Lords Sitting of 9 June 1898

Preamble
THE LORD CHANCELLORtook his seat on the Woolsack at a Quarter-past Four of the clock.

NEW PEERS.
The EARL INNES (D. ROXBURGH)—Sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.
The EARL of BRADFORD—Sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments ha dlaid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—

CARMARTHEN IMPROVEMENT.
MUMBLES RAILWAY AND PIER.
WIGAN CORPORATION.
GLOUCESTER GAS.
GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY AND MIDLAND AND GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAYS JOINT COMMITTEE.
ILFORD IMPROVEMENT.
LLANELLY AND PONTARDULAIS RAILWAY.
Also the Certificate that no further Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bill:—

CRANBROOK DISTRICT WATER.
And also the Certificate that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with:—
ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 8). [H.L.]
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
FORRES WATER BILL. [H.L.]
A petition of the Marquess of Bute and Earl of Dumfries, praying to be heard on the petition of owners, etc., of lands, mills, distilleries, manufactories, etc., on the Black Burn and River Lossie, praying to be heard against the Bill (deposited on the 7th of March last), and on the petition of owners, etc., of lands, mills, distilleries, manufactories, etc., on the Black Burn and River Lossie, praying to be heard against the additional provision to the said Bill (deposited on the 20th May last) as if he had signed the same: Read, and ordered as prayed, the agents for the Bill consenting thereto.
HOLMES'S PATENT BILL. [H.L.]
Commons' Amendments considered, and agreed to.
PORTSMOUTH CORPORATION TRAMWAYS BILL. [H.L.]
The CHAIRMAN of COMMITTEES informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn; the Order made on the 28th of February last discharged; and Bill committed.
METROPOLITAN RAILWAY BILL.
Read the second time, and committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
NOTTINGHAM CORPORATION BILL.
Read the second time, and committed.
WALKER'S ESTATE BILL. [H.L.]
Read the second time.
SAINT THOMAS, SOUTHWARK, AND SAINT SAVIOUR, SOUTHWARK, BILL. [H.L.]
Read the third time; Passed, and sent to the Commons.
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY BILL. [H.L.]
Read the third time; Passed, and sent to the Commons.
WATH-UPON-DEARNE URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL. [H.L.]
Read the third time; Passed, and sent to the Commons.
DOVER HARBOUR BILL. [H.L.]
Read the third time; Passed, and sent to the Commons.
PAISLEY CORPORATION (LOANS) BILL.
Read the third time; Passed, and sent to the Commons.
LONDON, WALTHAMSTOW AND EPPING FOREST RAILWAY BILL.
Read the third time, with the Amendments; further Amendments made; Bill passed, and returned to the Commons.
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (ACTON SEWAGE) BILL.
Standing Order No. 93 considered (according to Order), and dispensed with, with respect to a petition of the Vestry of Chelsea; Leave given to present the said petition.
DUBLIN PORT AND DOCKS BILL.
Brought from the Commons; Read the first time, and referred to the Examiners.
EAST HAM IMPROVEMENT BILL.
Brought from the Commons; Read the first time, and referred to the Examiners.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY (NEWWORKS) BILL.
Brought from the Commons; Read the first time, and referred to the Examiners.
KEW BRIDGE AND APPROACHES BILL.
Brought from the Commons; Read the first time, and referred to the Examiners.
NEATH, PONTARDAWE, AND BRYNAMAN RAILWAY BILL.
Brought from the Commons; Read the first time, and referred to the Examiners.
PLYMOUTH AMD STONEHOUSE GAS BILL.
Brought from the Commons; Read the first time, and referred to the Examiners.
SOUTHAMPTON GAS BILL.
Brought from the Commons; Read the first time, and referred to the Examiners.
SOUTHWARK AND VAUXHALL WATER BILL.
Brought from the Commons; Read the first time, and referred to the Examiners.
TURNCHAPEL WHARVES AND WARE-HOUSES BILL.
Brought from the Commons; Read the first time, and referred to the Examiners.
USK VALLEY RAILWAY BILL.
Brought from the Commons; Read the first time, and referred to the Examiners.
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA GAS BILL.
Returned from the Commons with the Amendments agreed to.
BAKEWELL GAS BILL. [H.L.]
Returned from the Commons agreed to, with an Amendment: The said Amendment considered, and agreed to.
TORRINGTON AND OKEHAMPTON RAILWAY BILL. [H.L.]
Returned from the Commons agreed to, with Amendments.
PROVISIONAL ORDER BILLS.
  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 8) BILL. [H.L.]
  To be read the second time To-morrow.
  EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFIRMATION (LONDON) BILL. [H.L.]
  Committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
  EDUCATION DEPARTMENT PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFIRMATION (BARNES. ETC.) BILL. [H.L.]
  Committed to a Committee of the whole House on Monday next.
  WATER ORDERS CONFIRMATION BILL. [H.L.]
  Committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
  GAS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 2) BILL. [H.L.]
  Committed to a Committee of the whole House.
  TRAMWAYS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 2) BILL. [H.L.]
  Committed to a Committee of the whole House.
  TRAMWAYS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 3) BILL. [H.L.]
  Committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 5) BILL. [H.L.]
  Committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 6) BILL. [H.L.]
  Committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 9) BILL. [H.L.]
  Committed to a Committee of the whole House.
  GAS ORDERS CONFIRMATION (No. 1) BILL. [H.L.]
  House in Committee (according to Order); Amendments made; Standing Committee negatived; the Report of Amendments to be received To-morrow.
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 3) BILL.
  Read the second time (according to Order), and committed to a Committee of the whole House To-morrow.
  COMMONS REGULATION (WOLSTANTON MARSH) PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
  Read the second time (according to Order), and committed to a Committee of the whole House To-morrow.
  TRAMWAYS ORDERS CONFIRMATION> (No. 1) BILL. [H.L.]
  Read the second time (according to Order).
  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 2) BILL.
  Brought from Commons; afterwards read the first time; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners. [No. 86.]
  ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 3) BILL.
  Brought from Commons; afterwards read the first time; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners. [No. 87.]
  LEITH BURGH PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
  Brought from Commons; afterwards read the first time; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners. [No. 88.]
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 2) BILL.
  Brought from Commons; afterwards read the first time; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners. [No. 89.]
  LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 3) BILL.
  Brought from Commons; afterwards read the first time; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners. [No. 90.]
  METROPOLITAN POLICE PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
  Brought from Commons; afterwards read the first time; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners. [No. 91.]
  PILOTAGE PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
  Brought from Commons; afterwards read the first time; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners. [No. 92.]
  RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the following Papers having been commanded to be presented to this House by Her Majesty, had been so presented on the following dates by delivery to the Clerk of the Parliaments, pursuant to Order of the House of the 17th February, 1896—namely:
  COLONIES (ANNUAL).
  No. 229. Gambia: Annual Report for 1897. (May 27.)
  COLONIES (MISCELLANEOUS).
  No. 10. Virgin Islands: Report for 1897. (June 1.)

