§ SIR WILFRID LAWSONsaid, he wished to put a Question to the Prime Minister. When he proposed to bring forward a Motion in that House relative to the Egyptian War the right hon. Gentleman had declined to give him any facilities for bringing forward that Motion, principally upon the ground that it was brought forward upon individual responsibility, and was not a Motion expressing the sentiment of a large portion of the House. What he wanted to ask was this—Whether, seeing that a Motion had now been put down upon the Paper in the name of the hon. Member for Salford (Mr. Arthur Arnold), who was an enthusiastic supporter of the War, in favour of the War, the right hon. Gentleman would give facilities for that Motion being brought on, on the ground that it expressed the general sentiments of the House?
MR. GLADSTONEI was not aware that my hon. Friend was going to put this Question to-day; but I am bound to say that, looking at the special circumstances, I do not think that anything except a Vote of Censure, proposed and supported by a large body of the House, would justify the Government in asking the House to assent to an interruption in the present Business of Procedure.