§ CAPTAIN O'BEIRNEasked the Secretary of State for War, If the regulation made in 1871, limiting the command of regiments to a period of five years is for the present to be held in abeyance, as the present uncertainty is calculated to injure seriously the prospects of a large number of officers who have remained in the service, trusting to this regulation being strictly adhered to.
MR. GATHORNE HARDY,in reply, said, that it was intended to adhere to that Regulation, and, where it had been recently departed from, the reason had been that in those cases some delay was necessary; but there had been no intention of altering the system.