§ SIR LEWIS PELLYI beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is the fact that four clerks of the Lower Division of the Legacy and Succession Duty Office, who were specially nominated for promotion to the Upper Division, and whose promotion was approved of by the Lords of the Treasury and ordered to take effect as from 1st June, 1889, have subsequently had it notified to them that, in consequence of a Treasury Minute dated 31st October, 1889, they are to remain at their present Lower Division salaries without receiving any increment whatever for many years to come, and that the result of their promotion is not only that actual pecuniary loss will occur by reason of the cessation of the increments and other benefits which they would have received had they not been promoted, but that, in the case of three at least of these clerks, no pecuniary benefit whatever will accrue as a consequence of their promotion 1251 during their whole period of 40 years' service; and, if so, whether card will be taken to provide in the forthcoming Order in Council, or otherwise, against any injustice being committed with regard to these gentlemen?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Mr. GOSCHEN, St. George's,) Hanover SquareThe operation of the Regulation of October, 1889, in certain cases has been before the Treasury, and the matter is at present under consideration.