§ MR. JOHN ELLIS (Nottinghamshire, Rushcliffe)Has the right hon. Gentleman made himself acquainted with the practice of the other House, to which I drew attention last year, of allowing its Committees to sit irrespective of its being Ascension Day?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURNo, I am not aware of the practice of the other House.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed. "That Committees do not sit To-morrow, being Ascension Day, until Two of the clock."—(Mr. A. J. Balfour.)
§ Question put.
§ The House divided:—Ayes, 108; Noes, 103. (Division List No. 93.)
1227| AYES | ||
| Acland-Hood, Capt. Sir A. F. | Cullinan, J. | Graham, Henry Robert |
| Allsopp, Hon. George | Dalrymple, Sir Charles | Groves, James Grimble |
| Anson, Sir William Reynell | Devlin, Chas. Ramsay (Galway) | Gunter, Sir Robert |
| Arkwright, John Stanhope | Dewar, Sir T. R. (Tr. Haml'ts | Halsey, Rt. Hon. Thomas F. |
| Arrol, Sir William | Dickson-Poynder, Sir John P. | Hardy, Laurence (Kent, Ashford |
| Atkinson, Right Hon. John | Doughty, George | Hayden, John Patrick |
| Bain, Colonel James Robert | Douglas, Rt. Hon. A. Akers- | Hayter, Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur D. |
| Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J. (Manch'r | Faber, E. B. (Hants, W.) | Heath, Jas. (Staffords, N. W.) |
| Bignold, Arthur | Farrell, James Patrick | Helder, Augustus |
| Boland, John | Fellowes, Hon. Ailwyn Ed. | Hoare, Sir Samuel |
| Bond, Edward | Finlay, Sir Robert Bannatyne | Hudson, George Bickersteth |
| Bowles, T. G. (King's Lynn) | Flavin, Michael Joseph | Hutton, John (Yorks, N. R.) |
| Campbell, J. H. M. (Dublin Univ | Flower, Ernest | Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse |
| Campbell, John (Armagh, S.) | Flynn, James Christopher | Jessel, Captain Herbert Merton |
| Cavendish, V. C. W. (Derbysh.) | Forster, Henry William | Joyce, Michael |
| Cecil, Lord Hugh (Greenwich) | Garfit, William | Kenyon, Hon. G. T. (Denbigh |
| Churchill, Winston Spencer | Gibbs, Hn. Vicary (St. Albans | Laurie, Lieut.-General |
| Colomb, Sir John Chas. Ready | Godson, Sir Augustus Fredk. | Lawson, J. Grant (Yorks, N. R.) |
| Cranborne, Lord | Gordon, Hn. J. E. (Elgin & Nrn | Leamy, Edmund |
| Cripps, Charles Alfred | Gore, Hn. S. F. Ormsby- (Linc | Loder, Gerald Walter Erskine |
| Crossley, Sir Savile | Gorst, Rt. Hon. Sir John Eldon | Lonsdale, John Brownlee |
| Lowther, Rt. Hon. Jas. (Kent) | Plummer, Walter R. | Sloan, Thomas Henry |
| Lucas, Col. Francis (Lowestoft | Powell, Sir Francis Sharp | Smith, H. C. (North'mb. Tyneside |
| Lundon, W. | Pryce Jones, Lt.-Col. Edw. | Stanley, Lord (Lancashire) |
| M'Killop, W. (Sligo, North) | Purvis, Robert | Talbot, Rt. Hn. J. G. (Oxf'd Univ. |
| More, Robt. Jasper (Shropshire) | Redmond, Jn. E. (Waterford) | Thornton, Percy M. |
| Mowbray, Sir Robert Gray C. | Redmond, William (Clare) | Tomlinson, Sir Wm. E. M. |
| Murphy, John | Reid, James (Greenock) | Tritton, Charles Ernest |
| Murray, Rt. Hn. A. Graham (Bute | Remnant, Jas. Farquharson | Walrond, Rt. Hn. Sir William H. |
| Myers, William Henry | Ridley, Hon. M. W. (Stalybridge | Welby, Lt.-Col. A. C. E. (Taunt'n |
| Nicol, Donald Ninian | Ritchie, Rt. Hn. C. Thomson | Wodehouse, Rt. Hn. E. R. (Bath |
| O'Brien, James F. X. (Cork) | Roberts, Samuel (Sheffield) | Wyndham, Rt. Hon. George |
