§ LORD EUSTACE CECILsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether the rumour that has appeared, in the public papers, that the giving of commissions without purchase to the successful Cadets at the last half-yearly examination at Sandhurst is indefinitely postponed in consequence of the contemplated reductions in the Army, is true; and, if so, whether he is disposed to take the case of these young men into his especial consideration?
§ MR. CARDWELL, in reply, said, that the Government thought it right to give commissions to all the young men who had passed the last half-yearly examination at Sandhurst.