Lords Sitting of 14 April 1874

MINUTES.
PUBLIC BILLS—First Reading—Middlesex Sessions * (22); Public Works Loan Commissioners (Loans to Schooll Boards) * (23); Cattle Disease (Ireland) * (24).
Third Reading—Attorneys and Solicitors (6) *, and passed.

ASHANTEE WAR (VOTE OF THANKS).

  ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SIR GARNET WOLSELEY, K.C.B.
  The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That he had received a Letter from Major-General Sir Garnet J. Wolseley, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., in return to the Thanks of this House and to the resolutions of the 80th ultimo, communicated to him in obedience to an Order of this House of the said date: the said letter, being read as follows:—
  "My Lord Chancellor,
  "I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's letter of the 31st ult., conveying to me the Resolutions of the House of Lords, thanking me and other Officers and Soldiers and Sailors who took part in the operations on the Gold Coast and the Expedition to Ashantee. It is, perhaps, needless for me to inform your Lordship how highly this great honour is appreciated by all of us. I have requested His Royal Highness the Field Marshal Commanding in Chief and the Lords of the Admiralty to signify to the Officers and Men under their command the contents of these Resolutions,"
  —was ordered to lie on the Table, and to be entered on the Journals.
  House adjourned at a quarter past Five o'clock, to Thursday next, half past Ten o'clock.