HC Deb 21 April 1871 vol 205 c1469
MR. DICKINSON

asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether Sandhurst may be shortly, and when, expected to be again open for gentlemen cadets?

MR. CARDWELL

said, in reply, that Sandhurst was at present occupied by gentlemen who had passed their examination, and were waiting for commissions. The result of the experiment, so far as it was yet known to him, was in the highest degree satisfactory, and it was under consideration whether in future cadets should be appointed to Sandhurst, or whether, as was the case in Prussia, they should be appointed, first to regiments, and afterwards undergo a course at Sandhurst.