A HUNDRED TO ONE.
Our friend the Duke of Newcastle, in the speech which he delivered the other day at Workshop on the organisation of Rifle Corps, made a remark which is worthy of serious consideration. The noble Duke instructed his hearers to observe that-
“If they only got a company of one hundred to start with, they would be the nucleus of a greater number, who, in case they were required – which God forbid – might render good service.”
The number of men estimated by the Duke of Newcastle as sufficient for the formation of the nucleus of a Rifle Corps should be borne in mind by all those whom its remembrance may concern; and perhaps it will be rather the more deeply impressed upon their memory by consideration of the paradox involved in a statement which apparently makes out that one hundred men will serve to constitute the kernel of a regiment.
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