Lords Sitting of 6 March 1905

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—Barrymore Estate (Petition for Bill); Caledonian Railway.
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
Dearne Valley Railway Bill [H.L.]; Clyde Navigation (Reconstitution) Bill [H.L.]. Read 2a, and committed. The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
Medway and Thames Canal Bill [H.L.]. The CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES informed the House that the Promoters do not intend to proceed further with the Bill. Ordered, That the Bill be not further proceeded with.
Oldham and Saddleworth District Tramways Bill [H.L.]. The CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn. The order made on the 3rd instant discharged, and Bill committed.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.

  BOARD OF ADMIRALTY.
  Statement showing present distribution of business between the various members of the Board of Admiralty, dated 20th October, 1904; and that which is superseded, dated 1st January, 1904.
  Order in Council, dated 10th August, 1904, showing designations of the various members and secretaries to the Board, and the definition of the business to be assigned to them.

  Memorandum showing progress and expenditure, etc., on items included in the Naval Works Act.
  TRADE REPORTS: ANNUAL SERIES.
  No. 3327. Belgium (Antwerp).

  CHURCH ESTATES COMMISSION.
  Fifty-fourth Report from the Church Estates Commissioners, for the year preceding 1st March, 1905.
  Presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  CHURCH TEMPORALITIES (IRELAND).
  Report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General upon the account of the Irish Land Commission in respect of Church Temporalities in Ireland, for the year ended 31st March, 1904, together with the account for the above period and that from 26th July,1869 (the date of the Irish Church Act) to 31st March, 1904.

  SEA AND COAST FISHERIES FUND (IRE- LAND) (NON-CONGESTED DISTRICTS).
  Account for the year ended 31st December,1904.
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

NEW BILL.
  CONTINUATION SCHOOLS BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to amend the Education Acts, 1870 to 1903, with respect to school attendance and to secure further attendance under certain conditions at evening continuation schools, classes, or courses of instruction. Was presented by the Lord Bishop of Hereford; read 1a; and to be printed. (No. 20.)
  CONGESTED DISTRICTS (SCOTLAND) BILL [H.L.]
  House in Committee (according to order). Bill reported without Amendment; and re-committed to the Standing Committee.

  NEWCASTLE CHAPTER (AMEND- MENT) BILL [H.L.]
  [SECOND READING.]
  Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
  *THE LORD BISHOP OF ST. ALBANS: My Lords, it is quite unnecessary for me to trouble your Lordships with any description of this Bill. It has been carried without opposition through your Lordships' House in two succeeding sessions, but stress of work in the other House prevented its becoming law. The only difference between this Bill and the one which I had the honour of introducing in previous sessions is that this Bill has been shorn of one clause which it was found possible to effect by Order in Council. If any explanation of the Bill is desired I shall be pleased to give it.
  Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a"—(The Lord Bishop of St. Albans.)
  On Question, Bill read 2a, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday next.

  MR. WYNDHAM'S RESIGNATION.
  THE EARL or ROSEBERY: My Lords, before your Lordships separate I should like to ask the noble Marquess the Leader of the House if he has any information to give us with reference to the Chief Secretaryship to the Lord-Lieutenant.
  *THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (The Marquess of LANSDOWNE): I believe it is generally known that the resignation of the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant has been announced this evening. The Prime Minister stated in another place that the resignation had been tendered to him with so much insistence by the Chief Secretary that he found it impossible not to accept it.
  House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before Five o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.