Sitting of 15 August 1879

Preamble
The House mot at half after One of the clock.
QUESTIONS.
  PUBLIC WORKS LOANS (No. 2) BILL.

    EXPLANATION.
    THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, he wished to take notice of a statement that appeared in the news-
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    papers yesterday, which, coming from the hon. Member for Reading (Mr. Shaw Lefevre), might cause some misapprehension, if unexplained, with regard to the position in which matters were left by the Public Works Loans Act. The hon. Member for Reading said, in the statement referred to, that matters would be left substantially the same as hitherto, That, however, was not the case. The effect of the Bill as passed had been to empower the Treasury to provide that loans granted at less than 5 per cent were to carry such a rate of interest as would, in the judgment of the Treasury, prevent any loss to the Exchequer. The Treasury would find it their duty to issue a Minute stating what the rates of interest would be, and they would be the same substantially as were provided in the Bill.
    MR. SHAW LEFEVREthought he had not made any mistake in the matter. What he had ventured to point out was, that all the existing Acts gave the same power to the Public Works Loans Commissioners, and the only change made by the Bill was to transfer that power from the Commissioners to the Treasury; but he pointed out that no change would be practically effected this year, inasmuch as one of the Public Works Loans Commissioners—the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the City of London (Mr. J. G. Hubbard)—stated that all loans for the present year had been practically arranged already, and he understood that these would be excepted under an Amendment adopted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Therefore, practically, no change would be made until next year, when the Government had promised a Committee on the subject, and to those who objected to the Bill that was so far a satisfactory result.

  CYPRUS—M. MITZIS.—QUESTION.
  SIR CHARLES W. DILKEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether his attention has been called to a letter in the eighth number of the "Neon Kition" from Mr. Delaval Cobham, Commissioner of Larnaca, in which that gentleman admits that the election of M. Mitzis was cancelled because he was not a Turkish subject, this statement having previously been denied by Sir Garnet Wolseley?
  MR. BOURKE: Sir, Mr. Cobham's letter has not been communicated to the Foreign Office; but a Memorial from certain inhabitants of Larnaca, communicated by the hon. Baronet the Member for Chelsea (Sir Charles W. Dilke) complaining that the election of M. Mitzis as a member of the Legislative Council had been cancelled on the ground that he was not a Turkish subject has been received. The Memorial has been forwarded to the High Commissioner for his remarks thereupon; but his Report has not yet been received.

  THE FISHERY LAWS.—QUESTION.
  MR. GOURLEYasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, When he hopes to complete the inquiries which are being made by Messrs. Buck-land and Walpole relative to the supply of in-shore and deep-sea fish, and if the result of the investigations already concluded is of such a nature as to enable him to issue a new code of regulations whereby the disputes now existing between the line and net boatmen and steam trawlers may in future be obviated; and, further, if he has any information which would tend to confirm or refute the statements of the boat fishermen relative to the destruction of deep-sea spawn by steam trawling?
  MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, that the Commissioners of Fisheries had presented their Report; but that, as it had to be printed, some weeks would elapse before the Report would be in the hands of hon. Members. The disputes referred to in the Question as now existing between line and net boatmen and steam trawlers could not be adjusted without further legislation.

  THE UNITED STATES—CONSULAR CONVENTION.—QUESTION.
  MR. GOURLEYasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If the negotiations between the British and United States Governments relative to a Consular Convention have been concluded; if so, if he will be good enough to cause the Correspondence to be placed upon the Table of the House; if the two Governments have agreed upon the details upon which to base the Treaty; and, if he can explain why he has not
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  introduced the Bill which he promised last Session?
  MR. BOURKE: Sir, Her Majesty's Government have been unable as yet to conclude a Consular Convention with the United States, and the negotiations have been suspended pending the passing of an Act of Parliament giving the necessary powers to Her Majesty's Government to carry out such a Convention. A Bill has been prepared; but it was not found possible, owing to the press of Business before the House, to introduce it this Session with any prospect of success. I hope it will be done, however, in the ensuing Session.

  TREATY OF BERLIN—THE GREEK FRONTIER.—QUESTION.
  MR. SHAW LEFEVREasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether his attention has been called to the fact that large bodies of troops have recently been sent by the Turkish Government into Thessaly and Epirus, and especially into the southern parts of those provinces, and that in the latter province they are under the command of Chefket Pasha; and, whether any remonstrance had been made to Her Majesty's Government against such a course, pending the negotiations respecting the Greek Frontier?
  THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER: Sir, I understand there is some considerable amount of excitement on the Frontier, and that both Governments have thought it necessary to strengthen their forces. Her Majesty's Government has not addressed any communication to either of them.

SOUTH AFRICA—THE ZULU WAR— MR. ARCHIBALD FORBES.

  QUESTION.
  SIR HENRY HAVELOCKasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether he will take into consideration the desirability of extending some mark of favour to Mr. Archibald Forbes, special correspondent of the "Daily News," in recognition of the public services performed by him in being the bearer of the despatches of the successful action at Ulundi, under circumstances of considerable personal hazard, fatigue, and endurance?
  THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER: Sir, this is, certainly, rather a novel Question. As far as I understand, it is a question whether the Government will extend some mark of favour to Mr. Archibald Forbes for performing services in connection with his duty as a newspaper correspondent. [Sir HENRY HAVELOOK: No, no!] Then I hardly know under what circumstances the Government are called upon to consider the matter. The Question is one which should rather be addressed to my right hon. and gallant Friend the Secretary of State for War than to myself.
  SIR HENEY HAVELOCKsaid, the Chancellor of the Exchequer seemed to have misapprehended the purport of his Question. If the right hon. Gentleman would read it, he would see that the claim to a mark of favour was in relation not to Mr. Forbes's services as correspondent, but to a public service performed by him in the conveyance of a despatch.

CRIMINAL LAW—CASE OF THOMAS PERRYMAN;—QUESTION.
MR. H. B. SHERIDANasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, in the case of Thomas Perry-man, now under sentence of penal servitude for life, it is true that he has refused permission to the prisoner's solicitor to see the prisoner for the purpose of obtaining his signature to a Petition to this honourable House in which he alleges his innocence and his grounds for so doing, and in which Petition he sets forth a letter lately received from Australia from the relations of the deceased as to her insane tendency, and generally maintaining the theory of suicide; and, if so, why such permission was refused?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, it was quite true that permission was refused to Mr. Elworthy to visit the prisoner in gaol; but Mr. Elworthy was not his solicitor. That gentleman was told that it was quite unnecessary for him to obtain the signature of the prisoner to a Petition, because any Petition signed by the prisoner would be forwarded to the proper quarter. If the prisoner's solicitor visited him at the gaol, he (Mr. Assheton Cross) had not the slightest doubt he would be permitted to see him.

ROYAL COMMISSIONS—REPORTS AND EVIDENCE.—QUESTION.
MR. CALLANasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he would be good enough to state the course of procedure by which the evidence taken before a Royal Commission is reported to Her Majesty; whether, in the case of the Royal Commission to inquire into the constitution, custom, and usages of the London Stock Exchange, the Royal Commissioners, directly or indirectly, informed the Home Department that portions of the evidence of Mr. Cooper, and the entire of the evidence of the right honourable Mr. Goschen, in relation to the promotion and the subsequent winding-up of the Imperial Land Company of Marseilles, has been omitted from the minutes of evidence returned to the Home Office, in order to be laid before Her Majesty; whether the withholding of any part of the evidence is in accordance with the terms of Her Majesty's Commission nominating and appointing the said Royal Commission to inquire into the practices of the London Stock Exchange; and, whether Her Majesty's Government will direct that no such keeping back of any portion of the evidence shall take place with reference to the evidence or other proceedings before the royal Commission to inquire into the cause of Agricultural Depression?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS: Sir, with regard to the first part of the hon. Member's Question, the course adopted is, when evidence has been taken before a Royal Commission, everything is sent to the Home Office by the Secretary of the Commission. Of course, the evidence is submitted to Her Majesty, and afterwards presented to Parliament. As to the second paragraph, I never heard a word about it till this morning. With reference to the Question as to whether Commissions may strike out evidence in any form or shape, I may refer the hon. Member to his own experience of Committees of this House, where sometimes evidence is given and sometimes omitted. A matter of that kind, I believe, rests entirely with the Commission. For the same reason, it would be very improper for me to make any suggestion to the Chairman of the Commission on Agricultural Depression.
MR. GOSCHEN: Perhaps, Sir, the House will permit me to offer a few words of explanation on this subject. If I had been in my place yesterday, or had Notice of the Question which was put on the Paper by the hon. Member for Dundalk (Mr. Callan), I should have given such information as I could have given with reference to it. Probably, the Question ought to have been addressed, if addressed at all, to Members of the Commission, two of whom have seats in this House—namely, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Cambridge University (Mr. Spencer Walpole) and the hon. Member for East Gloucestershire (Mr. J. E. Yorke). I think the Question is a very fair one to ask of them. What happened was this. Some evidence was given before the Commission in which, as I learned afterwards, my name had been used, and statements made which, in my opinion, were perfectly incorrect. Upon that I caused it to be known to Members of the Commission that I thought justice required that an opportunity should be given me for controverting those statements. The evidence was then communicated to me, as it was also to others whose names had been used. I was not called to give evidence before the Commission; but I insisted upon being heard before it, in order that I might controvert the statements which appeared to me to be incorrect. I gave the facts; but my explanations occupied under an hour, and not a couple of days, as was suggested by the hon. Member's Question. After I had given those explanations the Commission decided that the evidence which I hoped and alleged I had controverted should be struck out and not reported. That was done on their responsibility. When I say that the President was a Judge of the land—Lord Penzance—and that the other Members of the Commission were Gentlemen of the highest character, I feel that the hon. Gentleman may be assured that no undue partiality was shown in the matter.

OFFENSIVE PRINTS.—QUESTION.
SIR PATRICK O'BRIENasked the Secretary of State for the Home De-
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partment, Whether his attention has, within the last few weeks, been directed to certain affiches which are exposed everywhere, particularly in the streets of London; and, whether he does not think that the time has arrived when he ought to suppress those affiches, which are opposed to public decency and morality?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS: Sir, in reference to a reply which I recently gave upon this subject—to the effect that if no notice was taken of these publications they would die out of themselves—I must say I did not mean to say that there was not a limit beyond which these things cannot go. I do not retract anything that I said on a former occasion as to the advisability of prosecution in such cases as this, and it is perfectly well known that if the law is transgressed the offenders are liable to prosecution.

PROROGATION OF THE PARLIAMENT.
Message to attend The LORDS COMMISSIONERS:—
The House went;—and a Royal Commission to that purpose having been read, the Royal Assent was given to several Bills.
And afterwards Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech was delivered to both Houses of Parliament by the Lord High Chancellor (in pursuance of Her Majesty's Command).
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 Saturday the 1st day of November next, to be then here holden; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Saturday the 1st day of November next.

A TABLE OF ALL THE STATUTES
PASSED IN THE SIXTH SESSION OF
THE TWENTY-FIRST PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
42 & 43 VICTORIA.—A.D. 1879.

