 | 1866 - 636 страници
...April vj, 1866. Miscellaneous. l CHEMICAL NEWI, l May 11, 18«. MISCELLANEOUS. EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE OPERATION OF THE METROPOLITAN GAS ACT OF 1860. THE evidence taken before the Committee above named... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1866 - 1166 страници
...something might be done towards making deposits really available for the construction of the line. The Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the subject recommended the adoption of measures xvith that end in view ; but their Report came at the... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1866 - 894 страници
...Banker, himself prepared. He gave his evidence, in 1857, as an authority not to be disputed, before the Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the beneficial effects of this very Bank Act. He was then a member of the Upper House. Nobody dared to... | |
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...pipes of ale, and 365 gallons of spirits converted into punch. Even in our own time it came out, before the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the subject, that a late MP for Yarmouth had spent 7o,ooo/. to retain his seat. In Professor Pryme's time... | |
 | Portugal - 1869 - 254 страници
...observe that the English themselves in the same year so far considered the island abandoned by them, that the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the condition of the British possessions on the western coast of Africa, especially invited their attention... | |
 | Sir George Christopher Trout Bartley - 1871 - 630 страници
...purpose of educating the children together on a large scale, seems to have originated in 1837 with the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the working of the new Poor Law. This Committee recommended ' That the Poor Law Commissioners be empowered,... | |
 | Dirk Mulder Bosgoed - 1874 - 512 страници
...undertaking, but the necessity of it. (z. pi.) 1674. kl. 4o. 3221. Fale, (Bob.) Observations on the report of the Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the State of the British fisheries . London, 1786. 8». 3222. Fea, (James) Account of the methods of fishing... | |
 | 1874 - 536 страници
...this sale was 127,795 dob. THE ADULTERATION OF FOOD. MILK, BUTTER, AND ВВЛАО. At the sitting of the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the operation of the Adulteration Act, Dr. Voelcker, the analyst of the Royal Agricultural Society of England,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 244 страници
...the assistance of the unfortunate garrison. This is the evidence of John Cooke, who was at that time secretary to the Governor and Council of Calcutta, in the first report of the Committee of the House of Commons in 1772. Orme remarks: — " Never, perhaps, was such an opportunity for performing an heroic... | |
 | Arthur Crump (political economist.) - 1877 - 416 страници
...of the Bank Act was in 1857, when another monetary crisis took place. The causes, in the opinion of the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the matter, leading to the panic of that year were three, viz. 1st. An unprecedented extension of our foreign... | |
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Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities. 
