THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IRELAND (Mr. J. ATKINSON, London

evening, at eight o'clock, so far as the information which the Government have received goes, there have been no new disturbances.

DR. TANNER (Cork Co., Mid): On mv putting a question early this morning, we were informed that everything was perfectly peaceable; but, on reading the morning papers, I find that there were disturbances at eight and at eleven o'clock. Can the Government explain that?

MR. ATKINSON: The explanation is that I informed the honourable Member that I had no further information than what appeared in the Irish morning papers, which were published some hours before the disturbances at eight o'clock

commenced.

DR. TANNER: Am I to understand that the Press are better informed than Her Majesty's Government?

MR. ATKINSON: No, Sir.

House adjourned at 5.55.

Also the Certificate that no further Standing Orders are applicable to the following Bill:

CRANBROOK DISTRICT WATER.

And also the Certificate that the Standing Orders applicable to the following Bill have been complied with:

ELECTRIC LIGHTING PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 8). [H.L.]

The same were ordered to lie on the Table.

NEW PEERS.

The EARL INNES (D. ROXBURGH)-Sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.

The EARL of BRADFORD-Sat first in Parliament after the death of his father.

PRIVATE BILL BUSINESS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR acquainted the House that the Clerk of the Parliaments ha dlaid upon the Table the Certificates from the Examiners that the further Standing Orders applicable to the following Bills have been complied with:

CARMARTHEN IMPROVEMENT.

MUMBLES RAILWAY AND PIER.

WIGAN CORPORATION.

GLOUCESTER GAS.

FORRES WATER BILL. [H.L.]

A petition of the Marquess of Bute and Earl of Dumfries, praying to be heard on the petition of owners, etc., of lands, mills, distilleries, manufactories, etc., on the Black Burn and River Lossie, praying to be heard against the Bill (deposited on the 7th of March last), and on the petition of owners, etc., of lands, mills, distilleries, manufactories, etc., on the Black Burn and River Lossie, praying to be heard against the additional provision to the said Bill (deposited on the 20th May last) as if he had signed the same; Read, and ordered as prayed, the agents for the Bill consenting thereto.

HOLMES'S PATENT BILL. [H.L.] Commons' Amendments considered, and agreed to.

PORTSMOUTH CORPORATION TRAMWAYS BILL. [H.L.]

The CHAIRMAN of COMMITTEES informed the House that the opposition to the Bill was withdrawn; the Order made on the 28th of February last discharged; and Bill committed.

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY BILL. Read the second time, and committed; the Committee to be proposed by the Committee of Selection.

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