A TABLE OF ALL THE STATUTES

  PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS.
  1. AN Act to amend the Law respecting the holding of Assizes.
  2. An Act to apply the sum of Four million two hundred and fifty thousand pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.
  3. An Act to raise the sum of Four million two hundred and fifty thousand pounds by Exchequer Bonds, for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
  4. An Act to continue for three months the Act of the Session of the forty-first and forty-second years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter ton, intituled "An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the bettor Payment of the Army and their Quarters."
  5. An Act to continue for three months the Act of the Session of the forty-first and forty-second years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eleven, intituled "An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore."
  6. An Act to amend the Law with respect to District Auditors.
  7. An Act to apply certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the years ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and one thousand eight hundred and eighty.
  8. An Act to make further provision for the Registration of Deaths, Marriages, and Births occurring out of the United Kingdom among officers and soldiers of Her Majesty's Forces, and their families.
  9. An Act to declare the true meaning of Section Thirty of the Friendly Socities Act, 1875.
  10. An Act to amend the Poor Rate Assessment and Collection Act, 1869.
  11. An Act to amend the Law of Evidence with respect to Bankers' Books.
  12. An Act to amend the Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, 1870.
  13. An Act to amend the Act thirty-third and thirty-fourth Victoria, chapter forty-two, for the abolition of Petty Customs.
  14. An Act to apply the sum of Six million six hundred and ninety-four thousand eight hundred and sixteen pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on the 31st day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty.
  15. An Act to amend the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867.
  16. An Act to provide for the winding up of the West Indian Relief Commission, and for the remission of certain sums remaining unpaid in respect of Loans by the said Commission.
  17. An Act to amend the House of Commons Costs Taxation Act, 1847.
  18. An Act for the Licensing of Metropolitan Suburban Racecourses.
  19. An Act to facilitate the control and cure of Habitual Drunkards.
  20. An Act to apply the sum of Six million five hundred and sixty-seven thousand and twenty-three pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty.
  21. An Act to grant certain Duties of Customs and Inland Revenue, and to amend the Laws relating to Customs and Inland Revenue.
  22. An Act for more effectually providing for the Prosecution of Offences in England; and for other purposes.
  23. An Act to provide for the preservation of Hares in Ireland.
  24. An Act for promoting the Revision of the Statute Law of Ireland.
  25. An Act to give facilities for providing Dispensary Houses and Dwelling Houses for Medical Officers of Dispensary Districts in certain parts of Ireland.
  26. An Act to amend the Salmon Fishery Act with relation to fixed Engines in Tidal Waters.
  27. An Act to empower Parliamentary Burghs in Scotland to become members of the Convention of Royal Burghs.
  28. An Act to repeal the Convention (Ireland) Act, passed in the Irish Parliament in the thirty-third year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, and to amend and declare the Law in certain oases in respect to Assemblies and Public Meetings.
  29. An Act to remove doubts as to the validity of certain Marriages of British subjects on board Her Majesty's ships.
  30. An Act to amend the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875.
  31. An Act to amend the Public Health Act, 1875, as to Interments.
  32. An Act to bring into force the Army Discipline and Regulation Act, 1879.
  33. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Discipline and Regulation of the Army.
  34. An Act to regulate the Employment of Children in Places of Public Amusement in certain cases.
  35. An Act to remit certain Loans made by the Exchequer Loan Commissioners and the Public Works Loan Commissioners, and by the Irish Exchequer Loan Commissioners and the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland.
  36. An Act for the transfer of property held for the service of Her Majesty's Customs to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings; and for other purposes.
  37. An Act to amend the Commons Act, 1876.
  38. An Act to amend the Slave Trade (East African Courts) Act, 1873.
  39. An Act to amend the law with respect to Returns of Receipts and Expenditure as regards Highways, and to dispense with the verification before Justices of the accounts of Surveyors of Highways.
  40. An Act to amend the Conveyancing and Land Transfer (Scotland) Act, 1874.
  41. An Act to enable Guaranteed Railway Companies in India and the Secretary of State for India in Council to enter into Agreements with respect to the working of Railways, and with respect to Telegraphs, and to confer upon those Companies additional powers with respect to their undertakings.
  42. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Valuation of Lands and Heritages in Scotland.
  43. An Act to enable the Secretary of State in Council of India to create and issue Capital Stock in the United Kingdom in exchange for so much of the Annuity created under the East Indian Railway Company Purchase Act, 1879, and thereby made chargeable on the Revenues of India as may be purchased by the Secretary of State under that Act.
  44. An Act to make provision in regard to the office of Lord Clerk Register of Scotland; and for other purposes.
  45. An Act to authorise the issue of a sum out of the Consolidated Fund by way of loan to the Secretary of State for India.
  46. An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts, and to repeal certain other Turnpike Acts; and for other purposes connected therewith.
  47. An Act to continue and amend the Petroleum Act, 1871.
  48. An Act to amend the Law respecting the Powers of School Boards in relation to Industrial Schools.
  49. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Summary Jurisdiction of Magistrates.
  50. An Act to amend the Law relating to Bills of Sale in Ireland.
  51. An Act to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.
  52. An Act to appoint additional Commissioners for executing the Acts for granting a Land Tax and other rates and taxes.
  53. An Act to amend the Law regulating Municipal Elections in Ireland.
  54. An Act to make better provision for the adjustment of Parish Boundaries, and to make further amendments in the Acts relating to the relief of the Poor in England.
  55. An Act to reduce the Minimum Term of Penal Servitude in the case of a previous conviction, and to amend the Law with respect to the notifications and reports made under sections five and eight of the Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871.
  56. An Act to continue for a further period the Regulation of Railways Acts, 1873 and 1874.
  57. An Act to amend the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878.
  58. An Act to provide for the Collection, either in money or by stamps, of Fees payable in Public Offices.
  59. An Act for repealing certain Enactments relating to Civil Procedure which have ceased to be in force, or have become unnecessary, and for abolishing Outlawry in Civil Proceedings.
  60. An Act to enable the Secretary of State in Council of India to raise Money in the United Kingdom for the service of the Government of India.
  61. An Act to make provision for raising the sum required for the purposes of the Advance authorised by the Indian Advance Act, 1879.
  62. An Act to raise the sum of four million two hundred thousand pounds by Exchequer Bonds, Exchequer Bills, or Treasury Bills, for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty.
  63. An Act to amend the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Improvements Act, 1875.
  64. An Act to extend the powers of the Artizans Dwellings Act of 1868, by provisions for compensation and rebuilding.
  65. An Act to promote the advancement of Learning, and to extend the benefits connected with University Education in Ireland.
  66. An Act to continue for a further period the power of making Schemes under the Endowed Schools Acts, 1869, 1874, and 1876.
  67. An Act to continue various expiring Laws.
  68. An Act to authorise the Metropolitan Board of Works to defray expenses incurred in relation to the promotion of certain Bills in Parliament relating to the supply of water to the Metropolis.
  69. An Act for further amending the Acts relating to the raising of Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works; and for other purposes relating thereto.
  70. An Act to amend the Acts relating to Vaccination in Ireland.
  71. An Act to regulate the Practice in Registry Courts in Ireland.
  72. An Act to provide for the re-hearing of Investigations into Shipping Casualties, and to amend the rules as to the mode of holding, and procedure at, such Investigations.
  73. An Act to authorise the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests and Land Revenues to agree with the Conservators of the River Thames on the Payments for Piers or Landing-places in or upon the Bed or Shore of the River Thames.
  74. An Act for improving the position of the Teachers of National Schools in Ireland.
  75. An Act to amend and continue the Acts relating to Election Petitions, and to the Prevention of Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections.
  76. An Act to amend the Law with respect to the Liability of Members of Banking and other Joint Stock Companies; and for other purposes.
  77. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Public Works Loan Commissioners and the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, and to grant Money for the purpose of Loans by the said Commissioners; and for other purposes in relation thereto.
  78. An Act to amend the Supreme Court of Judicature Acts.
  The Acts contained in the following List, being PUBLIC ACTS of a Local Character, are placed amongst the LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS.
  i. An Act to confirm an Order made by the Board of Trade under the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868, relating to Tollesbury and Mersea, in the River Black water (Essex).
  ii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Act, 1863, and the Acts amending the same.
  iii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862, relating to the Burgh of Paisley.
  iv. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862, relating to the Burgh of Inverness.
  xli. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Land Drainage Act, 1861, relating to Bispham, Carleton, and Thornton Improvements, situated in the parishes of Bispham and Poulton, in the county of Lancaster.
  xlii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, relating to the Burgh of Castle Douglas.
  xliii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Borough of Ashton-under-Lyne, the Local Government District of Blackrod, the Rural Sanitary District of the Burton-on-Trent Union, the Local Government District of Chelmsford, the Borough of Cheltenham, the Local Government District of Ealing, the Boroughs of Jarrow, Maidstone, Newport (Monmouthshire), and Penzance, the Local Government District of Prestwich, the Rural Sanitary Districts of the Rugby Union and Southam Union, the Local Government Districts of Swinton and Pendlebury and Torquay, and the Improvement Act District of West Hartlepool.
  liv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the towns of Clonmel and Dundalk, and to a Burial Ground for the town of Clonmel, and to Waterworks in the town of Keady.
  lv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Ramsgate, St. Anne's-on-the-Sea, Skegness, Strachur (Loch Fyne), Totland Bay, Westgate, Whitehall (Stronsay), Cromarty, Fortrose, Lybster, Penzance, and Torquay.
  lvi. An Act for confirming a certain Provisional Order of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to Waterworks in the Poor Law Union of Downpatrick.
  lvii. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the towns of Cashel, Enniscorthy, Holywood, Kells, Templemore, Wicklow, and Youghal.
  lviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Education Department under the Elementary Education Act, 1870, to enable the School Boards for Brighton and Preston United District (Sussex), Gotherington (Gloucester), Loughor Borough (Glamorgan), and Membury (Devon), to put in force

