§ SIR DAVID WEDDERBURNasked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether his attention has been directed to the fact, that the engine room artificers in the Navy continue to regard with a strong feeling of distaste the distinctive badge which they have been ordered to wear since February 1878; and, whether he has been able to modify his decision announced in August lust, that "the imperative necessity of requiring obedience to orders when given" is a sufficient reason for continuing to enforce the use of the badge?
§ MR. W. H. SMITHIn answer to the hon. Baronet, I have to say that my attention has been directed to the circumstances to which he refers by my hon. Friend the Member for Devon-port (Mr. Puleston), but in no other way. I have several times expressed my opinion on the subject; and I continue still of the opinion I expressed in August last, that it is necessary that the rank of the petty officers in the Royal Navy should be known by the uniform they wear.