Lords Sitting of 13 May 1878

MINUTES.
PUBLIC BILLS—First Reading—Adulteration of Seeds Act (1869) Amendment* (79); Bills of Sale * (80); Public "Works Loans * (81); Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Provisional Orders Confirmation * (82); Local Government Provisional Orders (Abingdon, &c.) * (83).
Third Reading—Railway Returns (Continuous Brakes) * (75), and passed.

MILITARY FORCES OF THE CROWN— EMPLOYMENT OF INDIAN TROOPS.
  NOTICE.
  EARL GRANVILLE, on behalf of Lord SELBORNE, gave Notice that on Thursday, the 16th, he would call attention to the question, whether the Indian troops excepted from the Vote recited in the Preamble to the Mutiny Act can, consistently with Constitutional Law, be employed during time of peace elsewhere than in Her Majesty's Indian Possessions without the previous consent of Parliament?
EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY FOR INJURIES TO THEIR SERVANTS.

  QUESTION. OBSERVATIONS.
  EARL DE LA WARR, who had given Notice to call attention to the Report from the Select Committee on Employers' Liability for Injuries to their Servants—communicated from the Commons to the Lords—said, that the noble Earl who represented the Home Office in that House informed their Lordships, before the Easter Recess, that a Bill was in course of preparation by Her Majesty's Government with reference to the liability of masters for injuries to their servants. Considering the great importance of the question, and the number of persons who were interested in it, he was anxious to ascertain what progress Lad been made
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  in the preparation of the measure; whether it would be first introduced into their Lordships' House, and the probable time when it would be submitted to their Lordships?
  EARL BEAUCHAMPsaid, that the Attorney General had promised before the Recess to introduce such a Bill into the House of Commons as speedily as possible. He (Earl Beauchamp) was sorry he was not able to say in what state the Bill now was, or when it would be introduced into the Lower House; neither could he state when it was likely to reach their Lordships' House.
  House adjourned at half past Five o'clock, till To-morrow, half past Ten o'clock.