  the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Acts amending the same.
  lix. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Education Department under the Elementary Education Act, 1870, to enable the School Board for London to put in force the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Acts amending the same.
  lx. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the Borough of Water-ford and to the town of Bangor.
  lxi. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, relating to the Parish of Bothwell, in the County of Lanark.
  lxxvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878, relating to the Counties of Buckingham, Kent, and Worcester.
  lxxviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Rural Sanitary District of the Aysgarth Union, the Improvement Act District of Bethesda, the Borough of Brecknock, the Local Government District of Croydon, the Boroughs of Derby, Doncaster, and Hastings, the Local Government Districts of Hinckley, Horsham, and Houghton-le-Spring, the Borough of Middlesbrough, the Local Government Districts of Northallerton and Tunstall, the Port of Wisbech, the Local Government District of Withington, and the Borough of Yeovil.
  lxxix. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the Improvement of certain Unhealthy Areas within the Metropolis.
  lxxx. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the Modification of a Scheme confirmed by the Metropolis (Whitechapel and Limehouse) Improvement Scheme Confirmation Act, 1870.
  lxxxi. An Act to confirm the Provisional Order for the regulation of certain Lands forming part of Matterdale Common, and situated in the parish of Greystoke, in the county of Cumberland, and the Provisional Order for the inclosure of certain other Lands forming the remainder of the same Common, and situated in the same parish, in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales.
  lxxxii. An Act to confirm the Provisional Order for the Inclosure of certain Lands known as Redmoor and Golberdon Commons, situate in the parish of Southill, in the county of Cornwall, in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales.
  lxxxiii. An Act to confirm the Provisional Order for the regulation of certain Lands forming part of East Stainmore Common, and situated in the township of East Stainmore, in the parish of Brough, in the county of Westmoreland, and the Provisional Order for the inclosure of certain other Lands forming the remainder of the same common, and situated in the same parish, in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales.
  lxxxiv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878, relating to the Counties of Gloucester and Hereford.
  lxxxv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878, relating to the Counties of Dorset, Montgomery, Northampton, Salop, Wilts, and York (East Riding).
  lxxxvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Local Government District of Castleton-by-Rochdale, the District of Hey-wood, the Local Government Districts of Keighley and Littleborough, the Improvement Act District of Middleton and Tonge, the Local Government Districts of Milnrow and Royton, the Sittingbourne and Milton Joint Hospital District, and the Local Government Districts of Wallingfen and Wuordle and Wardle.
  lxxxvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the towns of Killarney and Parsonstown.
  ciii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Rural Sanitary District of the Abergavenny Union, the Borough of Bolton, the Local Government District of Clay Lane, the Rural Sanitary District of the Clutton Union, the Darenth Valley Main Sewerage District, the Rural Sanitary District of the Great Ouseburn Union, the Borough of Halifax, the Local Government District of Huyton-with-Roby, the Port of Lowestoft, the Improvement Act District of Lowestoft, the Boroughs of Preston and St. Helen's, and the Local Government Districts of Stone and Widnes.
  civ. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Rural Sanitary District of the Axminster Union, the Boroughs of Liverpool and Oswestry, the Local Government District of Pontypridd, the Improvement Act District of Ramsgate, and the Local Government Districts of Wellington (Somerset), and Ystradyfodwg.
  cv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Local Government District of Aspull, the Boroughs of Birmingham and Burnley, the Improvement Act District of Chiswick, the Local Government District of Keighley, the Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, the City of Lichfield, the Improvement Act District of Ramsgate, the Local Government District of Skelton, the Boroughs of Swansea and Southampton, the Improvement Act District of Wellington (Salop), and the Local Government Districts of Widnes and Worthing.
  cvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Local Government Board under the Provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1867, relating to the Townships of

  Great Barlow and Little Barlow, the Townships of Cheadle Bulkeley, and Cheadle Moseley, and the Town of Plymouth.
  clviii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875, relating to the Borough of Derby.
  clix. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Waterworks Facilities Act, 1870, relating to Cleethorpes Gas, Dorchester Gas, Dronfield Gas, Eckington Gas, Enfield Gas, Havant Gas, Longridge Gas, Northfleet Gas, Wantage Gas, Wellingborough Gas, Dorking Water, Herts and Essex Water, Maidstone Water, Margate Water, Mexbrough and District Water, Oystermouth Water, Rhyl District Water, Saint Alban's Water, Shoreham and District Water, Stourbridge Water, Thirsk District Water, Aldershot Gas and Water, Ventnor Gas and Water, and Ystrad Gas and Water.
  clx. An Act to provide for the user and regulation of certain Lands at Wormwood Scrubs.
  clxi. An Act to regulate the Sittings of the Quarter Sessions Court of the Borough of Cork.
  clxii. An Act to confirm the Provisional Order for the inclosure of certain Lands known as Whittington Marshes and Whittington Hurst, situate in the parish of Whittington, in the county of Stafford, in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales.
  cxciii. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act, 1870, relating to Bristol Tramways (Extensions), Briton Ferry and Swansea Tramways, Burnley and District Tramways, Chesterfield, Brampton, and Whittington Tramways, Crewe and District Tramways, Derby Tramways, Dewsbury, Batley, and Birstal Tramways (Extension), Ipswich Tramways, Leamington and Warwick Tramways, Liverpool Corporation Tramways, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Tramways, North London Suburban Tramways, Oxford Tramways, Staffordshire Tramways, Stoke-upon-Trent, Fenton, Longton, and District Tramways, Sunderland Corporation Tramways, Sunderland Tramways (Extension), Swansea Tramways (Extension), Tynemouth and District Tramways, Wigan Tramways, York Tramways; and for empowering the Board of Trade to grant licenses for the use for limited periods, by way of experiment, of steam or any mechanical power upon tramways in certain cases.
  cxciv. Ah Act to amend the Now Forest Act, 1877.
  ccxix. An Act to authorise the sale of a strip of land adjoining the Knightsbridge Barracks to the Metropolitan Board of Works for the improvement of the Knightsbridge Road, to transfer the management of a piece of Crown land at Hampton Court from the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works, and vest the management of land left vacant on the reconstruction and improvement of Gloucester Gate Bridge, Regent's Park, in the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods.
  ccxx. An Act to enable the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with the assent of Her Majesty's Treasury, to vary the trusts of the Mungret Agricultural School and Model Farm in the county of Limerick.
  ccxxi. An Act to make provision in regard to the Restoration of the Ancient Church of St. Giles, in the city of Edinburgh.
  ccxxii. An Act to grant further time for proceeding with the execution of Works for Improving the Navigation of the Lough and River Erne.

  LOCAL ACTS.
  The Titles to which the Letter P. is prefixed are Public Acts of a Local Character.
  P. i. AN Act to confirm an Order made by the Board of Trade under the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868, relating to Tollesbury and Mersea, in the River Blackwater (Essex).
  P. ii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Act, 1863, and the Acts amending the same.
  P. iii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862, relating to the Burgh of Paisley.
  P. iv. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the General Police and Improvement (Scotland,) Act, 1862, relating to the Burgh of Inverness.
  v. An Act to extend the periods limited for the compulsory purchase of lands for, and for the completion of, the Dover and Deal Railway.
  vi. An Act to amend the Grand Junction Waterworks Act, 1878.
  vii. An Act to extend the time for the completion of the North and South Woolwich Subway
  viii. An Act to remove certain impediments in the way of building on certain land in Croydon allotted in the year 1801 under the powers of an Inclosure Act of the Thirty-seventh year of the reign of King George the Third, Cap. 144.
  ix. An Act conferring additional powers on the Bury Saint Edmund's Gas Company.
  x. An Act to authorise the New River Company to raise further Money.
  xi. An Act for granting further powers to the Nottingham Waterworks Company.
  xii. An Act for conferring upon the Corporation of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis further powers in relation to the Bridge over the harbour; and for other purposes.
  xiii. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Burnt Fen First District, and to provide for the making and maintaining of Roads in the said District; and for other purposes.
  xiv. An Act to empower the Chester Cemetery Company to enlarge their Cemetery, and to confer further powers upon them in relation to their undertaking; and for other purposes.
  xv. An Act for the Abandonment of the Railway authorised by the Brewood and Wolverhampton Railway Acts, 1874 and 1876.
  xvi. An Act to extend the Time for the Purchase of Lands for, and for the Construction of, the Forth Bridge Railway.
  xvii. An Act for incorporating the Westgate and Birchington Water Company; and for other purposes.
  xviii. An Act to amend the Llandudno Improvement Act, 1876, to authorise the Abandonment of certain Waterworks, and the Construction of other Waterworks instead thereof, by the Commissioners acting in execution of the said Act; and for other purposes.
  xix. An Act to alter the constitution of the Trustees of the Port and Harbour of Whit by in the north riding of the county of York, for better defining the limits of the said Port and Harbour; and for other purposes.
  xx. An Act to explain and amend the Deed of Settlement of the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, to provide for the increase of the capital and subdivision of the shares of that Society, and to enable that Society to sue and be sued in the name of a public officer.
  xxi. An Act for conferring further powers upon the Borough of Portsmouth Waterworks Company.
  xxii. An Act to authorise a Sale by the Principal and Scholars of Brasenose College in the University of Oxford to the Governors of Saint Bartholomew's Hospital of two Houses situate in Little Britain, in the City of London, within the gates of the said Hospital.
  xxiii. An Act to confer further powers on the Corporation of Leeds with reference to Hunslet Moor; and for other purposes.
  xxiv. An Act for the Abandonment of the South Dublin Railway.
  xxv. An Act for the Abandonment of the Railways authorised by the Sidmouth Railway Act, 1876; and for other purposes.
  xxvi. An Act for conferring further powers on the Pemberton Local Board in relation to the Construction of Waterworks and the Supply of Water; and for other purposes.
  xxvii. An Act for incorporating the Gosport Street Tramways Company, and for empowering them to construct Tramways; and for other purposes.
  xxviii. An Act for establishing a Cattle Market at Lewes in Sussex.
  xxix. An Act to confer further powers on the Rathkeale and Newcastle Junction Railway Company.
  xxx. An Act for authorising the London and South-western Railway Company and the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway

  Company to provide and use Steam and other Vessels for conveyance of traffic between places on the coast of Hampshire, and between those places and the Isle of Wight; and for other purposes.
  xxxi. An Act to confer further powers on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company.
  xxxii. An Act to authorise an extension of time to the Severn Bridge and Forest of Dean Central Railway Company for completing their undertaking.
  xxxiii. An Act for better supplying with Water the Town of Sleaford in the County of Lincoln, and the adjacent district; and for other purposes.
  xxxiv. An Act for rendering valid certain Letters Patent granted to Thomas Vicars the elder and Thomas Vicars the younger, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, and James Smith of the same place, for the invention of Improvements in Self-stoking Furnaces.
  xxxv. An Act to enable the Local Board for the District of Tipton in the county of Stafford to acquire certain Lands for the purposes of their Gas Undertaking; and for other purposes.
  xxxvi. An Act for enabling the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, to obtain a supply of Water from the Lake Thirlmere in Cumberland; and for other purposes.
  xxxvii. An Act to extend the time limited by the Birmingham Waterworks Act, 1870, for the Construction of the Works by that Act authorised, and to empower the Corporation of the Borough of Birmingham to borrow further Moneys for the purposes of the Birmingham (Corporation) Water Act, 1875, and of the Waterworks of the Corporation; and for other purposes.
  xxxviii. An Act to authorise the Brighton and Hove General Gas Company to construct additional works, to acquire lands, to raise additional capital; and for other purposes.
  xxxix. An Act to provide for the Repayment of Loans raised under and for the purposes of certain Local Acts relating to the Parish of Saint Pancras in the County of Middlesex.
  xl. An Act to authorise the Commissioners of the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks to construct additional Works; and for other purposes.
  P. xli. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Land Drainage Act, 1861, relating to Bispham, Carleton, and Thornton Improvements, situated in the parishes of Bispham and Poulton, in the county of Lancaster.
  P. xlii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, relating to the Burgh of Castle Douglas.
  P. xliii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Borough of Ashton-under-Lyne, the Local Government District of Blackrod, the Rural Sanitary District of the Burton-on-Trent Union, the Local Government District of Chelmsford, the Borough of Cheltenham, the Local Government District of Ealing, the Boroughs of Jarrow, Maidstone, Newport (Monmouthshire), and Penzance, the Local Government District of Prestwich, the Rural Sanitary Districts of the Rugby Union and Southam Union, the Local Government Districts of Swinton and Pendlebury and Torquay, and the Improvement Act District of West Hartlepool.
  xliv. An Act to authorise the Cranbrook and Paddock Wood Railway Company to divert portions of their authorised Line; and for other purposes.
  xlv. An Act for conferring further powers on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company; and for other purposes.
  xlvi. An Act to make provision with respect to Capital fraudulently created in the Greenock Railway Guaranteed Company.
  xlvii. An Act for enabling the Justices of the Peace for the County Palatine of Lancaster to erect Offices for the transaction of County Business, and to make a new Road; and for other purposes.
  xlviii. An Act to authorise the North British Railway Company to make a Railway and Pier and stop up a Road in the parish of Cardross, in the county of Dumbarton, to confirm certain Agreements with respect to the Railway at Dundee, and the carrying of a Water Pipe across the Tay Bridge; and for other purposes.
  xlix. An Act for empowering the East London Railway Company to acquire additional Lands for conferring further Rights and Powers upon the holders of the Debenture Stocks and Preference Stocks of the Company; and for other purposes.
  l. An Act to authorise the Bromley Gas Consumers Company to raise additional Capital; and for other purposes.
  li. An Act to vest in the Rawmarsh Local Board the Gas, Mains, and Pipes within their district, now belonging to the Corporation of Rotherham, to enable the Local Board to supply Gas within their district, and also to supply Gas and Water within certain parts of the adjoining township of Greasbrough; and for other purposes.
  lii. An Act for the Abandonment of the Works authorised by the East Cornwall Mineral Railway Act, 1876; and for other purposes.
  liii. An Act to further extend the time for the completion of the Merionethshire Railway.
  P. liv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the towns of Clonmel and Dundalk, and to a Burial Ground for the town of Clonmel, and to Waterworks in the town of Ready.
  P. lv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Ramsgate, St. Anne's-on-the-Sea, Skegness, Strachur (Loch Fyne), Totland Bay, Westgate, Whitehall (Stronsay), Cromarty, Fortrose, Lybster, Penzance, and Torquay.
  P. lvi. An Act for confirming a certain Provisional Order of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to Waterworks in the Poor Law Union of Downpatrick.
  P. lvii. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the towns of Cashel, Enniscorthy, Holywood, Kells, Templemore, Wicklow, and Youghal.
  P. lviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Education Department under the Elementary Education Act, 1870, to enable the School Boards for Brighton and Preston United District (Sussex), Gotherington (Gloucester), Loughor Borough (Glamorgan), and Membury (Devon) to put in force the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Acts amending the same.
  P. lix. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Education Department under the Elementary Education Act, 1870, to enable the School Board for London to put in force the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Acts amending the same.
  P. lx. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the borough of Waterford and to the town of Bangor.
  P. lxi. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, relating to the parish of Bothwell, in the County of Lanark.
  lxii. An Act for vesting in the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses, of the city and borough of Bath, the Bath Commons or Freemen's Estate, and to provide compensation to the Free Citizens of the same city and borough for their interests therein, and for empowering the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses to acquire by agreement and to demise and manage Lands for a Public Park; and for other purposes.
  lxiii. An Act for enabling the Corporation of the City of London to appropriate certain Lands facing the Victoria Embankment in the said City for the purpose of providing School Buildings and Accommodation for the City of London School; for the removal of the said School to such Buildings; for the sale of the Lands and Buildings now occupied by the said School; and for other purposes.
  lxiv. An Act to extend the District of the Glossop Gas Company; to enable the Company to raise additional Capital; and for other purposes.
  lxv. An Act to provide for the removal of the remains of persons interred underneath Wellington Street United Presbyterian Church, in the City of Glasgow; and for other purposes.
  lxvi. An Act to extend the time granted to the Dun Drainage Commissioners for the completion of certain Works; to authorise new Works; to confer further Borrowing Powers; and for other purposes.
  lxvii. An Act for conferring further powers on the Millwall Dock Company, and to authorise certain agreements between them and other Dock Companies; and for other purposes.
  lxviii. An Act for conferring further powers on the West Kent Main Sewerage Board and its constituent authorities, and for making Amendments in the West Kent Main Sewerage Acts; and for other purposes.
  lxix. An Act to authorise the East Norfolk Railway Company to make certain deviations in the Line of their Aylsham Extension Railway, to extend that Railway to the Dereham, Fakenham, and Wells Railway of the Great Eastern Railway Company; and for other purposes.
  lxx. An Act for empowering the Imperial Continental Gas Association to supply means of lighting other than Gas; and for other purposes.
  lxxi. An Act to authorise the Company of Proprietors of the Thames and Severn Canal Navigation to raise more Money; and for other purposes.
  lxxii. An Act to authorise the construction of Tramways in Southwark, Deptford, and other places in the counties of Surrey and Kent; and for other purposes.
  lxxiii. An Act for extending the Boundaries of the Municipal Borough of Grantham; and for other purposes.
  lxxiv. An Act to authorise the Ilkley Gas Company to raise a further sum of Money; and for other purposes.
  lxxv. An Act to confer further powers upon the Yarmouth and North Norfolk (Light) Railway Company.
  lxxvi. An Act to incorporate the Colwyn Bay Waterworks Company, and to confer upon them powers to supply Water.
  P. lxxvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878, relating to the Counties of Buckingham, Kent, and Worcester.
  P. lxxviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Rural Sanitary District of the Aysgarth Union, the Improvement Act District of Bethesda, the Borough of Brecknock, the Local Government District of Croydon, the Boroughs of Derby, Doncaster, and Hastings, the Local Government Districts of Hinckley, Horsham, and Houghton-le-Spring, the Borough of Middlesbrough, the Local Government Districts of Northallerton and Tunstall, the Port of Wisbech, the Local Government District of Withington, and the Borough of Yeovil.
  P. lxxix. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the improvement of certain unhealthy areas within the Metropolis.
  P. lxxx. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the modification of a Scheme confirmed by the Metropolis (Whitechapel and Limehouse) Improvement Scheme Confirmation Act, 1876.
  P. lxxxi. An Act to confirm the Provisional Order for the regulation of certain Lands forming part of Matterdale Common, and situated in the parish of Greystoke, in the county of Cumberland, and the Provisional Order for the inclosure of certain other lands forming the remainder of the same common, and situated in the same parish, in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales.
  P. lxxxii. An Act to confirm the Provisional Order for the inclosure of certain Lands known as Redmoor and Golberdon Commons, situate in the parish of South Hill, in the county of Cornwall, in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales.
  P. lxxxiii. An Act to confirm the Provisional Order for the regulation of certain lands forming part of East Stainmore Common, and situated in the township of East Stain-more, in the parish of Brough, in the county of Westmorland, and the Provisional Order for the inclosure of certain other Lands forming the remainder of the same Common, and situated in the same parish, in pursuance of a report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales.
  P. lxxxiv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878, relating to the Counties of Gloucester and Hereford.
  P. lxxxv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878, relating to the Counties of Dorset, Montgomery, Northampton, Salop, Wilts, and York (East Hiding).
  P. lxxxvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Local Government District of Castleton-by-Rochdale, the District of Heywood, the Local Government Districts of Keighley and Littleborough, the Improvement Act District of Middleton and Tonge, the Local Government Districts of Milnrow and Royton, the Sittingbourne and Milton Joint Hospital District, and the Local Government Districts of Wallingfen and Wuerdle and Wardle.
  P. lxxxvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the towns of Killarney and Parsonstown.
  lxxxviii. An Act to confer further powers on the Aberdeen Harbour Commissioners.
  lxxxix. An Act to enable the Local Board for the District of Nelson, in the county of Lancaster, to extend their Waterworks, and to confer upon them further powers with respect to the Improvement and Government of their District, and the raising of money; and for other purposes.
  xc. An Act for conferring powers upon the Undertakers of the Navigation of the Rivers of Aire and Calder, in the county of York, for the better supply of Gas to the Port and Town of Goole and neighbourhood thereof; and for other purposes.
  xci. An Act for enabling the Swindon, Marlborough, and Andover Railway Company to construct New or Deviation Lines of Railway, to abandon certain portions of their authorised Railway; and for other purposes.
  xcii. An Act for authorising the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Warrington, in the Counties of Lancaster and Chester, to construct additional Gasworks, and for making better provision for the improvement and government of the Borough; and for other purposes.
  xciii. An Act for the settlement of Tithes in the parish of Christchurch, Newgate Street, in the City of London.
  xciv. An Act for enabling the Great Southern and Western Railway Company to acquire additional Lands for the purposes of their Undertaking, to widen, remove, and replace certain of their bridges, and for vesting in that Company the Undertaking of the Castle-island Railway Company; and for other purposes.
  xcv. An Act for embanking and reclaiming certain Waste Land on the Western Bank of the River Fergus, in the County of Clare.
  xcvi. An Act for amalgamating the Liverpool Tramways Company, and the Liverpool Omnibus and Tramways Company, Limited, and for re-incorporating them under the name of the Liverpool United Tramways and Omnibus Company; and for other purposes.
  xcvii. An Act for empowering the Local Board for the District of Eastbourne to make and maintain a Seawall or Embankment, a Street Improvement, a Town Hall, and other Works, and to make further provisions for the Improvement of the said District; and for other purposes.
  xcviii. An Act to extend the limits of the city of St. Alban, in the county of Hertford; and for other purposes.
  xcix. An Act to enlarge the powers of the Stourbridge Gas Company.
  c. An Act to confirm an arrangement between the Earl of Dudley and the Corporation of Dudley with reference to the Disposal of the Sewage of the town of Dudley.
  ci. An Act to alter and amend the Maryport Improvement Acts, 1866 to 1878, to authorise new Works, to extend the Powers of the Trustees; and for other purposes.
  cii. An Act for the abolition of the present Leadenhall Market, for the improvement of the Site and Neighbourhood thereof, the formation of new Streets, the establishment of a new Leadenhall Market; and for other purposes.
  P. ciii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Rural Sanitary District of the Abergavenny Union, the Borough of Bolton, the Local Government District of Clay Lane, the Rural Sanitary District of the Clutton Union, the Darenth Valley Main Sewerage District, the Rural Sanitary District of the Great Ouseburn Union, the Borough of Halifax, the Local Government District of Huyton-with-Roby, the Port of Lowestoft, the Improvement Act District of Lowestoft, the Boroughs of Preston and Saint Helen's, and the Local Government Districts of Stone and Widnes.
  P. civ. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Rural Sanitary District of the Axminster Union, the Boroughs of Liverpool and Oswestry, the Local Government District of Pontypridd, the Improvement Act District of Ramsgate, and the Local Government Districts of Wellington (Somerset) and Ystrady-fodwg.
  P. cv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Local Government District of Aspull, the Boroughs of Birmingham and Burnley, the Improvement Act District of Chiswick, the Local Government District of Keighley, the Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, the City of Lichfield, the Improvement Act District of Ramsgate, the Local Govern-

