§ COLONEL SMYTHsaid, he would beg to ask the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for War when he proposes to introduce or lay upon the Table his proposal for alteration in the present system of Army Purchase?
§ MR. SIDNEY HERBERTsaid, that he could not lay upon the Table a proposal for altering the Regulations of the Army. When the Regulations were amended they might be moved for, and presented to the House in their new form.
COLONEL DICKSONsaid, he wished to know whether the right hon. Gentleman intends to take so important a step as that of altering the system of purchase now existing in the Army without asking the opinion of that House upon it?
§ MR. SIDNEY HERBERTsaid, that the Army was governed not by the Votes of the House of Commons, but by the Queens' Regulations, and he should not be doing his duty if he produced any Regulation for discussion in that House before it had been decided upon by the Queen in Council.