§ The House being met; and, it being the first day of the meeting of this Parliament, pursuant to Proclamation, SIR EDWARD ABDY FELLOWES, K.C.B., C.M.G., M.C., Clerk of the House of Commons, DOUGLAS JOHN GORDON, ESQUIRE, and THOMAS GEORGE BARNETT COCKS, ESQUIRE, O.B.E., Clerks Assistant, attending in the House, and the other Clerks according to their duty, GEORGE PHILLIPS COLDSTREAM, ESQUIRE, C.B., Clerk of the Crown in Chancery in Great Britain, delivered to the said SIR EDWARD ABDY FELLOWES a book containing a List of the Names of the Members returned to serve in this Parliament.
§ Several of the Members repaired to their Seats.
§ Message to attend the Lords Commissioners;
§ The House went; and a Commission having been read for opening and holding the Parliament, the Lords Commissioners directed the House to proceed to the Election of a Speaker, and to present him Tomorrow at half-past Two o'clock, in the House of Peers, for the Royal Approbation.
§ And the House having returned:—