Sitting of 28 July 1863

MINUTES.
NEW WRIT ISSUED—For Pontefract, v. Richard Monckton Milnes, esquire, Steward of Northstead.

STATUES AND PAINTINGS IN THE METROPOLIS.—QUESTION.
MR. W. EWARTsaid, he wished to ask the First Commissioner of Public Works, Whether the iron rails which surround the statue of Achilles in Hyde Park, and those which surround other statues, will be removed, as has been done successfully with respect to the statue of Charles I. at Charing Cross, and that of George III; also, whether, on the water-colour drawings of Turner and other artists exhibited at South Kensington, labels will be fixed, giving the public information as to the subjects and the painters of such water-colour drawings?
MR. COWPERreplied that the railings had been removed from the statues at Charing Cross, in Cockspur Street, and in Whitehall Gardens, without any public inconvenience; they were not required for the protection of the statues; and it was his intention, as far as his authority extended, to remove any railings which obstructed the view either of public statues or their pedestals. In reply to the second question of his hon. Friend, he had to state that it was the practice of the Department of Science and Art to affix to the pictures in their collections descriptions of the subjects and the names of the artists. He took it for granted that his hon. Friend was referring to the water-colour drawings or sketches of Turner which be longed to the National Gallery, and were
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at present temporarily exhibited at the South Kensington Museum. He felt sure, that wherever they might be permanently arranged or hung, the necessary explanations would be attached to them.

MUNICIPAL PRECEDENCE.

  QUESTION.
  MR. BROWN-WESTHEADsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he has received a communication from the Lord Mayor of York on the question which has arisen between the Lord Provost of Edinburgh and the Lord Mayor of Dublin, and claiming, on the part of the dignity of the office of Lord Mayor of York, precedence next to that of the Lord Mayor of London; and whether he will direct that the claim of precedence of the Lord Mayor of York over both the Lord Provost of Edinburgh and the Lord Mayor of Dublin be settled by the proper authority?
  SIR GEORGE GREY, in reply, said, he had received a letter from the Lord Mayor of York upon the subject, and had directed that an answer should be given to the effect that the question of precedence between the Provost of Edinburgh and the Lord Mayor of Dublin had been raised on the occasion of the presentation of an Address to Her Majesty; and that as no Mayor in England except the Lord Mayor of the City of London had a right to present in person such an Address, the question as between the Lord Mayor of York and the Provost of Edinburgh or the Lord Mayor of Dublin could not arise.

CASE OF CAPTAIN MELVILLE WHITE.

  QUESTION.
  SIR GEORGE BOWYERsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether the Senate of Hamburg have yet accepted the friendly office of Arbitrator between Her Majesty's Government and the Government of Peru in the case of Captain Melville White; whether any agreement has yet been signed by Her Majesty's and the Peruvian Governments fully establishing the bases upon which that case was to be arbitrated; and how much longer it is likely to be before the claims of Captain Melville White against the Peruvian Government will be definitively settled?
  MR. LAYARDsaid, in reply, that as yet no application for arbitration had been made in the case of Captain Melville White, because Her Majesty's Government

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  had not quite agreed with the Peruvian Representative with respect to the terms of such arbitration. But they were in communication with the Peruvian Representative upon the subject, and he trusted that in a very short time the preliminaries of an arbitration would be settled, and the matter would be referred to the Senate of Hamburg.

GREECE AND THE IONIAN ISLANDS.

  QUESTIONS.
  MR. DARBY GRIFFITHsaid, he would beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury, What will be the nature of the guarantee to be entered into to prevent the future acquisition of the Ionian Islands by any other Power than Greece, and which of the European Powers will be the parties by whom that guarantee will be executed?
  VISCOUNT PALMERSTON: Sir, the Representatives of England, France, and Russia, resident in Athens, have made a Protest against the state of affairs at present existing in that city and its neighbourhood, and that Protest will be laid upon the table of the House with the other Papers relating to the recent condition of Greece. I should state, with regard to the disturbances in that country, that there are agents at work for the purpose of preventing the establishment of Prince William of Denmark as King of Greece, and who are therefore desirous of throwing every possible difficulty and embarrassment, both in Greece and elsewhere, in the way of the accomplishment of such an event; but those efforts, I can assure the hon. Gentleman, will be entirely fruitless, and the new King will go to Greece, and will, I trust, establish tranquillity in that country.
  MR. DARBY GRIFFITHsaid, he believed the noble Lord had mistaken his Question, and had answered instead a Question which the hon. Member for Taunton (Mr. C. Bentinck) had placed on the Notice Paper.
  VISCOUNT PALMERSTONsaid, the treaty by which the territorial limitations of Greece were fixed received the sanction of the different Powers, and no change, therefore, could be made in it without their consent. The treaty by which the Ionian Islands would be ceded to Greece would obtain the sanction of the same Powers; and the transfer of those Islands to any other State could not, he presumed, ake place without their concurrence.

COMPULSORY LABOUR IN EGYPT

  QUESTION.
  MR. DARBY GRIFFITHsaid, he would now beg to ask the noble Lord, Whether there is any truth whatever in the assertion made by M. Lesseps, in his Report to the Shareholders of the Suez Canal, in which, for the purpose of palliating or defending the employment of forced labour on that work, he undertakes to say, "The Company of the English Steamers, in their establishment at Suez, is provided by the Egyptian Government with the porters and labourers necessary for the embarkation and debarkation of their cargoes by means of forced labour (travail obligatoire)"?
  VISCOUNT PALMERSTONsaid, in reply, that he could not be answerable for any assertion of M. Lesseps. He could not say whether or not it was a fact that the Peninsular and Oriental Company employed any forced labour for the purpose stated by the hon. Gentleman. It was, however, certain, that whenever the order of the Sultan for stopping forced labour in Egypt came into operation, it would apply equally to persons employed by the Peninsular and Oriental Company as to those employed by other parties in Egypt.

AFFAIRS OF POLAND.—QUESTION.
MR. HENNESSYsaid, that two suggestions had been made to the Government in reference to the Polish question. One was by a noble Earl in another place that they should withdraw their Ambassador from St. Petersburg, and the other was the suggestion by another noble Earl that they should withdraw the sanction which England had given to the Russian dominion in Poland. He therefore wished to know, Whether Her Majesty's Government are considering the propriety of adopting the latter course?
VISCOUNT PALMERSTON: I have no doubt, Sir, that such a proposal has been made, and has been duly considered. Still it has always appeared to me, that to tell Russia that the stipulations of the Treaty of Vienna with regard to Poland are no longer of any value, would be to tell her that she might do whatever she pleased with respect to Poland, and that no other Power would have any more right to remonstrate with her on account of her treatment of that country, than any one Power would have any right to make representations to another in regard to its treatment of its own unqualified subjects.

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It seems to me, therefore, that it would be injurious to the interests of Poland to adopt the suggestion of the hon. Member.

ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (IRELAND)—ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF MR. GORE JONES—QUESTIONS.
MR. BLAKEsaid, he wished to ask Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether he can state if there is any truth in a report which has appeared in some of the Irish Papers, to the effect, "that, at the Nenagh assizes, Philip Hayes, charged with firing at Gore Jones, esquire, Resident Magistrate, stated that he had, although innocent of the offence, declared himself guilty, in consequence of being kept without sufficient food, and being then brought into the Governor of the Prison's room, and offered bread and meat, and to be sent out of the Country with his family and provided for, if he would sign a submission as to his guilt, which he was tempted to do in consequence of suffering from hunger, and desiring to avail himself of the reward held out to him;" and to inquire whether it is the fact that the Governor of the Prison did not deny the allegation?
MR. MONSELLsaid, he also wished to ask Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether the Government are prepared to withdraw the Proclamation respecting the County of Limerick, which was, he (Mr. Monsell) believed, restored to a state of perfect tranquillity.
MR. O'HAGANsaid, in reply, that he had not had time to make the inquiries necessary for the purpose of ascertaining what truth there might be in the statement to which the hon. Member for Waterford
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(Mr. Blake) had referred. In answer to the Question of the right hon. Member for Limerick (Mr. Monsell), he had to state that the matter was under the consideration of the executive Government of Ireland; and as recent occurrences in Limerick had undoubtedly tended to the restoration of peace and order in that county, the subject would be considered in a favourable spirit.

PROROGATION OF THE PARLIAMENT.
Message to attend the LORDS COMMISSIONERS.
The House went, and the ROYAL ASSENT was given to several Bills: And afterwards a Speech of the LORDS COMMISSIONERS was delivered to both Houses of Parliament by the LORD CHANCELLOR.
Then a Commission for proroguing the Parliament was read.
After which
THE LORD CHANCELLORsaid;
My Lords, and Gentlemen,
By virtue of Her Majesty's Commission, under the Great Seal, to us and other Lords directed, and now read, we do, in Her Majesty's Name, and in obedience to Her Commands, prorogue this Parliament to Wednesday the Fourteenth day of October next, to be then here holden; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Wednesday the Fourteenth day of October next.

PROTEST AGAINST THE THIRD READING OF THE "ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN (IRELAND) BILL," APRIL 20, 1863.—(See Vol. 170, p. 379.)
"DISSENTIENT:
"1. Because to remove Doubts as to the Meaning of an existing Act of Parliament by making that to be the Law which was but a notoriously erroneous Construction of it is a novel Principle of Legislation, unworthy of the Dignity of the Legislature.
"2. Because in adjudicating as to the Parentage of illegitimate Children the most important Points will be not of Law, but of Fact, depending mainly on the Value of the Evidence, and that these can be most satisfactorily deals with local Magistrates cognizant of the Character of the several Witnesses.
"3. Because it is throwing an undeserved Stigma on the Irish Magistracy to suppose them to be unfit or unwilling to deal with judicial Matters, which are left in the Hands of local Magistrates in England.

"For Second and Third Reasons—

"LIFFORD.

"GRINSTEAD.

BELMORE.

"BANDON.

