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HANSARD'S

PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES,

THIRD SERIES:

COMMENCING WITH THE ACCESSION OF

WILLIAM IV.

42° ,

VICTORIÆ, 1878-9.

VOL. CCXLIII.

COMPRISING THE PERIOD FROM

THE FIFTH DAY OF DECEMBER 1878,

TO

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF FEBRUARY 1879.

First Colume of the Session.

LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY CORNELIUS BUCK,
AT THE OFFICE FOR

“ HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES,"
22, PATERNOSTER ROW. [E..]

MEETING OF THE PARLIAMENT.

The Session of PARLIAMENT was opened by Commission.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR delivered

Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech

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ROLL OF THE LORDS — Garter King of Arms attending, delivered at the

Table (in the usual manner) a List of the Lords Temporal in the

Sixth Session of the Twenty-first Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Select Vestries-

Bill, pro formd, read 1°.

AFGHANISTAN (EXPENSES OF MILITARY OPERATIONS)--Notice of Motion,

Viscount Cranbrook

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Address to Her Majesty on Her Most Gracious Speech-

The QUEEN'S SPEECH having been reported by The LORD CHANCELLOR ;

An Address to Her Majesty thereon moved by The Earl of Ravensworth

-(The Motion being seconded by Lord Inchiquin)

Amendment moved, to insert after the first paragraph-
(“We beg humbly to express to your Majesty our sorrow that the great calamity should

have occurred of a war with the Ameer of Afghanistan, and we feel it to be our duty
very respectfully to express to your Majesty our regret that as soon as your Majesty's
servants were satisfied that war had become so probable as to impose upon them the

necessity of ordering costly preparations for it to be commenced, they did not advise

your Majesty to summon Parliament to meet with the least possible delay, in order

that due provision might be made for the expense to be incurred, and that an

opportunity might be offered to Parliament, before the war was begun, of considering

the grounds on which it was to be undertaken, and of forming a judgment as to its

justice and necessity,”)–(The Earl Grey)

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[December 5.]

ADDRESS To Her MAJESTY ON HER Most GRACIOUS SPEECH-continued.
After long debate, Question put, Whether the said words shall be there

inserted ? Resolved in the negative.
Then the original Motion was agreed to :-Ordered that the said Address

be presented to Her Majesty by the Lords with White Staves.
CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES—The Earl of REDESDALE appointed, nemine

dissentiente, to take the Chair in all Committees of this House for

this Session.

COMMITTEE FOR PRIVILEGES-appointed.

SUB-COMMITTEE FOR THE JOURNALS—appointed.

APPEAL COMMITTEE-appointed.

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COMMONS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5.
Message to attend the Lords Commissioners ;—The House went;—and

having returned ;-

NEW WRITS ISSUED DURING THE RECESS

CLARE COUNTY WRIT

NEW WRITS ISSUED

NEw MEMBERS SWORN

PRIVILEGES— Ordered, That a Committee of Privileges be appointed.

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Outlawries Bill-

Bill “ for the more effectual preventing Clandestine Outlawries," read

the first time; to be read a second time.

AFGHANISTAN (EXPENSES OF MILITARY OPERATIONS)—Notice of Resolution,

Mr. E. Stanhope

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AFGHANISTAN (MILITARY OPERATIONS)—THE PEIWAR COLUMN - TELEGRAM

-Question, Mr. Ritchie ; Answer, Mr. E. Stanhope

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Address to Her Majesty on Her Most Gracious Speech-
The QUEEN'S SPEECH having been reported by Mr. SPEAKER ;—An humble

Address thereon moved by Viscount Castlereagh—(The Motion being

seconded by Mr. Hall)

After long debate, Amendment proposed,

In paragraph 3, line 1, to leave out the words “To express our regret," in order to