§ MR. W. H. SMITHasked the Secretary to the Admiralty, If he is assured that a complete equipment of guns and their mountings or carriages, and torpedoes, will be ready in ample time for the fourteen new ships of war in addition to the Conqueror and Colossus, which are to be completed for sea before the end of the present financial year?
§ SIR THOMAS BRASSEYIt is fully expected that the guns, gun mountings, torpedoes, and torpedo carriages will be ready in time for the whole of these ships.