§ The Chairman of Ways and Means informed the House that the Committee on Group B of Private Bills not being appointed to meet until To-morrow, the parties opposing the Bristol Corporation Bill, which was set down for consideration on the first day of meeting of the Committee, had appeared before him and proved that the evidence of Mr. Samuel John Thomas, Sutton House, Clifton Down, Bristol, Provision Merchant, Mr. William M'Adams, 134, City Road, Bristol, Railway Official, Mr. Edward Malachi Dyer, 30, Northumberland Road, Redlands, Bristol, Tailor, and Mr. Alfred John Saise, Forest Road, Fishponds, Bristol, Civil Engineer, was essential to their case, and that their attendance could not be procured without the intervention of the House.
§ Ordered, That Mr. Samuel John Thomas, Mr. William M'Adams, Mr. Edward Malachi Dyer, and Mr. Alfred John Saise do attend the Committee on Group B of Private Bills, To-morrow, at half-past Eleven of the clock.