§ MR. HANKEYsaid, that he presumed the clock placed in a prominent part of that building was intended to afford the public the means of ascertaining the time at all hours of the day and night; and, as it appeared to him that that object would not be attained if any of the designs which had already been exhibited were adopted, he begged to ask the right hon. Baronet the Chief Commissioner of Works whether it was intended to have a dial to the large 150 clock of the Houses of Parliament on which the figures would be legible, as the models heretofore exhibited did not appear likely to carry out that object?
§ SIR BENJAMIN HALLsaid, that it was certainly intended to have a dial with figures which should be legible. It was also true that at present such was not the case. The models which had been exhibited did not carry out that object, for the simple reason that at present a framework only had been placed on the site of the future dial, and that merely for the purpose of trying experiments with regard to the lighting, and that there were no figures upon it.