§ MR. KEARLEYI beg to ask the Civil Lord of the Admiralty whether W. P. Elston, late a smith inn Devonport Dockyard, was correctly pensioned in February, his pension being computed upon a basis of the wages he was in receipt of five years prior to that date, or whether, in accordance with the terms of the Superannuation Act of 1859, he should have been pensioned upon the basis of his average emoluments of the three years preceding his discharge to pension?
§ MR. EDMUND ROBERTSONCivil pensions are awarded the Treasury and a communication On the subject will be made to that Department.