§ SIR ROPER LETHBRIDGE (Kensington, N.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India whether, since the establishment of the rule in the India Office that membership of the Secretary of State's Council should be held for only ten years, any appointments to that Council have been made for life; and, if so, in what instances, by what authority, and on what grounds?
* SIR J. GORSTYes; the late Sir Henry Maine, Sir Henry Yule, and General Strachey, by authority of 39 Vic. c. 7. The special grounds for the appointments were in accordance with the Statute laid in each instance before both Houses of Parliament.