§ GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOURasked the Vice President of the Council as representing the Charity Commissioners, Whether any application has been made by the trustees of the Crewe Estate to sanction the appropriation of surplus funds of that trust for the improvement of the "North Sunderland Harbour;" and, if so, what reply has been given, and, if favourable, what amount is authorized to be spent on the improvement?
§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTON,in reply, said, that there had been some correspondence, but it was not yet concluded, between the Charity Commissioners and the trustees of the Charity to which he believed the Question had reference. The Charity Commissioners had informed the trustees that they were prepared to advise the appropriation of the surplus funds in question for the improvement of 1608 North Sunderland Harbour, as soon as they had been furnished by the trustees with professional opinion upon the expenditure involved, the means of meeting it, and the benefits which were likely to be derived from their application in that way.