THE LIBERAL PRESS AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE' ARMY.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A correspondent to whom you have granted all the honours: of large and leaded type, in a letter published in your last impres-
sion on the discipline of the Army, took occasion to charge the Daily News (among other papers) with treating military subjects; in a manner prejudicial to the proper discipline of the service..
It is to be regretted that your correspondent, before he brought so,
grave a charge against a journal which be singles out by name for his animadversion, had not taken the trouble to assure himself of the justice of the charge. Now, in a leading article which appeared' in the Daily News only the other day, on the Revised Clauses of the Mutiny Bill, he might have read the following sentence, which appears to me simply and entirely incompatible with the truth of his accusation :—" No one has ever pretended that any army; however composed, can be kept together, whether in war or peace, except by the strictest discipline and the sternest justice."—(Daily News, Tuesday, April 2, 1867.)—I am, &c., ONE OF THE STAFF:
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