§ LORD HOTHAMsaid, he wished to inquire of the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he would lay upon the table the Estimates of the expenses connected with the proposed public demonstration in honour of peace, and also if he would undertake that it should be so framed as to show the cost of the preparations in the public parks, as well as of those which were being made at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich?
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, he could only repeat what he had stated upon a previous occasion, namely, that it was not the intention of the Government to bring forward an estimate upon the subject. The whole cost in connection with the fireworks in the metropolis would not amount to more, he now believed, than £6,000, and unless it was the general wish of the House, he saw no reason why a separate estimate should be laid upon the table for that small sum.