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excluding a st;p7rior class of recruits and destroying all pass—a stage which he fixed for Monday neat.
hope in the breast of the soldier it led to crime and suicide This arrangement was agreed to, and the bill was read
and pre rented the abandonment of corporal punishment. a third time. .

lie recommended that men should be enlisted for ten Mr. M. GinsoN moved that the order of the day be
years; and that such of them as might choose to re-enlist read for the House resolving itself into committee on the
at the end of that period for another term of eleven years Gauge of Railways Bill.
should be entitled on discharge to a pension of 10d. a day Mr. P. M. SIEWART considered that this was a very
if in health, or Is. a day if invalided. unsatisfactory bill, and well calculated to multiply the
Mr. F. MAnes declined to give any decided opinion on obstacles to our ever arriving at a uniformity of gauge.
the question raised by Captain Layard. Captain Laya:d Mr. M. GIBSON defended the bill, and stated that it
had greatly exaggerated the evils attending unlimited en- had been brought into Parliament with a view of carrying
listment. As regarded desertions, it was well known that into effect certain resolutions which bad been passed
the great majority were of recruits, during their first two unanimously by both Houses. He denied that the bill
years, when they underwent restraints and irksome du- would increase the evil of a break of gauge.
ties necessary to their training for service. He con, After a few words from Mr. PROTHERO, in praise of
sidered that the proper limitation of the period of enlist- the broad guage and the carriages used on the Great
ment was inconsistent with the foreign and colonial Western Railway, the order of the day was read.
services of the army. The bill went through committee, the report was re-
Sir De L. Evans, Mr. B. Osborne, Captain Menzies, ceived forthwith, and the b►ll was ordered to be read a
Mr. Hume. and Mr. Berea', spoke in favour of limited third time on Monday.
enlistments, but all were willing to give the government After the other orders of the day had been disposed of,
time for consideration, and he motion was withdrawn. Mr. LABOUCHERE moved for leave to bring in a bill
The flaggiee at Hounslow was alluded to by Mr. to provide fur removing the charge of the tonstabulary
Osborne, for the poroose of vindicating Colonel White, in torce in Ireland from the counties, and for enlarging the
favor of whose gallantry and humanity as a soldier he reserve force, and to make further provision for the regu-
spoke highly. He had only carried out the law as laid lation and disposition of the said tonstabu,ary force.
down to him by the Horse Guards and the House. After a short discwsion. in which Mr. BROTH KRTON
Colonel PEEL and Mr. M. GORE also bore testimony and t► e O'CoNNoR Dos took part, leave was given to
to the humanity of Colonel White. bring in the bill.
The House then went into committee of supply, and The (louse then adjourned.
sums were voted for the army es iwates.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in rising to move the order of
the day fur going into Committee of Supply, stated that
l►e had paid deference to the opinion of the Commander-
in-Chief upon the question of corporeal punishment in
the army, which he had undertaken to bring before the
notice of the house that evening. His Grace had given
orders that in future no court-martial, whether general,
garrison, or regimental, should be permitted, for any
military offence to administer more than fifty lashes ;
and that every care should be taken to ascertain the
condition of any individual who may be sentenced
to receive corporal punishment, and that, at the same
time, attention should be paid to the state of the weather,
and tither circumstances bearing upon such condition of
the offender. He could not, at present, bring himself to
dispense alts gether with corporal punishment, which. in
the present state of the army, was necessary in extreme

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY

The Earl of RADNOR made some observations on a
charge brought against the Duke of Somerset hp the
Bishop of Exeter. to the effect that the noble duke had
broken an engagement respecting the endowment of a
chapel, and rea a lengthy correspondence to prove that
the charge was unfounded.
The l.arl of EGLINTouN put a question to the Marquis
of Linsduwne relating to the Scotch Joint-stock Bauks
Bill.

Several bills were forwarded a stage, and the house ad-

journed