The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

sent Govennment—he entirely exonerated them—but by
the late Government. The Cominit,sieners were appointed
to perform a great public duty, and so far a • they were
concerned they had entirely fulfilled it. When they
took:office they found the whole affairs of th Commissien,
from a misundervanding that had existed on the par!, of
the foroier Commissioners, in a most
.diorgAn;zad
state, and he would mention one circumstance to dhow
the mode in which the business of the Commission
had been carried on. A confidential
paper ad-
dressed to one of the late Commissioners, occuoyinga
place also In the new Commission, although headed
" private and confidential," had found its
way into
in thento the
public papers, and the first time he saw it was
nbgotrhreoiwr
public press. He and his colleagues felt that an office. in
such a state of disorganization did requira.tobe. re-or-
ganizsd, and that duty they had fultilleadv.n,, They also
matured plans for the sewerage; but,.h tob done so,
a were position
performi
they found they were not in
money. The Act under which they
duty was so imperfect that, although he had entered
into negotiations on the part of the Commissioners for
the loan of three-quarters of a million, to be returned
in about thirty years by the imposition of a small
rate on the metropolis, it was found that no party
could safely make the loan. They felt they were
placed in a most onerous position, which only those who
were acquainted with the state of the metropolis could
form an opinion of; and feeling how urgent was the ne-
c and finding that there was no prospect of their
being carried out, they h
ssity of carrying out the +corks to which he had re-
ferred,ad felt it their duty to resign;
for however anxious they were to fulfil a public duty,
yet they were not prepared to remain in an invidious po-
sition, and to be pointed at as not carrying cut works
with which the interests and morality of the metropolis
were so mush connected. The drainage of the metro-
polis would require at least 1,000,0001., and that
amount could not be acquired in any other way
than by
loans for a period of about thirty years,
and to be repaid by a rate not higher than 6d.
in the pound. It had been said that the plan
Proposed by the Commissioners was to make the Thames
the medium of the sewerage; but he declared, that
neither on the part of Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Rendell, Sir
W. Cubitt, nor himself, or any of the Commissioners of
1849, was the idea of taking the Thames as the means
of sewerage ever entertained; and that, after giving the
subject their most careful and anxious deliberation, they
had come to the determination that their only course
was to take such a point below the metropolis as would
render it impossible for the water of the Thames near
the metropolis to be affected by the refluxion of the tide.
It was no fault of himself and his colleagues if those
plans were not carried into execution—he regretted
exceedingly that they had not been able to carry
out those works, but the responsibility did not
rest with them. At the same time, although they did
feel it their duty to resign their offices, the Government
might at all times command their services.
Mr. WALPOLE said that the country was much
indebted to the late Board for the manner in which
it had performed its arduous task, and he begged per-
sonally to thank his Hon. Friend and his colleagues for
the attention they had paid to the subject.—(Hear.)
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.

A messenger from the Lords brought up the follow.
lg. Bills, to which their Lordships bad agreed:—
fassen,Y2sers' Act Amendment.

Poor-1w Commission Continuance (Ireland).
Representative Peers for Scotland Act Amendment.
Adams's Estate.
Differential Dues.

Cork Improvement, without amendment.
Great Western, Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Shrews.
bury and Chester, Shrewsbury and Hereford. Birken-
head, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, and Hereford,
Ross, and Gloucester Railway Companies.
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Rail-
way (Abandonment of Part of Line), &c.
Humber Conservancy and Kingston-upon-Hull Docks.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (No.
1), with amendments.