§ MR. MACFARLANEasked the Civil Lord of the Admiralty, If he will lay upon the Table a Return showing the original estimated cost of H.M.S. Agamemnon, of the actual cost of the vessel, and showing the amount expended in each year during her construction? His object in asking this Question was to show the loss of money that resulted to the country from the dawdling over shipbuilding.
§ SIR THOMAS BRASSEYThere will be no objection to give the information required in the Return which is being prepared on the Motion of the noble Lord the Member for Chichester (Lord Henry Lennox).