§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION (EARL STANHOPE)My Lords, I beg to move, That the House on its adjournment do adjourn for business, other than judicial Business, until the 1st of November, except that if it appears to the satisfaction of the Lord Chancellor that the public interest requires that the House should meet at an earlier time during such adjournment, the Lord Chancellor may give notice to the Peers that he is so satisfied, and thereupon the House shall meet at the time stated in such notice, and shall transact its business as if it had been duly adjourned to that time.
§ Moved, That the House on its adjournment do adjourn for business, other than Judicial Business, until the 1st of November, except that if it appears to the satisfaction of the Lord Chancellor that the public interest requires that the House should meet at an earlier time during such adjournment, the Lord Chancellor may give notice to the Peers that he is so satisfied, and thereupon the House shall meet at the time stated in such notice, and shall transact its business as if it had been duly adjourned to that time.—(Earl Stanhope.)
§ LORD SNELLMy Lords, we cannot of course resist this Motion, but before the House passes it we can only express our belief that in times so serious as the present it may be quite inadvisable that Parliament should adjourn for so long a time.
§ On Question, Motion agreed to, and ordered accordingly.