§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade, if he will state whether the Estimates for the coming year of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses, which include a sum of £3,500 towards the erection of the Flannan Islands Lighthouse, will receive the sanction of the Board of Trade in time for the work to be commenced early in the summer?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (MR. C. T. RITCHIE,) CroydonThe Estimates of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses will, I hope, receive the final consideration of the Board of Trade during the present month. I am not yet able to say what proposals for new works will be sanctioned, because it will be necessary carefully to consider all these with regard to the state of the Mercantile Marine Fund, and the many competing claims upon it.