§ The CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS informed the House: That the Committee on Group C. of Private Bills not being appointed to meet until Tuesday next the Parties promoting the Commercial Gas Bill, which was set down for consideration upon the first day of the meeting of the Committee, had appeared before him and proved that the evidence of Professor Vivian Lewes, of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and Dr. Clowes, Chemist, and Gas Examiner to the London County Council, was essential to their case, and that their attendance could not be procured without the intervention of the House.
§ Ordered, That Professor Vivian Lewes and Dr. Clowes do attend the Committee on Group C of Private Bills on Tuesday next, at half-past eleven o'clock.
§ Great Eastern Railway (No. 1) (Re-Committed) Bill and Great Eastern Railway (No. 2) Bill (Consolidated into the "Great Eastern Railway Bill").
§ Reported, with Amendments; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed.