§ MR. BIGGAR,in calling attention to the claims of Mr. John Clare on the Government for compensation for inventions and designs, alleged to have been supplied to the Admiralty in connection with metal shipbuilding and the construction of ships of war, observed that the claims being disputed by the Admiralty, the case was referred to a Court of Law in 1865 and 1866. The Court decided that the Admiralty were 1974 not bound to give compensation. The evidence as to whether the inventions were or were not new was contradictory. He hoped that if the Government thought Mr. Clare was entitled to compensation they would give him compensation.