MR. GATHORNE HARDYsaid, he had to ask a Question of the Secretary of State for War, of which he had given him private Notice. By the Army Circular of May, 1871, certain privileges with respect to the accommodation of Army Chaplains, certain commuted allowances for fuel, were given to the Second, Third, and Fourth Class Chaplains in the Army, but by a Circular of the present month those privileges had been taken away, and an alteration had been made to their disadvantage. He wished to ask the ground for the alteration, and whether any further consideration would be given to the claims of the Chaplains?
§ MR. CARDWELLsaid, in reply, that on inquiry he found that the Control Department conceded in May last certain privileges inadvertently, and without sufficient Treasury sanction. As soon as they discovered their mistake, they issued the later Circular. The subject was now under consideration.