The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-08 00:00:00

THE ORIMEA.NINQUIRY.

Lord LUCAN asked Lord Panrnure when the report
of the board of general officers who presided over the
late court of inquiry at Chelsea would be laid on the
tab!e ? He was aware that that rerrt was only
signed last Friday, and was to be laid before her
Majesty fur her approval. It might therefore take
some time before it would be ready for presentation
to their lordships' house. But still when it was recol-
lected that we were now in the month of July,
and that it was expected that Parliament would
be up in about ten days or a fortnight, he did not think
it was at all unreasonable to press this qne-tion upon the
Government. He was only speaking what be believed
was the feeling of all the officers concerned when he
expressed a hope that that report would be laid before
the house upon an early day.
Lord PANMURE said it was (Fite impossible he
could state the precise day
_when the report would be
produced before their lordships. It was signed only
on Friday last, and he knew it was at present
in the hands of the Commander-in-Chief. He deeply re-
gretted the sudden illness of that gallant officer, which
might have the effect of preventing him submitting that
report to her Majesty for some time. After her Majesty
had considered the report it would be placed iu the
hands of the Government. He quite agreed with the
noble earl that as soon as the Government had sufficient
time to form their opinion upon it they ought to loose
no time in laying it before Parliament.
The Earl of LUCAN—Has not the report been sub-
mitted to her Majesty ?

Lord PANMUR.E—It had not been submitted
to her Majesty ai 'Ate a s ye4ter lay.
The Earl of LUCAN—I am not satisfied with the
answer of the noble lord, and• I shall, -therefore, renew
the question on Friday next.
The subject then dropped.
REGISTRATION OF VOTERS (SCOTLAND)
BILL.

Their lordships then went into committee on this bill.
After a short discussion the clauses were agreed to,
and the bill was reported.
STATUTES NOT IN USE REPEAL BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(This Day.)
The Speaker took the chair at 12 o'clock.

PUBLIC HEALTH BILL.

Mr. COWPER moved that the house go into com-
mittee on this bill.

Mr. KNIGHT moved as an amendment that
the bill be committed than day three months. The
Government had committed a breach of faith enter-
ed into by them with the house in 1854, when they
were promised that this subject should be re-
opened, and a bill introduced removing the objec-
tions complained of in the present law. In the follow-
ing year a select committee was appointed, which
heard evidence and prepared a bill founded thereon. He
no doubt should be told that the bill contained many of
the clauses of the bill referred to, but he objected to all
the stringent clauses of that bill being taken and the re-
medial clauses omitted, which were prepared by the
select committee as a means of getting rid of the objec-
tions to the present law. The hon. gentleman entered
at great length into the detmls of the measure before the
house, pointing out the objections he had to the various
clauses of the bill.

Mr. PALS complained of a bill affecting, as this did,
important interests being brought in at so late a period
of the session, which prevented its provisions from being
properly discussed. He had no objection to the bill
going into committee, with the understanding that the
objectionable clauses should then be struck out.
Mr. W. H. LANGTON (Bristol) had no objection to
the bill going into committee, but reserved his right to
oppose it at any future stage.
Mr. COWPER supported the motion for going into
committee. The press of other business had prevented
the introduction of the bill at an earlier stage, and he
contended it was better to have an instalment of the bill
of 1855, referred to by a previous speaker, and clear up
ambiguities in the present law, remedy many of its de-
fects, and take certain new powers, than for the law to
remain for another year in its present unsatisfactory
state. The house then would be in a better position to
consider the proposed organic changes in the formation
and constitution of Boards of Health, and the manner
in which the law of 1848 shall be remodelled. By pass-
ing the present measure 209 towns would be benefitted,
and obtain powers for cleansing which they did not now
possess, but which it was desirable should be extended to
them. He thought it would be better to go into com-
mittee and discuss the 200 clauses of the bill seriaatim.
Mr. HENLEY said the present bill would not remedy
the evils of which the public complained. He assured
the house the clauses of the bill would be discussed at
great length in committee, and considering the late
period of the session, it would be a waste of time to pro-
ceed further with the bill. He approved the house going
into committee on the bill.

Mr. BAINES asked the house to go into committee
on the bill when the President of the Board of Health
would not proceed with the objectionable clauses.

Mr. GREENE objected to the proposed legislation
on this subject, and opposed the house going into corn-
mittte on this bill.

Mr. BARROWaIso opposed the motion for going into
committee.

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said thebill of 1848 was passed
in consequence of the cholera, since that time nearly
every town in the kingdom had obtained local acts, and
it was not necessary that this c )stly central system
should be continued for three years, and till the end of
the then session of Parliament. He hoped the house
would not continue these powers, and he was at a loss to
know what the Administrative Reform Association, that

was to reform everything, was about—(bear)—that it did
not expose this Board of Health job. It the hon. mem-
ber for Sheffield, in his investigations intb our public
offices, was to drop in at that little hole of a place in
in Parliament-street (laughter) where the relative of the
Prime Minister presided, he would flail that he and his
assistants bad nothing to do, and that they had to rack
their brains to devise something with which to come
before Parliament with a semblance of having work to
do, and convince the House that there was a neces-
sity for the continuance of the Board. (Hear, hear.)
First, this session, the President of the Board of Health
tried physic, and introduced his Medical Bill, which was
afterwards withdrawn. Then came the Vaccina-
tion Bill, which had also been withdrawn, and next came
the present bill, with wbich the curtain dropped for
the present session. (Laughter.) He hoped this would
be the last year of the existence of the Board of Health.
The house then divided, when the numbers were—
For going into committee
Against it 73
Majority against the 6-overnment —l2
The bill was accordingly rejected amidst loud cheers.
Mr. COWPER then said he should rely on the sug-
gestion that had been thrown out, and should to-night
ask for the continuance of the present law for one year.
He defended the conduct of the Board, and said it was
his wish to do as much work as he could for the public
benefit.
COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND) RE-