§ MAJOR WYNDHAM-QUIN (Glamorgan, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, whether Junior Captains of the Royal Navy receive only 12s. 6d. a day half-pay, while officers considerably junior to them in rank receive 16s. to £1 5s.; and, should this be the case, on what principle the difference is based?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY (Mr. W. E. MACARTNEY,) Antrim, S.The rates of half-pay as well as of full pay of Captains are governed by their seniority on the List, and range 607 from 12s. 6d. to 16s. 6d. a day. Half-pay is not regulated in any way by relative rank, but by the merits of the case, depending upon such considerations as the relation of the rank, in which the half-pay is payable, to the highest rank open to the recipient. It is, therefore, quite possible that Junior Captains in the Navy may be in receipt of half-pay at a lower rate than other officers who have attained more nearly to the highest rank open to them, but whose relative rank may be junior.