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London, England, 1858-07-03 00:00:00

STATE OF THE THAMES.

Mr. ROTIPELL called attention to the noxious st
of the Thames, and moved that the house consider
it the duty of the Executive Government to take
immediate measures for abating this dangerous
nuisance. He contended this was not a local,
but an imperial question. All agreed that the
work for getting rid of the sewage should be a
grand work, and he contended that it would not
be practicable, and, if practicable, it would be un-
just to charge the expense upon the metropolitan
districts.

The motion was seconded by Sir J. PAXTON, who
suggested that the nuisance might be alleviated, or
abated temporarily, by putting into the sewers lime
and water mixed ; though he admitted that this
deodorizing process would kill the fish.
Lord J. MANNERS stated the steps which had been
taken by the Government, who had authorized the
Metropolitan Board of Works to apply a preparation
of lime in the manner suggested by Sir J. Paxton, as
a palliative.
Some further conversation followed touching
chiefly the question whether the charge should be
local or national, in the course of which the Crux-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER announced that the lime
remedy would cost 1,5001. a week.

The motion was withdrawn.
WEEDON.

Colonel BOLDER() moved thitt an address be pre-
sented to her Majesty, praying that she will be
pleased to appoint a royal cononi,sion to inquire
into the systein upon which the books and stock
have been respectively kept at Weedon, as well as
the general mode in which the busin•.ss of the estali-
h:,,hreent at Weedon has been conducted, the result

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of anch mode, and tht state of tho hooks and stock
of store:. In support of his motion, he gave the
house somo. extraordinary detiuls or the strange
doings at Weedon, and he hinted that the inquiries
of the co.nonissioners should not be confined to that
particular establishment.
The motion was seconded by Mr. Gusts.
General PEEL said he did not intend to resist the
motion for a commission, which would do justice to
every one, and he believed it would be found that
many of the statements made before the committee
of which Colonel Boldero was chairman were not
correct. In the meanwhile, he hoped the house
would suspend its opinion.
Mr. T. G. Baring, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Coningham,
and Mr. Nicoll spoke in favour of the motion, which
wag agreed to.
Certain bills were forwarded their respective
stages, and, the remaining business having been
disposed of, the house adjourned at a quarter past
one o'clock.

ROUSE OF LORDS—TUESDAY.
The consideration or the Victoria Station and
Pimlico Railway Bill was adjourned, in order that
the First Commission3r of Public Works should be
beard by counsel against it.
The Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Act
Amendment Bill was read a second time.
The County Management Bill was read a second
time.
Lord BROUGHAM postponed the second reading
of the Independence of Parliament Bill till Monday
next.
Lord ST. LEONARD'S asked the Archbishop of
Canterbury whether he intended to introduce a bill
for improving the law of sequestrations, with a view
to deter incumbents from getting into debt or
obtaining advances of money on the credit of their
livings, and compelling and enabling them to reside
and perform their duties although their livings are
under sequestration.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY stated that a
measure, intended to remedy the defects of the
present law, had been prepared, but as there was
little chance of such an act being passed this year,
it had been postponed until the next session. The
bill enacted that, where the clergyman was neces-
sarily absent from his du►y, a much larger stipend
would be paid to the curate, and that the curate
should be put in possession of the parsonage house ;
further than this the authorities of the Church
thoaght it vas not within their powers to go.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—TuEsnLy.
At the morning sitting the house was occupied in
committeee with the clauses of the Galway Freemen
Disfranchisement Bill, an attempt in the committee
to arrest the progress of the bill having failed.
In the evening,

AUSTRIA AND THE PORTE.
Mr. DUFF inquired whether her Majesty's Govern-
ment had been informed of, or believed in, the
existence of any agreement, written or verbal, between
Austria and the Porte, whereby the former power
engaged to give assistance to the latter in case of an
outbreik in European Turkey.
Mr. S. FITZGERALD observed that the question
was a comprehensive and an unprecedented one, and
he doubted wbether any advantage could be derived
by the house or the country front questions so vague
and of such a roving character. No information of
the nature described had been received by her
Majesty's Government.
HAINAULT FOREST.
Mr. CAIRD called attention to the expenditure
incurred by the Department of Woods and Forests
on the Crown allotment of Hainault, and moved a
resolution that the costs or management on the
Crown allotment of Hainault, since the date of the
act under which it was disafforested, had been ex-
cessive, and that the management generally had not
been satisfactory. He supported his motion by
details of wasteful expenditure and excessive costs
of management on the one hand, and of injudicious
management. on the other.
Mr. g. A HxxxuroN explained the circumstances
connected with this allotment, the expenditure in-
curred in the various processes of reclamation
(which, he said, Mr. Laird had overstated), and the
general result, which, he contended, did not justify a
resolution equivalent to a vote of :ensure upon a
pnb'ic department.
After a short discussion, in which Sir J. Shelley,
Sir J. Trollope, Mr. Wilson, and Sir H. Willoughby
p trticipated, Mr. Caird replied, and the motion was
then negatived.
ENDOWED SCHOOLS IN IRELAND.
Mr. KIRK, in a speech of considerable length,
called attention to the report of the Commissioners
of Endowed Schools in Ir..lnni, end urged the neces-
sity of prompt remedies being spplied to the evils
and abuses which that report disclosed, suggesting
certain remedies. He co teln ied by moving a reso-
ution to that eff,:c'. •