I have to report to the House that, in the House of Peers, His Majesty, by His Royal Commissioners, has been pleased to approve the choice made of myself for the office of your Speaker, and that I have, in your name, and on your behalf, laid claim, by humble petition to His Majesty, to all your ancient and undoubted rights and privileges, particularly freedom of speech in .debate, freedom from arrest, freedom of access to His Majesty whenever occasion may require, and that the most favourable construction may be placed upon all your proceedings. All these His Majesty, by His Commissioners, has been pleased to allow and confirm in as ample a manner as they have ever been granted or confirmed by himself or any of His Royal predecessors.

My first duty to the House is to repeat my very respectful acknowledgment and grateful thanks for the great honour which you have conferred upon me in placing me again in the Chair.

I must now call upon the Members of the House, according to the usual custom, to take the Oath of Allegiance at the Table of the House, first doing so myself.

Thereupon Mr. SPEAKER first, alone, standing upon the upper step of the Chair, took and subscribed the Oath.

I am now going to call upon the Members of the Two Front Benches to take the Oath, the Members on the Government Front Bench first and the Members on the Opposition Front Bench second. After that, I shall call upon Privy Councillors and ex-Ministers, and after that I will call upon Members sitting on the different benches in the House. Perhaps they will be good enough to retain their seats until I call them.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Right honourable James Ramsay MacDonald, County of Durham (Seaham Division).

Right honourable Philip Snowden, County of York, West Riding (Colne Valley Division).

Right honourable Arthur Henderson, Borough of Burnley.

Right honourable James Henry Thomas, Borough of Derby.

Right honourable John Robert Clynes, Borough of Manchester (Platting Division).

Right honourable Thomas Shaw, Borough of Preston.

Right honourable William Adamson, County of Fife (Western Division).

Right honourable Noel Edward Buxton, County of Norfolk (Northern Division).

Right honourable Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, baronet, Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Central Division).

Right honourable Margaret Grace Bond-field, Borough of Wallsend.

Right honourable Arthur Greenwood, Borough of Nelson and Colne.

Right honourable George Lansbury, Borough of Poplar (Bow and Bromley Division).

Right honourable William Graham, Burgh of Edinburgh (Central Division).

Right honourable Albert Victor Alexander, Borough of Sheffield (Hillsborough Division).

Captain the Right honourable William Wedgwood Benn, Burgh of Aberdeen (North Division).

Right honourable Frederick Owen Roberts, Borough of West Bromwich.

Herbert Stanley Morrison, esquire, Borough of Hackney (South Division).

Thomas Kennedy, esquire, Kirkcaldy District of Burghs.

Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, esquire, Borough of Leicester (West Division).

Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, esquire, County of Durham (Bishop Auckland Division).

Thomas Johnston, esquire, County of Stirling and Clackmannan (Western Division).

Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Brightside Division).

Morgan Jones, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Caerphilly Division).

Benjamin Smith, esquire, Borough of Bermondsey (Rotherhithe Division).

Frederick Montague, esquire, Borough of Islington (West Division).

John Allen Parkinson, esquire, Borough of Wigan.

William Whiteley, esquire, County of Durham (Blaydon Division).

Alfred Short, esquire, Borough of Wednesbury.

Thomas Henderson, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Tradeston Division).

Wilfrid Paling, esquire, County of York, West Biding (Doncaster Division).

Charles Edwards, esquire, County of Monmouth (Bedwellty Division).

Walter Robert Smith, esquire, Borough of Norwich.

Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Keighley Division).

Alfred John Barnes, esquire, Borough of East Ham (South Division).

Sir James Benjamin Melville, knight, K.C., Borough of Gateshead.

Emanuel Shinwell, esquire, County of Linlithgow.

John Henry Hayes, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Edge Hill Division).

John James Lawson, esquire, County of Durham (Chester-le-Street Division).

George Henry Hall, esquire, Borough of Merthyr Tydvil (Aberdare Division).

Right honourable Stanley Baldwin County of Worcester (Bewdley Division).

Right honourable Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, K.G., Borough of Birmingham (West Birmingham Division).

Right honourable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, County of Essex (Epping Division).

Right honourable Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, baronet, G.B.E., Borough of Westminster (St. George's Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel the Right honourable Sir John Gilmour, baronet, D.S.O., Burgh of Glasgow (Pollok Division).

Right honourable Sir William Joynson-Hicks, baronet, County of Middlesex (Twickenham Division).

Right honourable Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, K.B.E., County of Middlesex (Hendon Division).

Right honourable Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, commonly called Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, Borough of Hastings.

Right honourable Walter Edward Guinness, D.S.O., County of West Suffolk (Bury St. Edmunds Division).

Right honourable Bolton Meredith Eyres Monsell, County of Worcester (Evesham Division).

