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London, England, 1852-05-05 00:00:00

vvgDgEgwty EVENII,T(iy, MAY

(Hear, bear.). I have never found fault with the rno-
tives of thole 'tithe proposed to deprive me of the power
of bringing in a Bal on this subject —(Haar, hear.) It
was a proceadin, I believe, quite without precedent.—
(Hear, het,-.). Dwing,qie time, I have sat in Varlismant
On the Second reading of this Bill, opposed it, it was said
liiihtativettikeil_oinwrio.tnivoe-ss uocfhthp
not
that my reetives must not be with a view to the r:se:LI:17ot; didit; ilefiecnadusfeat
de-
fence of the country, but that they were party motives.
--(Hear, bear.), 1 deny sueli an 'interpretation of gly
conduct.—(Cheers.) . It is -a gross miarepresentation
of what my inten!iona were tin the subject.--Gear.-)' I.
can hardly speak en,this subject without saying`that the
Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State -for the
Home Department, And some Gentlemen on the other
side, have most fairly addressejtheinselves to any argtl'
ments I have used.—(Hear, hear.) I have nothing to
caniplain of on their part; and with regard to the Iligbt
lion. Gentleman the Secretary of State nothing could be
more fair than the manner in which he met my lulu'
went.—(ilear, hear.) I own, as the matter at present-
stands, I think it batter that this Reuse, having &aided
is favour of the principle of the Bill, Shotilti go WO
Cenimittee, and no alterations should b made that aro
inconsiateet with the general intentiona of the Govern
ment.—(lietir, hear.) I Cannel say I take a very sin;
guine view of its f.fliclenoy;' and 'I think it will be found
netesaary,'probably, at the commencement of the next
year, to review the whole subject of the defences of the
country.—(Hear, hear.) 'I
think- it probable without
any view to our divisions an the' stibjecv—that we may
arrive at a sysWm of defence. that may 'hope'thaps bet-
tar than the local militia I propose, or the regUlar mtlitia
now proposed, and by which we will be' all satisfied the
Country is sufiloiently defended.—(flear, hear.) lam
afraid you will find the Billinits operation, while it will
be obnoxious to-many complaints, will "not give such a
force as you cann-rely upon; but Ido not think that in
the preseat session you will' be able to determine upon
such a force.—L(Heir, hoar.) I think it better that the
present Bill should piss, and in the next session we can
consider the alterations that should be • made, and the
means by which we can best amend ii.—(Rear; hear.)
If I should prove to be totally Mistaken—if 50,000 or
80,000 efficient men, on whom military men can rely for
the defenee of the country, can bo obtained, I shall be
glad I was mistak?n; but if; on the contrary; the gene-
ral sense of the Rouse shall be we are not secure,
I trust we shall hive samo ethei and more efficient rnea-
sure.—(Hear, Mar:)
The House divided, when there appeared—
For Mr. Cobden's amendment
Against it...

or to any reservoir the whole of the water from which
is dietributed through district mains or pips for other
than domestic purposes.
" Clause 3. From and after the 31st day of D,lcenaber,
1855, up water shall be brought or conducted within the
metropolis by any company for the purposs of domestic
use, otherwise than through pipes or through covered
aqueducts, unless the same shall be afterwards filtered
before distribution.

