§ VISCOUNT GODERICHsaid, he found it stated in the seventeenth paragraph of the Regulations issued in December last for the Staff College at Sandhurst, that after the 1st of January, 1860, no person was to be eligible to be appointed to the Staff without having gone through the Staff College, or passed the final examination there, except those Lieutenant Colonels who should have attained that rank 711 before the 1st of January, 1860. Now, as the House was aware, Captains in the Guards held the rank of Lieutenant Colonels in the Army, and he wished to ask the Secretary for War whether, under the seventeenth paragraph of the Regulations for the Staff College at Sandhurst, issued upon the 17th day of December, 1857, Captains and Lieutenant Colonels in the Guards, who shall have attained that rank before the 1st day of January, 1860, will, after that date, be eligible to be appointed to the Staff without having gone through the Staff College, or passed the final examination of that College?
GENERAL PEELstated, in reply, that Captains in the Guards being Lieutenant Colonels in the Army, stood exactly on the same footing, and were entitled to the same privileges as all other Lieutenant Colonels, and, therefore, he thought they would be eligible under the Regulations to be placed on the Staff.