ADMIRAL MAYNE (Pembroke and Haverfordwest)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether he will lay upon the Table the "recent Return prepared by competent Naval Authorities," showing the comparative strength of the French Russian, and English battleships and cruisers in 1890, which was 1395 quoted by the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty in his speech at the dinner of the London Chamber of Commerce on March 21?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY (Mr. FORWOOD) (Lancashire, Ormskirk)(who replied) said, he did not quote an Official Return, as implied in the Question. The Return, however, which had been moved for by the noble and gallant Lord (Lord Charles Beresford), and which was now in the hands of the printers, would furnish full information as to the vessels of war built and building by the principal European nations.