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ing the produce of such surplus land (IGO acres) to the
payment of the principal motley and interest, amounting
in all to a balance of 281,7301. 9s. due to Government
iu respect of Battersea-park, Chelsea-bridge, and the em-
bankatent of the Thames at Chelsea ; and to submit that
Chelsea-bridge be opened to the public toll free, and was
entering into some details about the matter, when
Mr. FITZROY rose to order. There was a bill relating
to the tolls on Chelsea-bridge, which was read a first time
last night, and which stood on the orders for committal ;
and it was therefore irregular to enter on the discussion of
the matter now. (Hear.)
The SPEAKER said the conclusion of the motion was
to submit that Chelsea-bridge should be open to the public
toll-free. It would be irregular to discuss, on the question
of adjournment, a subject on which there was a bill before
the house ; and the hon. member must confine his observa-
tions to the latter part of his motion.
Mr. ALCOCK then, amidst frequent calls of "Order,"
proceeded to refer to some figures connected with Batter-
sea-park and Chelsea-bridge ; and expressed his opinion
that the surplus land would furnish the means of finding
the necessary funds.
Mr. P.F.NTINCK said it had been stated by the hon.
toeiiiiko. . 1 "11 imp•„i,l ins not
a local question, and he joined issue witn the
They had not been favoured with any argument to show
that this was an imperial and not a local question. He
believed it was a strictly local question. The government
wore asked to apply for plenary powers ; but to do what ?
why, to put their hands into people's pockets. It was a
disgrace to the richest city in the world to hand round the
begging box. He would not allow one shilling to be taken
out of the pockets of his constituents if he could help it.
Mr. CUBITT thought it was right that every town
should pay for carrying away its own filth, but if they im-
posed that duty on the metropolis, they ought to leave it
to the metropolis to say how it was to be done. (Hear,
hear.) The house twelve years ago decided that every
house should drain into the sewer, and every sower run
into the Thames. Parliament compelled every house to
drain into the river, and though there were sewers for
forty miles along the banks of the Thames, they said the
inhabitants of the metropolis should pay for cleansing the
river.

Lord J. MANNERS said if the hon. member (Alr.Berke-
ley) had been in his place at the Board of Works for only
21 hours, he would never have dreamed of charging apathy
against the members of the house on this subject.
The hon. gentleman was about the only one who had not
within the last fortnight suggested some plan or other.
(A laugh.) The hon. gentleman had come forward in a
decided manner, not to say what ought to be done, but
that the Government ought to be impeached if they did
not do something. They were prepared to Lring before
Parliament, at the very earliest opportunity, a measure to
settle this long-standing and difficult question. He be-
lieved that to raise questions upon this subject now would
only throw difficulties in the way of a subject essentially
difficult at present. He had been asked whether the Board
of Works had sent any scheme for his sanction. He could
only say that the board did yesterday submit to him their
plan, but of course he could not be expected to give any
opinion on it at once. The point where the outfall was
proposed to be by the plan was Barking-creek. Ho most
respectfully declined to enter into the question whether
the metropolis ought or ought not to pay for the drainage,
for he thought that that question ought to be deferred till
they produced the measure which they wore determined
to produce at the earliest possible opportunity.
CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS FOR THE TROOPS IN
INDIA.

Mr. DEASY rose to call the attention of the house to
the arrangements now existinc, with respect to the provi-
sions for Roman Catholic chaplains for the troops serving
in India ' • and to ask the President of the Board of Control
whether his attention had been called to that subject, as
well as to the regulations respecting regimental schools
and orphanages for the children of European soldiers in
India, and whether it was intended to make any altera-
tions in those regulations which would make them more
satisfactory to the Roman Catholic soldiers serving in that
country.
Lord STANLEY said the hon. and learned member was
probably aware that with regard to one subject mentioned
in his quostion, there had been an increase of pay and al-
lowances to Roman Catholic clergymen in India, so that it
was nearly double what it used to be. There had, how-
ever, been some delay in complying with the orders sent
out ; and no longer ago than the 24th of last month a de-
spatch of the Board of Control contained directions to the
Government to carry into effect the regulations without
delay.
Mr. GREER referred to the case of Presbyterian soldiers
in India, and intimated that next session he would enter
into the matter fully.
Lord J. MANNERS said, in reference to what Lad been
said by the hon. member opposite, he was quite as anxious
to sell the land in Battersea as be could be.
DUBLIN POLICE BILL.

Mr. COGAN appealed to the Secretary for Ireland not
to press the Dublin Police Bill at this late period of the
session.

Lord NAAS said with respect to the Dublin Police Bill,
it was their intention to press it. He believed that most
of the objections which were entertained respecting it
would vanish in the course of the discussion ; and that the
rate-payers of Dublin would find that they had no reason
to be dissatisfied with its provisions.
THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL.

Mr. A. SMITH begged to ask the Secretary to the Trea-
sury when copies of all the documents submitted to the
Right Hon. Sir John Patteson, as arbitrator in a cause
wherein the Attorney-General is the plaintiff, and his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall,
a defendant, together with copy of the arbitration award
thereon, would he laid on the table of the house?
Mr. HAMILTON, in reply, said the documents would
be published on an early day, and placed in the hands of
members.