HC Deb 23 March 1860 vol 157 c1156
CAPTAIN JERVIS

said, he wished to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether it is true that, instead of raising the two brigades of Artillery, 15th and 16th, which are named in the Army Estimates, amounting to 2,206 men, it is intended to raise only one brigade of 1,000 men? He asked this question with the more anxiety inasmuch as he understood that the Militia Artillery were to be disembodied, and in their place only 1,000 regular Artillery added. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman would also inform him whether there was any intention to add a half battalion to the Royal Engineers?