Ministerial Bills Introduced, 54. Received the Royal Assent 20 Withdrawn

(Stamp-Duties—Drafts on Bankers Bill ; Fairs

and Markets (Ireland) Bill; Price's Indemnity Bill). 3 Gone to the Lords 4 In progress 27 —54 In Progress—Leading Measures of the Session.

Education (England) (Lord John Russell's .... Read a first time. Free Schools: Secular (Mr. Miner Gibson s)... Ditto. Education (No. 2) (Sir John Pakington's) (debate

adjourned on second reading) Schools (Scotland): Parish Schools (Mr. Stir- ling's) Education (Scotland) (Lord Advocate's) Testamentary Jurisdiction (debate adjourned on second reading) New South Wales Government Victoria Government Waste Lands (Australia) Acts Repeal Ordnance Board: to transfer to Minister for War Ditto.

Limited Liability Ditto.

Partnership Amendment Ditto.

Insolvency and Bankruptcy (Scotland) Ditto.

Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Bead a second time. Acts Consolidation and Amendment Bill Public Health Bill Ditto.

Metropolis Local Management.

Newspaper Stamp-Duties ... Gone to the Lords. In Committee. Read a second time.

Read a first time. Ditto. Ditto.

Grants of Lands : for purposes of re ship ens war- I Read a first time.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Read a second time.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Amended.

To Select Committee.

Gone to the Lords.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Waits the Royal assent. Woolmer Forest Jurors and Juries (Irelandl Grand Jury Assessments (Ireland) Poor Relief (ireland) Savings-banks and Friendly Societies Invest- ments Bill Passengers Act Amendment Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Advances Court of Session (Scotland)........

Cinque Ports : better government National Gallery (Dublin) Coal Mines: inspection Burial-Grounds (Scotland) Metropolitan Buildings Intramural Burials (Ireland) Militia (No. 2) Weights and Measures Registration of Births, Ste. (Scotland)

The preceding list is limited to Ministerial Bills ; but, for the sake of clas- sification, the Education Bills of Sir John Pakington, Mr. Stirling, and Mr. Milner Gibson, have been noted along with the Bills of Lord John Russell and the Lord Advocate.

Of the Bills introduced by private Members, one of the most important is Mr. Sergeant Shee's Tenant's Compensation (Ireland) Bill. It waits consi- deration in Committee.

In the Lords, the Cambridge University Bill stands for recommitment. The other measures move on slowly.