§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificate from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with:
§ Electric Lighting (London) [H.L.]; the same was ordered to lie on the Table.
§ North-Western Electricity and Power Gas Bill [H.L.]; a petition of Messrs. Baker, Lees, and Company, of 54, Parliament Street, Westminster, parliamentary agents, praying for leave to present a petition of the Promoters of the Shrop-shire and Worcestershire and East Denbighshire Electric Power Bill, praying to be heard by counsel against the Bill, although the time limited by Standing Order No. 92, for presenting such petition, has expired; read, and ordered to lie on the Table; and Standing Order No. 92 to be considered on Monday next in order to its being dispensed with in respect of the said petition.
§ Maryport Harbour Bill [H.L.]; read 2a (according to order).
§ Life Association of Scotland Bill [H.L.]; Milford Docks Bill [H.L.]; Indiarubber, Guttapercha, and Telegraph Works Company Bill [H.L.]; Lima Railways Bill [H.L.]; committed.
§ Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Bill [H.L.]; committed: the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.