§ The Lord Chancellorreported her Majesty's answer to their Lordships' congratulatory address of Friday last as follows:—
I thank you for this dutiful and affectionate address. I feel deeply your approbation of my choice, and it gives me great satisfaction to find that an event so essential to my domestic happiness is also considered conducive to the interests of my people.
§ The Marquess of Lansdownereported to the House that he, and the other noble Lords appointed to attend his Royal Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha with the congratulatory message sent from that House on the happy occasion of the nuptials of her Majesty, had attended his Royal Highness accordingly, and that his Royal Highness was pleased to say—
I return the House of Lords my warmest thanks for the message which you have now delivered. I learn with lively satisfaction their approbation of the choice which her Majesty has made, and it will be the study of my life to justify the favourable opinion which you have now expressed.
§ The Marquess of Lansdownealso reported that her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent had been waited on with the congratulatory message sent from that House on the happy occasion of the nuptials of her Majesty, and that her Royal Highness was pleased to say,
I receive with great satisfaction this mark of the attention and regard of the House of Lords, which is most gratifying to my feelings, and I return them many thanks for their congratulations.The answers were severally ordered to be entered on the journals.