...MEMO. TO PRIME MINISTER 1. That the Wai- Committee consist of three members — two of whom must be the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for War, who should have in their offices deputies capable of attending to and deciding all department business...

...Marines have not since August 1875 been filled by means of a separate competition. By arrangement between the First Lord of the Admiralty .and the Secretary of State for War, they have been offered to certain of the qualified competitors for First Appointments in the Army....

...Treasury for having still more expedited the Civil Estimates ; for he had, in point of time, beaten the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for War, and was absolutely first in the race ; and, having won that race, he hoped the hon. Gentleman would...

...purpose of the Commission, to increase, extend, or make Any supplementary Commission may direct that the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for War and the Paymaster-General shall be the trustees of the Patriotic ibid, sec. 8. Official trus- Fund,...

...that they might be forwarded through the Secretary-General to the President of the Board of Trade, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with an expression of the desire of the Congress that they should be favourably entertained...

...order that they may be forwarded through the SecretaryGeneral to the President of the Board of Trade, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with an expression of the desire of the Congress that they may be favourably entertained,...

...that they might be forwarded through the Secretary-General to the President of the Board of Trade, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with an expression of the desire of the Congress that they should be favourably entertained...

...information. 120. They are also of opinion that when peace was practically assured it was incumbent on the First Lord of the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for War to issue distinct orders that no fresh expenditure should on any account be incurred, unless it was...

...experiments is not peculiar to England ; but, after what has occurred, it would be to the advantage alike of the first lord of the admiralty and the secretary of state for war to have the facts, in so far as they can properly be published, set forth in the reports of a couple...

...and to which I fell a victim. That is the system which, I deeply regret to say, the Prime Minister, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Secretary of State for War, badly advised, thought it their duty to maintain; but that is the system I declined to give increased...