MAJOR BEAUMONTasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether the promotion of the Officers of the Ordnance Corps is under the consideration of the Royal Commission now sitting on Army Promotion; and, in the case of those Officers of Artillery and Engineers where promotion has been lost owing to Lord Cardwell's arrangement of 1872 not having been acted on since 1874, whether the promotion so lost will be made good to them?
MR. GATHORNE HARDY,in reply, said, he had reason to believe that the subject of promotion of the officers of the Ordnance Corps was under the consideration of the Royal Commission now sitting on Army Promotion. He did not understand that any engagement had been entered into with the officers of Artillery and Engineers which had been broken, although no doubt the proposal of 1872 in reference to promotion had 483 not been carried out. Before anything was done in the matter it would be necessary to wait until the Report of the Commission was received.