Commons Sitting of 7 August 1862

MINUTES.
— PUBLIC BILL. — 1° Church Rates Commutation (No. 2).

THE BISHOP OF OXFORD AND THE ACT OF UNIFORMITY.—QUESTION.
MR. HENRY SEYMOURsaid, he rose to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, having respect to the Act of Uniformity, 13 & 14 Charles II., clergymen in the Diocese of Oxford are bound to obey the Injunction of the Bishop of Oxford, which directs them to read the following notice at the conclusion of the Nicene Creed:—
"You are earnestly desired to make your humble supplications to Almighty God, who is the Author of Peace and Lover of Concord, that He will promote peace among our brethren in America, and inspire their hearts with Christian unity and fellowship."
And also to make "two short pauses," one in the course of the Litany, and the other in the course of the prayer for all sorts and conditions of men.
THE ATTORNEY GENERALsaid, in the absence of the Home Secretary, he wished to state that the Act of Uniformity contained two main provisions, one of which prescribed the use of the Book of Common Prayer, and the other forbade the use of any form or order of Common Prayer other than what was prescribed. The question of the hon. Gentleman divided itself into two parts—first, whether in the Injunction that had been issued by the Bishop of Oxford there was any violation of the Act of Uniformity; and, secondly, whether, supposing such violation not to have been committed, the Bishop, as a matter of general episcopal jurisdiction, had the power of enforcing upon his Clergy the performance of the order which was contained in the Injunction. The matter especially concerned the Bishop on the one hand and his Clergy on the other, and by no means concerned the Government. The Bishop of Oxford had shown by the letter he had sent to his Archdeacons the
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view which he took on both matters. He had taken upon himself the responsibility of issuing the Injunction, and it was to be presumed that he had not done so unadvisedly. Under these circumstances, speaking for the Home Secretary, he thought it would be the more convenient course, and one most likely to lead to a decision of the question, to leave the Clergy to adopt on their own responsibility, whatever measures might be necessary to obtain a decision on the two points in question. If they required professional assistance, they would readily obtain it in the usual way, and on the usual terms.

ADVERTISEMENTS UPON OMNIBUSES.

  QUESTION.
  SIR GEORGE BOWYERsaid, in the absence of his hon. and gallant Friend (Colonel Dunne), he wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If the Police Commissioner has any Instructions to permit Omnibuses which have been converted into Advertising Vans to continue to carry passengers, contrary to Mr. Fitzroy's Act for the prohibition of Advertising Vans?
  MR. CLIVEsaid, in the absence of his right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, the reply he had to give was, that the Act gave power to the police to interfere with a view to secure light and ventilation in Omnibuses, and that power had been exercised in several instances by summons and conviction; but the police had no power to prohibit the display of Advertisements on those public conveyances. To prevent their being used for the purpose of advertising, fresh legislation would be required; but that legislation might be much opposed, as large incomes were derived from this source by Omnibus Companies. He understood that one Company derived as much as £1,500 a year from that source.

  UNITED STATES—FEDERAL CRUISERS OFF NASSAU.—OBSERVATIONS.
  MR. SEYMOUR FITZGERALDsaid, he wished to direct the attention of the noble Lord at the head of the Government to the proceedings of the United States cruisers in the immediate neighbourhood of Nassau. On a former occasion it had been stated in that House that the United States squadron were actively engaged in enforcing the blockade on a portion of the coast of the United States; but it appeared that their cruisers had since been

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  withdrawn from that service, and were now employed in blockading British ports. There could be no doubt, indeed, that the United States authorities had pressed, and were pressing to the utmost, without moderation or discretion, the rights which they might possess as belligerents, and he hoped the noble Lord would give the House an assurance that this matter would not escape the notice of the Government; but that, on the contrary, the most vigorous and earnest remonstrances would be made to the United States Government on the subject. He might also take that opportunity of referring to certain proceedings which had been adopted by the United States authorities with respect to British goods at New York. Hitherto it had been the practice to send British goods to New York in steamers, and afterwards to forward them in American bottoms to Nassau. It now appeared that the United States Government would not permit these goods to be exported from New York to Nassau unless the owners entered into a bond that the future owners of the goods at Nassau should not ship them either to the Confederate States or to any port in communication with them. He hoped the noble Lord would also give the House an assurance that this matter would be made the subject of a vigorous remonstrance to the United States Government.
  VISCOUNT PALMERSTON: With regard to the first Question of the hon. Gentleman, the House must be aware that there is no nation more interested than the British nation in maintaining to the utmost extent belligerent rights at sea. It is an undoubted right of a belligerent to search vessels met with at sea; and if there is a reasonable ground to suppose that they are carrying contraband of war to an enemy to take them into court for adjudication. When a ship is so brought for adjudication before a competent tribunal, it is the right of the owners to urge in defence such circumstances as may show that the vessel should not be condemned. Her Majesty's Government are, of course, not disposed to interfere with the proper exercise of their belligerent rights on the part of the United States. The remedy in the first instance is to be sought in the Court of Admiralty, in the country to which the vessel is taken; but, at the same time, if any abusive exercise of those rights can be shown to have taken place, Her Majesty's Government will take steps
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  to make a proper representation on the subject. As to the second Question, it is quite true that bonds have been required from the owners of British property at New York, intended to be sent to Nassau, that those goods shall not be sent thence to a particular destination; but we are advised that the United States Government have no right to exact such bonds. It is an abusive power, and Her Majesty's Government have already made representations to the Government of the United States on the subject.

PATRIOTIC FUND ASYLUM.
  OBSERVATIONS.
  SIR GEORGE LEWISsaid, that on Monday night the noble Lord the Member for Tamworth (Viscount Raynham) put a Question to him in reference to the punishment inflicted upon a girl in a school under the management of the Committee of the Patriotic Fund. He was not in any way officially responsible for the management of that school, and the information he had received from the Secretary had led him to think that the Ladies' Committee was in existence at the time when this punishment was inflicted; but, from information he had received since, he found that the Ladies' Committee was not in existence in January last.

  THE ARMSTRONG GUNS.—QUESTION.
  MR. BERNAL OSBORNEwished to put a Question to the Secretary for War. Certain experiments had recently been made at Shorncliffe with a light 12-pounder rifled gun, and especially as to the effect of rapid firing. He believed that a Commission of officers had been appointed to report upon the condition of those 12-pounder guns after that rapid firing; and he wished to ask, first, Whether those officers had made their Report? and next, whether it was true that a large proportion of those guns were altogether unserviceable, being greatly damaged by the shifting of the external coils, the splitting of the internal coils, the chipping of the screws, and the breaking of the vent pieces?
  SIR GEORGE LEWISsaid, although he had notice of the intention of his hon. Friend to ask a Question, he had not been made aware of the particular Report to which he intended to refer. He had received a Report from Colonel Cuppage of the results of certain experiments with

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  the Armstrong 12-pounder gun, which had lately taken place at Shorncliffe; but those experiments were of three kinds. Some of the firing was at 1,000 yards, against sea targets to try the effect of the guns on an enemy landing from boats. Other experiments were at various ranges, in order to test some assumed defects in resisting cavalry; and, lastly, experiments to test the effects of rapid firing. He believed the Report upon all the three classes of experiments was, that they were eminently successful.
  MR. BERNAL OSBORNE: But as to the present condition of the guns?
  SIR GEORGE LEWIS: The Report relates to the success of all the experiments.
  MR. BERNAL OSBORNEgave notice that next Session he would call the attention of the House to the present condition of the War Office, in regard to the management of rifled ordnance, and to the position of Sir William Armstrong as Director of Rifled Ordnance.
  In reply to Sir DE LACY EVANS,
  SIR GEORGE LEWISsaid, that it was impossible to lay any Report upon the table during the present Session; but the hon. and gallant Member could revive the subject in the next Session.

