§ MR. DILLON (Mayo, E.)asked, What the Business of the House would be on Thursday and Friday?
§ THE FIEST LORD OF THE TEEASURY (Mr. W. H. SMITH) (Strand, Westminster)My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer will introduce the Budget on Thursday, and on Friday the ordinary Business will be proceeded with.
§ MR. MUNDELLA (Sheffield, Brightside)asked, what would be the Business on Monday next?
§ MR. W. H. SMITHsaid, the Criminal Law Amendment (Ireland) Bill was put down for Committee on Monday next; but it had been represented to him that he engaged that a week should elapse between the Second Reading and the Committee stage, and that a week could not be said to have elapsed between Tuesday morning at 2 o'clock and Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. He should have thought that a Parliamentary week would have elapsed; but he wished to keep the most strict faith with hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite; and if it were their view that he had not complied with the engagement into which he came by putting the Committee stage down for Monday, he would say Tuesday for that stage, and they should proceed on Monday with Supply.