... imagines that that bright millennium hasyet arrived. When the heat of this gratuitous conflict is over, we are mistaken if the Whig leader of the House of Commons does not find it hard to justify himself for this sad and mischievous trifling with Parliament ...

... that flogging in the British army in times of peace is finally abolished. It has been the custom of the Government, whether Whig or Tory, to support the flogging clause in the Mutiny Act, in deference to the urgent solicitations of the military authorities ...