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TELEGRAPH AND TRAVEL.
prominent manner than usual, and recourse was had to
stern and severe measures. Our cadet was made, in his
fourth term, a Corporal, and in this capacity found him
self in no very enviable position, having to exercise
supervision and to find fault where such interference
would not always be well received. But the necessity
of schooling and practice, in enforcing as in enduring
discipline, is sufficiently urgent in a military career to
demand early attention ; and the system of Corporal
Cadets is no doubt as wholesome as it is useful. His
progress in study can hardly be said to have been so rapid
as that he continued to maintain the high position in his
chiss and among his comrades which he had attained on
first admission. Especially was it in mathematics and
fortification that he became distinguished. Head of his
term in mathematics at the end of his third half year as
the first, we find him at the completion of the full period
of two years carrying off the first Fortification and second
Mathematical prize, together with the Sword and Pollock
Medal, the former being a reward for conduct, the latter
for progress in study.
As among the choicest of ordinary mundane returns
of a toilsome career are the congratulations of old
friends on a fairly-achieved success, so among the fairest
records of Patrick Stewart's biography would be those
many spontaneous testimonials of his work contained in
the congratulatory letters of his contemporaries in the
service. A letter from a brother Engineer in Brompton
Barracks addressed to Cairnsmore immediately followed
the news of his Addiscombe successes. The writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. has
since nobly fallen in the service of his country. Had
he been living, he would assuredly have pardoned these
quotations;—