COLONEL DUNNEsaid, he rose to ask the Secretary of State for War, Whether certain lands, comprising part of the glacis or otherwise connected with the Citadel of Hull, have not been sold by the Board of Ordnance some years since; and whether the titles to such lands so sold are not invalidated by the recent opinions of the Law Officers of the Crown, alleged to have been given, as to the paramount rights of the Crown to those lands?
SIR GEORGE LEWISsaid, that some years ago the Hull Citadel was sold by the Board of Ordnance to the Hull Dock Company, and the sale was effected by Act of Parliament, so that he apprehended there could be no doubt about the title of the, company in question to that land. He was not aware that any doubt had been cast upon its validity by any opinion given by the Law Officers of the Crown. The only question he understood to have arisen was whether the land was part of the hereditary land reserved, or whether it was vested in the Board of Ordnance; but that was a question between two public departments, and it could not in any manner affect the title of the purchasers.