Lords Sitting of 19 February 1878

MINUTES.
Sat First in Parliament— The Lord de Clifford, after the death of his father.
SELECT COMMITTEE—Intemperance, Earl of Shaftesbury discharged.
PUBLIC BILLS—Second Reading —Public Parks (Scotland) (18).
Committee —Report —House Occupiers Disqualification Removal*(17); Parliamentary Elections (Metropolis)*(12).

THE EASTERN QUESTION—THE OCCUPATION OF GALLIPOLL—QUESTION.
THE DUKE OF ARGYLL: My Lords, perhaps the noble Earl at the head of the Foreign Office will allow me to ask him, Whether, without injury to the public service, he can give the House any further information with regard to the negotiations now understood to be carried on respecting the occupation of Gallipoli?
THE EARL OF DERBY: My Lords, I am always ready to give your Lordships any information in my power; but all I can say on the very important subject to which the noble Duke has called attention is that those communications are still going on between the two Governments. I have no doubt that at the next meeting of this House I shall be in a position to state the result.

PUBLIC PARKS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
(The Lord Kinnaird.)
PUBLIC PARKS (SCOTLAND) BILL.

  (NO. 18) SECOND READING.
  Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
  LORD KINNAIRD,in moving that the Bill be now read the second time,

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  said, it was one to enable Local Authorities in Scotland to acquire and lay out land for Public Parks and Pleasure Grounds. These places of recreation were much needed for the population of our large overcrowded towns, and in England the privilege was granted which, by the present Bill, it was sought to extend to Scotland. Every enacting clause of the Bill was already law in England; and the Bill as it stood was approved by the Lord Advocate as well as by the Home Secretary, having been, with slight Amendments, carried with their help in the House of Commons. Parliament had always been disposed to view with favour attempts to bring the laws of England and Scotland into harmony, and this Bill was a step in that direction.
  Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a" —(The Lord Kinnaird.)
  THE EARL OF REDESDALEpointed out that a formal alteration in respect to procedure under the Bill was desirable in the Bill as it came up from the other House.
  Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.
  House adjourned at a quarter past Five o'clock, to Thursday next, half past Ten o'clock.