§
Motion made, and Question proposed—
That the House do meet to-morrow at Two of the clock."—(The, First Lord of the Treasury.)
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILL () Donegal, S.I oppose this Motion. I oppose it because I want to be politically consistent, and I could wish that honourable Gentlemen on both sides would follow so good an example. I understand the right honourable Gentleman's sole intention in moving this Resolution is that honourable Members may go to church between the hours of 12 and 2. We should do nothing of the kind. Those of us who want to go to church can, as honourable Gentlemen know, go at 8 o'clock in the morning; and, if honourable Members desire to go at 12, they can do so, if they will allow those of us who remain to conduct the business of the country. The Order is a sanctimonious sham, and does not appeal to anybody. I have made a study of the right honourable Gentleman the Leader of the House. On Friday night the right honourable Gentleman began the preliminary stage of the Closure, and in his most delightful manner expressed the hope that we
§ should defer all controversial matters to a later stage of the Session. But why should he take from us two precious hours of the time of this country that we are willing to give? Everybody knows that the Gentlemen who take either the Established Church side or the Catholic side go to church early in the morning, and not in the afternoon, and, therefore, the right honourable Gentleman is not in the slightest degree destroying the pious associations of the day. I am sure the right honourable Gentleman would be the last man in the world to advertise piety at such a cheap cost. For these reasons I oppose the Motion, and I will go to a Division if I am the only man to take this particular course. I feel very strongly on the subject, and next year, if I am spared, I will, following my right honourable Friend's example, move the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire whether any honourable Gentleman does go to church between the hours of 12 and 2 on Ash Wednesday.
§ Question put.
§ The House divided:—Ayes, 213; Noes, 142.—(Division List No. 8.)
885| AYES. | ||
| Acland-Hood, Capt. Sir A. F. | Atkinson, Rt. Hon John | Banbury, Frderick George |
| Ambrose, William (Middlesex) | Austin, Sir John (Yorkshire) | Barnes, Frederic Gorell |
| Archdale, Edward Mervyn | Bagot,Capt. Joseceline FitzRoy | Barry,RtHnA H.Smith-(Hunts |
| Arnold-Forster, Hugh O. | Balcarres, Lord | Barry, Sir F. T. (Windsor) |
| Arrol, Sir William | Balfour, Rt.Hn.A.J. (Manch'r) | Bartley, George C. T. |
| Ashmead-Bartlett, Sir Ellis | Balfour, Rt. Hn. G.W. (Leeds) | Barton, Dunbar Plunket |
| Beach, RtHn. Sir M.H. (Bristol) | Healy, Maurice (Cork) | Penn, John |
| Beckett, Ernest William | Healy, Timothy M. (N. Louth) | Pilkington, Richard |
| Bethell, Commander | Heath, James | Platt-Higgins, Frederick |
| Biddulph, Michael | Helder, Augustus | Plunkett, Rt Hon. Horace G. |
| Bigwood, James | Hill, Rt.Hn. A. Staveley(Staffs | Power, Patrick Joseph |
| Blakiston-Houston, John | Hill, Sir Edw. Stock (Bristol) | Purvis, Robert |
| Blundell, Colonel Henry | Hoare, E. Brodie (Hampstead) | Rentoul, James Alexander |
| Bonsor, Henry Cosmo Orme | Hoare, Samuel (Norwich) | Ridley, RtHn Sir Matthew W.) |
| Boulnois, Edmund | Holland, Hon. Lionel Raleigh | Ritchie, Rt. Hon. Chas. T. |
| Brodrick, Rt. Hon. St. John | Hornby, Sir William Henry | Rothschild, Hon. Lionel Walter |
| Carlile, William Walter | Howard, Joseph | Round, James |
| Cavendish, R. F. (N. Lancs.) | Hubbard, Hon. Evelyn | Russell, Gen. F. S. (Chelten'm) |
| Cecil, Evelyn (Hertford, E.) | Hudson, George Bickersteth | Russell, T. W. (Tyrone) |
| Cecil, Lord Hugh (Greenwich) | Hughes, Colonel Edwin | Samuel, Harry S. (Limehouse) |
| Chaloner, Captain R. G. W. | Hutchinson,Capt.G. W. Grice- | Saunderson, Rt. Hn. Col. E. J. |
| Chamberlain, Rt. Hn. J. (Bir.) | Hutton, John (Yorks, N.R.) | Savory, Sir Joseph |
