Lords Sitting of 16 February 1872

MINUTES.
PUBLIC BILL—Committee—Report—Burial Grounds* (6).

VACCINATION LAWS.—QUESTION.
LORD BUCKHURSTasked Her Majesty's Government, If the facts are true as reported in the public Press, that in a case of vaccination lately brought before the magistrates by the vaccination officer of Islington, the magistrates threw every obstacle in the way of the due carrying out of the Vaccination Laws?
THE EARL OF MORLEYsaid, he had made inquiries in the proper quarters and found that no complaint had been made to the Local Government Board, or the Government, on the matter to which the noble Lord's Question referred.

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL—APPOINTMENT OF SIR ROBERT COLLIER—THE DIVISION.
THE DUKE OF RICHMONDstated that, in reporting the division of last night a mistake had been made as to the numbers. The Not-Contents were 88, and not 89; so that the majority for the Not-Contents was 1 instead of 2.
THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURYsaid, that the correction was material. It would be interesting to each one of the noble Lords who had been brought from Italy and other places to vote for the Government to know that the majority on the side of Government was just 1.
THE EARL OF KIMBERLEYsaid, he did not know why it should be assumed that the error lay with the Tellers—it was just as likely that it occurred with the Division clerks. In that case the numbers would remain as they were reported.
EARL GRANVILLEasked who those noble Lords who had been brought from Italy were? He would be glad to see them.
House adjourned at half-past Five o'clock, to Monday next, Eleven o'clock.