  TRADE REPORTS, 1898.
  Annual Series: Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance:
  No. 2106. Portugal (Chindè);
  No. 2108. China (Shamshui);
  No. 2109. Japan;
  No. 2110. Spain (Barcelona);
  No. 2111. Turkey (Salonica), (June 2.)

  NAVIGATION AND SHIPPING.
  Annual Statement for the year 1897. (June 3.)
  TRADE REPORTS, 1898.
  Miscellaneous Series: Reports on Subjects of General and Commercial Interest: No. 459. Report on the Congo Independent State. (June 6.)
  NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.
  Forty-first Annual Report of the Trustees (1898).
  ROYAL OBSERVATORY (EDINBURGH).
  Seventh Annual Report of the Astronomer-Royal for Scotland.
  INDIA (CONTAGIOUS DISEASES), No. 1. 1898.
  Memorial addressed to the Secretary of State for India on the subject of the Measures recently adopted for dealing with contagious disease in the Indian Army.
  TURKEY (1898), No. 3.
  Further correspondence respecting the affairs of Crete (in continuation of Turkey, Nos. 11 and 12) (1897).
  COUNTY TREASURERS (FEE FUND) (IRELAND).
  Accounts for the year ended 25th March, 1898.
  AGRICULTURAL (STATISTICS (IRELAND).
  Agricultural Statistics; with detailed Report for the year 1897.
  ARMY (VOLUNTEER CORPS).
  Annual Return for the year 1897.
  ARMY (PAY).
  List of Exceptions to Army Regulations as to Pay, Non-effective Pay, and allowances sanctioned during the year ended 31st March, 1898.
  CROFTERS' HOLDINGS (SCOTLAND) ACTS. 1886–87.
  Report by Crofters' Commission, being for the year ended 31st December, 1897. (June 7.)

  RULE OF THE ROAD AT SEA.
  Reports of a Committee appointed by the Board of Trade to consider—

  1. The lights and signals to be carried by fishing vessels;

  2. The expediency of requiring all ships to keep out of the way of steam fishing vessels;

  3. The lights to be carried by steam pilot vessels;

  with minutes of evidence, appendix, and index. (June 8.)
  The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

  FOREIGN JURISDICTION ACT, 1890.
  Order in Council of the 19th May, 1898, regulating the Coinage of the British East Africa Protectorate.
  Order in Council of the 19th May, 1898, applying the Colonial Probates Act, 1892, to the Island of St. Vincent.
  INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT ACTS, 1844 TO 1886.
  Order in Council of the 19th May, 1898, extending to the Republic of Hayti the provisions of the Order in Council of 7th March, 1898, which gives effect to the additional Act to the Berne Convention respecting copyright.

  WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT, 1878, AND WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (METRIC SYSTEM) ACT, 1897.
  Two Orders in Council of the 19th May, 1898—

  1. Approving new denominations of metric standards; and

  2. Making a table of metric equivalents in substitution for the table in Part I. of the Third Schedule to the "Weights and Measures Act, 1878."

  MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1894.
  Order in Council of the 19th May, 1898, applying section 238 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (Foreign Deserters) in the case of Japan.
  SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE AMENDMENT ACT, 1875.
  Order in Council of 19th May, 1898, amending the Order in Council of 28th July, 1893, so fur as it relates to the Summer Assizes on the North and South Wales Circuits
  FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACTS (MANUFACTURE OF EARTHENWARE AND CHINA).
  Special rules with regard to the employment of persons in the manufacture of earthenware and china.
  MERCHANT SEAMEN'S FUND.
  Account of the Receipts and Expenditure under the Seamen's Fund Winding-up Act, for 1897.
  GREENWICH HOSPITAL AND TRAVERS FOUNDATION.
  Statement of the Estimated Income and Expenditure of Greenwich Hospital and of Travers' Foundation for 1898–99.
  IMPERIAL DEFENCE ACT, 1888.
  Account of all Moneys issued from the Consolidated Fund, of sums borrowed, and of transactions in relation to sums so borrowed, up to 31st March, 1898, in pursuance of the Imperial Defence Act, 1888.
  LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.
  Returns relating to the Council up to 31st March, 1898, with estimate of Expenditure for the year ending 31st March, 1899.

  SUPERANNUATION.
  Treasury Minute, dated 20th May, 1898, granting a retired allowance to Mr. Francis H. Miller, late Superintendent and Victualling Storekeeper at Deptford, under the Board of Admiralty, under section 2 of the Superannuation Act, 1887.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ACT, 1877.
  Statutes made by governing bodies of the following—

  1. Magdalen College, Oxford, on 1st February, 1898, amending Statutes;

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  2. Downing College, Cambridge, on 26th February, 1898, altering Statute VI. "of the Fellows," of the Statutes of the College.

  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and to be printed. [No. 79.]

  EDUCATION (SCOTLAND).
  General Reports by Chief Inspectors, for 1897, of Southern Division.

  EDUCATION.
  1. Minute of Committee of Council on Education, of the 6th June, 1898—

  1. Rescinding the Minute of the 15th June, 1897 (providing for the auditing of the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of Schools receiving a share of the Aid Grant under the Voluntary Schools Act, 1897);

  2. Modifying Article 85 (d) of the Day School Code, 1898.

  II. West Central Division: General Report for the year 1897.

  TRADE REPORTS, 1898.
  Annual Series: Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance:
  No. 2107. Italy (Genoa);
  No. 2113. Italy (Sardinia);
  No. 2114. Montenegro.

  TRADE.
  Annual Statement of Trade of United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions for 1897, compared with the four preceding years.
  BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
  Agricultural Returns for Great Britain, showing the acreage and produce of crops, prices of corn, with agricultural statistics for the United Kingdom, British Possessions, and Foreign Countries.

  HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT (FRESCOES).
  Further memoranda by Professor Church, F.R.S., concerning the wall paintings in the Palace of Westminster (in continuation of Parliamentary Papers [C.-7651.] and [C.-8054.]).
  Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

PETITION.
  INTOXICATING LIQUORS.
  Petition against the sale of, on Sundays; of Meeting at Chorlton-cum-Hardy; Read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
NEW BILLS.
  SEA FISHERIES BILL. [H.L.]
  "To amend the Law relating to Sea Fisheries": presented by the Lord Heneage; read the first time; to be printed; and to be read second time on Monday, the 20th instant. [No. 80.]
  CANALS PROTECTION (LONDON) BILL.
  Brought from Commons; afterwards read the first time; to be printed; and to be read the second time on Monday next. (The Viscount Knutsford.) [No. 81.]
  PHARMACY ACTS AMENDMENT BILL.
  Brought from Commons; afterwards read the first time, and to be printed. [No. 82.]
  POOR LAW UNIONS' ASSOCIATION BILL.
  Brought from Commons; afterwards read the first time, and to be printed. [No. 83.]
  SHERIFFS' TENURE OF OFFICE (SCOTLAND) BILL.
  Brought from Commons; afterwards read the first time; to be printed; and to be read the second time on Tuesday next. (The Lord Balfour.) [No. 84.]

  SOCIETIES' BORROWING POWERS BILL.
  Brought from Commons; afterwards read the first time; to be printed; and to be read the second time on Tuesday next. (The Lord Plunket.) [No. 85.]
  House adjourned at 4.40.