§ MR. BERESFORD HOPEsaid, he wished to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, Whether he is prepared to bring in a Bill, during the present Session, to place Art Unions under the department of Science and Art, as recommended in the Report of the Select Committee of last Session, of which he was Chairman?
§ LORD ROBERT MONTAGU, in reply, said, he thought his hon. Friend must labour under the pleasing delusion that at the Committee of Council Office they had nothing to do but to sit with their arms folded all day long. If, however, he would bear in mind the various questions connected with the Paris Exhibition, the South Kensington Museum, the Charity Commission, the Cholera, the Cattle Plague, and other subjects with which they had to deal, he would see that they had but little time at their disposal for the preparation of fancy Bills. The first moment 816 he had leisure he should be happy to think about such a measure as that to which his hon. Friend alluded.