§ MR. HOLLOWAY (Gloucestershire, Stroud)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if his attention has been called to a proposed sale by auction at Stroud, on the 26th instant, by the nominees of the Great Western Railway Company, of valuable properties of the Thames and Severn Canal Company; and, if it is the intention of the Board to take action with a view to the sale being prevented?
§ * SIR M. HICKS BEACHYes, Sir; my attention has been called to the subject by a letter from the Committee of Management of the Stroud Water Navigation Company. I have no power to prevent the sale; but the Stroud Water Navigation Company states that a few years ago the Great Western Railway Company obtained an injunction against the then mortgagee which prevented this property being sold. It is for the Stroud Water Navigation Company to consider therefore whether the law might not be set in motion to prevent the sale at the present time.