§ MAJOR O'BEIRNEasked the Secretary of State for War, If the rule limiting the tenure of a staff appointment to five years applies to the officers on the staff at the Horse Guards; and, if so, why are officers kept on that staff since 1st January 1874?
§ COLONEL STANLEY, in reply, said, he could only find one such case in which the circumstances were exceptional; as a rule, it was intended to adhere to the five years' rule.