Lords Sitting of 8 May 1905

The Lord Chelmsford sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with—Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (Liverpool, etc.) [H.L.].
Also the Certificate that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have not been complied with:—Rhymney and Aber Valleys Gas and Water Company (Petition for Bill).
And also the Certificates that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—Acton Sewage; Birmingham Corporation; Brentwood Gas; Great Berkhampstead Gas; Ilfracombe Harbour and Improvement; London Gas; Otley Improvement; Great Northern Railway; Nottingham and Retford Railway; Seaham Gas; Croydon Gas; Dublin Corporation (Superannuation); Hitchin and District Gas.
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
Lautour's Divorce Bill [H.L.]. Witnesses ordered to attend on the Second Reading of the Bill, two to produce documents.
Matlock Bath Improvement Bill [H.L.]. Witnesses ordered to attend the Select Committee.
Earl of Stamford's Cheshire Estate. Petition for a Private Bill, together with a copy of the proposed Bill annexed thereto; read, and referred to two English Judges.
Corbett Estate Bill [H.L.]. Judges' Report received; Bill presented, and read 1a.
Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation Bill [H.L.]. The CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn.
Clay Cross Railway (Abandonment) Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
Great Central Railway Bill [H.L.]; Dearne Valley Railway Bill [H.L.] Sheffield University Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
Southampton and Winchester Great Western Junction Railway (Abandonment) Bill. Read 3a, and passed.
Brompton, Chatham, Gillingham, and Rochester Water Bill. Read 3a, with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.
Whitechapel and Bow Railway Bill; Great Western Railway (New Railways) Bill; Aylesbury Gas Bill; Ealing Corporation Bill; South Oxfordshire Water and Gas Bill; Great Western Railway (Additional Powers) Bill; Aberdare Urban District Council Bill; Colne Corporation Bill; Stockport Corporation Bill; Halifax Corporation Bill; Andover Lighting and Power Bill; Bristol Corporation Bill; Croydon Corporation Bill; Swansea Corporation Bill. Brought from the Commons read laa; and referred to the Examiners.
Cordoba and Rosario Railway Bill [H.L.] Entre Rios Railways Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to.
Worcestershire County Council Bridges Bill. Examiner's Certificate of noncompliance with the Standing Orders referred to the Standing Orders Committee on Tuesday, the 16th instant.
Wellingborough and District Tram-roads and Electricity Supply Bill [H.L.]. The order made on the 31st of March last appointing certain Lords the Select Committee to consider the Bill, discharged.
Bridgwater Canals Bill [H.L.]. The CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES informed the House that the Promoters do not intend to proceed further with the Bill. The Orders made on the 3rd and 31st of

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March last, discharged. Ordered, That the Bill be not further proceeded with.
Sunderland and South Shields Water Bill. 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.
Abertillery Urban District Water Bill [H.L.]. The CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES informed the House that the Promoters do not intend to proceed further with the Bill. The Orders of the 21st of February and the 31st of March last, discharged. Ordered, That the Bill be not further proceeded with.
Barrymore Estate Bill [H.L.]; Leven's Patent Bill [H.L.]. Committed.
Hythe Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Whitby Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]; Mansfield Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Hastings Tramways Bill [H.L.]; London Squares and Enclosures (Preservation) Bill [H.L.]; Nottingham Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Sandgate Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]; Blackpool Improvement Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Denman be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Lord Shute (V. Barrington); read, and agreed to.
Bangor (County Down) Water and Improvement Bill [H.L.]; Matlock Bath Improvement Bill [H.L.]; Metropolitan and Great Central Railway Companies Bill [H.L.]; Southport, Birkdale, and West Lancashire Water Board Bill [H.L.]; Formby Township Bill [H.L.]; Humber Conservancy Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Chelmsford be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Earl of Westmeath; read, and agreed to.
Harbour, etc., Bills. Report of the Board of Trade on the Humber Conservancy Bill [H.L.]. Ordered to be laid before the House (The Lord Privy Seal (M. Salisbury).

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS (RECESS).
The LORD CHANCELLOR The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the following Papers, having been commanded to be presented to this House by His Majesty, had been so presented on the following dates by delivery to the Clerk of the Parliaments, pursuant to Standing Order No, CXI., viz:—
Charity Commission. Fifty second Report of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales. (April 17.)
Egypt, No. 1 (1905)—Reports by His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General on the finances, administration, and condition of Egypt and the Soudan in 1904. (April 17.)
Board of Education:—

I. Regulations for secondary schools from 1st August, 1905, to 31st July, 1906. (April 17.)

II. Special reports on educational subjects. Volume 15.—School training for the home duties of women. Part I. The teaching of "domestic science" in the United States of America. (April 27.)

Free and United Free Churches (Scotland):—
I. Royal Commission on Churches.
Vol. I.—Reports.
Vol. II. Minutes of evidence and appendices. (April 18.)
II. Departmental Commission. Interim Report to the Secretary for Scotland by Sir John Cheyne, K.C. (May 3.)
Education (Scotland). Report and Papers relating to the training of teachers for the year 1903–1904. (April 18.)
Labour Statistics (Board of Trade (Labour Department). Tenth Abstract of Labour Statistics of the United Kingdom, 1902–1904. (April 18.)
Transvaal:—

I. Further correspondence relating to labour in the Transvaal mine (in continuation of [Cd. 2183]). (April 18.)

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II. Papers relating to Constitutional changes in the Transvaal. (April 27.)

