§ SIR ALEXANDER GORDONasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether the new Warrant for the Promotion and Retirement of Officers of the Army has received the signature of the Sovereign?
MR. GATHORNE HARDYI have never spoken of a new Warrant, but only of a proposed new Warrant. No new Warrant has been submitted to Her Majesty. Certainly I would never advise Her Majesty to sign a new Warrant until she had obtained the means from Parliament for carrying it out.