The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-08 00:00:00

THE WOOLWICH MUTINY.

The Standard, in speaking of this affair, says
that there are questions of considerable importance
involved in the events out of which the disturbance
arose. It mentions especially the new control
system of which so much has been heard
of late. That system involves the disestablishment
of the several corps hitherto employed in duties of
transport and supply, and the formation of im army
service corps to be commanded. by commissioned
officers of the, Control Department.. The formation
of this corps involved the breaking up of the Commis-
sariat Staff and other corps, the consequence being
that the greater portion of the rank and file of the
Military Train entered the Army Service Corps.
There remained, however, some tour hundred, of
whom about eighty are at Woolwich, who
would not -volunteer, or having volunteered,
were rejected either as medically unfit or
as being bad characters. The Royal Warrant lays it
down that the non-commissioned officers and Lieu of
the Army Service Corps shall receive working pay for
such periods as they may be actually employed on
duty. No pay, however, was forthcoming
until the labyrinthine wanderings which only
those who have had dealings with the
War Department can understand, were threaded.
But while the red-tape knot was being cut the delay
was looked on as a serious P-rievance. The men were
required to groom the off-horses of the Army Service
Corps without additional pay, and even to harness
the horses and lead them (town to the Arsenal. No
pay and the being called upon to do the dirty work
of a corps which they had either refused to join, or
had been rejected Iron), the Standard considers the
causes of*grievance. It asks, therefore, whether
there is not some excuse for these foolish and mis-
ded men ?

TELEGRAPHIC DELAYS.
appears -that in case of delay in the transmission
telegram the sender, on making out his grievance,
lave the money returned. A City of London mer-
t reports that the price of two messages which
I.Ldelayed in transmission has been given back to
He suggests that there should likewise be
compensation for losses which may arise out of
tardy transmission ; but the Times points out that
teans could be devised of reasonably measuring
injury. "All that can be required is a general
)f) of efficiency, coupled with the immediate
nof money in exceptional cases. The public
not shewn much patience with regard to recent
ularities, but it mny be doubted if a transaction
fr,rintic as that of the transfer of the televraph
m to new hag' i simultaneously with a general
Aon of its iac:ilities has over been conducted

cq ual precision."

TILE REVISION OF TILE

Lord Shaftesbury, leader of the anti-revision-of-
Bible party, sends io the Times, as a defence of
course ho has taken, a letter which ho had ad-
led to a learned professor on the subject. Could
.'revision be limited to marginal readings.
Shaftesbury would feel much less oh-
:an to the scheme. But such a barrier
ris is sure to be broken down when once
,9toodgates are let loose, and the cry for further
Ciment will know no end. The "Parts- o!
;ress," "strengthened by all that had tone be-fore,
Id never rest from their efforts to efface the
c the whole Bible, and every reminiscence of the
from the. h eats and. minds of men.:' He believes

that were the _Bible-reading people polled at this
moment man by man, woman by woman, child by
child, the overwhelming majority would announc3
that they stood firm to the inheritance of their fore-
fathers."

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