§ SIR ROBERT CLIFTONsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for War, If Commanding Officers have power, after the dismissal of Volunteers by them, to advertise such dismissal in the newspapers, and cause placards to be printed and circulated; and if he is aware whether any such case of advertising and placarding has lately taken place in the Metropolis?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONsaid, in reply, that Commanding Officers ought, according to usual military practice, to insert in the regimental orders any sentence of dismissal and the causes for which it had been pronounced, and such regimental orders ought to be made known to all the members of the corps. He was aware that it was the practice of some metropolitan corps to publish their regimental orders in the newspapers as advertisements, and to place them in the shop windows as placards. Without entering into the question of the expediency of adopting such a mode of publication, it appeared to be certain that a Commmanding Officer was justified in giving the ordinary, and no more than the ordinary, amount of circulation to orders which contained sentences of dismissal, accompanied by a statement of the causes thereof.
§ MR. DARBY GRIFFITHsaid, he would beg to ask the noble Marquess, whether, as the Volunteers Bill passed 520 through Committee on the Ascot Cup Day, when many hon. Members were absent from the House, it would not be desirable to postpone the Report until some day next week?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONsaid, that the Report was fixed for to-morrow evening; and as it was important that the passing of the measure should not be delayed, he should, if possible, proceed with it on that day.