CAPTAIN BEAUMONTsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, If the mode of mounting the guns at the Coalhouse Port is decided; and, if so, whether they are to be mounted behind shields or on Moncrieff gun carriages?
§ MR. CARDWELLsaid, in reply, that the armament of the Coalhouse Port had not yet been decided on; but he supposed the Question had respect to the assumption—which he had no doubt would turn out to be well-founded—that 896 the Moncrieff carriages could be applied as successfully to guns of twelve or eighteen tons, as they had been already to the smaller guns.