§ MR. ANDERSON (for Mr. GRIEVE)asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether his attention has been directed to the confusion, and consequently enhanced risk of collision at sea, from many Continental Maritime States interpreting the English nautical terms "port" and "starboard" as severally indicating the opposite action of the rudder to those understood by our navigators, as directed by Act of Parliament; and, if he will endeavour to bring about the adoption of uniformity of practice?
§ MR. BOURKE, in reply, said, that the Question was one which ought to have been addressed to the President of the Board of Trade, from whom, however, he had ascertained that there had been a Committee sitting on that subject for some time, composed of representatives of the Trinity House, the Admiralty, and the Board of Trade. Papers on the subject would be laid on the Table in a few days.