The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-19 00:00:00

Naval and Military intelligence.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as
General Commanding in Chief, attended by a nu-
merous staff, will leave town this morning for the
camp at Aldershot. The troops in camp are or-
dered to be under arms at an early hour for a grand
field day.
His Royal Highness the General Commanding in
Chief will hold a levee at 1 o'clock on Friday next.

Major-General Sir F. Love, the Inspector-Gene-
ral of infantry, has left town on an official visit to
Pembroke.

The 44th Regiment, being on the eve of em-
barkation for India, were yesterday presented with
new colours by Major-General the Hou. Sir J. Y.
Scarlett, K.C.8., the Commander-in-Chief of the
South-West District,'at Portsmouth. The usual ce-
remonies having been gone through, of piling the
drwns, placing the colours, and blessing er conse-
crating them by tbegarrison chaplain of Portsmouth,
the Rev. T. Milner, Major-General Scat lett deliver-
ed the new colours to the senior majors (Lieut.-
Colonels I\i'Mahon and Browne), and addressed
the regiment in a most soldierly speech, showing
that the colours of a regiment mark its identity,
and that those of the 44th, emblazoned as they are
with the names of the memorable victories of Egypt,
Badajoz, Salamanca, Peninsula, Bladensburg, Wa-
t.-rloo, Ave, Alma, Inkerman, and Sebastopol, bore
honours no regiment could outvie ; that they had
gone through many hardships in many places, and
toe names on their colours called up many recol-
lections to their honour and credit ; their condu
at Quatre Bras and Cabul was unexceptioeab!e,
and at Alma glorious ; at the former action the
bravery of Ensign Christie saved the old colours,
and at the latter the self—acrifice or devotion of Dr.
Thompson was unparalleled ; in their attack on the
cemetery before Sebastopol on the 18th of June, the
44th lest four captains out of six, and one-fourth of
the men ; they were now about to embark for India,
wh re he hoped success and victory would still be en-
chained to their standard, Iteltng certain that under
no circumstances would they fail to defendthero. The
gallant geeeral then feelingly touched upon the
deaths of Captains Mansfield, Agar, Fenwick, and
Caulfield in the Crimea, and Ensign Soutar, in the
retr, at from Cabul, and concluded a spirited and
martial address by a hope that the 44th would pre-
servedi the honours of the old colours, and reap new
a andve ly
the colours
Beo.l,otuhreanhraevtiunr
_ sltinctions under those he then presented. Lieut.-
CspeecSht,
rg
eturned
beenthanks
usual manner the eliteadjourned to a
on the. field
superb refection prepared in a short
the King's Rooms ad-
jacent, by Mr. D. De tin the Portland Hotel,
Southsea. After this dancingnof
kept up until night set in was commenced and
The Lords of the Admiralty resumed
their annual
inspection at Portsmouth yesterday, and went first
to the gunboat-berths at Hasla
ra where they made
a most minute inspection Mr,
Lloyd
Scamp pointing out (under Le direction
Greene) the new works, improvements, of Colonel
and requirements. The gunboat Brave
working,
launched in the presence of the Board, andwas
m
rous suggestions made for the permanent benefitnu nume-
rous
this gunboat reserve establishment. While on the
Gosport shore their Lordships inspected officially
the Royal Marine Light Infantry quartered at For-
ton-barracks, the Royal Clarence-yard, and the
Royal Naval Hospital at Hasler, both the latter
establishments under the superintendence of Capt.
Dacres, C. 8., R.N. From the Clarence-yard the
Board embarked in their barge, and inspected and
mustered the steam reserved on board the Blen-
heim, in the command of Capt. the Hon. F. T.
Pelham, C. 8., and thence to the gunnery-ship
Excellent, Capt. R. Hewlett, C.B. In the evening
they dined with Rear-Admiral Martin, Superin-
tendent of the dockyard.
The Falcon, 17, Commander Campion, is dis-
mantling in Portsmouth harbour, to be paid off.
The Pylades, 21, Capt. Michael De Courcy, left
Poitmouth harbour yesterday, and anchored at
Spithead.
The Sparrowh k
ave 4, steam gun despatch Ira