Right honourable Sir Howard Kingsley Wood, knight, Borough of Woolwich (West Division).

Arthur Michael Samuel, esquire, County of Surrey (Farnham Division).

Right honourable William George Arthur Ormesby-Gore, County of Stafford (Stafford Division).

Major the Right honourable George Clement Tryon, Borough of Brighton.

Right honourable Alexander Munro MacRobert, County of Renfrew (Eastern Division).

Major Sir George Richard James Hennessy, baronet, O.B.E., County of Hants (Winchester Division).

Commodore Henry Douglas King, C.B.E., D.S.O., R.N.V.R., Borough of Paddington (South Division).

Major Walter Elliot Elliot, M.C., Burgh of Glasgow (Kelvingrove Division).

Captain Douglas Hewitt Hacking, County of Lancaster (Chorley Division).

Henry Bucknall Betterton, esquire, County of Nottingham (Rushcliffe Division).

Sir Frederick Charles Thomson, baronet, K.C., Burgh of Aberdeen (South Division).

Katherine Marjory, Duchess of Atholl, County of Perth and Kinross (Kinross and Western Division).

Captain Henry David Reginald Margesson, County of Warwick (Rugby Division).

Captain David Euan Wallace, Borough of Hornsey

Sir Frank Boyd Merriman, knight,O.B.E., K.C., Borough of Manchester (Rusholme Division).

Sir Victor Alexander George Anthony Warrender, baronet, M.C., County of Parts of Kesteven and Rutland (Grantham Division).

Right honourable David Lloyd George, O.M., Carnarvon District of Boroughs.

Right honourable Sir John Allsebrook Simon, K.C.V.O., K.C., County of York, West Riding (Spen Valley Division).

Right honourable Sir Herbert Louis Samuel, County of Lancaster (Darwen Division).

Right honourable James Ian Macpherson, K.C., County of Inverness, Ross, and Cromarty (Ross and Cromarty Division).

Right honourable Sir Donald Maclean, K.B.E., County of Cornwall (Northern Division).

Major-General Sir Robert Hutchison, K.C.M.G., Montrose District of Burghs).

Right honourable Thomas Power O'Connor, Borough of Liverpool (Scotland Division).

Goronwy Owen, esquire, County of Carnarvon)

Right honourable Liefchild Stratten Jones, County of Cornwall (Camborne Division).

Right honourable Josiah Clement Wedgwood, Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme.

Right honourable Sir Edward Hilton Young,, G.B.E., County of Kent (Sevenoaks Division).

Right honourable Sir Herbert Nield, K.C., Borough of Ealing.

Lieutenant-Colonel the Right honourable Herbert Henry Spender-Clay, C.M.G. M.C, County of Kent (Tonbridge Division).

Right honourable Vernon Hartshorn, County of Glamorgan (Ogmore Division).

Right honourable Sir James Rennell Rodd, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., Borough of St. Marylebone.

Right honourable Sir Robert William Hugh O'Neill, baronet, County of Antrim.

Right honourable John Wheatley, Burgh of Glasgow (Shettleston Division).

Right honourable Frederick William Jowett, Borough of Bradford (East Division).

Right honourable George Lambert, County of Devon (South Molton Division).

Right honourable Charles William Bowerman, Borough of Deptford.

Sir William Edge, knight, County of Leicester (Bosworth Division).

Clement Richard Attlee, esquire, Borough of Stepney (Limehouee Division).

James Stewart, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (St. Rollox Division).

William Leach, esquire, Borough of Bradford (Central Division).

Robert Richards, esquire, County of Denbigh (Wrexham Division).

James Brown, esquire, County of Ayr and Bute (South Ayrshire Division).

Robert Richardson, esquire, County of Durham (Houghton-le-Spring Division).

Captain Edward Montagu Cavendish Stanley, commonly called Lord Stanley, County of Lancaster (Fylde Division).

Sir Patrick Johnston Ford, knight, Burgh of Edinburgh (North Division).

Major William Philip Colfox, M.C. County of Dorset (Western Division).

Thomas Griffiths, esquire, County of Monmouth (Pontypool Division).

Frederick Hall, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Normanton Division).

William Lygon, esquire, commonly called Viscount Elmley, County of Norfolk (Eastern Division).

Thomas Williams, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Don Valley Division).

Lieutenant-Commander Joseph Montague Kenworthy, R.N., Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull (Central Division).

George Middleton, esquire, Borough of Carlisle.

Joseph Westwood, esquire, County of Midlothian and Peebles (Peebles and Southern Division).

William Bromfield, esquire, County of Stafford (Leek Division).

James John Hamlyn Moses, esquire, Borough of Plymouth (Drake Division).

Gordon Macdonald, esquire, County of Lancaster (Ince Division).

