§ MR. JOHNSTON (Belfast, S.)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether it is intended to appoint a Poet Lanreate, in succession to the late Lord Tennyson; and whether he has made any recommendation to Her Majesty as to this appointment?
§ *MR. W. E. GLADSTONEIn answer to this question I may say that no recommendation has been submitted to Her Majesty upon the subject of the succession to the office of Poet Lanreate, and that there is no immediate intention of submitting such a recommendation.