§ After going through the private and judicial business, about five o'clock, the Lord Chancellor put the question of adjournment; when
The Duke of Norfolkobserved upon the propriety of a general understanding prevailing, as to the particular hour at which public business, or private business likely to excite public attention should in future commence. It was of great importance that some regulation of the kind should forthwith take place.
The Earl of Liverpoolsaid, it was always understood that five o'clock was the most generally convenient hour for entering upon the public business before Christmas; upon grounds of particular convenience, it was agreed that half after four should be the time; but, as it did not seem that any particular time was so much 337 wished for, as some generally understood hour, he thought it would be the more advisable to fix it for the usual time of five o'clock.