§ CAPTAIN PIMasked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether, in the event of 1157 the "Vanguard" being successfully raised, the Government would purchase the ship; and, if so, whether they would be prepared to buy her for half her original cost, or what proportion of that cost would they pay for her?
§ MR. HUNTThe conditions of sale which are to be advertised have already been settled, and certain prices have been named for the guns and certain other prices for the stores on board the ship, which the Government will be prepared to pay. The Government have always been prepared to consider favourably any offer that may be made for other stores, or an offer for the raised ship herself. But I am not prepared to name a sum for the ship, because we are entirely in the dark as to the condition in which she will be when raised, sup posing that she be raised.