HC Deb 09 June 1856 vol 142 c1162
SIR CHARLES WOOD

said, he wished to correct a mistake which he had fallen into on Friday night. He stated on the part of his hon. and gallant Friend (Sir M. Berkeley) that a message had been received to the effect that the Princess Royal had arrived at Malta with a battalion of the Guards on Board. He feared that in that statement he had misled the House, for since then another telegraphic despatch had been received, explaining the actual state of the case as follows. The St. Jean d'Acre had arrived at Constantinople, and left for Malta on the 5th, with a battalion of the Guards on board. The Agamemnon had arrived on the 6th, and left the same evening with a battalion of the Cold-streams, while a battalion of Rifles had arrived there on its way home. The Princess Royal was at Constantinople taking out her lower deck guns, in order to go on to the Crimea for troops.