The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-22 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS- (This Evening.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool-
sack at five o'clock.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition
from Woolwich against the proposed plan of sewerage
for the metropolis.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that, residing in
that part of the country, he could bear his testimony
to the justice of the complaint mentioned in the petition.
A strong case ought to be made out to justify the plan
proposed. That the sewage of London was a nuisance
to London he was-free to admit, but that was no reason
why a large trench should be made at a small village
about six miles from London, and the whole of the
sewage emptied therein. The effect of such a plan would
be to render that village, as a place of residence, quite
unendurable.

Lord MONTEAGLE presented a petition from
Whitechapel against the smoke nuisance.,

THE CRIMEAN INQUIRY.

Lord LIICAN said he was anxious to correct a
misstatement that had been made with respect

to what bad fallen from him respecting the Judge-Ad.
vocate the other evening when addressing their lord-
ships on the subject of the late inquiry. That learned
gentleman had took the opportunity of coin-
zivnting rather warmly upon language which
he (Lord Lucan) had never used. In order to
render it more plain to their lordships, he would take
leave to read to their lordships what he really did say
on the occasion. He said that the Minister of
War, when excusing himself on the last occasion
for not producing the report, stated that he was
acting under the advice of the Judge-Advocate-Gene-
ral. He did not desire to comment on the manner
in which that learned gentleman had conducted himself
on the late inquiry. All he could say was that he as-
sumed more of the authority cf the board than
of the adviser of the Court. What cbaracter
that learned gentleman assumed when the doors were
closed he could not say, but he could not shut his eyes
to the fact that be was the colleague of the noble lord,
and was no doubt open—perhaps unfairly so—to the
suspicion that he bad been not more efficient in drawing
upthe report than thenoble lord was in producing it tothe
house. The noble lord then said I took the op-
portunity of observing, that contrary to all' sense
of justice in a political inquiry, it 'was to be re-
gretted that a political partizan should be the ad-
viser of the board, and I expressed a hope that the
next session would not passawaywithoutitheir lordships'
attention being given to the office of the Judge-Advo-
cate-General—the functions of which office had been
heretofore exercised its a manner necessarily tedious and
obstructive in eliciting the truth. Now, whathe (Lord L.)
complained of was that the learned gentleman had taken
the opportunity of replying to his observations by assum-
ing that he had used language in this house which he
had never uttered. He admitted the connection which
existed with one of his children and the family
of Lord Hardinge, but he denied having exchanged
one word with that noble lord since the early
part of April. He had never even mentioned
the subject to Mr. Hardinge or his daughter. The
noble lord having denied several other matters referred
to by the Judge-Advocate, concluded by observing that
it would be well if that learned gentleman were a little
more careful in the language which he used before he
brought for ward charges against any individual which
perhapshad not the slightest shadow of foundation.
Lord PANMURE said he could not do better than
give the noble earl the same advice which he volun-
teered to give to the Judge Advocate-General. The
noble lord defended the Judge Advocate-General
from the charges which had been made against him.
The Perth Borough and Harbour (No. 2) bill was
read a second time.

The Sheep, &c., Contagious Prevention Bill was read
a second time,
The Hospitals (Dublin) Bill was read a second time,
The Burial Grounds' (Ireland) Bill, was read a second
time.