§ 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:—;Gas Companies (Removal of Sulphur Restrictions.)
§ The same was ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Crellin's Patents Bill [H.L.]. Presented (pursuant to leave given yesterday), and read 1a.
§ Ritz Hotel Bill [H.L.]. Presented (pursuant to leave given yesterday); read 1a; and referred to the Examiners.
§ Manchester Churches Bill [H.L.]. The Chairman of Committees informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn. The Orders made on the 22nd of March and Thursday last discharged, and Bill committed.
§ Folkestone and District Electricity Supply Bill [H.L.]. The Chairman of Committes informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn. The Orders made on the 29th of March and Thursday last discharged, and Bill committed.
§ Cambrian Railways Bill [H.L.]. Reported from the Select Committee, with amendments.
§ Millwall Dock Bill. Reported, without Amendment.
§ Hull and Barnsley Railway (Steam Vessels) Bill [H.L.]; Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Bill [H.L.]; Havana United Railways and Regla Warehouses Bill [H.L.]; North Metropolitan Tramways Bill; Hull and Barnsley and Great 1102 Central Railway Companies Bill [H.L.]. Reported, with Amendments.
§ Scottish Provident Institution Buildings Bill [H.L.]. Committed.
§ Portsmouth Water Bill [H.L.]. Leave given to the Select Committee to adjourn over To-morrow.
§ Scottish Union and National Insurance Company Bill [H.L.]—;(Petition for additional Provision). Examiners' Certificate of non-compliance with the Standing Orders referred to the Standing Orders Committee on Monday next.
§ Carlisle Corporation Bill; Todmorden Corporation Bill; Great Eastern Railway Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
§ Bacup Corporation Bill; Cardiff Gas Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committees to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ North East Lincolnshire Water Bill; Thornton Urban District Gas Bill; New Mills Urban District Council Bill. Read 2a, and committed.
§ Uxbridge Gas Bill. Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Buenos Ayres Grand National Tramways Bill [H.L.]. Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ H. R. Baines & Company Bill [H.L.]; Vauclain's Patent Bill [H.L.]. Returned from the Commons agreed to.
§ Great Yarmouth Waterworks and Lowestoft Water and Gas Bill [H.L.]; Western Valleys (Monmouthshire) Sewerage Board Bill [H.L.]. Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Five Lords appointed a Select Committee on the Mullingar, Kells, and Drogheda Railway Bill [H.L.] and other Bills do form the Select Committee for the consideration of the Great Yarmouth Waterworks, and Lowestoft Water and Gas Bill [H.L.], and the Western Valleys (Monmouthshire) Sewerage Board Bill [H.L.]; read, and agreed to. All petitions referred to the Committee, with leave to the petitioners praying to be heard by counsel against the Bills to be heard as desired, as also counsel for the Bills.