§ SIR EDWARDS HILL (Bristol, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, whether he is aware that gentlemen cadets, who pass out of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, after an expensive and highly scientific education, have to undergo a period of enforced 1563 idleness, extending over many months, before receiving their commissions in the Royal Artillery, in the meantime losing their Army seniority; and whether he will consider what steps can be taken to remedy this?
§ *THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN,) Stirling BurghsIt has been arranged that cadets who are not commissioned within three months of passing out of the Woolwich Academy, shall be sent to a school of instruction, receiving till commissioned a certain fixed allowance.