HC Deb 25 January 1901 vol 89 c18

MR. SPEAKER informed the House that he had received the following Telegrams of Condolence with the British. Nation in the Joss it had sustained by the death of Her late Majesty:—

Telegram, dated Athens,

23rd January, 1901, 8 p.m.

From the, President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Hellenes, to the Speaker of the House of Commons.

The Chamber of Deputies, respectfully associating itself with the grief and mourning of England, has charged me to transmit to your Excellency, and by your intervention to the House of Commons, its heartfelt and sincere condolence. The Creek people will ever honour, and hold in grateful recollection, the glorious Queen who in their hours of difficulty graciously showed Her sympathy and goodwill.

From the President of the Chamber of Deputies of Roumania, to the Speaker of the House of Commons.

The Chamber of Deputies of Roumania, deeply moved by the calamity which has struck the noble English nation, associates itself with the national grief, and mourns with it the noble Sovereign it has lost.

From the President of the National Assembly of Servia, to the Speaker of the House of Commons.

The Servian National Assembly, sharing in the grief of the English people for the loss of the great, noble, and wise Queen Victoria, has expressed in its sitting of yesterday its very deep respect for the memory of the deceased Sovereign.

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