CAPTAIN VIVIANsaid, he understood that the second Lieutenant-Colonels of Cavalry Regiments returning from India were about to be placed in a position of great hardship, inasmuch as it would be made compulsory upon them to retire upon half-pay, without any prospect of future service. He therefore would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether he will be prepared to adopt any measure for the removal of that hardship?
§ SIR JOHN PAKINGTON, in reply, said, he was not prepared to deny that the case of those officers was one of some hardship. There were only a few of them—not more, he believed, than three or four—and he could not say that he had in contemplation any measure for their immediate relief.