Star.
London, England, 1828-03-27 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

A new Writ was ordered to issue for the Borough of Old Sarum,
in the room of J, IA ALUAIIDSR, Bs+ who has acoepted the
Strerdship,ofthc Chiltern Hundreds,
. .kriliVO It maned, the mond reading of the Usually
ur f 1.41 Usti hip, .whkb, after some cons visas°. was',
read a second time. 'Rd sent to a Committee.
Loyd P. GOWER presented Rertoirs Papem, centainhlg the.
Acts of the 'Legislative Assembly of Jamaica.—Ordered to be
panted.
Alio a return of the number of Slaves belonging to the Govern-
ment of the Mauritius.—Ordered to be printed.
Sir IL VAUGHAN presented a Petition from certain Malt..
step of Caernarvon against the Halt Duty Regulations.—Laid on.
the table.

Mr. R. DUNDAS presented a Petition from the Incorporated
Surgeons of Edinburgh, praying for a repeal of the Test Acts.
Mr. PROTHERUE moved fora Rettirn showing the different.
Authorities empowered to grant Probates of Wills, and the places
wk-re sycb tlPcninents. are deposited.
Mr. LItTL..E.TON moved. for certain. Returns respecting the
AtteragiAmoupt of. Dimes, put. loto cit.:elation by the Bank of
Eqgland BraEch Banly..
c4Mtoru•sWwit.iteint ltyrawrtuplue RttOrniAlmwing the number of Ise.
t.
I•ANVItIiN.C4 I gEL PrVirAted.e Patitiost.fromthellalt-
steri of Cockerniouth, praying a repral:ot the.linit Act.
Mr. R. GORDQN.move4 for a lima Of gas caw instituted
in the several Courts curetting an ke AwitActinn in the
Dioceses of Canterbury and York, during -the three iearspreiediaS
the Ist January. 18g7.
pftWAQN IFRPSh; Ip a Bill.for applying certaln.Balances.
in the Eichequer to the Service of the ,Year.--liead.a first time,
and ordered to be read second time tolnoriow.
Mr. JEPHSON* moved for lesve to bring In a Bill to amend
the Law of Replevin in certain cases.
Mr. S. RICE seconded the motion, and complimented the Ho-
nourable Mover. upon the grains,whieh be:bad takeu during this
and the past Session In bringlog,the.stilkject before the attention of
the House.

vim asp coairoaapastArft.
Mr. Secretary PEEL rose to Ares pt two Petitions against the'
Mill for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. The first was
item the Magistrates, Clergy, and other inhabitants of Bolton-le-
Moor; the second from the Clergy of the Archdiocese of Canter.
Allbcrigh they.advocated titourse.differeat from that which
lte.ba¢.pµ{Wlol:ralfecting ILK 'Kamm ln.questlan, the Right Hun:
G1iqu411,1?j41174.14 4145.01 y to present the Petitions, each of
POsohl.. of • high. respectability ; and be begged
leave to bqM4. conctirred in. expressing sentbnents of. mach
Suomi fur, tba Disayntiut soy.
rOli" ware "Petit', ordered to lie upon the table.
• (ju the motion of Mr. G. L. DA WSON, the Committees of
Set and of Way, and Means wart severally postponed to.
pi 7 pep.
The Pawners Regulation Bin was read a third dote and pawed.
The lions than (at a Q,iazaa TAIT hes *Tons) adjourned.

• •
PAMAAMENTAtIf
WATXR SUPPLY To .T.HE mernopoLis. '
The Commission issued forliquising into the State
of the Strppky.ot Water to the Metropolis, and the Cor-
respondence between the Commissioners and rhe'Seere-
tory of State for the Home D.panment, respecting the
objects °filter Consinission, have been printed hy.order
of the Home of Commons. •
The tormernomimtes ip the usual form Peter Roger,
Doctor of Medicine, lind William Thomas Braude and
Thomas Telford, Esqrs. the Commissioners to inquire
into the State of the Sapply of Waltrip the Metropolis,
including an inquirr into the Wafer
,Companies on the
South and _Surrey sides. of the Metirciptalis, and author.
ising them, where the name shallappeor to be requisite,
' to administer an oath to any person whatsoetrerto he ex-
amined before them touching or concerning the premise'.
