§ The Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod (Captain Butler) was despatched to desire the attendance of the Commons at the Bar to hear the Royal Commission read.
§ Mr. SPEAKER, accompanied by the Serjeant-at-Arms, bearing the Mace, by the Chaplain (Canon Wilberforce), and a number of honourable Members, having appeared at the Bar, the Royal Commission was read by the Clerk at the Table.
§ The following Bills received the Royal Assent:—Consolidated Fund (Appropriation); Vexatious Actions (Scotland); Parish Fire Engines; London University Commission; Vagrancy Act Amendment; Benefices (No. 2); Circuit Clerks of Justiciary (Scotland); Prisons; Customs and Inland Revenue; Universities and College Estates; Libraries (Offences); Evidence in Criminal Cases; Local Government (Ireland); Metropolitan Common Poor Fund; Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund); Trusts (Scotland); Vaccination; Local Taxation Accounts (Scotland); Out-door Relief (Ireland); Seed Supply and Potato Spraying (Ireland); Kingstown Harbour Roads Transfer; Metropolitan Commons; Expiring Laws Continuance; Public Works Loans; Habitual Inebriates; Nonconformist Marriages (Attendance of Registrars); Elementary School Teachers (Superannuation); Post Office (Local Authority Guarantee); Education Department Provisional Order Confirmation (London); Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 5); Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 7); Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 8); Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 15); Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 1); Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 3); Local Government. Provisional Order (No. 10); Local Government Provisional Orders (No. 13); Metropolitan Common Scheme (East Sheen) Provisional Order; Military Lands Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 2); India Office (Store Depot); Buckie (Cluny) Harbour; Great North of Scotland Railway; Newhaven and Seaford Water; Exeter, Teign Valley, and Chagford Railway; Sheffield Corporation; London County Council 5 (General Powers); London County Council (Money); Mid-Kent Water; Sheffield District Railway; Carlisle Corporation Water; Forres Water; Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation; North British Railways; Portsmouth Corporation Tramways; Filey Water and Gas; Newcastle and Gateshead Water; Devonport and District Tramways; Chelsea Electricity Supply; London and North-Western Railway; Metropolitan Electric Supply; Rochdale Corporation Water; Seaham Harbour; Wath-upon-Dearne Urban District Council; Windsor and Ascot Railway; Heywood Corporation Water; Tod-morden Corporation Water; Bolton, Tur-ton, and Westhoughton Extension; Glasgow Corporation (Sewage, etc.); Knott End Railway; Rhymney and Aber Valleys Gas and Water; Kingstown and Kingsbridge Junction Railway (Abandonment); Mersey Railway; Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway; Lincoln and East Coast Railway and Dock; Middlesex County Council; Liverpool Corporation; Fishguard and Ross-lare Railways and Harbours; Great Central Railway; Great Western Railway (New Works); Keighley Corporation; London United' Tramways; Paignton Improvement; St. Helens Corporation; West Ham Corporation; Wey Valley Water; Whitechapel and Bow Railway; Cardiff Railway.