§ In reply to Sir JOHN HAY,
§ LORD CLARENCE PAGETstated, that he intended to lay on the table the Correspondence relating to the proposed Dock at Malta. As the papers were of great importance, and as the Government had sent an engineer to Malta to make in- 1827 quiries on the spot, he proposed to defer the Estimate for the Dock till after Easter. It was not customary to defer a single item, and therefore he should put off the whole Vote for Public Works till that time.