The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-12 00:00:00

THE STATUTE LAW.

The LORD CHANCELLOR introduced a bill for the
further revision of the Statute Law from the time of
William and Mary up to the time of Lord Campbell's bill,
which was read a first time.
THE PATENT LAWS.

Lord BROUGHAM called the attention of the house to
tho state of the patent laws, which the noble lord consi
dered required some amendment.
i The Prosecution Expenses Bill passed through com-
mittee. _ _

The Labouring Classes Dwellings (Ireland) Bill was
read a second time.

The Fishery Piers and Harbours (Ireland) Bill was also
read a second time.
The Belfast Constabulary Bill was likewise read a second
time.
The Indian Prize Money Bill was also read a second
time.
The report of amendment on the Drainage Maintenance
(Ireland) Bill was brought up and agreed to.
The Charitable Trusts and Deeds Enrolment bill passed
through committee.
The Luncy Acts (Scotland) Bill passed through com-
mittee.
INNOVATIONS IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH presented several peti-
tions on the above subject.
[LEFT SITTING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tnis EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway (Branches, &c.
Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway (Deviations, dm),
and Somerset and Dorset Railway.
GASLIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES BILL.
Mr. ADAIR moved the further, amendment of the re-
port on this bill.

- Mr. TITE strenuously objected to the bill. It sought
to erect a series of immense gas works in the neighbour..
hood of Victoria-park, and for that reason he would
not be a party to giving the powers asked by the bill. He
pointed cut a site which might be most advantageously
occupied by the company, but they refused to entertain
the proposal, and they proposed to erect works in close
proximity to Victoria-park, which had recently cost
the house £75,000. The Board of Works had
spent £25,000 in making approaches thereto, and
the expense of the park, which was now about
to become permanent, was £6,000 per annum; all
this was to go for nothing, because the gas company
had made up their minds to erect the works on a site
which would inconvenience and discomfort thousands of
the poorer classes. He moved that the report be further
considered that day three months.
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the report of the bill. Ho, as chairman of the committee
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house which the bill had been referred, said he hoped
house would not agree to the proposal of the hon. member.
It was not, as was generally supposed, intended to vote to
erect gas works in the middle of Victoria-park ; the
site proposed was a marsh ; not a house near
it for a considerable distance, and it was surrounded by
water, so that the great outcry that had been got up
against it was absurd.
Mr. B. HOPE said he had visited the spot, and he
assured the house he could not call the proposed site a
desert waste. The gasworks, if erected, would become an
intolerable nuisance, and therefore he should support the
motion of the honourable member for Bath. If these
works were sanctioned it would in effect be inviting
people to disfigure and make the metropolis as objection-
able as possible. The whole question appeared to him to
be whether the company should be called to lay down a
little more piping by moving their works from the re-

quired site or not. Ile hoped the house would give the
motion of the hon. gentleman the member for Bath its ap-
proval and assent.
Mr. AYRTON said the question to be decided by the bill
was not confined to the erection of a limited amount of gas
_ works, but whether they would allow two gas works to
unite, and for them to concentrate their whole establish-
ment near Victoria Park. He thought that because a
nuisance already existed near Victoria Park it could not
be laid down as an argument to introduce a far greater
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rous to the surrounding property from fear of explosion.
Mr. W. COWPER said the erection of those enormous
and gigantic gasworks near Victoria-park would be ex-
ceedingly objectionable. (Hear, hear) He, for one, could
not consent to become a party to subjecting all those who
went to the park for enjoyment to breathe the noxious
vapours that emanated from gasworks. On public
grounds he thought it the duty of the house not to sane-
, Wm any bill which would endanger the health or pollute
the air near Victoria-park. The country had spent a great
deal of money in forming the park for the benefit of the
working classes at the eastern extremity of the metropolis,
and now all was to be destroyed because two great gas
companies proposed to unite and concentrate all their
works within six huudred or eight hundred yards
of Victoria-park. He could not see why the gas
companies could not go elsewhere, as there were plenty of
places away from habitations where gasworks might be
erected without injury to any one. Ho hoped the house
would not reject the proposal of the hon. member for
Bath. (Hear.)
Sir J. PAR UTON said he had been solicited on the
part of a large hospital established to combat with con-
sumption to use his utmost endeavours to prevent the
erection of ages works in close proximity to that establish-
ment. He thought such a proposal at once highly inju-
rious, and therefore he should support the Motion of, the
hon. member for Bath. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. S. BUTLER trusted the house would giveits assent
to the amendment of the hon. member for Bath, and thus
rescue hundreds of thousands of industrious artisans -from
the nuisance that was sought to be imposed upon them.
(Hear, hear.
Mr. PAU L said he should give his vote in support of
the bill, because he thought the great outcry that
had been got up against it totally groundless. The great
opponent of the bill was the popular preacher and public
agitator of the neighbourhood. (Hear, hear, and laughter.)
It was for the house to say whether this redoubtable per-
son should dictate to them where they should allow the
erection of gas works. He contended that the gas works
would not produce a nuisance, because all the gas manu-
factured was to be purified by a process which would alto-
gether relieve it of its noxious properties.
Sir R. PEEL said he thought the opinion of the corn,
mittee ought to be maintained. He objected to the hen.
member for Bath standing up in that house as the standard
of taste. He thought that when a committee of that house
had decided that the site selected was a fit and proper
one, it was highly ridiculous for the house to blindly
follow the advice of the hon. member for Bath. He
should like to knew whether Battersea Park was de-
stroyed by the gas works that existed in the locality—
(hear, hear)—or whether Bath, which
was one of the most
beautiful places in the country, was disfigured by the gas
works that existed there. (Hear, hear.) He
comma tea
house would support the determination of the committee.
Mr. LUSK supported the amendmdnt of the hon. mem-
ber for Bath.
Mr. HENLEY asked whether it was a sensible con rse
to adopt, after having spent £lOO,OOO on a certain spot,
that a group of gasworks should be erected in very close
proximity thereto. He thought not, and therefore he
should vote against the bill.
Alderman LAWRENCE said he felt certain the house
would protect the interests of the poor of the east end of
London, and refuse to give its assent to such a proposal
as that contained in the bill. It was said that the gas
works at the Temple were not a nuisance, butltl it was pro-
posed to remove them,
he like those from Brie ane and the
Curtain-road, to a proposed site near Victoria-park. If
b •sa u nousature that some n
these works were of the
believe whit need was
would have the house
gentlemen
there of removal all. (Hear.)
Mr. L. KING hoped the house would support the de-
cision of
the committee, and reject the amendment of the
hon. member for Bath.
Mr. STANILAND said as a member of the committee
to which the bill had been referred, he hoped the house
would support the decision it had, alter the greatest const,
deration, arrived at.
The house then divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment 136
Against it
Majority
The amendment was therefore lost, and the report was
further considered, and the bill ordered to be read a third
time.

[LEFT SITTING.]

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

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HURSTBOURNE STAKES.

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Mr. Padwick's Novice (Mann) 2
Marquis of Hastings' Lupa (Fordham) 3
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