§ The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House, That the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the further Standing Orders applicable 2 to the following Bills have been complied with:—Whitby Gas; Hampton-in-Arden Gas. The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
§ St. Marylebone Chapels (St. James', Westmoreland Street) Bill [H.L.]. Report from His Majesty's Attorney-General received, and ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Nuneaton and Chilvers Coton Urban District Council Bill [H.L.]; Victoria University of Yorkshire Bill [H.L.]. Committee to meet on Tuesday next.
§ Metropolitan Railway Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with amendments.
§ Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Fermanagh (E. Erne) be proposed to the House as a member of the Select Committee on the said Bill in the place of the Lord Barnard, and that the Lord Fermanagh (E. Erne) be Chairman of the said Committee; read, and agreed to.
§ Blyth and Cowpen Gas Bill. Read 2a and committed.
3§ New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Corbridge Gas Bill; Great Eastern Railway (Steamboats) Bill; South-Western and Isle of Wight Junction Railway (Extension of Time) Bill. Brought from the Commons; read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.