§ MR. HOGAN (Tipperary, Mid.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether his attention has been called to a statement of the Samoan correspondent of The Sydney Morning Herald, 11th February, that the British man-of-war Daphne put in at Apia on 25th January, having on board a person deported from Honolulu for having caused political trouble there; that an attempt was made to land this person, but was abandoned owing to the opposition of the British and United States Consuls, and that thereupon the Daphne left for Fiji with the intention of lauding her prisoner there; whether any official intelligence of these events has reached the Admiralty; and, whether the captain of a British man-of-war is justified in conveying on his ship a political prisoner from Hawaii into exile.
§ THE CIVIL LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY (Mr. EDMUND ROBERTSON,) DundeeThe Admiralty has not received any such information, and 886 nothing is known about the statement at the Foreign Office, where inqury has been made.