§ MR. W. C. CARTWRIGHTasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether it is intended to carry 1547 out the recommendations in the Report of the Committee on the Diplomatic Service in regard to the examination for admission to the junior grades, and to the pecuniary advantages proposed to be secured to juniors for special proficiency in specified subjects, as also the recommendations in reference to increased scale of salary to juniors, according to number of years' service; and likewise to the recommendation that the chiefs of Missions who have not had their stated leave of absence in any one year should be permitted to unite such leave with that of the following year, without being put on half-pay during any part of such united leave?
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDSir, Lord Granville has given the fullest consideration to the recommendations of the Committee, with the view of meeting their suggestions as far as he could properly do so. He has embodied his conclusions, which apply severally to each separate suggestion, in a memorandum which necessarily he has communicated to the Treasury, inasmuch as many of the suggestions involve questions of expenditure in regard to which the concurrence of that Department is required.