The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-14 00:00:00

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Western 527 50 525
Eastern
Sardinian
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Lombard 493 75 ... 493 75
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Ditto to Barcelona 155

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The Duke of Cambridge and the Royal
Military College.

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Yesterday being the date fixed for the promulga
tion of the results of the usual half-yearly examina
tion at the Royal Military College, H.R.H. the
Commander-in-Chief came down to be present at
the ceremony. The gentlemen cadets, under the
command of Colonel Halliwell, the Lieutenant-
Governor, were drawn up in line in six divisions,
with a detachment of Royal Engineers, under the
command of Captain Hall, R.E., on the left, and a
detachment of-dragoons, detailed from various corps
for the service of the riding-school, on the right,
under the riding master, Captain Ward. In front
of and facing the cadets were the students of the
Staff College ; the medals and whiskers of the
latter scarcely giving the beholder the idea that
these very old boys could be still in statu pupillari.
At half-past ten precisely the Commander-in-
Chief, attended by Colonel Tyrwhitt, his equerry,
and accompanied by Lieutenant-General Sir harry
Jones, K.C.8., the Governor of the College,
Lieut.-General the Hon. James Scarlett, K.C.8.,
Major-General Forster, K.H., and Lieut.-General
Sir John Pennefather, K.C.8., and the Duke of
Manchester, appeared on the ground, and was re-
ceived with a royal salute. After a minute inspec-
tion, the cadets, engineers, and dragoons marched
past in slow and quick time, and the cadets in double
time. Several cadets were then called to the front
and ordered to put the cadets through the manual
platoon and bayonet exercise, as well as some bat-
talion drill. This part of the performance was very
creditably gone through ; but the marching past,
particularly in double time, was indifferent. Drill
over, the cadets formed three sides of a square, and
with beating hearts listened while Major-General
Hamilton, Vice-President of the Council of Mili-
tary Education, read out the names of the suc-
cessful candidates. One hundred and forty-
eight cadets had competed for 35 commissions ;
of the remaining 113 cadets, 103 were pronounced
qualified for commissions by purchase, while only
10 failed altogether. The Duke of Cambridge then
proceeded to the B company dining-hall, in order
to investigate a very discreditable outrage which
had been committed by the cadets the previous
evening. It is difficult to ascertain the precise cir-
cumstances, but it would appear that a party of the
cadets determined to have a carouse aftei tattoo,
and assembled in the bath-room round certain jugs
of claret for that purpose. The subaltern of
the company going his round discovered the party,
and as he saw no reason why the regulations should
be transgressed caused the wine to be seized. Some
accounts say that the offenders took instant ven-
geance by mobbing and throwing water on the officer ;
others, and we believe with more correctness, declare
that they broke the windows of his quarters, in which
be it remembered his wife was at the time. The
Commander-in-Chief administered a severe lecture,
pointing out how ungentlemanly, as well as insub-
ordinate, their conduct had been. He reminded his
listeners that he had given them fair warning when,
on a former occasion, they bad shown a similar
mutinous disposition. This time, he assured them,
he would deal severely with the offenders. In con-
elusion, he said that unless the ringleaders were
given up he should withhold all commissions from
the B company, and detain them at college into the
bargain. if they gave up their ringleaders they
alone, he announced, should be prevented from
entering the army. This discreditable event is but
the last of a series of periodical outbreaks which
have brought disgrace on the once soldierlike repu-
tation of the Royal Military College. And the worse
feature in the case is that the cadets have nothing
whatever to complain of. Indeed, they are as little
fettered by harassing regulations :as possible, and
every possible exertion is made by the authorities to
provide for their comfort and happiness. Some
people even think that they are pampered, and that
a little more severity would produce better results.
They are provided with a smoking-room, canteen,
billiard-room, reading-rooms, racket-courts, and
gymnasium; fare luxuriously as regards food, and
'when not at study, on parade, or in their barrack-
rooms, do pretty nearly what they like. Neither are
they mere children, for whom allowances could be
made, but young men ranging from 17 to, in one or
two cases, 22 and 23 years of age. The Duke of
Cambridge has hitherto treated them with the
greatest consideration and kindness, but is now
driven to impress effectually on their minds that
those who cannot submit to discipline are unfit to
be entrusted with the care of enforcing it on others