§ MR. SCHWANN (Manchester, N.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India what is the total amount of the yearly pensions accorded to Mrs. Quinton and to Mrs. Grimwood from the Bengal Civil Fund and from the special pensions just awarded to them, respectively; will the amount of these pensions, and also the £1,000 granted to Mrs. Grimwood for exceptional services, be wholly borne by the Indian or partly by the Imperial Exchequer; and, if by the former, on what grounds?
§ *THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Sir J. GORST,) ChathamBoth Mrs. Quinton and Mrs. Grimwood are entitled to pensions of £330 a year from the Bengal Civil Service Fund—a fund to which their husbands contributed. Mrs. Quinton will receive, in addition, a special pension of £300, and Mrs. Grimwood a special pension of £140. These pensions, except so far as they come out of the contributions of Mr. Quinton and Mr. Grimwood to the Bengal Civil Fund, will be paid out of Indian Revenues, because Mr. Quinton and Mr. Grimwood were officers in the Service of the Government of India.