SIR HERVEY BRUCEsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, Whether their Lordships will permit the Channel Fleet to anchor for a few days in Lough Foyle during their cruise this summer?
§ LORD CLARENCE PAGET, in reply, said, that the Channel squadron, composed of a line-of-battle ship, five armour-plated frigates, two large wooden frigates, and a corvette, under the command of Admiral Dacres, was now making progress round the north of Scotland, and would, 777 weather permitting, touch at several ports. The Admiral had discretionary orders to visit the principal ports of the United Kingdom, and probably the port to which the hon. Baronet had alluded, and in which he seemed to take much interest, might receive a visit from the squadron.