"HAWARDEN.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS,
DECLARED PUBLIC,
AND TO BE JUDICIALLY NOTICED.
i. AN Act for stopping up certain Streets and widening other Streets in the Borough of Cambridge.
ii. An Act to enable the Mid-Wales Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money.
iii. An Act to grant further Powers to the Berks and Hants Extension Railway Company
iv. An Act for repairing the Road from Market Harborough to Loughborough in the County of Leicester; and for other Purposes.
v. An Act for enabling the London and North-western and Lancashire and Yorkshire, Railway Companies to raise further Monies for Purposes connected with the North Union Railway and the Preston and Wyre Railway, Harbour, and Dock; and for other Purposes.
vi. An Act for conferring further Powers on the South Staffordshire Railway Company with respect to their Undertaking; and for other Purposes.
vii. An Act to regulate the Mode of Valuation of certain underground Gas Pipes or Works in the City of Glasgow, for the Purpose of Assessments under "The Glasgow Police Act, 1862," in conformity with the Provisions of "The General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862."
viii. An Act for lighting with Gas Leyland and Farington, and other Places in the Neighbourhood thereof, in Lancashire.
ix. An Act to enable the Hereford, Hay, and Brecon Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money; and for other Purposes.
x. An Act to enable the Caledonian Railway Company to make a Deviation of their Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch in the County of Lanark; and for other Purposes.
xi. An Act to enable the Scarborough Waterworks Company to raise further Sums of Money; and for other Purposes.
xii. An Act to enable the Harrogate Gas Company to raise additional Capital; to extend their Limits for supplying Gas; to repeal, amend, and extend the Act relating to the Company; and for other Purposes.
xiii. An Act to confer upon, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Swansea further Powers for the Improvement and regulation of the Markets and Fairs in the said Borough, and also for commuting or disposing of certain Quayage and Town Dues now payable in the said Borough, and for the better Government and Regulation of the said Borough.
xiv. An Act to enable the Glasgow and South-western Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money; and for other Purposes.
xv. An Act to enable the Leeds Gaslight Company to raise a further Sum of Money, to extend their limits of Supply; and for other Purposes.
xvi. An Act to enable the Right Honourable William Earl of Lonsdale to make and maintain a Wet Dock at Workington in the County of Cumberland, and a Railway there from to join the Whitehaven Junction Railway, in lieu of the Dock or Tidal Basin and Railway authorized by "The Workington Dock Act, 1861:" and for other Purposes.
xvii. An Act for better supplying the Town of Denbigh and Neighbourhood thereof with Water, and for other Purposes.
xviii. An Act to incorporate the North Bierley Gaslight and Coke Company, Limited, and to make further Provision for lighting North Bierley and other Townships and Places in the Neighbourhood thereof with Gas.
xix. An Act to repeal an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for the more effectually repairing and maintaining the Turnpike Road from Pant Evan Brook in the County of Flint to Abergele in the County of Denbigh, and thence to Conway Ferry House in the County of Carnarvon.
xx. An Act for enabling the Vale of Llangollen Railway Company to raise additional Capital; and for other Purposes.
xxi. An Act to reduce and regulate the Capital of the Van Diemen's Land Company.
xxii. An Act for providing a Cattle Market in the City of Peterborough, and for other Purposes.
xxiii. An Act to incorporate a Company for holding a Market and Fairs in the Town and Parish of Aylesbury in the County of Buckingham; and for other Purposes.
xxiv. An Act to enable the Caledonian Railway Company to make a Branch Railway from Carstairs to join the Leadburn, Linton, and Dolphinton Railway; and for other Purposes.
xxv. An Act for enabling the Caledonian Railway Company to widen and improve certain Portions of their Lesmahagow Branches; to make a Deviation and Extension in connection therewith; to substitute Bridges for certain level Crossings on their Main Line and on the Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilson Direct Railway; to alter certain Roads, improve and enlarge certain Stations and other Works, and acquire additional Lands; and for other Purposes.
xxvi. An Act for making a Railway from the Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Railway to Busby, with a Branch to Busby Print Works, in the Counties of Renfrew and Lanark; and for other Purposes.
xxvii An Act for making a Turnpike Road from

Penzance to Saint Just in Penrith in the County of Cornwall, with Branches, and for Adoption, Alteration, and Improvement, for the Purposes thereof, of certain public Highways; and for other Purposes.
xxviii. An Act to continue the Cleeve and Evesham Turnpike Trust in the County of Gloucester, and for other Purposes.
xxix. An Act to amend "The Hamilton Waterworks Act, 1854," and to authorize the raising of a further Sum of Money; and for other Purposes.
xxx. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the several Roads comprised in the Flint, Holywell, and Mostyn Districts of Roads; and for reviving and extending the Powers for the Construction of certain new Roads; and for other Purposes.
xxxi. An Act to extend the Time for completing the Cleveland Railway; to authorize the Cleveland Railway Company to raise further Sums of Money, and the West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway Company to hold additional Shares; and for other Purposes.
xxxii. An Act to enable the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway Company to extend their Railway from Invergordon in the County of Ross to Tain and Bonar Bridge in the same County; and for other Purposes.
xxxiii. An Act to enable the Local Board of Health for the District of Rugby in the County of Warwick to provide a better Supply of Water for the Inhabitants of that District and its Neighbourhood; and for other Purposes.
xxxiv. An Act for better supplying with Water the Towns of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead, and the Neighbourhood thereof, and for amending and consolidating the Provisions of the Acts relating to the Whittle Dean Water Company.
xxxv. An Act for more effectually supplying Water to the Town of Great Grimsby, and several Places near thereto.
xxxvi. An Act to authorize the Accrington Gas and Water Works Company to extend their Gasworks and Waterworks, and their Limits of Supply; to raise additional Monies; and for other Purposes.
xxxvii. An Act to authorize the Surrey Consumers Gas Company to raise a further Sum of Money.
xxxviii. An Act for more completely merging in the Undertaking of the Caledonian Railway Company the Railways known as the Granton Branches, and for raising Money to widen and improve the same, and for other Purposes.
xxxix. An Act for continuing the Term and amending and extending the Provisions of the Act relating to the Desford Turnpike Road, being the Road brandling out of the Leicester and Welford Road at Foston Lane to the Road leading from Hinckley to Ashby-de-la-Zouch at Osbaston Toll Gate in the County of Leicester.
xl. An Act for enabling the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway Company to raise additional Capital; and for other Purposes.
xli. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Nottingham Gas Company, and to enable that Company to raise additional Lands; and for other Purposes.
xlii. An Act for enabling the Cockermouth and Workington Railway Company to execute further Works; and for amending the Acts relating to their Railway.
xliii. An Act for making a Tramway in the Parish of Portsea in the County of Southampton, and for other Purposes.
xliv. An Act for extending the Limits within which the Maidstone Waterworks Company may supply Water, and for authorizing them to provide additional Works and to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
xlv. An Act for the Improvement of the Port and Harbour of Dungarvan; for vesting the Markets of that Town in the Town Commissioners of Dungarvan, and for enabling the said Commissioners to extend and regulate the same; for the Transfer from the Grand Jury of the County of Waterford to the said Commissioners of the Management of the Roads and Bridges in the said Town; for the Improvement of the said Town; and for other Purposes.
xlvi. An Act to authorize the Construction of a new public Road from Battersea to Clapham, and for other Purposes.
xlvii. An Act for making an Extension of the Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway in the County of Renfrew, and a Pier in connection therewith, in lieu of the Pier authorized by "The Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway Act, 1862," and for other Purposes.
xlviii. An Act for making further Provision for the Drainage of the Marshland Smeeth and Fen District in the Country of Marshland in the County of Norfolk, and for other Purposes.
xlix. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Wear Navigation and Sunderland Docks, and to authorize the making of additional Works, and for other Purposes.
l. An Act for authorizing the Comes and Newport Railway Company to raise further Monies.
li. An Act to continue the Cheltenham Turnpike Trust in the County of Gloucester, and for other Purposes.
lii. An Act for extending the District of the Local Board of Health for the District of Sowerby Bridge in the West Riding of the County of York; to enable them to contract for Water and supply the District therewith; to amend the Acts relating to the District; and for other Purposes.
liii An Act for repairing the Road leading from Burleigh Bridge in Loughborough to Ashby-de-la-Zouch in the County of Leicester, and also the Road branching out of the said Road at Coleorton Church to Rempstone in the Counties of Leicester and Nottingham.
liv. An Act to enable the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board to extend the North River Wall at Liverpool, and to raise a further Sum of Money; and for other Purposes.
lv. An Act to incorporate the Mercantile Marine Service Association of Liverpool, and to enable them the better to carry on their beneficial Designs.
lvi. An Act to enable the Cork and Kinsale Junction Railway Company to raise additional Money, and to contribute to an Hotel at Kinsale; and for other Purposes.
lvii. An Act for more effectually lighting with Gas the Parishes of Gravesend, Milton, and Northfleet, in the County of Kent.
lviii. An Act for the Amalgamation of the Perth and Dunkeld Railway Company with the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway Company.
lix. An Act to continue the Abergavenny Turnpike

