§ LORD EUSTACE CECILasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether he has any objection to state the date and purport of the Treasury Regulations under which it is understood that the promotion of the subalterns of the 95th Regiment has been retarded, contrary to the usual rule adopted in other regiments, by the absorption of the third vacancy caused by Captains originally placed on the supernumerary list on the return of the regiment from India?
§ MR. CARDWELLThe promotion, Sir, of the subalterns of the 95th Regiment has not been retarded, contrary to the usual rule adopted in other regi- 1560 ments, inasmuch as what is called in the Question the third vacancy was in reality the first. The so-called first vacancy was rendered null by the return of the officer who had joined the Indian Staff Corps on probation, giving at the time a step which his return absorbed; and the second was that of a captain who went on temporary half-pay, absorbing a supernumerary, under the Royal Warrant of February 24, 1873.