Lords Sitting of 19 February 1901

Preamble
Several Lords took the Oath.

THE DEATH OF QUEEN VICTORIA.
The King's Answer to the Address of the 25th of January last, was reported as follows:—
I have received with much gratification your dutiful and affectionate Address.
I am touched and consoled by your sympathy with My grief at the loss of My beloved Mother, the Queen, to whose unfailing devotion to the welfare of Her people throughout Her long and memorable Reign you bear testimony.
I return you My thanks for the expression of your loyal attachment to My person and your confidence in My desire to promote the happiness and liberty of My subjects, and I fervently join in your prayer that Almighty God will guide and strengthen my councils to that end.
Address and Answer to be printed and published.
The LORD CHANCELLORacquainted the House that he had received a message of sympathy on the death of the late Queen from the Hungarian House of Magnates, as follows:—
MY LORD,
Greatly affected by the cruel loss which the English people had to sustain by the lamented death of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the Hungarian House of Magnates in its first Session since Her decease, held on the 8th February, has given expression to the sincere grief and profound sympathy of the Hungarian Magnates in this national sorrow, thus paying their tribute to the imperishable memory of the deceased noble Monarch, who during a reign of unparalleled duration was a never-failing paragon of constitutionalism, surrounded by the enthusiastic love of Her subjects, and the veneration of every civilised people.
The House of Magnates conferred upon me the honour of imparting, by your kind mediation, the above feelings to the House of Lords of the United Kingdom.
In discharge of this honourable commission, I have the honour to remain with the highest respect,
My Lord,
Your most obedient Servant,
A CSAKY,
A Speaker of the House of Lords.
Budapest, February 8, 1901.
The same was ordered to be entered in the Journals of the House.

NEW BILLS.
  LIGHT LOAD LINE BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to supplement the law relating to load lines on merchant ships—was presented by the Lord Muskerry; read 1a; to be printed; and to be read 2a on Tuesday next. (No. 2.)
  LICENSING SESSIONS BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to alter the qualifications of licensing authorities and the time of holding licensing sessions—was presented by the Lord Bishop of Winchester; read 1a; and to be printed. (No. 3.)
  INTOXICATING LIQUOR (SALE TO TRAVELLERS) BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to amend the law with respect to the sale of intoxicating liquors to travellers—was presented by the Lord Bishop of Winchester; read 1a; and to be printed. (No. 4.)
  HABITUAL DRUNKARDS BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to amend the law with respect to drunkenness—was presented by the Lord Bishop of Winchester; read 1a; and to be printed. (No. 5.)
RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.

  TRADE REPORTS (ANNUAL SERIES)
  No. 2554. Greece (Ionian Islands).
  No. 2555. Portugal (Province of Angola).

  CHINA, No. 1 (1901).
  Correspondence respecting the disturbances in China [in continuation of China, No.3 (1900)]
  WAGES AND EFFECTS OF DECEASED SEAMEN.
  Account of the sums received and paid in respect of the wages and effects of deceased seamen in the year ended 31stMarch, 1900.
  INDIA (TRADE).
  Tables relating to the Trade of British India with British Possessions and Foreign Countries, 1895–96 to 1899–1900.
  IRISH LAND COMMISSION (PROCEEDINGS).
  Return for the month of October, 1900.
  POST OFFICE (PARCEL POST BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND NORWAY).
  Agreement between the British and Norwegian Post Offices concerning the exchange of parcels by parcel post.
  MILK AND CREAM REGULATIONS.
  Minutes of Evidence taken before the departmental committee appointed by the Board of Agriculture to inquire and report upon the desirability of regulations under Section 4 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, for milk and cream; with appendices and index.
  STATISTICS.
  Statistical Abstract for the principal and other foreign countries in each year from 1889 to 1898–99 (as far as the particulars can be stated). Twenty-seventh number.

  BOARD OF EDUCATION.
  List of school boards and school attendance committees in England and Wales.
  Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND), ACT, 1889.
  1. Annual statistical reports by the University Courts of (1) the University of Edinburgh and (2) the University of Glasgow; to the Secretary for Scotland, under the provisions of Section 30 of the Universities (Scotland) Act, for the year 1899–1900.
  2. Abstract of accounts of the University "of Edinburgh for the year ended
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  31st August, 1900, being the annual report of the state of the finances of the University under Section 30 of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889.

  DUCHY OF CORNWALL.
  Account of receipts and disbursements for the year ended 31st December, 1900.
  DUCHY OF LANCASTER.
  Account of the receipts and disbursements in the year ended 31st December, 1900; also a separate account of the capital to the same date.
  CHELSEA HOSPITAL.
  Account for the year ended 31st March, 1900, with report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General thereon.
  GREEK LOAN.
  Annual Account for 1900.
  SARDINIAN LOAN.
  Annual Account for 1900.
  IMPERIAL OTTOMAN GUARANTEED LOAN, 1855.
  Account for the year 1900.

