§ MR. E. J. REEDasked the First Lord of the Admiralty, If he will inform the House what grounds exist for the statement that disorders had recently occurred on board Her Majesty's ship "Triumph?"
§ MR. HUNT, in reply, said, that the reports which appeared in some of the newspapers during the last few days with regard to the Triumph, were scandalous fabrications. There was a slight substratum—very slight—for the report. Some of the dockyard police had, on one or two occasions, missiles—such as wedges of wood or bits of rope—thrown at them from the topgallant forecastle, and it had been ordered to be cleared. There had been an inquiry, and it was found there was no existence of bad feeling amongst the crew of the ship against the commander.