§ MAJOR O'BEIRNEasked the Secretary of State for War, If he can recommend some alteration in the Warrant by which the half-pay service of those Officers promoted to that list, (1) as a reward, (2) placed thereon owing to reduction, counts disadvantageously, and is reckoned towards compulsory retirement?
§ COLONEL STANLEYwas bound to say that, on looking at the clauses of the Royal Warrant, he should, if he answered the Question at once, be driven to a conclusion adverse to the officers in question; but, inasmuch as the words of the Warrant were not wholly free from doubt, he had desired other Papers to be looked at, by which it would be seen what were the intentions of the Warrant when it was originally framed. If the hon. and gallant Gentleman did not receive any communication from him, perhaps he would be good enough to repeat his Question on a future day.