The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-23 00:00:00

PROMOTION.

1. That the rank of field-marshal be given without refer-
ence to seniority.
2. That there shall be a fixed establishment of general
officers, viz.:—

For the Guards and the Line..

For the Artillery

For the Engineers

Generals 5O
Lieut.-Generals BO
Major-Generals l3O
Generals 6
Lieut.-Generals lO
Major-Generals l6
Generals 3
Lieut.-Generals 5

Major-Generals.... _ 8

3. That colonels may be appointed, without regard to
seniority, to command as major-generals, with temporary
rank, and if they shall have conducted themselves to our
satisfaction, such temporary rank, after having been held
for five years in peace, or for any shorter period in. war,
may, upon the recommendation of our commander-in-chief,
be made permanent. That the temporary rank of general
and lieutenant-general may also be given whenever the
convenience of the service requires it, and may be made
permanent in a similar manner.
4. That every vacancy on the fixed establishment of ge-
neral officers shall be filled by the promotion of the senior
colonel qualified to succeed to the rank of major-general,
and to be placed on the fixed establishment, under the re-
gulations now in force, or by a supernumerary major-
general, as provided in clause 6.
5. That in addition to the colonels promoted by seniority
to be major-generals, and those promoted after having held
temporary rank under the regulation in clause 3, colonels
shall be eligible for promotion 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 in 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 be detailed, shall be published in_the General
Orders of the army, and in the London Gazette.
6. That all colonels promoted to be major-generals after
five years' employment in responsible commands with the
temporary rank of major-general under the provisions in
clause 3, and all colonels promoted to be major-generals
for distinguished service in the field, shall be placed on a
supernumerary list of major-generals, and shall not be
reckoned as part of the fixed establishment until the time
when they would have attained the rank of major-general
by seniority ; that is to say, until the colonel who originally
stood next senior on the colonels' list to the officer promoted
out of his turn has become a major-general, after which the
next vacancy will be filled by the transfer of the supernu-
merary major-general to the fixed establishment. The
major-generals who have already been promoted out of
their turn, and would not yet have succeeded to that rank
by seniority, shall be considered as coming under this rule,
but they shall be specially allowed to retain the pay of 255.
a-day which they acquired on being originally placed on
the fixed establishment.

