The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-12 00:00:00

SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE METROPOLIS.

Deputy CORNEY asked whether any application bed
been made to Parliament by parties who proposed to
supply the metropolis with water from the vicinity of the
Colne ? The subject was one which affected the citizens
of London as to the navigation of the River Thames,
which was indebted to the Colne and other tributary
streams in that neighbourhood in no slight degree.
The REMEMBRANCER said that there had not as yet
been any application made to Parliament on the subject.
Deputy CORNEY said that a great deal had been men-
tioned about the instituting a new Water Company,
and he apprehended that if their object succeeded,
one of the mischiefs would be injury to the na-
vigation of the Thames, to say nothing of the
other evils which would spring from the speculation.
He begged to call the notice of the Remembrancer to
the subject if it should be mentioned in Parliament.
The REMEMBRANCER intimated that he should com-
municate any information he should receive to the
Court as soon as possible.
Mr. STEVENS presented a petition for assistance to
an institution for teaching the Blind to read. It was
an institution, he said, possessing powerful claims upon
the humanity of the Court. Oa the motion of Mr.
Stevens, the petition was referred to the Coal, Corn,
and Finance Committee.
ELIGIBILITY OF JEWS TO CORPORATE OFFICES.
Mr. ASIIURST presented the following petition from
Mr. David Salomons :
" The humble petition of David Salomons, to the
Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Coun-
cilmen.
" Showeth,—That your petitioner had the honour of
serving the office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex,
iu the years 1835-6, and received the unanimous thanks
of his fellow-citizens for the zealous discharge of hip
official duties. That your petitioner was also elected
an Alderman of one of the wards of the City, but was
not admitted to the office in consequence of his being
unwilling to make the declaration contained in the
9th Gco. IV. cap. 17, prior to his being sworn into
office. That although your petitioner has occupied,
and still holds many important stations of honour and
authority, yet he is debarred from corporate office
unless he subscribe the above declaration prior to
his acceptance of such office. That your pe-
titioner would readily afford every guarantee for
his maintaining all the institutions of the country
on acceptance of office, but be humbly submits that he
should be permitted to do this without in any manner
infringing on any religious or conscientious scruples he
may entertain, or leaving himself exposed to the sus-
picion of holding office by the practice of any evasion.
That your petition would readily subscribe the declara-
tion contained in the Act passed iu the Ist and 2d year
of the reign of her present Mejesty, and solicits the in-
terference of your Honourable Court to obtain such a
modification of that Act as may include your petitioner
amongst those classes who are allowed to subscribe the
declaration contained in the statute."
Mr. Salomons, Mr. Ashurst, and Mr. Pewtress ad-
dressed the Court, when the petition was agreed to,
there being but one hand held up against it.