§ Delivered by the LORD PRIVY SEAL (E. Crewe), and read by the LORD CHANCELLOR as follows—
§ "GEORGE REX.
§ "The King knows that the House of "Lords shares in the profound and sudden sorrow which has fallen upon His "Majesty by the death of His Majesty's "father, the late King, and that the "House entertains a true sense of the "loss which His Majesty and the Nation "have sustained from this mournful "event.
§ "King Edward's care for the welfare "of his country and his people, his "skilled and prudent guidance of affairs, "his unwearying devotion to public duty"during his illustrious Reign, his simple"courage in pain and danger, will long "be held in honour by his subjects at "home and beyond the seas."