§ Mr. SPEAKERI have to ask the indulgence of the House for one moment.. The University of Oxford has honoured me by proposing to confer a degree upon me to-morrow. [HON. MEMBERS: "Hear, hear!"] As this proposal is, no doubt, due to the office to which the House has called me, I ask the permission of the House to be absent on that occasion. [HON. MEMBERS: "Hear, hear!"]