§ SIR WALTER B. BARTTELOTsaid, that Members had been working very hard, not only in that House, but upon Select Committees and Grant Committees; and he wished to ask the Prime Minister what time he proposed to allow for the Whitsuntide Holidays?
§ MR. HOPWOODasked whether the right hon. Gentleman meant to take a Morning Sitting to-morrow?
MR. GLADSTONEThere will be no Morning Sitting to-morrow. I propose to state to-morrow what the Government think upon the subject of the Question asked by the hon. and gallant Baronet (Sir Walter B. Barttelot); but I may be allowed to say now that it is not a matter which can be disposed of as easily as in ordinary years, because we do feel that Members have been working very hard in Select Committees and Grand Committees, and, at the same time, we know that the pressure of Business and of subjects is very great, and the time for discussion very scanty.
§ MR. T. P. O'CONNORasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, if he could state, in view of the fact that several Questions of a legal character had been asked to-day, when the Attorney General for Ireland was likely to be in his place?
§ [No answer was given.]