Lords Sitting of 10 February 1899

Preamble
THE LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at Four of the clock.
PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
  GENERAL POWER DISTRIBUTING COMPANY BILL [H.L.]
  The Chairman of Commitees acquainted the House, That (pursuant to the Resolutions of the 2nd day of August last), the Bill had been lodged in the Private Bill Office, together with the declaration of the agent; Bill presented; read first and second time: Committee negatived; and, the Bill having been reported with amendments in Session 1898, Bill read third time, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  EXPLOSIVES (EXPLOSION OF DETONATORS AT LISKEARD).
  Report to the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Captain M. B. Lloyd, R.A., Her Majesty's Inspector of Explosives on the circumstances attending the explosion of detonators on the registered premises of Messrs. J. C. and C. Isaac, at Liskeard, Cornwall, on the 5th January 1899.
PRISON DIETARIES COMMITTEE.
Report to the Secretary of State for the Home Department by the departmental committee on prison dietaries;—Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.
HARWICH HARBOUR.
Abstract of the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the Harwich Harbour Conservancy Board from the time of their incorporation under the Harwich Harbour Act, 1863, down to and inclusive of the 31st day of March 1898; and also an account of their credits and liabilities (as nearly as the same can be ascertained and estimated) down to and inclusive of such last-mentioned date; together with a report of the Conservancy Board on their proceedings and on the works executed by them, and on the state of Harwich Harbour, furnished by the said Conservancy Board to the Board of Trade pursuant to the Harwich Harbour Act, 1863, section 6.
BANK OF ENGLAND.
Annual Accounts of Exchequer Bills and other Government securities purchased,—Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.
INTOXICATING LIQUORS.
Petition against the sale of, on Sundays; of inhabitants of Lewes; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
ROLL OF THE LORDS.
The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House that the Clerk of Parliaments had prepared and laid it on the Table: The same was ordered to be printed. (No. 8.)
PUBLIC BILL BUSINESS.

  COMPANIES BILL [H.L.]
  THE EARL OF DUDLEY: My Lords, I beg to move the Second Reading of this Bill. It is identically the same Bill which your Lordships have read a second time and referred to a Committee luring the last three Sessions of Parliament. I would therefore ask your Lordships to take the same course now, in order that the Committee may have an

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  opportunity of concluding their labours. The evidence which they have taken is now closed, and I trust before long they will be able to send their report to your Lordships' House.
  Question put.
  Motion agreed to.
  THE EARL OF DUDLEY: My Lords, I now move that the Bill be referred to a Select Committee, and that the following Lords be named thereof, the Committee to appoint their own Chairman:

  Lord Chancellor.

  Earl Leven and Melville.

  Earl Dudley.

  Earl Kimberley.

  Lord Belper.

  Lord Wolverton.

  Lord Revelstoke.

  Lord Macnaghten.

  Lord Monckton (V. Galway).

  Lord Mount Stephen.

  Lord Shand.

  Lord Farrer.

  Lord Davey.

  Lord James.

  Lord Aldenham.

  Question put.
  Motion agreed to.

IRREGULARITIES IN PUBLIC WORSHIP —A CONTRADICTION.
THE BISHOP OF ELY: My Lords, I desire to give a contradiction to the following passage in the speech of the honourable Member for Flint-shire, made in the House of Commons last night—
"The Bishop of Ely was visitor of Ely Theological College, in which the same practices were observed. The principal of the College, vice-principal, and chaplain were members of the English Church Union. 'The Lesser Hours of the Sarum Breviary, translated and arranged according to the Kalendar of the Church of England,' had been adopted for this College; it claimed that the festival of Corpus Christi, in honour of the transubstantiated wafer, was now observed. The book was saturated with Mariolatry. In a Latin Litany in this book precedence was given to the Pope with Bishops and 'Abbots' over the Queen."
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Mr. Smith is evidently much better acquainted with the work than I am. It is an objectionable work, and I wish to state that it is not used in the College, and never was.
House adjourned at twenty minutes to Five of the clock.