.The Akio wing
.is tt copy ót the Correspondence:
Extract eta Letter from the Cummiseiongrs of Water lotgoiryao
the Alarquis of LANSOOVIN dated 10th November. 11112./.
A. expeniesmept neeeinarily be incurred in the prosiasitionsof
an inquiry of extensive a nreure ae that which hes been entrusted
to them, ail • /leder', previously re commeseing their labours.
beg to reWielt infeenisitioo from your Lord:hip mos what sums WU
be placed at their discretlenary 'disposal for defraying these lad.
dental expenses. Among the sources of expense they would beg
leave to specify the taping of levels, the making of surveys, the
procuring plans of various kinds, and the proper remuneration to
be made to s chmpetent:wisiei-me•
Extract of a Letter from Mr:Sratsia Rica to the Commissioners of
Water Inquiry, dated Loth November, 1829.
With rem. ct to yeut either *sulkies, Lord I:ansdowe ,directs
'me to add, that the necessary expenses of this proceeding will todefrayed, as has been-usual in similar cases, when the Report of
the Commissioners isi made, making payments itt the mean Milk
(rept eiene to time Cur any espenses actually limped; be that
should it be actually indispensable for the purpuoje q( Weevil.**
the,seate ee'd supply of .wetes *the Alearepelis that any new works
should be commenced, it Would be expedient, in the first place,
that so estimate should be Made and sent into this Office for the
.foiliideratien of the Treasury.
The more inutlefllaie ?bite!" of your Ipgylry "meld berreere
teem to Lord Latiaduern to he the salubrity and descripticin of eke
wateritself; and the quantity in which it is furnished, together witk
such observations open the whole of the subject as cannot fail tb
occur to Gentlemen so highly qualified to give the desired Informs-
tieu to die Public as dime whom it has pleated his 'll/4mq to dente
ip the present Commission.
Theie objects appear to Lord Lansdown as hot likely to lead tp
any very protracted examination ; and he therefore hopes that you
may lie enabled to furnish him with all practital expedition the
itif,prinatiott requireel by the votes of Parliament. .
Copy of a Note from Seance Rice to the Commindonen of
Water Inquiry. •
Whitehall, it/ or 11 Dec. 1827 s •
Mr. T. Spann: Rice preeents. his compliments to the cumin*.
donee, of Inquiry into the Supply of Water tp tide Aletrepolis
and *directed by Lord Lansdqvan to communicate his LordiAlip!s
assent to the appointment of a Messenger; and to the verge:JAW*
of a sum not exceeding 1001. for paying the rent of apartments 84
which the business elf the Comniissioners new he carded me
Lard Lansdown at the same time wishes to convey to the Cote.
miasioners his expectation that progress may be made, and the
inquiry completed with as little delay as possible.
The Commissioners of Inquiry into the Supply
ef Water to the Metropolis.
Copy of a Letter frost Mr. Psiittires to the Commissioners of
Water Inquiry.
Whitehall, Feh. 19, 1898.
Guiventem—l am directed by Mr. Secretary Peel to Worm
you, with reference to she cute (view you had with him a short
time dace, that upon referiipg to the ihildreette Rirlieroine,
and the Terms of the Com t issiote Mr. Peers impression is the
sanie.svitis Oat which his predecessor Lord Lansdown SINB4O 144
have entertained, viz. that the male objects of the Commission ire
the descripcioie the quantity, and the salubrity of the weftr now
supplied to the Inhabitants of London Ly the several Recce Com.
parks.
Mr. Peel also concurs with his Lordship in the hope time the
information upon these points which was in the contemplation of
Parliament may be procured without any very protracted came:.
nation, or the taking of levels and waking surveys.
