§ Mr. CHARLES PRICEasked the hon. Member for Southampton, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, whether he has received a memorial from the Cockburn Association of Edinburgh regarding the insufficiency of the grant allowed for the upkeep of the Royal Park of Holyrood; and if he can state the terms of the reply sent to the association?
The TREASURER of the HOUSEHOLD (Mr. Dudley Ward)The answer to the first paragraph is in the affirmative. No reply has as yet been sent beyond an acknowledgment; but on 30th March instructions were issued to suspend the work upon the roads pending the visit of the Secretary of the Department to Edinburgh at the end of this week.