§ SIR JAMES FERGUSSONI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any Reports have been received from the military attaches of Her Majesty's Embassies abroad as to the employment of soldiers in the Civil Departments of the State; and whether he will lay such Reports upon the Table of the House?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir E. GREY,) Northumberland, BerwickThe answer is, Yes.
§ SIR JAMES FERGUSSONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether a Treasury Committee has been appointed to consider what posts under Government Departments can be given to Reserve and pensioned soldiers; and, if so, whether such Committee has yet reported; and what Government Departments have offered appointments preferentially to soldiers?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir J. T. HIBBERT,) OldhamA Committee has not sat upon the general question, but there has been a Committee on the subject of Messengers, &c. If the right hon. Baronet desires information about this Committee I hope the question will be postponed until Monday.