§ CAPTAIN DONELANI beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware that none of the supplies of pork, under the last contract, are being sent to Haulbowline Stores, and why has this departure from former custom been made; and whether, in view of the material disadvantage in which South of Ireland contractors are placed by this change with regard to freightage, &c, the Admiralty will revert to the old practice of receiving supplies at Haul-bowline?
SIR U. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTHNo pork will be delivered at Haulbowline under the existing contract. Formerly, when a portion of the pork was delivered at Haulbowline and a portion at Dept-ford, the arrangement was found to have very unsatisfactory consequences. The pork is not required in Ireland, and had to be subsequently sent to England. Under these circumstances, the former practice cannot, I fear, be re-introduced.