§ In answer to a question of the Marquess of LONDONDERRY.
§ VISCOUNT HARDINGEsaid, that the pay of Presbyterian Chaplains attached to the Army was regulated according to a sliding scale of allowances—so much per man—but that at the Curragh, Aldershot, Edinburgh, and one or two other stations, Presbyterian Chaplains on fixed salaries had been appointed in consequence of the largo number of Presbyterian soldiers at those stations. With regard to Shorncliffe, Hythe, and Dovor—the number of Presbyterian soldiers at those three stations being about 300, the Government were prepared to appoint a Presbyterian Minister on a fixed salary at those stations, but that the permanency of the appointment would depend upon these numbers being kept up—as they would be diminished considerably whenever the Antrim Rifles and the North Down Rifles were disembodied, which at some future time might be the case.