John Joseph Tinker, esquire, Borough of Leigh.

Guy Rowson, esquire, County of Lancaster (Farnworth Division).

Thomas Lewis, esquire, Borough of Southampton.

Ralph Morley, esquire, Borough of Southampton.

Frank Lee, esquire, County of Derby (North-Eastern Division).

Joseph Gibbins, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (West Toxteth Division).

Edwin Scrymgeour, esquire, Burgh of Dundee.

William Benjamin Taylor, esquire, County of Norfolk (South-Western Division).

James Welsh, esquire, County of Lanark (Coatbridge Division).

Samuel Philip Viant, esquire, Borough of Willesden (West Division).

Peter Freeman, esquire, County of Brecon and Radnor.

Reverend James Barr, County of Lanark (Motherwell Division).

William Jenkins, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Neath Division).

Edith Picton-Turbervill, County of Salop (The Wrekin Division).

Thomas William Stamford, esquire, Borough of Leeds (West Division).

William John Tout, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Sowerby Division).

William Hirst, esquire, Borough of Bradford (South Division).

Fred Longden, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Deritend Division).

John Henry Williams, esquire, County of Carmarthen (Llanelly Division).

Howel Walter Samuel, esquire, Borough of Swansea (West Division).

Joseph Sullivan, esquire, County of Lanark (Bothwell Division).

Robert Young, esquire, County of Lancaster (Newton Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederick Hall, baronet, K.B.E., D.S.O., Borough of Camberwell (Dulwich Division).

Captain Charles Waterhouse, M.C., Borough of Leicester (South Division).

Colonel Douglas Clifton Brown, County of Northumberland (Hexham Division).

Sir Douglas George Cochrane Newton, K. B. E.,Borough of Cambridge.

Sidney Herbert, esquire, County of York, North Riding (Scarborough and Whitby Division).

Major Samuel Emile Harvey, County of Devon (Totnes Division).

Brigadier-General Sir Henry Page Croft, baronet, C.M.G., T.D., Borough of Bournemouth.

Henry Cobden Haslam, esquire, County of Parts of Lindsey (Horncastle Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Cuthbert James, C.B.E., commonly called Lieutenant-Colonel the honourable Cuthbert James, C.B.E., Borough of Bromley.

Major Sir Bertram Godfray Falle, baronet, Borough of Portsmouth (North Division).

Philip Christopher Hoffman, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Central Division).

David Kirkwood, esquire, Dumbarton District of Burghs.

Adam Storey McKinlay, esquire, Borough of Glasgow (Partick Division).

Willie Brooke, esquire, County of Dumbarton.

Joseph Herbert Alpass, esquire, Borough of Bristol (Central Division).

Arthur Law, esquire, Borough of Rossendale.

George Henry Hirst, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Wentworth Division).

Thomas Walter Grundy, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Rother Valley Division).

Charles Dukes, esquire, Borough of Warrington.

Robert John Wilson, esquire, County of Durham (Jarrow Division).

John Henry Palin, esquire, Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (West Division).

Frederick Messer, esquire, Borough of Tottenham (South Division).

George Francis Sawyer, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Duddeston Division).

Alfred Smith, esquire, Borough of Sunderland.

Right honourable Christopher Addison, County of Wilts (Swindon Division).

George Balfour, esquire,, Borough of Hampstead.

Sir Frank Nelson, knight, County of Gloucester (Stroud Division).

Arthur Vernon Davies, esquire, O.B.E., County of Lancaster (Royton Division).

Sir Nicholas Grattan-Doyle, knight, Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (North Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William James Allen, K.B.E., D.S.O., County of Armagh.

Cecil Randolph Dudgeon, esquire, County of Galloway.

Alfred Ernest Brown, esquire, M.C., Burgh of Leith.

Alec Ewart Glassey, esquire, County of Dorset (Eastern Division).

Philip Milner Oliver, esquire, Borough of Manchester (Blackley Division).

Arthur Harbord, esquire, Borough of Great Yarmouth.

Sir George Andreas Berry, The University of St. Andrew's, the University of Glasgow, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Edinburgh.

Geoffrey le Mesurier Mander, esquire, Borough of Wolverhampton (East Division).

Brigadier-General Sir George Kynaston Cockerill, knight,, C.B., County of Surrey (Reigate Division).

Leslie Hore-Belisha, esquire, Borough of Plymouth (Devonport Division).

Harry Gosling, esquire, Borough of Stepney (Whitechapel and St. George's Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel David Watts-Morgan, Borough of Rhondda (East Division).

Arthur Hollins, esquire, Borough of Stoke-on-Trent (Hanley Division).

James Sexton, esquire, Borough of St. Helens.

John Bromley, esquire, Borough of Barrow-in-Furness.

