HC Deb 01 June 1858 vol 150 c1328

In reply to Admiral WALCOTT,

SIR JOHN PAKINGTON

I understand the question of the hon. and gallant Member to be, whether any special information has reached the Admiralty with regard to the melancholy death of Sir William Peel. My answer is, that my only intelligence of that lamented event is derived from the telegram which reached the Government early yesterday morning, and which has since appeared in the newspapers of to-day. The Admiralty have received no special information on this painful subject.