HL Deb 24 March 1879 vol 244 c1494
THE EARL OF CAMPERDOWN

gave Notice that to-morrow evening the Marquess of Lansdowne, in moving his Resolution on the subject of the Zulu War, would add to it the words— And the House regrets that, after the censure passed on the High Commissioner by Her Majesty's Government in the Despatch of the 19th of March, 1879, the conduct of affairs in South Africa should be retained in his hands.

VISCOUNT CRANBROOK

The Motion to be proposed by the noble Marquess (the Marquess of Lansdowne) having now lost its ambiguity, and being a censure on Her Majesty's Government, I, as representing the Government, need not say that I shall not move the Previous Question, but shall meet the Motion with a direct negative.