§ MR. ERRINGTONasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether any information has been received at the Foreign Office as to the report that General Claer, an Aide-de-Camp of Marshal Moltke, has been sent on an official mission to Borne; if so, whether he has any information as to the nature of that mission; and, whether it is a fact that the Italian Government has recently bought 5,000 horses?
§ MR. BOURKENo, Sir, no official information has reached Her Majesty's Government with respect to the mission of the officer in question. With respect to the second part of the Question, I believe the Italian Minister of War has asked the Italian Chamber for a Vote for an additional number of houses; but Her Majesty's Ambassador at Rome, reporting the fact, informs us that the supply of horses now possessed by the Italian Army is much below the peace establishment.