  PROROGATION OF THE PARLIAMENT.
  Message to attend the LORDS COMMISSIONERS.
  The House went, and the ROYAL ASSENT was given to several Bills: And afterwards a Speech of the LORDS COMMISSIONERS was delivered to both Houses of Parliament by the LORD CHANCELLOR.
  Then a Commission for proroguing the Parliament was read.
  After which
  THE LORD CHANCELLORsaid:
  My Lords and Gentlemen,
  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 Commands, prorogue this Parliament to Friday the Twenty-fourth Day of October next, to be then here holden; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Friday, the Twenty-fourth Day of October next.

A TABLE OF ALL THE STATUTES
PASSED IN THE FOURTH SESSION OF
THE EIGHTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
25° & 26° VICT.

PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS.
I. AN Act to apply the Sum of Nine hundred and seventy-three thousand seven hundred and forty-seven Pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
II. An Act to apply the Sum of Eighteen Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
III. An Act to amend an Act, intituled An Act to amend the Law relating to Supply Exchequer Bills, and to charge the same on the Consolidated Fund; and to repeal all Provisions by which Authority is given to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to fund Exchequer Bills.
IV. An Act to enable Her Majesty to issue Com missions to the Officers of Her Majesty's Land Forces and Royal Marines, and to Adjutants and Quartermasters of Her Militia and Volunteer Forces, without affixing Her Royal Sign Manual thereto.
V. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters.
VI. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore.
VII. An Act to provide for the Registration and Transfer of India Stocks at the Bank of Ireland, and for the mutual Transfer of such Stocks from and to the Banks of England and Ireland respectively.
VIII. An Act to prevent the Employment of Women and Children during the Night in certain Operations connected with Bleaching by the open air Process.
IX. An Act to enable the Trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum to send Works of Art to the International Exhibition, 1862.
X. An Act for continuing for a further limited Time, and for extending the Operation of Orders made under, "The Industrial Schools Act, 1861," and "The Industrial Schools (Scotland) Act, 1861."
XI. An Act to explain an Act, intituled An, Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Australian Colonies.
XII. An Act for the Protection of Inventions and Designs exhibited at the International Exhibition of Industry and Art for the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
XIII. An Act for raising the Sum of One million Pounds by Exchequer Bonds for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred, and sixty-two.
XIV. An Act to extend to the Isle of Man the Provisions of the Act Eighteenth and Nineteenth Victoria, Chapter Ninety, as to the Payment of Costs to and by the Crown.
XV. An Act to define the Powers of the President and Fellows of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland with respect to the Election of its Fellows.
XVI. An Act for extinguishing certain Rights of Way through the Netley Hospital Estate in the Parish of Hound in the County of Southampton.
XVII. An Act to extend the Time for making Enrolments under the Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to amend the Law relating to the Conveyance of Land for Charitable Uses, and to explain and amend the said Act.
XVIII. An Act to amend the Law as to the whipping of Juvenile and other Offenders.
XIX. An Act to amend The General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861.
XX. An Act respecting the Issue of Writs of Habeas Corpus out of England into Her Majesty's Possessions Abroad.
XXI. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Transfer of Stocks and Annuities transferable at the Bank of Ireland.
XXII. An Act to continue certain Duties of Customs and Inland Revenue for the Service of Her Majesty, and to grant, alter, and repeal certain other Duties.
XXIII. An Act to amend "The Summary Procedure on Bills of Exchange (Ireland) Act (1861)."
XXIV. An Act to continue The Peace Preservation (Ireland) Act, 1866, as amended by the Act of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of Victoria, Chapter One Hundred and thirty-eight.
XXV. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders under the Local Government Act, 1858, relating to the Districts of Hanley, Stroud, Ilfracombe, Longton, Halifax, Ipswich, and Sandown.
XXVI. An Act to extend the Power of making Statutes possessed by the University of Oxford, and to make further Provision for the Administration of Justice in the Court of the Chancellor of the said University.
XXVII. An Act to authorize Payments for a further Period out of the Revenues of India in respect of the Retiring Pay, Pensions, and other Expenses of that Nature of Her Majesty's British Forces serving in India.
XXVIII. An Act to alter and amend the Universities (Scotland) Act in so far as relates to the Bequest of the late Doctor Alexander Murray in the University of Aberdeen.
XXIX. An Act to amend and enlarge the Acts for the Improvement of Landed Property in Ireland.
XXX. An Act to amend an Act of the last Session for authorizing Advances of Money out of the Consolidated Fund for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries for Employment of the Poor, and for facilitating the Construction and Improvement of Harbours, and for other Purposes.
XXXI. An Act to apply the sum of Ten Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
XXXII. An Act to continue the Act of the Second and Third Years of Victoria, Chapter Seventy-four, for preventing the administering of unlawful Oaths in Ireland, as amended by an Act of the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of Victoria,
XXXIII. An Act for vesting in Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department the Lands of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, and for completing certain Exchanges of Lands now or late of the said College.
XXXIV. An Act for the discontinuance of Portsdown Fair in the County of Southampton.
XXXV. An Act to amend the Acts for the Regulation of Public Houses in Scotland.
XXXVI. An Act to appropriate certain Portions of Land lying between High and Low Water Mark, situate in the Parishes of Shoebury and Wakering in the County of Essex, as Ranges for the Use and Practice of Artillery.
XXXVII. An Act to remove Doubts concerning, and to amend the Law relating to, the private Estates of Her Majesty, Her Heirs, and Successors.
XXXVIII. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Sale of Spirits.
XXXIX. An Act for enabling the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to make Arrangements with the Red Sea and India Telegraph Company.
XL. An Act to carry into effect the Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade.
XLI. An Act for amending "The Rifle Volunteer Grounds Act, 1860."
XLII. An Act to regulate the Procedure in the High Court of Chancery and the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster.
XLIII. An Act to provide for the Education and Maintenance of Pauper Children in certain Schools and Institutions.
XLIV. An Act to amend the Law relating to the giving of Aid to discharged Prisoners.
XLV. An Act to amend "The West Indian In-cumbered Estates Acts, 1854 and 1858."
XLVI. An Act for the better Regulation in certain Cases of the Procedure in the High Court of Chancery in Ireland.
XLVII. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales.
XLVIII. An Act respecting the Establishment and Government of Provinces in New Zealand, and to enable the Legislature of New Zealand to repeal the Seventy-third Section of an Act, intituled An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand.
XLIX. An Act to authorize the Completion, after His Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Wales shall attain the Age of Twenty-one Years, of Arrangements commenced during his Minority, under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act to enable the Council of His Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Wales to sell and exchange Lands and enfranchise Copyholds Parcel of the Possessions of the Duchy of Cornwall, to purchase other Lands; and for other Purposes.
L. An Act to amend certain Provisions of the Acts of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Years of Her Majesty, Chapters Ninety-six, Ninety-seven, Ninety-nine, and One hundred, respectively, relating to Summary Jurisdiction in Ireland.
LI. An Act for confirming, with Amendments, certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under The General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, and the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, Amendment Act, relating to Carrickfergus, Deal, Oban, Saint Ives, Tobermory, and Hastings.
LII. An Act to amend an Act of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, to prevent the future Grant by Copy of Court Roll and certain Leases of Lands