The supernumerary major-generals, when absorbed into
the fixed establishment, shall preserve the seniority which
they acquired when, after a period of qualifying service
with temporary rank, they were first confirmed as permanent
major-generals on the supernumerary list, and shall rise by
that seniority to be lieutenant-generals in succession.
General officers promoted foi distinguished service in the
field will take their seniority from the date of their promo-
tion, as stated in the London Gazette.
7. That three separate lists of general officers be inserted
in the Army List, the first containing the names of those
on the fixed establishment; the second, those who, having
been promoted out of their regular turn, are supernumerary
to the fixed establishment ; and the third, those on the half-
pay of their former regimental commissions.
8. That the rank of colonel be given to officers, after
serving for five years with the rank of lieutenant-colo-
nel, in the actual command of regiments, or for the
same period as second lieutenant-colonels of regiments, or
as major and lieutenant-colonel, or major in the House-
hold Cavalry, or as mounted officers of the Foot Guards,
or on the staff, in the following situations, viz., deputy
adjutant-general, deputy quartermaster-general, assistant
adjutant-general, assistant quartermaster-general, military
secretary (or assistant military secretary where there shall
be no military secretary) to such general officers alone as
are exercising the supreme command on a station, commis-
sioner to the head-quarters of an allied army, inspector-
general of army schools, members of the Council of Military
Education, lieutenant-governor or superintendent of studies
at the Royal Military College, or commandant of the Staff
College, or after serving for eight years with the rank of
lieutenant-colonel as equerry to the Sovereign, subject al-
ways to the approval of our Commander-in-Chief of the
manner in which an officer has commanded his regiment, or
discharged the duties of his appointment. The military
superintendents of the manufacturing departments of the
army will be eligible to be &emoted from the rank of lieu-
tenant-calonel to that of colonel after five years' service in
the former rank, subject to the approval of our Secretary of
State for War.
9. That regimental majors, who are brevet lieutenant-
colonels, falling into the command of regiments in the ab-
sence of the lieutenant-eoloneLshall, on attaining the rank
of re; mental lieutenant-colonel, reckon the period com-
mencing from the completion of the first month of such
temporary command as part of the five years required to
qualify for the rank of colonel.
10. That the rank of colonel be given to officers who obtain
the rank of brevet lieutenant-colonel for services in the field,
after eight years of actual service with that rank.
11. That in eases where a regiment serving abroad may be
so divided as to constitute two distinct commands, and one
portion maybe under the command of the regimental major,
who is also a brevet lieutenant-colonel, and in cases where a
brevet lieutenant-colonel may be in command of a mixed
force of different corps, a discretionary power shall be vested
in our Commander-in-Chief, subject to the approval of our
Secretary of State for War, to allow such service, or por-
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13. That field officers, commissioned as such before the
20th of June, 1854, be allowed to rise by brevet as hereto-
fore ; but no officer promoted to the rank of field officer on
or before that date is hereafter to rise from the rank of lieu-
tenant-colonel to that of colonel otherwise than by five or
eight years' service in the former rank, as provided in clause
8, or as a reward for distinguished service, or by appoint-
ment to be Queen's aide-de-camp, except under the special
provisions in clauses 9,.10, 11, and 12.
14. Lieutenant-colonels who held that rank prior to tile
20th of June, 1854, shall be promoted by special brevet to
the rank of colonel—commissions to bear date the 28th No-
vember, 1851 and such of the said lieutenant-colonels as
have been passed over by officers who have attained the
rank of colonel in conformity with the provisions of our
royal warrants of the 6th October and 3d November, 1854,
shall be restored to the respective places which they would
have occupied as colonels, had they been promoted in ordi-
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16. That any captain, major, or lieutenant-colonel, may
be rewarded by brevet promotion for distinguished services
in the field ; but no officer receiving such brevet promotion
shall be permitted to exchange brevet for substantive rank,
except for conspicuously distinguished service in the field,
and unless substantive rank could not at first, and at the
time, have been awarded to him, and that for the interest of
the service he shall have been allowed temporarily to take
brevet rank instead; and in every case in which such excep-
tional promotions shall be given, the recoi nm endation in which
the service of the officer shall be detailed shall be published
in the general orders of the army, and in the hotiekm Gazette,
17. That no officer who held brevet rank and was consi-
dered eligible under the 13th clause of our warrants of the
6th of October and 3d of November, 1854, to have that rank

A captain and brevet field officer of the same class com-
manding a troop of cavalry shall be allowed an addition of
2s. sd. a day to the pay of captain, and, if reduced to half-
pay, the half-pay of a major of infantry.
A regimental officer who has attained the brevet rank of
lieutenant-colonel under similar circumstances shall, if he
remain on full-pay, receive an addition of ls. a day to the
pay (*major, and, if reduced to half-pay, the half-pay of a
lieutenant-colonel of infantry—viz.. I ls. a day.
18. 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-appointment
under special circumstances.
19. That the names of field officers permitted to retire
from the army by the sale of their commissions, shall be re-
tained in the Army-List in italics, with the' permission of
mir commander-in-chief in each case. _

20. That no officer shall be promoted to the rank of cap-
tain until he shall have been two years an effective subaltern ;
nor to that of field officer until he shall have been six years
in the service.
UNATTACHED PAY, RETIRED FULL-PAY, AND RALF-PAY.
21. It is our further will - and pleasure that the grants
of unattached pay, and other rates of pay, to general
officers, not being colonels of regiments, and of retired
full-pay, and of half-pay, to officers of our army, shall be re-
gulated by this our royal,Wurrant, to be administered and
interpreted by our Secretary of Statc for War, as the solo
and standing authority for reg,ulating such grants. '