Clause 4 is to the following effect : —From and after
the 30th day of August every company shall eff,!ctually
filter all-water supplied by them within .the metropolis
or, domestic use before thesame shall pass into the pipes
for distribution.
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Clause 5 states that three months before any com-
pany shall resort to any new source of supply, such
company shall give notice in writing thereof to the Lords
of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plan-
tations hereinafter called the Board of Trade, and there-
upon, within-one month after receipt of suctrepotice,!the
said Board of Trade shall, if they think fit, appoint a
competent verson as an-inspector, who shall report with
respect to atiy sources then authorised by' Parliament,
whether the directione of the special Ant have beeacom-
plied with in reference thereto; and with respect to any
eow sources, not authorised by Parliament, whether the
same are capable of supplying good and wholesome water
for domestic purpesee.
" Clause 6 provides thst the inspector so appointed
shall, within ten days after such appointment, give
notice in writing to the company thereof, and of the
time at which he proposes to visit and inspect the
sources.
" Clause'? 'directs that the Board of Trade shall,
within 21 days after the receipt of the said inspector's
repoit, send to such company with respect to any such
new sources of supply not authorised by Parliament, a
certificate in writing of their approval or disapproval
thereof ; and with respect to any such sources as shall
then be authorised by Parliament, a notice in writing,
stating whether in the judgment of the said Board of
Trade the directions of the special Act hare in reference
thereto been complied with.
" Clause 8 specifies that in certain oases the matter
may be referred to the Attorney-General.
" Clause 9 provides, that if at any time complaint as
to the quantity or quality of the water supplied by any
company for domestic use be made to the Board of
Trade by memorial in writing, signed by not less than
20 inhabitant householders, paying rents for and sup-
plied with water by the company, it shall be lawful for
the Board of Trade, at any time within one month after
the receipt of such complaint, to appoint a competent
person to inquire into and concerning the grounds of
such complaint, and to report to the Board of Trade
thereon.
Clause 10 stipulates that the person so appointed
shall, within three days after such appointment, give
notice thereof in writing to the company; and after such
notice as aforessid tie shall have power to inspect and
examine the waterworks of the company, atd to inquire
into and concerning the grounds of such complaint, and
the company and their officers shall afford all reasonable
facilities for such inspection, examination, and inquiry.
" Clause 11 fixes the penalty for any person obstruct-
ing such inspector in the due prosecution of such inspec-
tion,e examination, or inquiry, at any of
not
ing 101.
" Clause 12 directs that if, after receipt of such re-
port, it shall appear to the Board of Trade that the said
complaint is well founded, the Board of Trade shall give
notice thereof in writing to the company.
" Clause 13 provides that if the company shall fail to
remove the ground of complaint, the matter is to be re-
ferred to the Attorney-General.
" Clause 14 makes it compulsory that every steam-
engine, furnace, or other work in which coals shall be
consumed by any company for the purpose of the water-
works, shall be constructed on the most effectual prin-
ciple for consuming its own smoke.
"Clause 15 provides that after the expiration of five
years from the passing of this Act everp company shall,
subject to the provisions of the special Aot relating to
such company, provide and keep in the district mains
already laid down, or hereafter to be laid by them, a
constant supply of pure and wholesome water, sufficient
for the domestic use of the :inhabitants of all houses
supplied by such company, at such pressure as willut make
the water reach the top story of such houses, b not
exceeding the level prescribe& by the special Act of such
company.
`• Clause 16 provides that it shall be lawful for any
company from time to time, with the approval of the
Board of Trade, to make such regulations as shall be
necessary or expedient for the purpose of preventing the
waste or misuse of water."
The document concludes with a clause interpreting
the terms employed in it.
The question of rates and tolls is to be determined in
relation to the peculiar cases of the respective_oompa-
nies, to be inserted in the several Bills.

MAGAZINES, &c. (CONTINUED).
BL ACKWOOD. _ .

