SIR JOHN HAYsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether, under existing circumstances, he intends to carry out his plan of reducing the Forces in Canada?
§ MR. CARDWELL, in reply, said, instructions had been given for the removal from Canada of a portion of Her Majesty's Forces; the order was now in the course of execution, and it was not the intention of the Government to countermand it.
COLONEL NORTHsaid, in consequence of that answer, he would beg to ask whether it is intended that those troops that remain should be left in such a state of efficiency as to numbers that they would be prepared for any emergency?
§ MR. CARDWELLsaid, that due regard had been paid to what was required by circumstances in the re-distribution of Her Majesty's troops in British North American Provinces.