§ MR. CALDWELL (Lanarkshire, Mid.)I beg to ask the Lord-Advocate whether, by the Warrant issued under His Majesty"s Royal Sign Manual of date 3rd instant, under which every Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland on his retirement shall be entitled to retain the title of Lord with the prefix of Honourable enjoyed by him as a Lord of Session, and the wife of every Senator of the College of Justice shall be entitled to assume and use the title of Lady and to continue to use the same during the life of her husband and after his death so long as she remains a widow, it is intended to confer any precedence on such Senator or his wife or widow, and, if so, what precedence is to be given to them respectively; and whether the practice of granting title and fixing precedence in the same Warrant has been departed from in this instance, and, if so, why.
MR. SCOTT DICKSONThere is at present no Table of Precedence in Scotland of any authority, and consequently it was impossible to fix precedence in the Warrant. The question of establishing a Scottish Table of Precedence by Royal Warrant is at present under consideration.