The successful candidates at the third or metropolitan examination are always subjected to a final test in the Palace itself. The military graduates of this year have just been thus proved; and five or six of them have failed to come up to the standard in some particular or other. 'Their degrees are therefore Bee in abeyance till the next examination in three years' time, when they may enter again at the palace trial. The high officials who originally passed them will receive such punishment as the Board declares proper.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.