ADMIRAL DUNCOMBEsaid, he wished to, ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, If the Admiralty have taken up the Great Eastern for the conveyance of troops to Canada; if so, at what rate per man; how many Soldiers are to embark in her; and if their being sent in that ship is with, the concurrence of the Secretary of State for War?.
§ LORD CLARENCE PAGET, in reply, said the Great Eastern had been so far taken up that the Government had come to an arrangement with the owners of that vessel that; she should carry out a certain number of troops to Quebec. They would consist of seven officers, 220 men, and 110 horses of the Royal Artillery; thirty-nine orders, 868 men, and six horses of the 30th Regiment; thirty-nine officers, 868 men, and six horses of the 60th Regiment; and draughts of various other regiments, consisting of four: officers and 101 men, making altogether eighty-nine officers, 2,057 man, and 122 horses, with the usual proportion of women and children. The rates to be paid were for officers, £18; for men, £5 18s. 6d.; and for horses, £20 each; and for stores in excess of the regulated regimental baggage, £2 10s. per ton. These sums would include messing and every other requisite for the officers, victualling for the men, and forage for the horses. All the necessary fittings would be at the expense of the ship, the Government lending bedding for the voyage. He might also state that the arrangement was made with the full concurrence of the Secretary of State for War.