although changes might be hereafter found necessary none would be
made this year. The first changes ought to be the legal aboli- Mr. Gladstone's tables for granting annuities to the poor have tion of flogging, except in presence of the enemy, and the total been published. The main fact is this :—A working man, by pay- suppression of stoppages. Flogging is a bugbear, and will remain ing a shilling a week from thirty to sixty, will secure himself an. one till done away with by law, and the stoppages seem unfair to annuity from that date of 6s. a week for life, and with two shil- the soldier. Tell the country folk that they are to have so much a lings of course twice that amount. The figures have been set. week, food, .clothes, and lodging, and they will some estimate the tied on mathematical calculation, but as regards this one item Mr. value of a soldier's position. Even then we fear the dread of a Gladstone might have been a little less exact, might at least have tour of Indian service, the one fate dreaded by English soldiers, knocked off the 20 per cent, he is going to charge for the trouble
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