§ MR. MACNEILLI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, with reference to the case of Mr. Benjamin H. Mullen, M.A., Trinity College, Dublin, technical assistant in the Science and Art Department, Dublin, whether the strongly-expressed desire of the Science and Art Department that he should be appointed assistant as one specially qualified, having performed, with much satisfaction, the duties attached to such a post for over seven years, has yet received the sanction of the Civil Service Commissioners, which had been withheld on the purely technical objection of Mr. Mullen being a few months under 30 years of age; and will the Treasury lay upon the Table of the House all the correspondence relating to this case?
§ *MR. JACKSONI think there has been no change in the position of this matter since my previous answer. It is not purely a technical objection, because the office is one which is available for open competition for persons within a specified age. I do not think it is 904 desirable to lay the correspondence relating to the case upon the Table.