§ 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 to the following Bills have been complied with:—Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (London No. 2) [H.L.]; Worthing Gas.
§ Also the Certificate that no Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bill:—Pasley Children Legitimisation—Petition for a Bill.
§ The same were ordered to lie on the Table.
§ Brecon and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Railway Bill; Great Yarmouth Port and Haven Bill.—Brought from the Commons, read 1a, and referred to the Examiners.
§ Tynemouth Corporation (Water) Bill [H.L.].—Reported from the Select Committee, with Amendments.
§ Hull and Barnsley Railway Bill.—Read 2a, and committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Taff Vale Railway Bill.—Read 2a, and committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ London and North-Western Railway (Superannuation Fund) Bill.—Read 2a, and committed for Tuesday next.
§ Grays and Tilbury Gas Bill—Read 2a, and committed.
§ Swansea Harbour Bill.—Read 2a, and committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Port Talbot Railway and Docks Bill; South-Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Railways Bill; Plymouth and North Devon Direct Railway (Aban- 198 donment) Bill; Brockenhurst Gas Bill.—Read 2a, and committed.
§ Neath, Pontardawe, and Brynamman Railway Bill.—Read 2a, and committed; The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ United Methodist Church Bill [H.L.].—Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Southport, Birkdale, and West Lancashire Water Board Bill [H.L.].—Read 3a; Amendments made; Bill passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation Bill [H.L.]; Great Yarmouth Waterworks and Lowestoft Water and Gas Bill [H.L.]; Selsey Water Bill [H.L.].—Read 3a, and passed, and sent to the Commons.
§ Falmouth Gas Bill.—Read 3a and passed.
§ Mitcham and Wimbledon District Gas Bill.—Read 3a with the Amendments, and passed, and returned to the Commons.