§ SIR ROPER LETHBRIDGEasked the Secretary to the Admiralty, Whether among the surplus and unserviceable stores to be sold on February 23rd at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, there are 3,000 pairs of new horseshoes and 17 tons of horseshoe nails; why these stores have been condemned; and, whether they are wholly of British manufacture, or wholly or in part produced abroad?
§ THE SURVEYOR GENERAL OF ORDNANCE (Mr. WOODALL)(who replied) said, that a new pattern horseshoe with appropriate nails had recently been introduced after full trial. It was of greatly improved construction for field service, for which alone horseshoes were issued; but it rendered obsolete the shoes and nails on hand, which had, consequently, to be sold. Those being sold were all of British manufacture.