The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-18 00:00:00

Irk* eamgehee ibast ap=plaallarelea—less
trieldtraho4sul adoestestes of sash an
es% mike le the proviTicas matekeil la the &were Let,
Mat and other plane vlibk the bills of atieto.
Hey mem belapy without my
_of the bombes analog Irma
the speedos of that an. 'lse mai he mild the male
lord that the smeltery emailtime of this gnat easeregelis,
Messed of hoproviag, as it might be expested to
with the of ssedissi seiner. toad the =
Issikgs hamealty and shady of the great mass of the
peogla, had. to my the least, read Mil; but he spoke under
the earrestisa of the =TAW geallemen who wen present
when ha expressed his belief that he was comet in raying
that it had retrograded. (Hear, bear.) The melancholy ex-
perience of lest year, and the vast number of violins to that
fetal malady, the chnlers,—no loss theta 16,000 in the me-
' teepolis slaw—were lamentable preen of the truth of this
CP:ftine. The association were greatly encouraged by
edi,* expansions used in the royal speech, as deli-
wed le pHimmut by her Majesty's conuaininers ; end
stra esssiadsa trusted they did not presume too more
whin they took it for mated that such also were the
smadmmatm ef the noble lord. There was ore point—a
yak* el Medderable delicesy sad difficulty, but one moot
=Lnearcted with the great object the association
r —to which he particularly wished to draw the
oak lord's attention. It was to the improvement of the
dwellings of the poor. The tetanal improvement of their
dwelling by means of sewerage sad drainage, end their in-
kraal improvement to a sertala Clint, by giving them a
Man Impious slept? of water upon the very lowest terms,
might, perhaps, effected without any great difficutiy,
lent improvement is the canstraction in those dwellings,
eenossesd as the questioa was with local sad individual
inagessekned with various rights cf property, was full of dill-
era* The aesociatioa, nevertheless, hoped that the legis-
lators weak deal with this question, and in its wisdom pro-
Mfia Mei remedies for the enormous evils that were ex sting
M milght have the effect of removing some at least of them.
Yo lemslof the noble lord would also excuse the liberty he
took k anproming the deep regret which the members of the
Mentlefilen Mt at learning that orders had just been issued
by lb. bibs to impose a duty of 10s. per 1,000 upon that
key Imgetreat improvement in the constnrion of houses
--bellow hicks. He very mach feared, from the in-
formation he had received, that ten result of this order
would be that the active and most beneficial efforts of the
Society he Improving the Dwellings of the Po fr would be
brought te • close, or that they would be encumbered with
so much difficulty that the chances of success in this beano-
lent undertaking would be very much lessened. Ile hoped,
therefore, that this subject might receive the serious conei-
derides of her Majesty's government. Another object
which, on behalf of the association, he ventured to press
upon the noble lord's artistica—one, perhaps, less difficult
than the last—was the amenity for an anteadnent of the
Nuisances Act. The &plumes respectfully asked the
noble lord to have the goodness to inform them,
if he thought fit to give ea answer to the question, whe-
ther, in consequence of the gracious expressions is Me
Majesty's speech at the opening of parliament, they sight
hops that a bill would be introduced, under the eanis
tin of her Majesty's government, for the sanitary improve.
meat of the metropolis. Anik ant, if no such latontimi
should be satertainerby her Itsjestj'a government, whether
If aMU for the improvement of the sanitary condition ef
the metropolis should be introduced by some member of
either house of parliament, such a measure would be favour
ably considered by her Msjesty's government; also, whether
their assistance would be eiven to those who might wish to
carry such a bill into law. The association, however,
earnestly and anxiously hoped that the first branch of thie
alternative might be calculated apse: and that her majeev_••
governaseat would see the importance—permit him to aid,
the duty—of bringing in some effective measure fur isse
proving the sanitary condition of the metropolis. ((User
hear.) The right ev. prelate then handed to the Bohn
a copy of the resolution which were unanimously agreed to
at the late meeting.
