(SCOTLAND) ACT, 1899. Report from the Committee of Selection, that the following Lords be proposed to the House as the panel of Lords to act as Commissioners under the Act, viz. : L. Save and Sele; Mr. SPEAKER laid upon the Table Report from one of the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills, pursuant to L. Bowes (E. Strathmore and the Order of the House of the 3rd day of Kinghorn); April, That, in the case of the following Bill, the Standing Orders which are agreed to; and the said Lords appointed applicable thereto have been complied accordingly. House adjourned at five minutes past Three o'clock, to Tuesday, the 5th of May next, at a quarter past Four o'clock. with, viz. :-Port of London Bill. Great Eastern Railway (General Powers) Bill.-Read the third time, and passed. Blaydon and Ryton Water (Transfer) the Company; and for other purposes." Bill; Dover Graving Docks Bill. As [Cardiff Railway Bill [Lords.] amended, considered; to be read the third time. Knott End Railway Bill.-As amended, considered; a clause added; Bill to be read the third time. Louth and East Coast Railway (Transfer) Bill.-As amended, considered; to be read the third time. Private Bills, etc. Ordered, That Standing Orders 39, 128, and 230 be suspended, and that the time for depositing Petitions and Memorials against Private Bills, or against any Bill to confirm any Provisional Order or Provisional Certificate, and for depositing duplicates of any Documents relating to any Bill to confirm any Provisional Order or Provisional Certificate, also for deposit ing at the Private Bill Office all Documents relating to any Order under The Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1899, be extended to the first day on which the House shall sit after the Recess. (The Deputy-Chairman.) Sligo and Arigna Railway Bill. Petition for additional Provision; referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. construct a new Also, a Bill, intituled, "An Act to empower the Metropolitan Electric Tramways, Limited, to tramway and widen certain streets and roads; and for other purposes." [Metropolitan Electric Tramways Bill [Lords.] increase and regulate the capital of the Also, a Bill, intituled, "An Act to Argentine North Eastern Railway Company, Limited, and to fund the arrears of dividend on its preferred stock by the issue of fully paid stock; and for other Railway Bill [Lords.] purposes." [Argentine North Eastern And, also, a Bill, intituled, "An Act to provide for the granting of superannuation allowances to the officers and servants of the council of the metropolitan borough of Saint Marylebone; and for other purposes." [Saint Marylebone Borough Council (Superannuation) Bill [Lords.] Cardiff Railway Bill [Lords]; Metropolitan Electric Tramways Bill [Lords]; Argentine North Eastern Railway Bill [Lords]; St. Marylebone Borough Council (Superannuation) Bill [Lords]. Read the first time; and referred to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills. Manchester Corporation Bill. Reported, with Amendments; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. Margate Corporation Bill. Reported, with Amendments, from the Police and Sanitary Committee; Report to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. Widnes Corporation Bill. Reported, with Amendments, from the Police and the Table, and to be printed. Sanitary Committee; Report to lie upon PETITIONS. BILL. Petition from Edinburgh, against; to lie upon the Table. Also, a Bill, intituled, "An Act for COAL MINES (EIGHT HOURS) (No. 2) empowering the Cardiff Railway Company to construct new railways; for extending the time for the purchase of certain lands and for the completion of certain railways; for reviving the powers of the Company to construct certain works; for confirming an agreement between the Petitions in favour: From Abram ; COAL MINES (EIGHT HOURS) (No. 2) BILL. Brereton; Bulwell; Carlton Main; Winslow; Wolverton; Wombwell (three); Chamber Lane; Codnor; Dearne Valley; and, Working; to lie upon the Table. Dechmont; Denby Hall; Giffnock; Hali fax; Hartshay; Heath Hayes; Hednesford; Hewlett; Ilkeston; Jubilee; LICENSING BILL. Petitions for alteration: From Beeston; LICENSING BILL. Langley; Larkhall; Littleton (two); Blairgowrie; Idle; Leeds; and Lincoln; DAIRIES (SCOTLAND) BILL. Petition from Edinburgh, in favour; to lie upon the Table. ELEMENTARY EDUCATION (ENGLAND Petition from Wandsworth against; to lie upon the Table. ELEMENTARY EDUCATION (ENGLAND Petitions in