The scheme pro-posed by Sir C. Trevelyan com-
prises important changes in the organization of the
army, as well as in the system of promotion, and
in the pay of officers. Credit is taken for a saving
of 42,0001. by the abolition of agency, for which
no substitute is provided. The establishment of
general officers is reduced from 234 to 193, a change
which undoubtedly would be economical, but, which
must retard the current of promotion as will be
seen by a reference to the memorandum on this
scheme, which is inserted in the Appendix. The
charge for non-effective services is stated at a di-
minished amount, but it seems improbable that
under a system combining voluntary with com-
pulsory retirement, such a saving could be effected.
Since, however, the scheme of Sir C. Trevelyan
has been submitted to the Secretary of War, and
will be examined by the officers in that depart-
ment, we have not deemed it necessary to take
further evidence upon the prqposed scheme, or its
probable cost to the country.
The augmentation in the military expenditure of
the country is, however, of surbordinate importance
in comparison with other considerations which
are involved in this change. Putting aside
for the present all financial difficulties which might
interfere with the attempt to abolish the purchase
system, and assuming that Parliament had not
only provided the sum to which officers desirous of
retiring by sale are entitled under the purchase
system, but were also prepared to grant as in-
creased amount for the annual maintenance of thei
army, if necessary, we have yet to consider whether
in this country such a change could be effected
with advantage, and by what measures it should
be introduced.

The evidence annexed to this report proves that
any general scheme of promotion by selection would
not be favourably received by the officers of the
British army. It would be equally offensive to
the purchasing and the non-purchasing corps. The
commission on army promotion in the year 1854
recommended a limited application of the principle
of selection, but they accompanied this recom-'
mendation with suggestions intended as far as'
possible to defeat the influences of private friend-
ship and of political preference ; with this view
they proposed that, whenever appointments were'
made out of the regular course of army promotion,
the services of the officer selected should be detailed,
for public information. It is obvious that if selec-
tion were to be applied to the junior ranks, this
security would be very much diminished. In
imitation of the French system it may be suggested
that special inspectors should be appointed to visit
and examine the regiments, and that all promotion
should be based upon a careful consideration of
their reports. Such a scheme could hardly be
applied to the British army. Inspectors could not
be sent annually from the Horse Guards to visit
regiments dispersed from Canada to Australia. A
fair and practical system of examination for the pur-
pose cf promotion cannot be extemporised by a
commission, it must be based upon a long experi-
ence of military men, and modified by a variety of
considerations, in order that due encouragement
may be given to all the qualifications and attain-
ments which contribute to an officer's efficiency.
Before any scheme of promotion by selection is
exteusively introduced in the British army, there
should be a general confidence that the power of
selection will not be misused. The military appoint-
ments made during late years, as avt.ll in this country
as in the Crimea, have not tended to satisfy the army
with the mode in which the principle of selection
has been applied. It may be suggested that if the
purchase system were abolished, promotion up to
the rank of captain might be safely left to the rule
of seniority. Such a measure would have an inju-
rious effect on the efficiency of the army, the regi-
ments would in a few years be filled with old
lieutenants and captains, and there would be no
opportunity of selecting officers for the higher
ranks except from amongst those whose age must
necessarily impair their efficiency ; under such an
incomplete arrangement, the principle of selection
might fail in bringing to the higher ranks officers
qualified for active service in the field. If the pur-
chase system were abolished, and promotion by
seniority should become he rule of the service, the
witole army would either be reduced to the condi-
tion in which the ordnance corps were placed in the
years subsequent to the peace of 1815, or, what is
more probable, an unauthorised practice would
arise, a sum of money would be subscribed in the
regiment, or pecuniary influence would be in some
way employed to induce others to retire ; thus,
even after the abolition of the purchase system,
much of the hardships and of the evils incident to
that system would recur. It seems doubtful whe-
ther any scheme of retirement, however liberal,
would induce such a current of promotion as to en-
able the executive Government to rely on the effi-
ciency of officers raised to the higher ranks by
seniority alone. According to the establishment of
the army a regiment contains eight or ten ensigns,
ar,d an equal number of lieutenants and captains ;
but as there are only two majors, it is manifest that
a large proportion of captains must remain for a
long time in that rank waiting for the next step,
retarding the rise , of lieutenants and checking all
promotion in the regiment. Here the purchase
system operates favourably for the public service,
since it is found that a number of these captains
and lieutenants retire by the sale of their commis-
sions, and make room for the advancement of
younger men. A pension graduated according to
the length of service or to the rank of the officer
would not have this beneficial effect, but would on
the contrary induce the officer to remain in the
certainty of securing hereafter an increased allow-
ance. When it is said that an officer selling out
only receives back his own money which he
had previously paid for commissions, and that the
same amount originally placed in the funds would
have furnished a simpler and more convenient pro-
vision for his retirement, it is answered that this
representation of the case, however specious, is not
in accordance with the usual facts or with the prac-
tical operation of the system. Friends and rela-
tions often come forward, at great pecuniary incon-
venience to themselves, to purchase the first com-
mission or to assist the' promotion of a young
officer, but these persons would not be equally
ready to provide a fund for his future retirement.
Here, therefore, the officer selling out obtains a sum
of money which, except under the purchase system,
he would never have acquired. The retirement of
old officers, which is essential to the efficiency of
the army, is facilitated by the purchase system, nor
would a rule of compulsory retirement, unless as-
sisted by a large grant of public money, be found
to be an adequate substitute for the present sale of
commissions. The adoption of election would, if
judiciously exercised, secure the ablest men for the
higher regimental ranks, but this would necessarily
leave every regiment filled during a protracted
peace with old captains and lieutenants, who must
wait, with little hope of promotion, until they
reached the age fixed for their retirement.
selection could
Passing by, for the present, the difficult ques-
tion
of
of ewtihraetmwenayt ftrhoemptrihneciaprlme we have consi-
deredbe introduced, what securities can be suggested for
its just application, and under what authority such
a power could be administered. The introduction
i n r
of such a change in the organisation of the British
army is beset with difficulties. The presentof
body
officers have entered the army and served in
the faith of another system, and they would com-
plain if they suddenly found themselves superseded
under the operation of new rules. We have in vain
endeavoured to obtain evidence which might en-
able us to point out a mode by which such change
could be gradually introduced. None of the mili-
tary witnesses examinad had considered the sub-
ject in its details, and their observations afford
no assistance towards a practical solution of
these difficulties. It may be suggested that
young men should in future obtain their first
.
commissions without purchase, after which their