  ment District of Skelton, the Boroughs of Swansea and Southampton, the Improvement Act District of Wellington (Salop), and the Local Government Districts of Widnes and Worthing.
  P. cvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1867, relating to the Townships of Great Barlow and Little Barlow, the Townships of Cheadle Bulkeley and Cheadle Moseley, and the Town of Plymouth.
  cvii. An Act for conferring further powers on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company with relation to their undertaking; and for other purposes.
  cviii. An Act for conferring additional powers on the Midland Railway Company for the construction of railways and other works, the acquisition of Lands, and the raising of capital; and for other purposes.
  cix. An Act to extend the time for the completion of the Railways of the West Lancashire Railway Company; and for other purposes.
  cx. An Act to provide for more intimate connexion between the Undertakings of the Great Northern and the Great Eastern Railway Companies.
  cxi. An Act for extending the limits within which the Weardale and Shildon District Waterworks Company may supply Water; for empowering them to purchase the Undertaking of the Durham Water Company, to construct additional Works, and to raise additional Capital; and for other purposes.
  cxii. An Act for effecting an arrangement between the Neath and Brecon Railway Company and their Creditors; and for other purposes.
  cxiii. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Crystal Palace District Gas Company.
  cxiv. An Act for incorporating the Houghton-le-Spring District Gas Company, and for authorising them to supply with Gas the townships of Houghton-le-Spring, Newbottle, and East Rainton, in the County of Durham; and for other purposes.
  cxv. An Act for vesting in the London and North-western Railway Company the Undertaking of the Denbigh, Ruthin, and Corwen Railway Company; and for other purposes.
  cxvi. An Act to extend the Borough of Blackburn, to make further provision for its Local Government and Improvement; and for other purposes.
  cxvii. An Act for empowering the London and North-western Railway Company and that Company and the Furness Railway Company jointly to construct new Railways; and for other purposes.
  cxviii. An Act for authorising the construction of additional Tramways in the borough of Portsmouth, and to Cosham, in the county of Southampton; and for other purposes.
  cxix. An Act for vesting in the Local Board of Health for the District of Stratford-upon-Avon the Undertaking of the Stratford-upon-Avon Gas Company, and the Bridge called Clopton Bridge, for extending the boundaries of the Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon, and dividing the Borough into Wards, for dissolving the Local Board, and transferring their powers and property to the Corporation of the extended borough; and for other purposes.
  cxx. An Act for incorporating the Southend Waterworks Company, and for conferring powers upon them with reference to the construction and maintenance of works, the supply of Water and otherwise; and for other purposes.
  cxxi. An Act for re-incorporating and conferring further powers upon the Company of Proprietors of the Colchester Waterworks for the raising of Capital; and for other purposes.
  cxxii. An Act to authorise the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the City of Glasgow to construct additional Tramways in the City of Glasgow and its Neighbourhood; and for other purposes.
  cxxiii. An Act to confer further powers on the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the City and Royal Burgh of Glasgow for Municipal and Police purposes.
  cxxiv. An Act for effecting the sale and transfer to the Wombwell Local Board of the Undertaking of the Wombwell and Darfield Gas Company, Limited; and for other purposes.
  cxxv. An Act to authorise the construction of a new Road, Bridges, Approaches, and Works in or near the City of Norwich; to provide for the better care and management of closed Burial Grounds in the city; to extend the powers of the Corporation in relation to the Health and Local Government of the City; and for other purposes.
  cxxvi. An Act for making a railway in the county of Kent, to be called the Hundred of Hoo Railway; and for other purposes.
  cxxvii. An Act to incorporate the Great Grimsby Street Tramways Company; to authorise them to construct Tramways in the parishes of Great Grimsby and Clee, in the county of Lincoln; and for other purposes.
  cxxviii. An Act for authorising the construction of the Church Fenton, Cawood, and Wistow Railway; and for other purposes.
  cxxix. An Act to confer further Powers on the Great Northern Railway Company and the Cheshire Lines Committee.
  cxxx. An Act to amend the Birmingham (Corporation) Gas Act, 1875, with respect to charges for Gas at Northfield and Yardley, in the county of Worcester; and for other purposes.
  cxxxi. An Act to authorise the Whitehaven Union Rural Sanitary Authority to construct Waterworks for the supply of Water to the Special Drainage District of Arlecdon and Frizington within their District; and for other purposes.
  cxxxii. An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts relating to the Municipality and Police and Roads and Streets of the City of Edinburgh; and for other purposes.
  cxxxiii. An Act to provide for the transfer to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Cardiff of the Cardiff Waterworks; and for other purposes.
  cxxxiv. An Act for the granting of further powers to the South Shields Gas Company.
  cxxxv. An Act to enable the Preston Gas Company to extend their limits of supply, to raise further capital; and for other purposes.
  cxxxvi. An Act for conferring further powers on the Lancaster Gas Company.
  cxxxvii. An Act for incorporating and conferring Powers on the Morecambe Gas and Light Company.
  cxxxviii. An Act to enable the Mirfield Gas Company to extend their limits of supply and powers of lighting; to raise further capital; and for other purposes.
  cxxxix. An Act to empower the Taff Vale Railway Company to make a New Railway and other Works, and to acquire additional Lands in the County of Glamorgan, and to raise additional Capital; and for other purposes.
  cxl. An Act for enabling the Ayr Harbour Trustees to construct a Slip Dock and other Works, to acquire additional Lands, and to borrow additional Money; for sanctioning the Wet Dock constructed by them; for defining the limits of the Harbour; and for other purposes.
  cxli. An Act for conferring powers on the Wisbech Gaslight and Coke Company.
  cxlii. An Act for conferring further Powers upon the London and North-western Railway Company in connexion with their own Undertaking, and upon that Company jointly with the Great Western, the Lancashire and Yorkshire, and the Furness Railway Companies respectively, in connexion with their joint Undertakings; for the Dissolution of the Buckinghamshire, the Bedford, the Chester and Holyhead, the Lancaster and Carlisle, and the Kendal and Windermere Railway Companies; and for other purposes.
  cxliii. An Act for enlarging the powers of the Plymouth and Stonehouse Gaslight and Coke Company; and for other purposes.
  cxliv. An Act to enable the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company to close a portion of the Monmouthshire Canal in the Borough of Newport; and for other purposes.
  cxlv. An Act to amalgamate the Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton, and Coatbridge Railway with the North British Railway Company; and for other purposes.
  cxlvi. An Act for conferring further Powers on the Furness Railway Company for the construction of Works, the acquisition of Lands, and otherwise in relation to their Undertaking; for authorising them and the Midland Railway Company to execute Works; for empowering the Furness Railway Company to subscribe towards the Capital of the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Company, for transferring to the Furness Railway Company a portion of certain Light Duties of the Commissioners and Trustees of the Port of Lancaster; and for other purposes.
  cxlvii. An Act to extend the Time for the Completion of certain Railways and Works.
  cxlviii. An Act to authorise the Bridport Railway Company to make a new railway; and for other purposes.
  cxlix. An Act for amending the Acts relating to the British Fisheries Society; for vesting in Trustees Pulteney Harbour, and improving and maintaining the same; and for other purposes.
  cl. An Act for authorising the Great Eastern Railway Company to execute additional Works, and for conferring on them further Powers in relation to their Undertaking and the Undertakings of other Companies; for amending their Acts in various particulars; and for other purposes.
  cli. An Act for conferring further powers on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company and on other Companies in connexion with that Company, and on the Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies Committee; and for other purposes.
  clii. An Act to confer further powers on the Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead Gas Company.
  cliii. An Act to confer upon the South-eastern Railway Company further Powers with reference to their own Undertakings and those of other Companies; and for other purposes.
  cliv. An Act to authorise the construction of a Marine Drive, Promenade, and Sea Defences, and of Carriage Roads and a Tramway in the Parishes of Walton-le-Soken and Frinton, in the county of Essex; and for other purposes.
  clv. An Act to give to the North British Railway Company a joint interest with the Caledonian Railway Company in the Dundee and Arbroath Railway and part of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway; and for other purposes.
  clvi. An Act for incorporating and conferring Powers on the Queenstown Gas Company.
  clvii. An Act for conferring further powers upon the Sharpness New Docks and Gloucester and Birmingham Navigation Company for the raising of Capital, for the Consolidation of Debenture Stock; and for other purposes.
  P. clviii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875, relating to the Borough of Derby.
  P. clix. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Waterworks Facilities Act, 1870, relating to Cleethorpes Gas, Dorchester Gas, Dronfield Gas, Eckington Gas, Enfield Gas, Havant Gas, Longridge Gas, Northfleet Gas, Wantage Gas, Wellingborough Gas, Dorking Water, Herts and Essex Water, Maidstone Water, Margate Water, Mexbrough and District Water, Oystermouth Water, Rhyl District Water, Saint Alban's Water, Shoreham and District Water, Stourbridge Water, Thirsk District Water, Aldershot Gas and Water, Ventnor Gas and Water, and Ystrad Gas and Water.
  P. clx. An Act to provide for the user and regulation of certain Lands at Wormwood Scrubs.
  P. clxi. An Act to regulate the Sittings of the Quarter Sessions Court of the Borough of Cork.
  P. clxii. An Act to confirm the Provisional Order for the inclosure of certain Lands known as Whittington Marshes and Whittington Hurst, situate in the parish of Whittington, in the county of Stafford, in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales.
  clxiii. An Act to provide for the Amalgamation of the Severn and Wye Railway and Canal Company and the Severn Bridge Railway Company.
  clxiv. An Act to confer further powers upon the Belfast Central Railway Company, and to make further provision for regulating their affairs.
  clxv. An Act to authorise the construction of Tramways in the Borough of Cambridge; and for other purposes.
  clxvi. An Act for authorising the construction of Railways in the county of Glamorgan, to be called "The Treferig Valley Railway"; and for other purposes.
  clxvii. An Act to amend the Upper Mersey Navigation Act, 1876.
  clxviii. An Act to amend the Dublin (South) City Market Act, 1876, to enable the Company to construct now Streets; and for other purposes.
  clxix. An Act to authorise the East and West India Dock Company to acquire additional Lands, raise further Capital, and for other purposes.
  clxx. An Act to give further Powers to the Dublin Port and Docks Board.
  clxxi. An Act to enable the Croesor and Portmadoc Railway Company to make and maintain a new Branch Line of Railway, to change their name; and for other purposes.
  clxxii. An Act to confer further Powers on the Belfast Water Commissioners; and for other purposes.
  clxxiii. An Act for authorising the sale and transfer of the Undertaking of the Sevenoaks, Maidstone, and Tunbridge Railway Company to the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company; and for other purposes.
  clxxiv. An Act to confer further Powers upon the Ballymena and Larne Railway Company.
  clxxv. An Act for the incorporation of the Coleraine Harbour Commissioners; for vesting in them the powers of the Coleraine Town Commissioners with respect to the Navigation of the River Bann under the River Bann Navigation Act, 1863; for the repeal of the said Act; for the improvement of the said Navigation; and for other purposes.
  clxxvi. An Act for the Commutation of Tithes in the City of London; and for other purposes.
  clxxvii. An Act to authorise the Felixstowe Railway and Pier Company to abandon the Works authorised by their Act of 1876, and to construct and maintain other Works in lieu thereof; to change the name of the Company; and for other purposes.
  clxxviii. An Act for authorising the Company of Proprietors of the Grand Junction Canal to make a Branch Canal to Slough; and for other purposes.
  clxxix. An Act for making a Railway from the Finn Valley Railway near the Town of Stranorlar, in the county of Donegal, to the Town of Donegal, in the same county; and for other purposes.
  clxxx. An Act to further extend the time for the Purchase of Lands, and for the Construction of the Works authorised by the Medway Docks Act, 1866.
  clxxxi. An Act for extending the Periods allowed to the Caledonian Railway Company by former Acts for the acquisition of certain Lands, and the completion of certain Works, for abandoning certain of their authorised Works, for enabling them to appoint members of the Joint Committee for the management of certain portions of the undertaking of the Portpatrick Railway Company, for confirming an Agreement between them and other parties as to certain Lands and Streets at Dundee; and for other purposes.
  clxxxii. An Act to grant further powers to the Great Northern Railway Company (Ireland) with respect to their own Undertaking, and to enable them to purchase the Dublin and Antrim Junction, and the Newry and Armagh Railways.
  clxxxiii. An Act to enable the Alliance and Dublin Consumers Gas Company to construct Tramways for the purposes of their Undertaking; and for other purposes.
  clxxxiv. An Act to empower the Corporation of London to improve the Surrey Side Approaches to London Bridge.
  clxxxv. An Act to extend the limits of the Town and Urban Sanitary District of Whitehaven; and for other purposes.
  clxxxvi. An Act for empowering the Birkenhead Tramways Company to construct new Tramways and to purchase the Tramways of the Hoylake and Birkenhead Rail and Tramway Company; and for other purposes.
  clxxxvii. An Act to authorise the Cork and Bandon Railway Company to purchase the undertakings of the Cork and Kinsale Junction Railway Company and of the West Cork Railway Company, and to acquire certain rights belonging to the Hen Valley Railway Company; and for other purposes.
  clxxxviii. An Act for authorising the construction of a Railway from the Ely and Lynn Branch of the Great Eastern Railway to Stoke Ferry; and for other purposes.
  clxxxix. An Act to authorise the London Street Tramways Company to construct additional Tramways, to raise further Money; and for other purposes.
  cxc. An Act for empowering the Manchester Suburban Tramways Company to construct further Tramways in the neighbourhood of Manchester; and for other purposes.
  cxci. An Act to extend the Borough of Rotherham, and to confer powers upon the Corporation of that Borough for purchasing Lands and constructing Works for the disposal of Sewage, also powers in relation to Markets, and affecting the Sanitary Condition and Local Government of the Borough; and for other purposes.
  cxcii. An Act for incorporating the Saint Helens and District Tramways Company, and for empowering them to construct Tramways in the Borough and District of Saint Helens, in the County of Lancaster; and for other purposes.
  P. cxciii. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act, 1870, relating to Bristol Tramways (Extensions), Briton Ferry and Swansea Tramways, Burnley and District Tramways, Chesterfield, Brampton, and Whittington Tramways, Crowe and District Tramways, Derby Tramways, Dewsbury, Batley, and Birstal Tramways (Extension), Ipswich
  Tramways, Leamington and Warwick Tramways, Liverpool Corporation Tramways, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Tramways, North London Suburban Tramways, Oxford Tramways, Staffordshire Tramways, Stoke-upon-Trent, Fenton, Longton, and District Tramways, Sunderland Corporation Tramways, Sunderland Tramways (Extension), Swansea Tramways (Extension), Tynemouth and District Tramways, Wigan Tramways, York Tramways; and for empowering the Board of Trade to grant licenses for the use of limited periods, by way of experiment, of steam or any mechanical power upon tramways in certain cases.
  P. cxciv. An Act to amend the New Forest Act, 1877.
  cxcv. An Act for incorporation of the Freiston Shore Reclamation Company, and for authorising them to reclaim certain Lands in the Estuary of the Wash; and for other purposes.
  cxcvi. An Act to enable the Trustees of certain Poor's Allotment Lands situated in the parish of Tring and county of Hertford to sell or exchange the same; and for other purposes.
  cxcvii. An Act for making Tramways in the county of Surrey, to be called "The South London Tramways"; and for other purposes.
  cxcviii. An Act to amend the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, and the Acts amending the same, so far as relates to the protection of the Metropolis from Floods and Inundations caused by the overflow of the River Thames; and for other purposes.
  cxcix. An Act to extend the borough of Blackpool, and to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses thereof to make new Streets, Street Improvements, and other Works, to extend the Limits of Gas Supply, and to make further Provision for the Improvement and Government of the borough; and for other purposes.
  cc. An Act to confer further powers on the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Leicester.
  cci. An Act to authorise the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railway Companies to make certain Railways for completing the Inner Circle and connecting their Railways with the East London Railway, also a new Street and certain Street Improvements, and to confer various powers upon the Corporation of London, the Metropolitan Board of Works, and other Public Bodies in reference to the undertaking; and for other purposes.
  ccii. An Act for extending the Borough of Over Darwen and for the Improvement of the said Borough; and for other purposes.
  cciii. An Act to confer further powers on the Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway Company; and for other purposes.
  cciv. An Act for enabling the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Nottingham to purchase Bulwell Forest for the purposes of a public Park and Cemetery, to construct additional Gasworks, to acquire the undertaking of the Nottingham Waterworks Company; and for other purposes.
  ccv. An Act for authorising the North Staffordshire Railway Company to construct certain Railways and Works for the improvement of their system in the counties of Stafford and Chester, to abandon portions of certain Railways, to appoint Directors of the Cheadle Railway Company, to amend the Company's Acts with respect to Tolls and Charges, to provide for the establishment of Hotels; and for other purposes.
  ccvi. An Act to provide for the vesting of the Undertaking of the East Indian Railway Company in the Secretary of State in Council of India; and for other purposes.
  ccvii. An Act to authorise the construction of Street Tramways in Brentford and Isleworth, in the county of Middlesex; and for other purposes.
  ccviii. An Act for appointing Commissioners and vesting in them certain lands in the parish of Llandisilio, and enabling them to form a Public Recreation Ground and Reading Room; and for other purposes.
  ccix. An Act to enable the Girvan and Port-patrick Junction Railway Company to borrow further Money; and for other purposes.
  ccx. An Act to authorise the construction of a Railway in the county of Antrim, from Ballymena to Portglenone; and for other purposes.
  ccxi. An Act to authorise the construction of Tramways in or near Ramsgate, Margate, and other places in the county of Kent; and for other purposes.
  ccxii. An Act to empower the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway Company to raise further Money; and for other purposes.
  ccxiii. An Act to make further provision for the Lighting of the Borough of Liverpool, and to extend the Powers of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough in relation to the Supply of Light by Electricity; and for other purposes.
  ccxiv. An Act for making a Railway from the South Alloa Branch of the Caledonian Railway to Alloa; and for other purposes.
  ccxv. An Act to extend the powers of the Corporation of the Borough of Derby, in the county of Derby, with respect to the Local Government and Improvement of the Borough, to enable the Corporation to acquire the Derby Waterworks Company's Undertaking; and for other purposes.
  ccxvi. An Act to confer further powers on the Halesowen Railway Company; and for other purposes.
  ccxvii. An Act for incorporating the Knutsford Light and Water Company; and for other purposes.
  ccxviii. An Act to revive and extend the powers of the Ardmillan Reclamation Company for the compulsory purchase of Lands and completion of Works; and for other purposes.
  P. ccxix. An Act to authorise the sale of a strip of land adjoining the Knightsbridge Barracks to the Metropolitan Board of Works for the Improvement of the Knightsbridge Road, to transfer the management of a piece of Crown land at Hampton Court from the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works, and vest the management of land left vacant on the reconstruction and improvement of Gloucester

