§ MR. WHALLEYsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of state for War, What arrangements are proposed for meeting the claims of those who, as sons of distinguished Officers in the Queen's and Indian Service, would in the ordinary course have been nominated to Cadetships at Sandhurst, with the advantages of a free education and a commission in the Army without purchase, under the circumstances of that College having been closed since June 1869 to further admissions, pursuant to the Report of the Royal Commission on Military Education?
§ MR. CARDWELLreplied that the subject was under consideration by the India Office and the War Office, and he expected that he should be able almost immediately to state the result.