§ MR. HENRY BAILLIEsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether he will lay upon the table of the House the Correspondence which has taken place between the War Office, the Ordnance Select Committee, the Chief Superintendent of the Proof Department at Woolwich, and the Elswick Company, relative to the nine 64-pounder breech-loading Armstrong guns, which were rejected at proof, and which have been partly paid for by the Government; and, whether he will lay upon the table of the 1290 House the Correspondence which has taken place between the War Office, the Ordnance Select Committee, Major Palliser, and Mr. Fraser, C.E., respecting chilled shot, including therein the written representation of the last-named gentleman, that the penetrative effects of cast-iron projectiles were due to the mixture of iron used and not to the chill, and also the Report of the trial of the four unchilled projectiles which Mr. Fraser was permitted to make?
§ SIR JOHN PAKINGTONI have no objection, Sir, to produce the Correspondence referred to in the first part of the Question of the right hon. Member. With regard to the second part of his Question, I have no objection to lay upon the table the Report of the Ordnance Select Committee on the trial of chilled shot; but it is not usual to lay before Parliament Correspondence between the War Office and subordinate Officers of the Department.