§ SIR JAMES FERGUSSON (Manchester, N.E.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Committee sitting at the Treasury upon the Employment of Soldiers in Civil Departments has reported; whether he will lay that Report upon the Table of the House; and what Departments have, as yet, offered places preferentially to soldiers?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTThe Departmental Committee on Messengers, &c. in Public Departments has not yet presented its Report, which has been delayed by the illness of one of the Members of the Committee.