and Hereditaments in England belonging to Ecclesiastical Benefices.
LIII. An Act to facilitate the Proof of Title to, and the Conveyance of, Real Estates.
LIV. An Act to make further Provision respecting Lunacy in Scotland.
LV. An Act for the Settlement of a Loan due from the Island of Jamaica to the Imperial Government.
LVI. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made under an Act of the Fifteenth Year of Her present Majesty, to facilitate Arrangements for the Relief of Turnpike Trusts.
LVII. An Act to authorize the Sale of Her Majesty's Bakehouse in Peascod Street, Windsor, and the Application of the Proceeds in the Purchase of Land or Buildings to be held with Windsor Castle.
LVIII. An Act to make further Provision with respect to the raising of Money for erecting and improving Parochial Buildings in Scotland.
LIX. An Act to render Owners of Dogs in Ireland liable for Injuries to Sheep.
LX. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and to extend the Time limited for those Purposes respectively.
LXI. An Act for the better Management of Highways in England.
LXII. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Duration of Contested Elections for Counties in Ireland, and for establishing Additional Places for taking the Poll thereat.
LXIII. An Act to amend "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1855," and "The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853."
LXIV. An Act for the better Protection of Her Majesty's Naval and Victualling Stores.
LXV. An Act for the more speedy Trial of certain Homicides committed by Persons subject to the Mutiny Act.
LXVI. An Act for the Safe-keeping of Petroleum.
LXVII. An Act for obtaining a Declaration of Title.
LXVIII. An Act for amending the Law relating to Copyright in Works of the Fine Arts, and for repressing the Commission of Fraud in the Production and Sale of such Works.
LXIX. An Act for transferring from the Admiralty to the Board of Trade certain Powers and Duties relative to Harbours and Navigation under Local and other Acts; and for other Purposes.
LXX. An Act for giving effect to a Convention between Her Majesty and the King of Denmark for the mutual Surrender of Criminals.
LXXI. An Act to apply a Sum out of the Consolidated Fund and the Surplus of Ways and Means to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.
LXXII. An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain.
LXXIII. An Act for continuing the Copyhold, Inclosure, and Tithe Commission, and entitling the Commissioners to Superannuation Allowance.
LXXIV. An Act to enable the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works to acquire additional Land for the Purposes of the "Public Offices Extension Act of 1859," by way of Exchange for Land already acquired but not wanted for the Purposes of the said Act.
LXXV. An Act to revive and continue an Act for amending the Laws relating to Savings Banks in Ireland.
LXXVI. An Act to amend "The Weights and Measures (Ireland) Act, 1860;" to abolish local and customary Denominations of Weight, and to regulate the Mode of Weighing Articles sold in Ireland.
LXXVII. An Act to suspend the making of Lists and the Ballots for the Militia of the United Kingdom.
LXXVIII. An Act for providing a further Sum towards defraying the Expenses of constructing Fortifications for the Protection of the Royal Arsenals and Dockyards and the Ports of Dover and Portland, and of Creating a Central Arsenal.
LXXIX. An Act to amend the Law relating to Coal Mines.
LXXX. An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and contingent and other Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland; to grant Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, and Surgeons Mates of the Militia; and to authorize the Employment of the Noncommissioned Officers.
LXXXI. An Act to make perpetual An Act to amend the Procedure and Powers of the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes.
LXXXII. An Act for the more economical Recovery of Poor Rates and other Local Rates and Taxes.
LXXXIII. An Act to amend the Laws in force for the Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland, and to continue the Powers of the Commissioners.
LXXXIV. An Act to continue the Duties of Excise on Sugar made in the United Kingdom, and to amend the Laws relating to the Duties of Excise.
LXXXV. An Act to facilitate the Transmission of Moveable Property in Scotland.
LXXXVI. An Act to amend the Law relating to Commissions of Lunacy and the Proceedings under the same, and to provide more effectually for the visiting of Lunatics, and for other Purposes.
LXXXVII. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Industrial and Provident Societies.
LXXXVIII. An Act to amend the Law relating to the fraudulent marking of Merchandise.
LXXXIX. An Act for the Incorporation, Regulation, and Winding-up of Trading Companies and other Associations.
XC. An Act for rectifying a clerical Error in the Act of the present Session, Chapter Forty, with respect to the African Slave Trade Treaty.
XCI. An Act to incorporate the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, and for other Purposes.
XCII. An Act to limit the Time for proceeding to Elections in Counties and Boroughs in Ireland.
XCIII. An Act for embanking the North Side of the River Thames from Westminster Bridge to

Blackfriars Bridge, and for making new Streets in and near thereto.
XCIV. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Special Report of the Inclosure Commissioners.
XCV. An Act to amend the Law relating to Polling Places in the Boroughs of New Shoreham, Cricklade, Aylesbury, and East Retford.
XCVI. An Act to render tenable during good Behaviour the Office of the Officer of the Court of Common Pleas by whom the Certificates of Acknowledgment of Deeds of married Women are filed of Record.
XCVII. An Act to regulate and amend the Law respecting the Salmon Fisheries of Scotland.
XCVIII. An Act for the Amendment of an Act of the Session of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and thirty-nine, intituled An Act to amend the Law concerning the making, keeping, and Carriage of Gunpowder and Compositions of an Explosive Nature, and concerning the Manufacture, Sale, and Use of Fireworks, and of an Act amending the last-mentioned Act.
XCIX. An Act to amend the Bankruptcy Act (1861).
C. An Act to authorize Improvement Commissioners acting as Burial Boards to mortgage certain Rates for the Purposes of the Burial Acts.
CI. An Act to make more effectual Provision for regulating the Police of Towns and populous Places in Scotland, and for lighting, cleansing, paving, draining, supplying Water to and improving the same, and also for promoting the Public Health thereof.
CII. An Act to amend the Metropolis Local Management Acts.
CIII. An Act to amend the Law relating to Parochial Assessments in England.
CIV. An Act for the Discontinuance of the Queen's Prison, and Removal of the Prisoners to Whitecross Street Prison.
CV. An Act to transfer the Roads and Bridges under the Management of the Commissioners of Highland Roads and Bridges to the several Counties in which the same are situate, and to provide for other Matters relating thereto.
CVI. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Appointment of County Surveyors in Ireland.
CVII. An Act to give greater Facilities for summoning Persons to serve on Juries, and for other Purposes relating thereto.
CVIII. An Act to confirm certain Sales, Exchanges, Partitions, and Enfranchisements by Trustees and others.
CIX. An Act to continue the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act (1854).
CX. An Act to enable Boards of Guardians of certain Unions to obtain temporary Aid to meet the extraordinary Demands for Relief therein.
CXI. An Act to amend the Law relating to Lunatics.
CXII. An Act for establishing the Jurisdiction of the Charity Commissioners in certain Cases.
CXIII. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Removal of poor Persons from England to Scotland, and from Scotland to England and Ireland.
CXIV. An Act for the Prevention of Poaching.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS,
DECLARED PUBLIC,
AND TO BE JUDICIALLY NOTICED.
i. AN Act for enabling the Great Northern Railway Company to acquire additional Land near Doncaster, and extending the Time for the Sale of their superfluous Lands.
ii. An Act to enable the Woolwich, Plumstead, and Charlton Consumers Gas Company to raise a further Sum of Money.
iii. An Act to amend "The Norwich Corporation Markets Act, 1860," and to authorize the Purchase of additional Lands; and for other Purposes.
iv. An Act for continuing the Term and amending and extending the Provisions of the Act relating to the Ross Turnpike Roads; and for other Purposes.
v. An Act to grant further Powers to the Wycombe Railway Company.
vi. An Act for extending the Term and amending the Provisions of the Acts relating to the Folkestone to Barham Downs Turnpike Road, in the County of Kent.
vii. An Act to authorize the London and Blackwall Railway Company to construct additional Works and take additional Lands for enlarging their Railway, and to confer further Powers upon the Company with reference to the raising of Capital; and for other Purposes.
viii. An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of Shares in the Undertaking called the London, Tilbury, and Southend Extension Railway, and to vest such Undertaking in the Company so incorporated; and for other Purposes.
ix. An Act to repeal the Act relating to the Wareham Turnpike Roads, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof; and for other Purposes.
x. An Act to enable the Faringdon Railway Company to create Preference Shares; and for other Purposes.
xi. An Act for making better Provision for the Relief of the Poor of the Parishes of Saint Michael and the Holy Trinity, Coventry.
xii. An Act for the Winchester Road in the County of Southampton.
xiii. An Act to create a further Term in the Cirencester District of Turnpike Roads; to repeal, amend. and extend the Powers of the Act relating to the said Roads; and for other Purposes.
xiv. An Act to authorize the Much Wenlock and Severn Junction Railway Company to raise further Sums of Money, and to subscribe an additional Sum to the Wenlock Railway; and for other Purposes.
xv. An Act for continuing the Term and amending and extending the Provisions of the Act relating to the Second District of the Bridport Turnpike Roads in the County of Dorset, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof.
xvi. An Act to amend some of the Provisions of the Deed of Settlement of "The British, Plate Glass Company," and to confirm a Lease granted by, and to confer further Powers upon that Company.
xvii. An Act for rendering valid certain Letters Patent granted to Thomas Webb, of Tutbury in the County of Derby, Cotton Spinner, and James Craig, of the same Place, Manager.
xviii. An Act for the better supplying of the Borough of Bradford and Places near thereto with Water, and for authorizing the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Bradford, in order thereto, to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
xix. An Act to incorporate the Heckmondwike Gas Company, with Powers to manufacture and supply Gas within the Townships of Heckmondwike and Liversedge in the parish of Birstal in the West Riding of the County of York; and for other Purposes.
xx. An Act for transferring from the Grand Jury of the County of Cork to the Commissioners of Queenstown the Management of the Roads and Bridges in the said Town, and for improving the said Town.
xxi. An Act to authorize the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company to subscribe a further Sum of Money to the Chard and Taunton Railway; and for other Purposes.
xxii. An Act for authorizing the East London Waterworks Company to raise further Monies, and for regulating their Capital and Borrowing Powers; and for other Purposes.
xxiii. An Act to enable the Limerick Market Trustees to borrow further Sums; and to amend "The Limerick Markets Act, 1852."
xxiv. An act to enable Her Majesty's Paymaster General to repay to the North Devon Railway and Dock Company a Sum of Three thousand Pounds.
xxv. An Act for extending the Improvement of the District of Rathmines so as to include therein Rathgar and Sallymount, all in the County of Dublin.
xxvi. An Act to enable the Local Board of the District of Tranmere in the County of Chester to make new Roads and Sewers; and for other Purposes.
xxvii. An Act for the building of a hew Market House in the Borough of South Molton; for the regulating of Markets and Fairs in the Borough; for the Improvement in other respects of the Borough; and for other Purposes.
xxviii. An Act to enable "The Leeds New Gas Company" to raise additional Capital, to extend their Limits for supplying Gas, and for other Purposes.
xxix. An Act for making a Pier and Harbour at Brean Down on the Bristol Channel, and for other Purposes.
xxx. An Act to repeal and consolidate the Acts

