MR. ALDERMAN LAWRENCEsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether the expense of twelve or fifteen hundred pounds a year incurred for storing Saltpetre in the Docks and private Warehouses may not be saved by storing the same in the Government depôts; and, whether he will state what quantity of Saltpetre belonging to the Government is at present stored in the Docks and private Warehouses?
§ MR. CARDWELLsaid, he entirely agreed with his hon. Friend that this would be a judicious piece of economy—so judicious, indeed, that the stores of saltpetre were now in course of removal as his hon. Friend suggested, and were now almost all removed.