§ MR. J. C. MACDONAI beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will advise Her Majesty to command that her birthday should be celebrated in the United Kingdom on 24th May, as is the case in all our colonies and foreign possessions, so that an universal holiday may be kept in commemoration of it simultaneously amongst Her Majesty's subjects all over the world?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Sir W. HARCOURT, Derby)I see no reason for altering the practice which has subsisted with regard to the celebration of Her Majesty's birthday for 58 years.