§ On the Motion for the Second Reading of this Bill.
MR. HERBERT LEWIS (Flint Boroughs)said there were 15 or 16 Superannuation Bills at present before the House.
* THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON, Middlesex, Ealing)said that a Memorandum in regard to the Bill had been already circulated. The Bill would not increase the charges on the revenues of India, but tended to the contrary result. It applied to certain officials who belonged to the old East India Company, and who were under a special Superannuation Act passed in the reign of George III., the terms of which for lengthened services were more liberal than those of the present Superannuation Act. There had been great difficulty in working the two superannuation funds, and it was thought right to try and amend the terms of the East India Company's Act. The result would be that the few gentlemen who were concerned would be able to retire at a somewhat earlier period at a less pension.
§ Read a Second time, and committed for Thursday.