The arrangements and general condition of the two ships which constitute the establishment, as the result of many years of experience and successive improvements under various captains, are such as to impress most favourably anyone who has had experience in naval discipline and the adaptation of ships to such purposes. Whatever may be the views held by various officers and others as to the advisability of using a stationary ship in preference to a college--and they are many and diverse, as we have seen--there can be but one opinion as to the high state of perfection which has been attained in the _Britannia_, whether from a sanitary, a disciplinary, or an educational point of view. The cadets' chests and hammocks are divided between the two ships--which are, of course, practically one, by virtue of the connecting bridge--the first and second terms being located on the lower deck of the _Hindostan_, the third and fourth on the main deck of the _Britannia_. At the fore end of each of these decks are large salt water baths, with fresh water shower-baths; every cadet, on turning out in the morning, has to go through the bath, and is also provided with hot water at his washing place for supplementary ablutions. Arrangements are also made by which about one hundred cadets get a hot fresh water bath each week. The hot and muddy followers of the beagles are not forgotten, a very acceptable warm bath being provided for them when they return on board. The cadets' chests and clothes are under supervision by the lieutenant in charge of each term, who supplies the captain with a list of deficiencies once a month, and frequently inspects the chests and clothing, to see that they are kept in good order. Naval uniform, etc., is very strictly prescribed nowadays, down to the most minute details--such as neckties, and toe-caps on boots--in great contrast to the laxity of former days; and the cadets are bound by these to the very letter. The studies are divided between the two ships, and are as good as they could be made on board a ship; gangways are built at the sides, so as to utilise the full breadth of the ship, without the necessity of passing through one study for access to another. The lecture-room is on board the _Britannia_, fitted with rising tiers of seats, and all appliances for practical demonstration in physics, etc. The messroom is on the lower deck of the _Britannia_; and a bulkhead separates this and the steward's pantries, etc., from the ship's company's quarters at the fore end.