William Henry Egan, esquire, Borough of Birkenhead (West Division).

James Hindle Hudson, esquire, Borough of Huddersfield.

George Dallas, esquire, County of Northampton (Wellingborough Division).

Thomas Dickson, esquire, County of Lanark (Lanark Division).

Benjamin Biley, esquire, Borough of Dewsbury.

George Alfred Isaacs, esquire, Borough of Southwark (North Division).

Cecil Henry Wilson, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Attercliffe Division).

John Richard Anthony Oldfield, esquire, County of Essex (South-Eastern Division).

William John, esquire, Borough of Rhondda (West Division).

Major Archibald George Church, D.S.O., M.C., Borough of Wandsworth (Central Division).

Samuel Thomas Rosbotham, esquire, County of Lancaster (Ormskirk Division).

Daniel Chater, esquire, Borough of Hammersmith (South Division).

Alfred Salter, esquire, Borough of Ber-mondsey (West Bermondsey Division).

Mary Agnes Hamilton, Borough of Blackburn.

William Bennett, esquire, Borough of Battersea (South Division).

John Edward Sutton, esquire, Borough of Manchester (Clayton Division).

Patrick Joseph Henry Hannon, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Moseley Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Cecil Russell Moore, C.B.E., Ayr District of Burghs.

Lieutenant-Colonel" Sir Philip Wigham Richardson, knight, County of Surrey (Chertsey Division).

Charles Granville Gibson, esquire ,County of York, West Riding (Pudsey and Otley Division).

Sir Walter Greaves-Lord, knight, K.C., Borough of Lambeth (Norwood Division).

Sydney Richard Wells, esquire, County of Bedford (Bedford Division).

Major-General John Morrow Simms, County of Down.

Brigadier-General Ernest Makins, C.B., D.S.O., County of Chester (Knutsford Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Albert Lambert Ward, baronet, Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull (North-West Division).

John Train, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Cathcart Division).

Louis William Smith, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Hallam Division).

Major David John Colville, County of Midlothian and Peebles (Northern Division).

Ronald Deane Ross, esquire, County of Londonderry.

Captain Robert Croft Bourne, Borough of Oxford.

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise, County of Essex (Maldon Division).

James Archibald Christie, esquire, County of Norfolk (Southern Division).

Right honourable George Richard Lane Fox, County of York, West Riding (Barkston Ash Division).

Sir Robert Burton Chadwick, Borough of Wallasey.

Robert Forgan, esquire, County of Renfrew (Western Division).

Aneurin Bevan, esquire, County of Monmouth (Ebbw Vale Division).

Wilfrid Whiteley, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Ladywood Division).

George Benson, esquire, County of Derby (Chesterfield Division).

William Stephen Sanders, esquire, Borough of Battersea (North Division).

Tom Smith, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Pontefract Division).

Morgan Philips Price, esquire, County of Cumberland (Whitehaven Division).

Thomas Cape, esquire, County of Cumberland (Workington Division).

Ethel Bentham, Borough of Islington (East Division).

Valentine La Touche McEntee, esquire, Borough of Walthaimstow (West Division).

John Kinley, esquire, Borough of Bootle.

Leonard Warburton Matters, esquire, Borough of Lambeth (Kennington Division).

Frederick Seymour Cocks, esquire, County of Nottingham (Broxtowe Division).

James Wilson, esquire, Borough of Oldham.

Reginald William Sorensen, esquire, Borough of Leyton (West Division).

Lieutenant - Colonel Arthur Pelham Heneage, County of Parts of Lindsey (Louth Division).

Ernest Whittome Shepperson, esquire, County of Hereford (Leominster Division).

Rear-Admiral Tufton Percy Hamilton Beamish, C.B., County of East Sussex (Lewes Division).

Captain Robert Ronald Henderson, County of Oxford (Henley Division).

Irving James Albery, esquire, County of Kent (Gravesend Division).

Sir Walter de Frece, knight, Borough of Blackpool.

Herwald Ramsbotham, esquire, County of Lancaster (Lancaster Division).

James Armand Edmond de Rothschild, esquire, County of Isle of Ely.

Alexander West Russell, esquire, Borough of Tynemouth.

Rear-Admiral Murray Fraser Sueter, C.B., County of Hertford (Hertford Division).

Major Anthony John Muirhead, County of Somerset (Wells Division).

Earl Castlestewart, M.C., County of Leicester (Harborough Division).

Colum Edmund Crichton-Stuart, esquire, commonly called Lord Colum Edmund Crichton-Stuart, County of Chester (Northwich Division).

Sir Henry Strother Cautley, baronet, K.C., County of East Sussex (East Grinstead Division).

George Wilfrid Holford Knight, esquire, Borough of Nottingham (South Division).

