Lords Sitting of 24 October 1882

JUDICIAL BUSINESS.
Ordered, That for the purposes of the Judicial Business of the House, Friday the 10 th day of November next be deemed the "first sitting day after the Recess."
EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION—VOTE OF THANKS TO HER MAJESTY'S NAVAL AND MILITARY FORCES.

  NOTICE OF MOTION.
  EARL GRANVILLE: My Lords, before I move the Adjournment of the House to Thursday next, at a quarter past 4 o'clock, I beg to give Notice that on that day I shall have the honour to move a Vote of Thanks to the Commander, officers, and men of Her Majesty's Forces in Egypt. It will, I
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  think, be convenient to your Lordships that I should add that, after the proceedings have concluded with respect to the Vote of Thanks, I propose to move that the House do adjourn to 11 o'clock of the 10th of November, when the Judicial Business of the House will be taken. I have also to state that Her Majesty's Government have no Business to lay before the House.
  THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY: My Lords, I do not propose to take any objection to the course proposed. I had, indeed, rather hoped that the noble Earl opposite (Earl Granville) would, in the course of his Notice, have intimated an intention on his part to give the House some information with respect to the intentions of the Government on the policy they propose to pursue in Egypt. As the noble Earl, however, has not done so, I give Notice that after the Vote of Thanks on Thursday I will ask the noble Earl a Question on the subject.
  LORD DENMANsaid, he would remind their Lordships that it was just possible that the House of Commons

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  might pass some measures which would require the consent of their Lordships' House; and, therefore, it was desirable that some little time should be given for their consideration between the Adjournment and the Prorogation. There was no doubt that each House of Parliament had the power of voting for the duration of each Adjournment; and Bills ought not to be hurried through, as the Arrears of Pent (Ireland) Bill was through all its last stages, by the suspension of the Standing Orders.
  House adjourned at half past Four o'clock, to Thursday next, a quarter past Four o'clock.