The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-30 00:00:00

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.

ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library;
a ia ninizic,-room, consisting of a new and eiegantSBB.if t-
we tit A VASES, Fig-ures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, ink-
stands, 'yeautitul inlaid Tables, Paper weights, dtc., in Italian,
Alabas er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c.
imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine•
ralogist to her %Iskjesty, 149, Stand, W.C., Lonaon.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS,
At ENE IC A LS, and FOSSILS, to Illustrate the new edition
of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly actuante
tae interettng study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY,
arid can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION In GEOLOGY and MINE-
RALOGY is given by Mr. TENXAN r, at 149, Strand W.C.

IXPERIAL PARLIAMENT

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HOUSE OF LORDS.—LAST EVENING.
The Lott') CHANCELLOR took hi seat on the woolsack
It five o'clock.

ROYAL COMMISSION.
The Royal Assent waj given by commission to the fol-

lowing bills :—Fortifications for Expenses Dockyard Ex-
tensions—Drainage of Land Acts (Ireland) Amendment.

Drainage and Improvement of Land (Ireland), Provi-
sional Order Confirmation (No. 2), Pheasants (Ireland),
Oxford University (Vinerian Foundation), Sheep and
Cattle Trespass (Scotland), Ecclesiastical Licensing Act
(1858) Amendment, Pier and Harbour Orders Confir-
mation, Colonial Laws Validity, Colonial Marriages

Validity, Defence Act (Amendment), Sewage Utilisa-

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tion, Parsonages, Malt duty, Ecclesiastical Commission,
(Superannuation Allowances, War Department Tramway

(Devon), Constabulary Force (Ireland) Act Amendment,
Navy and Marines Wills, Pier and Harbour Order Confir-
mation (No. 3), Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions,
National Galler (Dublin), Mortgage Debentures, Union
Chargeability, Lunatic Asylum Act (1853) Amendment,
Public-houses Closing Act (1864) Amendment, Metropoli-
tan District Railway, Pilotage Order Confirmation (No. 2),
Churches and Chapels Exemption (Scotland), Kingston
Harbour, Dunblane, Donne, and Callander and Scottish
Central Railway Companies, Crieff Junction and Scottish
Central Railway Companies, Caledonian Railway (Barr-
head and Paisley branches, and branch to Dumfries and
Lockerbie Railway), Edinburgh Merchant Company, Ham
Oyster Fishery, Great Eastern Railway (Bishop Stortford

Railway, purchase), Merthyr Tydfil Board of Health, Crof-
head and Kilmarnock Extension Railway, Halifax Extension
and Improvement, Metropolitan District Railway, Neath
Water, North British Railway (Edinburgh Station and
Market), Okehampton Railway (No. 1), Southampton Gas,
Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway, Cromford and
Belper Road, Manchester Corporation Water, Keyham
Pier, Rickmansworth, Amersham, and Chesham Railway,
West Bromwich Improvement, Fareham and Netley
Teign Valley Railway, Bristol Port and Pier, Cork and
Limerick Direct Railway, Isle of Wight Railway (Steam-
boats), Llanelly Railway and Dock, Caledonian Railway
(Balerno Branch), Southampton Corporation, Barnstaple
Roads, Belfast New Streets, Cheltenham Water, Crays
Gas, General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour and Cale
donian Railway Companies, Inverness and Perth and
Aberdeen Junction Railway Companies, Sutherland Rail-
way, Mid-Wales Railway (Eastern Extension), Carmarthen
and Cardigan Railway (Branches), Winchcomb Roads,
Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway (Deviations), Bishops
Castle Railway (Chirbury to Minsterley) Glasgow New
North Railway, &c., Carnarvonshire Railway, Wrexham,
Mold, Connah's Quay Railway (Dee Valley Branch),
Stonehanuand Nailworth Railway, Tottenham and Hamp-
stead Junction Railway (Deviations, &c.), Furness Rail-
way, Dumfriesshire Roads, Wolverhampton and Wal-
sall Railway, Belfast and County Down and Belfast,
Holywood, and Bangor Railway Companies, Sevenoaks,
Maidstone and Tunbridge Railway, Edinburgh and Glas-
gow Railway (No. 1), Monklands Railway, Caledonian
Railway (Bangholm Junction \ Westminster Improve-
ment, CrreatNorthern (Sleaford to Bourn), County Antrim
and Belfast Borough, Gres,i Eastern Railway (Capital, &c.),
Lugg Valley Railway, Solway Junction Railway, Burnham
Tidal Harbour, Denbigh, Ruthin, and Conran Railway,
Edgware, Highgate, and London Railway ; Fulham Rail
way, Lancashire Union Railway, Lynn and Gatton Bridge
Railway, Southport Improvement, Southwark Bridge
Transfer, Sunningdale and Cambridge Union Railway, and
I Belfast Water.
The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
Viscount Sydney, and Earl St. Germans.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Bagnalstown and Wexford. Railway Bill and Blane
Valley Railway Bill were road a second time.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Skipton andWharfdaleßailway,TunbridgeWellsWater, Ag-
more Valley and Ely Valley Extension Railway Companies,
North British Railway (Carlisle Citadel Station Branch),
Haddon and Bertley Road, Metropolitan Market, Mans-
field and Worksop Railway, Midland Great Western Rail-
way of Ireland (No. 2), Swansea and Aborystwith Junc-
tion Railway, Wigtonshiro Roads, North British and Edin-
burgh and Glasgow (Bridge of Forth) Railways, Black-
pool and Layton, Chesterfield (Newbold) and Dunstan Road,
Great Northern Railway (Junctions at Newark, drc.), Edin-
burgh and Glasgow and Monklaud Railway Companies,
Abergavenny and Monmouth Railway, Cambrian Railways
(Additional Powers), Chichester and Midhurst Railway,
North London, Highgate and Alexandra Railway,:Aberyst-
with and Welsh Coast Railway, Caledonian Railway
(Addditional Powers), Croesor and Portmadoc Railway,
Crieff and Comrio Railway, North British and Edinburgh
and Glasgow Railway Companies, Caledonian and Scottish
Central Railway Companies, Brecon and Llandovy Junc-
tion Railway, Brecon and Merthy Tydfil Junction Railway
(Various Powers), Mowedwyßailvray,Northßritish Railway
(Additional Powers), Highbridge Markets and Gas,
Great Western Railway, Deal and Dover Railway, St.
Philip and Jacob's Parish (Bristol), Ross and Monmouth
Railway, 'W atchead and Mutrhead Railway, Chester and
West Cheshire Junction Railway, Vale of IsTeath Railway