§ COLONEL HUGHES-HALLETT (Rochester)asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether any, and what, complaints have been received during the last five years by the War Office from General Officers commanding in presence of the enemy as to the quality of the rifles, bayonets, swords, carbines, or their ammunition, as supplied to the Troops under their command; and, whether any, and what, complaints touching these matters have during those five years been made by the Military Departments of the War Office to the Civil Departments of the same Office?
§ THE SURVEYOR GENERAL OF ORDNANCE (Mr. NORTHCOTE) (Exeter)(who replied) said, that such complaints had been received, and steps had since been taken, and were still being taken, to remedy the matters complained of.