David Williams, esquire, Borough of Swansea (East Division).

Samuel Frederick Perry, esquire, County of Northampton (Kettering Division).

Charles Ellis Lloyd, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Llandaff and Barry Division).

Daniel Hopkin, esquire, County of Carmarthen (Carmarthen Division).

Elijah Sandham, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Kirkdale Division).

George Sinkinson, esquire, County of Berwick and Haddington.

George Mathers, equire, Burgh of Edinburgh (West Division).

Frederick Gould, esquire, County of Somerset (Frome Division).

Wilfred Wellock, esquire, County of Worcester (Stourbridge Division).

Archibald George Gossling, esquire,Borough of Birmingham (Yardley Division).

Arnold Ernest Townend, esquire, Borough of Stockport.

Cecil John L'Estrange Malone, esquire, Borough of Northampton.

Thomas Ellis Naylor, esquire, Borough of Southwark (South-East Division).

William Robert Raynes, esquire, Borough of Derby.

Commander Carlyon Bellairs, County of Kent (Maidstone Division).

Sir William Henry Davison, K.B.E., Borough of Kensington (South Division).

James Francis Wallace Galbraith, esquire, K.C., County of Surrey (Eastern Division).

Cyril Atkinson, esquire, K.C, County of Chester (Altrincham Division).

Edward Marjoribanks, esquire, County of Sussex (Eastbourne Division).

Sir John Cecil Power, baronet, Borough of Wimbledon.

Major-General the honourable Sir Newton James Moore, K.C.M.G., V.D., Borough of Richmond.

Charles Williams, esquire, County of Devon (Torquay Division).

Archibald Noel Skelton, esquire, County of Perth and Kinross (Perth Division).

Sir Harry Hope, knight, County of Forfar.

William George Howard Gritten, esquire, Borough of the Hartlepools.

Osbert Peake, esquire, Borough of Leeds (North Division).

Sir Joseph Quinton Lamb, knight, County of Stafford (Stone Division).

Major Isidore Salmon, C.B.E., County of Middlesex (Harrow Division).

Percy Angier Hurd, esquire, County of Wilts (Devizes Division).

Major Edward Cecil George Cadogan, commonly called Major the Honourable Edward Cecil George Cadogan, County of Middlesex (Finchley Division).

Arthur Carlyne Niven Dixey, esquire, County of Cumberland (Penrith and Cockermouth Division).

Edward Brocklehurst Fielden, esquire, Borough of Manchester (Exchange Division).

Major John Jacob Astor, commonly called Major the Honourable John Jacob Astor, County of Kent (Dover Division).

Right honourable Sir John Tudor Walters, County of Cornwall (Penryn and Falmouth Division).

James Ewart Edmunds, esquire, Borough of Cardiff (East Division).

Ernest Thurtle, esquire, Borough of Shoreditch.

David Graham Pole, esquire, County of Derby (Southern Division).

Hugh Murnin, esquire, Stirling and Falkirk District of Burghs.

William Mackinder, esquire, County of York, West Biding (Shipley Division).

John Smith Clarke, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Maryhill Division).

Charles Brown, esquire, County of Nottingham (Mansfield Division).

Samuel March, esquire, Borough of Poplar (South Poplar Division).

Michael Marcus, esquire, Burgh of Dundee.

Charles James Simmons, esquire, Borough of Birmingham (Erdington Division).

Arthur William Longbottom, esquire, Borough of Halifax.

George Lathan, esquire, Borough of Sheffield (Park Division).

Thomas Harry Gill, esquire, Borough of Blackburn.

James Frederick Shillaker, esquire, County of Middlesex (Acton Division).

John Joseph Jones, esquire, Borough of West Ham (Silvertown Division).

Herbert Mellor Gibson, esquire, County of Lancaster (Mossley Division).

Hugh Hartley Lawrie, esquire,, County of Chester (Stalybridge and Hyde Division).

Fielding Reginald West, esquire, Borough of Kensington (North Division).

Sydney Frank Markham, esquire, Borough of Rochester (Chatham Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Glyn Keith Murray Mason, D.S.O., Borough of Croydon (North Division).

John Grace, esquire, County of Chester (Wirral Division).

Isaac Foot, esquire, County of Cornwall (Bodmin Division).

Henry Haydn Jones, esquire, County of Merioneth.

Frederick Llewellyn-Jones, esquire, County of Flint.

Thomas Bridgehill Wilson Ramsay, esquire, County of Inverness, Ross, and Cromarty (Western Isles Division).

Sir Charles Leolin Forestier-Walker, baronet,, K.B.E., County of Monmouth (Monmouth Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel the Right honourable Wilfrid William Ashley, County of Hants (New Forest and Christchurch Division).

Major the Right honourable John Waller Hills, County of York, West Riding (Ripon Division).

