§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether a number of men working in Woolwich Arsenal were discharged in December last in consequence of the vote being exhausted, although the orders were not completed; and whether he can state the amount of the reserve small arm ammunition now in stock.
LORD STANLEYThe total number of men discharged on reduction in November and December last was 47; 32 of these were discharged because the work on which they were employed was completed. I am not prepared to publish the reserve stock of small-arm ammunition. It is being amply maintained.