§ GENERAL UPTONsaid, he rose to call the attention of the Secretary of State for War to the fact that a considerable portion of the buildings of the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea have been diverted from the humane objects for the attainment of which they were originally erected; and to ask whether it is his intention that such portion or portions shall be restored to the purposes for which they were designed? The percentage of marriages in the army was about 7 per cent, so that there were about 15,000 married soldiers. The number of children admitted to the Military Asylum was only 60 per annum, so that a large number of children when their fathers died had no resource but the woful one of the workhouse. At present there was a great desire expressed to improve the condition of the soldier and to hold out inducements for men to remain in the service, and he thought nothing could so much enlist the affections of the men as the knowledge that their children would be received into a school of this nature. He did not press the right hon. Gentleman to do anything at present, but wished to draw his attention to the subject.