Commons Sitting of 28 August 1860

MINUTES.
NEW WRIT ISSUED.—For Ludlow, v. Colonel the Hon. Percy Egerton Herbert, Chiltern Hundreds.
THE MILITIA AND THE HARVEST.

  QUESTION.
  MR. BAILLIE COCHRANEsaid, he would beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether Her Majesty's Government will consider the propriety of, as far as possible, not calling out the Militia for the annual training in the various counties until the harvest shall have been well gathered in?
  VISCOUNT PALMERSTONsaid, he certainly hoped there would be a harvest this year, though he feared it might not be a good one. There were only thirteen regiments of Militia not yet trained. The majority of the regiments were called out in April and May, and the remaining thirteen were usually called out in September or October. The precise period for calling out those regiments was fixed by the Lord-lieutenants, according to their notions of what time would be most convenient.

  PROROGATION OF THE PARLIAMENT.
  Message to attend the LORDS COMMISSIONERS.
  The Mouse went, and the ROYAL ASSENT was given to several Bills: And afterwards a Speech of the LORDS COMMISSIONERS was delivered to both Houses by the LORD CHANCELLOR.
  Then a Commission for Proroguing the Parliament was read,
  After which,
  THE LORD CHANCELLOR THE LORD CHANCELLOR said:
  My Lords and Gentlemen,
  BY virtue of Her Majesty's Commission, under the Great Seal, to us and other
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  Lords directed, and now read, we do, in Her Majesty's Name, and in obedience to Her Commands, prorogue this Parliament to Tuesday the Sixth Day of November next, to be then here holden; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Tuesday the Sixth Day of November next.