§ MR. W. EWARTinquired of the Under Secretary for War whether any programme would be laid before the public of the sort of military education, practical as well as theoretical, to be prescribed for the troops in the encampment at Aldershot; especially, whether it will be endeavoured to give them instruction in details connected with hutting, cooking, food, fire, discovery of supplies of water, and other practical matters fitted to increase their resources and exercise their intelligence as soldiers?
§ MR. FREDERICK PEELsaid, the militia regiments at Aldershot would have the full benefit of the educational system in the army. Schools would be established, the men would be placed under the care of efficient schoolmasters, while chaplains would be appointed to take charge of their spiritual instruction. With regard to education of a more practical kind, the first object, of course, was to teach the militia regiments how to act together in large bodies; but he had no doubt that the general commanding the camp would give all the prominence it deserved to the important question of teaching the troops how to hut themselves, and the other points referred to in the question.