§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India if he can state whether, in administering the new system of promotion of colonels of the Native Army to the rank of generals, consideration will be given to the cases of those colonels whose promotion was stopped under the old system, and who cannot now obtain promotion under the new system unless the new regulations are made to apply as from the date of the expiration of the old system of promotion.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingThe Royal Warrant referred to last Tuesday has stopped the principle of promotion by seniority to the rank of Major-Genedral, and has substituted if its place a system of promotion by selection. Promotion by seniority has therefore ceased, and, having ceased, no claim can be urged by those who under the new system may not be selected.