§ Lord John Russellsaid, that he considered it to be his duty to move, in accordance with what had been done by that House on other occasions, that an address of condolence be presented to Her Majesty the Queen Dowager on the melancholy occasion of his late Majesty's decease. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager had had the melancholy satisfaction of doing everything that it was possible even for a person in humble life to do, to assuage the pain under which his late Majesty suffered during the last days of his existence. He believed, that there was no one who was not aware that her Majesty the Queen Dowager had actually, and to a very great extent, risked her own health by her constant, unremitting and sleepless attendance upon his late Majesty. He felt it right also to observe, that her conduct on that trying occasion had been only such as his Majesty and the country might have expected from the constant care and faithful affection with which she had ever attended to the wishes and desires of her royal husband. He thought he need say no more to induce the House to join in a message to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, assuring her of the deep and unabated respect with which they regarded her.
§ Agreed to unanimously.
§ To be presented by Lords Morpeth, Ashley, Seymour, and Alford and by Mr. Labouchere, and Mr. Estcourt.