§ MR. SEELYsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, Whether it is correct, (as stated in The Engineer of the 17th instant), that the French Government have now at Bordeaux two Monitors fully armed, equipped, and ready for sea, and a third building?
LORD HENRY LENNOXsaid, in reply, that the best Answer he could give to the hon. Member was that, according to the best information that the Government possessed, the French Government had no Monitors at Bordeaux, although they had one at Brest. One was certainly building at Bordeaux; but it was not being constructed, he understood, for the French Government.