SIR HERVEY BRUCEsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether their Lordships will sanction the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland advancing to the Town Commissioners of Coleraine monies for the Improvement of the Navigation of the Bann, under the provisions of their Act obtained this Session; and whether they will sanction a free grant of part of the money for the same purpose, it being for the completion of a great work executed by the Board of Works in Ireland?
MR. PEEL, in reply, said, the Board of Works in Ireland had not made any application 176 to the Treasury for a loan to the Town Commissioners of Coleraine for the improvement of the navigation of the Bann. It would depend very much upon the security offered by the Commissioners whether the Board would recommend such a loan. He was not aware that the Treasury had power to make a free grant for the purpose.