MR. CAVENDISH BENTINCKI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury by whose authority, and upon what information, a picture, representing the "Head of Christ," which was lately purchased at a sale at Messrs. Christie's Auction Rooms, by the Trustees of the National Gallery, is now exhibited in the Gallery as the work of "Giovanni Bellini?"
§ MR. JACKSONThe picture in question is described as a work of Giovanni Bellini's by the authority of Sir Frederick Burton, Director of the National Gallery, and on his responsibility.