MR. H. G. LANGTONsaid, lie would beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, as Her Majesty's Government have thought it necessary to apply for tenders for the supply of Marine Engines from Liverpool, Scotland, and most of the eminent houses engaged in this particular business, Bristol is included amongst the places to which invitations for tenders have been made?
§ SIR JOHN PAKINGTONsaid, no invitations for tenders had been sent to any house in Bristol, but the Government had no desire to exclude any particular locality or any particular house whose competency and respectability brought it within the conditions required.