  Gate Bridge, Regent's Park, in the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods.
  P. ccxx. An Act to enable the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with the assent of Her Majesty's Treasury, to vary the Trusts of the Mungret Agricultural School and Model Farm in the county of Limerick.
  P. ccxxi. An Act to make provision in regard to the Restoration of the Ancient Church of St. Giles, in the city of Edinburgh.
  P. ccxxii. An Act to grant further time for proceeding with the execution of Works for improving the Navigation of the Lough and River Erne.
  ccxxiii. An Act to authorise the making and maintaining of the Easton Neston Mineral and Towcester, Roade, and Olney Junction Railway; and for other purposes.
  ccxxiv. An Act for making a Railway from the Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway at or near the Castlecaldwell station to the town of Donegal, to be called "The Fermanagh and Donegal Railway," and other works; and for other purposes.
  ccxxv. An Act to authorise the Construction of Tramways for connecting the Towns of Blackburn and Over Darwen; and for other purposes.

  PRIVATE ACTS,
  PRINTED BY THE QUEEN'S PRINTER, AND WHEREOF THE PRINTED COPIES MAY BE GIVEN IN EVIDENCE.
  1. AN Act to confirm certain conveyances made by the Trustees of the Will of William Ryder Richardson, deceased, and to give further Powers for enabling the Appropriation and Sale of Land for Building Sites; and for other purposes.
  2. An Act to authorise the feuing of parts of the Lands of Tayfield Northfield, and others, in the parish of Forgan, or Saint Phyllans, and county of Fife.
  3. An Act to make provision with respect to the shares of Thomas Roper, deceased, in the capital and business of the firm of Harrison, Ainslie, and Company.
  4. An Act to authorise the sale of the Estate of Stuckgown, in the County of Dumbarton, and to provide for the application of the price thereof.
  5. An Act to charge certain Moneys on the interests of Jessie Edwards, Anna Dorothea Edwards, Eyre Evans Edwards, and Mary Eliza Edwards, Infants, in a Moiety of certain Estates in the counties of Limerick, Dublin, and Queen, and the city of Dublin in Ireland; and for other purposes.
  6. An Act to authorise the granting of Building and Improvement Leases of the Estates devised by the Will of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Baronet; and for other purposes.
  7. An Act for giving effect to a compromise of certain opposing claims affecting the Estates of William Sydney Earl of Leitrim, deceased, in the counties of Leitrim, Donegal, Galway, and Kildare, in Ireland.
  8. An Act for enlarging the leasing powers relating to the Estates annexed to the Earldom of Arundel, and for effecting an exchange of parts of the same Estates, and for authorizing Exchanges and Sales of other parts of the same Estates; and for other purposes.

  SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE, SESSION 1878–9.
  RETURN to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 7 August 1879;—for,
  A RETURN "of the Number of DAYS on which THE HOUSE SAT in the Session of 1878–9, stating, for each Day, the Date of the Month, and Day of the Week, the Hour of the Meeting, and the Hour of Adjournment; and the Total Number of Hours occupied in the Sittings of The House, and the Average Time; and showing the Number of Hours on which The House Sat each Day, and the Number of Hours after Midnight; and the Number of Entries in each Day's Votes and Proceedings" (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 0.132, of Session 1878).
  (Sir Charles Forster.)

  Month.

  Day.

  House met.

  House adjourned.

  Hours of Sitting.

  Hours after Midnight.

  Entries in Votes.

  1878

  H.

  M.

  H.

  M.

  H.

  M.

  H.

  M.

  Dec.

  5

  Th

  1

  30

  12

  30

  11

  0

  0

  30

  43

  Dec.

  6

  F

  4

  0

  7

  45

  3

  45

  116

  Dec.

  9

  M

  4

  0

  12

  45

  8

  45

  0

  45

  45

  Dec.

  10

  Tu

  4

  0

  12

  15

  8

  15

  0

  15

  19

  Dec.

  11

  W

  12

  0

  2

  0

  2

  0

  9

  Dec.

  12

  Th

  4

  0

  1

  0

  9

  0

  1

  0

  29

  Dec.

  13

  F

  4

  0

  2

  30

  10

  30

  2

  30

  23

  Dec.

  16

  M

  4

  0

  1

  0

  9

  0

  1

  0

  39

  Dec.

  17

  Tu

  4

  0

  12

  45

  8

  45

  0

  45

  38

  Total

  9

  71

  0

  6

  45

  361

  1879

  Feb.

  13

  Th

  4

  0

  12

  30

  8

  30

  0

  30

  76

  Feb.

  14

  F

  4

  0

  3

  0

  11

  0

  3

  0

  76

  Feb.

  17

  M

  4

  0

  2

  15

  10

  15

  2

  15

  203

  Feb.

  18

  Tu

  4

  0

  9

  15

  5

  15

  162

  Feb.

  19

  W

  12

  0

  5

  50

  5

  50

  36

  Feb.

  20

  Th

  4

  0

  2

  0

  10

  0

  2

  0

  33

  Feb.

  21

  F

  4

  0

  8

  15

  4

  15

  30

  Feb.

  24

  M

  4

  0

  1

  45

  9

  45

  1

  45

  103

  Feb.

  25

  Tu

  4

  0

  8

  30

  4

  30

  53

  Feb.

  26

  W

  2

  0

  5

  55

  5

  55

  46

  Feb.

  27

  Th

  4

  0

  1

  0

  9

  0

  1

  0

  42

  Feb.

  28

  F

  4

  0

  3

  0

  11

  0

  3

  0

  58

  Total

  12

  95

  15

  13

  30

  918

  Mar.

  3

  M

  4

  0

  1

  45

  9

  45

  1

  45

  95

  Mar.

  4

  Tu

  4

  0

  2

  0

  10

  0

  2

  0

  55

  Mar.

  5

  W

  12

  0

  1

  15

  1

  15

  18

  Mar.

  6

  Th

  4

  0

  1

  30

  9

  30

  1

  30

  54

  Mar.

  7

  F

  4

  0

  1

  0

  9

  0

  1

  0

  47

  Mar.

  10

  M

  4

  0

  1

  15

  9

  15

  1

  15

  88

  Mar.

  11

  Tu

  4

  0

  2

  0

  10

  0

  2

  0

  40

  Mar.

  12

  W

  12

  0

  5

  55

  5

  55

  57

  Mar.

  13

  Th

  4

  0

  1

  0

  9

  0

  1

  0

  45

  Mar.

  14

  F

  4

  0

  2

  0

  10

  0

  2

  0

  49

  Mar.

  17

  M

  4

  0

  2

  15

  10

  15

  2

  15

  56

  Mar.

  18

  Tu

  4

  0

  12

  45

  8

  45

  0

  45

  46

  Mar.

  19

  W

  12

  0

  5

  55

  5

  55

  51

  Mar.

  20

  Th

  4

  0

  1

  15

  9

  15

  1

  15

  62

  Mar.

  21

  F

  4

  0

  12

  30

  8

  30

  0

  30

  48

  Mar.

  22

  Sat

  12

  0

  12

  15

  0

  15

  7

  Mar.

  24

  M

  4

  0

  2

  0

  10

  0

  2

  0

  84

  Mar.

  25

  Tu

  4

  0

  2

  15

  10

  15

  2

  15

  54

  Month.

  Day.

  House met.

  House adjourned.

  Hours of Sitting.

  Hours after Midnight.

  Entries in Votes.

  1879

  H.

  M.

  H.

  M.

  H.

  M.

  H.

  M.

  cont.

  Mar.

  26

  W

  12

  0

  5

  45

  5

  45

  41

  Mar.

  27

  Th

  4

  0

  1

  45

  9

  45

  1

  45

  56

  Mar.

  28

  F

  4

  0

  1

  15

  9

  15

  1

  15

  62

  Mar.

  31

  M

  4

  0

  2

  15

  10

  15

  2

  15

  66

  Total

  22

  181

  50

  26

  45

  1,181

  Apr.

  1

  Tu

  4

  0

  10

  30

  6

  30

  77

  Apr.

  2

  W

  12

  0

  5

  50

  5

  50

  40

  Apr.

  3

  Th

  4

  0

  12

  45

  8

  45

  0

  45

  72

  Apr.

  4

  F

  4

  0

  1

  30

  9

  30

  1

  30

  72

  Apr.

  7

  M

  4

  0

  1

  15

  9

  15

  1

  15

  119

  Apr.

  17

  Th

  4

  0

  12

  45

  8

  45

  0

  45

  63

  Apr.

  18

  F

  4

  0

  1

  0

  9

  0

  1

  0

  65

  Apr.

  21

  M

  4

  0

  1

  45

  9

  45

  1

  45

  83

  Apr.

  22

  Tu

  4

  0

  1

  15

  9

  15

  1

  15

  64

  Apr.

  23

  W

  12

  0

  5

  50

  5

  50

  54

  Apr.

  24

  Th

  4

  0

  1

  30

  9

  30

  1

  30

  45

  Apr.

  25

  F

  4

  0

  1

  0

  9

  0

  1

  0

  102

  Apr.

  28

  M

  4

  0

  2

  15

  10

  15

  2

  15

  67

  Apr.

  29

  Tu

  4

  0

  7

  30

  3

  30

  67

  Apr.

  30

  W

  12

  0

  5

  55

  5

  55

  71

  Total

  15

  120

  35

  13

  0

  1,061

  May

  1

  Th

  4

  0

  1

  15

  9

  15

  1

  15

  83

  May

  2

  F

  4

  0

  1

  30

  9

  30

  1

  30

  88

  May

  5

  M

  4

  0

  12

  45

  8

  45

  0

  45

  86

  May

  6

  Tu

  2

  0

  12

  45

  10

  45

  0

  45

  89

  May

  7

  W

  12

  0

  5

  45

  5

  45

  74

  May

  8

  Th

  4

  0

  1

  30

  9

  30

  1

  30

  78

  May

  9

  F

  4

  0

  1

  30

  9

  30

  1

  30

  84

  May

  12

  M

  4

  0

  1

  30

  9

  30

  1

  30

  95

  May

  13

  Tu

  4

  0

  2

  15

  10

  15

  2

  15

  91

  May

  14

  W

  12

  0

  5

  55

  5

  55

  71

  May

  15

  Th

  4

  0

  1

  45

  9

  45

  1

  45

  116

  May

  16

  F

  2

  0

  12

  45

  10

  45

  0

  45

  120

  May

  19

  M

  4

  0

  2

  0

  10

  0

  2

  0

  125

  May

  20

  Tu

  2

  0

  12

  45

  10

  45

  0

  45

  108

  May

  21

  W

  12

  0

  5

  50

  5

  50

  44

  May

  22

  Th

  4

  0

  1

  45

  9

  45

  1

  45

  92

  May

  23

  F

  4

  0

  1

  15

  9

  15

  1

  15

  111

  May

  26

  M

  4

  0

  1

  15

  9

  15

  1

  15

  131

  May

  27

  Tu

  2

  0

  6

  55

  6

  55

  89

  Total

  19

  170

  55

  20

  30

  1,775

  Month.

  Day.

  House met.

  House adjourned.

  Hours of Sitting.

  Hours after Midnight.

  Entries in Votes.

  1879

  H.

  M.

  H.

  M.

  H.

  M.

  H.

  M.

  June

  9

  M

  4

  0

  2

  45

  10

  45

  2

  45

  108

  June

  10

  Tu

  2

  0

  1

  15

  11

  15

  1

  15

  82

  June

  11

  W

  12

  0

  5

  55

  5

  55

  61

  June

  12

  Th

  4

  0

  1

  15

  9

  15

  1

  15

  66

  June

  18

  F

  4

  0

  1

  45

  9

  45

  1

  45

  75

  June

  16

  M

  4

  0

  2

  15

  10

  15

  2

  15

  99

  June

  17

  Tu

  2

  0

  12

  45

  10

  45

  0

  45

  69

  June

  18

  W

  12

  0

  5

  55

  5

  55

  49

  June

  19

  Th

  4

  0

  2

  30

  10

  30

  2

  30

  73

  June

  20

  F

  2

  0

  1

  45

  11

  45

  1

  45

  71

  June

  23

  M

  4

  0

  12

  45

  8

  45

  0

  45

  79

  June

  24

  Tu

  2

  0

  9

  15

  7

  15

  52

  June

  25

  W

  12

  0

  5

  50

  5

  50

  50

  June

  26

  Th

  4

  0

  1

  45

  9

  45

  1

  45

  70

  June

  27

  F

  2

  0

  1

  30

  11

  30

  1

  30

  83

  June

  30

  M

  4

  0

  2

  0

  10

  0

  2

  0

  81

  Total

  16

  149

  10

  20

  15

  1,168

  July

  1

  Tu

  2

  0

  1

  30

  11

  30

  1

  30

  68

  July

  2

  W

  12

  0

  5

  50

  5

  50

  45

  July

  3

  Th

  4

  0

  3

  30

  11

  30

  3

  30

  77

  July

  4

  F

  4

  0

  1

  30

  9

  30

  1

  30

  70

  July

  5

  S

  1

  30

  12

  15

  10

  45

  0

  15

  18

  July

  7

  M

  4

  0

  2

  45

  10

  45

  2

  45

  73

  July

  8

  Tu

  2

  0

  1

  15

  11

  15

  1

  15

  71

  July

  9

  W

  12

  0

  5

  55

  5

  55

  41

  July

  10

  Th

  4

  0

  3

  0

  11

  0

  3

  0

  75

  July

  11

  F

  2

  0

  1

  15

  11

  15

  1

  15

  62

  July

  14

  M

  4

  0

  3

  15

  11

  15

  3

  15

  88

  July

  15

  Tu

  4

  0

  1

  30

  9

  30

  1

  30

  61

  July

  16

  W

  12

  0

  5

  55

  5

  55

  57

  Month.

