§ SIR DE LACY EVANSsaid, he would just express a hope that the Government intended to mark their sense of the transcendent services of Sir J. Lawrence by 1803 conferring upon him some higher reward than had yet been offered to him. He rose, however, to ask the Secretary of State for War by whose authority, and for what reasons, the detachment of the 41st Regiment at Trinidad, which had been moved out of barracks into camp on account of the mortality and disease which had occurred in the former, were subsequently ordered back into barracks, where the severe losses to which they had previously been exposed were renewed? When he called attention to this subject on a former occasion, the Secretary of State for War stated that an order had been issued to withdraw the troops, but they had since been sent back to the barracks where all the mortality occurred. The correspondence on the subject had been delivered that morning, and it appeared that five months had been occupied in correspondence. The detachment had been exposed to danger, he supposed on the ground of economy; but he could not help thinking that no worse mode of effecting a saving of expenditure could be adopted. Authority ought, in his opinion, to be invested in some person to incur the expense of building new barracks where those already in existence were so situated as to be prejudicial to the health of the troops. When Lord Metcalfe had had to deal with a similar state of things as that to which his question related in Jamaica, he had ordered new barracks to be built, and when reprimanded for having done so, replied that the money expended might be taken out of his private means if they were insisted upon, but that he had deemed it to be his duty to act as he had done. He trusted the right hon. Gentleman at the head of the War Department would do everything which was necessary to promote the health of the troops.