§ SIR JOHN HAYsaid, he rose to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, When the Papers relating to Malta Dock will be in the hands of Members of this House, the Papers having been withdrawn from the Printer by the Admiralty, with the object, it is said, of correcting the proof?
§ LORD CLARENCE PAGET, in reply, said, the inference which his hon. and gallant Friend seemed to draw was that the correspondence had been abstracted by the Admiralty in order that it might be mutilated. That was entirely a mistake. It was usual when a correspondence was complicated and voluminous, as in the present instance, that the Department which furnished it should receive proofs for revision. This had been done with regard to the correspondence in question, and he hoped it would be laid on the table in the course of a day or two.