can be of more im-
portance to our seaports than the obtaining of a General •
Harbour Act, and we trust no exertion will be spared to
obtain it. The suggestion relative to the Coast Guard
establishment likewise deserves every man's attention,
if it were only on the ground of common humanity.
Province of Munster,
POSTPONEMENT OF MR. MACAULAY'S INAUGURA-
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Macaulay as Lord Rector of the Glasgow University is,
we learn, postponed for the present, owing chiefly to.the; -
prevalence:of cholera, and to the consequent thinness _43.1..
the classes. It has also been resolved to prolongEtahse.,
postponement until after the rising of Parliament at
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