favour: From Gillingham; Peterborough; Spennymore; Westbury on Severn; and, Ystrad Meurig; to lie upon the Table. FOREIGN TRAWLERS BILL. REGULATION Petition from Edinburgh, in favour; to lie upon the Table. HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES Petitions in favour; from Alyth; Annandale; Ardsley; Atherton (twenty); Auckland Park; Ayr; Barnsley (three); Barr; Baxenden; Beaconsfield; Beeston (two); Belfast (three); Belmont; Birk. dale (three); Birmingham; Bishop Auckland (three); Blaenogwy; Blairgowrie (four); Bodewryd; Bodffordd; Bolton; Bonhill; Bootle; Beverley; Bridgeton (two); Briercliffe (four); Brighouse (two); Brora; Byers Green; Bryngwran; Brynsiencyn; Burrelton; Bury; Caergeilwg; Cathcart; Cefneithin; Cemaes (three); Cemaes Bay; Chelmsford; Chelsea; Chertsey; Chil-well; Cinderford; Clitheroe ; Closburn ; Cockerton; Coggeshall; Crossens; Cross Hands (five); Cwmivor; Dalmarnock; Dalmellington; Dalmuir; Dalrymple; Darlington (twenty-three); Dean Bank; Dennistoun; Denton; Deptford; Dornoch; Dumbarton (three); Dunkeld; Dyffryn Bargoed; East Grinstead ; Edinburgh (five); Eldon Lane; Exeter (two); Formby; Freshwater; Fulham Cross; Gainsborough; Girvan; Glasgow (thirteen); Glen Urquhart; Gorton (two); Govan; Great Houghton; Greenhead; Greetland; Gwernogle; Halifax (five); Hanwick; Haslingden; Helensburgh; Helsby; Heneglwys; High Blantyre; Hightal; Holyhead; Honor Oak; Hopetown; Horwich (five); Ipswich; Kelty; Kelvedon; Keswick; Kexborough; Kilcreggan; Kingussie; Kirkconnel; Kirkwall (two); Lambeth Road; Lambeth; Lanark; Langholm; Petitions against: From Althorpe; Langley Mill (two); Leeds (two); Leigh; Anglesey; Ansty; Barnsley (three); Lightcliffe (two); Lincoln; Little Lever; Belton Castle Eaton; Cheltenham; Liverpool (three); Llanbordy; LlandCirencester; Coombe Bissett; Crowle dona; Llandebie; Llandilo (five); Llan(six); Darlington; Derrythorpe; Dinton; fechell: Llanadwabadr; Llanstephan; Dodworth; Eastoft; Epworth; Fenny Llanydthen; London; Manchester Stratford; Great Brickhill; Haxey; Mauchline; Manordeilo; Mapplewell; Hitchin (three); Hunslet; Inverness; Michaelstone-y-Vedw; Isle of Wight; Kingsdown; Leeds (nine); Monk Bretton; Netheravon; Penrith; Platts Common; Reading; Rotherhithe; Salisbury (two); Sandtoft; Stony Stratford; Swallowcliffe; Swindon; Tadcaster; Tisbury; Wandsworth; Wetherby; BILL. Petition from Wandsworth, against; to lie upon the Table. LICENSED PREMISES (EXCLUSION OF Petitions for legislation: From Birmingham; and, Dundee; to lie upon the Table. LICENSING BILL. Marlborough ; ; Moffat; Mouldsworth; Muirkirk (two); SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS ON SUNDAY BILL. Hill; Nunhead; Oakenshaw; Oldham ; Openshaw; Oswestry; Parkstone; Parton; Peckham; Peckham Rye; Penybane; Penzance; Percy Main; Peter borough ; Petersfield; Plumstead; Pollokshaws (two); Pollokshields; Pwll; Radcliffe; Rastrick; Rawtenstall; Read- WOMEN'S ENFRANCHISEMENT BILL. ing; Rutherglen (two); Ryhill; St. Petitions in favour: From Ipswich; Petitions in favour: From Arlington Road, N.W.; Bury; and, Wavendon; to lie upon the Table. Clears (two); Sancreed; Scarborough; Lambeth and other places; and, West (two); Shipley; Snailbeach; Southampton; Southport (thirty-three); Spennymore; Stair; Stirling; Stockport (four); Streatham; Street; Strickland; Sunnybrow; Tantobie; Tindale; Tooting; Tottenham (two); Tottington; Trelech ; Troon; Truro (three); Tulse Hill; Tynemouth (three); Waterfoot; West Chilton; Westhoughton; Westminster; Whelley; White; Wigton; Wishaw; Wombwell (two); Wood Green; Woolston; and, Ystradgynlais; to lie upon the Table. LICENSING BILL AND LIQUOR TRAFFIC (LOCAL OPTION) (SCOTLAND) BILL. Petitions from Clydebank, in favour; to lie upon the Table. MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL. Petitions from Edinburgh, in favour; to lie upon the Table. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS (RECESS). The following Papers, presented by Command of His Majesty during the Recess, were delivered to the Librarian of the House of Commons during the Recess, pursuant to the Standing Order of the 14th August 1896. Further Correspondence respecting Pro1. Turkey (No. 2, 1908). Copy of posals by His Majesty's Government for Reforms in Macedonia. 2. Treaty Series (No. 8, 1908). Copy of Supplementary Agreement between the United Kingdom and Germany, respecting Commercial Travellers' Samples, signed at Berlin, 10th March 1908. 