III. Despatch transmitting Letters Patent and Order in Council providing for Constitutional changes in the Transvaal. (April 27.)

Education (Ireland) 1904. Annual Report of the Commissioners of Education in Ireland, for the year 1904. (April 27.)
Agrarian Offences (Provinces) (Ireland). Return for the year ended December 31st, 1904. (April 27.)
Lunacy (Scotland). Forty - seventh Annual Report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland. (April 27.)
Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1887. Return of the number of Eviction Notices filed during the Quarter ended December 31st, 1904. (April 27.)
Trade. Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions, 1904, compared with the four preceding years. Vol. I. (Summaries, Abstract, and detailed Tables of Imports and Exports.) (April 27.)
Factory and Workshop (Laundries). List of religious and charitable institutions in which laundries are carried on (April 27.)
Explosives (Explosion at Messrs. Eley Brothers' Factory, Edmonton, Middlesex. Report to the right hon. the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Captain J. H. Thomson, His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Explosives, on the circumstances attending an explosion of collodion cotton which occurred at the factory of Messrs. Eley Brothers, Limited, at Edmonton, Middlesex, on March 7th, 1905. (April 27.)

TREATY SERIES.
No. 9 (1905). Convention between the United Kingdom and France respecting commercial relations between France and India; signed at London, February 19th, 1903. (Ratifications exchanged at London, March 27th, 1905.)
No. 10 (1905). Convention between the United Kingdom and France respecting commercial relations between France and the British Protectorates of East Africa, Central Africa, and Uganda; signed at London, 23rd February, 1903. (Ratifications exchanged at London, 27th March, 1905.)
No. 11 (1905). Convention between the United Kingdom and France respecting commercial relations between France and the Seychelles Islands; signed at London, 16th April, 1902. (Ratifications exchanged at London, 27th March, 1905.)
No. 12 (1905). Convention between the United Kingdom and France respecting commercial relations between France and Ceylon; signed at London, 19th February, 1903. (Ratifications exchanged at London, 27th March, 1905.)
No. 13 (1905). Convention between the United Kingdom and Japan respecting commercial relations between Japan and India; signed at Tokio, 29th August, 1904. (Ratifications exchanged at Tokio, 15th March, 1905.) (April 27.)

TRADE REPORTS.—I. (ANNUAL SERIES).
No. 3342. Germany (Chemnitz and Saxony).
No. 3343. Austria-Hungary (Finances and General Economic Conditions of Austria-Hungary).

No. 3344. China (Canton).

No. 3345. Chile (Coquimbo).

No. 3346. France (Calais).

No. 3347. Argentine Republic (Buenos Ayres).

No. 3348. United States (Texas).

No. 3349. United States (Chicago).

No. 3350. Denmark (Iceland). (April 27.)

No. 3351. Russia (Poland and Lithuania).

No. 3352. Spain (Bilbao). (April 28.)

No. 3353. United States (New York). (April 29.)

No. 3354. China (Newchwang).

No. 3355. Peru (Iquitos). (May 2.)

No. 3356. Portugal (Azores).

No. 3357. Turkey (Constantinople).

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No. 3358. Germany (Pomerania). May 3.)

No. 3359. Turkey (Trebizond Vilayet).

No. 3360. Persia (Arabistan). (May 4.)

No. 3361. Greece (Thessaly).

No. 3362. Argentine Republic (Rosario). (May 5.)

No. 3363. Turkey (Aleppo and Andana).

No. 3364. China (Wuhu). (May 6.)

II. (MISCELLANEOUS SERIES).
No. 633. Italy (Mineral Wealth of the Provinces of Siena and Grosseto). May 2.)
Underfed Children at Public Elementary Schools. Circulars issued in April, 1905, by the Local Government Board and the Board of Education as to the cases of children attending public elementary schools who are without adequate nourishment. (April 29.)
Wellington College. Report of the Governors for the year ended 31st December. 1904; with accounts. (May 1.)
Mines and Quarries. Reports of His Majesty's Inspectors of Mines and Quarries for the year 1904. (May 1.)
Reformatory and Industrial Schools (Great Britain). Forty-eighth Report, for the year 1904, of the Inspector of Reformatory and Industrial Schools. Part I. List of Schools and detailed Reports. (May 1.)
Navy (Gunnery). Result of Gunlayers Competition in His Majesty's Fleet, 1904. (May 3.)
Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland). Fourth Annual General Report of the Department, 1903–1904. (May 3.)
Turkey, No. 2 (1905). Further correspondence respecting the Affairs of South Eastern Europe (in continuation of "Turkey No. 4, (1904)"). (May 4.)
Newfoundland. Report on the Foreign Trade and Commerce of Newfoundland. (May 4.)
Transvaal and Orange River Colony. Further correspondence relating to Affairs in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony (in continuation of [Cd. 2104]). (May 4.)
Post Office. Agreement between the Post Office of Great Britain and Ireland and the Post Office Department of the United States of America for the direct exchange of parcels by parcel post, dated 3rd February, 1905. (May 5.)
West Indies. Despatch to the Governors of the West Indian Colonies respecting the West Indian Mail Contract. (May 6.)
Boiler Explosions. Report to the Secretary of the Board of Trade upon the working of the Boiler Explosions Acts, 1882 and 1890; with appendices (in continuation [Cd. 1764.]). (May 6.)
Local Government Board (Scotland). Tenth Annual Report of the Local Government Board for Scotland, 1904. (May 6.)
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

