Lords Sitting of 17 April 1899

Preamble
The LORD CHANCELLORtook his seat upon the Woolsack at Four of the clock.

REPRESENTATIVE PEER FOR IRELAND.
Writs and Returns electing the Earl of Drogheda a Representative Peer for Ireland in the room of the Lord Dunsany deceased, with the Certificate of the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland annexed thereto: Delivered (on oath), and Certificate read.
The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have not been complied with—
Lowestoft Promenade Pier.
The same was ordered to lie upon the Table.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
  BROUGHTY FERRY GAS AND PAVING ORDER BILL [H.L.]
  Committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
  ST. ANDREW'S BURGH PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFIRMATION BILL [H.L.]
  Committed to a Committee of the Whole House.
  NORFOLK ESTUARY BILL [H.L.]
  Committee to meet on Thursday next.
  HULL, BARNSLEY, AND WEST RIDING JUNCTION RAILWAY AND DOCK BILL [H.L.]
  Committee to meet on Thursday next.
  GREAT GRIMSBY STREET TRAMWAYS BILL [H.L.]
  Committee to meet on Thursday next.
  MID-KENT GAS BILL [H.L.]
  Committee to meet on Thursday next.
  CROWBOROUGH DISTRICT GAS BILL.
  Committee to meet To-morrow.
  ST. DAVID'S WATER AND GAS BILL.
  Committee to meet To-morrow.
  STOCKTON AND MIDDLESBROUGH WATER BILL [H.L.]
  The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn. The order was made on the 27th of February last discharged; and Bill committed.

  PORTSMOUTH CORPORATION BILL [H.L.]
  The order made on the 24th of March last appointing certain Lords the Select Committee to consider the Bill, discharged.
  Glasgow Corporation (Tramways, etc.) Bill [H.L.]
  Glasgow Corporation (Gas and Water) Bill [H.L.]
  Clyde Navigation Bill [H.L.]
  Renfrew Burgh and Harbour Extension Bill [H.L.]
  Caledonian Railway (General Powers) Bill [H.L.]
  Glasgow and South-Western Railway Bill [H.L.]
  Paisley and Barrhead District Railway Bill [H.L.]
  Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Carew be proposed to the House as a Member of the Select Committee in the place of the Lord Sudeley (E. Arran); read, and agreed to.
  Glastonbury Water Bill [H.L.]
  West Highland Railway Bill [H.L.]
  Inverness Harbour Bill [H.L.]
  Cambridge University and Town Gas Bill [H.L.]
  Great Yarmouth Corporation Bill [H.L.]
  Surrey Commercial Docks Bill [H.L.]
  Read a third time, and passed, and sent to the Commons.

  METROPOLITAN POLICE PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
  Brought from the Commons.
  Barry Railway Bill.
  Brynmawr and Western Valleys Railway Bill.
  Cardiff Railway Bill.
  Central Electric Supply Bill.
  Dublin Improvement (Bull Alley Area) Bill.
  Horsforth Urban District Council (Water) Bill.
  Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (New Railways) Bill.
  Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Various Powers) Bill.
  Nottingham Corporation Bill.
  Nuneaton and Chilvers Coton Urban District Council Water Bill.
  Rhondda Urban District Council Bill.
  St. James's and Pall Mall Electric Light Bill.
  Stockport Corporation Water Bill.
  Stockport District Water Bill.
  Tenterden Railway Bill.
  Wetherby District Water Bill.
  Brought from the Commons; read a first time; and referred to the Examiners.

  CATHCART'S DIVORCE BILL [H.L.]
  Minutes of Evidence and Proceedings before this House on the Second Reading, together with the documents deposited in the case, returned from the Commons.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
The Lord Chancellor 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, viz.: —

1. Trade Reports, 1898—Annual Series: No. 2213. Trade of France. (March 28);

No. 2214. Greece (Patras and District). (March 29);

No. 2215. China (Ningpo);

No. 2216. Spain (Corunna);

No. 2217. Turkey (Jerusalem and Jaffa);

No. 2218. Portugal (Beira);

No. 2219. Trade of Argentine Republic. (April 6);

No. 2220. United States (Charleston' and District);

No. 2221. Portugal (Mozambique and Quilimane). (April 8);

No. 2222. France (Cherbourg and District);

No. 2223. Spain (Consular District of Cadiz). (April 11);

2. Pacific Cable Committee—Report, Minutes of Proceedings, etc. (April 6):

3. Historical Manuscripts Commission—

(1.) Calendar of the manuscripts of the Most Honourable the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., preserved at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire. Part VII.;

(2.) Report on the manuscripts of the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G., preserved at Montagu House, Whitehall. Vol. I.;

(3.) Report on the manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, K.P., preserved at the Castle, Kilkenny. Vol. II. (April 6):

4. Egypt, No. 3. (1899)—Report by Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General on the finances, administration, and condition of Egypt and the Soudan in 1898. (April 8):