1 future promotion should be subject to such
regulations as might be laid down for the advance-
ment of officers by selection. Such a system could
not be brought into operation in a regiment where
officers have already purchased their commissions,
unless the government were prepared to buy out
the officers who were unwilling to serve under this
new code of regulations. A change of this extent
would disturb the regimental system throughout
the British army, and it would soon be obvious that
a new scheme of entry and promotion cannot be
generally introduced, until the purchase system
shall have been entirely abolished. Many reasons
induce us to believe that, instead of commencing
with the new entries, the principle of selection
might with more facility and with more advantage
to the public service, be applied to the highest rank
in the regiment. The honourable post of colonel
of a regiment is now given by selection. This po-
sition has no duties attached to it, and is usually a
reward for past military services. The post of
lieut.-colonel, on the contrary, is of the greatest
importance for the efficiency of the regiment, and
this is attainable by purchase. It is moreover fur
this rank especially that sums are paid greatly ex-
ceeding the regulation -price. In this rank, again,
practical evils have resulted from the purchase sys-
tem, which seem to require and to justify interfer-
ence. It may be said that the Commander-in-Chief
has full power to interfere and to prevent the pur-
chase of the lieutenant-colonelcy by any officer
whom he may consider unfit fur such command.
Under the present system an interference of this
kind is a measure which, it is stated, would only be
resorted to in an extreme case ; it might save a
regiment from being placed under an officer who
was notoriously unfits it would not confer the com-
mand on the officer who might be acknowledged to
' be best qualified for such promotion. The prohi-
bition to purchase is an exercise of authority which
has not, it is admitted, been sufficiently employed,
nor can it be expected that any Commander-in-
Chief will readily incur the ill-will attaching to a
departure from the practice of the service. In
this respect, therefore, we think that the good of
the service will be best promoted by an alteration ;
and we recommend that hereafter the lieut. -col-
onelcy of a regiment should no longer be purchase-
able, but should be an appointment made by the
selection of the Commander-in-Chief from all the
majors in that branch of the service. The principle
of selection may be most advantageously tried in
the appointment of the command of a regiment.
The Commander-in-Chief has, it is said, the means,
through the information collected at headquarters,
of knowing the character for efficiency and intelli-
gence of every field officer in the army. The re-
sponsibility of these appointments will rest on the
Commander-in-Chief, and the attention of the
whole army will be necessarily fixed on his exer-
cise of this power. In recommending that the
command of a regiment should in future depend
upon the selection of the highest military autho-
rity, we adopt the practice which prevails in many
European states as well as in our Indian army.
His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief has
stated forcibly all the objections to the appointment
of lieutenant-colonels by selection. At the same
time he has admitted, that a power of vetoing the
purchase of the lieutenant-eeloneloy might often be
exercised by the Commander-in-Chief with great
benefit to the army, and without injustice to any
individual. His Royal Highness has also stated,
that if the returns from inspecting officers are fairly
given, as they ought to be and might be, there is
no officer in the army with whose professional:cha-
racter the Commander-in-Chief might net be ac-
quainted. Thus then it appears to be acknow-
ledged, by the persons most competent from their
official positions to form a judgment in this
matter, that the ordinary mode in which offi-
cers now attain by purchase the command of regi-
ments, ought, for the good of the service, to be in
some degree limited or controlled. The choice lies,
therefore, between the power of prohibiting an offi-
cer from acquiring this command, or selecting an
officer for this command. The power of prohibi-
tion has, however, unquestionably been always
vested in the Commander-in-Chief ; it has been too
rarely exercised, and a post, the importance of
which cannot be overrated, has been and may again
be held by persons ill-fitted for such command.
The inference seems to be obvious that instead of
the discretional exercise of prohibition, the
Commander-in-Chief should be authorised to
select for this command. To this proposal,
it is objected, that the feeling against
selection is so strong, that the highest military
authorities will take refuge in seniority, and if they
cannot choose the senior major of the regiment, they
would select the senior major in the arm of the
service. These objections will be found stated at
length in the evidence of his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, and in the evidence of Earl
Grey. These opinions are entitled to great weight,
but after a full consideration we recommend that a
change should be made in the mode of appointing
to the command of regiments, that for this rank
purchase should cease, and that the lieutenant-
colonel should be named by selection upon the re-
sponsibility of the Commander-in-Chief. We make
no reference to higher ranks, because they are not
attainable by purchase, and are, therefore, not
within the scope of our instructions. We also re-
commend that the period of holding this command
should for the future be limited, and that a time
should be fixed—eight or perhaps ten years—as the
longest duration of such command. Officers, how-
ever, who relinquish the command of a regiment
after holding it for the prescribed time, must not
suffer any pecuniary loss from the change.
The Go-
vernment must also be prepared to purchase the
lieutenant-colonelcy from any officer now holding
the command of a regiment, whenever any
be desirous of selling Ins commission. Even this
limited amount of change in the regulations of the
army will be attended with hardship to officers who
have paid, according to long-established usage,
large sums for their commission, and who from
tkeir position have the prospect of speedily obtain-
ing the command of the regiment, which may have
been the long-sought object of their ambition.
It may be said, in objection to the above recom-
mendations, that they leave the whole system of
purchase untouched up to the rank of major. We
are, however, thus cautious in introducing the prin-
ciple of selection, from an earnest desire that its ap-
plication should be fairly tested by experience. To
abolish the purchase system, and to leave promotion
by seniority as the future rule of advancement,
would, in our opinion, be a course of proceeding most
injurious to the efficiency of the Bi itish army. Such,
no doubt, would be the simplest, and it would on
many accounts be the most popular measure ; but
the information derived from the purchasing,
as well as from the non-purchasing corps, proves
that such scheme would, during a, long interval of
peace, render the British army ill qualified for the
service which may hereafter be required of it. By
retaining the sytem of purchase up to the rank of
field-officer, the outlet for the retirement of majors,
captains, and lieutenants will continue as at pre-
sent. The current of regimental promotion will
not, therefore, be retarded, whilst on the other '
hand a limitation of the period during which the
same officer shall hold. the command of a regiment
will tend to accelerate promotion. Those officers
again who have been raised from the ranks will be
still enabled to sell their commissions, if they should
wish to quit the service.
The purchase of the first commission is the least
objectionable part of the present system. In this
case, the regulation price is never exceeded, and
the supply of eligible candidates ready to purchase
is more than sufficient for filling the annual vacan-
cies. The British army according to its presen t
establishment contains about 6,003 officers ; and
the new entries required to maintain this establish-
ment can in this country be easily provided for
from amongst those who are willing to pay for their
commissions. Moreover, it must be remembered,
that purchase is not the only mode of entering the
army. During the three years from 1851 to 1853,
a period of peace, while 963 young men entered the
army by purchase, 266 entered without purchase.
Nor can it be fairly said that the purchase system
is the obstacle to introducing a better system of
military education. A stricter examination before
granting the first commission, an improved training,
afterwards, and a further examination on promo-
tion from ensign to lieutenant, are measures per-
fectly compatible with the system of purchase.
Commissions in the artillery are now granted
under a system of competitive examination. This
system is, it is said, to be modified ; but as the
whole subject of military education is now under
consideration, and the military institutions of
foreign countries have been visited with the view
of establishing some plan of instruction for British
officers, we deem it unnecessary to advert to infor-
mation upon these points which may be found in
the evidence we have collected. .
The mode of entry into our army cannot, of
course, be assimilated to the system of foreign
countries, where purchase of the first commission
is unknown. But we may observe that in making
appointments to the staff similar difficulties do not
occur. The staff is in no way concerned with the
purchase system. Here, therefore, there is every
'facility for the adoption of Duch improvementsin