relating to the Bristol Waterworks Company; to empower the Company to make fresh Works; and for other Purposes.
xxxi. An Act for the Preservation and Improvement of the Pier and Harbour of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
xxxii. An Act for enabling the Local Board of Health for the District of the Township of Barnsley in the West Riding of the County of York to construct and maintain an improved System of Waterworks to supply the District and other Places with Water, and to abandon and sell their existing Waterworks; to confer Powers on Park Keepers and Constables; to amend the Acts relating to the District; and for other Purposes.
xxxiii. An Act for granting further Powers for better supplying with Water the Town of Falmouth, and certain Places adjacent or near thereto.
xxxiv. An Act to authorize the Tendring Hundred Railway Company to extend their Railway in Colchester.
xxxv. An Act to authorize the Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction Company to raise further Money for the Purposes of their Undertaking and of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway; and to amend their Acts.
xxxvi. An Act to enable the Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway Company to make a Deviation of their authorized Line of Railway; and for other Purposes.
xxxvii. An Act for the Improvement and Lighting of a Portion of the Township of Bollington in the Parish of Prestbury in the County Palatine of Chester.
xxxviii. An Act to extend and define the Powers of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Dublin in respect to the extinguishing of Fires, and the Protection of Life and Property against Fire; and for other Purposes.
xxxix. An Act to enable the Dublin and Meath Railway Company to raise additional Capital; and for other Purposes.
xl. An Act to authorize a Deviation of Part of the authorized Line of the Frosterley and Stanhope Railway, to construct a new Branch and other Works, to abandon Portions of authorized Line and Approach to Stanhope, to raise additional Capital, amend and repeal Acts; and for other Purposes.
xli. An Act for the further Improvement of the Borough of Halifax, and for other Purposes.
xlii. An Act for authorizing the London and South-western Railway Company to make and maintain additional Works, and for authorizing the Transfer to them of the Wimbledon and Dorking Railway, and for making Arrangements respecting their Capital; and for other Purposes.
xliii. An Act to enable the Dundee Water Company to raise further Money, and to execute additional Works.
xliv. An Act for authorizing the Company of Proprietors of the Kent Waterworks to raise further Monies; and for regulating their Capital and Borrowing Powers.
xlv. An Act to enable the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Company to raise additional Capital by Preference Shares and otherwise, and for other Purposes.
xlvi. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Railway in the County of Middlesex, from the Great Northern Railway, through Highgate, Finchley, and Hendon, to Edgware.
xlvii. An Act to authorize a Lease of the Undertaking of the Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Company to the North British Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
xlviii. An Act to authorize a Lease of the Undertaking of the Port Carlisle Dock and Railway Company to the North British Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
xlix. An Act to authorize the North British Railway Company to make certain Railways from their Main Line in the Parish of Inveresk to the Farm Steading of Smeaton, and thence to near Macmerry and to their Hawick Line at Hardengreen; and for other Purposes.
l. An Act for incorporating the Members of the Institution known as "The Asylum for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor," and for enabling them the better to carry on their charitable Designs."
li. An Act for making a Railway from the Peebles Railway at the Leadburn Station to the Parish of Linton in the County of Peebles.
lii. An Act for a further Supply of Water to the Town and Neighbourhood of Leeds from the river Wharfe, and for other Purposes.
liii. An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to the Maintenance and Repair of the Roads, Streets, and Bridges within the District of the City of Edinburgh, and the Assessments payable in respect thereof; and for other Purposes.
liv. An Act for authorizing the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company to make and maintain new Lines of Railway and other Works in the County of Durham; and for other Purposes.
lv. An Act to authorize the making of a Railway from Daventry in the County of Northampton, to the London and North-western Railway near Weedon in the same County, and for other Purposes.
lvi. An Act to confer upon the Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway Company further Powers for the Completion of their Railway; and for other Purposes.
lvii. An Act to authorize the Relinquishment of the Street and Railway authorized by "The London Railway Depôt and Storehouses Act, 1860," and for other Purposes.
lviii. An Act to authorize the Metropolitan Railway Company to acquire certain additional Lands and execute further Works for the Purposes of their Undertaking; to confer further Powers upon the Company with reference to the raising of Capital; to authorize further Agreements with other Companies; and for other Purposes.
lix. An Act to repeal the Act relating to the New Chappel, Lindfield, and Brighton, and Dilcheling and Clayton Roads, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof.
lx. An Act to enable the Denbigh, Ruthin, and Corwen Railway Company to create Preference Capital.
lxi. An Act for the making and maintaining of a Bridge over the River Wyre (to be called "Shard Bridge"), with Roads thereto, and for other Purposes.
lxii. An Act for granting further Powers to the Great North of Scotland Railway Company.
lxiii. An Act to amend the Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds Railway Act, 1860, and to make further Provision as to Purchase of Land and Completion of Works on Ossett Branch.
lxiv. An Act to enable the Scottish Northeastern Railway Company to raise additional Capital, to make a Deviation in their Railway, and execute other Works, and purchase additional Lands; to amend the Acts relating to the Company; and for other Purposes.
lxv. An Act for repairing and maintaining the Road from the Borough of Bolton to the Borough of Blackburn, and a Branch Road connected therewith, in the County Palatine of Lancaster.
lxvi. An Act to authorize the Lease of the Cromford and High Peak Railway to the London and North-western Railway Company, and to make certain arrangements with reference to the Capital of the Cromford and High Peak Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
lxvii. An Act for the Incorporation of a Company for making a Railway from Kington to Eardisley, with a Branch therefrom; and for vesting in such Company a Tramroad called "the Kington Railway," and enabling them to appropriate Portions of such Tramroad for the Purposes of their Undertaking; and for other Purposes.
lxviii. An Act to enable the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company to enlarge their Stations at London Bridge and the Bricklayers Arms, and to alter certain Roads, Streets, and Bridges; and for other Purposes.
lxix. An Act for making a Railway from the Cornwall Railway near Lostwithiel to Fowey in the County of Cornwall, and for other Purposes.
lxx. An Act for vesting the disused Burial Ground of the Parish of Saint Giles in the Fields, and other Lands connected therewith, in the Rector as Glebe, and providing for the Maintenance of the disused Burial Ground; and for other Purposes.
lxxi. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Railway from Weymouth to the Isle of Portland, and to extend the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymoulh Railway to the Harbour.
lxxii. An Act for Supplying with Gas the Township of Stretford and adjacent Places in in the County of Lancaster, and the Township of Sale and adjacent Places in the County of Chester; and for other Purposes.
lxxiii. An Act for supplying with Gas the Townships of Undermillbeck, Applethwaite, and Troutbeck, in the Parish of Windermere in the County of Westmoreland.
lxxiv. An Act to enable the Great Britain Mutual Life Assurance Society to sue and be sued; and to confer further Powers on the Society.
lxxv. An Act to confer further Powers on the Newry and Armagh Railway Company.
lxxvi. An Act for incorporating the Tyne General Ferry Company, and for authorizing them to establish, make, and maintain Ferries on, along, and across the River Tyne, and Landing Places and other Works; and for other Purposes.
lxxvii. An Act for erecting a Bridge across the River Hull or Old Harbour, with Approaches and other Works connected therewith, all in the Town and County of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull.
lxxviii. An Act to authorize the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company to make certain new Lines of Railway in the Counties of Surrey and Sussex; and for other Purposes.
lxxix. An Act for making a Railway from the Scottish North-eastern Railway near Limpett Mill to the Great North of Scotland Railway at Kintore, with Branches to the Deeside Railway at Peterculter; and for other Purposes.
lxxx. An Act to enable the Maryport and Carlisle Railway Company to construct Branch Railways to Bolton and Wigton, to improve their Station Accommodation at Wigton, to purchase additional Lands at Wigton and Aikbank, to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
lxxxi. An Act for enabling the Midland Railway Company to construct new Railways and Works, and to acquire additional Lands in the Counties of Derby, Leicester, Warwick, Bedford, Worcester, Gloucester, and Middlesex; and for other Purposes.
lxxxii. An Act for making and maintaining a Harbour, Piers, and other Works at Ventnor in the Isle of Wight, and for other Purposes.
lxxxiii. An Act for incorporating a Company, under the Title of "The Caterham Spring Water Company," for better supplying with Water the Inhabitants of Caterham and the Neighbourhood thereof.
lxxxiv. An Act for the Amalgamation of the Reading Union Gas Company and the Reading Gaslight Company; and for incorporating the Reading Gas Company; and for making further Provision for the supplying of the Borough of Reading and the Neighbourhood thereof with Gas; and for other Purposes.
lxxxv. An Act to enable the North-eastern Railway Company to construct Branch Railways from Market Weighton to Beverley and at Hull, to raise additional Capital; and for other Purposes.
lxxxvi. An Act for making a Railway from the Great Northern Railway at Hatfield to the London and North-western Railway at Saint Albans; and for other Purposes.
lxxxvii. An Act for granting further Powers to the Alford Valley Railway Company.
lxxxviii. An Act to enable the Deeside Railway Company to raise additional Capital for their original Railway; to maintain certain Portions of their Extension Railway constructed beyond the authorized Limits; and for other Purposes.
lxxxix. An Act to enable the Furness Railway Company to make a Branch Railway to Hawcoat Quarry; to vest in the said Company the Undertaking of the Ulverstone Canal Navigation; and to enable them to raise additional Capital; and for other Purposes.
xc. An Act for making a Railway in the West Riding of the County of York, to be called "The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway;" and for other Purposes.
xci. An Act for the Construction by the Midland Railway Company of new Railways in connection with their Rowsley and Buxton Line, and for the Abandonment of Part of the authorized Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway; for authorizing the Use by the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Com-

