§ The CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS informed the House that the Committee on Group F of Private Bills not being appointed to-meet until Tuesday next, the parties opposing the Devonport Corporation (Gas) Bill, which was set down for consideration on the first day of the meeting of the Committee, had appeared before him and proved that the evidence of Samuel Dashper Brooming, Schoolmaster, St. Stephen's School, Devonport; Herbert Banbury, Tax Collector. 16, Somerset Place, Stoke, Devonport; John James Edgcumbe Venning, Solicitor, 4, Penlee Gardens, Stoke, Devonport; John White, Chief Clerk, Devonport Post Office, 99, Wilton Street, Devonport; Richard Samson, Station Master, London and South Western Railway, Stoke, Devonport; Herbert Y. Adye, Divisional Superintendent, Great Western Railway, 2, Leigham Street, Plymouth; and Wode-house Dillon Richardson, Assistant Adjutant General, Western District, Beau-champ Weston Peverell, Devonport, was essential to their case, and that their attendance could not be procured without the intervention of the House.
§ Ordered, That the said Samuel Dashper Brooming, Herbert Banbury, John James Edgcumbe Yenning, John White, Richard Samson, Herbert Y. Adye, and Wodehouse Dillon Richardson do attend the Committee on Group F of Private Bills on Tuesday next, at half-past Eleven of the clock.—(The Chairman of Ways and Means.)