§ 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 not been complied with.
§ Kip's Patents—(Petition for Bill).
§ The same was ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Kip's Patents — (Petition for Bill). Examiner's Certificate of non-compliance with the Standing Orders referred to the Standing Orders Committee on Tuesday next.
§ Gosport, Fareham, and Cosham Tramways Bill [H.L.]. The order made on Monday last appointing certain Lords the Select Committee to consider the Bill, discharged.
§ Mid Yorkshire Tramways Bill [H.L.].
§ Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Five Lords appointed a Select Committee on the Midland Railway Bill and other Bills, do form the Select Committee for the consideration of the Mid Yorkshire Tramways Bill [H.L.].
§ Aston Manor Improvement Bill [H.L.] Report from the Select Committee, that the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, the opposition thereto having been withdrawn; read, and ordered to lie on the Table: the Orders made on the 9th of March last and the 4th of May discharged: and Bill committed.
§ Scunthorpe Urban District Water Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ East Ardsley Gas Bill; Chard Corporation Gas and Electricity Bill [H.L.]; Belfast Water Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with Amendments.
654§ Maidstone Gas Bill. Reported, without Amendment.
§ South Staffordshire Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Select Committee, that the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, the opposition thereto having been withdrawn. Read, and ordered to lie on the Table: the Orders made on 23rd March and 28th April last discharged; and Bill committed.
§ Great Eastern Railway Bill. Read 2a and committed.
§ Great Northern Railway Bill. Read 2a, and committed, the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Birmingham Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Hove, Worthing, and District Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ Midland Railway Bill; London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Bill [H.L.]; Bradford Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Willesden Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]; Mid Yorkshire Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Leave given to the Select Committee not to sit again till Monday next, at twelve o'clock.
§ Wakefield and District Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, that it is not expedient to proceed further with the Bill; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Coal Mines (Certificates) Bill. Brought from the Commons.
§ Commercial Gas Bill. Brought from the Commons; read 1a, and referred to the Examiners.
§ Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (London) Bill [H.L.]; Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (East Ham, etc.) Bill [H.L.]; Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation (No. 1) Bill [H.L]. Read 2a [according to Order].