18 MARCH 1871, Page 2

Lord Bury opened the adjourned debate on Thursday in a

speech of effective but rather thin criticism. He wanted, it appeared, precisely what Government wanted, but did not see that the abolition of purchase would help him to get it. The chief effect of the measure would be to introduce the "average vestry mind" into the Army. As to selection, there was selec- tion in the Austrian Army, and the man promoted was usually challenged by those he superseded, and so got rid of. He remon- strated against a threat, not uttered by Government, but by Mr. Trevelyan, that the rejection of the Bill would involve a dissolu- tion, and said he should go to his constituents, and tell them that he would not vote great sums of their money for indefinite and undefined purposes.