§ MR. MUNTZ,referring to the recent instructions issued for the guidance of Officers commanding sub-districts, whereby Adjutants of Auxiliary Forces are to be held available for general duty, asked the Secretary of State for War, as Adjutants of the Auxiliary. Forces are under two classes, the one class, viz., the Adjutants of Militia, Yeomanry, and Volunteers who had left the Regular Service before the date of their appointment as Adjutants, and consequently at present hold no Army rank; the other class, appointed since 1871, being Captains on full or half-pay of the Army, and who do hold Army rank, Whether he will be good enough to explain what arrangements have been made to meet the difficulties that may be experienced when the Adjutants who do not hold Army rank are in the performance of 1872 general military duties at the depôt centres and sub-districts?
§ MR. CARDWELLAs I have already stated, Sir, there are certain questions with respect to the allowances of Adjutants, especially of Adjutants of the Yeomanry, which will have to be considered when the colonels have had time to report upon the duties and the remuneration of those officers. With respect to the want of power on the part of those who have left the Army to discharge a portion of the duties now to be imposed upon them, it is under consideration to give them, under proper regulations, commissions which will enable them to discharge those duties.