CAPTAIN LEICESTER VERNONsaid, he would beg to ask the hon. Under Secretary for War whether, now that the military branches of the Ordnance were transferred to the Horse Guards, the general officers from the scientific corps would be employed as general officers on the staff, in due proportion with the general officers taken from other branches of the service?
§ MR. FREDERICK PEELreplied, that there was no objection to general officers in the artillery and engineers being appointed to situations on the staff; but the number that could be so appointed must be limited, as the proportion of the scientific branches of the service to the rest of the army was not more than one in twenty.