HL Deb 07 February 1881 vol 258 c235

Order of the Day for the House to be put into Committee read, and discharged.

Moved, "That the Bill be referred to a Select Committee."—(The Lord President.)

LORD INCHIQUIN

hoped that the noble Earl (Earl Spencer) would insert a provision to extend the Bill to Ireland, and asked him whether he would do so?

EARL SPENCER,

in reply, said, he regretted that his noble Friend (Lord Inchiquin) had not given him a longer Notice of his Question, and was afraid that he was not able to give him a satisfactory answer. From what he knew of the matter he was not disposed to agree in the view of his noble Friend that the Bill should be extended to Ireland. In Ireland there were a great number of Acts bearing on the question, and the interests involved in it were even vaster than those which existed in England; but there was now sitting a Royal Commission on the navigation of rivers in Ireland, and the Government expected a very valuable Report from that Commission. He could not help thinking, therefore, that it would be better to deal with the case of the Irish rivers in a separate Bill.

On Question? agreed to.

And, on February 8, the Lords following-were named of the Committee:

Ld. President. E. Camperdown.
D. Somerset. L. Ashford.
D. Bedford. L. Monson.
D, Marlborough. L. Meldrum.
E. Derby. L. Penrhyn.
E. Sandwich. L. Norton.
E. Jersey.

And, on February 10, The Marquess of Lans-downe and The Earl Beauchamp added.