Trust, excepting certain Roads, and for other Purposes.
lx. An Act to enable the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company to purchase additional Lands, and raise further Sums of Money; to confer Powers with respect to the West Somerset and Chard and Taunton Railways, and other Undertakings; to alter Rates and Charges; to amend the Acts relating to the Company: and for oilier Purposes.
lxi. An Act to enable the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway Company to make Deviations of their authorized Line of Railway, and for other Purposes.
lxii. An Act to authorize the Mayor and Com monalty and Citizens of the City of London to rebuild Blackfriars Bridge.
lxiii. An Act for the making and maintaining of a Bridge over the River Mersey, to be called "Rixton, and Warburton Bridge", with Roads thereto, and for other Purposes.
lxiv. An Act to enable the Whitehaven, Cleater, and Egremond Railway Company to extend their Railway from Lamplugh to join the Cockermouth and, Workington Railway in the County of Cumberland; to divert and alter a Portion of the Frizington Branch Railway at Cleator Moor; to raise further Capital; and for other Purposes.
lxv. An Act formatting a Railway from Fochalcys to Garmouth, and for other Purposes.
lxvi. An Act for the Regulation and Management of certain Railways between Scaham and Sunderland in the County of Darham, the Construction of additional Railways in connection therewith, the Acquisition of the Lauds over which the same are or are to be constructed, and for other Purposes.
lxvii. An Act for making a Railway from Warnham to Swanage in the County of Dorset, and for other Purposes.
lxviii. An Act for enabling the Mayor, Alder men, and Citizens of the City of Manchester to construct new Works and acquire additional Lands in connection with their Waterworks; to extend their Limits of Supply; to improve Piccadilly in Manchester; and for other Purposes.
lxix. An Act to authorize Arrangements between the London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway Company, and the Lessees of their Undertaking and the Eastern Counties and London and Blackwall Railway Companies, with reference to the Lease and Working of the London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway; and for other Purposes.
lxx. An Act for enabling the Southampton and Nelley Railway Company to make a Deviation of their authorized Line of Railway; and for other Purposes.
lxxi. An Act for the better Regulation of the Commons of the Manor of Rusthall, and the Rights therein of the freehold Tenants of the Manor, and for other Purposes.
lxxii. An Act for the Improvement of Pembroke Township, comprising Baggotrath, Donnybrook Sandymount Ringsend, and Irishtown, in the Barony of Dublin and County of Dublin.
lxxiii An Act for the Committal of Prisoners from the City and County of the City of Exeter to the Gaol and House of Correction for the County of Devon; and for the Sale and Disposal of the present Gaol and House of Correction for the City and County of the City of Exeter and the Land belonging thereto; and for other Purposes.
lxxiv, An Act for the Construction by the Midland Railway Company of a new Line of Railway between London and Bedford, with Branches there from; and for other Purposes.
lxxv. An Act for a Lease of the Undertaking of the Penarth. Harbour, Dock, and Railway Company to the Taff Vale Railway Company, and for other Purposes.
lxxvi. An Act to enable the Grand Jury of the County of Mayo to present and recover Arrears of Grand Jury Cess upon said County, and upon certain Baronies thereof, in order to the Payment of Sums due to Contractors and others.
lxxvii. An Act for enabling the Central Wales Extension Railway Company to raise additional Capital, to make working and other Agreements with the London and North-Western Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
lxxviii. An Act to enable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Dublin to abandon a Portion of the Works authorized by "The Dublin Corporation Waterworks Act, 1861," and to construct and maintain other Works; and for other Purposes.
lxxix. An Act for the Amalgamation of the Knighton and the Central Wales Railway Companies; for authorizing Arrangements between those Companies, or either of them, and the London and North-western Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
lxxx. An Act to enable the Mid- Wales Railway Company to make a Branch Railway from the Mid Wales Railway in the Parish of Saint Harmon in the County of Radnor to the Manchester and Milford Railway in the Parish of Langurig in the County of Montgomery, and to enable the said Company to use the Brecon and Merthyr Junction Railways; and for other Purposes.
lxxxi. An Act to confer further Powers for embanking and reclaiming from the Sea the Estuary or Back Strand of Tramore in the County of Waterford; and to amend "The Tramore Embankment Act, 1852," and "The Tramore Embankment Act, 1858."
lxxxii. An Act to empower the Furness Railway Company and the Midland Railway Company to construct a Railway to be called "The Furness and Midland Railway;" and for other Purposes.
lxxxiii. An Act for authorizing the Saffron Walden Railway Company to make and maintain Railways to the Great Eastern Railway at Bartlow to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
lxxxiv. An Act for the Reclamation from the Sea of Waste Lands subject to be overflowed by the Tide near to Horsey Island on the Coast of Essex
lxxxi. An Act to enable the Bishops Waltham Railway Company to increase their Capital; and for other Purposes.
lxxxvi. An Act to enable the Dublin, Wicklow, and. Wexford Railway Company to purchase Lands in the City and County of Dublin; to construct a Branch Railway in the County of Wicklow; to raise additional Capital; and for other Purposes.
lxxxvii. An Act for authorizing the Stockport District Waterworks Company to acquire existing Waterworks within their District, and to

raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
lxxxviii. An Act to enable the Ware, Hadham, and Buntingford Railway Company to raise additional Capital; and for other Purposes.
lxxxix. An Act for vesting the Harbour of Barrow in the County Palatine of Lancaster in the Furness Railway Company; for enabling the said Company to construct a Dock and other Works at Barrow, and to raise further Capital; and for other Purposes.
xc. An Act for authorizing the Amalgamation of the Undertakings of divers Railway Companies with the Undertaking of the London and South-western Railway Company; and divers Arrangements between that Company and other Companies and Bodies; and for other Purposes.
xci. An Act for supplying with Gas the Villages of Elsecar, Wentworth, and Hoyland, and Parts adjacent, in the West Riding of the County of York.
xcii. An Act to authorize the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Coventry in the County of Warwick to erect a Market House in the said City.
xciii. An Act for making better Provision for the Management and Relief of the Poor in the City of Norwich and County of the same City.
xciv. An Act for incorporating the Skipton Gaslight and Coke Company, and for conferring upon them further Powers for the Supply of Gas to the Township of Skipton and certain neighbouring Townships in the West Riding of the County of York.
xcv. An Act for authorizing the Stourbridge Railway Company to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
xcvi. An Act for authorizing the Oswestry and Newtown Railway Company to make a Branch to Aberbechan, and to raise additional Capital; and for other Purposes.
xcvii. An Act to authorize the Shrewsbury and Welchpool Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money; and for other Purposes.
xcviii. An Act to repeal an Act passed in the Eleventh year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for repairing, altering, and improving the Roads from Ashbourne to Sudbury, and from Sudbury to Yoxall Bridge, and from Hatton Moor to Tutbury, and from Uttoxeter to or near the Village of Draycott-in-the-Clay, and from Hadley Plain on the late Forest or Chase of Needwood to Callingwood Plain on the same late Forest or Chase; and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof.
xcix. An Act with respect to the Capital of the Cork and Youghal Railway Company, and to enable that Company to transfer their Undertaking.
c. An Act for the Improvement by the Coleraine Town Commissioners of the Navigation of the River Bann; and for other Purposes.
ci. An Act to authorize Arrangements between the Vestry and Guardians of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Luke in the County of Middlesex for the Erection and use of a Vestry Hall and Offices, to amend the Acts relating to such Workhouse and Parish, and for other Purposes.
cii. An Act for authorizing the Company of Proprietors of the Southampton and Itchen Floating Bridge and Roads to improve their present Works, and to establish a new Floating Jetty, and to raise further Monies; an for other Purposes.
ciii. An Act to confer further Powers upon the Llanelly Railway and Dock Company.
civ. An Act to enable the Buckley Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money; and for other Purposes.
cv. An Act to enable the Launceston and South Devon Railway Company to make a Deviation of their authorized Line of Railway; and for other Purposes.
cvi. An Act to confer further Powers upon the Birkenhead Improvement Commissioners, and to make Provisions with respect to their Mortgage Debts and to enable them to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
cvii. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Pier at Portbury in the County of Somerset, and of a Railway therefrom to the Bristol and Exeter Railway near Bristol, with a Branch Railway to Portishead; and for other Purposes.
cviii. An Act to confer further Powers on the Cockermouth, Keswick, and Penrith Railway Company in relation to their Undertaking; to enable the London and North-western and the Stockton and Darlington Railway Companies to subscribe thereto; and for other Purposes relating thereto, and to the Cockermouth and Workington Railway.
cix. An Act for authorizing the making and maintaining of Lines of Railway to connect the Andover and Redbridge Railway with the London and South-western Railway; and for the Amalgamation of the Andover and Red-bridge Railway with the London and South-western, Railway; and for other Purposes.
cx. An Act to incorporate a Company for making a Railway from the London and North-western Railway to Newport Pagnell, with Powers to purchase the Newport Pagnell Canal.
cxi. An Act to authorize the Construction of Docks at Tranmere Pool in the County of Chester.
cxii. An Act to incorporate the Great Yarmouth Gas Company, and make further Provisions for lighting the Town of Great Yarmouth and certain neighbouring Places with Gas.
cxiii. An Act for the Amalgamation of the West Midland Railway Company with the Great Western Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
cxiv. An Act for making a Railway from the Aschurch and Evesham Railway of the Midland Railway Company, in the Parish of Saint Lawrence, Evesham, in the County of Worcester, to the Redditch Railway at Redditch, with a Branch to the West Midland Railway; and for other Purposes.
cxv. An Act for regulating the Capital and Debenture Debt of the Charing Cross Railway Company; and for authorizing the Amalgamation of that Company with the South-eastern Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
cxvi. An Act to alter the Line of the Letter-kenny Railway in the County of Donegal; to extend and enlarge the Powers of the Act relating to that Railway; and to authorize certain Arrangements with the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
cxvii. An Act for enabling the Local Board of Health for the District of Rotherham and Kimberworth in the West Riding of the County of

