The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-21 00:00:00

PROMOTION.

1. That the rank of field marshal be given without re-
ference to seniority.
2. That general periodical brevets be, for the future,
abolished.
3. That there shall be a fixed establishment, for the
Guards and the lino, of 100 general officers upon unat-
tached pay, in addition to the general officers who are co-
lonels of regiments, making iu all 234, of whom 50 shall
bo generals, 70 lieutenant-generals, and 114 major-
generals.
4. That, until the existing establishment of general offi-
cers be reduced to 234, the senior colonels on the list shall
be promoted, or the supernumerary previously promoted
for distinguished service shall be admitted, alternately
after the third vacancy on the fixed general officers'
list —this limitation being observed until the excess be re-
duced.
5. That the major-generals, hereafter promoted for dis-
tinguished service, shall, after the number of generals on
the fixed establishment has been reduced to 234, be placed
on the permanent general officers' list, in the proportion of
one major-general for two, vacancies—the second vacancy
being filled by seniority from the colonel's list.
6. That those general officers in the receipt of the half-
pay only of their last regimental commissions be not in-
eluded in the 234 above mentioned, but that their names
he printed, according to their seniority, on the same
list, with the others as now, but with an asterisk pre-
fixed to them.
7. That tho rank of fell colonel be given to officers, after
serving for three years with the rank of lieutenant-colonel,
in the actual command of regiments, or for the same pe-
riod as second lieutenant-colonels of regiments, or as major
and lieutenant-colonel, or major in the household cavalry,
or as mounted officers of the guards, or on the staff, in the
following situations, viz., Assistant Adjutant-General,
Assistant Quartermaster-General, Military Secretary (or
Assistant Military Secretary whore there shall be no
Military Secretary) to such general officers alone as are ex-
ercising the supreme command on a station, or commis-
sioner to the head quarters of an allied army, or after
serving six years with the rank of lieutenant-colonel as
equerry to the Sovereign.
8. That field officers, commissioned as such before the
26th of June, 1354, be allowed to rise by brevet, as under
the regulations then in force,; but no officer, promoted to
the rank of field officer on or after that date, is to rise from
the rank of lieutenant-colonel to that of colonel, otherwise
than by throe years' service in the former rank, as above
described, or as a reward for distinguished service, or by
appointment to be Queen's aide-de-camp.
9. That in cases where colonels shall be appointed, with-
out regard to seniority, to commands as major•generals,
their temporary rank, if they shall have conducted them-
selves to our satisfaction, may bo made permanent, after
having held such commands for five years in peace, or after
any shorter period in war, upon the recommendation of
our commander•in-chief. That, in like manner, the tem-
porary rank of general and lieutenant general may be given
whenever the convenience of the service requires it, and
may be confirmed in a similar manner.
10. That, in addition to the colonels promoted by senio-
rity to be major-generals, colonels shall be eligible for pro-
motion
to the rank of major-general, and major-generals to
the rank of lieutenant-general, and lieutenant-generals to
the rank of general, for distinguished services iu the field.
In the case of officers promoted to the rank of general
officers, as a reward for distinguished service in war, the
recommendation, in which the service of the officer shall
he detailed, shall be published in the general orders of the
army, and in the Gazette, with a view to ensure the respon-
sibility attaching to an appointment thus made out of the
regular course of army promotion.
11. That every vacancy on the fixed establishment of
general officers shall bo filled by the promotion, when there
is no supernumerary of the senior colonel qualified to suc-
ceed to the rack of major-general, and to be placed en the
fixed establishment under the regulations now in force ;
and that vacancies in the ranks of general and lieutenant-
general be filled in the same manner.
If there bo more than one supernumerary who has been
promoted fur distinguished service, the promotion of the
senior colonel shall take place en every second vacancy
only, until the supernumeraries be reduced, by the appoint-
ment alternately of a supernumerary and the promotion of
a eolenal.
12. That promotions shall be made in the ranks of field
officers, below the rank of colonel, from time to time, or as
vacancies occur in the major-general's fixed establishment.
13. That any captain, major, or lieutenant-colonel may
be rewarded for promotion for distinguished services in the
field. In cases, however, where such promotion would de-
prive the officer of regimental employment, by which the
interests either of the service or of the officer might be
prejudiced, brevet rank may be given, to be converted into
regimental (or substantive rank) at an early subsequent
period.
14. That the commands of general officers, and other
situations on the staff, both at home and abroad, shall
not be held for more than five years, unless by re-appoint-