Attractive, perhaps, beyond almost any other sub-
ect
that could be just now selected as the theme of i
a magazine contribution, gold is the subject of the I
first article in Blackwood for May—" Gold : its Na-
tural mid Civil History." Evidently written through-
out
with much reflection and after very considerable
research, the paper will eminently repay perusal.
Scarcely, less interesting, and, in a literary sense, im-
measurably more valaable is the second essay in the
number, an appropriate review of the "Life of
Niebuhr," the most adventurous of all phi-
lologists. Full justice is done by the writer
to Niebuhr's profound and various erudition, and
what is yet more—to his ardent and comprehensive
imagination. A rather superficial but genial biography
of " Thomas Moore" startles us by commending
what to our thinking is, of all his works, the one of
most questionable merit, his "Life of Byron," but
in the writer's final opinion upon the position as-
sumed by the bard of Ireland in literature we most
cordially agree, an opinion declaring that " Moore's
future fame will depend on his National Melodies."
Sir Bulwer Lytton's " Novel" par excellence so
called, as it approaches its close, becomes
more than ever enthralling.. There is a
wisdom worthy of La Bruyere in that "Initial
Chapter" in which the latent operation of Hate is no-
ticed as among the most peculiar characteristics of
" English Life." now-a-days. Almost admirable as
this chapter is the lament pronounced over the glory
of Bond-street, long since departed. Our friend
Squire Hazledean, accompanied by Parson Dale,
arrives in town, and his arrival portends ill fortune
to his fine-hearted scapegrace of a son, Frank. Dr.
Morgan, the benevolent homoeopathist, " turns up"
again as in gratuitous attendance on the Squire's
cousin, Captain Higginbotham. Poor Burley—big
John Barley—the strong man of genius ruined by the
very robustness of his vitality, the creation
which of all others in the fiction does most
honour to the head and heart of Bul wer—(verifying
his assertion in the explanatory epilogue to Not so
Bad as we Seem, that he is "proud of his order")—
JOHN BURLEY, henceforth the companion picture to
DAVID FALLEN—dies. There is a noble pathos in
the description. Leonard, who has discovered Burley
through the charitable medium of Dr. Morgan, is, of
course, at the death-bed ; and with the demise of poor
Burley the present instalment terminates. Audley
Egerton, by the way, stern man of business though
he is, living even in the iron moil of public life,
wins upon us strangely in these later chapters, being
only less loveable than that most gentle and
chivalric of all the characters penned by Bulwer—
Harley L'Estrange. The bad genius of the story,
Randal Leslie, becomes, we feel convinced by premo-
nitory sensations, more and more involved in the web
of his own spinning. One glimpse of him, obtained
in ch. 10, b. xi., is in the streets of London at mid-
night, when the author exclaims, in accents pecu-
liarly his own, in their touching and almost solemn
beauty—" Solitary amidst the vast city, and on
through the machinery of Civilization, went the still
spirit of Intellectual Evil." Leonard, in the end, we
feel assured, will gain, as his wife, Helen, and Har-
ley, Violante. "Our London Commissioner" is scarcely
as amusing in his second as in his first contribution
—doing justice and (although it is expressed in
the language of absolute panegyric) only justice to
Charles Mathews, the most consummate artist and the
most perfect of all actors, as a light comedian. Be-
sides some graceful verses, entitled " The Gold-
Finder," Maga contains a pleasant notice of Mr.
Angus B. Reach's last book, under the heading of
" The 'Vineyards of Bordeaux." In this contribu-
tion we revel in the condemnation of that most
loathsome of all fruit the olive. Speaking of
such titles for books as " Claret and Olives,"
" Wine and Walnuts" (a capital old gossipping
woik by the way, and not as the reviewer
in Blackwood supposes, with " the wine corked and
the walnuts wofully shrivelled"), as "Nuts and Nut-
crackers," as " Grog and Biscuits," " Sherry and
Cheroots," " AlCoho. and Anchovies," " Tumblers
and Talk," " Ale and 2Esthetics," or " Beer and
'Batty"—we wonder no mention was made of" Cakes
and Ale," a production better known than all together,
and written moreover by one of Maga's own contri-
butors. The number closes with a political argument
upon what is called " The Democratic Confederacy.',

AINS WORTH.
After the customary chapters of " The Lancashire
Witches," by the editor, we have some exquisite and
heart-born verses, from E. E. M. K., entitled " The
Birthday." Among the continuations are additionai
instalments of the " Florence Hamilton" of Miss
Julia Addison, as well as of " Velthinas" and " The
Confederates." A rather wordy, but still graceful
contribution, is the " Page from the Domestic Life of
Pompey the Great," by Mrs. Edward Thomas. " The
Fatal Phial," or what is absurdly entitled a tale
of horror of Haverstock Hill—calling disagreeably
to mind Rocker's horrible murder of Delarue—is a
sheer extravagance. Tom Hood might have made
the incident laughable in the " but Charles
Vernet seems not to understand even the significance
of his mother tongue, calling a neglected field " a
mausoleum" for dead cats and dogs ; as well call a ditch
a cenotaph, as a field a sepulchral building or mauso-
leum. S. W. Thornbury has a rude but spirited
metrical piece, called " The Jockey's Song." The
rest of the number is of average merit,
.and, in some
instances, of more than average mediocrity.

