§ Moved, "That the House do adjourn during pleasure."—(The Earl Spencer.)
§ EARL FORTESCUEsaid, he rose to call attention to the improvements at Hyde Park Corner. He complained that the beauty of Hyde Park Corner had been marred by the hasty manner in which a late First Commissioner of Works (Mr. Shaw Lefevre) had carried out the work. He directed the attention of their Lordships especially to the practical inconvenience which arose from leaving Piccadilly so narrow opposite the entrance to Hamilton Place. If an additional 18 feet of width had been left at that spot the inconvenient blocking of the traffic would have been avoided. The traffic in that neighbourhood was increasing year by year, and he thought it was highly desirable that something should be done to obviate the continual blocks which were occurring.