went.
15. That the privilege of selling out of the army, re-
taining the name of the officer in the army list in italics,
which is now confined to full colonels and officers having
the order of the Bath, be extended, with the permission
of the Commander-in• Chief in each case, to all field
officers.
16. That no officer shall be promoted to the rank of cap-
tain, until he shall have been two years an effective subal -
tern.
17. That no officer shall be promoted to the rank of
major until he shall have been six years effective as sub-
altern or captain.
18. No medical Candidate who has not passed his ex-
amination at the Royal College of Surgeons of London,
Edinburgh, or Dublin, shall be eligible for the commis-
sion of assistant-surgeon ; and he must have served as
such on full pay five years before ho shall be eligible
for promotion to the rank of staff surgeon of the second
class.
19. Staff surgeons of the second class must have served
ten years in the army oa full pay before they shall be eli-
gible for the next step of rank.
A staff surgeon of the first class must have served three
years at home, or two years abroad in this rank, before
he shall be eligible for promotion.
20. A deputy inspector-general of hospitals must have
served five years at home, or three years abroad, in this
rank, boforo lie shall be eligible for promotion to the
highest rank of inspector-general.

UNATTACHED PAY, RETIRED FULL PAY,
AND HALF-PAY.
It is our further will and pleasure, that the grants o:
unattached pay, and other rates of pay, to general ofa
cers, not bein,g colonels of regiments, and of retired full
ray, and of half-pay, to officers of our army, shall be
regulated by this our royal warrant, to be administered
and interpreted by our Secretary-at-War, as the sole
and standing authority for regulating such grants.
UNATTACHED PAT.
21. Officers removed from their commissions as field
officers in regiments of foot guards, in consequence of
being promoted to be general officers, shall receive unat-
tached pay according to the. following scale—viz., lieute-
nant-colonel, 6031. a year; major, 501. a year.
22. Officers promoted to be general officers from fall or
half-pay commissions in the line, shall, if duly qualified,
receive unattached pay of 11. ss. a day.
23. The number of general officers upon the establish-
ment of unattached pay of 1/. ss.- a clay or upwards, not
being colonels of regiments, shall be limited to 100.
24. A general officer being colonel of a regiment, in the
event of his regiment being reduced, may be placed, in the
first instance, as supernumerary upon the said establish-
ment of unattached pay at 11. ss. a day; but shall fall into
the vacancy that may occur therein, until re-appointed
colonel of a regiment.
25. A colonel promoted to the rank of general officer, as
a reward for distinguished service in war, or in conse-
quence of having held a command with temporary rank as
general officer, shall be placed, in the first instance, as.
supernumerary on the said establishment of unattached
pay, at 4001. a year, until he shall fall into a vacancy on
the fixed establishment of general officers.
26. An officer now on the list of general officers, whether
on full or half pay at the time of his promotion, but who
is in excess of the limited number of 100 entitled to un-
attached pay of 1/. ss. a clay or upwards, shall receive, if
duly qualified by service, an allowance in lieu of unat-
tached pay, at the rate of 4C3/. a year; or if lieutenant-
colonel of cavalry, at the time of his promotion, the net
full pay of that rank, until elected to the establishment of
unattached pay, at 1/. ss. a day, or appointed to be colonel
of a regiment.
2T. To entitle an officer to the unattached pay of a gene-
ral officer, or to the allowance in lieu of such unattached
pay, such officer must have actually served six years with
the rank of a regimental field officer, either with a regi-
ment of a line or ire some other substantive military em-
ployment in the public service, or as field officer of the
Foot Guards, or on the staff appointment of assistant adju-
tant-general, assistant quartermaster-general, military sec-
retary (or assistant military secretary, where there shall
be no military secretary) to such general •fficers alone as
are exercising the supremo command on a station, or as
commissioner to the head quarters of an allied army ; or,
having obtained the rank of regimental field officer, shall
have been obliged to go upon half-pay on account of reduc-
tion, or in consequence of ill-beelth contracted in the ser-
vice (as established by the report of a board of medical
officers), or in consequence of wounds received in action,
before ho bad served the six years above prescribed.
28. To the limitations contained in the precedingarticle,
the following exceptions only will be admitted, viz. :
Appointment as major-general on the staff. Appointment
to a military government. In these casee the insufficiency
of service as a reglmental field officer will nob render an
officer ineligible for the unattached pay.
29. The benefit of unattached pay sball not be extended
to any general officer, who, when he last went upon half-
pay, received the difference; nor to any officer who wont
upon half pay at his own request in time of war before he
had completed an aggregate full-pay service of thirty years,
of which period six years shall have been with the rank
of regimental field offi ; tor to any officer who went
upon half-pay, at his own request, in time of peace, be-
fore be had served six years with the rank of regimental
field officer.
Officers thus situated shall continue to receive the half-
pay only, of which they were he receipt at the time of their
promotion to be general officers.
RETIRED FULL PAY.
30. The retired full pay list of field officers and captains
shall be prospectively fixed at 60,00/. a-year ; all officers
who were on the full pay retirement previously to tho
royal warrant of October, 1840, being considered supernu-
merary to the establishment of 60,0001.
31. The colonels, lieutenant-colonels, majors, and cap-
tains, allowed to retire upon sun pay, shall bo selected and

