§ MR. LABOUCHERE (Northampton)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether the finding of the Court of Inquiry in respect to the injury done by H.M.S. Ajax firing shells into houses in the Firth of Clyde will be laid upon the Table of the House; and, what is the amount of the claims made for compensation by persons whose property was injured on that occasion?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Lord GEORGE Hamilton) (Middlesex, Ealing)Except in special cases when the Court has been directed not to sit with closed doors, it has been the practice to treat the Re- 957 ports of Courts of Inquiry as confidential, and I propose to adhere to this practice. The claims for compensation amount to £390.