§ SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTEsaid, he rose to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether the sum of £250,000 allotted to Navy Services out of the Vote of Credit of £850,000 for the China War, and found not to be required in the 2045 financial year 1859–60, has been or is to be surrendered; or whether any portion of it has been expended on or is still available for Army or Navy Services in connection with the China "War? It appeared by the accounts recently delivered, that the sum of £250,000 was not required for the services of the Navy in the China War; and in November last the money was repaid by the Admiralty into the Treasury chest. He wished to understand what was to be the final disposition of that £250,000.
§ MR. F. PEELsaid, the whole Vote of Credit was applicable to the expenses of the China war after the ordinary grants of the year had been exhausted. He stated the other night that, in the case of the navy, the ordinary grants had been found sufficient for the whole expenditure, both ordinary and extraordinary. In the case of the army the expenditure had not yet been finally ascertained; but the whole of the Vote of Credit, including the sum of £250,000 which was allotted, in the first instance, to the navy, and which had since been retransferred to the Treasury, would be available if required to defray the charge of the military operations in China.
§ SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTEAvailable for the army?
§ MR. F. PEELAvailable for the army.
§ SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTEthen gave notice that in going into Committee of Supply on the Army Estimates he would call attention to the subject.