§ Their Lordships' House met at Two of the Clock.
§ The Fifth Session of the Fourteenth Parliament of Her Majesty the Queen, and the Twenty-sixth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was opened by Commission.
§ The Lords Commissioners were the LORD CHANCELLOR (Earl of Halsbury), the LORD CHAMBERLAIN (Earl of Hopetoun), the MASTER OF THE BUCKHOUNDS (Earl of Coventry), the SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (Lord Balfour of Burleigh), and the CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER (Lord James of Hereford).
§ And the Commons being at the Bar with their Speaker, the Lord Chancellor delivered Her Majesty's Speech to both Houses of Parliament as follows: