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SIR J. COREY (Armagh, Mid), moved for a Return—
Giving the number of Arrests for Drunkenness within the Metropolitan Police District of Dublin, the cities of Cork, Limerick, and Waterford, and the town of Belfast, on Sundays, between the 1st day of May 1888 and the 30th day of April 1889, both days inclusive, the Arrests to be given from 8 a.m. on Sundays until 8 a.m. on Mondays; and similar Returns for the rest of Ireland from the 30th day of April 1887 to the 30th day of April 1888 (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 381, of Session 1888.")
§ MR. SEXTON (Belfast, W.)In connection with this subject, I think it would be convenient if the right hon. Gentleman the First Lord of the Treasury would state, in view of the fact that the Sunday Closing (Ireland) Bill is included in the schedule of the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, what are the intentions of the Government in regard to the former Bill?
§ * THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. W. H. SMITH, Strand, Westminster)Her Majesty's Government sincerely hope they may be able to pass the Sunday Closing (Ireland) Bill this Session. But they have provided against the contingency by inserting it in the schedule of the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill. In case, therefore, the Sunday Closing Bill is not passed it will be thus continued for another year.
§ Return ordered.