§ Sir C. Napierwished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in consideration of the services of certain old captains in the navy, the Government proposed to introduce a small additional grant into the navy estimates for the purpose of giving retiring pensions to some of those old officers?
§ The Chancellor of the Exchequersaid, no questions of the sort had been brought under the notice of his department.
§ Sir C. Napierthen put the question to the Secretary for the Admiralty.
§ Mr. S. Herbertmust be excused replying to a question with respect to which he really had no voice.