Star.
London, England, 1820-05-03 00:00:00

IMRLIAMENVRY PROCEEDINGS.
MOUSE. OF LORDS, MAY 2.
The House met at four o'clock, when it was resolved that no
Petition for Private Bilk should be received after the 15th day
of the present month, and that no Report from the Judges, or
Petitions for Private Bins would be received after the 30th.
The Standing Orders, as applicable to Private Bills, were or-
dered to hv. taken into consideration on Thursday next, and,
their Lordships to be summoned on the occasion.
Mr. CiAIItSON, from the Insolvent Debtors' Court, brought
up an Account of the Balances in the hands of the late Receiver
of that Court up to the present time.
Lord AUCKLAND gave notice, tbat he would, on Friday
next, move for the appointment of a Committee to take into
consideration the state of the Law respecting the Insolvent
Debtors' Court.--. The House then adjourned to this day.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Several Members took the usual oaths. Among them were
A. lisseitn. Mr. Curtwee, Mr. twit/aster, and Lord
DrErtinJUST.
.lr. W. II Artvvx moved for Copies of all Reports made
1%7 the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Duties of
certain Officers in the Excise and Customs.
Mr. 1,1 iSIII NG TO N thought it would be convenient to
the House and more satisfactory to the Honourable Gentle-
man, to defer his motion for the present, as the accounts were
Erit yet completed.
Mr. W. HARVEY acceded to this proposition, and then
moved for an Account of the number of informations bled in
the Court of Exchequer under the Customs and Excise Laws,
rum the Ist of May, 1819, to the Ist of May, 18:10.—Ordered.
Colonel BAGWELL presented a Petition praying for leave
to bring m a Bill for the improvement of Cork Ibrbour.—
Laid on the table.
Mr. HUME moved for several Accounts respecting the Ex-
rettees incurred in the Islands of Ceylon, the Mauritius, Cape
of Good Hope, dm with the dates of the times when the same
were attritted.—Ordered.
Mr. BENNETT moved for several Accounts of Pensions in
Great /Britain and Ireland.—Ordered.
The SPEAKER said he had to inform the House that he
had received a List of the Barristers above six years standing in
Ireland, who had consented to hear evidence in eases of con-
tested Elections in that parr of the United Kingdom. If there
were any Election Petitions to be laid before the House, now
was the time to lay them en the table.—No Petition was
prt.sented.
emoKE FROM STEAM-ENGINES AND FURNACES.
Mr. M. A. TAYLOR said, it roust be in the re-
collection of the House, that in the Session before
last he had moved for a Committee to consider of,
smile means of putting a stop to the nuisances arising
*tom those great furnaces, the smoke of which con-
tinitally annoyed the bletropolis ; and, indeed, lie
might say the whole kingdom. His object was ft
consider of some means by which the smoke might
he consumed before it issued from the chimnies.—
trom the discoveries he had made, and from schat
he had himself witnessed, he was sure that the smoke'
which now issued, to the destruction of all kinds of
vegetables, might be removed and prevented. At
the time when he first brought this subject before the,
house, the Committee he moved for had been grant-
ed; t*ae Report of that Committee was before the
House ; and it dearly shelved that the plan for con-,
seining smoke was not impracticable. Since that
he had sopa several places where smoke was actually
consumed; and if the House would take the pains
to inquire, they would find it no difficult matter to
put a stop to those nuisances which now made Lon-
don, Liverpool, Birmingham, and Manchester un-
inhabitable—tLeud laughter).—Gentlemen might
make this a subject of mirth—they might think his
statement impossible—but he -meant to say, that Etc..:
rally those places were uninhabitable, for many.
people residing near great furnaces were obliged to
rend their families away from their habitations to
places hired for their reception, in order that they
might be free from those unhealthy nuisances. This
was done by numbers of people in Manchester.
he could prove to the-Gentlemen present that all the
pernicious ebullitions of smoke coming from steam-
engines might be prevented,. and this great evil re-
medied, then, indeed, they might have real cause for'
smiles upon their countenances. The plan he should
propose had been successfully carried into effect at
Warwick, in the manufactory of a Mr. Barnes; and
he could assert that it had been done with scarcely,
any additional expense, and with one-third less corm
wmption of fuel, than was now generally used in
loriraces. If Gentlemen who heard him would take
the -trouble of going to the manufactory of Mr.
Dames they would find this to be the fact ; they
NvOltiti scarcely be able to find where the furnace
was ; and they would perceive-no more smoke there
than in any common chimney. He bad himself
gone to Warwick, to be satisfied Of the fact which
he Row stated ; and, as a proof that no nuisance
existed in the manufactory he spoke of, there was a 1
bleaching ground within ten yards of the furnace
there was also a garden, and a conservatory : and
none of these sustained the slightest injury or annoy-
ance4rom smoke. A similar plan had been adopted,
with equal success, at a distillery a little distance be.;
)oial the Penitentiary on Millbank. If Gentlemen
would go there, they would see a blatk intense
smoke coming out of one furnace and passing into
another, where it was entirely consumed before it
ot iu:o the open air. He was sure there was no
man who must:not be glad if this great evil could.
be got•iid of by a compulsory law. He would ask
I.is 14iglitilionourable.fiienti, the Member for Liver-
I 001, what 'he thought of the state of the atmos-
pima in that great town, in consequence of the no--
inerouslornaces erected there? Ile would put the
same question to Gentlemen who had been at Bir-
mingham and Manchester. But in order to be fully
mltestiesi of the effect of o.ese furnaces, they treed
only go over to the other side of the water, where
there %vele several of them sending forth their masses
of smoke every day. In Bridge-street, Illackfriars,
there was a furnace which unnoyed•the whole neigh-
liourhood. He had witnessed ebullitions of smoke
bear• St. James's Palace ; and those-who resided near
or.frequented Hyde Park, must have been frequently
rinnoyed 4 y that which issued 'from the Cannon
Drewery. Time were several Gentlemen then in the
House who could bear testimony to the truth of all
las statements ; and corroborate all of them. If he
should•be able to satisfy the blouse that the-nuisance
I.e alluded to could be abated by the application
ceitainlemedies, he hoped he might be permitted to
living in a declaratory law by which such nuisaircel
3 sight Le abated by the verdict of a Jury. If he'
rceaoded in effecting an object so conducive to thW
I,4,aith and comfort of the 'Public, he •should con;
rider himself as having deserved-well of his country.
lie amcluded with 'moving, "That a Select Corn-
riatee be appointed to consider how it would be-
y.racticabic tompel•persons 'using -stearwengines
;tad fur, nacer, to erect the same in a masmwrless
:dicial to the health and comfort of the Public."