§ MR. BERESFORDsaid, he begged to ask the hon. Under Secretary for War, whether the summer clothing for the troops serving in the Crimea has yet been despatched to the East; and whether it is true that the contract which has been entered into for the supply of such light clothing has been made at Vienna, and not in the United Kingdom?
§ MR. FREDERICK PEELsaid, that his noble Friend Lord Panmure had commissioned a house in Vienna to purchase 50,000 pairs of light trowsers, and the like number of light pea coats, for the use of the army in the Crimea. Already one-half had been shipped from Trieste to the Commissariat Department at Constantinople, and the remainder of the order was to have been executed by the end of last month. He had no doubt that by the present time the whole supply of clothing had reached Constantinople.