§ MR. ARMITSTEAD, for Mr. HERBERT, asked the Secretary of State for War, If it is true that Volunteer regi- 1602 ments on the road to drill are forbidden to cross Hyde Park from north to south, accompanied by the mounted officers; and, if true, by whose order and if he approves of it; and, if it is the case, for what object men who give up time and service to the Country gratuitously should be so restricted?
§ SIR JOHN TRELAWNYsaid, he rose to Order. He wished to know whether the second part of the hon. Gentleman's Question, describing the services of the Volunteers as gratuitous, was in Order? A Parliamentary Paper showed that the Volunteers cost £850,000, and he held that they were servants of the Crown; that they were paid; and that they ought to be under strict discipline.
§ MR. SPEAKERQuestions ought to be restricted to statements of facts; but I do not know that there is anything out of Order in this Question.
§ MR. AYRTONrequested his hon. Friend to be good enough to repeat his Question on Thursday next, and in the meantime he would make inquiry into the particular case to which the Question referred. He had not yet been able to discover what had really taken place.