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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23.
LORD Groans PAM! YIllOrtSOE-GOSSESI Of
I Cavalry in India. We regret to say, this case
is worse than we at first imagined. If hie
lordship had been appointed to fill an office already
misting it would have been a scandal, but not with-
eat precedent. Where a place has been already
disgraced by the presence of en unworthy occupant,
there is, perhaps, is to be said against filling it
with a man of the same stamp. The COMMANDER-
IN-Crurs's appointment of Lord Cantos PAGET IS,
after all, scarcely so bad as the 00i7.12101-
CI ANIMA L'S appointment of Lard DIINIELLIN.
But the office of Inspector-General of Cavalry
In India is, we believe, a new one. Lord
Orono' PAGET is the bet. The amount of the
salary we know not, but it will no doubt be in an
inverse ratio to the valise of the man. The import-
ance of theduties to be performed is roost serious. As we
have already pointed oat, the reports of the Inspectors
acting under the Inspector-General determine the
prospects of the officers in the Army. Let us shortly
recapitulate the view of the Duke of CAMBRIDGE on
this matter, as given in the Blue-book. Afx: ad-
mitting to the Purchase Commissioners the vital
importance of having a good commanding officer of
a regiment, and the fact that some officers in com-
mand were unfit for the post, be was asked this
question : " In what way do you think the power
" of checking promotion by his veto should be given
" to the Commander-in-Chief, or what regulations
" should be made which would secure that power
"to the Commander-in-Chief " I think," said
the Dake, " from an inspection of the returns which
" he receives from officers, if those returns are fairly
" given, as I apprehend they ought to be, and might
" be, there is no officer in the Army whom profes-
" nonal character the Commander-in-Chief might
" not and ought not to be acquainted with." Again
he says : " I am in hopes that by good
" inspection the Commander-in-Chief will be
" informed by the Inspecting. General, as I
" think it is his duty to inform him, that a man
" is from his temperament unsuitable for the cons-
" mend of a regiment ; and if such a report came to
me as Commander-in-Chief I should have no hod-
" tation in saying, ' There is nothing against your
' character, but you are unfit from natural defects,
" and therefore you cannot be promoted.' I see no
" difficulty in ft." Nor do we, provided the
Inspecting• General knows his business. But rarely
nothing that ever entered the whimsical brain of
Broirross or ROBSON would be half SO Whimioll
as Lord GEORGE PAGET, of her MAJBBST'S Irregular
Horse, sitting in judgment on Jame at the bad of
his Bands Irregular Horse, or on Hon Gam at
the head of his British Cavalry. Like most other
jobs, this appointment of Lord °sows PAO!! would
be ludicrous if it were not melancholy.
There is, however, something else said by the
Duke of CAN 111.113011 on this matter before the
Army Purchase Conuabeion which ought not to be
omitted. Looked at by the light of experience,
the humour displayed in the Duke's evidence is
eminently rich. After telling Mr. ELLICE how an
improved mode of inspection would give him the
means of distinguishing between the Atom sod un-
fitness of Alms, he is asked whether, nadir present
circumstances, he would prevent an officer whom he
thought unfit from assuming the command of a
regiment ; to which he answers, with oildire-hins
determination—" Most undoubtedly." At the same
time, he afterwards observed, it would be more
satisfactory to the Commander-in-Chief if it was
mere generally acknowledged that he was to have
a vetoing power, because, although it exists, It
b very rarely exercised, and it leads to a great
dial &difficulty, and a great deal of disagreeable
Peeling. But, he emphatically concluded, lam
"decidedly of opinion that if public feeling in gene-
' ral were to be directed to the support of the Com-
' niander-in-Chief in the exercise of that power, he
"might exercise that power with great benefit to
"the Army, sad witheutinjestice to any individuaL"
The sentimiste are melba. They are as admirable
as those uttered in praise of virtue by some OtAeUe of
Drury-lane wbo means tospend hisnightinapot house.
The Duke's theory and practice, however, are sadly
incomaistent. If his Royal Highness want* to have
his authority supported by public opinion, he must
canal the appointment of Lord Groans PAOIST as
Isepector-Osseral of Cavalry in India, and shut his
mire in futon against those who urged him to make
mast an appointment.
But after all, why should sot the Duke stick to
his selection With as apathetic public, a sub-
servient House of Comences, and the Thiodirer—as
some people call our chief oontemponzr-mmene-
rimed, the opinion of the bw independent thinkers
who trouble themselves about the matter is unimpor-
tant aisigh. In an age of indifference taigas,-
' lien is et of plass. People :don't believe that
any man sexes one jot for the public intermit.
Lord Patinas:ex (sly dem what everybody elms
does: he somsafts his out interest. Issolmise
• shows power. Let then this high-handed insolieses
Wm its course ; let the Curaiccausii, the Dtrazu-
LIM, and the Lord (Wawa • ?AGM) Sim