York to construct and maintain an improved System of Waterworks for the Supply of the District and adjacent Places with Water; and for enabling the Board to purchase the existing Markets and Fairs within the District, and to establish new Markets and Fail's within the District, and to purchase and extinguish Dues and Duties paid and collected within the Town of Rotherham: and for amending Acts relating to the District: and for other Purposes.
cxviii. An Act for making a Railway from the London and South-western Railway to Scaton, otherwise Seaton-with-Beer, in the County of Devon; and for other Purposes.
cxix. An Act for the Consolidation of the Acts relating to the Port and Harbour of the Town and County of Southampton, and of the Acts relating to the Southampton Pier, and for constituting One United Body or Harbour Board for such Pert, Harbour, and Pier, with further Powers.
cxx. An Act for the Amalgamation of the Swansea and North Railway Company with the Vale of Neath Railway Company, and for authorizing the Vide of Neath Railway Company to make a further Line of Railway, and to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
cxxi. An Act for the Improvement of Blackrock, Monkstown, and Booterstown in the Baronies of Dublin, and Rathdown and County of Dublin
cxxii. An Act for the Amalgamation of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company with the North-eastern Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
cxxiii. An Act to grant further Powers to the Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway Company, and to extend the Time for the Completion of their Undertaking; to authorize Contributions towards a Quay and other Works at Bangor; and for other Purposes.
cxxiv. An Act to enable the Devon Valley Rail way Company to create Preference Shares; to reduce the Capital of the Company: and for other Purposes.
cxxv. An Act to create a further Term in so much of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlish Turnpike Road as is within the County of North-umberland, to repeal, amend, and extend the Powers of the Act relating so the said Road, and for other Purposes.
cxxvi. An Act, to enable the Merthyr, Tredegan, and Abergarenny Railway Company to raise an additional Sum of Moany, and to execute further Works: and for other Purposes.
cxxvii. An Act to authorize the Leominster and Kington Railway Company to enter into Working Arrangements with, and to lease or sell their Railway to the West Midland Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
cxxviii. An Act to authorize the Construction of a. Railway in the County of Anglesey, to be called "The Anglesey Central Railway;" and for other Purposes.
cxxix. An Act for authorizing the Okehampton Railway Company to extend their Railway from Okehamuplan to the Landcaster and South Devon Railway near Lidford, and to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
cxxx. An Act to enable the Dulas Valley Mineral Railway Company to deviate Portions of their authorized Line; to make a Railway to Brecon; to change the name of the Company; and for other Purposes.
cxxxi. An Act to grant further Powers to the Watford and Rickmansworth Railway Company
cxxxii. An Act for making a Railway from the Bristal and Birmingham Line of the Midland Railway at Stonehouse to Nailsworth in the County of Gloucester.
cxxxiii. An Act to extend the Time for the Compiction of the Athenry and Ennis Junction Railway; and for other purposes.
cxxxiv. An Act to empower the Ringwood, Christ-church, and Bournemouth Railway Company to extend their Railway to Bournemouth; and for other purposes.
cxxxv. An Act to extend the Term and amend the Provisions of the Act relating to the Turnpike Road from Wakefield to Aberford in the Country of York.
cxxxvi. An Act to grant further Powers to the West Midland Railway Company, and to enable them to make a Branch Railway in the County of Glamorgan; and for other purposes.
cxxxvii. An Act to enable the Loudon, Brighton, and South- Coast Railway Company to make a Railway from Dorking to Leatherhead; and for other Purposes.
cxxxviii. An Act to authorize the Mid-Kent Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money.
cxxxix. An Act to authorize the Construction of Railways in Glamorganshire, to be called "The Ogmore Valley Railways."
cxl. An Act to alter and amend the Acts relating to the Lands Improvement Company.
cxli. An Act for authorizing the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway Company to make and maintain further Lines of Railway and other Works, and to make arrangements with other Companies, and to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
cxlii. An Act to enable the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company to make Extensions and Alterations of their Railways authorized by "The London, Brighton, and south. Coast Railway (New Lines) Act, 1862," and other Works; and for other Purposes.
cxliii. An Act to authorize the Tendring Hundred Railway Company to extend their railway to Weeley and Walton in Essex.
cxliv. An Act to enable the Tees Conservancy Commissioners to purchase additional Lands; to alter existing and impose new Tolls, Rates, and Duties; to confer additional Powers for raising Money; to repeal and amend the existing Acts of the Commissioners; to confer additional Powers; and for other Purposes.
cxlv. An Act to enable the West Shropshire Mineral Railway Company to make a deviation and a New Railway, and to make Agreements with other Companies; and for other Purposes.
cxlvi. An Act to enable the South Yorkshire Hallway and River Dun Company to alter their authorized Line; to purchase the Barnsley Coal Railways and for other Purposes relating to the same Company.
cxlvii. An Act to grant to the Great Northern Railway Company certain Powers with respect the Stockport and Woodley Junction, Cheshire Midland. Stockport, Timperley, and Altrincham Junction, West Cheshire, and Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railways; and for other Purposes
cxlviii. An Act to enable the Glasgow and Southwestern Railway Company to use the Railway

of the Ayr and Maybole Junction Railway Company, and for other Purposes relating to that Railway.
cxlix. An Act to enable the Scottish Central Railway Company to make Branches to Plean Mineral Fields; and for other Purposes.
cl. An Act to repeal an Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the Road from Standedge in Saddleworth in the County of York to Oldham in the County of Lancaster, and other Roads in the said County of York, and for making and maintaining Two new Branches to communicate therewith, and granting more effectual Powers in lieu thereof; and for other Purposes.
cli. An Act for enabling the Great Western Railway Company to construct a Railway from their Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Line in the Parish of West Bromwich to the South Staffordshire Railway in the Parish of Tipton in the County of Stafford; and for other Purposes.
clii. An Act for making a Railway from the London and North-western Railway at Boxmoor to Hemel Hempsted in the County of Hertford; and for other purposes.
cliii. An Act to grant further Powers to the Port-adown, Dungannon, and Omagh Junction Railway Company; to amend the Acts relating to the Company; and for other Purposes.
cliv. An Act for regulating the Debenture Debt and Capital of the West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
clv. An Act to repeal an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for repairing the Roads from the Borough of Tamworth in the Counties of Stafford and Warwick to the Town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in the County of Leicester, and from Harrington Bridge (heretofore Sawley Ferry) in the said County of Leicester to a Turnpike Gate at or near the End of Swarcliffe Lane leading to Ashby-de-la-Zouch aforesaid; and for granting more effectual powers in lieu thereof.
clvi. An Act for continuing the Term and amending and extending the Provisions of the Act relating to the Road from the Bottom of Kirkgate to the Bottom of Westgale, both in the Parish of Wakefield in the West Riding of the County of York, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof.
clvii. An Act to enable the Glasgow and South-western Railway Company to make a Junction Line of Railway to connect the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Line of Railway with the Paisley and Renfrew Railway and other Works; and for other Purposes.
clviii. An Act to authorize the North Staffordshire Railway Company to make certain Rail-Railways at Burton-upon-Trent, and from their Railway at Burslem to their Railway at Cheddleton, and to acquire Station Lands at Burton and Uttoxeter; and for other Purposes.
clix. An Act for incorporating "The Teign Valley Railway Company," and for authorizing them to make and maintain "The Teign Valley Railway;" and for other Purposes.
clx. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Railway from the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland to the Town of Ballaghaderreen: and for other Purposes.
clxi. An Act for enabling the Law Life Assurance Society to sue and be sued in their own Name; and for making further Provision with respect to the Investment of their Monies; and for other Purposes.
clxii. An Act to enable the Galway Town Improvement Commissioners to construct Waterworks, and obtain a Supply of Water for the Town of Galway; and for other Purposes.
clxiii. An Act to revive the Powers for the Purchase of Lands, and to extend the Time for the completion of Works, authorized by "The Milford Haven Dock and Railway Act, 1860;" and for other Purposes.
clxiv. An Act to authorize the Great North of Scotland Railway Company to construct a Railway to connect their Railway with the Scottish North-eastern Railway at Aberdeen.
clxv. An Act to enable the Metropolitan Railway Company to acquire certain additional Lands for the Purposes of their Undertaking; and for other Purposes.
clxvi. An Act to enable the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway Company to extend their Railway from Newcastle-Emlyn to Cardigan,
clxvii. An Act to enable the Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds Railway Company to make a Railway to Methley in the West Riding of the County of York: and for other Purposes.
clxviii. An Act for making a Railway from the Great Western Railway at Radstock to Bristol, together with Branches therefrom to Camerton and other Places; and for other Purposes.
clxix. An Act for extending the Limits within which the Lowestoft Water, Gas, and Market Company may supply Water and Gas, and for authorising them to raise further Monics; and for other Purposes.
clxx. An Act for extending the Banff, Portsoy, and Straltisla Railway to Portgordon; and for other Purposes.
clxxi. An Act for making a Railway from the Aberdare Railway in the Parish of Aberdare in the County of Glamorgan, with a Branch therefrom, to be called "The Dare Valley Railway;" and for other Purposes.
clxxii. An Act to authorize the Hammersmith and City Railway Company to make another Junction with the Great Western Railway; and for other Purposes.
clxxiii. An Act to extend the Time for making the Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway.
clxxiv. An Act for incorporating a Company for making a Railway in the Counties of Warwick, Stafford, and in the City and County of the City of Lichfield, to be called "The Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield Extension Railway;" and for other Purposes.
clxxv. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Tramroad from the South-eastern Railway at Hastings to Hastings Harbour.
clxxvi. An Act to provide additional Powers for the Completion of certain Approach Roads to Wexford Free Bridge; and for other Purposes.
clxxvii. An Act to empower the London and North-western Railway Company to make new Branch Railways, and to abandon Part of the Chelford and Knutsford Line of their Railway; and for other Purposes.
clxxviii. An Act for making a Railway from the

