§ MR. LONGFIELDsaid, he rose to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, If the Iron Plate Committee have made any Report on the subject referred to them; if so, whether he has any objection to lay the same before this House?
§ LORD CLARENCE PAGETsaid, in reply, that the Iron Plate Company had been in the habit of making very derailed Reports to the Admiralty of all the experiments that had taken place at Shoeburyness. If that information could be confined to Members of that House, there would be little objection to furnishing it; but the Government thought it extremely unadvisable and impolitic that the results of those experiments should be known to the world.