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may be done in a wrong manner, and it must not
be supposed by those most interested in the matter

that there is any notion on the part of the House
that no necessity exists for the said reduction being
carri..-A out, but that the opportunity was ❑ot a
suitable one for carrying out the principle it had
before affirmed. To reduce the National Debt
has always been a great object with the most
eminent financiers, and there is no real reason
to be found against employing the terminable annui-
ties for that purpose. Though much cannot be done
this year, something is possible, and it is a step in
advance. The Chancellor of the Exchequer made
out a very good case last night in honour of the
principle of " terminable annuities," which, he
said, had greatly contributed to the carrying out
of the French Treaty, and the House evidently
concurred in all the right hon. gentleman said on
the subject.

The brief discussion which took place last evening
respecting the system of recruiting adopted for our
army was very suggestive, and will we hope lead to
some practical and much-needed improvements.
On the motion for going into a committee of supply
on the army supplementary estimate, Mr. WHIT-
BREAD took occasion to lay some of the grievances
of the recruit before the house, and there was very
little difference of opinion respecting the pressing
necessity for a thorough change in the sys-
Mr. WHITBREAD objected very strongly
to the systematic deceit practised on the
recruits. The first thing to be done, he said, was
to get over the idea on the part of the men, that
they were engaged on false pretences. Sergeant
GODDARD, who gave his evidence before the com-
mission, admitted that he had himself enlisted under
the belief that there would be no deduction from
the shilling a day, but as a recruiting sergeant he
had himself deceived others in the same manner.
Those who are acquainted with the working of the
present system have given it as their opinion that the
general unwillingness to enlist is mainly due to the
feeling of the men that they are swindled out of their
pay for necessaries. The soldiers who were ex-
amined before the Commission did not complain
of insufficient pay, but they complained loudly of
these stoppages, and said plainly that recruits had
been so much humbugged that the recruiting ser-
geant was no longer believed. Mr. WHITBREAD
condemned the system as prejudicial to recruiting,
unjust to the soldier, and injurious to the service;
and he asked what would be thought of a manu-
facturer who persuaded people to enter his service
by gross misrepresentation, more especially if
the parties deceived could be legally compelled to
submit against their will ? " They must get rid,"
said the hon. gentleman " of the painful undercur-
rent of feeling that it was right or politic to trick
men into the service, trusting to legal powers to
hold them in the service against their will." Why
should not the QUEEN'S service, he asked, be con-
ducted on the ordinary principles of honesty and
fair play.
The whole of this branch of the subject is very
fully and ably discussed in Sir CHARLES
TREVELYAN'S pamphlet on the purchase sys-
tem,* and he condemns our present mode
of recruiting in toto. The evidence of
men of all grades in the service is strongly
opposed to the recruiting system as it stands, both
on principle and practice. So bad is the system in
its effects on the men that commanding officers are
averse to sending their best men on recruiting
parties that they may not be corrupted. " The
recruiting sergeant," says Sir CHARLES, " being
lodged in the lowest houses in a town, where they
meet only with the worst characters, become de-
praved; and even good non-commissioned officers,
after baring been employed on the recruit-
ing service, frequently return to their
regiments dissipated in habits and appearance
and greatly in debt." " What, therefore," he asks,
" must be the effect upon raw recruits who have
just entered upon a new line of life, and come
under the influence of more experienced associates?"
In another place he declares that we are open to
the reproach of tainting our soldiers at the outset
of their career with that vice which is the cause of
most of the crimes of the army. SIR CHARLES is
not alone in his strong► opinions on the sub-
ject. Mr. GODLEY, the former Assistant
Under Secretary of War, declared bis belief
that the system was essentially evil, based on
falsehood and fraud, and tending directly to infinite
immorality. No one, he said, could observe the
scenes that take place at the taverns frequented by
the recruiting-sergeant at the head-quarters of a
militia regiment, when the volunteers for the Line
are called for, without shame and disgust that such
proceedings should form part of the recognised ma-
chinery of the British military service. " I believe,"
said this gentleman in the memorandum he ap-
pended to the Report of the Commission, " that
a fearful responsibility lies upon a Govern-
ment which deliberately scatters such tempta-
tions among the poorest and most helpless
classes of its people, and which, for its own, political
ends, takes advantage of their weaknesses and feeds
their vices." The Duke of CAMBRIDGE thought it
would be impossible to improve the system without
a thorough change, though his Royal Highness
fully concurred in the opinion of its attendant evils.
Mr. GODLEY, in his evidence before the Commission,
attributed the necessity of using such discreditable
means of recruiting to the unpopularity of the
service, and said, very truly, that no other
employers of labour had to tie ribbons round
their hats and go to public houses to look
for labourers to put up with boys when they want
men. " The men go after the employers, not the
employers after the men." The same view was, in
fact, taken by Colonel GRAHAM, Inspector of the
London Recruiting District, who stated that in the
police force the case was very different. No one
thought of hunting through public-houses for men
since they came forward and tried to get into the
police. Many advantages are enjoyed by the
soldier, but there is no question that the mis-
chievous system of stoppages, professing to give a
shilling where really the men only get one-third of
the sum in actual cash, has a very bad effect. It
would be very much better to state fairly what
the sum was, and to endeavour to get a better
class of men to enlist. If a fair amount of wages
were paid, flogging done away with, pensions of
sufficient amount allowed for old age or invalidism,
there is no reason why the army should not
compete successfully with other spheres of labour.
Every discharged soldier who goes back, old
and broken down, to starve on sixpence or eight-
' pence a day in his native village, is a standing warn-

LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1867.

tem.

We should think that Mr. GLADSTONE was well
satisfied with the result of last night's debate in the
House of Commons on the National Debt Bill, the
s..;cond reading of which was carried by a majority
of 124. The general feeling of the House was
fairly proved by this decision, and a tribute was
paid to the CHANCELLORS of the EXCHEQUER past
awl present, the one for organising the plans which
the other has carried out. While the merit of de-
vising this scheme rests with Mr. GLADSTONX, Mr.
DISRAELI may fairly lay claim to the merit 'of ap-
preciating the ability of his predecessor in office, and ! *
The Purchase System in.the British Army. By Sir C.
of having shown that he allowed no jealousy or rivalry ITroyolyan.1Troyolyan. Longman.