§ MR. AUGUSTUS SMITHsaid, he wished to ask the noble Lord the Secretary of the Admiralty, On what footing it was intended to establish the School of Naval Architecture, for which the House had voted a small sum of money? He was anxious for this information, in order that the House might not be surprised into a large and costly scheme without knowing what it was about. When the subject was last under discussion, almost every one deprecated the establishment of the School at Kensington. There were already in our dockyards the nuclei of schools of naval architecture, which to a certain extent had answered their objects, and had done a great deal of good. He desired to know how the private pupils who, it was said, were to be received into this School, were to be treated during the six months when the students were to be transferred to the dockyards; but, above all, he was anxious to learn whether this subject had been thoroughly investigated by the Treasury, or whether the whole matter had been left to the Admiralty?