CAPTAIN GROSVENORasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether it is owing to any misconduct upon the part of writers in the Customs that the 72 promise recently made to them of a fortnight's annual holiday, without loss of pay, has been withdrawn?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, in reply, that since the time when a fortnight's annual holiday, without loss of pay, was promised to writers in the Customs, it had been found that such holiday would militate very strongly against the uniformity of the system which had been established in the Department, but a fortnight's holiday would be allowed to the writers for the present year.