Commons Sitting of 6 August 1886

Preamble
The House met at Twelve of the clock.
The House being met, and Mr. SPEAKER ELECT having taken the Chair, a Message was delivered by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod:
"MR. SPEAKER,
"The Lords, authorized by virtue of Her Majesty's Commission, desire the immediate attendance of this Honourable House in the House of Peers."
Accordingly, Mr. SPEAKER ELECT, with the House, went up to the House of Peers, where he was presented to the said Lords Commissioners for the Royal Approbation.
Then THE LORD CHANCELLOR, one of the said Lords Commissioners, signified Her Majesty's approbation of Mr. Speaker Elect.
And the House being returned;—
MR. SPEAKER (standing in his usual place) said: I have to report to the House that, in the House of Peers, Her Majesty, by Her Royal Commissioners, has been pleased to approve the choice made of myself to the Office of your Speaker, and that I have, in your name and on your behalf, laid claim by humble Petition to Her Majesty to all your ancient and undoubted Rights and Privileges—freedom of speech in debate, freedom from arrest of your persons and servants, and, particularly, of free access to Her Majesty whenever occasion may require, and that the most favourable construction may be placed upon all your proceedings. All these, Her Majesty, by Her Commissioners, has been pleased to grant and confirm, in as ample a manner as they have ever been granted and confirmed by Her Majesty, or by any of Her Royal Predecessors.
My duty now is again to repeat my deep acknowledgments to the House for the honour conferred upon me in again placing me in this Chair. I wish to repeat my acknowledgments to the House, and again to express my sense of the obligations they have imposed upon me. It only remains for me now to invite hon.
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Members to come to the Table to take the Oath of Allegiance, and subsrcibe the Roll in the usual form; and in doing this I may be permitted to call the attention of hon. Members to a Paper which has been issued containing instructions (with the purpose of facilitating the Business). If hon. Members will kindly follow them and consent to the arrangement, I am sure it will facilitate the despatch of Business to-day and on following days.
Mr. SPEAKERthen took and subscribed the Oath, first alone; and after him several other Members took and subscribed the Oath, and several other Members made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law.
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners;—
The House went;—and being returned;—
Mr. SPEAKER reported, That the Lords Commissioners under the Great Seal for opening and holding this Parliament, had made a Communication to both Houses, which Mr. Speaker read to the House, as follows:—
My Lords and Gentlemen,
We have it further in command from Her Majesty to acquaint you that, since the time when Her Majesty deemed it right to call you together, for the consideration of many grave and important matters, several vacancies have occurred in the House of Commons owing to the acceptance of Office from the Crown by Members of that House.
It is therefore Her Majesty's pleasure that an opportunity may now be given to issue Writs for supplying the vacancies so occasioned, and that, after a suitable Recess, you may proceed to the consideration of such matters as will then he laid before you.

ELECTIONS.
Ordered, That all Members who are returned for two or more places in any part of the United Kingdom do make their election for which of the places they will serve, within one week after it shall appear that there is no question upon the Return for that place; and if any thing shall come in question touching the Return or Election of any Member,

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he is to withdraw during the time the matter is in debate; and that all Members returned upon double Returns do withdraw till their Returns are determined.

NEW WRITS.
For—
Paddington (South Division), v. Right honble. Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, commonly called Lord Randolph Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Bristol (Western Division), v. Right honble. Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, baronet, Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Birmingham (East Division), v. Right honble. Henry Matthews, Secretary of State.
Strand, v. Right honble. William Henry Smith, Secretary of State.
South West Lancashire (Newton Division), v. Right honble. Sir Richard Assheton Cross, G.C.B., Secretary of State.
Lincoln County (South Lindsey Division), v. Right honble. Edward Stanhope, Secretary of State.
Middlesex (Ealing Division), v. Right honble. George Francis Hamilton, commonly called Lord George Hamilton, First Commissioner to the Admiralty.
Leicester County (Eastern Division), v. Right honble. John James Robert Manners, commonly called Lord John Manners, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Manchester (Eastern Division), v. Right honble. Arthur James Balfour, Secretary for Scotland.
Hampstead, v. Right honble. Sir Henry Thurstan Holland, baronet, Vice President of the Committee of Council for Education.
Tower Hamlets (Saint George's Division), v. Right honble. Charles Thomson Ritchie, President of the Local Government Board.
Dublin University, v. Right honble. David Robert Plunket, First Commissioner of Works.
Cambridge University, v. Right honble. Henry Cecil Raikes, Postmaster General.
Isle of Wight, v. Sir Richard Everard Webster, Attorney General.
Plymouth, v. Edward George Clarke, esquire, Solicitor General.
Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews, v. Right honble. John Hay Athole Macdonald, Lord Advocate of Scotland.
Bute County, v. James Patrick Bannerman Robertson, esquire, Solicitor General for Scotland.
Dublin University, v. Right honble. Hugh Holmes, Attorney General for Ireland.
Liverpool (Walton Division), v. John George Gibson, esquire, Solicitor General for Ireland.
Brighton, v. Right honble. William Thackeray Marriott, Judge Advocate General.
Devon County (North East Division), v. Lieutenant Colonel William Hood Walrond, Commissioner of the Treasury.
Croydon, r. Honble. Sidney Herbert, Commissioner of the Treasury.
Wigtown County, v. Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, baronet, Commissioner of the Treasury.
Marylebone (East Division), v. Captain the honble. Charles William De la Poer Beresford, commonly called Lord Charles Beresford, Commissioner of the Admiralty.
Sheffield (Ecclesall Division), v. Ellis Ashmead - Bartlett, esquire, Commissioner of the Admiralty.
Down County (West Division), v. Right honble. Arthur William Hill, commonly called Lord Arthur Hill, Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household.
Middlesex County (Enfield Division), v. Right honble. William Pleydell Bouverie, commonly called Viscount Folkestone, Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household.
Lewisham, v. Right honble. William Heneage Legge, commonly called Viscount Lewisham, Vice Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household.
Then several other Members took and subscribed the Oath.
House at rising to adjourn till Monday next.
House adjourned at a quarter before Five o'clock till Monday next at Two o'clock.