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[beuteb's telegrams.] LONDON, February 27. The Lords Committee. la the House of Commons this afternoon, before any business was dealt with, Mr Gladstone rose and moved the postponement of the Standing Orders, with a view to the consideration of a motion of which he gave notice last week, setting forth that the proposed inquiry by the Select Committee of the House of Lords into the working of the Irish Land Act was untimely, and would defeat the operation of that measure, and prove injurious to the good government of Ireland. Mr Gladstone addressed the House at some length, and stated that a compromise between the Government and the House of Lords in regard to the proposed enquiry would have been possible, had that House agreed to exclude the investigation of the judicial operation of the Act from the functions of the Select Committee. Sir Stafford Northcote opposed the Premier's motion. The House divided, and the motion was carried by a large majority. An Aspirant for Knighthood.
The Hon. Saul Samuels, C.M.G., Agent-General for New South Wales in London, to-day was presented to the Queen at "Windsor by the Right Hon. Earl Spencer, Lord President of the Council. Her Kfajesty accepted an album of colonial irawings from the Hon. Mr Samuel.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2465, 1 March 1882, Page 3
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