Great Eastern. Railway at Mistley to Walton-on-the-Naze in the County of Essex; and for other Purposes
clxxix. All Act to enable the Bala and Dolgelley Railway Company to construct additional Works at Dolgelley in the County of Merioneth; to amend the Acts relating to the Company; and to authorize certain Arrangements with the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
clxxx. An Act for incorporating the Frieston Reclamation Company; and for authorizing them to reclaim certain Lands in the Estuary of the Wash; and for other Purposes.
clxxxi An Act for authorizing the Madras Irrigation and Canal Company to keep separate Accounts; and for other Purposes.
clxxxii. An Act for the Construction by the Midland Railway Company of a new Railway in the City of Bristol; and for other Purposes.
clxxxiii. An Act for enabling the Midland Railway Company to construct new Railways and Works, and to acquire additional Lands in the West Riding of the County of York, and in the Counties of Derby, Warwick, Leicester, Gloucester, the City of Worcester Nottingham, the Town of Nottingham, and Northampton; and for other Purposes.
clxxxiv. An Act to enable "The Trustees of Newhaven Harbour and Ouse Lower Navigation" to form a new Cut for diverting the Channel of the River Ouse, and to construct a Road, Tramway, and other Works for the Improvement of the said Harbour and Navigation and for other Purposes.
clxxxv. An Act for making Railways from the Worcester and Hereford Line of the West Midland Railway Company through the Forest of Dean to the Coleford, Monmout, Usk, and Pontypool Railway; and for other Purposes.
clxxxvi. An Act to enable the Colne Valley and Halstead Railway Company to increase their Capital, to use Part of the Great Eastern Railway at Haverhill; and for other Purposes with respect to the same Company.
clxxxvii. An Act to authorize the Edinburgh Water Company to introduce an additional Supply of Water to the City of Edinburgh and Town and Port of Leith and Places adjacent; and for other Purposes.
clxxxviii. An Act to enable the Banff, Macduff, and Turriff, Extension Railway Company to extend their Railway from the Bridge of Banff to the Harbour of Macduff; and for other Purposes.
clxxxix. An Act to authorize the Formartine and Buchan Railway Company to abandon the authorized Extension to Fraserburgh, and to make another Line instead thereof; also to make a new Road in connection with the Peter-head Extension; and for other Purposes.
cxc. An Act to amend "The Great Eastern Railway Act, 1862," and to confer Powers in reference to the Undertakings of the Great-Eastern, the Waveney Valley, the Lynn and Hunstanton, and the Bishop Stortford, Dunmow, and Braintree Railways; and for other Purposes.
cxci. An Act to enable the Great Northern Railway Company to extend their Railway from Spalding to the Great Eastern Railway at March in Cambridgeshire.
cxcii. An Act to enable the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company to make a new Line of Railway at Croydon, and a Tramway at Newhaven; to acquire additional Lands; and for other Purposes.
cxciii. An Act to amend "The Lynn and Sutton Bridge Railway Act, 1861."
cxciv. An Act to authorize the North British Railway Company to raise more Money; and an Amalgamation with them of the Wansbeck Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
cxcv. An Act for making a Railway from a Point near to Eskbank Station on the Line of the Hawick branch of the North British Railway to Springfield in the Parish of Lasswade and County of Edinburgh, to be called "The Esk Valley Railway;" and for other Purposes.
cxcvi An Act to enable the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway Company to make a Deviation from the Line of Railway first authorized by "The Brecon and Merthyr Railway Act, 1862," and to improve the Access to their Brecon Station; and for other Purposes.
cxcvii. An Act for making and maintaining Bridges over the River Thames at Hampton and Shepperton; and for other Purposes.
cxcviii. An Act for the Amalgamation of the South Wales Railway Company with the Great Western and West Midland Railway Companies; and for other Purposes.
cxcix An Act, for incorporating a Company, and for making and maintaining the Ely Valley Extension Railway; and for other Purposes.
cc. An Act to revive the Powers for the Purchase of Land, and for the Completion of the Milford Railway, and to raise further Capital, and to authorize Agreements with other Companies; and for other Purposes.
cci. An Act for making a Railway from Defynnock to Llandovery; and for other Purposes.
ccxi. An Act for making a Railway to complete the connection between the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway and the Rumney Railway; for enabling the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway Company to acquire the Rumney Railway; for facilitating the Transmission of Traffic over, from, and at the Rhymney Railway; and for other Purposes.
cciii. An Act to enable the Kettering and Thrapstone Railway Company to extend their authorized Line of Railway to Huntingdon, with a Branch Railway at Huntingdon; to change their Name; to authorize them to use certain Stations and Portions of Railway of the Great Eastern Railway Company and the Great Northern Railway Company; and to make Traffic Arrangements with the Midland Railway Company and the Great Northern Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
cciv. An Act to enable the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company to extend their Railway to Greenwich; to improve the Communication with the Victoria Station; and to execute certain other Works in connection with their Undertaking.
ccv. An Act for authorizing the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway Company to make and maintain an additional Line of Railway, and to raise further Monies; and for other Purposes.
ccvi. An Act for the better Regulation of the Traffic in the Streets of the City of London, and for the Prevention of Obstructions therein.
ccvii. An Act for making and maintaining Railways

from Birkenhead and Poulton-cum-Sea-combe to Hoylake in the County of Chester.
ccviii. An Act for increasing the Capital of and conferring further Powers on the West London Extension Railway Company; amending their Acts; providing for the Dissolution of the West London Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
ccix. An Act for the Amalgamation of the Hibernian Mine Company with the Wicklow Copper Mine Company (Limited); and for other Purposes.
ccx. An Act to enable the Morayshire Railway Company to raise additional Capital; and for other Purposes.
ccxi. An Act to incorporate a Company for making a new Bridge from Putney to Fulham; and for other Purposes.
ccxii. An Act to amend the Act and enlarge the Powers of Bonelli's Electric Telegraph Company (Limited).
ccxiii. An Act to authorize the Construction of Railways and other Works for improving the Railway Communication between Edinburgh and Perth vi00E2; the Firth of Forth; and for other Purposes.
ccxiv. An Act for more effectually making, maintaining, and keeping in repair the Roads, Highways, and Bridges within the Counties of Elgin and Nairn; and for other Purposes.
ccxv. An Act for repairing, amending, and maintaining the Public Roads and Bridges in the County of Haddington.
ccxvi. An Act for making a Railway from the Town of Hadlow in the County of Kent to the Sevenoaks, Maidstone, and Tunbridge Railway in the Parish of Ightham in the aforesaid County; and for other Purposes.
ccxvii. An Act for conferring additional Powers on the London and North western Railway Company for the Construction of Works, and otherwise in relation to their own Undertaking and the Undertakings of other Companies; and for other Purposes.
ccxviii. An Act to enable the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company to make new Lines of Railway to Mitcham, Sutton, and Tooting, in Surrey, and to connect the same with other Railways; and for other Purposes.
ccxix. An Act for authorizing the Construction of a Bock and Railways and other Works upon or near Neyland Pill at Milford Haven in the County of Pembroke; and for other Purposes.
ccxx. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Railway in the County of Northampton, to be called "The Northampton and Banbury Junction Railway;" and for other Purposes.
ccxxi. An Act to enable the North-eastern Railway Company to construct Branch Railways at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Starbeck; and for other Purposes.
ccxxii. An Act for making a Railway from Peterborough to Thorney, Wisbeach, and Sutton; and for other Purposes.
ccxxiii. An Act to vest the Undertaking of the Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction Company, and their Interest in the Dundee and Newtyle Railway, in the Scottish Central Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
ccxxiv. An Act to enable the Waterford and Passage Railway Company to extend their Railway to the South-west Shore of the Estuary of the River Suir at Passage, and in connection therewith to establish, make, and maintain Ferries on or across the said Estuary; and for other Purposes.
ccxxv. An Act to authorize the Great Eastern Railway Company to run Steam Vessels between Harwich and certain Foreign Ports.
ccxxvi. An Act to authorize the North British Railway Company to run Steam Vessels between Port Carlisle and Silloth and Belfast.
ccxxvii. An Act to confer further Powers on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company with reference to the widening and Improvement of the Pimlico Railway; and for other Purposes.
ccxxviii. An Act to incorporate a Company for constructing Docks, Warehouses, and other Works in the Parish of Saint Mary, Battersea, in the County of Surrey.
ccxxix. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Railway from Newry to Carlingford Lough, and of a Pier and other Works in connection therewith.
ccxxx. An Act for making a Railway from the West Cornwall Railway at or near Saint Erth to the Town of Saint Ives in the County of Cornwall; and for other Purposes.
ccxxxi. An Act to unite and amalgamate the Undertaking of the Dundee and Arbroath Railway Company with the Undertaking of the Scottish North-eastern Railway Company, and to regulate the Management of and confer additional Powers on the united Company; and for other Purposes.
ccxxxii. An Act for changing the Name of the Isle of Wight Eastern Section Railway Company, and for authorizing them to make and maintain Railways (the Central Lines) in Extension of their authorized Railways (the Eastern Lines), and to raise Monies for the Purpose, and to make Arrangements with other Companies; and for other Purposes.
ccxxxiii. An Act for making a Railway from the Irish North-western Railway at Dundalk to Greenore in the County of Louth; and for other Purposes.
ccxxxiv. An Act for incorporating a Company for making a Railway from the Sidmouth Railway, near Tipton, to Budleigh-Salterton; and for other Purposes.
ccxxxv. An Act for making Railways in the County of Northumberland from the Wansbeck Railway in the Parish of Hartburn to the Parish of Ford, and thence to the Berwick and Keiso Branch of the North-eastern Railway; and for other Purposes.
ccxxxvi. An Act to empower the Irish North-western Railway Company to extend their Railway along the Quays of Dundalk; and for other Purposes.
ccxxxvii. An Act to authorize the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company to make a Railway to South Queensferry, with subsidiary Branches and Works; and for other Purposes.
ccxxxviii. An Act to enable the North-eastern Railway Company to construct a Railway from the Hull and Selby Railway at Saddlethorpe to the authorized Line of the South Yorkshire Railway near Thorne, with Two Branches therefrom; to raise additional Capital; and for other Purposes.

A TABLE OF ALL THE STATUTES
PASSED IN THE FIFTH SESSION OF
THE EIGHTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
26° & 27° VICT.

A TABLE OF ALL THE STATUTES

  PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS.
  I. AN Act to enable Her Majesty to provide for the Establishment of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Denmark, and to settle certain Annuities on Her Royal Highness.
  II. An Act to make Provision concerning Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes payable in the Metropolis on the Day appointed for the Passage through the Metropolis of Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Denmark.
  III. An Act to extend the Credit for Payment of a Portion of the Excise Duty on Malt.
  IV. An Act to extend for a further Period the Provisions of the Union Relief Aid Act of the last Session.
  V. An Act to Amend the Law relating to the Royal Naval Coast Volunteers.
  VI. An Act to apply the Sum of Ten Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty three.
  VII. An Act for altering the Duties on Tobacco, and permitting the Manufacture of Cavendish and Negrohead in Bond.
  VIII. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters.
  IX. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore.
  X. An Act for prohibiting the Exportation of Salmon at certain Times.
  XI. An Act for the Registration of Births and Deaths in Ireland.
  XII. An Act to abolish the Office of Secretary at War, and to transfer the Duties of that Office to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
  XIII. An Act for the Protection of certain Gar den or Ornamental Grounds in Cities and Boroughs.
  XIV. An Act to amend the Law relating to Post Office Savings Banks.
  XV. An Act to apply the Sum of Twenty Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Tear One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
  XVI. An Act for raising the Sum of One million Pounds by Exchequer Bonds for the Service of the year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
  XVII. An Act for amending the Local Government Act (1858).
  XVIII. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales
  XIX. An Act to amend the Law relative to the Sale of Hares in Ireland.
  XX. An Act to further limit and define the Time for proceeding to Election during the Recess.
  XXI. An Act to amend the Law enabling Boards of Guardians to recover Costs of Maintenance of illegitimate Children in certain Cases in Ireland.
  XXII. An Act to grant certain Duties of Customs and Inland Revenue.
  XXIII. An Act to alter the Boundaries of New Zealand.
  XXIV. An Act to facilitate the Appointment of Vice Admirals and of Officers in Vice Admiralty Courts in Her Majesty's Possessions abroad, and to confirm the past Proceedings, to extend the Jurisdiction, and to amend the Practice of those Courts.
  XXV. An Act to make further Provision for the

