§ MR. BRUENasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether it is intended, when re-building the portion of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich recently destroyed by fire, to take that opportunity of so enlarging the buildings of the Academy as to give separate accommodation to each Cadet, in compliance with the recommendation of the Royal Commissioners on Military Education in 1869, and repeated by the Board of Visitors appointed to inspect the Academy in 1872?
§ MR. CARDWELLSir, the portion of the building destroyed by the recent fire consisted of the library and classrooms. The rooms occupied by the cadets were not injured, and in restoring the damage occasioned by the fire it would not be an economical or desirable arrangement to devote the new building to any other purposes than those to which the former building was applied.