RETURNS, REPORTS,ETC.
  EVICTIONS (IRELAND).
  Return of evictions in Ireland for the quarter ended 31st March, 1905. Presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table.
  LUNACY.
  Report to the Lord Chancellor of the number of visits made, the number of patients seen, and the number of miles travelled by the visitors of lunatics pursuant to the Lunacy Act, 1890, between 1st October, 1904, and 31st March, 1905.
  BOARD OF EDUCATION (AMENDING ORDER No. 1).
  Order amending Final Order No. 391.
  UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1889.
  Annual Report on the state of the finances of the University of Glasgow under the provisions of Section 30 of the Universities (Scotland) Act, 1889, for the year 1903–1904.
  DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACTS, 1894 TO 1903.
  Hull (Channel Islands Animals) Landing Place Order of 1905.

  POST OFFICE.
  Statutory Rules and Orders, 1904—
  No. 1746. The Inland Post Amendment (No. 1) Warrant.
  Statutory Rules and Orders, 1905—
  No. 56. The Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 9) Warrant.
  No. 446. The Postal Order (Inland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations.
  No. 410. The Foreign and Colonial Post Amendment (No. 10) Warrant.

  CERTIFIED INEBRIATE REFORMATORIES (REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT).
  Regulations made with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Home Department for the management and discipline of the certified inebriates reformatory at Cattal, near York.
  PUBLIC RECORDS (FINES AND RECOVERIES).
  Schedule containing a list and particulars of classes of documents connected with the alienation of land by means of fines and recoveries which are not considered of sufficient public value to justify their preservation in the Public Record Office.
  Treasury rules and regulations, dated 14th April, 1905, under the Irish Land Act, 1903.
  METROPOLITAN POLICE (ACCOUNTS).
  Accounts showing the sums received and expended for the purposes of the Metropolitan Police and Police Pension Funds between the 1st April, 1904, and the 31st March, 1905.
  PHARMACY (IRELAND) ACTS, 1875 TO 1890.
  Order in Council, dated 22nd April, 1905, approving of regulations made by the Pharmaceutical Society.

  PENAL SERVITUDE ACTS, 1853 TO 1891 (CONDITIONAL LICENCE).
  Licence granted by His Majesty to Harry Tate, under the provisions of the
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  Penal Servitude Acts, 1853 to 1901, to which are annexed conditions other than those contained in Schedule A of the Penal Servitude Act, 1864.

  POLLING DISTRICTS (BOROUGH OF HUDDERSFIELD).
  Order made by the Council of the borough of Huddersfield re-dividing the Lockwood Ward of the borough into polling districts.

  LIGHTHOUSES, ETC. (LOCAL INSPECTIONS).
  Reports to the Board of Trade by the Trinity House of Deptford Strond, the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses, and the Commissioners of Irish Lights, of their inspection of local lighthouses, buoys, and beacons (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 176, of Session 1904).
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  UNION OF BENEFICES (METROPOLIS) ACT, 1860.
  Scheme for effecting an union of the Benefices of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, and of St. Michael's, Burleigh Street, in the city of Westminster, and for effecting certain other measures incidental to or arising out of such union. Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and to be printed. (No. 58.)
  THAMES CONSERVANCY.
  General Report of the proceedings of the Conservators of the river Thames during the year ended 31st December, 1904, with a statement of the accounts of the Conservators for that year; Delivered (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.
  HARBOUR, ETC., BILLS.
  Return respecting, laid before the House (pursuant to Order of this day) and to be printed. (No. 59.)
NEW BILLS.

  PIER AND HARBOUR PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 1) BILL [H.L.] (NO. 60).
  A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act,

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  1861, relating to Craster, Tralee, and Tenit; And

  PIER AND HARBOUR PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 2) BILL [H.L.] (NO. 61).
  A Bill to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Melfort and Portencross.
  Were presented by the Lord Privy Seal (M. Salisbury); read la; to be printed; and referred to the Examiners.

  NAVAL AND MILITARY MEDALS BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to regulate and restrict the wearing of naval and military medals and decorations. Was presented by the Viscount Hutchinson (E. Donoughmore); read 1a; and to be printed. (No 62.)

  METROPOLITAN POLICE PROVISIONAL ORDER BILL.
  Read 2a (according to order), and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.
  House adjourned at half-past Four o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.