DR. CAMERONI beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty whether the assurance given by him, on the 5th instant, in relation to the disposal of beef and pork by the Admiralty applies to all beef and pork deemed unfit for issue or re-issue to Her Majesty's ships, seeing that the answer given on the 5th instant specifies in terms only one part of such beef and pork?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingI am glad to have the opportunity of publicly assuring the hon. Gentleman that in referring to "condemned" salt beef or pork I intended it to be understood that all such meat, whether actually unfit for food or not, considered unsuitable for issue or re-issue to Her Majesty's ships, would not be sold by public sale, but would all be delivered, after the chemical treatment I have already described, to contractors for use in the soap-boiling trade.