§ 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.
436§ 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.