To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether a memorial from the assistant clerks, new class, in the Statistical Office, Customs, was forwarded to the principal of that office on the 9th of last month for transmission to the Treasury; whether attached to the memorial were certain official documents substantiating the statements made by the clerks that the conditions under which they were induced to enter the Civil Service were not being observed; and, if so, whether this memorial and the accompanying papers have been now received at the Treasury.

In view of the fact that the memorial in question did not explicitly withdraw the charge that there had been a breach of faith by His Majesty's Government, the Board of Customs declined to forward it. But in these circumstances it is open to the memorialists to address the Treasury direct.