Phenix Gazette

The Whiskey Ration.—A late number of the Glasgow Temperance Society Record gives the following information respecting the British army. "It is not generally known, that by the new provision warrant for the troops, issued in July last, the allowance of spirits or wine heretofore issued to the soldiers, in all our colonies and foreign possessions, has been entirely abolished, and a money allowance of a penny a-day substituted in lieu. The warrant also authorizes courts martial to deprive any soldier of his extra money allowance in case of habitual drunkenness. Of all the numerous reforms introduced by Sir Henry Hardinge, not one will entitle him more to the gratitude of the public, and of the soldier, than this most essential and important regulation."