pany of Parts of the intended Railways; and for other Purposes.
xcii. An Act to authorize the Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction Railway Company to deviate and extend the authorized Line of their Batley Branch Railway in the West Riding of the County of York; and for other Purposes.
xciii. An Act to enable the Vale of Clwyd Railway Company to extend their Railway to the North-west Shore of the River Clwyd at Foryd; to divert a portion of the Line of their present Railway; and for other Purposes.
xciv. An Act to authorize the Construction of Railways within the Town of Burton-upon-Trent, and for other Purposes.
xcv. An Act to enable the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon Railway Company to make and maintain Deviations in the Line and Levels of their Railway; and for other Purposes.
xcvi. An Act to enable the South-eastern Railway Company to make Railways to Tunbridge and Dartford respectively, and to widen a Portion of their North Kent Line of Railway, and to purchase additional Lands for the Purposes of their Undertaking; and for other Purposes.
xcvii. An Act to enable the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company to construct a Branch Railway to Shawforth and other Works; to purchase additional Lands; and for other Purposes.
xcviii. An Act for vesting the Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Guide Bridge Junction Railway in the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, and the London and North-western Railway Companies; and for other Purposes.
xcix. An Act to make better Provision for supplying with Water the Town and Township of Wakefield, and the Townships of Alverthorpe-with-Thornes, Stanley-cum-Wrenthorpe, and Sandal Magna, and for other Purposes.
c. An Act for making a Railway from Kingston-upon-Hull to Hornsea.
ci. An Act for dissolving the Ceylon Railway Company, and for other Purposes connected therewith.
cii. An Act for authorizing "The North British Insurance Company" to increase their Capital Stock; and for other Purposes.
ciii. An Act to continue the Ashborne and Belper Turnpike Trust in the County of Derby; and for other Purposes.
civ. An Act to define the Powers of the London and North-western and Chester and Holyhead Railway Companies for raising Money; and for other Purposes.
cv. An Act for the Red House and Weeland Roads in the West Riding of the County of York.
cvi. An Act for the Amalgamation of the South Durham and Lancashire Union and Eden Valley Railway Companies with the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company; for the Transfer to the last-named Company of the Frosterly and Stanhope Railway; and for other Purposes.
cvii. An Act to empower the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Liverpool to construct additional Reservoirs and other Works; to alter the Charges for the Supply of Water within the Limits of their District, and to make other Rates and Charges in respect of such Supply; and for other Purposes.
cviii. An Act to provide for the leasing of the Banbridge, Lisburn, and Belfast Railway to the Ulster Railway Company.
cix. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Railway from Bala to Dolgelly in the County of Merioneth; and for other Purposes.
cx. An Act for making a Railway from Corwen to Bala, and for other Purposes.
cxi. An Act for incorporating a Company for making a Railway in the Counties of Devon and Cornwall, to be called "The Launceston and South Devon Railway;" and for other Purposes.
cxii. An Act to enable the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company to make a new Railway in the County of Chester, to be called "The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Godley and Woodley Branch) Railway;" and for other Purposes.
cxiii. An Act to authorize the Consolidation into One Undertaking of the Inverness and Ross-shire and Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railways, and the Union into One Company of the Two Companies to which the said Railways respectively belong.
cxiv. An Act to authorize the Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway Company to extend their Railway to the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland at Sligo; to change the Name of the Company; and for other Purposes.
cxv. An Act to enable the Llynvi Valley Railway Company to increase their Capital; and for other Purposes.
cxvi. An Act for the making and maintaining of a Bridge over the River Trent near to the Town of Nottingham (to be called "Wilford Bridge"), with Roads thereto, and for the discontinuing of Wilford Ferry across the River, and for other Purposes.
cxvii. An Act to repeal an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for amending and maintaining the Turnpike Road from and out of the Road leading from Quebee in Leeds to Homefield Lane End in Wortley, to communicate with the Road leading from Huddersfield to Birstal, at the "Coach and Horses" Public House in Birstal in the West Riding of the County of York, and granting more effectual Powers in lieu thereof.
cxviii. An Act to enable the Eden Valley Railway Company to construct certain Extension and Branch Railways; to use Portions of other Railways; to raise additional Capital; and for other Purposes.
cxix. An Act for the Rotherham and Wortley Turnpike Road in the West Riding of the County of York.
cxx. An Act for dissolving the Hull and Holderness Railway Company, and vesting its Undertaking in and uniting its Shareholders with those of the North-eastern Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
cxxi. An Act for making a Railway from John-stone to Bridge of Weir in the County of Renfrew, with Branches, and for other Purposes.
cxxii. An Act to dissolve the present Body of the Wexford Harbour Commissioners, and to appoint new Commissioners, and for other Purposes.
cxxiii. An Act for conferring further Powers for the good Government of the Borough of Cardiff; and for other Purposes.
cxxiv. An Act to authorize the Abandonment of a Portion of the Garston and Liverpool Railway; and for other Purposes.
cxxv. An Act for better supplying with Water the Gaol and House of Correction at Maidstone in and for the County of Kent, and the Lunatic Asylum at Barming Heath in and for the said County; and for other Purposes.
cxxvi. An Act to amend the Acts now in force for the Protection of Property in the Borough of Liverpool from Fire.
cxxvii. An Act for enabling the Great-western Railway Company to construct Railways, and to acquire additional Lands in the Counties of Stafford and Warwick; and for other Purposes.
cxxviii. An Act for incorporating a Company for making a Railway in the County of Devon, to be called "The Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway;" and for other Purposes.
cxxix. An Act to authorize the South Yorkshire Railway and River Dun Company, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company to contribute Funds towards and to acquire the Undertaking of the Trent, Alcholme, and Grimsby Railway Company.
cxxx. An Act to amend "The Wem and Bronygarth Roads Act, 1860," and to confer further Powers in relation to the said Roads.
cxxxi. An Act to enable the United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company (Limited) to carry on the Works and Business of an Electric Telegraph Company.
cxxxii. An Act for extending the Period limited for the Completion of a Portion of the Railway of the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway Company, and for authorizing them to raise a further Sum of Money; and for other Purposes.
cxxxiii. An Act to authorize the Amalgamation of the Coniston Railway Company with the Furness Railway Company, and for other Purposes.
cxxxiv. An Act to repeal the Act "for repealing Two Acts for repairing the Road from Little Sheffield in the County of York to Sparrow Pit Gate in the County of Derby, and also an Act for making a Road from Banner Cross in the West Riding of the County of York to Fox House in the County of Derby, and for consolidating the Trusts of certain Roads mentioned in the said Acts, and for amending and making certain other Roads to communicate therewith, and for other Purposes;" and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof.
cxxxv. An Act to amalgamate the Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway Company with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company.
cxxxvi. An Act to enable the Caledonian Railway Company to make certain Deviations of their authorized Lines of Railway called the "Cleland Branch Extension" and the "Omoa Branch," in the County of Lanark; and for other Purposes.
cxxxvii. An Act to enable the Caledonian Railway Company to make a Branch Railway from their Granton Branch to Leith, with a connecting Branch therefrom; and for other Purposes.
cxxxviii. An Act to amalgamate the Glasgow, Dumbarton, and Helensburgh Railway Company with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company.
cxxxix. An Act for changing the Name of the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Company to the Name "The Irish North-western Railway Company;" and for authorizing them to make and maintain an additional Line of Railway and other Works; and to make Arrangements with other Companies and Public Bodies; and to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
cxl. An Act to incorporate the Participants of the Level of Hatfield Chase; to authorize the Construction of additional Works of Drainage in the said Level; and to subject certain Lands therein to Taxation.
cxli. An Act to enable the South Yorkshire Railway and River Dun Company to make Railways near Sheffield and Thorne, and to exercise other Powers.
cxlii. An Act for making a Railway from the Hawick Branch of the North British Railway near Newtown Saint Boswells to Dunse.
cxliii. An Act for making a Railway from Bishops Wallham to Botley.
cxliv. An Act for effecting Railway Communication from the Metropolitan Extension of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham.
cxlv. An Act for the Amalgamation of the Undertaking of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Railway Company with the Undertaking of the North-eastern Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
cxlvi. An Act to enable the North-eastern Railway Company to construct a Branch Railway between Blaydon and Conside, with Branches therefrom; to acquire additional Lands, and for other Purposes.
cxlvii. An Act for more effectually repairing certain Roads called "The Tupton and Ashover Road," and "The Birkin Lane Road," in the County of Derby.
cxlviii. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Railway from Hooton to Parkgate, in connexion with the existing Birkenhead Railway, and for other Purposes.
cxlix. An Act to enable the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway Company to construct a Branch Railway to communicate with a Pier and other Works at the Mouth of the River Avon; and to authorize certain Arrangements with the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the City and County of Bristol with reference thereto.
cl. An Act to repeal an Act of the First Year of the Reign of King William the Fourth, "for consolidating the Trusts of the several Turnpike Roads in the Neighbourhood of Cheadle, in the County of Stafford, and for making Deviations and new Branches to and from the same;" and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof.
cli. An Act for making a Railway from Horsham to Dorking, and for other Purposes.
clii. An Act for making Railways from the London and South-western Railway to Hampton and Shepperton in the County of Middlesex.
cliii. An Act to authorize the Mid Kent Railway Company to make a Railway from the Mid Kent Railway to Addiscombe; and for other Purposes.
cliv. An Act to enable the North-eastern Railway Company to construct the Team, Valley and

