Lords Sitting of 15 December 1868

A SPEECH OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS.
The Commons, who were sent for, being at the Bar,
The LORD CHANCELLOR delivered the Speech of the LORDS COMMISSIONERS to both Houses of Parliament, as follows:—
"My Lords and Gentlemen,
"We have it further in command from Her Majesty to acquaint you that, since the time when Her Majesty deemed it right to call you together, for the consideration of many grave and important matters, several vacancies have occurred in the House of Commons owing to the acceptance of Office from the Crown by Members of that House. It is therefore Her Majesty's pleasure that an opportunity may now be given to issue Writs for supplying the vacancies so occasioned, and that, after a suitable Recess, you may proceed to the consideration of such matters as will then be laid before you."
Then the Commons withdrew.
House adjourned during pleasure.
House resumed.

NEW PEER.
The Earl Granville, One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, acquainted the House that Her Majesty-had been pleased to create the Right Honourable Sir William Page Wood, Knight, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, a Peer of this Realm by the Title of Baron Hatherley of Down-Hatherley in the County of Gloucester, and his Lordship, having retired to robe, was introduced in the usual Manner.
The Earl of Abergavenny—Sat first in Parliament after the Death of his Father.
The Lord Carysfort—Sat first in Parliament after the Death of his Father.
William Ernest Baron Feversham, having been created Viscount Helmsley of Helmsley and Earl of Feversham of Ryedale in the North Riding of the County of York—Was (in the usual Manner) introduced.

ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
EARL GEANVILLE: I may state to your Lordships that, the late Government having resigned, Her Majesty commissioned Mr. Gladstone to form a Government, which he has succeeded in doing. Under these circumstances I venture to think that your Lordships will not deem it unreasonable that I should move the Adjournment of the House to Thursday, the 11th. of February.
Motion agreed to.
House adjourned at Three o'clock, to Thursday the 11th of February next, Two o'clock.