§ MR. JOHN ELLIS (Nottinghamshire, Rushcliffe)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether the attention of the Admiralty has been drawn to the presence on the 9th instant of the Admiral in command of the Mediterranean Fleet, with his officers, at a bull fight in Spain, at which the first bull is stated to have been killed in honour of the Admiral, who thereupon shook hands with the matador and presented him with a sum of £20; and whether these proceedings had or have the approval of the First Lord of the Admiralty.
(Answered by Mr. Pretyman.) The Admiralty have no information on this subject beyond what has appeared in the public Press. The £20, if paid as stated, would not be a charge upon the public funds.