§ Message from Her Majesty brought up, and read by Mr. Speaker (all the Members being uncovered), as follows:—
§ VICTORIA R.,
§ Her Majesty, taking into consideration the important services rendered by Garnet Joseph, Lord Wolseley of Cairo, General in Her Majesty's Army, in the course of the recent Expedition to Egypt, and being desirous to confer some signal mark of Her favour for those distinguished services, recommends it to Her faithful Commons to enable Her Majesty to make provision to secure to the said Garnet Joseph, Lord Wolseley of Cairo, and to the next surviving Heir Male of his body, a Pension of Two Thousand Pounds per annum.
§ V.R.
MR. GLADSTONESir, I beg now to give Notice that on Monday next I shall move that the House do take into consideration in Committee Her Majesty's most gracious Messages, and if it should be the pleasure of the House that a Bill should be introduced to give effect to those Messages, I will move that the second reading of the Bill, when it comes forward, shall be placed as the First Order of the Day. I believe it is according to precedent that I should now move, and therefore I do now move—"That the House will, on Monday next, resolve itself into the said Committee."
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Committee thereupon upon Monday next.
§ MR. LABOUCHEREasked, whether the two Messages would be considered together or separately?