10 FEBRUARY 1956, Page 10

The iSvettator

NOTICE has been given by Sir FRANCIS Buaperr, that he will, on the introduction of the Mutiny .Bill, move a clause abolishing the punishment of flogging. Every attempt to mitigate the horrors of this system has hitherto proved ineffectual. In truth it cannot be mitigated—it can only be mended by abrogation. Flogging offers so ready a gratification to a cruel, and so simple a means of discipline to a brainless commander, that while it is permitted in any shape, it will and must be abused. We hope the unfor- tunate case of the boy HERITAGE will not be lost sight of. What is to be said of those regulations by which a miserable child like him, of mild and docile disposition, could be abused into insanity?