Sitting of 13 February 1899

Preamble
THE LORD CHANCELLORtook his seat on the Woolsack at Four of the Clock.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR THE LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments had laid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:—
Aberdeen Corporation: Aberdeen Harbour: Aberdeen Joint Passenger Station: Airdrie and Coatbridge Water; Aire and Calder Navigation; All Saints' Church (Cardiff): Arbroath Corporation Gas; Ayr Burgh; Baker Street and Waterloo Railway; Barking Town Improvement: Barry Railway; Barton-on-Sea Water; Belfast and Northern Counties Railway; Belfast Water; Bexhill and Rothfield Railway; Bexhill and St. Leonards Tramroads; Birkenhead Corporation; Birmingham Corporation; Birmingham, North Warwickshire, and Stratford-upon-Avon Railway; Blackpool Improvement; Bognor Urban District Water; Bootle Corporation; Bradford Tramways and Improvement; Brigg Urban District Gas; Brighton Marine Palace and Pier; Bristol Floods Prevention; Bristol Gas; Brompton and Piccadiny Circus Railway; Brynmawr and Western Valleys Railway; Burley-in-Wharfedale Urban District Water; Bury Corporation; Bury Corporation Water; Caledonian Railway (General Powers); Caledonian Railway (Grangemouth Connecting Lines); Cambridge University and Town Gas; Cardiff Railway; Central Electric Supply; Central London Railway; Charing Cross, Euston, and Hampstead Railway; Church Stretton Water; City and Brixton Railway; Clay Cross Water; Clyde Navigation; Coalville Urban District Gas; Cobham Gas; Colonial end Foreign Banks Guarantee
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Fund; Cork Corporation (Finance); County of London and Brush Provincial Electric Lighting; Cromer Protection; Crowborough District Gas; Crow-borough District Water; Darwen Corporation; Derby Corporation Tramways, etc.; Derby Corporation Water; Douglas and Sanquhar Railway; Dublin Corporation; Dublin Corporation (Markets); Dublin Improvement (Bull Alley Area): Dumbarton Burgh; Dundee Gas, Tramways, and Extension; East London Water; East London Water (Temporary Supply); Edinburgh Corporation; Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours; Fishguard Water and Gas; Friends' Provident Institution; Furness Railway; Fylde Water Board; Gainsborough Urban District Council (Gas); Gas Light and Coke Company; Gateshead and District Tramways; Glasgow and South-Western Railway; Glasgow Corporation (Tramways, etc.); Glasgow Corporation (Gas and Water); Glasgow Corporation Telephones; Glasgow District Subway; Glasgow, Motherwell, and Sanquhar Railway; Glastonbury Water; Godalming Corporation Water; Goole Urban District Council; Great Central Railway; Great Eastern Railway (Amendment of London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway Act, 1898): Great Eastern Railway (General Powers): Great Northern and Strand Railway: Great Northern Railway; Great Southern and Western and Water-ford, Limerick, and Western Railway Companies Amalgamation; Great Southern and Western Railway; Great Western and Great Central Railway Companies; Great Western Railway: Great Yarmouth Corporation; Great Yarmouth Pier; Great Yarmourh Water; Greenock and Port Glasgow Tramways; Grosvenor Chapel (London); Hampstead Church (Emmanuel, West End); Harbour and Dock Rates Bristol, etc.); Harrow and Uxbridge Railway; Hastings Corporation Tramways; Hastings and St. Leonards Gas; Hastings Harbour; Herne Bay Water; Highland Water Power; Horsforth Urban District Council (Water); Horsforth Water; Hull, Barnsley, and West Riding Junction Railway and Dock; Humber Conservancy; Ilford Gas; Ilford Urban District Council Gas; Imperial Markets and Stores; Infant Orphan Asylum; Inverness Harbour; Ionian Bank; Kensington and Notting

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Hill Electric Lighting; Kew Bridge; Kingscourt, Keady, and Armagh Kail-way; Kirkcaldy Corporation and Tramways; Knott End Railway; Lanarkshire (Middle Ward District) Water; Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (New Railways); Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Various Powers); Lea Bridge District Gas; Leeds Corporation; Leicester Corporation Water; Leicester, Groby, and Bradgate Park Railway; Leigh-on-Sea Urban District Council; Leith Harbour and Docks; Lincoln and East Coast Railway and Docks; Lisburn Town Commissioners; Liverpool Corporation; Liverpool Overhead Railway; Llanelly Harbour and Pontardulais Railway; London and North-Western Railway (Additional Powers); London and North-Western Railway (New Railways); London and South-Western Railway; London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Pensions); London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Various Powers); London, Chatham, and Dover Railway; London County Council (General Powers; London Hospital; London Improvements; London United Tramways; London Water (Finance); London Water (Purchase); Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway; Loughborough Corporation; Loughborough and Sheep-shed Railway; Loughborough Gas; Lowestoft Water and Gas; Manchester Corporation (General Powers); Manchester Corporation Tramways; Mary-port Harbour; Menstone Water; Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (Finance); Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (Pilotage); Metropolitan Water Companies; Mid-Kent Gas; Midland and South-Western Junction Railway; Midland and South-Western Junctian Railway (Northern Section); Midland Railway; Milford Docks; Milton Creek Conservancy; Moss Side Urban District Council (Tramways); Muirkirk, Maueh-line, and Dalmellington Railway; Nene Valley Water; New Mills Urban District Council (Water); Newcastle-upon-Tyne Tramways and Improvement; Norfolk Estuary; North-Eastern and Hull and Barnsley Railways (Joint Dock); North-Eastern Railway; North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway; North Staffordshire Railway; North-West London Railway; Northern Assurance Company; Nottingham Corporation; Nuneaton and Chilvers Coton Urban District Council Water; Oldham Corporation; Otley
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Urban District Council Water; Oyster-mouth Railway or Tramroad; Paisley and Ban-head District Railway; Perth Water, Police, and Gas; Port Talbot Railway and Docks; Portsmouth Corporation; Queen's Ferry Bridge; Raw-tenstall Corporation Water; Redditch Gas; Renfrew Burgh and Harbour Extension; Rhondda Urban District Council; Rochdale Canal; Rushden and Higham Ferrers District Gas; St. Alban's Gas; St. David's Water and Gas; St. James and Pall Mall Electric Light; St. Neot's Water; Salford Corporation; Scunthorpe Urban District Gas and Water; Sheffield Corporation (Derwent Valley) Water; Sheffield Corporation Markets; Shirebrook and District Gas; Shotley Bridge and Consett District Gas; Skipton Urban District Gas; South-Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Companies; South-Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Companies (New Lines); South-Eastern Railway; South Essex Water; South Hants Water; South Staffordshire Stipendiary Justices; South Staffordshire Tramways; Southampton Corporation Water; Southport Tramways; Stockport Corporation; Stockport Corporation Water; Stockport District Water; Stockton and Middlesbrough Water; Stretford Gas; Stretford Urban District Council (Tramways); Sunderland Corporation; Surrey Commercial Docks; Taff Vale Railway; Telegraph Act, 1892 (Amendment); Tenterdeu Railway; Thames Ferry (Greenwich to Millwall); Totland Water; Transvaal Mortgage Loan and Finance Company; Uxbridge and Rick-mansworth Railway; Vale of Glamorgan Railway; Wakefield Corporation; Walker and Wallsend Union Gas (Electric Lighting); Wallasey Tramways and Improvements; Walton-on-Thames and Weybridge Gas; Warrington Corporation; Waterford and Central Ireland Railway; West Gloucestershire Water; West Highland Railway; West Metropolitan Railway; West Middlesex Water; Weston-super-Mare, Clevedon, and Portishead Tramways Company (Light Railway Extensions); Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier; Wetherby District Water; Whitehaven Corporation; Wick and Pulteney Harbours; Wishaw Water; Withington Urban District Council (Tramways); Woking Water and Gas; Wolverhampton Corpora-

