10 JULY 1869, Page 3

We do wish members would leave off asking for medals

for every petty expedition in which our troops may be engaged, and leave the Government to recommend them. On Thursday a medal was asked for for Bootan, an expedition which had better be for- gotten, and is certainly leas entitled to special honour than twenty others on the North-West frontier. A medal will soon be as worthless as the bad half-crown which it so closely resembles.