my Affairthuerent to offer in January 185h informed me that he has applied to the Treasury to make my salary £4500 a year, but he had not succeeded in this - they had however allowed £280 a year for a Private Secretary so that he
the difference to your Lordship will be
Succeeded
words
thereafter not very clear : I have always
always deemed this £280 a year as having the character of a Personal Allowance and I doubt not this view of the matter will be
on reference to this Lordship
confirmed
I have paid the expenses of Private Secretaries from England, both of whom were removed to the public Service (in which one was killed by the fall of the Factories in Canton) and I have never been free from a considerable expenditure for assistance in my household for such services as were done.
As a Private Secretary at the price is declined
cathded on to discharge. At the request to Perfect a Gentleman who ultimately came from England, who the Appointment, but the duties Inquiest
I take this opportunity again to represent that I have had very hardly done with as regards my salary - I have authority to say that Mr. this Concurs in view, and informed me he had