The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-03 00:00:00

In reply to Mr. BENTINCK,
Mr. HENNESSY stated that he should endeavour to
bring on his motion when all the papers were on the table
of the house.
BURLINGTON HOUSE AND THE EXHIBITION
BUILDING:
Lord J. MANNERS inquired if the Government would
then state what appropriation was proposed to be made of
the ground of Burlington House ; and, secondly, under what
management the Exhibition building was to be placed?
The CHANCELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER said that
with regard to the first question, it must depend upon the
vote come to by the house relative to the Kensington estate.
The second question he should defer answering until he
made his statement later in the evening, in submitting the
vote for the purchase of the building to the house.
THE DEBATE ON THE AMERICAN WAR.
Mr. ROEBUCK asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department when it would be convenient for him to
bring on the adjourned debate ?
Sir G. GREY understood that Monday week would be
the first convenient day.
Mr. BRIGHT regretted that the debate could not be
taken before, so that the result might have gone out by the
next mail. _ _

THE GIBRALTAR.
Lord R. CECIL asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department whether he was willing to lay upon the
table, without reserve, all communications with respect to
the detention of the vessel Gibraltar, which have passed be-

ween any officer or department of the Government and the

collector of customs at Liverpool.
Sir G. GREY said the matter had no reference to the
Home Office, but rested with the Customhouse authorities.
There -would be no objection to lay on the table the commu-
nications that had passed between the Board of Customs
and the collector of customs, so far as it related to the de-
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tEntion of the Gibraltar.
_ PENAL SERVITUDE COMMISSION.

In answer to a question from Lord NAAS, who said an
incorrect statement had been published relative to the report
of the Penal Servitude Commission,
Sir G. GREY said he received the report on Saturday,
and ordered it to be laid on the table of the house on Mon-
day, which he believed was done.
THE EXHIBITION BUILDING.
On the motion for going into supply,
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY called attention to the mode of

proceeding with reference to the vote for the Exhibition
building and Kensington estate. The noble lord on a for-
mer occasion laid a resolution on the table of the house for
the purchase of the whole, but he suddenly altered its terms,
and took a vote for a portion only. He wished to know it
thaTvie.a in accordance with the rules of the house.
SPEAKER decided in the affirmative, and the
ELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—I rise to
propose a vote of
£105,000 for the purchase of the Exhibi-
tion Building and went into committee of supply.
The CHANCELLOR house
the commencing of certain alterations with
a viewfitting of a
portion of it to its intended purpose; but
before
proceed to make that statement I wish it to be un-
derstood that I
-
intend to look at the question as a dry mat-
ter of business, and I ask hon. members to hear me out be
fore the form any judgment upon the subject. I shall
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issue, and to
and as a- oing to ask for, and to
state the restrictions by which g
form, and to give the committee to
extent, and the discretion
we are
- wish to be .considered
bound. With regard to the matters collateral to
ought to state, for the information ofthee the
emmit tee, that I
if
in pursuance of it, give
the vote we ask be granted, I shall,issue,
notice for leave to bring in a bill to authoris® the separa-
tionause
because
I of certain collections at the British Museum,
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I consider the house, by a former vote, contemplated
the separation ; and it would have bean needless for us
to raise the
question, and ask for authority to carry it
out, unless we were in a condition to give effect to it by
providing for the rearrangement of those collections by
the enlargement of the Museum on its present site,
so as
to afford tha greatest amount of accommodation. In the
neat case, I wish to clear all
misapprehension in respect
to it, and that enables me to give an answer to the
second question put to me by the noble lord (Lord J. Man-
ners)—viz., that we propose to place the management and
the control of this property, in case the committee should
sanction its purchase, not in the hands of any subordinate
department, or any department having .partial responsi-
bility, but in the hands of the Treasury, in order that re-
sponsibility might be as direct and summary as possible, and
that all inquiries should be addressed direct to the head of
the Government. (Hear, hear.) 1 now, therefore, proceed
to a very irksome portion of my duty, and one which no-
thing but an absolute necessity would ever have induced me
to enter; but I have no choice. The hon. member for
Galway. in a speech made by him on a former occasion,
gave the house his opinion of the ability of Mr. Mallett, a
gentleman who, up to that time, was unknown to me ; and I
considered it my duty afterwards to inform myself who and
wl at that gentleman is. The hon. gentlemansaid he was an
eminent engineer, and drew out, under Sir C. Barry, the
whole of the working plans for the Houses of Parliament. It
is but right that I should do justice to Mr. Mallett, and I
find that he is a very ingenious and clever gentleman, and
he is beat known by the production of a work on earth-
quakes. (Laughter.) if the question was not about the con-
struction, but the destruction of public buildings, I don't he-
sitate to say that that gentleman, from his persistent consi-
deration of that subject, would be a considerable authority.
(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Mr. Mallett is also known as
the inventor of a certain mortar that is now to be seen lying