§ COLONEL FRENCHsaid, he rose to ask the Under Secretary of State for War, If any application was made to allow the London Irish (28th Middlesex) Rifle Volunteer Corps to visit Dublin during this year, and refused; and, if so, to inquire the grounds for such refusal?
MR. T. G. BARINGsaid, that no application had been made in regard to this particular corps, and, therefore, no such refusal had been given. At the same time, it was only right to state that the Secretary of State for War was not disposed to encourage excursion trips by Volunteer corps. They put the members of corps to expense which they did not like to decline, though many of them were much inconvenienced by it. There were also other reasons which the House would understand from the fact that an English Volunteer corps lately, on an excursion trip, had come into collision with a regiment of militia, the consequences of which were not at all gratifying to those who had the control of these matters.