The officers of the Indian Staff Corps, or some of
them, have 'another grievance which was discussed in the House of Commons on the 10th inat. They say they joined the Staff Corps on con- dition that they should enjoy its advantages without examination, that Lord Cranborne promised them this, and that the Duke of Argyll issued positive orders securing to them employment. Nevertheless several of them have been required to pass examina- tions, and ou their refusal as experienced officers to go to school .again have been left without employment, losing generally ten or twelve per cent. of their pay. Mr. Grant Duff explained that the attention of the department had not been called to the matter, but the Indians say they did petition the Duke of Argyll. The matter seems a trifling one, but these trifles fester in India, where all these men are condemned to discontented idleness by what they, with not unnatural acidity, call breach of faith. It is not breach of faith, we believe, but a oertaiu want of con- sideration for men who, after all, were thrown out of their groove by no especial fault of their own.
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