LORD HENRY LENNOXasked the Secretary to the Admiralty a Question, of which he had given private Notice, Whether the Admiralty had received any confirmation of the rumour which had been copied from a Liverpool paper into a London paper of that clay, that a trading vessel bound from Demerarafor Queenstown, the Scotia Queen, had passed through many traces which led her captain to believe that they were the remains of the ill-fated Atalania?
MR. SHAWLEFEVRESir, the Admiralty have received no further information than that which appeared in the newspaper referred to. It appeared that the Scotia Queen was bound for Shields, and only called at Falmouth for orders. The Admiralty has, therefore, instructed the commanding officer of the Castor, lying at Shields, to go on board the Scotia Queen as soon as she arrives at Shields, and to obtain all the information he can from the master, and also to examine the log of the vessel.