§ The Sitting was suspended.
§ MR. SPEAKERtook the Chair at Four of the clock.
Mr. Speaker acquainted the House, "That he had issued during the Recess Warrants for New Writs—
For County Down (Northern Division) in the room of Colonel Thomas Waring, deceased; County of Durham (Darlington Division), in the room of Arthur Pease, Esquire, deceased; Lancashire, South-West (Ormskirk Division), in the room of the Right Honourable Sir Arthur Bower Forwood, Baronet, deceased; County of Fermanagh (Northern Division), in the room of Richard Martin Dane, Esquire, Q.C., who hath accepted the Office of a County Court Judge; City of Oxford, in the room of Sir Arthur Annesley, Viscount Valentia, who hath accepted the Office of Controller of Her Majesty's Household; Liverpool, (Kirkdale Division), in the room of Sir George Baden-Powell, K.C.M.G., deceased; Buckinghamshire (Mid or Aylesbury Division), in the room of Ferdinand James de Rothschild, Esquire (commonly called Baron de Rothschild), deceased; Lancashire, South-West (Newton Division), in the room of the Honourable Thomas Wodehouse Legh, called up to the House of Peers; County of Surrey (Mid or Epsom Division), in the room of Thomas Townsend Bucknill, Esquire, Q.C., who hath accepted the Office of a Justice of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice.