COLONEL DUNNEwished to put the following question to the Clerk of the Ordnance, whether he would (before the next reading of the Ordnance Board Bill) lay on the table of the House a statement 2033 of the changes which the Government intend to make in that department; the offices which it was intended to abolish, and those which it was proposed either to create or substitute; together with the amount of the salaries for such new offices, and an estimate of any expenditure consequent on the proposed changes?
§ MR. MONSELLsaid, in reply that if the hon. and gallant Member would refer to the Order in Council, laid on the table of the House by the command of Her Majesty, dated the 1st of June, he would find all he required with respect to his first question. With regard to the last one, he was afraid it was not possible to lay on the table an estimate of the expenditure in consequence of the proposed changes. There would be some reduction effected, and the amount of that reduction would be found by the hon. and gallant Member by comparing the salaries laid down in the Order in Council with the salaries previously paid.