§ MR. LEWISasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether, having regard to the opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown in the late Government with reference to the claims of those members of the Royal Irish Constabulary Force who retired before August 1874 to the increased scale of pensions provided by the Act of 1874, the Government will consent to the appointment of a Select Committee of this House to consider and report upon such claims, and the justice or expediency of satisfying the same?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER,in reply, said, that this was a matter which had been very carefully considered by his Predecessor and himself, and the conclusion arrived at was that there was not a sufficient case for the appointment of a Select Committee.