LORD CAMPBELLMy Lords. I wish to put a Question to the noble Viscount the Under Secretary of State for War, of which I have given him private Notice. Let me disclaim all idea of disparaging the steps which the War Office are now taking. My impression is that it is only by those steps that war can be averted and the Conference secured. The Question I wish to put—if Her Majesty's 513 Government see no public inconvenience in answering it—is, Whether any measures are contemplated in regard to the Militia, to pave the way for making that Force available abroad beyond the present limitations?
§ VISCOUNT BURYThe noble Lord asks me a Question, of which he has not given Notice, whether certain steps which he suggested on the 21st of March have been adopted by the War Office? I can only say that no such proposals have reached the War Office, and I therefore must request the noble Lord to give Notice in the usual manner.