§ Mr. OLDROYD reported from the Committee on Group B of Private Bills, That the parties promoting the South Metropolitan Gas Bill had stated that the evidence of Professor Vivian B. Lewes, Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was essential to their case; and, it having been proved that his attendance could not be procured without the intervention of the House, he had been instructed to move that the said Professor Vivian B. Lewes do attend the said Committee To day, at half-past Three of the clock.
§ Ordered, That Professor Vivian B. Lewes do attend the Committee on Group B of Private Bills To-day, at half-past Three of the clock.