3. Treaty Series (No. 9, 1908). Copy of Accession of Spain to the Declaration respecting Maritime Law, signed at Paris 16th April 1856, 18th January 1908. 4. Trade Reports (Miscellaneous Series). Copy of Diplomatic and ConsuMETROPOLITAN SEWERS AND DRAINS lar Report, Miscellaneous Series, No. Petitions from Wandsworth, in favour; to lie upon the Table. SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT (AMENDMENT) (SCOTLAND) BILL. Petitions from Edinburgh, in favour; 667. 5. Trade Reports (Annual Series). Copies of Diplomatic and Consular Reports, Annual Series, Nos. 3969 and 3970. 6. Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Ireland) (Departmental Committee). Copy of Report of the Departmental Committee on Irish Forestry, together with Minutes of Evidence, Appendices, and Index. 7. Transvaal. Copy of Correspondence relating to the Transvaal Indentured Labour Laws Temporary Continuance Act, 1907. 8. Local Government (Scotland). and Valuation of Counties, Burghs, and thereof, and the interest thereon, etc., Parishes in Scotland. during the financial year 1906-7 [by Act]; to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. [No. 120.] 9. Judicial Statistics (England and Wales). Copy of Judicial Statistics for England and Wales, 1906. Part II. (Civil Judicial Statistics), edited by Sir John Macdonell, C.B., LL.D., Master of the Supreme Court. 10. Royal Observatory (Edinburgh). Copy of Eighteenth Annual Report of the Astronomer Royal for Scotland. 11. Cost of Living (German Towns). Copy of Report of an Inquiry by the Board of Trade into Working Class Rents, Housing, and Retail Prices, together with Rates of Wages in certain Occupations in the Principle Industrial Towns of the German Empire, with an Introductory Memorandum and a Comparison of Conditions in Germany and the United Kingdom. Ordered, That the said Papers do lie upon the Table. RETURNS, REPORTS, ETC. EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) (GENERAL REPORTS). Copy presented, of General Report by the Chief Inspector of the Northern and Highland Divisions of Scotland for the year 1907 [by Command]; to lie upon the Table. EDUCATION (SCOTLAND.) Copy presented, of Regulations for the Preliminary Education, Training, and Certification of Teachers for various Grades of Schools, 1908 [by Command]; to lie upon the Table. UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS. Copy presented, of Annual Statistical Report by the University Court of the University of St. Andrews for 1906-7 [by Act]; to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. [No. 118.] UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS. Copy presented, of Annual Report on the State of the Finances of the University for the year 1906-7 [by Act]; to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. [No. 119.] NAVAL SAVINGS BANKS. Account presented, of Deposits in Naval Savings Banks, and the payments LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Copy presented, of Statements of Accounts, and of Life Assurance and Annuity Business and Abstracts of Actuarial Reports, deposited with the Board of Trade during the year ended 31st December, 1907 [by Act]; to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. [No. 121.] MERCHANT SHIPPING (MERCANTILE MARINE FUND) ACT, 1898. Copy presented, of Draft Order in Council altering the Exemptions in the Second Schedule to the Act, by adding thereto Sailing Yachts not registered in the British Islands which come into terri torial waters adjacent to the United Kingdom with the sole object of taking part in Yacht Racing [by Act]; to lie upon the Table. IRISH LAND COMMISSION. Copy presented, of Return of advances made under The Irish Land Act, 1903, during the month of April, 1907 [by Command]; to lie upon the Table. EAST INDIA (LOANS RAISED IN Copy presented, of Return of all Loans raised in England, chargeable on the Revenues of India, outstanding at the commencement of the half-year ending on the 31st March, 1908 [by Act]; to lie upon the Table, and to be printed. [No. 122.] BOARD OF EDUCATION. Copy presented, of Statement showing the Cases in which the Board of Education have received applications from Local Education Authorities for Special Grants for the building of New Public Elementary Schools and the stage which each Case had reached on 31st March, 1908 [by Command; to lie upon the Table. BOARD OF EDUCATION. Copy presented, of Regulations for Secondary Schools in force from 1st August, 1908, in England (excluding Wales and Monmouthshire) [by Conmand]; to lie upon the Table. |