STATE OF PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS AT WHITSUNTIDE. RECEIVED THE ROYAL ASSENT.

Bank Issues Indemnity Bill, East India Loan Bill.

Havelock Annuities Bill.

Consolidated Fund (10,000.0001.) Bill, Consolidated Fund (500,0001.) Bill.

Mutiny Bill. Marine Mutiny Bill. Militia Act Continuance Bill.

Commons Enclosure Bill.

Cambridge University Matriculation and Degrees Bill : stamp-duty re-

pealed.

General Board of Health, Skipton, Bill, No. 2.

Customs Duties Bill.

Loan Societies Bill: continuance of act.

Chelsea Hospital and Water Works, Exchange of Lands, Bill. Exchequer Bills (20,911,5001.) Bill. Excise Duties Bill.

Customs Duties Bill, No. 2.

Exchequer Bonds (2,000,0001.) Bill. Stamp Duty on Drafts Bill. Consolidated Fund (11,000,000/.) Bill.

The whole of the above were Ministerial Bills, mostly of the Derby Ministry ; no Bill introduced by a private Member of either House has yet become Lan .

BILLS IN PROGRESS. I. Tan LORDS.

Ministerial Bills, and the stage arriecd at.

Ecclesiastical Commission: to amend acts and

Read a second time.

continue Transfer of Land Bead a third time.

Chief Justice of Bombay : to make valid his Ditto.

acts

The first Bill was introduced by Lord Cranworth when he occupied the Woolsack. Non-Ministerial Bills.

District Courts of Bankruptcy Abe- Lora lition, No. 2 Brougham Bead a first time. Turnpike Road Offences Lord Portman Ditto. Law of Evidence Further Amend- Lord Brougham Ditto.

meet

Transfer of Real Estate Lord Brougham Ditto.

tration Act Amendment I Lord Cranworth Read a second time. Divorce and Matrimonial Causes }Lord Cranworth Ditto. Amendment Ecclesiastical Corporations Aggre- I Duke of Marlborough. Ditto. gate (Estates) Law of Property Amendment Lord St. Leonardo ... Read a third time.

Trustees, Mortgagees, &c. Lord Cranworth Ditto.

Protection of Female Children .... Bishop of Oxford Ditto. Trustees Belief Lord St. Leonardo ... To Commons. Bishops' Trusts Substitution Bishop of Oxford Ditto. Church of England Special Sarvices Archbp. of Canterbury Ditto. Transfer of Estate Simplification .. Lord St. Leonardo Withdrawn. Imprisonment for Debt Abolition . Lord Brougham Ditto. Religious Worship Act Amendment Earl of Shaftesbury Ditto.

District Courts of Bankruptcy Abo- it Lord Brougham Ditto.

lition Probates and Letters of Adminis- Libel Lord Campbell Rejected. Barrel Organ Suppression Marquis of Westmeath Ditto.

II THE COMMONS.

Ministerial Bills.

Markets and Fairs, Ireland Bead a first time. Conspiracy to Murder Ditto. Medical Charities, Ireland Ditto. Government of India Ditto. Hainault Forest : allotment of commons Ditto. Universities, Scotland Ditto. Public Health Ditto. Poor Removal Law Amendment Ditto. Friendly Societies Act Amendment Ditto. Titles to Land, Scotland Ditto. Prince Edward Island Loan Ditto. Copyright of Designs Ditto. Chelsea Bridge Amendment Ditto. London Corporation Read a second time. Clerks of Petty-Sessions, Ireland Ditto. Local Government: Public Health Act 1848 Ditto.

Durham County Palatine Jurisdiction Ditto. Confirmation of Executors, &c Ditto. Sale and Transfer of Land, Ireland Ditto.

Ecclesiastical Corporations Leasing Ditto.

Oxford and Cambridge Universities, &c., Estates Ditto.

Juries, Ireland Ditto.

