§ CAPTAIN PIMasked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether he has any and, if so, what objection to lay upon the Table of the House a Copy of the Log of H.M.S. "Thetis" from the period of her leaving the Suez Canal up to the time of her arrival at Malta, and Copy of any Report of the Officer in command explaining how it was that, notwithstanding the breakdown of her machinery, he was unable to navigate his vessel under her sails into Malta harbour?
§ MR. HUNT,in reply, said, he had no objection to lay the document in question upon the Table of the House, if the hon. and gallant Gentleman would move for it. It was not, he might add, a fact that the officer in command was unable to navigate the ship under sail into Malta. She was under sail, and would, no doubt, in the ordinary course have reached Malta had she not been picked up by the Devastation, which had been sent out to meet her.