SIR JOHN HAYsaid, he would beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty, If he will lay upon the the Table of the House Extracts from the Report of Admiral Viscount Tamandaré to the Brazilian Minister of Marine, being the Replies of the Brazilian Naval Officers in command of ships in actual warfare in the Paraguay, to the seventh question, on the subject of the jamming of the shot in the Whitworth guns?
§ MR. CHILDERSIn reply to my Hon. and gallant Friend I have to say that the Report to which he refers was confidentially communicated by the Brazilian Government, and that I do not think it should be published as a Parmentary Paper without the sanction of that Government. But I will, with pleasure, let my hon. and gallant Friend have a copy for his own use, and he will I think, find that it hardly bears upon the point suggested by his Question, as the jamming of the shot is not attributed to the construction of the guns, but to bad lubrication and powder.