§ 105. Captain CLIVEasked the Under-Secretary for War whether he is aware that, by the unequal treatment in regard to promotion of Infantry and Cavalry captains with fifteen years' service and over, the latter not only suffer injustice at present but also must look forward during their future service to being superseded by officers now their contemporaries or their juniors; and whether he will take any action in the matter?
§ Mr. TENNANTI must refer the hon. and gallant Member to the answer I have given to the hon. Baronet the Member for Mid-Armagh on the 17th February. Perhaps I may be permitted to point out that when, as was the case for a considerable period, Cavalry promotion was more rapid than Infantry promotion, there was never any agitation to accelerate Infantry promotion to the same degree of rapidity as prevailed in the Cavalry. I regret that I cannot undertake that sympathetic promotion for the Cavalry will be adopted.