HC Deb 21 March 1857 vol 144 c2482
SIR DE LACY EVANS

said, he would also beg to ask whether any steps had been taken to relieve the destitution of the wives and children of the soldiers who were quartered in the camp at Colchester?

VISCOUNT PALMERSTON,

in reply, said, that he was quite sure that his noble Friend at the head of the War Department had every disposition to make all practical arrangements for the relief of the distress.