Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . UNIFORM OF THE 7th (THE QUEENS )HUSSARS. {J. Cannon, * Historical Hecords of Ihe British Armti.^) THE ARMY. 171 1846) meat on which theh- bodies were fed. A sergeant describes thebooks provided for the troops at a large station in India as veryill-chosen—a great number treated of abstruse, ethical, anddoctrinal topics, nmch better calculated for the perusal ofmetaphysicians and divines. The same man inci
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . UNIFORM OF THE 7th (THE QUEENS )HUSSARS. {J. Cannon, * Historical Hecords of Ihe British Armti.^) THE ARMY. 171 1846) meat on which theh- bodies were fed. A sergeant describes thebooks provided for the troops at a large station in India as veryill-chosen—a great number treated of abstruse, ethical, anddoctrinal topics, nmch better calculated for the perusal ofmetaphysicians and divines. The same man incidentallymentions that at this station, where Englishmen werecantoned, there was noChurch of Englandchaplain, as the climatewas considered too un-healthy for a clergymanto live in 1 In this con-nection it may here bestated that liberty ofconscience in the armymade a great stride in1839 when it was orderedthat no soldier who wasa Roman (Jatholic ora Dissenter should becomjiclled to attend theChurch of England, butthat he should be atliberty to attend his ownplace of worship. Although enlightenedmilitary opinion early inthe century had declaredagainst the abuse of the. OK THE .ni (TUB QUEENS ROYAL) IX 1S41. (J. Cauiion, Ilistoriml reconh of the ISritUh Army.) lash floo-o-ino- though under ever increasing limitations, long con- Punish-tinued to bein force in the British army. It was finally abolished ^^t^-in 1881; but as a matter of fact the cat, except on active service,and then only for acts punishable by death, had not been calledinto requisition for many years before its use became illegal. Butduring the first half of the century, when men misconducted them-selvest they were either flogged, or imprisoned for terms varyingwith their delinquencies. Under the modern regime these sen-tences are now served in military gaols, whore the soldier iskept absolutely free from the taint of civil prisons and civilianconvicts; but before 1844 the men were confined i
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