Moved, "That the Bill, as amended, be considered,"-(Mr. Attorney General:)-Question put, and agreed to. Amendment proposed, in page 3, line 8, to leave out from the word "had" to the word "payment," in line 13, inclusive, -(Mr. Butt.) Question proposed, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Bill: "-After short debate, Question put:-The House divided; Ayes 61, Noes 16; Majority 45. Lords' consequential Amendment:-Said consequential Amendment read Moved, "That the House agree with the Lords in the said Amendment,' PHOENIX PARK (DUBLIN)—WHITEFIELD LODGE-MOTION FOR PAPERS- Moved for "Copies of any Correspondence between the Lords of the Treasury and the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland on the subject of letting Whitefield Lodge, Copies ordered," of any Correspondence between the Lords of the Treasury and the Com- missioners of Public Works in Ireland on the subject of letting Whitefield Lodge in "Of any Minutes of the Commissioners of Public Works relating thereto : " LAND TENURE (IRELAND)-ADDRESS FOR A ROYAL COMMISSION- Moved, "That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that She may be graciously pleased to issue a Royal Commission to inquire into and report upon the state of Land Tenure in Ireland and the condition of the occupiers of land,"-(The The ROYAL ASSENT was given to several Bills; And afterwards HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH was delivered to both Houses by The LORD Then a Commission for proroguing the Parliament was read. By virtue of Her Majesty's Commission, under the Great Seal, to us and other Lords directed, and now read, we do, in Her Majesty's Name, and in obedience to Her Com- mands, prorogue this Parliament to Tuesday the thirty-first day of October next, to be then here holden; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Tuesday the William Richard Lord Harlech-Was introduced by virtue of a special limi- tation in the patent dated 14th January 1876, and sat first in Parlia- ment after the death of his brother John Ralph Lord Harlech, and took NEW WRITS ISSUED. SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1876. FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1876. Kent County (Eastern Division)-William Deedes, esquire. MONDAY, AUGust 7. Carmarthen Borough-Emile Algernon Arthur Keppell Cowell Stepney, esquire. HANSARD'S APPOINTED TO MEET 5 MARCH, 1874, AND THENCE CONTINUED which I myself took the other day, and which the noble and learned Lord on the Woolsack then objected to. I would, however, remark that the Papers on this subject have only been for a very short in your Lordships' hands, and I regret that my noble Friend (the Earl of Kimberley) who wished to take part in the discussion is in bed with a sore throat. In these circumstances, I trust the noble Earl will find it convenient to postpone his Motion. to say the circumstances their Lordships would agree with the recommendations of the Joint Committee of both Houses. Under the present system he and other Officers of the House had an influence over Parliamentary Agents, and nothing tended so much to the maintenance of due order in the discharge of the Business than that they should have the assistance of qualified Parliamentary Agents. THE LORD CHANCELLOR said, that after the time which had elapsed THE EARL OF CARNARVON: I feel since the subject had been brought under some little difficulty, now that the Ses- the notice of the public he had no wish sion is drawing so near to an end, in to place himself in a position of antagopostponing the discussion of the ques-nism with reference to it to his noble tion. But I have heard with great regret of the illness of my noble Friend (the Earl of Kimberley). I know the interest he takes in this matter, and the way in which he is concerned in it, for he has been more or less a party to the transactions mentioned in the Blue Book. I have no hssitation, therefore, in agreeing to the proposal of my noble Friend opposite, and I will postpone the discussion of the question to the next open daywhich day I will fix when I have seen that my noble Friend (the Earl of Kimberley) is restored to health. PARLIAMENTARY AGENCY. Order of the Day for resuming the Adjourned Debate, on the Motion, That this House do agree to the Report of the Select Committee. Friend, by whom the Private Business of the House was conducted with so much efficiency and wisdom. He had received numerous communications in reference to the Report, almost all of which were directed to the point of the division of profits between the Parliamentary Agents and their solicitors. His noble Friend said that Sir Theodore Martin and the Parliamentary Agents seemed to think the division of profits very objectionable, and if he (the Lord Chancellor) were a Parliamentary Agent he would probably be of the same opinion, because if they were not divided the Parliamentary Agents would get the whole. His noble Friend had not heard what the Law Societies of London and Liverpool had to say on the other side; and if it was a perfectly well-understood thing, as it was, that between the country and the town solicitors there might be a division of fees, he could see no good reason why there should not be a simiLORD REDESDALE again insisted lar division between country_solicitors on the importance of having a qualified and Parliamentary Agents. There was and recognized body for the transaction besides the difficulty, or rather the imof Parliamentary business. He did not possibility, of enforcing any rule which at all assent to the recommendation of might be made on the subject; for if the Petition of the Incorporated Law it were deemed desirable by those conSociety as to members of the legal Pro-cerned that the profits should be divided, fession. Formerly the business of Par- a way of doing so would readily be liamentary Agents was transacted by found. officers of the two Houses, and it was done most efficiently, and the fees which were awarded for the work were not considered as being more than sufficient for the purpose, and the evidence of Sir Theodore Martin, who represented the Parliamentary Agents, showed that the division of fees between the solicitors and Parliamentary Agents was most objectionable. He (Lord Redesdale) hoped that under all Debate resumed. THE EARL OF CAMPERDOWN observed there was no analogy between the case of the country solicitor and his town agent, and that of the country solicitor and the Parliamentary Agent. In the one case only one set of fees was allowed-in the other two sets were allowed. What the country solicitor now asked was to be allowed not only to receive his own charges, but to share in the charges of the Parliamentary Agent. |