§ COLONEL SYKESsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, If any and what measures are to be adopted consequent upon Captain R. Dew, of Her Majesty's ship Encounter, employing part of the Naval force under his command in an unsuccessful attack upon the 1151 city of Shon-hing, in which Lieutenant Tinling, of the.Encounter, was killed, Shon-hing being many miles beyond the thirty mile radius from a Treaty Port?
§ LORD CLARENCE PAGETsaid, that Her Majesty's Government had received no official intelligence of the unfortunate event to which his hon. and gallant Friend had called his attention; but he might say that that was probably owing to Admiral Kuper being on his way to Japan; but the Admiralty had sent out orders that none of our ships were to be employed in the protection of the Treaty Ports beyond the thirty mile radius.