§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR (The Earl of HALSBURY)My Lords, I cannot forbear from saying on the present occasion a word or two on the subject of the loss which your Lordships' House has sustained in the death of my noble and learned friend Lord Shand. He was sitting with us in the performance of his judicial duties a very short time ago, and I think it is only due to his memory to say that, after a long and a distinguished career as a Judge in Scotland, he, while being under no sort of obligation to attend our sittings and without any remuneration or reward of any kind, was for more than eleven years aiding and assisting, both in this House and on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in the discharge of judicial business. We have derived great advantage from his assistance, which was always most cheerfully rendered in either of these tribunals; and without his assistance sometimes it would not have been easy to have had both Courts going at the same time, and the concentration of both into one would have resulted in serious delays to the judicial business of the House. It would be very ungrateful if we did not recognise the most generous and disinterested services which for so long a time Lord Shand rendered with such great advantage to the public.
§ House adjourned at half-past Four o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.