MAJOR BEAUMONTasked the Secretary to the Treasury, If the Government has had its attention drawn to the fact that more than eighty thousand pounds a-year are derived from surplus Patent Fees, while the Patent Museum affords totally inadequate accommodation to the unrivalled collection of machinery and models now exhibited there; and, whether he can hold out any hopes that suitable premises will be provided?
§ MR. W. H. SMITH, in reply, said, the Government was aware of the facts mentioned 716 by the hon. and gallant Gentleman, that more than £80,000 a-year was derived from surplus patent fees, and that the accommodation was not altogether satisfactory in the Patent Museum. The subject was under the consideration of Her Majesty's Government.