§ SIR WALTER B. BARTTELOT (Sussex, N.W.)Can my noble Friend the First Lord of the Admiralty say whether there is any truth in the report in the evening papers that the Ajax and the Devastation have come into collision on their way from Portland to Spithead, and that the Devastation has gone into Portsmouth Harbour very full of water?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON) (Middlesex, Ealing)I have heard that the Ajax and Devastation have collided; but I have no information as to details.