education and military training as may be deemed
advisable ; and without imputing any deficiency to
the staff of the army, for such an imputation would
be in direct contradiction to the evidence we have
received, we may yet suggest that promotion to the
staff might be made the means of stimulating mili-
tary education, rewarding meritorious officers, and
obviatine, some of the hardships which must arise
from the purchase system. It appears that in
France, in Austria, in Prussia, and in Sardinia,
there are special establishments for the instruction
of staff officers ; entrance to these establishments is,
it is said, gained by competition, while admission
to the staff of the army is only to be attained by
passing through these establishments with credit.
A similar system might be adopted for the British
army ; the senior department at Sandhurst might
be strengthened and rendered available for the pur-
pose for which it is said to have been originally
intended, and a course of training in this depart-
ment might then be made an indispensable condi-
tion to the attainment of a staff appointment. The
system of study and of training would require
careful consideration, with the view of testing and
of cultivating those physical and mental qualities
which are more essential to an officer than literary
or even than high scientific attainments. Regula-
tions rendering a staff appointment an object of
honourable emulation would have a beneficial effect
not only on the staff itself, but would promote
military education throughout the army. Such
regulations might moreover prepare the way for an
improved system of army promotion hereafter.
The limitation of the time during which officers
shall hereafter hold situations on the staff, a
measure recommended in a former report,
would "render these appointments additionally
serviceable to the interests of the army. All
these changes, inasmuch as they introduce the
principle of advancement by selection tend
towards the abolition of the purchase system. When
experience has proved that officers appointed to the
command of regiments, and to situations on the
staff, have been chosen with due regard to their
professional acquirements, to their past service, and
to their present fitness, the distrust of the principle
of selection will be lessened, and one great obstacle
to the change of system will be renloved.
A system of periodical inspection by officers spe-
cially appointed for the purpose, as is practised in
the French army, would probably be found a bene-
ficial measure, tending to give confidence in the
fairness and impartiality of the reports ; and though
such inspection could not be applied to regiments
abroad, the object might be attained by other
means. A board of general officers might be con-
stituted under the name of Inspectors-General ;
some members of this board should retire annually
and he replaced 'by others, so that while an unifor
mitt' of system is maintained, the impartiality re-
sulting from a change in the inspectors may be
secured. This board should personally inspect the
troops in Great Britain and Ireland ; they should
also require from general officers commanding on
foreign stations such arrangements as they might
deem essential for acquiring an intimate knowledge
of the merits and capabilities of officers serving
abroad. Such a system would, it is believed, remedy
some defects which would are found in the existing
mode of inspecting regiments, and it would gradu-
ally collect information which would assist the
Commandar-in-Chief whenever it may become his
duty to select an officer for the command of a regi-
ment.

