§ MR. STACPOOLEasked the First Lord of the Treasury, with reference to his announcement respecting the probable commencement and duration of the Whitsuntide Recess, Whether he will have any objection to move the adjournment of the House from Friday the 14th until Friday the 21st, instead of moving from Thursday the 13th until Thursday the 20th, so as to enable the Royal Residence (Ireland) question, which stands first among the Notices of Motion for Friday the 14th instant, to be debated on that day, and a division taken thereon?
§ MR. DISRAELISir, I do not at this moment feel quite sure that it will be my pleasing duty to make a Motion in favour of any holidays; but if we conclude the Peace Preservation Act before Whitsuntide, I think it will be advisable—if we have any holidays at at all—that we should adhere to the plan I have already suggested. I shall be happy to discuss it if necessary; but it is a plan similar to that followed by the House until within the last few years, when the holidays have been longer. There is nothing in the condition of Public Business to justify me in the expectation that we can increase the term of relaxation originally contemplated, and even that I have not definitely fixed upon. I take the opportunity of saying that I shall ask the House for a Morning Sitting to-morrow under any circumstances.
§ MR. STACPOOLEbegged to give Notice that he would bring on his Motion relative to a Royal Residence in Ireland on as early a day as possible after Whitsuntide.