§ MR. LEGH (Lancashire, S.W., Newton)I beg to ask the Under Secretary 866 of State for Foreign Affairs, with reference to the recommendation of the Roya Commission of 1890, that the allowance of £100 a year granted to Third Secretaries in the Diplomatic Service for a knowledge of International Law should be discontinued, and that as a compensating advantage, £100 a year should be paid to them immediately on joining the Service instead of remaining two years unpaid, whether, although the allowance for knowledge of law has been withdrawn, they still remain two years without pay, thus inclining an approximate loss of £500 before attaining the rank of Second Secretaries?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir E. GREY, Northumberland,) BerwickThe facts are as stated. No arrangement has yet been come to for giving effect to the revision of salaries recommended by the Royal Commission.