said, the Proclamation offering bounties to seamen entering the Royal Navy would ex- pire on the 15th of June. He would, therefore, ask whether it was the intention of the Board of Admiralty to renew it?

said, the question of renewing the Proclamation had been considered by the Board yesterday, and he believed it would be renewed.

asked if the bounty of £10 given under the Proclamation would be extended to the sailors who had entered the service before it was issued, and who were equally well entitled to it?

replied that no such alteration was contemplated in the terms of the Proclamation as that referred to by the gallant Admiral. The only alteration would be that, whereas the existing Proclamation offered a bounty of £10 to able seamen, £5 to ordinary seamen, and £2 to landsmen, the Order in Council about to be issused would limit the payment of bounty to able and ordinary seamen only, and extend the period during which such bounty would be payable to the 31st of July.

asked to what day the Government proposed to adjourn the House?

said, the noble Lord, the Member for the City of London, had moved that the Queen's Speech be taken into consideration on Friday, and as the new writs could not be issued till the Tuesday following, there could be no object in meeting sooner than the day fixed upon.

Was the adjournment till Friday made on the motion of Her Majesty's Government?

No; on the suggestion of the noble Lord the Member for the City of London.

said, it was usual to name a day for the Consideration of the Queen's Speech after the Report of the Address had been brought up and agreed to; but that had nothing to do with the adjournment itself. The Speech from the Throne need not be taken into consideration for several days after the House met. It was the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to move the adjournment, and he had done so, he presumed, after consultation with the leader of the House.

No: after consultation with the noble Lord the Member for the City of London.