§ MAJOR O'GORMANasked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether he has any objection to recommend the equipment of one of the wooden war ships now lying idle in Portsmouth or Plymouth for the purpose of placing such ship in an Irish port to educate young Irish lads in the art of seamanship?
§ MR. A. F. EGERTON,in reply, said, that Her Majesty's ship Gibraltar had been lent to the Belfast Training Ship Society since 1871. Boys trained in her were accepted for the Royal Navy, and when complying with the regulations on the subject, £25 is paid for each boy so entered. The Admiralty had agreed to lend a ship to the Cork Training Ship Society for the same purpose as the Gibraltar was used for.