Lords Sitting of 7 February 1895

Preamble
THE LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at a quarter after Four of the clock.
NOTICE OF MOTION.
VISCOUNT CROSSgave Notice that on an early day he should call attention to the great delay in the presentation of the Report of the Opium Commission. That Commission, he believed, finished its sittings before Parliament was prorogued last Autumn, and, as he understood, the Report itself was promised in the Autumn. It had not yet appeared, and he could not help saying it was somewhat unfair to the Indian Government that they should not know what the Report of the Commission might be. At the same time he should call attention to the expenditure which had been placed on the Indian Government in consequence of this Commission. They must bear half the expense of the Commission, which, he was bound to say, in the circumstances, seemed extremely hard.

SCOTTISH SEA FISHERIES.
THE LORD PRIVY SEAL (Lord TWEEDMOUTH)presented a Bill for the Better Regulation of Sea Fisheries in Scotland.
Bill read 1a.
House adjourned shortly after half after Four o'clock till To-morrow at a quarter after Four o'clock.