The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-20 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PAR LIAMEN T

HOUSE OF LORDS—YESTERDAY.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Great Western Railway (Additional Powers) Bill
was read a second time.

THIRD REA.DINGS.

The Wilford Bridge, Londonderry, and Coleraine—ln-
verness and Aberdeen Junction, and Inverness and Ross-
shire Railway—Dollow and Kilmore Commons Inelosure--
Leadburn, Linton, and Dolphinton Railway, and London
and South Western Railway (additional powers) bills were
read a third time and passed.
BUSIi'ESS OF THE HOUSE.

The Marquis of BATH had given notice of his in-
tention of moving for a select committee to consider the re-
solution of the house regulating the mode of taking divi-
sions in their lordships' house. The noble marquis
referred to the mistake made by the Bishop of
Winchester the other evening, when that rev. prelate
went into the wrong lobby. If their lordships
should be of opinion that the remedy could be met by
a resolution, he should not press for the committee, although
he thought the subject could be dealt with in the manner
he proposed. He thought the way in which divisions were
taken in that house was very inconvenient, and he urged
that the same mode should be adopted by their lordships
as was the practice in the House of Commons.
Earl GRANVILLE thought the matter had been consi-
dered by the noble lord the chairman of committees, and
he had framed a resolution that would meet the matter in
question.
Lord REDESDALE moved the following resolution :
" That if any lord shall have by mistake gone out with
the Contents or Not-Contents (as the case may be),
having intended to vote on the other side, he
shall wait until the other lords in the same
lobby shall have passed out, and on presenting him-
self to the tellers desire that he may not be counted by
them, he having entered that lobby by mistake; and the
tellers shall thereupon come with such lord to the table and
inform the house of the circumstance, and shall ask the
said lord whether he was in the house when the question wa■
put, and, if he should reply in the affirmative, whether he
desires to vote content or not content on such question, and
the vote of the said lord as then declared by him shall be
taken by the tellers in the house, and recorded by them
accordingly."—Agreed to.

--PRGISTER OF VOTERS BILL.
This bill was react a third time imu
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-YESTERDAY.

Tho SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
WITHDRAWAL OF THE PETITION AGAINST
MAJOR O'REILLY.

The SPEAKER announced that the petition against the
return of Major O'Reilly, the sitting member for Longford,
was withdrawn.

PRIVATE EUSINESS.

The foll Owing bills were read a third time and passed :
Bolton and Blackburn Road—Bridge of Weir Railway—
Falmouth Water—Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway.
The Lords' amendments to the following bills were con-
sidered and agreed to, and the bills were ordered for third
reading :—Publin and Meath Railway—Greenock and
Wemys Bay Railway—North Eastern Railway (Market
Weighton and Beverley Extension, &c.)—West Midland
Railway (Additional Works).

The following bills were read a second time :—North
British Insurance Company, Reading and Reading Union
Gas Companies, Wakefield Water, and Windermere Dis-
trict Gas.