§ EARL STANHOPEMy Lords, perhaps before the Royal Commission your Lordships might like to know that when we re-assemble on January 16, it is proposed that on that day the Government 295 shall make a statement on the situation of the war similar to the one they have made to-day.
§ LORD SNELLOn the first day?
§ EARL STANHOPEYes.
§ House adjourned during pleasure.
§ House resumed.