29 DECEMBER 1855, page 11

Excrescent Colonelcies.

WE understand that among the comprehensive measures for the improvement of the Army is an abolition of military sine- cures. There will henceforth be no titular Field-Marshals......

A Il:rat, (maim To Reward.

IT is not because we do not see the justice and even the policy of giving to past service a full recompense, that we object to giving sinecures as rewards, and to distributing......