§ MR. SCHOLEFIELDsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether he will take into his consideration the advisability of placing those Clerks at the War Office, who have for many years been employed as temporary Clerks, on the same footing as to promotion as that of the Clerks on the regular establishment?
§ MR. SIDNEY HERBERTsaid, that a large number of temporary Clerks were on the establishment, and that the War Office had applied to the Treasury for permission to place a certain proportion of them on the body of the establishment. The Treasury were, however, anxious to see first the Report of the Commission that was sitting for the purpose of inquiring into the mode of conducting the accounts of the War Office, and until they received that Report he did not expect that they would sanction any alteration in respect of the position of the temporary Clerks.