HC Deb 09 July 1861 vol 164 cc624-5
MR. HENNESSY

said, he would beg to inquire, Whether, inasmuch as it has been the invariable practice for thirty-five years for the House of Commons to adjourn over the birthday of the Sovereign, and the Government Offices and the Banks to have a holiday, it was the intention of the Government to persist in their declared intention of not adjourning over to-morrow?

LORD JOHN RUSSELL:

It is the intention of Her Majesty's Government not to move an adjournment over to-morrow.

SIR GEORGE LEWIS:

There are Orders of private Members of considerable importance which the Government are unwilling to postpone.