The Parliamentary Debates

THE

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES

(AUTHORISED EDITION),

FOURTH SERIES.

FOURTH SESSION OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH PARLIAMENT

OF THE

UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

3 EDWARD VII.

VOLUME CXXVI.

COMPRISING THE PERIOD FROM THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY OF JULY

TO THE FIFTH DAY OF AUGUST, 1903.

NINTH VOLUME OF SESSION.

1903.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED,

UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE,

WYMAN AND SONS, LIMITED, FETTER LANE, LONDON.

THE

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES

(AUTHORISED EDITION),

FOURTH SERIES.

FOURTH SESSION OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH PARLIAMENT

OF THE

UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

3 EDWARD VII.

VOLUME CXXVI.

COMPRISING THE PERIOD FROM THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY OF JULY

TO THE FIFTH DAY OF AUGUST, 1903.

NINTH VOLUME OF SESSION.

1903.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED,

UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE,

WYMAN AND SONS, LIMITED, FETTER LANE, LONDON.

THE PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY contains all that can be collected of the Legislative History of this country from the Conquest to the close of the XVIIIth Century (1803), 36 vols. The chief sources whence these Debates are derived are the Constitutional History, 24 vols. ; Sir Simonds D'Ewes' Journal; Debates of the Commons in 1620 and 1621; Chandler and Timberland's Debates, 22 vols.; Grey's Debates of the Commons, from 1667 to 1694, 10 vols. ; Almon's Debates, 24 vols.; Debrett's Debates, 63 vols.; The Hardwicke Papers; Debates in Parliament by Dr. Johnson, &c., &c.

THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES commence with the year 1803, and the contents are set forth in the following Chronological Table:—

HISTORY.

(SIXTH PARLIAMENT.)

CONQUEST to 34 GEO. II.—1066 to 1760. Vol. 39 & 40...59 GEO. III.

Vol. 1 to 15, 1 WILL. I. to 34 GEO. II.

1066-1760