Sir Murdoch Macdonald, K.C.M.G., C.B., County of Inverness, Ross, and Cromarty (Inverness Division).

Abraham England, esquire, County of Lancaster (Heywood and Radcliffe Division).

Rhys Hopkin Morris, esquire,, County of Cardigan.

Frank Kingsley Griffith, esquire,Borough of Middlesbrough (West Division).

Richard John Russell, esquire, County of Chester (Eddisbury Division).

James Duncan Millar, esquire, K.C., County of Fife (Eastern Division).

Sidney John Peters, esquire, County of Huntingdon.

Sir William Robert Aske, baronet, Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (East Division).

Roderick Morris Kedward, esquire, County of Kent (Ashford Division).

James Scott, esquire, County of Aberdeen and Kincardine (Kincardine and Western Division).

John Henry Morris-Jones, esquire, M.C., County of Denbigh (Denbigh Division).

Arabella Susan Lawrence, Borough of East Ham (North Division).

Ben Turner, esquire, Borough of Batley and Morley.

Henry Snell, esquire, Borough of Woolwich (East Division).

James Marley, esquire, Borough of St. Pancras (North Division).

Benn Jack Brunei Cohen, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Fairfield Division).

George Muff, esquire, Borough of King-ston-upon-Hull (East Division).

Tom Snowden, esquire, Borough of Accrington.

Edward Timothy Palmer, esquire, Borough of Greenwich.

John Arnott, esquire, Borough of King-ston-upon-Hull (South-West Division).

Herbert George Romeril, esquire, Borough of St.Pancras (South-East Division).

Henry Charles Charleton, esquire, Borough of Leeds (South Division).

Frederick Fox Riley, esquire, Borough of Stockton-on-Tees.

Harry Wright Wallace, esquire, Borough of Walthamstow (East Division).

John William Bowen, esquire, County of Chester (Crewe Division).

George Henry Sherwood, esquire, Borough of Wakefield.

Frederick Charles Watkins, esquire, Borough of Hackney (Central Division).

Frederick George Burgess, esquire, Borough of York.

William Sampson Cluse, esquire, Borough of Islington (South Division).

Walter John Baker, esquire, Borough of Bristol (East Division).

George Dagger, esquire, County of Monmouth (Abertillery Division).

William Carter, esquire, Borough of St. Pancras (South-West Division).

Duncan McGregor Graham, esquire, County of Lanark (Hamilton Division).

William McLean Watson, esquire, Dunfermline District of Burghs.

John Potts, esquire, Borough of Barnsley.

Sir William Martin Conway, The University of Durham, the Victoria University of Manchester, the University of Liverpool, the University of Leeds, the University of Sheffield, the Uni- versity of Birmingham, the University of Bristol, and the University of Reading.

Albert Law, esquire, Borough of Bolton.

David Llewellyn Mort, esquire, Borough of Eccles.

Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, esquire,Borough of Dudley.

William Henton Carver, esquire, County of York, East Riding (Howdenshire Division).

Major Lionel Beaumont Thomas, M.C.,Borough of Birmingham (King's Norton Division).

Major Richard Eric Onslow Long, County of Wilts (Westbury Division).

Robert Hugh Turton, esquire, County of York, North Riding (Thirsk and Malton Division).

Annesley Ashworth Somerville, esquire,County of Berks (Windsor Division).

Captain Malcolm Bullock, County of Lancaster (Waterloo Division).

Sir Gerald Berkeley Hurst, knight, K.C.,Borough of Manchester (Moss Side Division).

Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, esquire, Borough of Hackney (North Division).

Sir Godfrey Dalrymple Dalrymple White, baronet, Borough of Southport.

Cecil Hanbury, esquire, County of Dorset(Northern Division).

Brigadier - General Wallace Duffield Wright, V.C., County of Devon (Tavistock Division).

Samuel Servington Savery, esquire, County of York, East Riding (Holderness Division).

Sir William Lane Mitchell, knight, Borough of Wandsworth (Streatham Division).

Harold Leslie Boyce, esquire, Borough of Gloucester.

Sir Samuel Chapman, knight, Burgh of Edinburgh (South Division).

Guy Molesworth Kindersley, esquire,County of Hertford (Hitchin Division).

Captain Thomas Lionel Dugdale, County of York, North Riding (Richmond Division).

Sir Robert Vaughan Gower, knight,Borough of Rochester (Gillingham Division).

Commander Archibald Richard James Southby, County of Surrey (Epsom Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury, County of Essex (Chelmsford Division).

William Edward David Allen, esquire, Borough of Belfast (West Belfast Division).

John James Withers, esquire, Cambridge University.

Godfrey Harold Alfred Wilson, esquire, Cambridge University.

