MAJOR JERVISsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether, having in view the proposed alteration of Clause 24 of the Mutiny Act, it is proposed to give the Military Authorities power to discharge men guilty of felony, or of disgraceful conduct which has rendered them liable to flogging, on the completion of their sentence?
§ SIR JOHN PAKINGTON,in reply, said, it was not his intention to propose that any additional powers should be given in the direction referred to by the hon. and gallant Gentleman, because he did not think such powers were necessary. Under the 22nd Article of War it was now competent for Commanders-in-Chiefs, Courts Martial, and Generals commanding in the colonies to dismiss from Her Majesty's service such men as those to whom the hon. and gallant Gentleman referred.