HL Deb 02 May 1865 vol 178 cc1304-5

THE EARL OF CLARENDON moved that the Order of the Day for the House to go into Committee on this Bill should be discharged with the view of submitting the measure to the consideration of a Select Committee. In the event of the Motion being agreed to, he would next move that it be an instruction to the Committee to hear counsel on behalf of certain petitioners against the Bill.

Motion agreed to.

Order of the Day discharged, and Bill referred to a Select Committee.

THE EARL OF CLARENDON

suggested that the Select Committee should consist of the following Peers:— The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Bishop of London, The Earls Granville, Derby, Devon, Stanhope, Powis, Ellenborough, Harrowby, Carnarvon, and Clarendon, and Viscounts Eversley and Stratford de Redcliffe.

THE EARL OF ELLENBOROUGH

desired to be excused from serving on it.

EARL STANHOPE

said, he did not rise to object to any of the proposed names, but he thought the system of nominating Committees without any previous knowledge on the part of the House of the list of the Members was most unsatisfactory. He suggested that the mode followed in the House of Commons should be adopted by their Lordships, and that Committees should not be nominated until after the names of the Members had appeared in print in the Business Paper of the House. He would on a future day bring this matter under the consideration of the House.

EARL GRANVILLE

said, he thought it was desirable that some change should take place in the nomination of Select Committees of their Lordships' House, and that at least one days' notice should be given.

THE EARL OF ELLENBOROUGH

said, that if it was intended to make the proposed alteration, the sooner it was done the better. He proposed that the appointment of this Committee should be deferred until after the alteration had been made.

THE EARL OF CLARENDON

said, he would not ask their Lordships to name the Select Committee until Thursday next, and in the meantime he would give notice fo the names.

And, on Thursday, May 4, the Lords following were nominated of the Committee:—

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. E. Carnarvon.
E. Powis.
Ld. President. E. Harrowby.
D. Marlborough. V. Stratford de Redcliffe.
E. Derby. V. Eversley.
E. Devon. L. Bp. London.
E. Stanhope. L. Lyttelton.
E. Clarendon. L. Houghton.