§ MR. HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)asked the President of the Local Government Board, If, having regard to the opposition, evidenced by numerous Petitions to this House and 1355 the expression of many public meetings, to the Licensing Clauses of the Local Government Bill, on the part of the Licensed Victuallers and the off-licence holders, as also of many actively engaged in the furtherance of greater general temperance, Her Majesty's Government will withdraw or postpone those clauses, as calculated to divert into side issues the consideration of the extension of local government?
§ THE PRESIDENT (Mr. RITCHIE) (Tower Hamlets, St. George's)As I have already stated, the Government do not propose to withdraw these clauses from the consideration of the House.