The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-28 00:00:00

COLLEGE OF SANDHURST.

Sir F. BARING asked the Under Secretary for War
what were the intentions of Government respecting the re-
commendations of the Sandhurst commission ?.
Mr. PEEL—The only recommendations in the report of
the committee on the military college at Sandhurst, upon
which any immediate step required to be taken, was that
which proposed that ten sons of officers who had lost their lives
in the course of the present war should be appointed to the
college, there to receive their education at the public ex-
pense ; that ten more should be appointed in the course of
next year ; and that the estimates for the college for the
ensuing financial year should make provision to cover the
expense which such an addition would involve. To that
recommendation he saw no objection whatever, and the
Government would be prepared, therefore, to act upon it
accordingly. The report also recommended that the board
of commissioners should undergo some alterations, chiefly
with the view of enabling a revision to take place of the
course of studios in the junior and senior departments, and
that in the senior department a staff of professors should
be appointed, also to be maintained at the expense of the
public. These were suggestions which he thought were
very proper to be considered, but it appeared to himw.th
ht
they rather formed part of the larger question, "lc
would shortly come before Parliament,
and
ques-
tion of education for the army, both in its higher
lower branches. (Hear, hear.)
othe
already ten orphans in
Colonel NORTH said there were namely, the
and two of officers in the navy. Were they
in the new regulations ?
appointedihe committeet
the establishment—eight the sons of officerstninbethinenalurmdeya,
was, that ten orphans should
who were there at
those
col-
lege, and they would not include
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Mr. PEEL the recommendation of
the present time.
THE QuEEN,s GUARDS.
to thegallant
whether, having . her Majesty's
soldiers in the Craimeoa, Government would
recommend
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Mr. V. SCULLrYnegard
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of
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LMERSTON said th
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Lord P.A. . at Government were very
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desirouso u l
arrangements in their power that
would be gratifying to the Irish, to whose services on all
occasions, both by sea and land, the Crown and country
it was considered that the Guards
were a privileged body, and that their privileges placed
them, more or less, in •• . a position with regard to the rest of
the arm
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%ration army which was sometimes •
made the subject of obser-
this
• (Hear.) We think (continued the noble lord) that
privileged corps already bears
as large a proportion to
the rest of the army as is expedient, and that it would be
uuadvisable to increase the establishment of that body,
but every endeavour will be made to induce the Irish con-
stabulary to enlist into the existing regiments of Guards,
which shall be considered, whatever thir origin may have
been, of belongieg to the United Kingdom, and not pecu-
liarly to England and Scotland or Ireland. They, in truth,
consist of men who enlist indiscriminately from all parts
of the United Kingdom, and as such I trust that every
part of the kingdom will think that it has some share in
the glories which may attend the services of that distin-
guished corps. (Hear, hear.)
Colonel DUNNE said that Irishmen had been refused to
be enlisted in the Guards until the war commenced. (Hear )
Mr. V. SCULLY, finding that he must treat the answer
of the noble lord as a civil refusal, begged to give notice
that he should take the earliest opportunity of bringing
the matter before the house and having it fully discussed.