Lords Sitting of 23 February 1897

LORD FARNHAM.
Petition of Somerset Henry Maxwell Lord Farnham claiming a right to vote at the elections of Representative Peers for Ireland: Read, and referred to the Lord Chancellor to consider and report thereupon to the House.

NEW PEER.
Sir Joseph Lister, Baronet, President of the Royal Society, having been created Baron Lister of Lyme Regis in the County of Dorset—Was (in the usual manner) introduced.
House adjourned at Half-past Four o'clock, to Thursday next, a Quarter past Ten o'clock.