So desperate has been the resistance to the Army Bill,
that Sir Roundell Palmer, no friend to Radical measures, rose on Tuesday to rebuke the military Members of the House. "A course had been So desperate has been the resistance to the Army Bill, that Sir Roundell Palmer, no friend to Radical measures, rose on Tuesday to rebuke the military Members of the House. "A course had been taken the like of which he never remembered." Other great measures affecting great interests had been opposed without the minority endeavouring to baffle the majority by mere consumption of time. The minority who resisted the Irish Church and Land Bills had "recognised the duty of respecting the principle of Parliamentary government," that the decision of the majority shall be binding. Conduct like that was neither in the interest of the country, of the Army, nor of Conservative principle. We may add that it is not in the interest of the Members who have pursued it, who have deepened immensely the dislike always felt in England to candidates who may have a personal interest in impeding great ,reforms, and the suspicion with which statesmen watch the effect upon discipline of permitting soldiers and sailors to be members of the Lower House.
