§ SIR JAMES ELPHINSTONEasked the Under Secretary for War, Whether he could give an account of the guns, stores, provisions, coals, and steam-factory captured at Kertch and Yenekale by the allied forces in the year 1855, and what amount of them was employed in the public service?
MR. T. G. BARINGsaid, he was afraid it would be difficult to give some of the Returns asked for by the hon. Baronet. The coals taken were divided among the French and English vessels employed in the expedition to Azoff, and were used by them. As to the machinery of the steam-factory there would be no difficulty in giving a Return of the articles taken from it and now in store; but with regard to other articles he was afraid that no Return could be easily made.
484 In answer to the Question of the hon. Member (Mr. Watlington) respecting the Yeomanry, he was himself a Yeomanry officer, and fully sympathised with the hon. Member in the opinion, that unless the Yeomanry were occasionally called out, they would lose their efficiency. He was happy, therefore, to state that it was the intention of the Government to propose a Vote to Parliament for calling out the Yeomanry this year for permanent duty.