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DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.
This number seems peculiarly dedicated to flowers,
a suitable offering indeed for the "queen of months."
" The Heirs of Randolph Abbey" is continued ; the
two chapters are very awful —l* a murder is planned
which the law cannot reach," and " the record of a
madness which is not insanity." The following verses
are very beautiful
"A COINA FOR MOORE.
"Another Genius is not slow
To gather home her jewels now,
Nor might sho spare the opal rare,
That shone on Erin's brow.
That caught from every changing light
A flush, a sparkle, or a hue
That trembled 'twixt them both—but oh!
'Twas beautiful all through.
" Moore, at the watchword of his name,
What witching scenes before us smile,
The sunny landscapes of the Eae,
The old mysterious Nile.
Bright fancies glistening while they weep,
Or glowing till those (cars depart,
In sweet uncertain strains that bang
Like rainbows roand the heart.

" My mother sang them by the fire,
Her voice wcs true and soft of tone,
It was my childish thought that Moore
And melody were one.
My love to thee, my country's bard,
Thy praise is a familiar theme,
My very cradle has been rocked
1.1-I,t) the' }oung mars dream.'
" Oh, fain would we our minstrel's grave
Were wept upon by Erin's showers,
But still, though England holds his dust,
His fame—himself—is ours.
And 1, that I should write of him
As one who all for love would come,
To plant a wild forget-mo•not
Beside a marble tomb.
" Farewell, farewell, I love to think
Tby minute of ' eternity'
Made earth look dim when angels moved
The crystal bar for thee.
The sparkling garland thou hest dropped,
Unlike the peri's, fadeth never,
'Tis bound about thy country's brow
For ever and for ever.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The Eclectic Review
,commences with a " History
of Maynooth College,, in which the
articleshewriter
on
nroLngolrya
objects to its;,Al maintenance.
Th
"Memoirs of the Whig P ty' " and
Howitt's Literature of
V\i and Mary
Northern Europe" are the most striking.
The Sportsman contains its usual variety of
ec s•
subj t Anecdotes of foxes will be found entertain.
ing. The engraving, entitled " Holiday Time," re•
presents a hound and three beautiful little spaniels,
who are playing in a field. Two articles on the
Kafirs are found in the Colonial Magazine. No. XI.
of " British Possessions aLd Colonies" is descriptive of
the island of Ceylon. The " Verses on an Aged
Emigrant " are pleasing and well written. The
Farmer's Magazine is devoted entirely to agricul-
ture, presenting much information on this subject.
Tait's commences with No. 2 of " The Governments
of Continental Europe." It consists of France and
Rome, " The Working Man's Way in the
World" has reached the fifteenth section. The
plates of Le Follet are, as usual, the
chief attraction. A sheet of patterns for embroidery
is, however, added. The Ladies Companion contains
the Story of Angelique, by the talented Miss Jews-
bury, Mrs. Ogilvy's Autobiography of Laura Stud-
legh, i 9 continued ; the " Fate of a Flirt in the Olden
Time" may perhaps prove a lesson to young ladies of
the present day. The Church of England Magazine is
illustrated by an engraving cf Trinity Churc, Cam-
bridge, and several instructive sermons. The Illus-
trated Exhibitor has a portrait of J. Turner, M.A.,
and eight pictures of the History of Pegasus. The
British Journal and The Biographical Magazine axe
continued in their accustomed style. In the latter
may be found a history of Thomas Moore. The Po-
o
pular Educator is a new serial, which conveys instruc-
tion in the rudiments of all the usual branches
education. So much information, at a very low price,
is rarely to be obtained.

TlME.—Since Time is not a person we can over-
take when he is last, let us honour him with mirthiand
cheerfulnez4 Qt 4,rt while Le is pasiiug.....,Kidds Own