§ COLONEL SIBTHORPsaid, he wished to know whether the right hon. the Home Secretary did not contemplate the employment of a very large additional police force on the occasion, which would seriously augment the burdens of the people.
§ SIR G. GREYsaid, he believed the report to which the hon. and gallant Member for Lincoln had referred, relative 1026 to a large increase of the metropolitan police force being contemplated, was altogether without foundation. He could only say that no application had been made to him upon the subject. Of course a considerable number of police would be necessary for the protection of the property in the Exhibition; but, as he had before stated, if an application were made by the parties promoting the Exhibition for the attendance of policemen to protect the property, such application would be granted upon the same terms on which similar requests were acceded to—that the expense should be borne by the parties making the application. That arrangement, however, would have no reference to any increase of police that might be rendered necessary in consequence of the influx of strangers generally into the metropolis, but he had no reason to suppose that the existing police force would not be amply sufficient.