Fortification and Artillery.—Capt. H. Schaw.
Military Topography.—Major S. B. Farrell, Royal Engineers.
Military Administration.—Capt. W. Walker.
French.—A. A. De Charente.
German.—Dr. Overbeck.
Hindustani.—J. Dowson.
Military Drawing.—Capt. E. A. Anderson.
[QUEEN’S AND INDIAN CADETSHIPS.]
The creation of Queen’s cadetships originated in the recommendations of the select Committee of the House of Commons on Sandhurst. At the time the Committee reported (in the year 1855) the age of admission to Sandhurst was from 13 to 15; in the following year, however, at the time the recommendations of the Committee were adopted by the Government, it was in contemplation to raise the minimum age for admission to the College to 16; and it was consequently decided that, in order to meet the case of those who under the former regulations would have been admitted as Queen’s cadets at a younger age, a special allowance of 40l. a year might, at the discretion of the Secretary of State, be granted to a candidate qualified for a Queen’s cadetship, at the age of 13, to assist him in his preparatory education, until he attained the age at which he would be eligible for admission to the College. This arrangement was sanctioned by the Treasury in 1856, and at first the results of the recommendations of the Select Committee seem to have been confined to granting candidates the special allowance in aid of their preparatory education, as no cadet entered until 1860.