§ SIR H. DRUMMOND WOLFFasked the Secretary to the Admiralty, Whether Her Majesty's Government, in contemplation of the breaking up of the ice in the Baltic, are prepared to despatch an adequate Naval force into those waters?
§ SIR THOMAS BRASSEYI think the only answer which can be given to this Question is that we must decline to answer any Questions relating to possible military operations under hypothetical circumstances.
§ SIR H. DRUMMOND WOLFFsaid, he wished to know whether the Government intended to miss the opportunity of the breaking up of the ice just as they had missed the high Nile?