§ SIR EDWARD GROGANsaid, he rose to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, If any and what steps have been taken, or are intended to be taken, by the Government, for carrying into effect the prayer of the Memorial presented to the Lord Lieutenant on the 10th May, 1861, relative to the planting of ornamental and other trees and shrubs, and the making of walks and pleasure-grounds, in the Phœnix Park, Dublin, as has been done in Kensington Gardens and in the Victoria and Battersea Parks?
§ SIR ROBERT PEELin reply said, that that subject had been under the consideration of the Irish Government, and they had given their sanction to a plan for the improvement of Phœnix Park, by planting it with ornamental and other trees; but the question was still under the consideration of the Treasury.