§ MR. BLACKsaid, that having on a previous occasion put a question to the Secretary to the Treasury, in consequence of a person of excellent character being dismissed from the Preventive Service, in the department of the Excise in Scotland, because he was married, and not having received a satisfactory answer, he wished again to put a question to the Secretary to the Treasury in reference to the treatment of the men of the Preventive Service in the Department of the Excise in Scotland, in preventing them from getting married; whether those regulations were placed in the hands of the men when they joined the service; and whether it was the opinion of the Lords of the Treasury that such regulations ought to be maintained?