§ LORD ADOLPHUS VANE-TEMPEST, in rising to ask the Question of which he had given notice, respecting the claims to half-pay of certain officers of the Land Transport Corps, expressed his acknowledgments both to the gallant General lately at the head of the War Department, and to the right hon. Gentleman now occupying that post, for the courtesy which he had invariably experienced in his applications on this subject. The Secretary of State for War, he perceived, was absent, but possibly some Gentleman on the Treasury bench would be able to furnish him with the information he desired, namely, whether any, and if so what, decision had been come to by the Treasury on the subject of carrying out the recommendations of the Committee of last Session on the claims of the Land Transport Corps, with reference to granting permanent half-pay to that class of officers who entered the corps from the militia and civil employ.
§ MR. LAINGstated that the Treasury entertained no objection to the recommendations of the Select Committee being carried out, providing that the Secretary of State for War was favourable to such a course.