§ VISCOUNT TURNOURI beg to ask the Prime Minister whether he proposes 377 to advise His Majesty, in conferring the dignity of a Peerage upon the hon. Member for Colne Valley, Sir James Blyth, Baronet, Sir Samuel Montague, Baronet, and Alexander Peckover, esquire, so to alter the form of Letters Patent hitherto granted to Peers as to bring it into accordance with the Resolution of this House?
§ SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANThe noble Lord's suggestion that the four Gentlemen upon whom the honour of Peerage is about to be conferred should be constituted into a sort of House of Peers by themselves with different rights and privileges from their compeers is not an idea that has occurred to me or that commends itself to me.
§ VISCOUNT TURNOURMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether we are to understand that the patents to be given to these noble Lords will confer the rights, privileges, immunities, and advantages which Peers of their estate have hitherto quietly and honourably enjoyed, although it is the right hon. Gentleman's intention compulsorily to dispossess them?
MR. STANLEY WILSONMay I ask whether, before these gentlemen were granted this high honour, there was any stipulation with them as to their action in the other House?
§ [No Answered was returned.]