§ MR. LEAHYasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether he is aware that small pox is very bad in the vicinity of the barracks occupied by the Fifth Dragoon Guards in Manchester; and, considering the danger (although there may not have been recent cases amongst the men) of transmitting the disease by followers of the regiment, and taking into account the alarm which prevails in the neighbourhood of the Curragh and New bridge, he will reconsider the decision to send them to Ireland, in view of the danger of spreading the epidemic on the route?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONMilitary considerations render the movement of the regiment necessary; but every precaution will be taken that none of the soldiers' families shall accompany it unless they can show that they are quite free from small-pox.