§ Sir A. HOLBROOKasked the Secretary of State for War whether the regulation that the widow of an officer, if more than 25 years younger than her husband, is not entitled to full pension was intended to refer to such a case as that of Mrs. Cameron, the widow of a colonel of the Royal Engineers, who was married 30 years before her husband's death, and has been left with seven children, four of them dependent on her, or was intended only to apply to such cases where marriage took place shortly before the husband's death; whether Mrs. Cameron's case will receive special treatment; and whether he will now consider an alteration in the regulation fixing a time limit, say five years, beyond which it should not apply?
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANSThis lady has submitted a petition to the King, and, pending the result of that petition, I can make no statement on the case.