The matter of the re-instatement of the officers concerned in the Jameson Raic came up in the House of Lords on Tuesday evening. In reply to a question from Earl Carrington and supplementary appeals from the Duke of Abercorn and Lord Loch, the Marquis of Lansdowne announced that the War Office had resolved to restore their commissions to four of the officers who were engaged in the Raid, Major White, Capt. White, Major Grey, and Capt. Coventry, but that Sir John Willoughby and Colonel Rhodes must be excluded, the former because of the active part he played in the preparation of the expedition, bre the latter on account of his conduct in promoting the conspiracy in Johan-pacing The four officers who are to be re-instated are not however to be replaced in the positions which they would now be holding had they never left the army; three of them are to be "appointed to unattached Lalo-pay" with the option ting active service again as soon on offers. Captain Coventry who sia officer joins his regiment at once but has to begin again at the bottom of the list which means a loss of seven years. Lord Carrington said he listened to the announcement "'with profound astonishment and disappointment the majority of the Press likewise seem to think the decision alittle hard. The Daily Mail says: " It looks rather like tempering a desire to do the decent thing by men who have suffered enough for their fault, with an equally active desire to keep off the corns of Uncle Paul and Mr. Labouchere. But as Mr. Labouchere's following in England is Awindling to extinction, and Mr. Kriiger gets more preposterous day by day, we hardly see why these gentlemen's feelings should have been so zealously cherished."
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