recommended to us by our commander-in-chief, and ap-
pointed avordin,g toltheir regimental, and not according to
their brevet rank ; but no officer shall be placed on the
retired full-pay list, who has not served on full-pay for
twenty-one years and upwards, nnless he had been obliged
to go upon half-pay in consequence of ill health eoutracted
in the service (as established by the report of a board of
medical officers), or in consequence of wounds received in
ssOfin, boforo be had served the 21 years prescribed.
32. Each officer placed on the retired fall-pay list, shall
rec:iive a step of brevet rank, together with the full-pay of
the rank from which he retired ; but such officer cannot be
further promoted.
33. Officers appointed to veteran battalions shall not, on
their reduction or retirement therefrom, acquire any claim
to retired full-pay.

TEMPORARY ALLOWANCE IN Tilr, NATURE OF HALF-PAY.
34. An officer, hoeing served less than three years, will,
if reduced, receive only a temporary %llowance of half-pay,
according to the following scale
Services on Full Pay. Temporary Allowance.
Under 1 year
1, and under 2 years fur 2 years.
2, and under 3 years
The temporary allowance ceases at the termination of
the above-recited periods, or previously, if the officer shall
have been previously placed on full-pay.
35. Bat an offigler, who has been places on temporary
half-pay, is eligible to be appointed to a full-pay commis-
sion, either by exchange or otherwise, provided his appoint-
ment take place within five years after he has ceased to
receive temporary half-pap, in which case his former
service is allowed to reckon.
36. The exchange to full-pay, under the preceding
article, may be made with a full-pay officer entitled to
half-pay.
37. An officer who has been reduced with only a tempo-
rary allowance, having purchased his commission, may
receive the regulated price thereof from the public,
through our Secretary at War, and the public shall be re-
imbursed by the sale of a first full-pay commission, which
would otherwise have been conferred without purchase ;
but these sales shall not be required in any greater pro-
portion than one for every two such vacated commissions.