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tion; Wolverhampton Tjramways; Woodhouse and Conisbrough Railway (Abandonment); Worcestershire County Council; Workington Corporation Water; Yeadon and Guiseley Gas.
And the Certificates that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have not been complied with—
Belfast Corporation; Coatbridge and Airdrie Light Railway; Lancashire Electric Power; Leicestershire and Warwickshire Electric Supply; London Water (Aqueducts and Works); London Water (Welsh Reservoirs and Works); National Telephone Company (No. 1); National Telephone Company (No. 2); Newhaven and Seaford Water Board; Skipton Gas; South Lancashire and Cheshire Electricity Company; Southport and Lytham Tram-road.
The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

CATHCART'S DIVORCE BILL [H.L.]
A Bill to dissolve the marriage of Thomas Charles Duffin Cathcart, of Ruperta House, Newtownards Road, in that part of the city of Belfast which is situate in County Down, medical practitioner, with Emily Jane Cathcart, his now wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other purposes: Presented (on petition), and a copy of the proceedings in, and of the decree of divorce of the Queen's Bench Matrimonial Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland: Delivered (on oath): Bill read first time: and to be read second time on Monday the 6th of March next: The usual orders made.
RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC.
  AGRICULTURAL RATES (CONGESTED DISTRICTS AND BURGH LAND TAX RELIEF (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1896).
  Return showing valuation amounts certified, and annual amounts distributed.
  BEER MATERIALS.
  Report of Departmental Committee appointed by the Treasury on August 22nd 1896, to inquire into the subject of beer materials: with evidences and appendices: Presented (by command), and ordered to lie on the Table.

  LUNACY.
  I. Report to the Lord Chancellor of the number of visits made, patients seen, and miles travelled by the Visitors of Lunatics, pursuant to the Lunacy Act, 1890, between July 1st and September 30th 1898;

  II. Return of all sums received by the Visitors of Lunatics for travelling expenses, or upon any other account, between January 1st and December 31st 1898.

  EVICTIONS (IRELAND).
  Return of Evictions in Ireland for the quarter ended December 31st 1898.
  CHELSEA HOSPITAL.
  Account of the receipts and expenditure of the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital in respect of Army Prize and Legacy Funds, etc., for the year ended March 31st 1898; together with the report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General thereon.
  DUCHY OF LANCASTER.
  Account of receipts and disbursements in 1898.

  PENAL SERVITUDE ACTS, 1853 to 1891 (CONDITIONAL LICENSES).
  1. License granted by Her Majesty to Camilla Nicholls, a convict under detention in Wormwood Scrubs Prison, permitting her to leave the prison on condition of her proceeding to Westminster Hospital, there to remain for such time as is necessary to undergo an operation, and afterwards to return in custody to Wormwood Scrubs Prison.

  2. License granted by Her Majesty to Alice Holmes, alias Wilson, a convict

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  under detention in Knutsford Prison permitting her to be at large on con dition that she enter Saint Mary's Home, Wantage, Berkshire.

  POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS.
  Account showing the gross amount received and expended on account of the telegraph service during the year ended March 31st 1898.
  GREEK LOAN.
  Annual account for 1898.
  GREENWICH HOSPITAL AND TRAVERS' FOUNDATION (CAPITAL AND INCOME ACCOUNTS, 1897–98).
  Accounts of the receipt and expenditure of the capital and of the income derived from the lands and other property held for the benefit of Greenwich Hospital and the foundation of Samuel Travers, Esquire, for the year ended March 31st 1898; together with the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General thereon.

  DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACTS, 1894 and 1896.
  Two Orders, dated respectively February 7th and 10th 1899, prohibiting the conveyance of animals by the Steamships "Ulverston" and "J. W. Taylor."
  Laid before the House (pursuant to Act), and ordered to lie on the Table.

PETITIONS.
  AGRICULTURAL RATES ACT, 1896.
  Petitions for amendment of: of Tithe - owning Clergy (2); read, and ordered to lie on the Table.

  VACCINATION ACT, 1898.
  Petitions for repeal of; of Guardians of St. Thomas Poor Law Union—and Pershore Union—Read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
  House adjourned at half-past Four o'clock.