§ SIR EARDLEY WILMOT, in rising to move—
That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that She will be graciously pleased to confer a clasp as well as a medal on those Officers and Men in Her Majesty's Service who took part in engagements with the Ashantees south of the River Prah, after the late War broke out, and before the arrival of the European Troops, especially at Elmina, Essaman, Abra Krampa, and Donquah, and who thereby materially caused the retreat of the enemy from the Protectorate into his own Country: and, to call attention to the decoration of the Victoria Cross,said, he was sorry he had been more more than once prevented from bringing this subject before the House at an earlier period of the Session. The hon. and learned Member was proceeding to advert to the Royal Warrant, which conferred the clasp usually given to officers and men under fire upon those troops only who went north of the River Prah, while the medal alone was distributed to the troops engaged south of the Prah, when—
§ Notice taken, that 40 Members were not present; House counted, and 40 Members not being present,
§ House adjourned at a quarter after Four o'clock.