WELLINGTON COLLEGE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin ,—Will you kindly allow me, as an old Wellingtonian, who, was more than seven years at the school, to offer one or two remarks on your article of last week?
You speak of eighty sons of officers being educated for 180 a year,—however, that is not the chief boon to the Army the school bestows ; besides this, eighty orphan sons of officers are educated, for sums of between £5 and £20 a year. For the sons of civilians, it is only in houses that more than £110 is required. To remove the sons of civilians from the school, as some officers wish, would be to "kill the goose with the golden eggs," and would, more- over, very greatly injure the tone of the school. Officers cannot,. as a rule, bring up their children so carefully as other people, partly from want of leisure, partly from want of a settled home, partly from want of money. The result of making Wellington entirely for the Army would be to lessen the number of founda- tioners, and lower the school tone.—I am, Sir, &c., C. N. X.
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