MR. STOPFORDsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, What sum has been spent for the purpose of keeping in repair British graves in the Crimea since the termination of the war with Russia; who is or has been responsible for the proper application of any money so spent; and has her Majesty's Government any recent information as to the present state of the cemetery?
MR. OTWAYreplied that the last information in possession of the Government was contained in a despatch which had been received from Her Majesty's Ambassador at St. Petersburg, who accompanied the Prince and Princess of Wales in their visit the week before last to the graves of those who fell in the Crimea. Some suggestions had been made as to a better preservation of those graves. He regretted to say that he could not satisfactorily answer the first part of the Question; because it would be necessary to communicate with various departments with regard to the expenditure and its application. But as the subject had created a deal of interest— not only in that House, some of whose Members fell in the campaign in the Crimea, but in many of the homes of the people in this country—he would ask the hon. Member to repeat the Question in the course of a short time, and he should then perhaps be able to give him some further information on the subject.