§ Message from the Commons that they have appointed a Committee, to consist of six members, to join with a Committee of their Lordships to inquire into the subject of the Amalgamation of Railway Companies with special reference to the Bills for that purpose now before Parliament, and to consider whether any and what regulations should be imposed by Parliament in the event of such Amalgamations being sanctioned, and to request that their Lordships will be pleased to appoint an equal number of Lords to be joined with the Members of that House:
§ Ordered, That the said Message be taken into consideration on Monday next.
§ And having gone through the Business on the Paper, without debate—
§ House adjourned at a quarter past Five o'clock, to Monday next, Eleven o'clock.