§ LORD ELCHOsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, By whom the present House keepers and Office keepers at the War Office, Office of the Commander in Chief, and Quartermaster General, were respectively appointed; the salaries they respectively receive, and the positions they respectively held in the Public Service, or otherwise, previous to their appointment; and the number of Boys, Labourers, Servants, Doorkeepers, Messengers, Temporary Clerks, Clerks or other salaried persons in the Offices of the Secretary of State for War, the Commander in Chief, the Adjutant General, the Quartermaster General, the Topographical Department, Her Majesty's Stores, Pimlico, Her Majesty's Stores, Tower, and she number of persons in these Offices respectively who have sewed at any time in Her Majesty's Army?
§ SIR JOHN PAKINGTONsaid, the Question embraced such a great variety of names that he should have been disposed to ask his noble Friend to move for a Return if it had not been that as regards the second portion of the Question, by far the larger number of persona there referred to would be found in the Army Estimates; and if his noble Friend would lock to page 84 of those Estimates he would find them there. He would therefore mention those who were not to be found in the Army Estimates. The housekeeper in the War Office had been appointed by Lord do Grey at a salary of £100 a year, being only one half of the salary of her predecessor, and she was the wife of one of the War Office, messengers, the office keeper had been appointed by the late Duke of Newcastle, at a salary of £250 a year. He was formerly a Queen's Messenger for Home Service attached to the Colonial Office. The office keeper in the Commander-in-Chief's Office was appointed by His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at a salary of £130. He was formerly a messenger in the same Office, and had previously to that been quartermaster-sergeant in the Grenadier Guards the house keeper had also been appointed by His Royal Highness at a salary of £84. The office-keeper in the Quartermaster General's Office had been appointed by the Quartermaster General at a salary of £100 a year. He had been fourteen years a messenger in that office, and bad pre- 951 viously been a non-commissioned officer in the Scots Fusilier Guards. The house-keeper had also been appointed by the Quartermaster General, at a salary of £50 a year. With regard to the latter part of the Question of the noble Lord, which related to the clerks, within the last five years military clerks had been substituted for civilians, and there were at present forty-five military clerks employed in the office. It was only fair to say that this measure was commenced by Lord de Grey, when he was Secretary of State for War.
§ LORD ELCHOsaid, he wished to know whether the right hon. Gentleman would have any objection to lay on the table a He turn explanatory of the latter part of the Question?
§ SIR JOHN PAKINGTONreplied that he had no objection to do so?