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country, which would make it very nearly what be bad
stated. Making eves y deduction, it ler, impossible to pue.
down the cost for sending nut the 2,300 men at less 1-I:ie
200,0001. He had asked ,he right hon. gentlemee (nt.
Labouchere) to show what equiva,!oet the country was ee
receive for this outlay, or at last that portion o 4 it whie,,
constituted the difference between the cost of disi,anding.
the men and sending them to Germany, and that of pro-
viding for them at the Cape, but he had received no sa- i
tisfactory answer. He now begged to repeat the question,
and he reminded the house that it• would abdicate its
functions if at the bidding of the minister it consented,
without explanation, to vote five times as much as
was required in any case. (Rear, hear.) \Vey ehetild the,
government fix on these German soldiers to defend the
Cape frontier ? Were there no EilOiett sol tiers to senti
out—men who had served in the late war, wh ► had
gained military exoerience, but whose service, now :hiy,
peace was re-established, were not requir,d in our army ?
The committee should also understand that there were
more troops at the C +tee now than at any former time,
even during the Kaffir war. He believed there were in
less than 10,000 troops at the Cape at this moment.
men were wanted let them be sect, but let teem be sol-
dier 4, and placed in the of soldiers.
Mr LA.BOUCtiERE paid a high compliment to Gee
vernor Grey, to whose great abi,ity and energy he cad
we owed the preserva- ion of the Cape colony. He alt -
gether denied that the proposal of sending the G,rnian
Legion to the Cape had ernaeated from G.,vernor Grey
—it was the g .vernment at hums that had suggested,
and, they alone were re,ponsible for it.
k ejoe WORTLEY said it appealed to him that im
was hardly understood what th, German Legion had
gone to the Cape for, They were that le rt of hybrie
soldier which never answered. When the threatening
aspect of affairs at the Cape ceased they would he dis-
bauiied, and would go as servants to :he b•.ers, ate] it,
case of their being required and caled out, you couei
not get 800 out of tee 2.800 men teat had gone here
But the German Legion having gone there, he thought
the expense in the estimate was is ,t large, and it eeeeted
to him that as they were there the eetimatei ought to b,
voted.

Mr. HENLEY said the men were at the Cape, and
he did not bee how the house was to avoid paying the
money which was required. But the right hon. gentle-
man had brought back the question-of 'he endstineut of
trained soldiers (whieh all foreigners were supposed to
be) during the emergency of the war ; but these
troops who were said to he trained soldiers were put
into training again when they came to this c,eintry,
and they iivre kept in training to amuse the hen.
member for Colchester in his park—(laughter)—and
to protect the "nursemaids" of Ess,x—(laugeter)
and the training was kept up so long that not
one of them ever saw a Russian. (Laughter.) He
should be the last man to wish the Government not Lo
keep faith with these men, but he could never un ier-
stand why you 01001 have enlisted them on such con
ditions, hell of which would have made Englishmen
jump at the offer. After all, the settlers of the legion
were picked out of the different regiments, and were not
more acquainted with each other or capable of working
together than Englishmen picked out of regiments in the
same manner. The right hon. gentleman said the ele-
ment of calculation was uncertain, but the element of
payment was quite certain—(laughter)—and' every far-
thing that this country was liable to pay it would be
called on to pay. He wished to know if the pay of
these men was to be the same whether there was peace
or war ?

Mr. LABOUCHERE said that, as far as this coun-
try was concerned, the pay would be the same at
times, but when the men were called out as militia the
c..l,my would increase their pay.
Mr. HENLEY said that if they got n taste for fight-
ing they might have an under,tanding and hick up a
row with the Kaffirs—(laught(o)—br the purpos,.= of
being put on the war pay and establiAment. He
hoped his hon. friend would not divide, as, at any rate,
faith must he kept with the men with whom it had
entered into an engagement.

