§ MR. SERJEANT SIMONasked the Secretary of State for War, Why the special allowances to the officers and men of the Perak expedition promised last Session have not been paid, and when they will be?
MR. GATHORNE HARDY,in reply, said, he was sorry that those allowances had not yet been paid. The reason of the delay on the subject was that Correspondence was obliged to be held upon it between four Departments—the War Office, the India Office, the Colonial Office, and the Admiralty. [Mr. Serjeant SIMON: Where is it now?] The matter was in the hands of the Treasury, and he had reason to believe that it would be speedily settled.