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The Lord Camoys, after the death of his grandfather.

COMMONS.

NEW WRIT ISSUED.

FRIDAY, MAY 13.

For Preston, v. Edward Hermon, esquire, deceased.

NEW MEMBERS SWORN.

FRIDAY, MAY 20.

Knaresborough-Thomas Collins, esquire.

THURSDAY, MAY 26.

Preston-William Farrer Ecroyd, esquire.

HANSARD'S

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES

IN THE

SECOND SESSION OF THE TWENTY-SECOND PARLIAMENT OF THE
UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,

APPOINTED TO MEET 29 APRIL, 1880, IN THE FORTY-THIRD
YEAR OF THE REIGN OF

HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA.

FIFTH VOLUME OF SESSION 1881.

HOUSE OF LORDS,

Monday, 9th May, 1881.

My Lords, very few arguments are required to induce your Lordships to agree to that Motion; and for this reason, and for some others, I shall confine my observations within narrow limits. This is not the time, and I am not the person,

MINUTES.]-PUBLIC BILL-First Reading to give a biographical sketch of one so Bridges (South Wales) * (83).

THE LATE EARL OF BEACONS-
FIELD, K.G.

ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY.

EARL to move the Address of which I
ARL GRANVILLE: My Lords, I

have given Notice, and which is as fol-
lows:-

"That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty praying that Her Majesty will give directions that a Monument be erected in the collegiate church of St. Peter, Westminster, to the memory of the late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, K.G., with an inscription expressive of the high sense entertained by the House of his rare and splendid gifts, and of his devoted labours in Parliament and in great offices of State; and to assure Her Majesty that this House will concur in giving effect to Her Majesty's directions."

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HANSARD'S

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES

IN THE

SECOND SESSION OF THE TWENTY-SECOND PARLIAMENT OF THE
UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,

APPOINTED TO MEET 29 APRIL, 1880, IN THE FORTY-THIRD
YEAR OF THE REIGN OF

HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA.

FIFTH VOLUME OF SESSION 1881.

HOUSE OF LORDS,

Monday, 9th May, 1881.

My Lords, very few arguments are required to induce your Lordships to agree to that Motion; and for this reason, and for some others, I shall confine my observations within narrow limits. This is not the time, and I am not the person,

MINUTES.1-PUBLIC BILL-First Reading to give a biographical sketch of one so Bridges (South Wales)* (83).

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well known as Lord Beaconsfield, and it would still less become me to analyze, in any degree, his policy or his political actions. For me to give my approval of these would give a stamp of insincerity to my remarks, which would be displeasing to your Lordships, and which would not be creditable to myself. My Lords, our long experience of Constitutional Government has convinced nearly all Englishmen that Party Government is necessary for the good working of Representative Institutions, and that Party organization is needful in order to establish a strong and efficient Government under the Constitution. But, owing to the same experience, together with other favouring circumstances, there is no country where the relations of political opponents are more free

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