LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
REGIMENTAL EXCHANGES.
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
Sta,—Your interest in the subject of Regimental Exchanges in- duces me to ask you to give publicity to the following state of affairs which the Bill will create in the Brigade of Guards. The Financial Secretary announced that the Captains and Lieutenant- Colonels of the Foot Guards would not be allowed to exchange with officers commanding regiments ; having, however, the rank of field-officers, they cannot exchange with Captains of the Line, and consequently cannot exchange at all. But the subalterns who have entered since 1871, and those who hereafter will enter the Brigade of Guards, possess commissions for which they have paid nothing, but by exchanging which for a similar rank in the Line they can easily obtain one or two thousand pounds apiece. The senior officers are those whose grievances were to be re- medied by the recommendations of the Commissioners, and they receive nothing; the juniors, who had no grievances to be redressed, since they entered under the new system, are to receive consider- able pecuniary values for the abolition of a system of whose bene- fits they never could have had either a knowledge or a share.— I am, Sir, &c.,
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