The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-02 00:00:00

MITTEE BILL.

Thio. bill wr.s rrad .;11tijdtirat111;1prord.
(I ItI,LANI)) BILL.
'this bill pas.ed through cummittev, and was reported
without ainvettlmunts.
some hills brought up from the Commons were wad a
first time.
lordships adjoaranl at 8 edoek.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FitioAs, Arcusr
The Sl.V.Alica took the chair of one o'clock.

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I'lll VAT K DU SI N ESS.
The I.ords' anu•ndnients to the Shrewsbury and Chester
Railway Bill, and the Duke of Bridgewater 6 Estate. Bill,
were considered and agreed to.

PUBLIC BUSINESS.
NEW WRIT.
Mr. Got LBERN moved that a new writ be issued for
Downy:wick, in the room of Mr. Richard Kerr, who has
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
Agreed to.
PETITION PRESENTED.
Inc CRYSTAL PALACL—EIy Mr. DEEDIiS, front Ash
turd, in Kent and its vicinity, in favour of the retention of.
NOTICE OF MOTION.
EttillTß TRAM:HISS (SCVTLAND).—Mr. J. B. SMITH
gave notice for early nest session, of a bill to enable forty
shilling freeholders to vote at elections fur shires in
Scotland.
SUPPLY OF WATER TO TILE METROPOLIS.
Mr. COW PER moved—" That the Wandle Water and I
Sewerage Company Bill, Lee River Trust Bill, New River
Company Bill, and East London Waterworks Bill, having
been suspended, in consequence of • resolution of this
house, he allowed to proceed, storing the next session of
parliament, at the stage at which the said bills skall, at the
termination of the present session, be suspended. 2. That
if the pnimoters of the said bills shall give notice by adver-
tisement, once in the London Gazette, and for three succes-
sive weeks in the months of October and November next,
ur one of them, in the local newspaper or newspapers which
may be wittily in circulation in the part of the country
through which the line of works is proposed to pass, of their
intention to present a petition for the re-introduction of
such bill. and it a petition for leave to bring in any of such
bills shall be presented to the house during the next
session of parliament, and referred to the exa-
miner of petitions for private bills, the examiner shall
examine whether the said petition be the same in substance
as any petition for the same purpose, and from the same par-
ties., which was premed in this session of parliament, and
in that east whether a subscription contract or declaration
in lieu thereof, as required by the standing orders, binding
in the usual way the subscribers to the undertaking, has
been entered into and is valid at the time of such inquiry,
sad whether, in the caws where a subscription contract was
sends, the deposit at U. per cent. upon such subscription is
lodged in the manner required by the standing orders. 3.
That in such ease, and on proof of such notice having been
given as atseesaid, the standing orders with respect to any
such bill shall be held to have been complied with, and the
committee to which any such bill shall be referred shall
ematisse whether the bill be in rimy regret the same
as such former bill at the last shqm of its proceed-
ing in this house during the present ammon of parliament'.
The object of the motion yr to prevent the promoters of
these bills trout being put to the additional expense of com-
mencing proceedings de ieee in the next session.
Agreed to.
NEW ZEALAND SETTLEMENTS BILL.
This bill was read a third time and pared, after a pro.
test from Mr. V. Smarm, and a defence of the bill by Mr.
Hawes; as also were the Lunatics (India) Bill, and Crown
Estate Paving Bill.