SKETCH OF PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS AT WITITSITNTIDE. HOUSE OF C031MONS.

Ministerial Bills Introduced 59

Received the Royal Assent 16 Rejected 2 (Oaths Bill and Scotch Education Bill); withdrawn 8 (Parliamentary Reform Bill ; Vacating of Seats (Ministerial)

Bill; Poor Removal Bill ; five Disfranchisement Bills): 10 Gone to the Lords 9 in progress 24

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Bills in Progress.

Parochial Schoolmasters (Scotland) Read a first time.

Police Ditto.

Hospitals and Infirmaries (Ireland) Ditto. New Forest Ditto.

Spurn Point (River Humber) Ditto. Excise-duties (Sugar) Ditto. Stamp-duties Read a second time.

Merchant Shipping Acts Repeal Ditto.

Wreck and Salvage Ditto.

Sheriff and Sheriff-Clerk of Chancery (Scotland) Ditto. Dublin Carriage Ditto. Bribery Prevention To Select Committee. Controverted Elections Ditto.

Portland, 80. Chapel Ditto. Oxford University In Committee.

Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Ditto. Towns Improvement (Ireland) Ditto. Colonial Clergy Disabilities Ditto. Registration of Births, &c. (Scotland) Ditto. Merchant Shipping Ditto. Customs Duties (Sugar and Spirits) Amended.

Holyhead Harbours: to Invest in Admiralty.., Ditto. Excbe uer Bonds (6 000 0001 ) Waits third reading.

Public Revenue and Consolidated Fund Charges Ditto.

Note. Four important bills have reached the Commons from the Lords. The Testamentary Jurisdiction Bill, the Common Law Procedure Bill, the Law of Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Bill, and the Powers of Leasing (Ireland) Bill. Upon these measures the opinion of the House has yet to be tested. .

.Bilts gone to the Lords—Railway and Canal Traffic Regulation; Customs-duties; Ex- cise-duties; Income-tax (No. 2) ; Gaming-houses; Consolidated Fund (8,000,0001.); Public Statues ; Church Building Acts Amendment ; Dublin Port.

The preceding lists relate exclusively to Ministerial Bills. With the ex- ception of two or three measures chiefly to explain or to continue existing laws, the efforts of private Members in the way of legislation promise to be less successful than in previous sessions.