§ MR. J. S. HENRYasked the Secretary of State for War, If it is intended that no Militia Officer for the future shall be appointed a Field Officer unless he has served in a regiment of the Line; and if the rule is to apply to the Militia Officers whose regiments were embodied during the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny, and served side by side with regiments of the Line under the same generals, in Gibraltar, the Ionian Isles, Portsmouth, Aldershot, and other places?
§ MR. CARDWELLNo doubt, Sir, it is desirable that a fair proportion of the field officers of the Militia should have served in the Regular Army; but there is no intention of laying down a rule that no qualified Militia officer shall be promoted to be a field officer unless he has served in the Regular Army.