In the preceding pages we have endeavoured to
show that if the purchase system be abolished, it
will become indispensable, for the purpose of main-
taining the efficiency of the British army, to adopt
a new system of retirement and promotion, namely,
to make retirement, after a fixed age or period of
service, compulsory, and to give promotions by se-
lection. It has been further shown that compul-
sory retirement will be alone an inadequate substi-
tute for the sale of commissions ; but we consider
that its partial adoption would facilitate the measure
we propose for the selection of lieutenant-colonels,
while we do not suggest disturbing the existing
system as regards the purchhse and sae of commis-
sions, up to the rank of major inclusive. Until
the effect of the change above recommended shall
have been tried and its practical results approved,
it would be in our opinion injudicious to interfere
further with the usual course of regimental promo-
tion.

The recommendations which we have ventured
to make must necessarily afford some opportunities
for the exercise of selection, and if these opportu-
nities are used with fairness and discrimination the
confidence of the army will be conciliated, and pur-
chase will then no longer be deemed indispensable
as a security against favour in the highest quar-
ters, and as a guarantee against the mischievoui in-
terferences of private friendship, and of political
preference. We conclude this report with an ear-
nest hope that our suggestions may be found con-
ducive to the welfareof the army during peace, and
to its efficiency whenever its services may be again
required to maintain the honour of the crown or
the interests of the British empire.
SOMERSET.
STANLEY.
SIDNEY HERBERT.
DE LACY EVANS.
HARRY D. JONES.
GEO. CARR GLYN.

STATEMENT OP .LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR DE LACY
EVANS, TO BE ANNEXED TO THIS REPORT.
As a member of the commission he has the hon-
our to state, that he has deem9cl it a duty to sign
the report decided on by the commissioners, because
he fully concurs in the recommendations, as far as
they go, which it contains. But, as the evidence
adduced has strengthened the convictions
which he previously held on this subject, and as he
believes that some additional measures may, with
advantage to the public, be adopted, having for
their object a more elrly termination of the system
of sale and purchase of commissions in the army
than is provided for in this report—he will feel it
his duty to transmit, as soon as practicable, to the
office of the commission, a representation of his
humble opinions to this effect.

DE LACY EVANS.

CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY.

Yesterday an extraordinary general meeting of
the proprietors of the Crystal Palace was held at
the Bridge-house Hotel, for the purpose of receiving
the report of the directors presented on the 23d
June last, to elect three directors and one auditor,
and to consider the report of the committee of in-
quiry._

Mr. PUNCHER, a shareholder, had also given no-
tice of his intention to submit the following scheme
for the consideration of the meeting, viz. :
" A scheme for the reduction and eventual ex-
tinction of the capital of the Crystal Palace Com-
pany, and to secure to the original shareholders a
return of their subscription at par :
By Lottery, viz.—
.

1,000,000 tickets tone guinea each) £1,050,000
2,oooprizes (100 shares-5001. stock) 1,000, COO

Leaving a surplus of £50,000
" 1. Each prize of 5001. stock (transferable) en-
titled to a maximum dividend of 5 per cent. per
annum during the life of the original prizeholder,
at whose death the stock to be cancelled.

" Each prize (in addition to 5001. stock) to be
entitled to a transferable life admission without re-
striction, but to be renewed yearly during the life
of the original prizeholder, at whose death the pri-
vilege to cease.
" 3. The surplus (50,0000 to meet the expenses
of the scheme, and to form an accumulating fund to
pay the charge on the 6 per cent. debenture stock,
and 7 per cent. preference stock, and to eventually
make the Crystal Palace self-supporting."
Mr. FARQUHAR, one of the directors, was called
upon to preside, in the absence of Mr. Anderson,
the chairman of the board of director. After the
usual formalities had been gone through,
The CHAIRMAN briefly called attention to the dif-
ferent subjects to be brought before the meeting,
observing that the directors proposed to give the
Committee of Inquiry the " first innings," and re-
serve any comments on the measures of the direc-
tors for a later period of the meeting. Upon one
of the suggestions of the committee, namely, to in-
crease the number of directors from eight to twelve
he might remark that such an alteration could
only
be made by special resolution. Urging the meeting
to observe a business-like demeanour,in the conduct
of their proceedings, and bespeaking a fair hearing
for every speaker, the chairman concluded by ex-
pressingtioiie
from its present difficulties.
Mr. F. B. GARTY, the secretary to the Ivo
would
hopeld
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Commit-
tee of Inquiry, read a rejoinder to the reply of Mr.
Ferguson to the report of the committee.
The rejoinder treats, under distinct heads, of
various passages in Mr. Ferguson's reply, the com-
mittee contending, in conclusion, that " Mr. Fer-
guson has carefully avoided noticing the recommen-
dations in their report which they consider would
tend to the development of the natural resources of