The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-26 00:00:00

tax had been continued up to the present day. He should
feel it his duty, when they came to that part of the bill
which gave the City the power to continue the tax, to move

an amendment to terminate such an arrangement.
Mr. LOCKE could not see why the City of London
should have such a sum as £11,500 presented to them as
an annual gift, and for that reason he should support the
proposition of his hon. friend the member for the Tower
Hamlets.

Mr, NORRIS could not agree with the hon. member
who had just sat down that the bill had any such object as
he attributed. He should therefore vote for going into
committee.

Mr. Alderman SALOMONS said no one who for an in-
stant contemplated the objects of this bill could doubt
its necessity, for certainly unless some inventive
genius could devise some means of floating vehicles in the
air the embankment of the Thames appeared the only other
means of providing increased accommodation for the enor-
mous traffic. He supported the bill. The corporation of
London, whenever it became necessary, would be enabled
to rebuild Blackfriars-bridge without taking a single penny
of the coal tax for the purpose. The fund out of which it
would be effected would be the Bridge-house estate fund.
Lord FERM.OY thought the coal dues could not be ap-
propriated to abetter object than embanking the Thames.
Alderman COPELAND said he would only make a few
remarks on the subject before the house. The city had
always exercised the greatest care in expending the sums
committed to their charge. The corporation received a re-
venue of £5,000 from Old Fleet market, and although the
constructing of Farringdon-market has proved a failure, no
blame was to be attached to the corporationfor such an event.
The city had pledged its credit for the cost of constructing
the new cattle market and new Carmon-street, and in doing
so they had expended in the various improvements nearly
£340,000 mere than their receipts. There would still exist,
supposing the new improvements were carried out, great
demands upon the city, for assuredly as soon as the Thames
embankment was constructed a new street from thence to
the Bank of England would 1.-Ave to be made.
The house divided, when there appeared—
For Mr. Ayrton's first proposal .. 5
Against it
Majority —155

The announcement was received with some laughter.
Mr. AYIZTON said, after the expression of opinion that
his proposals should not be entertained, ho would not
trouble the house to proceed further with them.
The other propositions were then put to the house and
negatived without a division.
The house then went into committee on the
MASSEY in the chair.
Clause 1 was agreed to.
On clause 2 being put,
Mr. MOWBRAY proposed to reduce the coal duty from

13d. to Bd. lie therefore moved an amendment striking off

the penny allowed for the building of the Coal Exchange
altogether, and also that the duty be then reduced from ls.
for 10 years to Bd. for 15 years.
Sir G. LEWIS thought the pressure of the coal dues was
not so strong as had been represented. The proposition
was to reduce the duty received for metropolitan improve-
ments. The sd. tax, which would remain after the pro-
posed alteration, would produce about £90,000, while the
9d. tax produced £160,000, the sum received being about
£150,000. Supposing the £90,000 were deducted
from that amount, he did not think there would
be sufficient funds left to proceed with the great
improvement. He therefore could not support the amend-
ment.
Mr. LOCKE thought the hon. member's anxiety to serve
his constituents in Durham had led him to propose the
amendment. He, however, as a metropolitan member, could
not accept such a proposition.

Lord J. MANNERS advised his hon. friend to with-
draw his amendment.

Mr. MOWBRAY acceded to the request of the noble lord,
and the clause was agreed to after a few verbal amend-
ments had been made therein.

Clauses 3 and 4 were agreed to.

Oa clause 5,

Sir H. WILLOUGHBY moved that the words "Metro-
politan Board of Works" be struck out, and that " Lords
Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury" be inserted.
The amendment was agreed to.
Mr. WILLIAMS said he should move an amendment,
confining the works to be effected from the revenue derived
from the coal duty to the embankment of the Thames.
The LORD MAYOR said the Thames embankment would
not fully meet the object for which it was intended, unless a
new street was constructed from Blackfriars-bridge to the
Bank of England.
Sir G. LEWIS opposed the amendment.
After a short conversation the amendment was negatived,
and the clause agreed to.
On clause 6,
Mr. AYRTON proposed to add the following words to
the end of the clause :—" And after discharging the
said sums and interest in the clause, the said duty of 4d.
should be paid to the account mentioned in clause 5."
Sir G. LEWIS said he had no objection to amend the
clause, allowing the proceeds of the tax to be disposed of in
such metropolitan improvements in, and adjacent to, the
city of London as Parliament might sanction.
.After a short discussion tho proposition of the right hon.
baronet was agreed to.
The house was engaged in discussing clause 7 at four
o'clock, at which hour the sitting was suspended.

The house resumed at 6 o'clock.
THE GARIBALDI FUND.

Mr. COCHRANE gave notice of his intention to alter
the terms of the motion which stood in his name for Friday
next, and to move as follows :—" To call the attention of
the house to the proceedings of a society advertised as the
Garibaldi Fund for the Ayr District of Burghs, while other
members of this house are on the committee of manage-
ment; and to move that the existence of any society for the
purpose of rendering assistance to any revolutionary party
in any country in alliance with England, is inconsistent
with the principle of non-intervention."