§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION (EARL STANHOPE)My Lords, before the House adjourns it 992 might be convenient for your Lordships if I gave some forecast of the work to be done next week. As your Lordships know, we shall not meet to-morrow, but as the Report stage of the Coal Bill is to be taken next week it will be necessary to ask your Lordships to meet on Monday to deal with the further stages of a number of measures. None of them, I think, will take very long. They are all either the Committee, Report, or Third Reading stages, and there is no new Bill. On Tuesday there will be the Second Reading of the Marriages Provisional Order Bill and the Third Reading of the Air Navigation (Financial Provisions) Bill. Then we shall start the Report stage of the Coal Bill, which will be continued on Wednesday. I am afraid it will be necessary to ask your Lordships to sit after dinner on Tuesday and Wednesday, and to meet at three o'clock on Wednesday. As your Lordships will observe, the three Church Measures which were put on the Paper for consideration to-day have been postponed. That is because they only reached your Lordships this morning. It is proposed to take them as the first business on Wednesday before continuing the Report stage of the Coal Bill. There are several Bills to be dealt with on Thursday, and they will be followed by a Royal Commission. I understand that the noble Lord, Lord Eltisley, will ask leave to bring forward his Motion in regard to the Highway Development Survey for consideration that day, instead of on July 6 as he originally intended.
§ House adjourned at a quarter before six o'clock.