ADMIRAL MAYNR (Pembroke and Haverfordwest)I beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is true, as intimated by Lord Elphinstone, on Friday last, that £2,000 was all the Treasury intended to give Admiral Colomb for inventions which, on the high authority of Admiral Sir Geoffrey Hornby, have enabled the British Navy to navigate in safety for the last 20 years; and, if so, whether he will grant a Return showing the sums granted to other inventors on account of real or supposed benefit to the Navy and Army respectively from their inventions during that period?
§ MR GOSCHENI must ask my hon. and gallant Friend to postpone the question until to-morrow. I have not yet had an opportunity of obtaining the information that would enable me to answer it.