§ MR. A. O'CONNORI beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office upon what data the calculation is based that to pension the survivors of the Crimean campaign would involve the equivalent of a capital sum of £1,160,000; and whether there is any reason to believe that there are more than 3,000 survivors not in receipt of pension, 1454 besides about 1,000 who now receive a pension of less than 1s. a day?
§ MR. E. STANHOPE (for Mr. BRODRICK)The data for estimating the number of survivors from the Crimean campaign are not very definite, but it is known that 51,715 men were in the Crimea at the time when Sebastopol was taken, and that 13,581 in all were invalided home. It is calculated that the number now surviving without pension would be about 10,000, having regard to the ordinary rate of mortality among soldiers. The calculation as to cost of pensions was based on the above figures.