Elsewhere we have discussed the broader features of what is
called the Sandhurst Scandal. Here we need only notice Mr. Cardwell's reply to Mr. Trevelyan on Thursday night. The Secretary of State said that no changes will be made in the Sand- hurst establishment; consequently the crude idea of sending down Majors to command the Guardsmen has fallen through. At the same time, Mr. Cardwell said that the students hold their commissions on probation, that they had been warned that removal from the service is the penalty of improper conduct, and that if it is renewed when the College opens again, the Governor will instantly send any offender back to his regiment, and report him to the Commander-in-Chief for removal from the service under the terms of the Royal Warrant of 1871. Mr. Cardwell's reply is so far satisfactory ; we have still to see whether the Guardsmen will obey, and if not, whether the Duke of Cam- bridge will punish. Meanwhile, it is not a very pleasing fact in the case that the one officer selected to be "made an example of" is not a Guardsman, and was not, as we are informed (we believe accurately), a ringleader in the movement ; but happening to have incurred punishment at the moment for an infraction of dis- cipline which at another time might have been passed over with a reprimand, he is victimised pour encourager lea autres.
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