§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can state the amount of the stock of seized tobacco already accumulated in the Queen's Warehouse in London; and whether he will consider the advisability of having some portion of it allotted to the pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, seeing that a large portion is distributed yearly to troops ordered on Foreign Service, and even to the inmates of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum?
§ MR. HANBURYThe quantity of seized tobacco accumulated in the Queen's Warehouse in London at the present time is 5,899lb. There will, no doubt, be a certain surplus of tobacco in the current year, after meeting the demands of the criminal lunatic asylums and the Botanic Gardens, and the Board of Customs is under promise to the War Office to assign such surplus for the use of troops ordered abroad, should it prove sufficient. There would be this objection to diverting it to the use of Chelsea pensioners, that they are not confined to the hospital, as criminal lunatics are to the asylums, and there would be no security against their selling it outside.