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,

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THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF FEBRUARY 1879.

First Volume of the Session.

LONDON:

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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VOLUME CCXLIII.

THIRD SERIES.

LORDS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1878.

MEETING OF THE PARLIAMENT.

The Session of PARLIAMENT was opened by Commission.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR delivered

Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech

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-

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Bill, pro formá, read 1o.

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)

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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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