| Chaplin, Rt. Hon. Henry | Jessel, Capt. Herbert Merton | Seely, Charles Hilton |
| Charrington, Spencer | Johnston, William (Belfast) | Seton-Karr, Henry |
| Chelsea, Viscount | Johnstone, Heywood (Sussex) | Sharpe, William Edward T. |
| Cochrane, Hon. T. H. A. E. | Kemp, George | Shaw-Stewart, M.H. (Renfrew) |
| Coddington, Sir William | Kenyon, James | Simeon, Sir Barrington |
| Coghill, Douglas Harry | King, Sir Henry Seymour | Sinclair, Louis (Romford) |
| Cohen, Benjamin Louis | Knowles, Lees | Smith, Abel H. (Christchurch) |
| Collings, Rt. Hon. Jesse | Lafone, Alfred | Smith, James P. (Lanarks.) |
| Colston, Chas. E. H. Athole | Laurie, Lieut.-General | Smith, Hon. W. F. D. (Strand) |
| Cruddas, William Donaldson | Lawrence,Sir E.Durning-(Corn | Spencer, Ernest |
| Cubitt, Hon. Henry | Lawson, John Grant (Yorks.) | Stanley, Hon. A. (Ormskirk) |
| Curzon, Viscount | Llewellyn, Evan H. (Somerset) | Stanley, Edw. James (Somerset |
| Dalbiac, Colonel Philip Hugh | Llewelyn, Sir Dillwyn-(Sw'sea) | Stanley, Henry M. (Lambeth) |
| Dalrymple, Sir Charles | Loder, Gerald Walter Erskine | Stanley, Lord (Lancs) |
| Denny, Colonel | Long, Col. C. W. (Evesham) | Stewart,SirMark J. M'Taggart |
| Dickson-Poynder, Sir John P. | Long, Rt. Hn. W. (Liverpool) | Stirling-Maxwell, Sir John M. |
| Doughty, George | Lopes, Henry Yarde Buller | Stock, James Henry |
| Douglas, Rt. Hon. A. Akers- | Lowe, Francis William | Stone, Sir Benjamin |
| Drage, Geoffrey | Lowles, John | Strutt, Hon. Charles Hedley |
| Duncombe, Hon. Hubert V. | Lowther, Rt. Hon. J. (Kent) | Sturt, Hon. Humphrey Napier |
| Dyke, Rt. Hn. Sir William H. | Loyd, Archie Kirkman | Sullivan. T. D. (Donegal,W.) |
| Egerton, Hon. A. de Tatton | Lucas-Shadwell, William | Talbot, Lord E. (Chichester) |
| Fardell, Sir T. George | Macaleese, Daniel | Talbot, Rt.Hn. J.G.(Ox. Univ.) |
| Fergusson,RtHn.Sir J. (Manc'r | Macartney, W. G. Ellison | Thorburn, Walter |
| Field, Admiral (Eastbourne) | Macdona, John Cumming | Thornton, Percy M. |
| Finlay, Sir Robert Bannatyne | Maclure, Sir John William | Tritton, Chares Ernest |
| Fisher, William Hayes | MArthur, Charles (Liverpool | Valentia, Viscount |
| Fison, Frederick William | M'Calmont, H. L. B. (Cambs.) | Wanklyn, James Leslie |
| Folkestone, Viscount | M'Calmont, Col. J. (Antrim,E.) | Ward, Hn. Robert A. (Crewe) |
| Forster, Henry William | M'Killop, James | Warde, Lieut.-Col. C.E. (Kent) |
| Gibbons, J. Lloyd | Maple, Sir John Blundell | Warr, Augustus Frederick |
| Gilliat, John Saunders | Mellor, Rt. Hn. J. W. (Yorks.) | Webster, R. G. (St. Pancras) |
| Godson, Sir Augustus Fredr'k | Meysey-Thompson, Sir H. M. | Webster, SirR.E.(I. of Wight) |
| Goldsworthy, Major-General | Milbank, Sir Powlett C. John | Welby, Lieut,-Col. A. C. E. |
| Gordon, Hon. John Edward | Monckton, Edward Philip | Wentworth, Bruce C. Vernon- |
| Gorst, Rt Hon. Sir John E. | Monk, Charles James | Whiteley, George (Stockport) |
| Goschen,RtHnG. J. (StGeorge's | Moon, Edward Robert Pacy | Whitmore, Charles Algernon |
| Goschen, George J. (Sussex) | More, Robert Jasper | Williams, Jos. Powell (Birm.) |
| Goulding, Edward Alfred | Morrell, George Herbert | Wilson, J.W.(Worcestersh.N.) |
| Gray, Ernest (West Ham) | Morton, A. H. A. (Deptford) | Wodehouse, Rt. H. E.R.(Bath) |
| Gretton, John | Mount, William George | Wolff, Gustav Wilhelm |
| Greville, Hon. Ronald | Murray, Rt. Hon. A. G. (Bute) | Wortley, Rt. Hn. C.B. Stuart - |
| Gull, Sir Cameron | Murray, Charles J. (Coventry) | Wyndham, George |
| Hall, Rt. Hon Sir Charles | Myers, William Henry | Wyvill, Marmaduke D'Arcy |
| Halsey, Thomas Frederick | Newdigate, Francis Alexander | Younger, William |
| Hamilton, Rt. Hon. Lord G. | Nicol, Donald Ninian | |
| Hammond, John (Carlow) | O'Neill, Hon. Robert Torrens | TELLERS FOR THE AYES— |
| Hanbury, Rt. Hon. Robert W. | Orr-Ewing, Charles Lindsay | Sir William Walrond and Mr. Anstruther. |
