§ MR. HADFIELDsaid, he would beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury, What arrangements are contemplated, with regard to the Easter holidays?
MR. GLADSTONEsaid, in reply, that the arrangement as to the holidays, which he hoped would be agreeable to the House, was that on Tuesday, the 23rd, he should move the adjournment of the House to the Thursday in the following week. The answer just given by his right hon. Friend the Vice President of the Board of Education was substantially correct; but inasmuch as Monday would probably be the day on which the House of Lords would appoint a joint Committee of both Houses to consider the arrangement of the business between the two Houses, it would be convenient if a similar proposition were made in that House on the same day, in which case he should move the postponement of the Orders of the Day till after that Motion was disposed of.