Lord PALMERSTON said it was very easy to make
a joke of a thing. (Loud laughter). The right bun,
gentleman (Vlr. Henley) with his g.ave and serious 100
generally contrived to throw a great deal of j,,cularity
into his arguments. Toe last proposition of the right
hon, gentleman had certainky surprised him, for he put
it to the house that the German Legion would, for the
sake of pay, persuade the Kaffirs to come out to be shot
by those same Germans, in order that they might get
6d. a day. It was ell very well to treat lightly the
measures which had been taken by the Government
during the war, in order to increase the disposable forces
at their command. [Loa. g ntlemen said the Govern-
ment could have got British ?oldie's; but the tact wa-
that they tried to get theni, but were unable to obtain
them, at least not in sufficient numerical force for Vie
purpo-es required, and they obtained the services of hese
Germans, and excellent trumps they were. As to their
being kept at home for the amusement of the lion. memo •
her for Colcuester, the fact was,.that a great many i,t
them were sent to Turkey ; ant all of them would have
gone if there had been another campaign. It was use-
less to send them out in the winter; and if the spring
had not broUght peace, they would have gone out, and
no doubt bays done good service. But when the war
was over, the question was, what was to be done with
them / There was some anxiety felt at the Cape with
regard to the Kaffirs, and it was determined to send
them there. The h ,n. gentleman said that these men
were not adapted for c.ilonists ; but the Government bad
reason to know that it was a wise and prudent measure
to send them out as military colonists. The hon. gentle-
man said, let the colonists defend themselves. Very
good. But who were the best kind of colonists to defend
the colony I Were they no:. such men as those who bad
received military training and acquired military exile
rience Toe right hon, gentleman said that English
soldiers should have been sent to the Cave instead of
Germans ; but most of the English se linos who were
discharged were invalided, and those who were not inva-
lided preferred to go to their own homes and their own
counties rather than going to lead a wild life at the Cape.
With all deference to the right hon. gentleman and the
jokes he had cut, the G ,verninent th .ueht that they
were perfectly justified in the measure they bad adopted,
and he believed that the result would show that they
were perfectly justified in adopting it. The right hoe.
gentleman,
.h 'we've'', agreed that, right or wrong, the
thing was done, and that the house must not cut off the
sum necessary for carrying out the arrangement, and
those who thought that it was a right one were so much
the more fortified in their opinion, that the sum required
for the comfort and well-being of the men who had gone
out to the colony on the faith of that arrangement,
ought to be voted.
After some further discussion the vote was agreed to.
On the vote of 36,2821. for volunteer corps,
Sir J. RAMSDEN, in reply to a question, said it was
the intention of the Government to call out about one-
third of the militia.
Col. GREVILLE wished to know whether the men
would receive 6/. bounty whether called out for training
or not, and whether any alteration would be made in
the remuneration allowed to the surgeons.
Lord PALMERSTON said that the militia formed no
part of the charge in the present estimates. When the
militia was embodied it was under the direction of the
Commander-in-Chief, and formed a part of the army ex-
penses. But when it was disembodied it did not form a
part of the army estimates. The estimate for that ttranch
of the service was framed by a conrnittee of the house
apoointed for that purpose. Teat would be done late r
in the session, and it would be more convenient to post-
pone any discussion relative to the details of the militia
service until the vote came regularly before the house.
BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY (IRE-
LAND) BILL.

Mr. FITZGERALD moved that the house resolve
itself into committee on this bill for the purpose of pass-
ing some of the unopposed clauses.
Mr. WHITESIDE objected to the hous,, going into
committee at toat late hour (12 o'clock). The bill c .o-
tained 330 clauses, many of which were of great import-
ance.

The house divided. The numbers were—
For the motion
Against it
The house then resolved itself into coinmitr.ee, but
after a short discussion the chairman was ordered to re-
port progress and ask lsave to sit again. The house
then resumed.
PORTLAND HARBOUR BILL.
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The house re4olvsd itself into ethothi.tee on this bill,
The various clauses were agreed to, arid the house re.
,umed

CINQUE PORTS ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
Th.s bid way read a second time, and was ordered to
be committed on Thursday next.
MINISTERS' MONEY (IRELAND) BILL.
Lord PALMERSTON intirna,ed that the Govern-
ment would take eltarge of this bill, and said that if the
house did not object, he would at once move that it be
committed.
Mr. G. A. HAMILTON hoped the noble lord would
not press the bill at that late hour.
Lord PAU:VIERS rON said he would postpone the
committee until Thursday nest.
PRINCESS RO !AL'S ANNUITY BILL.
This bill was bri,ught in and read a first time.
EQUALISATION OF POOR RATES.

Mr. AYRTON Eani in consequence ..f the ,llaess of
the President of the Poor-law Board, he should postpone
his motion on this subject.
The house then wijouroed shortly after half-past 12
o'clock.

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