MR. P. O'BRIENOn behalf of the hon. Member for the St. Patrick's Division of Dublin (Mr. W. FIELD), I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will arrange to have the National Gallery in Dublin open on certain week evenings for the benefit of the working classes?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI have referred this Question to the Director of the National Gallery, who informs me that the Board of Governors do not consider it would be advisable to open the Gallery when lighted by artificial light, as the pictures could not be properly inspected by such light. Having regard, moreover, to the failure attending upon the opening by night of the British Museum and the Museum at South Kensington, in London, the Governors of the Gallery in Dublin have no reason to believe that the opening of the latter would be attended by better results.