TABLE OF CONTENTS. Considered in Committee ATO TE ZA нT-я yolas (In the Committee)Annvillu2 .M,noiteou Resolved, That it is expedient to amend the Prisons Acts of 1877, so far as regards the T SUPPLY-Order for Committee read; Motion made, and Question proposed, rowan A [House counted out. I PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS THE VENTILATION OF THE HOUSE ZA Question, Observations, Earl Granville; Reply, The Lord Chancellor 2018 IN INDIA Observation 10 Lord Napiero RECENT FAMINES Question, and a A Freshwater Fish Protection: Bill (No. 155) isμ)—11& (zя0 eMoved, "That the Bill be now read 2","-(The Earl of Morley) Motion agreed to Bill read 2/accordingly, and committed to a Committee TJ02 1309 Towen gerobilio all nodeon-earned VAT anT-2 EASTERN AFFAIRS-THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON'S RESOLUTIONS-Notice of Amendments, Dr. Kenealy, Mr. Plunket ⱭA (.... rige tie of korporI frogor or to ourit autol 19A CHURCH OF ENGLAND QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY BOARD Cameron; Answer, Mr. Assheton Cross THE EASTERN QUESTION-THE ANGLO-TURKISHA CONVENTION THE TRIBUTEITZI OF CYPRUS-Question, Mr., Puleston; Answer, The Chancellor of the CRIMINAL LAWREFORMATORY SCHOOLS Question, Mr. Paget; Answer,ų ROUMANIA-COMMERCIAL TREATY-Question, Mr. Serjeant Spinks; Answer, THE ANGLO-TURKISH CONVENTION-INDIAN TROOPS IN CYPRUS-Question, Mr. E. Jenkins; Answer, Colonel Stanley TURKEY-TREATY OF BERLIN-ARTICLE 18-Question, Sir George Campbell; THE EASTERN QUESTION-THE SAN STEFANO TREATY Question, Mr. Otway; Answer, The Chancellor of the Exchequer TELEGRAPHS BILL Question, Mr. Whitwell; Answer, Lord John Manners 2057 TURKEY-REPORTED FIRING ON A BOAT'S CREW BY THE RUSSIANS-Questions, Lord Robert Montagu; Answers, Mr. W. H. Smith THE EASTERN QUESTION-RUSSIAN TROOPS IN TURKEY-Question, Lord Robert Montagu; Answer, The Chancellor of the Exchequer THE FOREIGN OFFICE THE ABSTRACTION OF A STATE PAPER-THE ANGLO-TURKISH MEMORANDUM Question, Mr. Childers; Answer, Mr. ARMY-POISONING OF SOLDIERS AT MALTA-Question, Mr. Muntz; Answer, THE CIVIL SERVICE - ADMIRALTY AND WAR OFFICE (RETIREMENT OF OFFICERS) BILL-Question, Mr. O'Clery; Answer, Sir Henry Selwin-2977 SOUTH AFRICAN CONFEDERATION-THE TRANSVAAL TERRITORY Question, Mr. Courtney; Answer, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, eno plod Wo SUPPLY-THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES-Question, Mr. Childers; Answer, The Chancellor of the Exchequer 9sM bus ali2060 PARLIAMENT COUNTY OF CLARE SIR BRYANI O'LOGHLEN Question, Mr. Sullivan; Answer, Sir Michael Hicks-Beachpotete trouw POOR LAW AMENDMENT ACT (1876) AMENDMENT BILL Questions, M Mellor, Sir H. Drummond Wolff; Answers, The Chancellor of the l THE ANGLO-TURKISH CONVENTION-THE DESPATCH OF MAY 30-Question, Mr. Goschen; Answer, Mr, Bourke O VOIC) PARLIAMENT ORDER OF PUBLIC BUSINESS-TREATY OF BERLIN-Questions, The Marquess of Hartington; Observations, Mr. Butt; Reply, The / Contagious Diseases (Animals) Bill (Lords) [Bill 204]- Bill considered in Committee [Progress 19th July] After long time spent therein, Committee report Progress; to sit again sioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to the Commissioners of Church Tem- poralities, and with respect to the powers of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's) LEOS Treasury in relation to the Money to be so raised, to the provisions of any Act of Prison (Officers' Superannuation) Bill-Resolution [July 19] reported, and agreed to: -Bill ordered (Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, Mr. Secretary Cross); presented, and read the INDIAN NATIVE TROOPS (TRANSPORT AND EMPLOYMENT ABROAD)— Select Committee appointed, " to inquire into the cost of the fedent movement of Her Majesty's Indian Troops from India to Malta, and to report in what respects, if any, the arrangements for employing European and Indian Native Troops together, outside the limits of India, require modification,"- And, on July 23, Committee nominated List of the Committee 2147 Arranmore Polling District (Ireland) Bill—Ordered (Sir Joseph M‘Kenna, Marquess of Hamilton, Mr. Charley); presented, and read the first time [Bill 270] Locomotives on Highways (Scotland) Bill-Ordered (The Lord Advocate, Sir Matthew Ridley); presented, and read the first time\[Bill 271] Oorzak 02148 Middlesborough-Isaac Wilson, esquire. tirea 17 AIS med FIFTH SESSION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, APPOINTED TO MEET 5 MARCH, 1874, AND THENCE CONTINUED TILL 17 JANUARY, 1878, IN THE FORTY-FIRST YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. FIFTH VOLUME OF THE SESSION. THE EARL OF KIMBERLEY said, he HOUSE OF LORDS proposed to take the third reading of the measure next Tuesday. LORDS() Friday, 21st June, 1878. Further Amendments made; and Bill to be read 3 on Tuesday next; and to be (22printed, as amended. (No. 131.) MONUMENTS (METROPOLIS) (No. 2) (Ireland) I W BILL→ (No. $100.), Alto! (The Viscount Midleton.) COMMITTEE. Committee-Monuments (Metropolis) (No. 2) (100). Order of the Day for the House to be put into Committee, read. Committee-Report-Pier and Harbour Orders l quid sized goengold tondobl yn 11 PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (1875) AMEND MENT BILL-(No. 106.) 