§ MR. LAIRDsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, Whether it is intended to lengthen or alter the bow of Her Majesty's iron-cased frigate the Lord Warden; and, if so, whether, looking to the importance of testing the new description of engines in that vessel, the trials at the measured mile will take place before such alterations (if any are proposed) have been commenced; and, in the event of no alteration being contemplated in the bull of the Lord Warden, how soon the trials of that ship at the measured mile will take place?
§ LORD CLARENCE PAGETsaid, in reply, that the bow of the Lord Warden was similar to that of the Bellerophon; and that the Lord Warden, and the sister ship, the Lord Clyde, had been tried at the measured mile,