§ COLONEL HUGHES - HALLETT (Rochester)asked the Surveyor General of the Ordnance, If he will state to the House how many 100-ton guns, if any, have been purchased by the War Department for the Army, and when; the position of these guns, and where; the place of their manufacture; and at what cost they were supplied?
§ THE SURVEYOR GENERAL (Mr. NORTHCOTE) (Exeter), in reply, said, four 100-ton guns, manufactured at Elswick, were purchased, in 1878, by the War 774 Department for the Army at a cost of £16,500 each.