SKETCH OF THE STATE OF LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS On Saturday, July

23.

MINISTERIAL.

Bills which have become Law.

Clergy Reserves, Canada. Income-tax.

South Sea and other Annuities Com- mutation.

Soap-duties. Metropolitan Improvements (Repay- ments out of Consolidated Fund.) Excise-Duty on Spirits.

Office of Examiner, Court of Chan- cery. Aggravated Assaults. Hackney Carriages, Metropolis. Burghs, Scotland. Malicious Injuries, Ireland. Valuation Act Amendment, Ireland. Grand Jury Cess, Ireland. Cathedral .Appointments. Public Works Loan.

Transfer of Aids.

Stamp-duties on Patents for Inven- tions.

Inland Revenue Office.

Sales of Bullion.

Mutiny. Marine Mutiny.

Exchequer Bills. Consolidated Fund.

Consolidated Fund, £4,000,000. Sheriff and Commissary Courts, Ber- wickshire.

Whichwood Forest.

New Forest Deer-Removal Act

Amendment.

Commons Enclosure, No. 2. Indemnity. Slave-trade, Sober in Arabia.

Slave-trade New Granada.

General Board of Health.

Passed the Commons and gone to the Lords.

Succession-Duty. Stamp-Duties. Customs-Duties.

Burgh Harbours, Scotland. Bankruptcy, Scotland. Sheriff Courts, Scotland. Resident Magistrates, Ireland. Coinage Offences. Dublin Parliamentary Registration. Turnpike Trusts Arrangements. Thames Embankment.

Wait the Royal Assent. Savings-Banks Annuities. Battersea Park.

Westminster Bridge.

Advancing in the Commons. Waiting for First Reading. Transportation. [From the Lords.] Waiting for Second Reading. Education.

Betting-Houses. Ministers Money Ireland. Truck Act Amendment.

Friendly Societies Act Amendment Customs, &e. Duties.

Crime and Outrage Act Continuance, Ireland.

Waiting for Committee and in C9M-,

mittee.

Government of India.

Assessed Taxes.

Customs, Regulations. Dublin Hackney Carriage. Entry of Seamen.

Land-tax Commissioners' Names. Naval Coast Volunteers.

Pilotage.

Places of Religious Worship Regis- tration.

Universities of Scotland. Metropolitan Sewers. Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Act Continuance.

Stamp-Duties, No. 2. Charitable Trusts.

Poor-Relief Act Continuance, Public Works Act Amendment, Ire- land.

Burials beyond the Metropolis. Drainage of Lands Act Amendment, Ireland.

Employment of Children in Factories. Bill waiting for Consideration as Amended.

Tenants Compensation, Ireland.

Bills waiting for Third Reading. Consolidated Annuities, Ireland. Highway Rates. Land-tax Redemption.

Merchant Shipping. Sheep, &c. Contagious Diseases. Turnpike Acts Continuance, &c. Newspaper Stamp-duties.

Bilk waiting for Consideration ,of Lords' Amendments. Copyholds. Taxing Officer, Common Law Busi- ness (Ireland).

Note.—The Registration of Assurances Bill sent down from the Lords has been re- ferred to a Select Committee. The Chari- table Trusts Bill waits Committee in the Commons. Some others measures origin- ating with Ministers in the Upper House are passing through their stages , such as the Entail (Scotland) Bilk Seveial Bills relating chiefly -to Church-government have been carried through the Lords by private Peers- such as the Colonial Church-Regulation Bill. Three Bills on the subject of Lunacy and Lunatics, in- troduced by Lord St. Leonards, have reached the Commons. The Savings- Banks Bill is withdrawn, also the Edin- burgh and Cimongate Annuity Bill.

NoN-MiNtsmaxat. , Bills waiting for Second Beading, Episcopal and Capitular Estates. (Marquis of Blandford.) Factories. (Mr. Cobbett.) Fisheries, Ireland, No. 2. (Mr. MSfa- hon.

Improvement of Towns, Ireland. (Mr. Ross Moore.) Juvenile Offenders. (Mr. Adderley-) Probate and Administration. (Mr. Collier.)

Waiting for Committee or in Com- mittee.

Expenses of Elections. (Mr. C. Berke- ley.) Landlord and Tenant, Ireland. (Mr. Napier.)

Sale, &o. of binds, Ireland. (Mr. Whiteside.) .

Note.—Several important Bills intro- duced by private Members have passed the Conunons and gone lathe Lords; such as Mr. Napier's Courts of Common Law (Ireland) Hilt- and Leasing Powers (Ireland) Bill. The following have re- ceived the Royal Assent—Lord Robert Grosvenor's County Elections Poll Bill; Dir. Elhot's County Elections Polls (Scot- land) Bill; Lord Brougham's Law of Evi- dence (Scotland) Bill.