§ MR. STEWART MACLIVERasked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether the form of the promised inquiry respecting the finances had been considered, and whether it would be departmental or would be a full and searching inquiry by a Committee of that House?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON)As Lord Northbrook proposes to make a statement on this subject in "another place" to-morrow, and considering the high position he has occupied, not only in the late Liberal Government, but in previous Administrations, it would not be 436 proper or courteous to him for the Government to publicly express the exact shape or nature of the inquiry they propose to institute until they are in possession of the statement which Lord Northbrook proposes to make.