§ SIR ROBERT ANSTRUTHERsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, What compensation, if any, has been offered to those Medical Officers of the Brigade of Guards whose prospects have been seriously damaged by the alteration of their system of promotion, under a Warrant framed in 1860, but not promulgated till 1866?
GENERAL PEEL, in reply, said, the arrangement which the noble Marquess the late Secretary of State for War had made previous to the present Government taking office, and which he (General Peel) saw no reason to alter, was that the Warrant of 1860 should be carried into force, and promotion was to be in the brigade, and not in any particular regiment. If a vacancy occurred the senior assistant-surgeon of the Guards would be promoted in the Guards.