John Francis Ashley Erskine, esquire, commonly called Lord Erskine, County of Somerset (Weston-super-Mare Division).

John Jestyn Llewellin, esquire, County of Middlesex (Uxbridge Division).

Sir Alfred Joseph Law, knight, County of Derby (High Peak Division).

Captain Harold Harington Balfour, M.C., County of Kent (Isle of Thanet Division).

William Shepherd Morrison, esquire, M.C., County of Gloucester (Cirencester and Tewkesbury Division).

Harry Day, esquire, Borough of South-wark (Central Division).

Neil Maclean, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Govan Division).

Jack Lees, esquire, County of Derby (Belper Division).

William Lawther, esquire, County of Durham (Barnard Castle Division).

George William Shield, esquire, County of Northumberland (Wansbeck Division).

Ebenezer Edwards, esquire, Borough of Morpeth.

William Thomas Mansfield, esquire, County of York, North Riding (Cleveland Division).

Thomas James Stanislaus Harbison, esquire, County of Fermanagh and Tyrone.

James Chuter Ede, esquire, Borough of South Shields.

Thomas Lowth, esquire, Borough of Manchester (Ardwick Division).

John Herriotts, esquire, County of Durham (Sedgefield Division).

George Ernest Spero, esquire, Borough of Fulham (West Division).

Arthur Hayday, esquire, Borough of Nottingham (West Division).

William John Brown, esquire, Borough of Wolverhampton (West Division).

William Wateon Henderson, esquire, County of Middlesex (Enfield Division).

Charles Roden Buxton, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Elland Division).

Thomas Edward Groves, esquire, Borough of West Ham (Stratford Division).

Gordon Lang, esquire, Borough of Oldham.

George Masterman Gillett, esquire, Borough of Finsbury.

Major-General Sir John Humphrey Davidson, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O, County of Hants (Fareham Division).

Robert Arthur James Gascoyne Cecil, esquire, commonly called Viscount Cranborne, County of Dorset (Southern Division).

Major Albert James Edmondson, County of Oxford (Banbury Division).

Oliver Frederick George Stanley, esquire,County of Westmorland.

Sir Alfred Butt, knight, Borough of Wandsworth (Balham and Tooting Division).

Brigadier-General Sir William Alexander,K. B.E., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Burgh of Glasgow (Central Division).

Gerard Vernon Wallop, esquire, commonly called Viscount Lymington, County of Hants (Basingstoke Division).

Michael Wentworth Beaumont, esquire,County of Buckingham (Aylesbury Division).

Walter James Womersley, esquire, Borough of Great Grimsby.

James Blindell, esquire, County of Holland with Boiston.

Stewart James Bevan, esquire, K.C., Borough of Holborn.

Reginald Powell Croom-Johnson, esquire,K.C, County of Somerset (Bridgwater Division).

Megan Arvon Lloyd George, County of Anglesey.

Major Gwilym Lloyd George, County of Pembroke.

Ernest Evans, esquire, Wales University.

Sir William Abraham Wayland, knight, County of Kent (Canterbury Division).

James Patrick Gardner, esquire, Borough of Hammersmith (North Division).

Ellen Cicely Wilkinson, Borough of Middlesbrough (East Division).

John Scurr, esquire, Borough of Stepney (Mile End Division).

Frank Smith, esquire, County of Warwick (Nuneaton Division).

David John Vaughan, esquire, County of Gloucester (Forest of Dean Division).

John Edmund Mills, esquire, County of Kent (Dartford Division).

James Francis Horrabin, esquire, County of Northampton (Peterborough Division).

Colonel the Right honourable William Graham Nicholson, County of Hants (Petersfield Division).

David Rees Grenfell, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Gower Division).

Robert Climie, esquire, County of Ayr and Bute (Kilmarnock Division).

Richard Collingham Willhead, esquire, Borough of Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr Division).

Marion Phillips, Borough of Sunderland,

Henry Thomas Muggeridge, esquire, County of Essex (Romford Division).

Reginald Douglas Deniman, esquire, Borough of Leeds (Central Division).

John Baker, esquire, Borough of Wolverhampton (Bilston Division).

Rennie Smith, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Penistone Division).

Campbell Stephen, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Camlachie Division).

Arthur Henderson, esquire, Borough of Cardiff (South Division).

Benjamin Tillett, esquire, Borough of Salford (North Division).

Joshua Ritson, esquire, County of Durham (Durham Division).

James Maxton, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Bridgeton Division).

Hyacinth Bernard Morgan, esquire, Borough of Camberwell (North-West Division).

George Downie Hardie, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Springburn Division).

Albert Bellamy, esquire, Borough of Ashton-under-Lyne.

Michael Brothers, esquire, Borough of Bolton.

Andrew MacLaren, esquire, Borough of Stoke-on-Trent (Burslem Division).

