§ MR. HOWELL (Bethnal Green, N.E.)wished to know if the practice of the Government in adjourning the House on the conclusion of their Business each evening was according to precedent. Did the precedent of 1882, quoted by the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, apply in the present Session?
§ * MR. SPEAKERUnder the Standing Order in 1882 a Motion for Adjournment could be made at any hour of the morning and could be divided against. In 1888 a new Standing Order came into force, and under that no Opposed Business can be taken after 12 o'clock. No Division, therefore, can take place on the Question of Adjournment of the House between 12 and 1 o'clock. I will not discuss whether the precedent was wrongly or rightly quoted. I would merely say that the state of the case is different now to what it was between 1882 and 1888.