MR. BASSdrew the attention of the First Lord of the Admiralty to a report, published in The United Service Gazette, of five naval cadets having been flogged on board the Britannia training-ship. Flogging had been abolished in the Army, but it still flourished in the Navy. In the last week in October, five cadets were flogged for fagging, and, setting aside all other considerations, it was a question whether it was legal on the part of the Admiralty to take the course which they had adopted. In 1867 this question was brought before the House of Commons, when the late Mr. Corry was First Lord of the Admiralty, and after some discussion, Mr. Corry stated that the Admiralty had come to this conclusion—that the punishment of flogging on board the Britannia should be now discontinued, and an Order to that effect was issued on the 8th of June, 1867. He (Mr. Bass) was decidedly against the flogging of young 1628 men who in a short time would be themselves in command. Flogging would never contribute to the improvement of the discipline of the Navy. It had been abolished in the Army—why should it be continued in the Navy? Those young men who had been thus publicly flogged would feel the degradation as long as they lived. He hoped they would hear from the right hon. Gentleman the First Lord, either that these punishments should not be repeated, or the grounds upon which it was considered expedient to break the decision of 1867, to which he had adverted, and to renew that which was disapproved of by the parents of the cadets and by the majority of the country.