§ REPLY TO THE MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE.
THE MARQUESS OF TAVISTOCK, having been appointed, together with the Earl PERCY, to attend upon Her Royal and Imperial Highness the Duchess of Edinburgh with a Message of Condolence of this House, reported that Her Royal and Imperial Highness had been pleased to reply:—
§ Clarence House, St. James's, S.W.
§ My Lords,
§ I beg that you will have the goodness to convey to the House of Commons the assurance of my deep gratitude for the Message of Condolence which it has sent to me, and of which you have been the bearers.
§ The feeling to which the House has given expression, on the subject of the death of my beloved father, has been to me and to the other members of my family a source of the greatest consolation.
§ MARIE.