17 MARCH 1849, page 12

Topics Of The Day.

PROMOTION—SENIORITY AND CAPACITY. THAT blind adhesion to the rule of seniority which prevails at the Horse Guards appears to have been a resort from one abuse to another.......

Who Should Keep Our Convicts?

THERE is one question which those who undertake the responsi- bility of renewing convict transportation are bound to answer— By what moral right they inflict on the Colonies a......