  PENAL SERVITUDE ACTS, 1853–1891 (CONDITIONAL LICENCES).
  1. Licence granted by Her late Majesty to Minnie Wells, a convict under detention in Aylesbury Prison, permitting the said Minnie Wells to be at large on condition that she enter the St. John the Baptist's Home, Pimlico.
  2. Licence granted by Her late Majesty to Annie Coombs, a convict under detention in Aylesbury Prison, permitting the said Annie Coombs to be at large on condition that she enter the London Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution.
  Licence granted by His Majesty to Mary Fox, a convict under detention in Aylesbury Prison, permitting the said Mary Fox to be at large on condition that she enter the East End Refuge, Finchley.

  Account of the General Lighthouse Fund, showing the Income and Expenditure for the year ended 31st March, 1900.
  RAMSGATE HARBOUR.
  Statements of receipts and payments made by the Board of Trade for the year ended 31st March, 1900; together with an account of the receipt and issue of stores.
  CAPITAL, PUNISHMENT.
  Amended rules made by the, Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the provisions of the Capital Punishment Amendment Act, 1868, for regulating the execution of capital sentences.
  BUILDING SOCIETIES.
  Sixth Annual Report by the Chief Registrar of the Friendly Societies of the proceedings of the Registrars under the Building Societies Act; with an abstract of the annual account and statements of societies for the year 1900.
  DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACTS, 1894 AND 1896.
  Order, dated 8th January, 1901, prohibiting the conveyance of animals, etc., to or from any port in Great Britain by the Steamships "King's Lynn," "Burton," and "Peterborough."

  NATIONAL DEBT.
  I. (Savings Banks and Friendly Societies)—

  1. Account of the gross amount of all sums received and paid by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt on account of banks for savings and friendly societies in Great Britain and Ireland, from their commencement at 6th August, 1817, to 20th November, 1900, inclusive.

  2. Account of the several transactions which have taken place, during the year ended 20th November, 1900, in the investment of all moneys which came into the hands of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt for savings banks and friendly societies.

  3. Account showing the aggregate amount of the liabilities of the Government to the trustees of savings banks and friendly societies respectively on 20th November, 1900, etc.

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  II. (Military Savings Banks).—Account of gross amount of all moneys received and paid by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt on account of "The Fund for Military Savings Banks," from 19th September, 1845, to 5th January, 1901:

  SUPERANNUATION (TREASURY MINUTES).
  (1) Dated 17th January, 1901, declaring that Charles Street, labourer, Royal Laboratory, War Office; (2) dated 5th February, 1901, declaring that John William Gill, messenger, Wakefield Post Office Department—were appointed without civil service certificates through inadvertence on the part of the heads of their respective departments.
  BANK OF ENGLAND.
  Annual Accounts of Exchequer Bills and other Government securities purchased for the year ended, 5th January, 1901.
  PRIVATE LEGISLATION PROCEDURE (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1899.
  Additional and amending general orders for the regulation of proceedings under and in pursuance of the Act.
  DOCKYARD PORTS REGULATION ACT, 1860.
  Order in Council of the 13th Decenfvor, 1900, amending an Order in Council of the 26th February, 1897, relating to the Dockyard Port of Portsmouth.

  COUNTY COURTS ACT, 1888.
  Order of the Lord Chancellor, dated 29th January, 1901, under section 45 of the Act, ordering that Francis Bramston McCrea, Registrar of the County Court of Devonshire, held at Plymouth and East Stone house, shall not practise as a solicitor, and that Section 20 of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Officers) Act, 1879, shall not apply to the office of the said Mr. Francis Bramston McCrea.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ACT, 1877.
  I. Statutes made by the Governing Bodies of—

  1. Brasenose College, Oxford, on 20th June, 1900, altering

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  Statutes III., V., XIII., and XVI. of the College Statutes;

  2. New College, Oxford, on the 10th October, 1900, and sealed on 23rd October, 1900, altering Statute III. of the College Statutes.

  II. Statute made by the Governing Body of the University of Cambridge on 13th October, 1900, altering Statute B. of the University Statutes.

  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and to be printed. (No. 6.)

  UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1899.
  1. University Court Ordinance No. III. (St. Andrews, No. 1). Foundation of Bute Chair of Anatomy in the University of St. Andrews.
  2. University Court Ordinance No. IV. (St. Andrews No. 2). Foundation of the Chandos Chair of Physiology in the University of St. Andrews.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and to be printed. (No. 7.)

  ALIEN IMMIGRATION.
  Return of the number of aliens that arrived from the continent at ports in the United Kingdom in each month of the year 1901: Ordered to be laid before the House.—(The Earl of Dudley.)
  Return (in part) respecting. Laid before the House (pursuant to order of the day), and to be printed. (No. 8.)

  PRIVATE LEGISLATION PROCEDURE (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1899.
  Ordered that all petitions deposited at the Office of the Secretary for Scotland, pursuant to General Order 77, in favour of or against any proposed Provisional Order, the provisions of which are subsequently proceeded with as a Bill in this House under section 2 (4) of the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, shall, on transmission from the Office of the Secretary for Scotland, be received as if duly deposited in favour of or against such Bill.— (The Chairman of Committees.)
  House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before five of the clock, to Thursday next, a quarter past four of the clock.