Lords Sitting of 14 March 1881

MINUTES.
SELECT COMMITTEE—Highway Acts, nominated.
PUBLIC BILLS—First Reading—Peace Preservation (Ireland)* (46); Local Government Provisional Orders (Godalming, &c.)* (48).

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.
The Queen's Answer to the Address of Monday last reported as follows:
I HAVE received your Address praying that a Commission may be issued to inquire into the constitution and working of the Ecclesiastical Courts as created or modified under the Reformation Statutes of the 24th and 25th years of King Henry the Eighth and any subsequent Acts:
And I have given directions that a Commission shall issue for this purpose in accordance with your request.

ASSASSINATION OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.
EARL GRANVILLE: My Lords, all your Lordships will have heard with consternation of the frightful crime which resulted in the death of the late Emperor of Russia. Her Majesty's Government have received no information as to the details beyond that which has appeared in the newspapers. I wish to give Notice that to-morrow I will move that an Address be presented to Her Majesty the Queen on the assassination of her Relative and Ally, the late Emperor of Russia, and that, at the same time, I will ask your Lordships to assent to a Message of Condolence to Her Imperial and Royal Highness the Duchess of Edinburgh.
ASSASSINATION OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.

  HIGHWAY ACTS.
  Select Committee on: The Lords following were named of the Committee:

  D. Somerset.

  L. Carrington.

  D. St. Albans.

  L. Meldrum.

  Ld. Steward.

  L. Leigh.

  E. De La Warr.

  L. Wolverton.

  E. Fortescue.

  L. Cottesloe.

  E. Onslow.

  L. Norton.

  V. Hardinge.

  L. Shute.

  L. Clinton.

  The Committee to meet on Friday next, at Four o'clock, and to appoint their own Chairman.
  March 15—Lord Hartismere added.
  House adjourned at a quarter past Five o'clock, till To-morrow, half past Ten o'clock.