  Investment of the Monies received by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt from the Trustees of Savings Banks established under the Enactments of the Act Ninth George the Fourth, Chapter Ninety-two.
  XXVI. An Act to facilitate the Drainage of Land in Ireland.
  XXVII. An Act to amend the Law relating to Marriages in Ireland.
  XXVIII. An Act to give further Facilities to the Holders of the Public Stocks.
  XXIX. An Act to amend and continue the Law relating to Corrupt Practices at Elections of Members of Parliament.
  XXX. An Act to authorize further Harbour Regulations for the Protection of Her Majesty's Ships, Dockyards, and Naval Stations.
  XXXI. An Act for the Government of the Cayman Islands.
  XXXII. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders under the Local Government Act (1858) relating to the Districts of Basford, Teignmouth, Kingston-upon-Hull, Nottingham, Bradford, Ryde, Bedford, Croydon, Batley, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Sheerness, and Bromsgrove.
  XXXIII. An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain Duties of Inland Revenue; and to amend the Laws relating to the Inland Revenue.
  XXXIV. An Act to carry into effect an additional Article to the Treaty of the Seventh Day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, between Her Majesty and the United States of America, for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade.
  XXXV. An Act for the Prevention and Punishment of Offences committed by Her Majesty's Subjects in South Africa.
  XXXVI. An Act for carrying into effect the Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the State of the Dioceses of Canterbury, London, Winchester, and Rochester; and for other Purposes.
  XXXVII. An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and contingent and other Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland; to grant Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, and Surgeons Mates of the Militia; and to authorize the Employment of the Non-commissioned Officers.
  XXXVIII. An Act to amend the Act for placing the Employment of Women, Young Persons, and Children in Bleaching Works and Dyeing Works under the Regulations of the Factories Act.
  XXXIX. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Special Report of the Inclosure Commissioners.
  XL. An Act for the Regulation of Bakehouses.
  XLI. An Act to amend the Law respecting the Liability of Innkeepers, and to prevent certain Frauds upon them.
  XLII. An Act to amend the Act of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Years of Victoria, authorizing the Sale of Mill Sites and Water Powers by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland.
  XLIII. An Act to enable Her Majesty's Postmaster General to sell and otherwise dispose of Land.
  XLIV. An Act for the further Security of the Persons of Her Majesty's Subjects from personal violence.
  XLV. An Act for making a new Street from Blackfriars to the Mansion House in the City of London in connection with the Embankment of the River Thames on the Northern Side of that River, and for other Purposes.
  XLVI. An Act for further continuing and appropriating the London Coal and Wine Duties.
  XLVII. An Act for removing Doubts as to the Powers of the Courts of the Church of Scotland, and extending the Powers of the said Courts.
  XLVIII. An Act to repeal the Act of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Tears of Her Majesty, Chapter Sixty-six, for punishing Mutiny and Desertion of Officers and Soldiers in the Service of the East India Company, and for regulating in such Service the Payment of Regimental Debts and the Distribution of the Effects of Officers and Soldiers dying in the Service.
  XLIX. An Act giving Power to sell and dispose of Lands, Parcel of the Possessions of the Duchy of Cornwall, and to purchase other Lands to be annexed thereto, and to regulate future Grants of Leases of the Possessions of the said Duchy; and for other Purposes.
  L. An Act to continue the Powers of the Commissioners under the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act until the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and to amend the said Act.
  LI. An Act to amend the Passengers Act, 1855.
  LII. An Act to further extend and make compulsory the Practice of Vaccination in Ireland.
  LIII. An Act to suspend the making of Lists and the Ballots for the Militia of the United Kingdom.
  LIV. An Act for vesting in Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department certain Lands and Hereditaments at Walmer in the county of Kent.
  LV. An Act to continue the Poor Law Board for a limited Period.
  LVI. An Act to make perpetual an Act to amend the Laws relating to Loan Societies.
  LVII. An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to the Payment of Regimental Debts, and the Distribution of the Effects of Officers and Soldiers in case of Death, and to make like Provision for the Cases of Desertion and Insanity, and other Cases.
  LVIII. An Act for confirming a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for the Management of the Charity of Sir Robert Hitcham, Knight, King's Serjeant, for the Benefit of Framlingham, Debenham, and Levington, in the County of Suffolk, and of Coggeshall in the County of Essex.
  LIX. An Act for confirming a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for the Management of the Charities in the Borough of Ruthin in the County of Denbigh, comprising the Hospital of Christ and its subsidiary Endowments, th Grammar School, Edward Lloyd's Foundation, and Bishop Goodman's Charity.
  LX. An Act to confirm a certain Provisional Order under the General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862, relating to the Burgh of Leith.
  LXI. An Act to prevent Waywardens contracting for Works within their own District.
  LXII. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Seizure of growing Crops in Ireland.
  LXIII. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders under the Land Drainage Act, 1861.
  LXIV. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders under the Local Government Act (1858), relating to the Districts of Plymouth, Holywell, Llanelly, West Ham, Worthing, Aberavon, and Wallasey.
  LXV. An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to the Volunteer Force in Great Britain.
  LXVI. An Act to amend the Law relating to Prisons in Ireland.
  LXVII. An Act to enable Provision to be made out of the Funds of Greenwich Hospital for the Widows of Seamen and Marines slain, killed, or drowned in the Sea Service of the Crown.
  LXVIII. An Act to extend the Powers of the Act relating to the Main Drainage of the Metropolis.
  LXIX. An Act to establish Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve.
  LXX. An Act to facilitate the Execution of Public Works in certain Manufacturing Districts; to authorize for that Purpose Advances of Public Money to a limited Amount upon Security of Local Rates; and to shorten the Period for the Adoption of The Local Government Act 1858, in certain cases.
  LXXI. An Act for the Preservation and Improvement of Harwich Harbour.
  LXXII. An Act for the further Improvement of the Harbour of Howth.
  LXXIII. An Act to give further Facilities to the Holders of India Stock.
  LXXIV. An Act to enable Her Majesty to declare Gold Coins to be issued from Her Majesty's Branch Mint at Sydney, New South Wales, a legal Tender for Payments; and for other Purposes relating thereto.
  LXXV. An Act for the Embankment of Part of the River Thames, on the South Side thereof, in the Parish of Saint Mary Lambeth, and for other Purposes.
  LXXVI. An Act to determine the Time at which Letters Patent shall take effect in the Colonies.
  LXXVII. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Jurisdiction of Justices residing or being out of the County for which they are Justices.
  LXXVIII. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Turnpike Roads in the Neighbourhood of the Metropolis North of the River Thames.
  LXXIX. An Act for the Amendment of the Law relating to the Religious Instruction of Prisoners in County and Borough Prisons in England and Scotland.
  LXXX. An Act for providing a further Sum towards defraying the Expenses of constructing Fortifications for the Protection of the Royal Arsenals and Dockyards and the Ports of Dover and Portland, and of erecting a Central Arsenal.
  LXXXI. An Act to amend, so far as regards Advances for the Purposes of "The Harbours and Passing Tolls, &c. Act, 1861," certain of the Acts authorizing the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries and Employment of the Poor.
  LXXXII. An Act to empower the Bishops of Welsh Dioceses to facilitate the making Provision for English Services in certain Parishes in Wales.
  LXXXIII. An Act to define the Boundaries of the Colony of British Columbia, and to continue an Act to provide for the Government of the said Colony.
  LXXXIV. An Act to confirm certain Acts of Colonial Legislatures.
  LXXXV. An Act to give Relief to Persons who may refuse or be unwilling, from alleged conscientious Motives, to be sworn in Criminal Proceedings in Scotland.
  LXXXVI. An Act to authorize the taking of Harbour Dues at Port Erin in the Isle of Man, in order to provide a Fund for the Improvement of the Harbour; and for other purposes.
  LXXXVII. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Savings Banks.
  LXXXVIII. An Act to enable Landed Proprietors to construct Works for the Drainage and Improvement of Lands in Ireland.
  LXXXIX. An Act for the further Amendment of the Law relating to the Removal of poor Persons, Natives of Ireland, from England.
  XC. An Act to provide for the Registration of Marriages in Ireland.
  XCI. An Act to extend for a further Period the Provisions of the Union Relief Aid Acts.
  XCII. An Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions frequently inserted in Acts relating to Railways.
  XCIII. An Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions frequently inserted in Acts relating to Waterworks.
  XCIV. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Repair of Turnpike Roads in England, and to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain.
  XCV. An Act for continuing various expiring Acts.
  XCVI. An Act to amend the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act (1851), and the Petty Sessions Clerks (Ireland) Act (1858).
  XCVII. An Act to enable Cities, Towns, and Boroughs of Twenty-five thousand Inhabitants and upwards to appoint Stipendiary Magistrates.
  XCVIII. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made under an Act of the Fifteenth Year of Her present Majesty, to facilitate Arrangements for the Relief of Turnpike Trusts.
  XCIX. An Act to apply a Sum out of the Consolidated Fund and the Surplus of Ways and Means to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.
  C. An Act to render Owners of Dogs in Scotland liable in certain Cases for Injuries done by their Dogs to Sheep and Cattle.
  CI. An Act to appoint additional Commissioners for executing the Acts for granting a Land Tax and other Rates and Taxes.
  CII. An Act to reduce the Duty on Rum in certain Cases.
  CIII. An Act to amend the Law in certain Cases of Misappropriation by Servants of the Property of their Masters.
  CIV. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Blackpool, Deal and Walmer, Exmouth, Rosehearty, Ilfracombe, Instow, Bangor, Chatham, Bray, Dartmouth, and Nairn.
  CV. An Act to remove certain Restrictions on the Negotiation of Promissory Notes and Bills of Exchange under a limited Sum.
  CVI. An Act to farther amend the Law relating to the Conveyance of Land for Charitable Uses.
  CVII. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and to extend the Time limited for those Purposes respectively.
  CVIII. An Act to extend and make compulsory the Practice of Vaccination in Scotland.
  CIX. An Act for remedying certain Defects in the Law relating to the Removal of Prisoners in Scotland.
  CX. An Act to amend the Lunacy Acts in relation to the building of Asylums for Pauper Lunatics.
  CXI. An Act to amend the Naval Medical Supplemental Fund Society Winding-up Act, 1861.
  CXII. An Act to regulate the Exercise of Powers under Special Acts for the Construction and Maintenance of Telegraphs.
  CXIII. An Act to prohibit the Sale and Use of poisoned Grain or Seed.
  CXIV. An Act to amend the Laws relating to Fisheries in Ireland.
  CXV. An Act to explain the Act for the Amendment of the Law relative to gratuitous Trustees in Scotland.
  CXVI. An Act to provide for the Appointment of Navy Prize Agents, and respecting their Duties and Remuneration.
  CXVII. An Act to amend the Nuisances Removal Act for England, 1855, with respect to the Seizure of diseased and unwholesome Meat.
  CXVIII. An Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions frequently inserted in Acts relating to the Constitution and Management of Companies incorporated for carrying on Undertakings of a public Nature.
  CXIX. An Act to prevent false Representations as to Grants of Medals or Certificates made by the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 and 1862.
  CXX. An Act for the Augmentation of certain Benefices, the Right of Presentation to which is vested in the Lord Chancellor.
  CXXI. An Act to establish the Validity of Acts performed in Her Majesty's Possessions abroad by certain Clergymen ordained in Foreign Parts, and to extend the Powers of Colonial Legislatures with respect to such Clergymen.
  CXXII. An Act to enable Her Majesty in Council to make Alterations in the Circuits of the Judges.
  CXXIII. An Act to amend the Law relating to District Parochial Churches in Ireland.
  CXXIV. An Act for the more effectual Condensation of Muriatic Acid Gas in Alkali Works.
  CXXV. An Act for promoting the Revision of the Statute Law by repealing certain Enactments which have ceased to be in force or have become unnecessary.

PRIVATE ACTS,
PRINTED BY THE QUEEN'S PRINTER,
AND WHEREOF THE PRINTED COPIES MAY BE GIVEN IN EVIDENCE.
1. AN Act to continue an Act for extending A the Time during which the Trustees of the late Sir Gilbert Stirling of Mansfield, Baronet, were authorized to purchase Lands to be entailed in the Terms declared by certain Trust Deeds executed by him; and for other Purposes.
2. An Act for making Provision with respect to the Interests of Sir Henry Meux, Baronet, in the Business of the Horse Shoe Brewery.
3. An Act to modify the Condition of Residence at Haverholme Priory contained in the Will of the late Sir Jenison William Gordon, Baronet, in so far as such Condition affects the present or any future Infant Tenant in Tail under the Limitations of the same Will.
4. An Act for a Re-settlement of Estates devised by the Will of the Right Honourable Sir Arthur Ingram Aston deceased.
5. An Act to amend "The Fife Estates Improvement Act, 1858;" to authorize the Exchange of the entailed Estate of Ardgye in the County of Elgin for the Lauds of Westerton in the same County, to be entailed in lieu thereof; and for other Purposes.
6. An Act for enabling Agricultural Leases to be granted of the Estates called the Bolton Estates, entailed by an Act of the Twenty-seventh Tear of the Reign of His Majesty King Henry the Eighth; and for enabling, with the sanction of the Court of Chancery, the granting of Building and Mining and Improvement Leases, and for enabling the Partition and Sale of the same Estates.
7. An Act for the better Management of the Estates annexed to the Earldom of Arundel; and for the Sale of certain Parts of the same Estates, and for other Purposes, the Short Title whereof is "The Arundel Estates Act, 1863."
8. An Act for enlarging and extending the Powers given by "Wyndham's Estate Act, 1854," of or over divers Freehold, Copyhold, and Leasehold Estates devised by or subject to the Limitations of the Will of the Right Honourable George Obrien Earl of Egremont deceased.
The SESSIONAL INDEX to "HANSARD" having been carefully considered and re-arranged, some explanation of the objects sought, and of the facilities it is intended to offer, may be useful.
In the first place, however, the "TABLE OF CONTENTS," which precedes each volume, should be described.
These "CONTENTS" are a complete "Abstract" of all Public Business transacted by both Houses of Parliament.
The "Minutes," which stand first, are a brief record of each day's Proceedings, arranged by titles under each stage of progress—"First Reading," "Second Reading" "Committee," &c.;—those Bills which were forwarded without discussion are marked with a *.
[For practical purposes the "Minutes" are superseded by the "Index," in which the Progress of each Bill is succinctly given under one head.]
The debated Proceedings follow. In these every entry is made to accord with the corresponding entry in the LORDS' MINUTES or COMMONS' VOTES; but a large amount of valuable information not to be found in those records, but derived from the text of "HANSARD," is added or intercalated.
Every Motion is set out in its precise terms, according to the Notice or the entries in the Minutes or Votes. Every Amendment or Motion interposed between the original Question and the final decision, whether subject of entry on the Minutes or Votes or not, is given. The title of every Bill introduced is set out at length, with the names of the Peers or Members who had charge of the measure. All Motions and Amendments are set out at length. In Committee all Clauses debated, and some not discussed, are recorded. The "Breviates," which indicate the object of the Clauses, are given, and the Amendments proposed are set out in full.
The object of every Select Committee is given in the terms of the Motion; and if granted, the names of the Peers or Members nominated to serve on it.
The "CONTENTS" include, as among items of Public Business, "Questions and Answers," "Observations and Replies." It has been found impracticable to deal with these entries in any other mode than by referring to the text of "HANSARD." TO give the very words would be to reprint a large part of these volumes, and to attempt to give a summary appears to Mr. Hansard to be beyond his proper duties.
The "CONTENTS" of "HANSARD," as here arranged, are, in fact, that which has been so frequently desired, an "ABSTRACT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS."
The SESSIONAL INDEX has been compiled upon a system which has for its object these important considerations.
1. That it shall afford ready Reference to the Public Business as formally recorded in the "JOURNALS" and "MINUTES" of the LORDS and the "JOURNALS" and "VOTES" of the COMMONS, and to the Spoken Proceedings in Parliament thereon as recorded in "HANSARD."
2. That a Motion once brought before either House shall be followed out, in this Index, to the end; and that the entries, though necessarily in a brief form, shall give in substance the same information as the JOURNALS, MINUTES, or VOTES, and render it unnecessary to refer to those records for the stages, dates, amendments, divisions, &c.
3. That unnecessary multiplicity of reference shall be avoided. Thus, the information sought being contained in the JOURNALS and VOTES of either House, and in the "Contents" and text of "HANSARD," and this Index being the instrument of search—
The Reader who desires simply to ascertain the introduction and course of a Motion—its origin and chronology—will find these particulars succinctly set forth in the Index itself, and need go no further. If, beside these particulars, he desires to know the precise terms of the Motion, of the Amendments, of the formal mode of raising the issues, and the official information, but does not require to refer to the debates on the subject, the Index will refer him to the "Contents" of the proper Volume by the dates given. In the "Contents" he will find, not only the information afforded by the official Minutes and Votes, but frequently much that it is not the practice to enter in those records (such as Committee work), but which is an important part of Parliamentary business. In the "Contents" he will find the formal course of all Public Business gathered into a small compass; and easy to follow out by the dates and pages given by the "Index."
4. If, however, the Reader desires to learn, not only the formal course of a Public Motion, but the Argumentative and Reasoning part of Public Legislation, he must necessarily turn to the text of "HANSARD."
The two latter courses (the first requires no explanation) have been provided for in the following manner:—Wherever all the information that the "MINUTES," "VOTES," and "HANSARD," could afford is comprised in a single fact (as, for instance, that a Bill was read the second time on a certain

day—that a Bill was considered in Committee and reported—that a Select Committee was appointed on one day and reported on another), the entries in this Index supply that information; it also contains the positive intimation by a * that the Bill or Motion was "read" or "agreed to" without debate; and to prevent the annoyance of a further search where nothing more is to be learnt, the "pages" are omitted.
It is obvious that every "Question and Answer" is a debate; the reference is therefore made direct to the page in "HANSARD" in which it is to be found.
Every Public Bill is to be found entered in the text of "HANSARD" under the date at which it was introduced; but as the full title is also set forth in the "Contents," which can be more readily referred to, the "date," and not the "page," is given in the Index. In like manner, in Committee those Clauses, and in Supply those Votes, which were agreed to without debate, have no paginal references, the information being already complete.
[Immediate reference from the Index to the "Contents" will be obtained by noting the "page" in the Index, and referring to the figures on the right hand of the "Contents."]
Unnecessary reference is further avoided by giving all the information in the Index wherever practicable. For example, in the case of a Select Committee, not only the date of appointment and nomination is given, but the order of reference, a list of the Members, and the date of the Report.
The entries under the head of "Mr. Speaker" have been cast into a distinct form. Instead of a mere entry of the title of the Question during which the necessity arose for Mr. Speaker's intervention, the particular object to which that intervention is directed is given. For example, the entry under the old form, "Education—The Revised Code—Question," would give no indication that Mr. Speaker's interference was to stop reference to Debates "in another place." The entry now stands "Debate—Reference to Debates 'in another place'—Education—The Revised Code—Question." By this course, the Law and Practice of Parliament as digested in Mr. May's valuable work, will always be entered up to the latest period.

EXPLANATION OF THE ABBREVIATIONS.
It being a principal object of this Index, that the proceedings on each Motion shall be completely recorded, some abbreviations of forms were necessary. Those who are accustomed to the proceedings of Parliament, will readily fill up the voids. Those who are not so familiar, may find the following explanation useful, but will find the whole formulœ set out at length in the "Contents."
The names which immediately follow the title of a Bill are those of the Peers or hon. Members who have charge of the Bill.
The numbers which are added at stages of Bills are the official numbers of the prints and reprints ordered at each stage, and, with the Statute, will enable the reader to follow all the changes the Bill has undergone.
The entries—Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a"; Amendt. "this day six months;" Question put, "That 'now' &c."—indicate the usual form of raising the issue—namely, "That the word 'now' stand part of the Question."
"Crown Lands, Inclosure of, Amendt. on Committee of Supply" indicates that the Question was raised by means of an Amendment moved on the Motion (after the Order of the Day for the House to go into Committee of Supply had been read), "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair." In this case the issue is formally raised by the Motion "To leave out from the word 'That' to the end of the Question, in order to add" other words. The decision is taken on the Question, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question."
The Nos. added to the "Parliamentary Papers" are in most cases those given in the Commons' "List of Papers for Sale."

