§ MR. W. H. SMITHasked the Civil Lord of the Admiralty, If there was any foundation for the rumour which prevailed at Portsmouth last night, and which was there generally believed in, that a serious accident, involving loss of life, had happened to Her Majesty's ships Monarch and Alexandra?
§ SIR THOMAS BRASSEYThere has been such a rumour; but I am happy to say it is entirely without foundation.