§ MR. M. BROOKSasked the First Lord of the Admiralty, If his attention has been called to the losses of drift nets and other tackle suffered by owners of fishing craft in the Bay of Dublin owing to the standing rigging and wreck of H.M.S. "Vanguard;" and, if he will inform the House of the measures taken for the removal of the said wreck?
§ MR. W. H. SMITH, in reply, said, that he was not aware that fishermen had lost their nets owing to the wreck of the Vanguard, and if they had done so he was afraid it must be due to some want of care on their own part. He was sorry to say that it was not in the power of the Admiralty to take any steps in the matter until the 31st of October. The contractor had undertaken to raise the ship by that date, and until he fulfilled or abandoned his 524 undertaking, it would not be possible for the Admiralty to interfere with the ship.