Lords Sitting of 18 March 1898

Preamble
THE LORD CHANCELLOR THE LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at a Quarter past Four of the clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
  STIRLING GAS BILL. [H.L.]
  Witnesses ordered to attend the Select Committee.
  LISKEARD CORPORATION (WATER) BILL. [H.L.]
  THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES (The Earl of MORLEY)informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn; Order made on 7th instant discharged; Bill committed.
  GUY'S HOSPITAL BILL. [H.L.]
  Reported with Amendments.
  LANARKSHIRE AND DUMBARTONSHIRE RAILWAY BILL. [H.L.]
  Reported with Amendments.
  CHIPSTEAD VALLEY RAILWAY BILL. [H.L.]
  Reported with Amendments.
  REDHILL AND REIGATE GAS BILL. [H.L.]
  Report from Select Committee, That the promoters do not intend to proceed further will the Bill; Ordered, That the Bill be not further proceeded with.
  YEOVIL GAS BILL. [H.L.]
  Report from Select Committee, That it is not expedient to proceed further with the Bill.
  LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL.
  Brought from Commons; Read a first time, and referred to Examiners.
  WRITERS TO THE SIGNET WIDOWS' FUND BILL.
  Brought from Commons; Read a first time, and referred to Examiners.
RETURNS, ETC.
  TRADE REPORTS, 1898.
  Annual Series: Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance: No. 2038, Galveston and Sabine Pass; No. 2039, Canary Islands; Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.
  POLLING DISTRICTS (BOROUGH OF BIRKENHEAD).
  Resolution of the Council of the Borough of Birkenhead re-dividing into convenient polling districts the Parliamentary and Municipal Borough of Birkenhead; Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.
PETITIONS.
  INTOXICATING LIQUORS.
  Against sale of on Sundays from inhabitants of Calverley; Read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
  BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.
  Against any change in the Prayer Book and Thirty-nine Articles, and Civil and Religious Rights and Liberties of this Realm; Read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
  HART'S DIVORCE BILL. [H.L.]
  House in Committee (according to order): Amendment made; Standing Committee negatived; Report of Amendment to be received on Monday next.
  STANDING COMMITTEE.
  Report from Committee of Selection for Standing Committee, That they have added the Lord Ludlow to Standing Committee; Read, and ordered to lie on the Table.

  LONDON UNIVERSITY COMMISSION BILL. [H.L.]
  Read a third time (according to order): Amendment made; Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.
  Motion made—
  "That a return be issued of the number of students trained year by year either at day training colleges or as 'University students' in residential training colleges; and the numbers now serving in public elementary schools or training colleges."—(The Lord Norton.)

  STUDENTS IN DAY AND RESIDENTIAL COLLEGES.
  LORD NORTON: My Lords, I beg to move for a return of the students trained either at day colleges, or as "university students" in residential colleges; and the names of the public elementary schools in which they are now serving. I intend when the return is presented to call your Lordships' attention to a report from the Education Department upon the subject of the pupil-teacher system. It is a report of considerable importance, and one which I doubt very much if your Lordships have seen, as I understand it has not been circulated. I shall also call attention, to the new annual education code, which I fancy many of your Lordships are not aware has become law, by lying in "dummy" for 30 days on your Lordships' table—a rather dangerous process of legislation. This Motion is merely for statistics, which I hope to get at an early date, so that I can call attention to these matters.
  THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (The Duke of DEVONSHIRE): My Lords, we are quite ready to grant this return, but I would suggest that the noble Lord should alter his Motion, and make it read as follows—
  "To move for a return of the number of students trained year by year, either at day training colleges or as 'university students' in residential training colleges; and the numbers now serving in public elementary schools or training colleges."
  If the names are given, it will make the return very voluminous, and I have no doubt that the numbers will answer the noble Lord's purpose.
  LORD NORTON: I entirely agree to the alteration which the noble Duke has made in my Motion, and I now move it as modified.
  Question put.
  Motion agreed to.
  House adjourned at 4.40.