§ MR. WHITEsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether he would object to furnish a Return of the experiments made with the first 600-pounder Armstrong Gun, including a tabular statement of the number of rounds fired; weight of the various charges and projectiles used; the initial velocities and ranges thereby obtained; the penetrations effected in armour-plated targets, with the Report of the Ordnance Select Committee on the serviceability and endurance of the said gun; and, also, the same particulars with regard to the second 600-pounder, delivered by the Elswick Ordnance Company, which has been recently tried and burst at Shoeburyness?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONsaid, Returns had been moved for by the noble Lord the Member for Haddingtonshire (Lord Elcho), which would give all the information which the hon. Gentleman required. Those Returns were now ready for presentation, and would immediately be laid on the table.