Mr. ELLICE is busily engaged in investigating the means of
reducing the expenditure of the Army. It is understood that the patronage system of keeping up so many skeleton regiments of Cavalry will be altered, and that permission will be granted to raise local troops in Canada. The saving that would be effected by the adoption of this plan would be very great. It is understood that Mr. ELLICE, previously to accepting office, made a point of obtaining the King's special consent to institute an inquiry, with a view to the abolition of sinecures in whatever form they might be found to exist. Hitherto the King himself had stood between his responsible Ministers and the much-needed reform of system at the Horse Guards. But we should have been disappointed and surprised if Mr. ELLICE had followed the example of Sir JOHN HOEHOUSE, instead of Sir HENRY PARNELL'S, in defending instead of exposing the abuses of the Army.
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