§ MR. ONSLOWI beg to ask the Prime Minister whether Earl Cowper has retired from the Office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on private or political grounds?
MR. GLADSTONEI think it is my duty simply to say that Earl Cowper has resigned the Office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In reply to the suggestion of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for North Lincolnshire, I thought I had indicated the sufficiency of the occasion that we shall have to-morrow night for the Business which shall come before us; and, so far as I can judge, there will be no public advantage in an alteration of the arrangements of the House.