On Wednesday Lord George Hamilton moved for a Select Committee
"to inquire into and report upon the circumstances under which the expenditure and liabilities incurred by the Admiralty under the recent Vote of Credit have exceeded the revised Estimate stated to the House by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer on Jane 5th, 1885; and that the Committee do consist of seven Members, to be nominated by the Committee of Selection, three to be the quorum." On the motion for the appointment of this Committee, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach rose to disown altogether having made any attack on Lord North- brook; and the motion was agreed to, though not till the Parnellites had demanded as their right that they should have a finger in the pie of Admiralty confusion. "Wherever the carcass is," the Parnellites evidently think it a grievance if they, too, are not allowed to be gathered together.
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