Lords Sitting of 27 March 1899

Preamble
THE LORD CHANCELLORtook his seat upon the Woolsack at Four of the clock.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
The Lord Chancellor The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with:
Fishguard Water and Gas:
Also the Certificate that no further Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bill:
Crowborough District Water;
And also the Certificate that the Standing Orders have not been complied with in respect of the petition for additional provision in the following Bill:
Workington Corporation Water [H.L.];
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

ST. ALBANS GAS BILL [H.L.]
Committee to meet on Tuesday the 18th of April next.
Loughborough and Sheepshed Railway Bill [H.L]
Yeadon and Guiseley Gas Bill [H.L.]
Northern Assurance Company Bill [H.L.]
Bristol Gas Bill [H.L.]
Airdrie and Coatbridge Water Bill [H.L.]
Lea Bridge District Gas Bill [H.L.]
Queen's Ferry Bridge Bill [H.L.]
Herne Bay Water Bill [H.L.]
Walton-on-Thames and Weybridge Gas Bill [H.L.]
Read a third time, and passed, and sent to the Commons.

RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.

  EDUCATION DEPARTMENT (TRAINING COLLEGES).
  Reports for the year 1898, by—

  1. Sir H. E. Oakley and W. Scott Coward, Esquire, on the training colleges for schoolmasters and schoolmistresses;

  2. The Honourable Mrs. Colborne, on needlework in the training colleges for schoolmistresses;

  3. Sir John Stainer, on music in the training colleges for schoolmasters and schoolmistresses;

  4. List of training colleges under inspection.

EGYPT, No. 2 (1899).
Dispatch to Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, enclosing a copy of a declaration relative to the British and French spheres of influence in Central Africa.
EDUCATION (SCOTLAND).
Minute of the Committee of Council on Education in Scotland, dated 27th March 1899, amending the terms of Article 118 of the Code of 1899.

IRISH LAND COMMISSION.
1. (Proceedings.) Return of proceedings for the month of December 1898;
2. (Rules.) Rules dated 13th March 1899—

(i.) as to Assistant Commissioners;

(ii.) in relation to proceedings under the Land Law Acts.

MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS (ENGLAND).
General abstract for 1898,—presented (by Command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1888.
Part I.—Orders under Section 57 of the Act, as confirmed by the Local Government Board, of the following county and county borough councils;

(1.) Bristol, county borough of, for uniting the parishes comprised in the city and county of Bristol and the Bristol union, to form the parish of Bristol;

(2.) Carnarvon, for the conversion of part of the rural district of Bettwsycoed into the urban district of Bettwsycoed;

(3.) Cornwall and Devon, for transferring the parish of West Putford from the rural district of Bideford to the rural district of Holdsworthy;

(4.) Cumberland, for altering the boundaries of the parishes of Great Broughton and Little Broughton, and constituting the new parishes of Broughton and Broughton Moor;

(5.) Derby, for transferring a part of the parish of North Wingfield to the parish of Egstow;

(6.) Hertford, for uniting the parishes in the city of St. Alban to form the parish of St. Alban;

(7.) Lincoln (parts of Kesteven), for the conversion of part of the rural district of Bourne into the urban district of Bourne;

(8.) London and Surrey, and Croydon county borough, altering and defining the boundary between the parishes of Merton and Wimbledon;

(9.) Northumberland, for constituting the parish of Camperdown from parts of the parish of Longbenton and Weetslade, and transferring part of the urban district of Weetslade to the rural district of Tynemouth;

(10.) Nottingham, for uniting the parishes of Park Leys and Kelham, in the Southwell rural district and poor-law union;

(11.) Salop, for constituting part of the parish of Wellington Rural, known as Hadley Ward, into a new parish, to be called the parish of Hadley;

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(12.) Southampton, for the conversion of part of the rural district of Christ-church into the urban district of Win-ton;

(13.) Southampton, for the alteration of the boundaries between oertain parishes in the Christchurch union;

(14.) Isle of Wight, for uniting the parishes of East Shanklin and Shanklin;

(15.) East Sussex, for uniting the parishes of Eastbourne and Norway;

(16.) Worcester, for transferring part of the parish of Welland, in the rural district of Upton-upon-Severn, to the parish of Malvern Wells, in the urban district of Malvern;

(17.) East Riding of Yorkshire, for conversion of part of the rural district of Sculcoates into the urban district of Hessle.

Part II.—Orders under section 59 of the Act, as confirmed by the Local Government Board—

(1.) Derby, county borough of, for amending the Derby Confirmation Order, 1898;

(2.) Middlesex, county council of, for amending the County of Middlesex (Harrow, etc.) Confirmation Order, 1894, and the County of Middlesex (Harrow-on-the-Hill and Wealdstone) Confirmation Order, 1895.

HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACT, 1890 (METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENT SCHEMES).
Order of the Secretary of State for the Home Department permitting a modification in the London (Churchway, St. Pancras) Improvement Scheme, 1895.

NATIONAL DEBT (ANNUITIES).
Account of the gross amount of all bank annuities and any annuities for terms of years transferred, and of all sums of money paid, to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt; and the gross amount of annuities for lives and for terms of

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years which have been granted for the same, and contracts for payments on death, which have been made within the year ended 5th January 1899.
Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

ST. ANDREWS BURGH PROVISIONAL ORDER CONFRMATION BILL [H.L.]
Read a second time (according to order).
NEW BILLS.

  LUNACY BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to amend the Lunacy Acts. (No. 38.)
  Presented by the Lord Chancellor; read a first time; and to be printed.

  LAND CHARGES BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to amend the law relating to charges on land, and to matters connected therewith. (No. 39.)
  Presented by the Lord Chancellor; read a first time; and to be printed.

  ISOLATION HOSPITALS (AMENDENT) BILL [H.L.]
  A Bill to amend the Isolation Hospitals Act, 1895. (No. 40.)
  Presented by the Earl of Lichfield; read a first time; and to be printed.

  COMMISSION.
  The following Bills received the Royal Assent—

  1. Consolidated Fund (No. 1.)

  2. Partridge Shooting (Ireland).

  House adjourned at twenty-five minutes after Three of the clock.