Prescription, Ireland Ditto. Chelsea Hospital : purchase of lands To Lords. Chancery Amendment Ditto. Franchise Prisons : to abolish Ditto.

Non-Parochial Registers Ditto. Stamp Duty on Passports Ditto. Portumna Bride, Charities, Ireland Withdrawn. re Ditto. Ireland : to abolish tolls Havelock's Pension Ditto.

Public Health Act (1848) Amendment Ditto. Grand Jury Presentments, Ireland Ditto. General Board of Health, Skipton Ditto. Government of India, No. 2 Ditto. Public Health Act ( l818) Amendment, No. 2 Ditto. Non-Parochial Register Act Amendment Ditto.

Hon-lifinisterial.

Insurance and Assurance Institu- I Mr. Sheridan tions Debtors and Creditors .. Mr. Headlam London Corporation Sir R. Carden Tenants' Compensation, Ireland... Mr. Macguire Roads, Scotland Lord Elcho Medical Profession Lord Elcho Edinburgh Annuity Tax Mr. Black Medical Practitioners Mr. Cowper

Heirs, Scotland Mr. Dunlop. County Management Sir E. Kerrison

Registration of Partnerships Viscount Goderich... Election Committees Scrutiny Mr. Collins County Franchise Mr. L. King Medical Profession and Medical 1

Mr. T. Corporations 1 , Mr T Duncombe ...

Public Grounds and Play Grounds Mr. Slangy

Game Laws, Ireland Mr. S. B. Miller

Bishops' Trusts Substitution, No. 2 Mr. Briscoe Ecclesiastical Residences, Ireland . Mr. Napier Churches, &c., Ireland Mr. Napier Joint-Stock Banking Companies: I limited liability Mr. Headlam Church Rates Abolition Sir J. Trelawny Galway Freemen Disfranchisement Mr. G. Clive Marriage Law Amendment Viscount Bury Reformatory Schools, Ireland Sergeant Deasy Registration of County Voters,Scot- 1 Sir E. Colebrook Property Qualification Mr. L. King Common Law Procedure Act i Mr Atherton Amendment 1 '

Poor-law: to amend 59th Geo. III 1 Mr. C

c. 12 Read a third time.

Oaths Lord J. Russell Returned to Lords.

Gaols and Houses of Correction.... Mr. Bowyer Withdrawn. Prescription, Ireland Mr. Bland Ditto. Poor Rates, Metropolis Mr. Ayrton Dittot Patent Law Amendment Mr. T. Duncombe .... Ditto. and d Workmen Mr. Mackinnon Ditto.

Agricultural Statistics Mr. Caird Rejected. Cruelty to Animals Act Amend- 1 Viscount Raynham Ditto. meat

Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Act I Mr. Dunlop Ditto.

Leave given.

Ditto. Read a first time. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Ditto.'

. Ditto.

Ditto. Ditto.

Ditto.

Read a second time. Ditto.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Ditto. Ditto. Ditto.

Amendment

Weights and Measures 1 Mr. Locke Ditto.

Select Committees.

LORDS.

Deficiency of Means of Spiritual Instruction.

COMMONS.

Bank Acts.

East India : Transport of Troops.

Accidents on Railways.

Savings-Banks. Harbours of Refuge. Ameer All Moorad's Claim: Mr. I. Butt (reported March 12.) Colonization, India.

Contracts, Public Departments. London Corporation Regulation Bill. Consular Service and Appointments. Billeting System. Tribunals of Commerce.

Dublin Port Dues.

East India Railways. Donegal Destitution. River Thames.

Land Transport Corps. Gas, Metropolis. Stade Tolls.

[Noce.—In consequence of the change of Ministry, the " Ministerial Bills " in

the above lists belong to two Ministries. Thus of those which have become law, the Bank Issues Indemnity, the East India Loan, and the Havelock Annuities, belong to Lord Palmerston's Ministry ; the others to the Derby Ministry.] •