other Branch Railways in the County of Durham; and for other Purposes.
clv. An Act for providing and constructing an improved Cattle Market, Market Places, and Slaughterhouses, with all necessary Approaches and Conveniences, within the Parish of Saint Thomas in the County of the City of Dublin.
clvi. An Act to enable the Mid Wales Railway Company to alter the Line and Levels of their Railway, and to make a Junction between the Mid Wales and the Central Wales (Extension) Railways; and to amend the Acts relating to the said Company; and for other Purposes.
clvii. An Act to alter the Constitution of the Parochial Board of the Barony Parish of Glasgow in the County of Lanark.
clviii. An Act for making a Railway from the Sulton Station of the Croydon and Epsom Branch of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway to Banstead and Epsom Downs in the County of Surrey.
clix. An Act for making a Railway from the Port of Bristol to the Old Channel at the Mouth of the River Avon, together with a Pier in the said River, and for other Purposes.
clx. An Act for making a Railway from the Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway to Wemyss Bay in the County of Renfrew, and a Pier and Roads in connexion therewith; and for other Purposes.
clxi. An Act for authorizing the Llanelly Railway and Dock Company to make and maintain new Lines of Railway by way of Deviation of their authorized Swansea Lines and Carmarthen Line and other Works, and to make Arrangements with other Companies, and to raise further Capital, and to make Provision for laying down Narrow Gauge Rails on the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway; and for other Purposes.
clxii. An Act for authorizing the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway Company to make and maintain a Line of Railway for the joint Use of the Mid Wales Railway Company and the Manchester and Milford Railway Company, and a Station at Llanidloes for the joint Use of the Three Companies, and to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
clxiii. An Act to authorize the Extension of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway to Walmer and Deal, and for other Purposes.
clxiv. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Nene Valley Drainage and Navigation Improvement; and to make Provision for the Discharge of the Debts and Liabilities of the Commissioners in the Third District of Drain-ago, and for the Separation of the Districts; and for other Purposes.
clxv. An Act for making a Railway from the North Devon Railway in the Parish of Colebrook in the County of Devon to Okehampton in the same County; and for other Purposes.
clxvi. An Act for authorizing the Construction of Railways from the Sevenoaks Railway to Maidstone and Tunbridge, and to join existing Railways at Tunbridge, all in Kent; and for other Purposes.
clxvii. An Act to enable the Swansea Harbour Trustees to raise a further Sum of Money for the Purposes of their Undertaking; and to authorize a Lease or Leases of the Swansea Harbour Railway and certain Wharves in Swansea Harbour to the Vale of Neath Railway Company; and to authorize the laying down of additional Rails for the narrow Gauge on that Railway.
clxviii. An Act to authorize the West Midland Railway Company to construct additional Works, and to raise further Sums of Money; to provide Facilities for the Passage of their Traffic to Newport in the County of Monmouth; to regulate their Powers of raising Money in respect of certain other Undertakings; and for other Purposes.
clxix. An Act for constructing and maintaining a pier at Weston-super-Mare in the County of Somerset.
clxx. An Act to facilitate Arrangements by the Londonderry and Coleraine Railway Company with their Creditors; and for other Purposes.
clxxi. An Act for making Railways from Rickmansworth in the County of Hertford to Amersham and Chesham in the County of Buckingham; and for other Purposes.
clxxii. An Act to enable the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway Company to extend their Railway from Llangeller to Newcastle-Emlyn, and to raise further Monies.
clxxiii. An Act for making a Railway from Kettering to Thrapstone in the County of Northampton; and for other Purposes.
clxxiv. An Act to improve the Western Approach to the Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market, and to authorize the raising of additional Money.
clxxv. An Act for making a Railway from Stafford in the County of Stafford to Uttoxeter in the same County; and for other Purposes.
clxxvi. An Act for authorizing the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway Company to make and maintain additional Lines of Railway, and to reclaim Lands near to their Lines of Railway, and to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
clxxvii. An Act for conferring further Powers upon the Andover and Redbridge Railway Company.
clxxviii. An Act for authorizing Agreements between the Briton Ferry Dock and Railway Company and other Companies, and a Lease of Part of their Wharfs and for altering Rates payable to the Neath Harbour Commissioners; and for authorizing the Briton Ferry Dock and Railway Company to raise further Capital; and for other Purposes.
clxxix. An Act for making Railways from Cow-bridge in the County of Glamorgan to join the Llantrissant and Taff Vale Junction Railway and the South Wales Railway; and for other Purposes.
clxxx. An Act to authorize the British Fisheries Society to construct Piers or Breakwaters, and other Works in connexion with Pulteney Harbour, and to amend the Act relating thereto.
clxxxi. An Act to amalgamate the Fife and Kinross Railway Company with the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway Company.
clxxxii. An Act for authorizing the Vale of Neath Railway Company to lay down Rails for the Narrow Gauge as well as the Broad Gauge on the Vale of Neath Railway, and to raise further Monies, and for other Purposes.
clxxxiii. An Act to authorize an Alteration of the Terms of the Lease of the Severn Valley Railway to the West Midland Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
clxxxiv. An Act to enable the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway Company to make new Railways, and for other Purposes.
clxxxv. An Act for making a Railway in the County of Salop, to be called "The West Shropshire Mineral Railway; and for other Purposes.
clxxxvi. An Act for incorporating "The Brecon Markets Company," and for vesting in them, and authorizing them to maintain and regulate, the Markets and Fairs in Brecon, and other Property of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Brecon; and for providing for the Discharge of Liabilities of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses; and for other Purposes.
clxxxvii. An Act to confer Powers upon the Eastern Counties Railway Company with respect to the Epping Railways; and for other Purposes.
clxxxviii. An Act to separate the Middle Level from the Bedford Level Corporation; to transfer the Powers and Duties of the Nene Navigation Commissioners to the Middle Level Commissioners, and to provide for Payment of the Debt secured on the Navigation Tolls; to repeal the Barrier Banks Acts; to amend the Middle Level Acts, and to incorporate the Middle Level Commissioners; to amend and enlarge the Powers of Commissioners acting under District Acts in the Middle Level; and for other Purposes.
clxxxix. An Act for amalgamating the North British Railway and the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway and the West of Fife Railway and Harbour Companies, and for other Purposes.
cxc. An Act for authorizing the West Cheshire Railway Company to make and maintain additional Lines of Railway and other Works, and to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
cxci. An Act for authorizing the Waterford and Limerick Railway Company to divert their Tramway in the City of Limerick, and to work or lease the Undertaking of the Limerick and Ennis Railway Company.
cxcii. An Act to authorize the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company to construct additional Works and acquire additional Land in Kent and Surrey; and for other Purposes connected with their Undertakings.
cxciii. An Act to authorize the construction of a Railway in the Counties of Glamorgan and Brecon, to be called "The Dulas Valley Mineral Railway," and for other Purposes.
cxciv. An Act for making a railway to connect the South Staffordshire Railway with the Cannock Chase Railway in the County of Stafford, and for other Purposes.
cxcv. An Act to enable the Eastern Union Railway Company to make certain Arrangements concerning their Capital, and to subscribe to the Waveney Valley Railway.
cxcvi. An Act for transferring the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester Railway and for leasing the Ely Valley Railway to the Great Western Railway Company, and for other Purposes.
cxcvii. An Act to empower the Kent Coast Railway Company to construct Railways or Tramways at Ramsgate, and to raise further Money; and for other Purposes.
cxcviii. An Act to enable the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company to lease their Undertaking, to acquire additional Lands; and for other Purposes.
cxcix. An Act for making a Railway, to be called "The Spalding and Bourn Railway," and for other Purposes.
cc. An Act for making a Railway, to be called "The Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway," and for other Purposes.
cci. An Act to enable the Great Northern and Western (of Ireland) Railway Company to make a Railway to Ballina; and for other Purposes.
ccii. An Act for making a Railway from Carnarvon to Port Madoc in the County of Carnarvon.
cciii. An Act for paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, draining, and improving the City of Aberdeen and adjacent Districts, for regulating the Police thereof, for supplying the Inhabitants with Water, and for other Purposes.
cciv. An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to the Police and Statute Labour of the City of Glasgow, and for other Purposes.
ccv. An Act for consolidating and amending the Acts relating to the Corporation of Salford; for extending their powers; and for other Purposes.
ccvi. An Act for incorporating a Company; and for making and maintaining the East Gloucestershire Railway; and for other Purposes.
ccvii. An Act for making a Railway, to be called "The East Grinstead, Groombridge, and Tunbridge Wells Railway," and for other Purposes.
ccviii. An Act for conferring additional Powers on the London and North-western Railway Company in relation to their own Undertaking and the Undertakings of other Companies; and for authorizing a Deviation in the Line of the South Leicestershire Railway; and for other Purposes.
ccix. An Act to enable the Merthyr, Tredegar, and Abergavenny Railway Company to lease their Railway.
ccx. An Act for enabling the Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway Company to extend the Time for completing their Railway; to sell or lease their Undertaking to the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
ccxi. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Railway from the Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds Railway at Wakefield to the South Yorkshire Railway at Barnby-upon-Don, and of certain Branch Railways to be called "The West Riding and Grimsby Railway."
ccxii. An Act for incorporating the Dovey Reclamation Company; and for authorizing them to reclaim Land in the Estuary of the River Dovey; and for authorizing Arrangements between them and the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
ccxiii. An Act for extending the Time for the Purchase of Lands and the Completion of the Works authorized by "The Dagenham (Thames) Dock Act, 1855," and for other Purposes.
ccxiv. An Act for authorizing the Redditch Railway Company to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
ccxv. An Act to extend the Time for making the Railway of the Kensington Station and North

and South London Junction Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
ccxvi. An Act for authorizing the Abingdon Railway Company to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
ccxvii. An Act for making a Railway from the Waterford and Tranmore Railway near the City of Waterford to the Town of Passage in the County of Waterford.
ccxviii. An Act for authorizing an Extension of the Oswestry, Ellesmere, and Whitchurch Railway and for other Purposes.
ccxix. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Railway in the County of Down from the Downpatrick and Newry Railway to Newcastle.
ccxx. An Act for amending "The Charing Cross Railway (City Terminus) Act, 1861."
ccxxi. An Act for incorporating a Company for making and maintaining the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Junction Railway; and for other Purposes.
ccxxii. An Act to protect the Waters of the Mersey and the Irwell and of certain of their Tributaries from certain Obstructions.
ccxxiii. An Act to amalgamate the Eastern Counties, the East Anglian, the Newmarket, the Eastern Union, and the Norfolk Railway Companies; and for other Purposes.
ccxxiv. An Act for a Lease of the Undertaking of the Mid Kent Railway (Bromley to Saint Mary's Cray) Company to the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
ccxxv. An Act for the amalgamation of the Somerset Central Railway Company and the Dorset Central Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
ccxxvi. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Railway in Shropshire, to be called "The Wellington and Drayton Railway."
ccxxvii. An Act for making a Railway and Harbour in the County of Devon, to be called the Sidmouth Railway and Harbour; and for other Purposes.

