§ MR. KAVANAGHasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether he has any intention of making any change in the rule which compels the Lieutenant Colonel of a regiment to retire after having held the command of it for five years?
MR. GATHORNE HARDY,in reply, said, the rule referred to, which had been laid down by his Predecessor, had been recently acted upon, and there was no intention of relaxing it.