§ LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEYasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies, If it is true that twelve soldiers of the Dragoon Guards have been arrested and are under examination on a charge of having broken into Government House at Pretoria, and stolen among other things all Colonel Sir Owen Lanyon's decorations?
THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY,in reply, said, he had received no information upon the subject. The Question should have been put to his noble Friend near 357 him (the Earl of Morley), the Under Secretary of State for War. For himself, he must protest against charges being made against Her Majesty's troops generally. Those who were soldiers, as well as civilians, sometimes committed robberies; but it was not fair for his noble Friend to make general imputations against Her Majesty's troops because some soldiers might have committed a robbery. He, however, did not know whether any robbery had been committed or not.
§ House adjourned at a quarter before Seven o'clock, to Monday next, a quarter before Five o'clock.