§ MR. SAMPSON LLOYDasked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether Her Majesty's Government intend during this Session to take any steps to mitigate or remove the exceptional disadvantages under which Officers of the Royal Marine Corps are placed, especially as respects stagnation of promotion, and the comparatively inadequate pay of the Colonels Second Commandant of Royal Marine Light Infantry?
§ MR. HUNT, in reply, said, he had stated last Session that he was precluded from improving the position of officers of the Royal Marines until the Report of the Royal Commission on Promotion and Retirement in the Army was received. That Report had not yet been presented, and he did not know when it would be; but until it was presented he could not give any definite answer to the Question.