§ SIR HERBERT MAXWELLasked the junior Member for Leeds, If he is aware that the carved stones which have now for some years laid exposed to wind, weather, and wanton mischief on the river bank at Battersea are the disjecta membra of that Colonnade of which Horace Walpole wrote—
At daybreak, looking out of window to see the sun rise, I was surprised with the vision of the Colonnade that fronted me. It seemed one of those edifices that are raised by genii in a night time,and of which Sir William Chambers spoke as "one of the finest pieces of 154 architecture in Europe;" and, what is the intention of Her Majesty's Government as to their destination?
§ MR. HERBERT GLADSTONEI am aware of the history of the disjecta membra of the Colonnade now lying in Battersea Park. Hitherto the Government has not been able to make use of them, and no suitable site for their re-erection has as yet been even suggested.