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5 Africa (1899)—

(1.) No. 3. Report by Sir A. Hardinge on the British East Africa Protectorate for the year 1897–98;

(2.) No. 4. Papers relating to events in the Uganda Protectorate and Major Macdonald's Expedition (in continuation of Africa, No. I. (1899). (April 8):

6. Workmen's Compensation (Proceedings in County Courts)—Statisties of the proceedings in county courts, England and Wales, under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, and the Employers' Liability Act, 1880, during the rear 1898. (April 11):

7. Judicial Statistics (Ireland)—Report on the criminal and judicial statistics of Ireland for the rear 1897: with tables. Part II. Civil statistics. (April 11):

8. Irish Land Commission (Judicial Rents)—Return for the month of July 1898. (April 11):

9. Turkey No. 1 (1899)—Further correspondence respecting the affairs of Crete (in continuation of Turkey, No. 7. (1898) [C.-9086). (April 11):

10. Charity Commission (England and Wales)—Forty-sixth Report of the Charity Commissioners. (April 11):

The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

TRADE REPORTS, 1898: ANNUAL SERIES.
No. 2224. France (La Rochelle and District):
Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

COLONIES (ANNUAL), 1899.
No. 258. British New Guinea (1897–98):
Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

LOAN FUND BOARD (IRELAND).
Sixty-first Annual Report, for 1898:
Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

PRISON ACT, 1898 (SUMMARY JURISDICTION ACT, 1879).
Rule made by the Lord Chancellor, dated 6th April 1899.
COUNTY COURTS ACT. 1888, AND SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE (OFFICERS) ACT, 1879 (COUNTY COURT AND DISTRICT REGISTRAR, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE).
Order made by the Lord Chancellor, dated 11th January 1899.
UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1889.
Annual statistical report by the University Court of the University of St. Andrew's to the Secretary of Scotland, under the provisions of section 30 of the Act, for the year 1897–98.
GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL (RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE).
Returns of receipts and expenditure of the General Medical Council and of the Branch Councils for England, Scotland, and Ireland; also receipts and expenditure of the Dental Registration Fund; for the year ending 31st December 1898.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP (NOTIFICATION OF DISEASES (MERCURIAL POISONING)).
Order, dated 27th March 1899, by the Home Secretary, made in pursuance of the Act of 1878, applying the provisions of section 29 of the Act of 1895 to cases of mercurial poisoning in factories and workshops.
POLLING DISTRICTS.
Order made by the County Council of Northumberland altering the Longbenton No. 1 (or Killingworth) polling district.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
Account of moneys received and paid by the Chamberlain of the City of London in relation to the Metropolitan Cattle Market, for the year 1898; also an account of extraordinary works executed other than general repairs for the same period.
LOCAL LOANS FUND (ACCOUNTS, 1897–98).
Accounts of receipts and payments by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt in respect of the capital and income of the Local Loans Fund, for the year ended 31st March 1898; together with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General thereon.
GREEK LOAN OF 1898.
Account to 31st March 1899.
EGYPTIAN GUARANTEED LOAN OF 1885.
Account to 31st March 1899.
GOVERNMENT INSURANCES AND ANNUITIES.
Account of all moneys received on account of contracts for the grant of deferred life annuities, and for payments on death, under the provisions of the Acts 27th and 28th Victoria, chap. 43, 45th and 46th Victoria, chap. 51, and 50th and 51st Victoria, chap 40, and of the disposal thereof, and of the contracts made, for the year ended 31st December 1898.
SUPERANNUATION.
Treasury Minute, dated 22nd March 1899, granting a retired allowance to Mr. Maurice Thomas Gloster, Principal Coast officer at Cromarty, in the service of the Board of Customs, under section 2 of the Superannuation Act.

COUNTY OFFICERS AND COURTS (IRELAND) ACT, 1877 (RULES).
Rules made by the Lord Chancellor and County Court Judges under section 5 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898.
Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

NEW BILLS.
  TRAWLERS CERTIFICATES SUSPENSION BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to enable courts to suspend the certificates of trawlers convicted of illegal trawling—Was presented by the Earl of Camperdown; read first time; and to be printed. (No. 41.)
  NATIONAL MONUMENTS IN CHURCHES BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill relating to national monuments in churches—Was presented by the Earl of Camperdown; read first time; to be printed; and to be read second time on Monday next. (No. 42.)
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
  BOARD OF EDUCATION BILL [H.L.]
  Second Reading (which stands appointed for Friday next) put off to Monday next.
  LINCOLNSHIRE CORONERS BILL [H.L.]
  Committee of the Whole House (which stands appointed for Monday next) put off to Thursday the 4th of May next.
  LUNACY BILL [H.L.]
  To be read second time to-morrow.
  SUPREME COURT (APPEALS) BILL [H.L.]
  House to be in Committee to-morrow.
  METROPOLITAN POLICE PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
  Read first time; to be printed: and referred to the Examiners. (No. 43.)