§ The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that His Majesty had (by Commission) appointed the Earl Beauchamp Speaker of the House in the absence of the Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper, the Earl of Onslow, the Earl of Halsbury, the Earl of Waldegrave, the Lord Ribblesdale, the Lord Balfour of Burleigh, and the Lord Loreburn. The said Commission was read.