I have, &c. .°S. M. PffILLIPPS.
P. M. Roger,Al. D.
W. Ts tirade, E.q.
T.. Telford.
Copy of a Letter from the Commissioners of Water Inquiry to
Mr. Puieteres.
Apartments of Commissioners, 9, New Palate Yard,
February 29, 1828.
Ssa.—We have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of pour
letter of the 19th, referring to the interview we lately had with Rar.,
Secretary Peel, and conveying to us his opinion, that the main
obieccs of (pug Compiled.* ere the deseriptino„ the quantity, arid
the salubrity of the water now supplied to the inhabitants of the
nietriipolivelsy the several Water Commies, and hts declining to •
filrigiliu? It)* the Meet* Qf taking levels and snaking surveys,
which we stated would have been necessary to enable us to decide
upon valises plans for remedying the existing evils. We beg leave
at the. same time to represent to Mr. Peel, that we have been
laboriously occupied for the last four months in collecting a large
mass of evidence relating to a much more extended inquiry than
is comprised in the question to which be has now limited our
Commission.
This evidence we hoped would have prepared the way for our
recoompendation of a practicable. and efficacious plan of supplying
the whole of the Aletropolie with pure and wholesome water; an
object which we cannot but esteem as of considerable importance,
and which, as appears from the several petitions to Parliament.
giving occasion to the present Commission, has been so loudly and
to earnestly called for by the public.
While proceeding in that course of investigation which appeared
to us best calculated to satisfy the expectations of the petinoueris
and of the public, we considered it a very material t bject to obtain
the most correct knowledge of the true nature of Thames Weser,
which has been so much the subject of complaint, in different parts
of the River, from the mouth of the sea to Teddington, and for
that purpose we were about tu-procure accurate analysit of the wa-
ter, taken front different places, atisi more particularly from.those
whence the several Companies derive their supply, and in different
states of the tide; but as, front the exereesions of Mr. Peers scene
ments with regard to the nature of our Commission, conveyed fn
your letter, we are led to apprehend that he may not sanction our
,proceeding further in the *guides we were undertaking, we beg
tp be informed *beater the expenses necessarily attendant wads
en investigation will be defrayed by Government, as we had on.
.ginally reason to expect they would be, from the letters of Mr.
..Spring Rice to up of the eotll and tails of November last.
With regard to the mere questions of the descriptions and quan-
tity, and alleged quality of the water supplied by the Companies,
we are already in possession of sufficient materials for answering
these questions, as far as can be known from information supplied
bytbe Companies themselves, and from such further evidence as
we have examined.
But with regard to the salubrity of the water, it will not be pea.
'sibk for twto give any opinion which shall be satisfactory either to
the Public or ourselves, unless we are furnished with the informa-
tion to be derived front the several analysis of Thames Water, of
which we had already traced the plan, and taken ail the preliminaryslept to carry into effect.— We have, &c.(Signed) P. M. ROG ET.
AV 11. Tim& BRANDSS,
TilOS. TELFORD.
Copy of a Letter from Mr. Pitittiert to the CommissienetS of
Water Inquiry.
Whitehall. March 4, 1821.
Genera sex--I have laid before Als, Secretary Peel year law
of the 29th ultimo, and I have received his directions to acquaint
you, that be proposes to recommend to the Treasury that the inten-
tions of the Secretary of- State by whom the Commission for 'ln-
quiring into the state of Water to the Metropolis wasorizinally
appointed, with respect to the payment of expenses necessarily in.
curred in milling hew effect the precissohiects contemplated by.
the Commission, and with respect to the remuneration of tbp. pep
sons employed in that Commission, shall be fulfilled.
Mr. Peel has referred to hir. Sturges Rousse, who filled dm
office of Secretary of State white the Commission was appolniwis
I order to ascertain what were his views in reeoanending, its ap.
pointment the Omits; and bar Jeans. fans Mr. banes
Bourne that those view, were ht rile tellna Of idis. •