MR. GLADSTONEI have to give Notice with reference to a Motion that now stands on the Paper of this House for next Friday. My hon. Friend the Member for Chelsea (Sir Charles Dilke), whose name stands to that Notice, is not in his place, and probably it will be convenient that I should give Notice that on Thursday I shall ask him whether it is his intention to go on with that Motion on Friday. I am obliged to state, on the part of the Government, that it is not now possible that the Conference should meet again before Friday, and it will be beyond the power of the Government adequately to discuss that subject while the Conference is sitting. I ought to add that I have no reason to suppose that the proceedings of the Conference are likely to be delayed for any considerable time before coming to a conclusion.