§ MR. PLIMSOLLasked the President of the Board of Trade, When the promise he made in the beginning of the Session that records of the draught of water of seagoing ships should be taken in the ports of London, Liverpool Leith, Glasgow, and Belfast, &;c, will be carried into operation?
§ SIR CHARLES ADDERLEYSir, we have received since the 1st of February records of draughts of water from all the ports named, and have made new arrangements for more complete records than formerly. We do not think it right to increase the staff of surveyors, as it must be to make such records complete, until the Bill now before the House is passed.