MAJOR BEAUMONTasked the First Commissioner of Public Works, if he has had under his consideration the Correspondence relative to the floors of the new buildings for the National Gallery, which was laid upon the Table of the House last Session and printed (No. 294). and if, for the sake of security from fire and of decoration, he intends to substitute mosaic for wooden floors?
LORD HENRY LENNOX, in reply, said, his attention had been drawn to the Correspondence in question; but that it was not his intention to reverse the decision of his predecessors, the more so that that decision was in entire accord with the wishes of the Trustees of the National Gallery.