| O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) | Robertson, H. (Hackney) | |
| O'Kelly, J. (Roscommon, N.) | Sackville, Col. S. G. Stopford- | TELLERS FOR THE AYES— |
| O'Malley, William | Samuel, Harry S. (Limehouse) | Mr. Galloway and Mr. |
| O'Shaughnessy, P. J. | Seely, Chas. Hilton (Lincoln) | Richards. |
| Peel, Hn. Wm. R. Wellesley | Sharpe, William Edward T. | |
| Percy, Earl | Simeon, Sir Barrington | |
| NOES. | ||
| Agnew, Sir Andrew Noel | Greene, Hy. D. (Shrewsbury) | Roe, Sir Thomas |
| Allan, Sir William (Gateshead) | Gurdon, Sir W. Brampton | Royds, Clement Molyneux |
| Allen, Chas. P. (Glos., Stroud) | Harris, Frederick Leverton | Sadler, Col. Samuel Alexander |
| Anstruther, H. T. | Harwood, George | Schwann, Charles E. |
| Arnold Forster, Hugh O. | Hayne, Rt. Hon. Chas. Seale- | Shackleton, David James |
| Beaumont, Wentworth C. B. | Helme, Norval Watson | Shaw, Thomas (Hawick, B.) |
| Black, Alexander William | Hobhouse, C. F. H. (Bristl, E. | Shipman, Dr. John G. |
| Brown, Geo. M. (Edinburgh) | Hobhouse, Rt. Hn. H. (Somrst E. | Sinclair, John (Forfarshire) |
| Brunner, Sir John Tomlinson | Hope, John Deans (Fife, West) | Smith, James Parker (Lanarks. |
| Bryce, Right Hon. James | Hutton, Alfred E. (Morley | Soames, Arthur Wellesley |
| Buchanan, Thomas Ryburn | Johnstone, Heywood | Soares, Ernest J. |
| Burns, John | Jones David B. (Swansea) | Spear, John Ward |
| Burt, Thomas | Jones, Wm. (Carnarvonshire) | Stevenson, Francis S. |
| Butcher, John George | Lambert, George | Stone, Sir Benjamin |
| Buxton, Sydney Charles | Lawson, Sir Wilfrid (Cornall) | Taylor, Austin (East Toxteth) |
| Caldwell, James | Layland-Barratt, Francis | Taylor, Theo. C. (Radcliffe) |
| Causton, Richard Knight | Lee, A. H. (Hants., Fareham) | Thomas, Sir A. (Glam., E.) |
| Channing, Francis Allston | Leese, Sir, Joseph F. (Accrington | Thomas, David A. (Merthyr) |
| Cochrane, Hon. Thos. H. A. E. | Leng, Sir John | Thomas, J. A. (Glamorgan Gower |
| Craig, Robert Hunter (Lanark) | Levy, Maurice | Thorburn, Sir Walter |
| Crombie, John William | Lloyd George, David | Tomkinson, James |
| Cross, Alexander (Glasgow) | Lough, Thomas | Trevelyan, Charles Philips |
| Dewar, John A. (Inverness-sh.) | Macnamara, Dr. Thomas J. | Tuke, Sir John Batty |
| Dilke, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles | M'Arthur, William (Cornwall | Walton, Joseph (Barnsley) |
| Douglas, Charles M. (Lanark) | M'Killop, Jas. (Stirlingshire) | Wason, E. (Clackmannan) |
| Duncan, J. Hastings | Mansfield, Horace Rendall | Wason, John Cathcart Orkney |
| Durning-Lawrence, Sir Edwin | Maxwell, W. J. H. (Dumfriesshire. | White, Luke (York, E. R.) |
| Elliot, Hon. A. Ralph Douglas | Middlemore, Jn. Throgmorton | Whitley, J. H. (Halifax) |
| Evans, Saml. T. (Glamorgan) | Norton, Capt. Cecil William | Wilson, John (Glasgow) |
| Fenwick, Charles | Nussey, Thomas Willans | Woodhouse, Sir J. T. (Huddersf'd |
| Ferguson, R. C. Munro (Leith | Orr Ewing, Charles Lindsay | Yoxall, James Henry |
| Fielden, Edward Brocklehurst | Pirie, Duncan V. | |
| Fitzmaurice, Lord Edmond | Randles, John S. | TELLERS FOR THE NOES— |
| Foster, Sir Michl, (Lond. Univ | Rigg, Richard | Mr. John Ellis and Mr. |
| Goddard Daniel Ford | Roberts, John H. (Denbighs.) | Humphreys-Owen. |
| Grant, Corrie | Robertson, Edmund (Dundee) |
Question put, and agreed to.