PRIVATE ACTS,
PRINTED BY THE QUEEN'S PRINTER,
AND WHEREOF THE PRINTED COPIES MAY BE GIVEN IN EVIDENCE.
1. AN Act to confirm certain Contracts for granting Leases made and entered into by Charles Phillimore Esquire of Part of the Lands and Hereditaments devised by the Will of William Robert Phillimore Esquire, deceased, situate in the Parish of Saint Mary Abbotts, Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, and to confirm certain Leases granted in pursuance of the said Contracts, and for other Purposes relating to the said Will.
2. An Act for incorporating the Trustees under the Will of Captain William Mackintosh, for defining and explaining the said Will, and for carrying into effect the Purposes thereof.
3. An Act to extend the Powers given to the Trustees of the Will of William Tuffnell Esquire by an Act of Parliament passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for enabling the Trustee under the Will of the late William Tuffnell Esquire to reduce the Fines for the Copyholds held of the Manor of Barnersbury, devised by his Will, as an Encouragement to the Tenants to build thereon, to grant Building and Repairing Leases of the devised Estates; and for other Purposes.
4. An Act to enable the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, Governors of the Possessions, Revenues, and Goods of the Hospital of Edward, late King of England the Sixth, of Saint Thomas the Apostle, commonly called "Saint Thomas's Hospital," to convey the Site of the present Hospital to the Charing Cross Railway Company, and to acquire a new Site for the same Hospital; and for other Purposes.
5. An Act for amending the Powers of Leasing and other Powers created by divers Acts relating to the Estates annexed to the Earldom of Shrewsbury; and for other Purposes.
6. An Act to authorize the Trustees of the Will of Athelstan Corbet Esquire, deceased, to grant Building Leases and Mining Leases of the Estates thereby devised, and to raise Five thousand Pounds out of the same Estates, and apply such Sum in the Improvement of the Port of Aberdovey and Lands adjoining thereto; and for other Purposes.

PRIVATE ACTS,
NOT PRINTED.
7. An Act for inclosing the Commons or Waste Lands called "Dollow and Kilmore Commons" in the Parishes of Dollow and Kilmore in the County of Tipperary.
8. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Colonel Gore Boland Munbee with Sophia Catherine his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes.

NOTICE TO THE READER.
SOME considerable alterations having been made in the TEXT, TABLE OF CONTENTS, and SESSIONAL INDEX of this Work, with a view to facility and completeness of reference, it is desirable that these changes should be made known to those accustomed to consult it.
NOTICE TO THE READER.

  1.—AS TO THE TEXT.
  In the Text, commencing with Vol. CLXVI., there has been added to the title of every Bill, the Number, according to the official lists, of the print of the Bill as it stood when brought on for discussion; and at the close of the debate, the Number of the Bill as reprinted with the alterations the result of the discussion.
  Where a Select Committee has been appointed by either House, a list of the Members as originally nominated is given. The subsequent alterations in the constitution of the Committee, if any, will be found in the completed list given in the Sessional Index.

  2.—AS TO THE TABLES OF CONTENTS.
  The Tables of Contents of the volumes have been considerably enlarged. Every entry is made to accord with the corresponding entry in the LORDS' MINUTES or COMMONS' VOTES; but a large amount of valuable information not to be found in those records, but derived from the text of "HANSARD," is added or intercalated.
  Every Motion is set out in its precise terms, according to the Notice, or to the entries in the Minutes or Votes.
  Every Amendment or Motion interposed between the original Question and the final decision, whether subject of entry on the Minutes or Votes or not, is given.
  The title of every Bill introduced is set out at length, with the names of the Peers or Members who have charge of the measure.
  All Motions and Amendments are set out at length.
  In Committee all Clauses debated, and some not discussed, are recorded. The "breviates" which indicate the object of the Clause are given, and the Amendments are given at length.
  [If a Bill be committed to a Select Committee, a list of the Members will be found in the Sessional Index.]
  The object of every Select Committee moved for is set out in the terms of the Motion; and if granted, the names of the Members nominated to serve on it.
  After the names of the Members who put Questions, the names of the Ministers who give the Answers are now added.
  In short, the object of these alterations has been to render the "Contents" a complete abstract of the MINUTES and VOTES, comprising the whole "contentious" business of Parliament in relation to public affairs.
  [These improvements, commenced in the second volume, and growing as the work proceeded, will be found most complete in the later volumes.]

  3.—AS TO THE SESSIONAL INDEX.
  The following alterations have been made in the Sessional Index:—
  1. After the name of the Member who puts a Question, the name of the Minister who gives the Answer is added.
  2. Where a Bill is referred to a Select Committee, a list of the Members serving on the Committee is given, with any alterations since the first nomination.
  3. Instead of compelling the reader to refer to the volumes to find the date of the Royal Assent to a Bill, the reference has been omitted, and the date inserted.
  4. The history of each Bill which passes through both Houses is completed by citing the Statute in which it resulted.
  5. The Sessional Number of every printed Bill and reprint of a Bill as it passes through its several stages is appended to the references to the debates on it.
  6. Where a Select Committee is moved for, the object of that Committee is set forth in the terms of the Motion; and if granted, a list of the Members, with any subsequent alterations, is given.
  In like manner the subject of an Address for a Royal Commission, &c. is set out at length.
  7. The Sessional Numbers, according to the "List of Papers for Sale," of the Returns, Reports, and "Papers presented by Command," which are subjects of Debate, are added to the references.
  8. The entries under the head of "Mr. Speaker" have been cast into a distinct form. Instead of a mere entry of the title of the Question during which the necessity arose for Mr. Speaker's intervention, the particular object to which that intervention is directed is given. For example, the entry under the old form; "Education—The Revised Code—Question" would give no indication that Mr. Speaker's interference was to stop reference to Debates "in another place." The entry now stands "Debate—Reference to Debates 'in another place'—Education—The Revised Code—Question." By this course, the Law and Practice of Parliament, as digested in such works as Mr. May's, will always be entered up to the latest period.
  These improvements in the Tables of Contents and Sessional Index may frequently be made to save reference to the JOURNALS or VOTES. The Index is compiled with a view to the most rapid reference to the text of "HANSARD"—the references are therefore given in the shortest form, in order to bring the whole subject instantly under the eye. If the reader, consulting this Index, does not care to read the discussions on his subject, but desires to know the precise form in which Questions were submitted to the House, the terms of any Motion or Resolution, or Amendment, the course of the discussion and the result—and many other objects of inquiry might be suggested—if he turns to the "Contents" of the Volume indicated, and to the "page" at the right hand, he will find the full information as set forth in the MINUTES and VOTES, with many details (as, notably, of discussions in Committee) which are to be found nowhere but in "HANSARD."