Alexander Gordon Cameron, esquire, County of Lancaster (Widnes Division).

Lieutenant-Colonel George Windsor-Clive, C.M.G., County of Salop (Ludlow Division).

Lieutenant - Colonel Sir Assheton Pownall, knight, Borough of Lewisham (East Division).

Major Bertie Edward Parker Leighton, County of Salop (Oswestry Division).

Captain Alfred John Kennett Todd, County of Northumberland (Berwick-upon-Tweed Division).

Sir John Sandeman Allen, knight, Borough of Liverpool (West Derby Division).

Sir Charles William Cayzer, baronet, County of Chester (City of Chester Division).

Henry Ludwig Mond, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (East Toxteth Division).

Edward Charles Grenfell, esquire, City of London.

Right honourable Godfrey Lampson Tennyson Locker-Lampson, County of Middlesex (Wood Green Division).

Major John Sewell Courtauld, M.C., County of West Sussex (Chichester Division).

Richard Austen Butler, esquire, County of Essex (Saffron Walden Division).

Samuel Samuel, esquire, Borough of Wandsworth (Putney Division).

Samuel Schofield Hammersley, esquire, Borough of Stockport.

Richard George Briscoe, esquire, County of Cambridge.

David Robert Alexander Lindsay,, esquire, commonly called Lord Balniel, County of Lancaster (Lonsdale Division).

Sir Henry Cecil Buckingham, knight,, C.B.E., County of Surrey (Guildford Division).

Murdoch McKenzie Wood, esquire, O.B.E., County of Banff.

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ainsworth, Borough of Bury.

William Pomeroy Crawford Greene, esquire, Borough of Worcester.

Edgar Louis Granville, esquire, County of East Suffolk (Eye Division).

Joseph Hunter, esquire, Burgh of Dumfries.

Clement Davies, esquire, K.C., County of Montgomery.

Percy John Pybus, esquire, County of Essex (Harwich Division).

John Abraham Tinne, esquire, Borough of Liverpool (Wavertree Division).

Sir William Brass, knight, County of Lancaster (Clitheroe Division).

Albert Newby Braithwaite, esquire, County of York, East Riding (Buck-rose Division).

Lauchlan MacNeill-Weir, esquire, County of Stirling and Clackmannan (Clackmannan and Eastern Division).

Nigel Claudian Dalziel Colman, esquire, Borough of Lambeth (Brixton Division).

Percy Alfred Harris, esquire, Borough of Bethnal Green (South-West Division).

Arthur Lewis Shepherd, esquire, Borough of Darlington.

Robert Craigmyle Morrison, esquire, Borough of Tottenham (North Division).

John Beckett, esquire, Borough of-Camberwell (Peckham Division).

Thomas Isaac Mardy-Jones, esquire, County of Glamorgan (Pontypridd Division).

Herbert Dunnico, esquire, County of Durham (Consett Division).

Brendan Bracken, esquire, Borough of Paddington (North Division).

William Thomas Kelly, esquire, Borough of Rochdale.

Joseph Compton, esquire, Borough of Manchester (Gorton Division).

George Buchanan, esquire, Burgh of Glasgow (Gorbals Division).

William Lunn, esquire, County of York, West Riding (Rothwell Division).

William James Thome, esquire, Borough of West Ham (Plaistow Division).

Sir William Allen Jowitt, knight, K.C.,Borough of Preston.

Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, baronet, Borough of Smethwick.

Edward Frank Wise, esquire, Borough of Leicester (East Division).

Victor Alexander Cazalet, esquire, M.C., County of Wilts (Chippenham Division).

Colonel Sir George Loyd Courthope, baronet, M.C., T.D., County of East Sussex (Rye Division), Charles George Ammon, esquire, Borough of Camberwell (North Division).

Joseph Toole, esquire, Borough of Sal-ford (South Division).

Walter John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, esquire, commonly called the Earl of Dalkeith, County of Roxburgh and Selkirk.

Sir Alexander Nairne Stewart Sandeman, baronet, County of Lancaster (Middleton and Prestwich Division).

Robert John Graham Boothby, esquire, County of Aberdeen and Kincardine, (Eastern Division).

Major Sir Arthur Clive Morrison-Bell, baronet, County of Devon (Honiton Division).

Major Sir John Dearman Birchall, knight, Borough of Leeds (North-East Division).

Ernest Gordon Graham Little, esquire, London University.

Sir Dennis Henry Herbert, K.B.E., County of Hertford (Watford Division).

During the proceeding —

On a point of Order. Is it in order for a Member who is not in the particular seat which is called on to come in and take the Oath before other Members who have been waiting here for two hours?

I would prefer that hon. Members did not do so, on the understanding to which we have come.