| Hanson, Sir Reginald | Parkes, Ebenezer | |
| Hardy, Laurence | Pease, Herbert P. (Darlington) | |
| Hare, Thomas Leigh | Pender, Sir James | |
| NOES. | ||
| Allan, William (Gateshead) | Atherley-Jones, L. | Billson, Alfred |
| Allen, W. (Newc-under-Lyme) | Austin, M. (Limerick, W.) | Blake, Edward |
| Allison, Robert Andrew | Baker, Sir John | Brunner, Sir John Tomlinson |
| Ambrose, Robert (Mayo, W.) | Barlow, John Emmott | Bryce, Rt. Hon. James |
| Asher, Alexander | Bayley, Thomas (Derbyshire) | Burt, Thomas |
| Buxton, Sydney, Charles | Hemphill, Rt. Hn. Charles H. | Pinkerton, John |
| Caldwell, James | Hogan, James Francis | Pirie, Duncan V. |
| Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H. | Humphreys-Owen, Arthur C. | Provand, Andrew Dryburgh |
| Carew, James Laurence | Hutton, Alfred E. (Morley) | Reckitt, Harold James |
| Causton, Richard Knight | Jacoby, James Alfred | Redmond, J. E. (Waterford) |
| Cawley, Frederick | Joicey, Sir James | Reid, Sir Robert Threshie |
| Channing, Francis Allston | Jones, Dd. Brynmor (Sw'sea) | Richardson, J. (Durham) |
| Clough, Walter Owen | Jones, Wm. (Carnarvonshire) | Roberts, John Bryn (Eifion) |
| Colville, John | Jordan, Jeremiah | Roberts, John H. (Denbighs.) |
| Condon, Thomas Joseph | Kay-Shuttleworth, Rt.H.SirU. | Roche, John (East Galway) |
| Courtney, Rt. Hn. Leonard H. | Kearley, Hudson E. | Samuel, J. (Stockton-on-Tees) |
| Cozens-Hardy, Herbert Hardy | Kinloch, Sir John Geo. Smyth | Schwann, Charles E. |
| Crombie, John William | Lambert, George | Scott, Chas. Prestwich (Leigh) |
| Daly, James | Langley, Batty | Shaw, Thomas (Hawick B.) |
| Davies, M.Vaughan (Cardigan) | Lawson, Sir Wilf. (Cumb'land) | Shee, James John |
| Davitt, Michael | Leese, Sir Jos. F. (Accrington) | Sheehy, David |
| Dilke, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles | Leng, Sir John | Sinclair, Capt. J. (Forfarshire) |
| Dillon, John | Lewis, John Herbert | Souttar, Robinson |
| Donelan, Captain A. | Lloyd-George, David | Spicer, Albert |
| Doogan, P. C. | Logan, John William | Stanhope, Hon. Philip J. |
| Duckworth, James | M'Arthur, William (Cornwall) | Stevenson, Francis S. |
| Dunn, Sir William | M'Ghee, Richard | Strachey, Edward |
| Ellis, John Edward (Notts.) | M'Laren, Charles Benjamin | Sullivan, Donal (Westmeath) |
| Ellis, Thos. Ed. (Merionethsh.) | Maddison, Fred. | Tennant, Harold John |
| Engledew, Charles Jonn | Maden, John Henry | Thomas, Abel (Carmarthen,E.) |
| Evans, Sir F. H. (South'ton) | Mandeville, J. Francis | Thomas, Alf. (Glamorgan, E.) |
| Farquharson, Dr. Robert | Mappin, Sir Frederick Thorpe | Thomas, Dd. Alfred (Merthyr) |
| Fenwick, Charles | Mendl, Sigismund Ferdinand | Tully, Jasper |
| Ferguson, R. C. Munro (Leith) | Morgan, J. Ll. (Carmarthen) | Wallace, Robert (Edinburgh) |
| Ffrench, Peter | Morley, Charles (Breconshire) | Walton, J. Lawson (Leeds, S.) |
| Fitzmaurice, Lord Edmund | Morris, Samuel | Wayman, Thomas |
| Flynn, James Christopher | Morton, Ed. J. C. (Devonport) | Wedderburn, Sir William |
| Foster, Sir Walter (Derby Co.) | Moss, Samuel | Weir, James Galloway |
| Fowler, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry | Murnaghan, George | Whittaker, Thomas Palmer |
| Gibney, James | Norton, Capt. Cecil William | Williams, J. Carvell (Notts.) |
| Gilhooly, James | Nussey, Thomas Willans | Wilson, John (Falkirk) |
| Goddard, Daniel Ford | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) | Wilson, John (Govan) |
| Gold, Charles | O'Connor, Jas. (Wicklow, W.) | Woods, Samuel |
| Grey, Sir Edward (Berwick) | O'Keeffe, Francis Arthur | Young, Samuel (Cavan, East) |
| Haldane, Richard Burdon | Paulton, James Mellor | |
| Harwood, George | Jease, Joseph A. (Northumb.) | TELLERS FOR THE NOES— |
| Hayden, John Patrick | Perks, Bobert William | Mr. MacNeill and Mr. Kilbride. |
| Hayne, Rt. Hn. Charles Seale- | Philipps, John Wynford | |
| Hedderwick, Thos. Chas. H. | Pickersgill, Edward Hare |