The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-18 00:00:00

WAYS AND MEANS.

The house then went into committee of ways and means,
when the following resolution, were agreed to on the mo
lion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer :—That towards
making good the supply granted to her Majesty, there be
famed and applied to the service of the year 1863, the sum
of 467,467/. 3e. 7d., being the surplus of ways and means
granted fur the service of preceding years. 2. That towards
making good the supply granted to her Majesty, the sum of
9,897,5221. 16s. sd. be granted out of the consolidated fund
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The home then resumed.

UNION RELIEF AID ACTS CONTINUANCE BILL
This bill was read a third time and weed.

COILPANIES CLAUSES RILL.
This bill was read • third tine aad passed.
RAILWAYS CLAUSES BILL.

This bill, UJoen(lJ, Vaaconsider7d ;;cl;greed to, and
ordered to be reed ► third time.
WATERWORKS CLAUSES BILL.
This bill, as ►mended, was considered and agreed to.
TURNPIKE TRUSTS ARRANGEMENTS BILL.

This bill was reed a third time and passed.
EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE../3ILL.

The house went into committee upon this bill.
Mr. HENNESSY moved th►t the Poor-law (Ireland) Act
be omitted from the schedule. . .

Sir R. PEEL opposed the amendment.
The committee divided, when the numbers were:
Foe the amendment 7
Against it
34-27
The schedule was then agreed to, and the bill then paned
through committee.

INDEMNITY BILL.
This bill was read a second time.
PETTY SESSIONS (IRELAND) BILL.
This bill pawed through committee.
NEW ZEALAND (GUARANTEE OF LOAN).
The report wee brought up sad agreed to.
The Colonial Letters Patent Bill was reed a second
The Lords amendments to the Naval Medical Supple-
mental Fund Society Winding-up Act (1861) Amendment
Bill were considered and agreed to.
The Lords' amendment to the Meer* of Royal Natal
Reserve Bill were considered sod agreed to.
The Lards amendments to the Public Works (llanufac-
turing District■) Bill were also considered and agreed to.
The Lords' amendments to the Sheep and Cattle (Scot-
Lod) Bill were considered and agreed to,
The Poisoned Grain, he., Prohibition Bill, as amended,
was considered, and ordered to be read a third time.
The Pauper Lunatic Asylums Bill paned through com-
mittee.
The bones adjourned at a quarter to two o'clock until
Monday.

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PARLIA-
mom —Yesterday the steam•boat bills of the Great Eastern
Railway, North British and Morayshire, were recommitted
and re-considered in committee, and after bearing a sup-
plementary statement from the promoters, the committee
considered their report, in which they malign their reasons
to the house for passing the preamble; of the bills. The
opposition of the North British end of the magistrates of
Dunfermline was takes in committee of the Lords against
the Scottish Central Dunfermline and Perth and Aberdeen
Junction Railway. The select committee of the Lords on
railway companies' borrowing powers held another meeting
on the matter.

CHRIST Cnnacn SCHOOLS, ST. GEORGE'S EAST.
—The children attending theme schools, to the number of
1,200, were taken for their annual excursion on Thursday
to Epping Forest in a special train from Mile-Had. An
ample supply was provided for the use of the large party.
consisting of 300th.. of barn, joints of lamb, veal, sod roast
beef, 5001 be. of bread, 400th.. of cake, 40 gallons of milk,
and two barrels of beer, all of which they enjoyed with
evident satisfaction. Most of the teachers were present,
and, with the Rev. G. H. WOW, and Messrs. Muted sod
Foulger, the churchwardens, devoted their best energies to
enhance the happiness of the children. The band of the
Tower Hamlets Engineers, composed of former pupils of
Christ Church school under the command of Mr. Duke,
the analetant master, sadded considerably to the enjoyment
of the day. Yesterday, the younger children, to the
number of 250, were entertained at the panonage, Watney.
Buser, by Mr. and Mrs. WC/ill.
OPIRA GLASSES.—T. HARRIS and SON'S GLASSES
AUL retain the celebrity long avoided to them by the hablturs
of the Open; they possess high rnagnUying power, with •
large sad perfectly distinct field of view, the acted of partis-
an. T. Harris and Son make or alter Opera Glasses eo as to ao.
curate') snit nearsighted eyes. A variety of the newest term
and &anon for this ecoson. Moderate pnces. Thos. Hama
and Son, Opticians, opposite the Waists Museum gates, London.
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