§ MR. MONTAGU (Tower Hamlets, Whitechapel)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he will state how many times in 1888 stores were landed at the Tower of London Wharf, and the quantity and nature of such stores?
§ * THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. E. STANHOPE,) Lincolnshire, HorncastleThe number of times on which this wharf has been used for landing and shipping stores during a particular period affords no source of indication of the use which would be made of it in time of pressure; and I must adhere to my decision (arrived at after careful investigation) that it is inexpedient, in the interest of the public service, to open the wharf to the public. It would be difficult to give an account of the quantity and nature of the stores.