25 OCTOBER 1873, Page 2

Mr. Cardwell has appointed the Royal Commission for Officers' compensation,

which is to inquire fully into all grievances alleged by officers as arising out of the abolition of Purchase. It is specially ordered that they are to inquire into grievances falling within the principle of cap. 86 of Act 34 and 35 Viet., and to report with all convenient speed. The Commissioners are Lord Justice James, Lord Penzance, and Mr. Ward Hunt, names which, we imagine, must be acceptable to the Army. Two Judges and Mr. Disraeli's Chancellor of the Exchequer ought to be a sufficient guarantee to the Army that no party feeling will influence the decision.