§ CAPTAIN DONELANOn behalf of the honourable Member for North Leitrim I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether fee is aware that some troopers of the Suffolk Hussars were recently severely censured for taking part in uniform in a procession in connection with St. Benet's Roman Catholic church at Beccles; whether his attention has been directed to the fact that on Monday, the 18th instant, at Southwold, in the same county, a procession of Freemasons to the Protestant church was headed by the band of the Volunteer Artillery corps; and whether the regulations will in this case also be enforced?
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE WAR OFFICE (Mr. J. POWELL WILLIAMS,) Birmingham, S.Some troopers of the Suffolk Hussars were reprimanded for taking part in uniform in the proceedings referred to in the first paragraph of the Question. In the other ease permission to attend the demonstration in uniform was given under a misapprehension of the regulations. The matter has been properly noticed.