The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-07 00:00:00

THE FENIAN OUTBREAK.

Mr. C. FORTESCUE asked the right hon. gentleman
the Secretary for the Home Department whether he could
give the house any further information relative to the un-
fortunate state of aiTairs in Ireland, in addition to that
mentioned in the house yesterday by the Secretary for
Ireland.
Mr. WALPOLE said some additional telegrams had
been received to-day, but they merely gave some more
details relative to the information already made known,
and therefore they were not of any particular importance.
(Hear, hear.) There was no further information in
the possession of the Government than that which already
had been published in the newspapers, in some of which
he regretted to say the facts had been very highly
coloured. The latest telegram that had been received
was as follows :
" 11.40 a.m., Thursday. Railway open to Cork. Thir-
teen prisoners brought from Limerick and Kilmalioch.
Three persons shot. No event of importance reported to-
day. Dublin, Cork, Limerick, and Waterford all quiet."
(Hear, hear.)
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crease in the amount to be voted of no less a sum than
ber of men should be at once taken. There was an in-
The excess had been brought about by
£412,000, although the number of men was less than
last year.
circumstances over which there was no control, but
DO part of it was occasioned by making provision
for the relief of regiments serving abroad in India,
more especially. The recruiting for the army would also
account for a portion of the increase, because next year no
less than 21,300 men who entered for ten years would be-
come entitled to their discharge. The estimated number
of men entitled to their discharge by right, taken with
these arising from sickness, would on the whole amount to
no less than 32,600 men. He did not suppose that it was
at all likely that the whole body of men comprised
in this number would retire from the army, as it
was more than likely a great number of them
would re-enlist, still it was but right that the number of
men who could retire should be known. The hon. and
gallant gentleman then proceeded to detail the purposes of
the first seven votes ho proposed to take, and stated that
ho felt it impossible to maintain the efficiency of the army
at a sum less than set down iu the estimates. The gallant
general next dealt with the sum proposed to be taken for
the Royal Gun Factory, the number of rifled guns required
being estimated at 426. Ho thought it was desirable that
the whole army should be furnished with breech-loaders;
and with respect to the recommendations of the
report of the Royal Commission on recruiting, he
said he approved of the establishment for general
service in preferance to enlisting for particular regiments,
hecauso by that means young recruits would not be so
quickly despatched to foreign stations, care being taken
Vied recruits should be attached to return regiments rather
than those immediately going on foreign service. He also
approved of the recommendation of increasing the pay of
the soldier 2d. per day, in preference to increasing his
rations.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)