§ PUBLIC BILLS—Second Reading—Metropolitan Board of Works (Further Powers) [6]; Cruelty to Animals Acts Amendment [26], debate adjourned; Real Assets Administration* [98].
§ Message to attend the Lords Commissioners;—
§ The House went; and being returned;—
MR. SPEAKER (Members standing uncovered)said: I have to inform the House that this House has this day been summoned to the House of Peers, where the Lords, authorized by Her Majesty's Commission, have signified Her Majesty's approbation of me as Speaker of this House. From this place I again beg to tender my respectful acknowledgments to the House for the great honour which they have conferred upon me by investing me with this great Office; and I again wish to repeat that I place whatever energies I may possess 32 at the entire disposal of this House, and I will consult to the best of my power its rights and its interests.