Speech indicates revision by the Member. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Tuesday, 7th June 1898. KETTERING WATER BILL. [H.L.] Ordered to be read the second time. LANCASHIRE, DERBYSHIRE, AND MR. SPEAKER laid upon the Table Report from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, That, in the case of the Petition for additional Provision in the above Bill, the Standing MR. SPEAKER took the Chair shortly Orders have not been complied with. after Three of the clock. MR. GLADSTONE (FUNERAL AND MONUMENT). The Comptroller of the Household read Her Majesty's Gracious Answer to the humble Address of the 23rd May "I have received your Address praying that I will be graciously pleased to give directions that the remains of the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone be interred at the public charge, and that a monument be erected in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, with an inscription expressive of the public admiration and attachment, and of the high sense entertained of his rare and splendid gifts and his devoted labours in Parliament and in great offices of State, and assuring me that you will make good the expenses attending the same. "And I will give directions in accordance with your address." Ordered, That the Report be referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. PLYMOUTH AND STONEHOUSE GAS Read the third time, and passed. SOUTHAMPTON GAS BILL. Queen's consent signified; Read the third time, and passed. CANALS PROTECTION (LONDON) BILL. TURNCHAPEL WHARVES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROVISIONAL BALE, RICHARD. For inquiry into his case: From Fal Ordered to be read the second time to- mouth; to lie upon the Table. ACCESS TO MOUNTAINS (SCOTLAND) ECCLESIASTICAL ASSESSMENTS (SCOT BILL. Against From Haddington; to lie. upon the Table. LAND) BILL. In favour: From Haddington and Edinburgh; to lie upon the Table. GROCERS' LICENCES (SCOTLAND) ABOLITION BILL. In favour From Cowdenbeath; to lie upon the Table. POOR LAW SETTLEMENT (SCOTLAND) Against From Haddington; to lie upon the Table. GROUND RENTS (TAXATION BY LOCAL POOR LAW (SCOTLAND) BILL. In favour: From Calstock; to lie upon upon the Table. MIDWIVES' REGISTRATION BILL. SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS In favour: From Acocks Green, Sud- In favour: From Bovey Tracey; to lie zance, Hellesveor, Sheffield, Bromyard upon the Table. (2), Leicester, Barking, Treligga, Preston (3), Fulwood, Kibworth, Radcliffe (2), Street, Somerton, Cardigan, Much Woolton, Talybont, Cherry Hinton, Swindon, Kinross, and Tooting; to lie upon the Table. PARISH CHURCHES (SCOTLAND) BILL. In favour: From Haddington; to lie upon the Table. SMALLER DWELLINGS (SCOTLAND) Against From Association of Burgh Officials of Scotland, and Haddington; to lie upon the Table. POOR LAW OFFICERS' SUPER- SUCCESSION (SCOTLAND) BILL. For alteration: From Haddington; to lie upon the Table. SINKING FUNDS. Commis In favour: From Haddington; to lie sioners for the Reduction of the National upon the Table. Debt showing the amount received and applied in the year ended 31st March, 1898, in respect of the Old and New Sinking Funds [by Act]; to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. [No. 225.] VACCINATION BILL. IMPERIAL DEFENCE ACT, 1888. Account presented of all moneys issued from the Consolidated Fund, of sums bor Against From Ampthill and Orsett; rowed, and of transactions in relation to to lie upon the Table. RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC. NAVY AND ARMY (COST OF sums so borrowed, up to 31st March, 1898, in pursuance of the Act [by Act]; to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. [No. 226.] LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL. Copy presented of Returns relating to the Council up to 31st March, 1898, with Estimates of Expenditure for the year Return [presented 24th May] to be ending 31st March, 1899 [by Act]; to lie printed. [No. 223.] be printed. upon the Table, and to PUBLIC WORKS LOAN BOARD. Copy presented of twenty-third Annual Report (for 1897-8), with Appendices [by Act]; to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. [No. 228.] Minutes of Proceedings to be printed. [No. 229.] and to be EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. Copy presented of Minute of the Committee of Council on Education, dated 6th June, 1898 (1) rescinding the Bill, as amended by the Standing Minute of the 15th June, 1897 (pro Committee, to be taken into consideraviding for auditing of the accounts of the tion upon Monday next, receipts and expenditure of schools reprinted. [Bill No. 240.] ceiving a share of the Aid Grant under the Voluntary Schools Act, 1897): and (2) modifying Article 85 (d) of the Day School Code, 1898 [by Command]; to lie upon the Table. QUESTIONS. NEW WRIT. NEW WRIT FOR THE COUNTY OF HERTFORD (EASTERN OR HERTFORD DIVISION). In the room of Abel Smith, esquire, deceased.-(Sir William Walrond.) NEW BILL. METROPOLIS MANAGEMENT ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. "To amend the Metropolis Management Acts, ordered to be brought in by Mr. Lough, Mr. Haldane, Captain Norton, Mr. Ellis Griffith, and Mr. John Burns; presented accordingly, and read the first time; to be read a second time upon Wednesday, 22nd June, and to be printed. [Bill No. 241.] MANNING THE NAVY. SIR E. GOURLEY (Sunderland): I beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty, will he state the percentages of the following classes of men and boys in Her Majesty's Navy to the total of 105,232 voted by Parliament for 1898-9, namely, officers, seamen, artificers, stokers, domestics, boys, marines, coastguard, and other services; whether in case of need the Admiralty can, by utilising the Royal Naval Reserves and pensioners, man as many more vessels with British seamen as are now in commission, not alone with seamen, but also with officers; and whether all the men of the seamen and marine classes are trained in gunnery on shore as well as afloat, and has he any systematic reports showing the course of training necessary in order to certify proficiency in gunnery? THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY (Mr. G. J. GOSCHEN, St. George's, Hanover Square): The honourable Member will find the information he asks for in his first Question in the tables attached to the Naval Estimates. In the second Question the hon. Member asks whether an equal number of ships to those now in commission could be manned and officered. But surely he must know that |