§ MR. ONSLOWasked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether it is true that four covenanted Indian civilians have been appointed with special rates of pay, sanctioned by the Secretary of State for India, to the Financial Department since January 1877, over the heads of several European and Native uncovenanted civilians who have for many years been in the Department, and thus retarding the promotion of 179 these latter officers; and, whether these appointments have been made on account of the inefficiency of the uncovenanted servants in the Department, or for what other reason?
§ MR. E. STANHOPEThree, and I believe four, such covenanted civilians have been appointed; but, under the orders of the Secretary of State, any such appointments since April, 1877, are provisional only and subject to review when the scheme for the re-organization of the Financial Department is sent home. That scheme is expected shortly.