§ ADMIRAL BOWLESrose to ask the Secretary of the Admiralty whether the hon. and gallant Member for Marylebone was appointed to command the experimental squadron this year? and if so, after the very strong language in which he had so publicly expressed his disapprobation of the ships constructed by Sir W. Symonds, he was considered by the Board of Admiralty likely to be an impartial judge on so important an occasion?
ADMIRAL DUNDASanswered, that Sir C. Napier had been so appointed, and that the Admiralty were perfectly certain that he would do his duty, as he always had done.