HOUSE OF LORDS. POWERS RETAINED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 27, 1 August 1911, Page 7

HOUSE OF LORDS. POWERS RETAINED.

IF NEW CREATIONS ARE MADE. [ A LIFE PEERAGE PRECEDENT. Us Tfclegrftphv- 1 res* ABsoe(attoft*-Cepjrigi^ LONDON, 31st July. Lord Stanmore, in writing to The Times, suggests that the Souse of Lords, even if new peel's are created, still possesses the power to discharge a new peer from the service of the House during the remainder of a Parliament, He instances the refusal of a vote to Lord Wensleydale, who was created a life peer in 1856. The Government of Lord Palmersfcon, in Ja-nuary, 1856, determined to try the experiment of creating life peerages, and Sir James Parke. a Baron of the Court of Exchequer, was created Lord Wensleydale "for and during the term of his natural life. A long debate ensued on the subject an the House of Lords, and 1 a coffiffltttee of privileges waß appointed by the House to enquire into the legality of life peerages. The committee reported that such a creation could not confer the right to eit and vote in Pal 1 ' liaaftent, and the reeult was that a patent of peerage for Sir James Parke was made out in the following July in usual form, with remainder to ''the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten." By an Act of Parliament passed in 1876, two peers for life may be created, to assist the House of Lords in appeal cases. The two peers are entitled^ to tit and vote in Parliament,