MINUTES.
PUBLIC BILLS—Royal Assent— Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) [26 & 27 Vict., c. 99];
Fortifications (Provision for Expenses) [26 & 27 Vict., c. 80];
Prison Ministers [26 & 27 Vict., c. 79];
English Church Services in Wales [26 & 27 Vict., c. 82];
India Stock [26 & 27 Vict., c. 73];
Sydney Branch Mint [26 & 27 Vict., c. 74];
Colonial Letters Patent [26 & 27 Vict., c. 76];
Jurisdiction of Justices [26 & 27 Vict., c. 77];
Oaths Relief in Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) [26 & 27 Vict., c. 85];
Removal of Irish Poor [26 & 27 Vict., c. 89];
Marriages Registration (Ireland) [26 & 27 Vict., c. 90]:
Public Works and Fisheries Acts Amendment [26 & 27 Vict., c. 81];
Vaccination (Scotland) [26 & 27 Vict., c. 108];
Sheep and Cattle (Scotland) [26 & 27 Vict., c. 100];
Stipendiary Magistrates [26 & 27 Vict., c. 97];
Misappropriation by Servants [26 & 27 Vict., c. 103];
Colonial Acts Confirmation [26 & 27 Vict., c. 84];
Savings Banks Acts Amendment [26 & 27 Vict., c. 87];
Naval Medical Supplemental Fund Society Winding-up Act (1861) Amendment [26 & 27 Vict., c. 111];
Union Relief Aid Acts Continuance [26 & 27 Vict., c. 91];
Turnpike Acts Continuance, Ac. [26 & 27 Vict., c. 94];
Augmentation of Benefices [26 & 27 Vict., c. 120];
Clergymen (Colonies) [26 & 27 Vict., c. 121];
Statute Law Revision [26 & 27 Vict., c. 125];
Alterations in Judges' Circuits [26 & 27 Vict., c. 122];
Indemnity [26 & 27 Vict., c. 107];
Land Tax Commissioners' Names [26 & 27 Vict., c. 101];
Promissory Notes and Bills of Exchange [26 & 27 Vict., c. 105];
Poisoned Grain, Ac. Prohibition [26 & 27 Vict., c. 113];
Removal of Prisoners (Scotland) [26 & 27 Vict., c. 109;
Expiring Laws Continuance [26 & 27 Vict., c. 95];
Rum Duty [26 & 27 Vict., c. 102];
Petty Sessions (Ireland) [26 & 27 Vict., c. 96];
Nuisances Removal Act (1855) Amendment [26 & 27 Vict., c. 117];
Navy Prize Agents [26 & 27 Vict., c. 116];
Trustees (Scotland) Act Amendment [26 & 27 Vict., c. 115];
Waterworks Clauses [26 & 27 Vict., c. 93];
Pauper Lunatic Asylums [26 & 27 Vict., c. 110];
Turnpike Trusts Arrangements [26 & 27 Vict., c. 981;
Fisheries (Ireland) [26 & 27 Vict., c. 114];
District Parochial Churches (Ireland) [26 & 27 Vict., c. 123];
British Columbia Boundaries [26 & 27 Vict., c. 83];
Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) [26 & 27 Vict., c. 88];
Alkali Works Regulation [26 & 27 Vict., c. 124];
Exhibition Medals [26 & 27 Vict., c. 119];
Telegraphs [26 & 27 Vict., c. 112];
Charitable Uses [26 & 27 Vict., c. 106];
Companies Clauses [26 & 27 Vict., c. 118];
Railways Clauses [26 & 27 Vict., c. 92];
Harwich Harbour [26 & 27 Vict., c. 71];
Howth Harbour [26 & 27 Vict., c. 72];
Thames Embankment (South Side) [26 & 27 Vict., c. 75];
Metropolis Turnpike Roads Acts Amendment [26 & 27 Vict., c. 78];
Port Erin Harbour (Isle of Man) [26 & 27 Vict., c. 86];
Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation [26 & 27 Vict., c. 104].

PROROGATION OF THE PARLIAMENT. SPEECH OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS.
The PARLIAMENTwas this day prorogued by Commission.
The LORDS COMMISSIONERS—namely, The LORD CHANCELLOR (Lord Westbury); The LORD STEWARD OF THE HOUSEHOLD (The Earl of St. Germans); The DUKE OF NEWCASTLE (One of the Principal Secretaries of State); The LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY (The Postmaster General); and The LORD WENSLEYDALE—being in their robes, and seated on a Form placed between the Throne and the Woolsack; and the COMMONS being come with their Speaker, the ROYAL ASSENT was given to several Bills.
Then THE LORD CHANCELLOR delivered the SPEECH of the LORDS COMMISSIONERS as follows:—
"My Lords, and Gentlemen,
"WE are commanded by Her Majesty to release you from further Attendance in Parliament, and at the

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same Time to convey to you Her Majesty's Acknowledgments for the Zeal and Assiduity with which you have applied yourselves to the Performance of your Duties during the Session now brought to a Close.
"HER Majesty has seen with deep Regret the present Condition of Poland. Her Majesty has been engaged, in concert with the Emperor of the French and the Emperor of Austria, in Negotiations, the Object of which has been to obtain the Fulfilment of the Stipulations of the Treaty of Vienna of 1815, on behalf of the Poles. Her Majesty trusts that those Stipulations will be carried into execution, and that thus a Conflict distressing to Humanity and dangerous to the Tranquillity of Europe may be brought to a Close.
"THE Civil War between the Northern and Southern States of the North American Union still, unfortunately, continues, and is necessarily attended with much Evil, not only to the contending Parties, but also to Nations which have taken no Part in the Contest. Her Majesty, however, has seen no Reason to depart from that strict Neutrality which Her Majesty has observed from the Beginning of the Contest.
"THE Greek Nation having chosen Prince William of Denmark for their King, Her Majesty is taking Steps with a view to the Union of the Ionian Islands with the Kingdom of Greece. For this Purpose Her Majesty is in communication with the Powers who were Parties to the Treaty of 1815, by which those Islands were placed under the Protection of the British Crown; and the Wishes of the
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Ionians on the Subject of such Union will be duly ascertained.
"SEVERAL barbarous Outrages committed in Japan upon British Subjects have rendered it necessary for Her Majesty to demand Reparation; and Her Majesty hopes that Her Demands will be conceded by the Japanese Government without its being necessary to resort to coercive Measures to enforce them.
"THE Emperor of Brazil has thought fit to break off his Diplomatic Relations with Her Majesty in consequence of Her Majesty not having complied with Demands which She did not deem it possible to accede to. Her Majesty has no Wish that this Estrangement should continue, and would be glad to see Her Relations with Brazil re-established.
"Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
"HER Majesty commands us to convey to you Her warm Acknowledgments for the liberal Supplies which you have granted for the Service of the present Year, and towards the permanent Defence of Her Majesty's Dockyards and Arsenals; and Her Majesty commands us to thank you for the Provision you have made for the Establishment of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.
"My Lords and Gentlemen,
"THE Distress which the Civil War in North America has inflicted upon a Portion of Her Majesty's Subjects in the Manufacturing Districts, and towards the Relief of which such generous and munificent Contributions have been made, has in some

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Degree diminished, and Her Majesty has given Her cordial Assent to Measures calculated to have a beneficial Influence upon that unfortunate State of Things.
"SYMPTOMS of a Renewal of Disturbances have manifested themselves in Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand, but Her Majesty trusts that by wise and conciliatory Measures, supported by adequate Means of Repression, Order and Tranquillity will be maintained in that valuable and improving Colony.
"HER Majesty has given Her Assent to a Measure for augmenting the Income of a considerable Number of small Benefices, and She trusts that this Measure will be conducive to the Interests of the Established Church.
"HER Majesty has given Her Assent to an Act for the Revision of a large Portion of the Statute Book, by the Removal of many Acts, which, although they had become obsolete or unnecessary, obstructed the Condensation of the Statute Law.
"HER Majesty has felt much Pleasure in giving Her Assent to an Act for placing upon a well-defined Footing that Volunteer Force which has added a most important Element to the defensive Means of the Country.
"HER Majesty has gladly given Her Assent to an Act for carrying into effect the Additional Treaty concluded by Her Majesty with The President of the United States for the more effectual Suppression of the Slave Trade; and Her Majesty trusts that the honourable Co-operation of the Government of the United States will materially assist Her Majesty in those Endeavours
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which Great Britain has long been engaged in making to put an end to the Perpetration of that most disgraceful Crime. Her Majesty has assented with Satisfaction to many other Measures of public Usefulness, the Result of your Labours during the present Session.
"IT has been gratifying to Her Majesty to observe that, notwithstanding many adverse Circumstances, the general Prosperity of Her Empire continues unimpaired. Though great local Distress has been suffered in Great Britain from the Effects of the Civil War in America, and in Ireland from the Results of Three unfavourable Seasons, the financial Resources of the United Kingdom have been fully maintained, and its general Commerce with the World at large has not been materially impaired.
"IT has been a Source of great Satisfaction to Her Majesty to find that Her East Indian Possessions, rapidly recovering from the Disasters which lately overspread them, are entering upon a Course of Improvement, social, financial, and commercial, which holds out good Promise for the growing Prosperity of those extensive Regions.
"ON returning to your several Counties you will still have important Duties to perform; and Her Majesty fervently prays that the Blessing of Almighty God may attend your Efforts to promote the Welfare and Happiness of Her Subjects, the Object of Her constant and earnest Solicitude."
Then a Commission for proroguing the Parliament was read.
After which
THE LORD CHANCELLORsaid;
My Lords and Gentlemen,
By virtue of Her Majesty's Commission, under the Great Seal, to us and other Lords directed, and now read, we do, in Her Majesty's Name, and in obedience to Her Commands, prorogue this Parliament to Wednesday the Fourteenth Day of October next, to be then here holden; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Wednesday the Fourteenth Day of October next.