§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)To ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, having regard to the fact that the Estimate placed upon the Table of the House of the probable expense of 1372 the approaching Coronation exceeds by £55,000 the expense incidental to the Coronation of William IV., and by £30,000 the expense incidental to the Coronation of Queen Victoria, any assurance will be given that the sum so estimated shall not be exceeded. And what precautions, if any, have been taken to control that expenditure, having regard to the fact that the expense of George IV.'s Coronation exceeded by £138,000 the sum voted for that solemnity.
(Answer.) Every care is being taken that no unnecessary expenditure shall be incurred, and every effort is being made to make the expenditure fall within the Estimate of £100,000, though it was necessarily an Estimate framed on many-unknown considerations.—(Treasury.)