VISCOUNT POWERSCOURT, who had given Notice that he would move for any information which might have reached Her Majesty's Government as to any desire on the part of the inhabitants of any district that such Government Institutions as were now opened on Sunday should be closed on that day, said, he wished to know if any feeling had been publicly expressed, on the part of the working classes, against the opening of such Government Institutions as were now open on Sunday, as the Picture Galleries at Hampton Court and the Botanical Gardens at Kew? In the case of the Dublin National Gallery, he noticed that the statistics of attendance showed that nearly as many people went there on Sundays as on the whole of the other days of the week put together. As, however, the matter would be brought before the other House shortly, it was not his intention to discuss it on the present occasion; but he should content himself with calling attention to the Resolution which stood in his name.
THE EARL OF ROSEBERYsaid, there was no information in the hands of Her Majesty's Government on the subject to which the noble Viscount referred.
§ House adjourned at half past Five o'clock, till To-morrow, a quarter past Ten o'clock.