  Day.

  House met.

  House adjourned.

  Hours of Sitting.

  Hours after Midnight.

  Entries in Votes.

  1879

  H.

  M.

  H.

  M.

  H.

  M.

  H.

  M.

  cont.

  July

  17

  Th

  4

  0

  2

  15

  10

  15

  2

  15

  87

  July

  18

  F

  2

  0

  3

  45

  13

  45

  3

  45

  73

  July

  21

  M

  4

  0

  3

  45

  11

  45

  3

  45

  77

  July

  22

  Tu

  2

  0

  2

  30

  12

  30

  2

  30

  60

  July

  23

  W

  12

  0

  5

  55

  5

  55

  53

  July

  24

  Th

  4

  0

  2

  0

  10

  0

  2

  0

  63

  July

  25

  F

  2

  0

  3

  45

  13

  45

  3

  45

  65

  July

  28

  M

  4

  0

  2

  15

  10

  15

  2

  15

  69

  July

  29

  Tu

  4

  0

  2

  45

  10

  45

  2

  45

  60

  July

  30

  W

  12

  0

  6

  0

  6

  0

  46

  July

  31

  Th

  4

  0

  3

  0

  11

  0

  3

  0

  42

  Total

  24

  241

  50

  45

  45

  1,501

  Aug.

  1

  F

  2

  0

  2

  15

  12

  15

  2

  15

  76

  Aug.

  2

  S

  12

  0

  7

  0

  7

  0

  23

  Aug.

  4

  M

  4

  0

  2

  45

  10

  45

  2

  45

  64

  Aug.

  5

  Tu

  2

  0

  2

  15

  12

  15

  2

  15

  64

  Aug.

  6

  W

  12

  0

  6

  0

  6

  0

  59

  Aug.

  7

  Th

  4

  0

  4

  0

  12

  0

  4

  0

  79

  Aug.

  8

  F

  2

  0

  3

  0

  13

  0

  3

  0

  72

  Aug.

  9

  S

  12

  0

  6

  30

  6

  30

  41

  Aug.

  11

  M

  4

  0

  7

  15

  15

  15

  7

  15

  54

  Aug.

  12

  Tu

  4

  0

  2

  30

  10

  30

  2

  30

  47

  Aug.

  13

  W

  12

  0

  6

  30

  6

  30

  69

  Aug.

  14

  Th

  4

  0

  9

  30

  5

  30

  70

  Aug.

  15

  F

  1

  30

  Prorogation.

  35

  Total

  13

  117

  30

  24

  0

  753

  SUMMARY.

  Month.

  Days of Sitting.

  Hours of Sitting.

  Hours after Midnight.

  Entries in Votes.

  1878–9

  H.

  M.

  H.

  M.

  December

  9

  71

  0

  6

  45

  361

  February

  12

  95

  15

  13

  30

  918

  March

  22

  181

  50

  26

  45

  1,181

  April

  15

  120

  35

  13

  0

  1,061

  May

  19

  170

  55

  20

  30

  1,775

  June

  16

  149

  10

  20

  15

  1,168

  July

  24

  241

  50

  45

  45

  1,501

  August

  13

  117

  30

  24

  0

  753

  Total

  130

  1,148

  5

  170

  30

  8,718

  Average Time of Sitting, 8 Hours 49 Minutes.

  DIVISIONS OF THE HOUSE SESSION 1878–9—(PARL. PAPER 0.129.)
  SUMMARY.

  Number of Divisions on Public Business before Midnight

  …

  …

  122

  Number of Divisions on Public Business after Midnight

  …

  …

  112

  Number of Private Business on Public Business before Midnight

  …

  …

  3

  Number of Divisions on Public Business after Midnight

  …

  …

  —

  Total Number of Divisions in Session 1878–9

  …

  …

  237

  GENERAL INDEX TO SESSION 1878–9.

    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."
    "The Ballot, 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—Exchequer Bills and Bonds [42 & 43 Vict. c. 62]; East India Loan (Annuities) [42 & 43 Vict. c. 61]; Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) [42 & 43 Vict. c. 51]; Land Tax Commissioners' Names [42 & 43 Vict. c. 52]; Municipal Elections (Ireland) [42 & 43 Vict. c. 53]; Civil Procedure Acts Repeal [42 & 43 Vict. c. 59]; Commissioners of Woods (Thames Biers) [42 & 43 Vict. c. 73]; University Education (Ireland) [42 & 43 Vict. c. 65]; Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act (1875) Amendment [42 & 43 Vict. c. 63]; Prevention of Crime [42 & 43 Vict. c. 55]; Regulation of Railways Acts Continuance [42 & 43 Vict. c. 56]; Public Health (Ireland) Act (1878) Amendment [42 & 43 Vict. c. 57]; Public Offices Fees [42 & 43 Vict. c. 58]; Registry Courts (Ireland) (Practice) [42 & 43 Vict. c. 71]; Shipping Casualties Investigations Re-hearing [42 & 43 Vict. c. 72]; Poor Law Amendment (No. 2) [42 & 43 Vict. c. 54]; National School Teachers (Ireland) [42 & 43 Vict. c. 74]; Parliamentary Elections and Corrupt Practices [42 & 43 Vict. c. 75]; Banking and Joint Stock Companies [42 & 43 Vict. c. 76]; Public Works Loans (No. 2) [42 & 43 Vict. c. 77]; East India Loan (£5,000,000) [42 & 43 Vict. c. 60]; Artizans Dwellings Act (1868) Extension [42 & 43 Vict. c. 64]; Endowed Schools Acts Continuance [42 & 43 Vict. c. 66]; Expiring Laws Continuance [42 & 43 Vict. c. 67]; Metropolitan Board of Works (Water Expenses) [42 & 43 Vict. c. 68]; Vaccination Acts (Ireland) Amendment [42 & 43 Vict. c. 70]; Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) [42 & 43 Vict. c. 69]; Supreme Court of Judicature (Officers) [42 & 43 Vict. c. 78]; Knightsbridge and other Crown Lands [42 & 43 Vict. c. ccxix]; Mungret Agricultural School [42 & 43 Vict. c. ccxx]; St. Giles Ancient Church (Edinburgh) [42 & 43 Vict. c. ccxxi]; Lough Erne and River (Continuance) [42 & 43 Vict. c. ccxxii].

PROROGATION OF THE PARLIAMENT— HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH.
The PARLIAMENTwas this day prorogued by Commission.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR THE LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that Her Majesty had been pleased to grant two several Commissions, one for declaring Her Royal Assent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses of Parliament, and the other for proroguing the Parliament:—And the LORDS COMMISSIONERS—namely, The LORD CHANCELLOR; The LORD PRIVY SEAL (The Duke of Northumberland); The LORD STEWARD OF
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THE HOUSEHOLD (The Earl Beauchamp); The EARL OF HARDWICKE; and The LORD SKELMEESDALE—being in their Robes, and seated on a Form between the Throne and the Woolsack; and the COMMONS being come, with their Speaker, and the Commission to that purpose being read, the ROYAL ASSENT was given to several Bills.
Then THE LORD CHANCELLOR,pursuant to Her Majesty's Command, delivered HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH, as follows:—
"My Lords, and Gentlemen,
"I am happy to be able to relieve you from your laborious duties.
"My relations with other Powers continue to be cordial, and my influence with them will be employed in maintaining the obligations imposed by Treaties, and in promoting and consolidating the general peace.
"The territorial arrangements stipulated in the Treaty of Berlin have been faithfully executed, and the delimitation of the new frontiers is nearly completed. The Balkan Peninsula has been evacuated by the Russian Army in accordance with the Treaty. Under the unanimous sanction of the Signatory Powers, suitable provision has been made for the government of the Ottoman Province of Eastern Roumelia, and I have with great satisfaction given my approval to the election of Prince Alexander of Battenberge as Prince of Bulgaria.
"The calamities inflicted by the late war have hitherto precluded the adoption of those reforms by the Ottoman Government of which it has acknowledged the necessity; but I have urged, and shall continue to urge, the importance of a timely compliance with its engagements in this respect.
"At the suggestion of my Government, in conjunction with that of

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France, a change has taken place in the Viceroyalty of Egypt, which the past misgovernment of that country had rendered necessary.
"The Treaty concluded with the Ameer of Afghanistan which has been laid before you has happily terminated the war which his predecessor compelled me to undertake. By it my friendly relations with that State are re-established, guarantees for its peace and safety given, and the frontiers of India strengthened.
"The ability displayed in this war by those in command of my troops, British and Native, and the gallantry and endurance of the troops themselves, well deserved the thanks bestowed upon them by both Houses of Parliament. My acknowledgments are especially due to the many Native Princes who made offers of assistance, as well as to those whose forces were actually brought into the field, and I recognise in such zealous co-operation their attachment and good-will to my Indian Empire.
"Since I last addressed you my forces have been engaged in a serious conflict with the most powerful native ruler in South Africa. While I have pleasure in thanking them for vindicating the honour of the British Arms, I must mourn over the sacrifice of many a precious life. I trust that the decisive success which has recently attended their operations will lead to the early establishment of peace on an enduring basis, and that my subjects in that part of the world, being thus relieved from the danger to which they have hitherto been exposed, may readily join in such arrangements as may best secure their safety and prosperity in the future.
"Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
"I thank you for the liberal supplies which you have voted for the public service.
"My Lords, and Gentlemen,
"By the Army Discipline Act you have for the first time placed upon the Statute Book in a complete Code the Laws relating to service in my Army and my other Military Forces. You have arranged in a clear and comprehensive form the provisions for the due maintenance of discipline; you have improved the system under which Enlistment takes place; and you have amended the Regulations under which the Reserves can be recalled to the colours.
"The Acts providing for the appointment of a Public Prosecutor and Amending the Law relating to the Summary Jurisdiction of Magistrates will, I trust, greatly improve the administration of the Criminal Law.
"The alterations which you have made in the law relating to Banking and Joint Stock Companies are well calculated to conduce to the prosperity of this important portion of our mercantile and commercial system.
"The depressed condition of the Agricultural Interest has naturally engaged your attention, and I have had much pleasure in complying with the Address of the House of Commons requesting me to appoint a Commission to inquire into the causes to which the depression is owing, and how far they can be remedied by legislation.
"I observe with satisfaction that you have been able to consider the important subject of Education in Ireland, and that you have agreed to

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measures which will form a fitting supplement to the enactment of last Session as to Intermediate Education. The primary education of the country cannot but be stimulated by the careful provision you have made for improving the position of the teachers, and the Bill you have passed for University Education will, 1 trust, supply what is needed for the advancement of learning in its higher branches.
"In bidding you farewell, I pray that the blessing of Providence may rest on the labours with which you have been occupied during the Session."
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 Saturday the first day of November next, to be then here holden; and this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Saturday the first day of November next.