§ MR. HASSARDsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if it is his intention to permit officers of the Indian Army to act as Adjutants of English and Scotch Militia Regiments, they being eligible now to act as Adjutants of Irish Militia Regiments; and whether, as the Army of India has now been brought under the immediate administration of the Crown, it is his intention to permit officers of the Indian Army to send their sons to Woolwich and Sandhurst upon the same terms as to payment as those upon which officers of Her Majesty's other forces are permitted to send their sons to those establishments?
§ MR. SIDNEY HERBERTsaid, that as to the first question he had no option in the matter the law made the distinction complained of; but he had prepared a Bill which, if he were allowed to introduce it before the end of the Session, would, among other things, rectify the anomaly complained of. With respect to the second question, he could not see at present how the sons of Indian officers could be admitted to Sandhurst without that institution undergoing extension. The sons of Indian officers had the advantage of Addis-combe, which, he apprehended, answered the same purpose.