§ MR. C. BERKELEYI beg to ask a question of the noble Lord the First Commissioner of Woods and Forests. It will be in the recollection of the House, that in the month of August last, Her Majesty the Queen had given permission to the committee of the Wellington Statue to place it on the arch for three weeks' time; but the statue had now been in that position upwards of six months, and it had been condemned by every person. [Mr. SPEAKER begged to remind the hon. Member that he was merely putting a question.] Yes, I wish to make my question intelligible to the noble Lord. The question is this: Will the noble Lord state in a plain and intelligible manner what are the final intentions of Her Majesty's Government with regard to the removal of the statue? And if it be the intention of Her Majesty's Government that it shall not remain where it is, I wish to know if the noble Lord has taken any security from the Wellington Statue Committee that they should remove the scaffolding at their own expense?
§ VISCOUNT MORPETHsaid, it was the intention of Her Majesty's Government that the statue should be removed from the arch, and men were employed, he believed, that day in removing it. He understood from the sub-committee that they conceived, and the Government certainly conceived, they were bound to take it down at their own expense.