§ Standing Orders Committee.—Report from, That the Standing Orders not complied with in respect of the petition for a Bill by the Honourable Artillery Company ought to be dispensed with, and leave given to introduce the Bill.
§ That the Standing Orders not complied with in respect of the petition for a Bill by the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company ought to be dispensed with.
§ That the Standing Orders not complied with in respect of the petition for additional provision in the Sligo and Arigna Railway Bill ought not to be dispensed with.
§ That the Standing Orders not complied with in respect of the petition for a Bill by the Newry, Keady, and Tynan Railway Company ought not to be dispensed with.
§ Read, and agreed to.
§ Barry Railway Bill [H. L.].—Reported from the Select Committee, with amendments.
§ Hull and Barnsley Railway Bill; Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester, and Midland Junction Railway; Evesham, Redditch, and Stratford-upon-Avon Junction Railway; and East and West Junction Railway (Amalgamation) Bill [H. L.].—Reported, with amendments.
§ Bristol Tramways Bill [H. L.]; Conway and Colwyn Bay Joint Water Board Bill; Upton Town Hall Bill [H. L.]; Rochester Bridge Bill [H. L.].—Reported, with amendments.
§ Knott End Railway Bill; Dartford Gas Bill; Great Eastern Railway 206 (General Powers) Bill; Dundalk Urban District Council Bill.—Reported, without amendment.
§ Rhymney Railway Bill [H. L.].—Returned from the Commons agreed to, with amendments. The said amendments considered, and agreed to.
§ North Eastern Railway Bill.—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Committee, That the Committee had not proceeded with the consideration of the Bill, the opposition thereto having been withdrawn; read, and ordered to lie on the Table.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 13th and 14th May last discharged, and Bill committed for Wednesday next.
§ Tollemache Estate Bill [H. L.]; Leeds Corporation Bill; Cheshire Lines Committee Bill.—Read 2a, and committed.
§ Margate Corporation Bill.—Read 2a, and committed. The Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.
§ Ammanford Urban District Council Water Bill [H. L.]; Llanelly and Burry Port Water Board Bill [H. L.].—Report from the Committee of Selection, That the Lord Saye and Sale be proposed to the House as a Member of the Select Committee on the said Bills in the place of the Earl of Albemarle; read, and agreed to.
§ Motherwell Burgh Extension, etc., Bill.—Report from the Committee of Selection, that the Lord Haversham be proposed to the House as a Member of the Select Committee on the said Bill in the place of the Lord Kintore (E. Kintore); and that the Lord Haversham be Chairman of the said Committee; read, and agreed to.
§ Electric Lighting Provisional Orders (No. 3) Bill [H. L.].—Read 2a (according to order).