§ MR. W. JOHNSTONasked the Secretary of State for War, If he would state to the House the reason that Newry has been recommended, in preference to Belfast, as a Depôt Station for brigading the 50th and 86th Regiments of the Line, and the Antrim and North and South Down Regiments of Militia, in the scheme laid before the House?
§ MR. CARDWELLsaid, in reply, that the consideration which weighed with the Commissioners in recommending Newry in preference to Belfast as a depôt station was, that there were buildings there of which economical advantage could be taken.
§ In answer to Mr. VANCE,
§ MR. CARDWELLsaid, he could only repeat the answer which he gave last night—that, although the arrangements as to these depôts had been carefully considered, yet he was not sanguine enough to suppose that on their first proposition they would be entirely suc- 1647 cessful, and that any communication that might be made with regard to them would be carefully considered.