§ MR. BUTTasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether it has been brought under the notice of the Lords of the Treasury that an offer has been accepted for the letting of Whitefield Lodge, a portion of the Phœnix Park, for a period of seventy-five years; and, whether the Lords of the Treasury will interfere to prevent such alienation of the property of the Crown being completed until this House has an opportunity of expressing an opinion on the subject?
§ MR. W. H. SMITH,in reply, said, he had written to Ireland for information with regard to the proposal to let Whitefield Lodge, and he would undertake that no steps should be taken, except those to which the Government might be legally committed, without consultation with his right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary for Ireland.