MR. NEVILLE-GRENVILLEasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether this House will be asked specifically to vote any sum towards the Exhibition of 1871; and, if not, whether any charge for this purpose on the ordinary Votes of Parliament will or can be made by any Department of the State?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERIt is not, Sir, the intention of Her Majesty's Government to ask the House for a Vote of any sum towards the coming Exhibition. I cannot, of course, say what the Departments can or will do; but I do not believe any Department ought to apply its funds to such a purpose.