Mr. SLANEY, M.P., in supporting the objects of the
deputeiou, adverted to the deep interest which the noble
lord had for a loog time taken is this question. For his own
pert, se one of the commelminen for inquiring into the
health of towns, and also as on of the commissioncn for ia-
gulling into the sewage of the metropolis, he bed bed marl
opportunities of making himself acquainted with that subjeet,
and every inquiry he had made in connexion with tilde
commission and subsequently had coolirmed his previous
deep conviction that what was now asked for was of the Ira
T, sot only to the temporal welfare of the pest
= bumbler classes, bat to the improvement of thole
meal sad religious habits.
Mr. WYLD, 11. P., called the noble lord's attention to the
iisflative supply of water in the metropolis, observing the
during the late epidemic dtreees prevailed most is these
quarters where the suppd*, were small sad the quality hid.
' Notwithstanding the efforts of the different pebble maw
nisi there were at this moment 60,0:0 houses in the metro-
polis ansupplied with water, containing 610,000 penises. Of
these 80,000 house, 40,000 had no right to a supply. This
was a question which did not concern the poorer them
only. The association did not themselves venture to
any plan to remedy the present state of things; lePariZ
begged most mostly to :all the attention of the goverment
to the necessity of a constant supply of water in every apart-
meat of the habitations of the poor, upon the high pressure
principle, at the lowest possibfe cost.
Other 'atlases, among whom were several Mermen,
who detailed the requirements of their several parches in
sanitary mattes having spoken,
Lord J. ILLISSELL said—l have listened with gnat
attention to what your lordship has said upon this subject;
sad lam sure your lordship and the deputation will see
that it is impossible for me to enter here Lao the particular
views of the government, or into a discussion upon any
general measure. 1 can only state to you that I consider
the object no less important than it has been described to me
by the members of the deputation who have just spoken. It
has constantly engaged the attention of the government, and
my noble friend Lord Carlisle has been in constant communi-
cation with me upon it. I know that, with regard to the me-
tropolis, he had felt the difficulties of the subject very
greatly ; sad certainly his opinion is, that there can
be no general measure which can comprehend el the sub-
jects which comprise misery regulation ; but he thinks it is
more feasible to attempt by separate measures to meet the
various evils that have occurred. (Hear.) With regard to
a general mature, I should also my we must consider that
in this country there is very naturally and properly great
jealousy of any interference either with local rights or indi-
vidual will and freedom from control, and that when you
bring in a hill of 350 clams, you find very great difficulty
is contending for each of tease clauses against the separate
opposition that may be made to them. But I will only say
this, with regard to the difficulties of the subject, that we
wi I give our best attention to them, and I can assure your
lordship and the deputation that her Majesty is deeply in-
terested in this subject. (Hear, hear.) Lord John Russell
added, that the government wee in favour of separate mea-
sures rather than of one general measure.
The deputation thou retired.

ENousit Doos FOR THE VICEROY OF EGYPT.—
S 1 braes of greyhoucds end deerhounds, of great
beauty, which form_riart of en intended present to hi. high-
ness the viceroy of Egypt, from the Zoological Society, have
arrived in town, and may be men at the gardens in the
Regent's-park, this afternoon and to-morrow, from three to
Eve o'clock. The greyhounds are from the kennels of
Lord Sefton and Ur. E. G. Homby ; they wiU be joined at
Southampton by others from the kennel, of the Muer&
Email, and will be shipped in the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer of the 20th.
THE POOR-LAW BoARD AtD LOCAL UNION.
—Letters have bean received from the Poor law Commis.
skarn by the guardians of the Plympton St. Mary and the
St. Omuta utions, refusing to confirm tha resolution gamed
by the guardians for the »auction of the salaries of their
cinema. The Poor law Commissionen say, as the ea/arias of
the Mikan was fined without any reference to the price of
eon, and as there has been no augmentation during high
prices, it would be unfair to reduce the payments now.
HORRIBLE DEATH. Great oonsternetioa was
created at the county gaol at Taunton last Thursday, eying
toe hightful cam of suicide, committed bye lad 16 years of
age, named W. Houssell, who, it appears, had been com-
mitted for two months' imprisonment for abacondiag from
the Chard Union. On the day above mentioned, he threw
himself headlong under the wheel of the treadmill, which
was then beiag worked by 18 men. Every means were
adopted to check the motion of the wheel, which, however,
was unavailing until the lad warn mutilated most fearfully,
and on being extricated life wee quite extinct.—Sherkrne
Marna&