§ MR. F. S. STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether it was possible to make any provision to enable Members of former Parliaments to witness the forthcoming Naval Review?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON) (Middlesex, Ealing), in reply, said, that he took former Parliaments to mean the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The number of persons not at present connected with public establishments who imagined they had a claim to be present at the Naval Review was very large, and taxed the resources of the Admiralty in providing accommodation for them. If the door were opened which the hon. Member suggested, the Admiralty would be compelled to go outside their Department and charter steamers at a considerable cost to the public purse; and, therefore, he did not see his way to entertain the proposal.