To sum up. A rule must be introduced by which the Director-General is brought into communication with the Superintendent-General, and her qualified subordination to him distinctly expressed. Let the Principal Medical Officer in war also communicate directly with the Superintendent-General or the person performing her functions in the War-Hospitals, and her qualified subordination to him be distinctly expressed. The same with each Principal Medical Officer of a Hospital, and the Matron of that Hospital. No alteration in these Regulations can, of course, be made without the consent of the Secretary of State. In case the Director-General and Superintendent-General finally differ as to any new arrangements, the matter should be referred to the Secretary of State. The Superintendent-General should issue special regulations for nurses, after conference with the Director-General, and under the sanction of the Secretary of State; also, local regulations for the Matrons with the consent of the Principal Medical Officer and sanction of the Governor of any General Hospital. If the Matron differ with the Principal Medical Officer, the decision should rest with the Governor of the Hospital. IV. As to some miscellaneous considerations, of no small importance-- [Sidenote: 1. Roman-Catholic Sisters?] 1. It is necessary for a Superintendent-General to have counted the cost, and to be prepared or not prepared to include Roman Catholic Sisters among the Nurses. This will deprive her of some valuable women; of one (speaking for the present time,) who is invaluable; of many decorous, not very useful women. The question is perhaps settled by the fact, that where you have the Roman Catholic Sister, you cannot be secure from the Roman Catholic Direction, with all its many strings, and machinery of opposition. Abroad the cause of the Roman Catholic Church is often the cause of religion; and the Romish Priest serves both zealously at the same time, and with a pure heart. In England, and in matters of England, the first aim of the Direction is too often to damage what is not Roman, and the second to promote what is Christian. Upon the whole I must think Roman-Catholic Sisters are better out of, than in, the Army Hospitals. It would be right to think well over how far they could be entirely dispensed with, in the event of having soon to undertake a War Service.