Lords Sitting of 30 April 1877

MINUTES.
PUBLIC BILLS—Second Reading—Judicial Proceedings (Rating) (37); Elementary Education Provisional Order Con-
100
firmation (London) [48]; Elementary Education Provisional Orders Confirmation (Cardiff, &c.) (50); Metropolis Toll Bridges (45).

BURIAL ACTS CONSOLIDATION BILL.

  NOTICE OF AMENDMENT.
  EARL GRANVILLE: My Lords, I beg to give Notice that in Committee on the Burials Bill I will move an Amendment on the 74th clause, and also move to add two clauses embodying the Resolution which was matter of discussion on the second reading. The words of my Amendment to the 74th clause and of the two clauses I will lay before your Lordships on another evening. I may observe that the Committee is put down for Ascension Day, and as that is a day on which your Lordships do not sit, I do not know whether there is any significance in the circumstance.
  THE EARL OF CARNARVONsaid, that the putting down of the Committee for Ascension Day must have been an oversight. He would bring it under the notice of his noble Friend the Lord President, who had charge of the Bill, but was not then in his place.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY — THE WAR—PROCLAMATION OF NEUTRALITY.

  QUESTION.
  EARL GRANVILLE: I gave my noble Friend (the Earl of Derby) private Notice of a Question which I should not put in his absence, only I have no doubt the noble Earl the Secretary for the Colonies will be able to answer it. The Question is, Whether Her Majesty's Government will issue a Proclamation of Neutrality now that hostilities have broken out between Russia and Turkey?
  THE EARL OF CARNARNON: In the absence of my noble Friend the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who is at Windsor, I have to inform your Lordships that the Government will issue a Proclamation of Neutrality, and that probably it will be issued within the next few hours.
  House adjourned at half past Five o'clock, till To-morrow, half past Ten o'clock.