404 2014 VOL. CCXLI. [THIRD SERIES.] VISCOUNT MIDLETON, in moving that the House do now resolve itself into Committee, said, it might be convenient to their Lordships if he indicated the position in which the measure now stood; and, in doing so, he could not refrain from protesting course which had been pursued in regard against the to it. The Bill had been read a second time in their Lordships' House after a few observations and suggestions had been made with respect to its provisions; and he then with the permission of the B "When the obelisk has been erected on the Victoria Embankment, the same shall thereupon be under the care and control of the Board, and the Board shall preserve and maintain the same for the benefit of the public, and the Board may erect in connection therewith any appropriate works of art." House, named a day for going into | but to place the First Commissioner of Committee. That day was the Monday Works in a position which that right after the Whitsuntide Recess; and no hon. Gentleman himself had not the Notice whatever was given to him that slightest wish to occupy. He hoped the there would be any objection to the mea- noble Lord would withdraw the Amendsure being proceeded with on that date. ment, of which he had given Notice, Last Monday, however, on moving that and under which it would be necessary the House go into Committee on the for the Metropolitan Board of Works to Bill, he found that there were some ob- obtain the consent and approval of Her jections to the measure; and his noble Majesty's First Commissioner; but, if Friend at the Table (the Earl of Redes- the Amendment were proposed, he should dale) had desiderated further time for feel bound to ask that the sense of the its consideration. Indeed, his noble House be taken upon it. He was preFriend appeared to wish that the whole pared, however, to make an alteration: of Clause 4 of the Bill, which referred which, he hoped, might, to some exto the general power of the Metropolitan tent, satisfy his noble Friend. He was Board of Works as to monuments, should willing to strike out the words "from be struck out; but it was obviously im- time to time" at the end of the clause, possible for any Member of their Lord- and to substitute for the words "statues or other" the word "appropriate." ships' House, who had charge of a measure of this description, which had This particular provision of the measure already passed the other branch of the would then runLegislature, to get up at a moment's Notice and say that he consented to such a deletion, and, accordingly, he consented to delay the Bill until to-day. But he confessed he could have wished that more Notice had been given to him of the objections entertained to the meaThe noble Lord opposite (Lord Stanley of Alderley) objected to Clause 3, which provided that the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle should be placed under the care of the Metropolitan Board of Works, who should preserve and maintain it for the benefit of the public, and who might, "from time to time, erect, in connection therewith, any sta"" and his tues or other works of art; noble Friend seemed to desire that the Government should be invested with some sort of authority over that Board. The noble Lord, however, scarcely appeared to understand what the real position of matters was. The Metropolitan Board of Works was constituted by the Act of 1855; and it was perfectly true that, at that time, the First Commissioner of Works had a certain control over its operations; but, in 1862, this was found to be so inconvenient, and was so much objected to by the First Commissioner himself, that, after full discussion, a Bill was passed taking away the power which had previously been reserved to him. What his noble Friend proposed to do was to restore, in the present instance, the very authority which had been advisedly removed by the wisdom of Parliament 15 years ago; and, not only so, sure. Viscount Midleton He now came to the objections of the noble Earl at the Table (the Earl of Redesdale). That noble Earl took exception to Clause. 4, which was in terms which it might be as well to quote- ་ ་ ༑ "The Board may, from time to time, accept as a gift or bequest any monument, or any moneys for the purchase of any monument, and erect or permit the erection of any monument upon any of the said embankments or lands' those of the Thames" and the Board may preserve and maintain every such monument, and shall have the control and management thereof for the benefit of the public." The noble Earl, in objecting to this clause, appeared to be afraid that some future Board of Works might be induced to purchase statues at the expense of the ratepayers; but that might be avoided by a verbal Amendment in the clause which he was prepared to make, and which would restrict the power of the Board in erecting or permitting the erection of monuments, to such monuments or works of art as had been given by private donors, or purchased with sums not raised from the ratepayers, but bequeathed for that special purpose. Even if he were not prepared, however, to make an such Amendment, he thought that the Bill, having passed through 1 |