§ SIR HENRY STRACEYsaid, he rose to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether the Secretary of State for India has not sent to him the names of certain Officers of Her Majesty's Indian Army who have for their distinguished services been recommended by the Governor General of India and the Commander-in-Chief for the Companionship of the Bath; and if so, why this honour has not been conferred; and whether there be any objection to their names being recorded in The Gazette?
§ MR. SIDNEY HERBERTreplied, that the names of Officers, both in the Queen's service and in that of the East India Company, had been sent home with recommendations that those Officers should receive the Order of the Bath; but as the numbers were at this moment considerably in excess of that fixed by the statute their names had not been submitted to Her Majesty, and it would not be a correct course to publish them in The Gazette before they had received the Order, which he hoped, however would be before long.