§ I am grateful to you for the liberal provision to which you have assented for increasing the maritime forces of my Empire.
§ MY LORDS, AND GENTLEMEN,
§ It has given me great pleasure to sanction the arrangements you have made for enlarging the important harbours of 512 Dover and Gibraltar, and for strengthening the military defences of the Empire. I anticipate that the facilities you have given for the practice of military manœuvres will conduce to the greater efficiency of the army. The assistance which your legislation has given to the support of necessitous schools will secure an adequate provision for education in the localities where it is most required, and will, I trust, close for some time a difficult and anxious controversy. The Measure which you have passed for the compensation of workmen who are injured by accidents in the course of their employment will confer great benefits on a large section of the population.
§ I recognise with satisfaction the steps you have taken to facilitate the transfer of land, to protect the interests of the consumers of water in the metropolis, to relieve distress in the congested districts of Scotland, and to reform the law of public health in that country.
§ I am rejoiced that you have been able to provide a more efficient and economical system for the judicial institutions of Ireland.
§ I pray that the fruit of your labours may be assured by the protection and blessing of Almighty God.