HC Deb 12 June 1871 vol 206 cc1930-1
LORD EUSTACE CECIL

wished to know, What course the hon. Member for Finsbury intends to pursue after the announcement of the Secretary for War with regard to the Amendment in the Army Regulation Bill, of which he had given Notice?

MR. W. M. TORRENS

said, he had received so many testimonies of the sense entertained of the importance of his Amendment prohibiting enlistment under 20 years of age from persons of great authority connected with the Army, and so many assurances of support from hon. Gentlemen on both sides of the House, that he should certainly take an opportunity, when it was proposed to omit Clause 6, of calling the attention of the House to the subject, and moving his Amendment as a substantive clause.