§ MR. FAWCETTasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether, as he stated some weeks since that the Law Officers of the Crown were considering the legality of an in closure near Stony Cross in the manor of Minestead, in the New Forest, he will inform the House of their opinion on the subject; and whether, if they consider the said inclosure to be illegal, the Government intends to take any action in the matter, with a view of protecting the rights of the Crown in the New Forest?
§ MR. W. H. SMITH,in reply, said, that the opinion of the Law Officers of 703 the Crown relative to the In closure near Stony Cross, in the manor of Minestead, in the New Forest, had not yet been received; but the case, which necessarily contained a history of the manor and references to various Acts of Parliament, was now before the Law Officers, and their opinions would be obtained as soon as possible.