MR. V. SMITHasked the President of the Council what steps had been taken to consolidate the departments of the army since the vote for a Secretary of State for the War Department in the last Session; and whether he would lay any official correspondence relating to the subject upon the table of the House?
§ LORD JOHN RUSSELLsaid, one change had taken place, and that was the transfer of the Commissariat from the Treasury to the War Department. He did not think there was any other great change that had occurred; but, as he had stated at the period to which the right hon. Gentleman referred, changes would be introduced from time to time. He did not think there was any correspondence that would throw light on the subject, but, if there was, he was quite willing to produce it.