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HOUSE OF LORDS.

Drainage. of Land Bill ant

The royal

On the motion of the Earl of CLARENDON, the Water
Works Clauses Bill, the Gas Works Clauses Bill, and the
Markets and Fairs Clauses Bill, were read a third time

the las

Lord CoLviLLE moved for a copy of the proceedings at
"
presentative peer for Scotland, to-
Df the peers who voted upon that

gether with the name
occasion.
After a s
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versation, the motion was agreed to.
moved the adjournment of the house
_ the 15th of April, and intimated that their
ild then meet in the new building in the pa-
e appropriated by her Majesty for their reception.

until Tt
lordship
lac

HOUSE OF COMMONS

•TUESDAY

Mr. SPOONER rose to move for leave to bring in a bill
Tor the more effectual prevention of trading in seduction,
aid for the better protection of females. The hon. gen-
tleman was proceeding to state his reasons for proposing

the measure, when
Mr. C. II

LEY said that the subject was one to-
tally unfit for publication, and he therefore called the at-
tention of the speaker to the fact that there were strangers
in the gallery. The house was then cleared of strangers,

.ry remained closed during the discussion

and the g
which followec

Lord MORPETH had moved for leave to bring in a bill
for the improvement of the health of towns. The noble
lord said that the chief provisions of the bill were taken
from what was generally known as Lord Lincoln's bill,
which made use of the agency of the Secretary of State
foi- the Home Department, together with the occasional
aid of the Privy Council in carrying its provisions into ex-
ecution. instead, however, of leaving such a responsibi-
lity on the shoulders of the Secretary of State, who hail
so-much other important business to attend to, it was
intended to constitute a board of superintendence,
similar in principle, to the railway board of last ses-
sion. That Lor.rl should ccnsist of five l ersons, three
of, whom should be paid for their services, and the
Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, for the
time being, should be er-officio chairman of the
board. It should be designated the Board of Health, and
Public Works, and would be empowered to appoint

inspectors to go into the
to make sure,

untry to institute all requisite
, and advise as to all other

inquiries,
matters connected with the sanatory condition of thk
people. It was intended in corporate towns, to intrust
-sns of the bill to the local
of the board, with

xecution of the proti

respect to those towns in which there were no corpora-
tions, and in which, nevertheless, the want of drainage
was very severely felt. He should leave such towns to

apply or not for a charter of incorporation ; but in case
they preferred to remain unincorporated he proposed that
'the commissioners should be elected by the ratepayers,
and that the crown, on the recommendation of the Cen-
tral Board of Health, should nominate a certain number

one-third of those chosen by popular election. The ope-
ration of the bill was not to extend to Ireland or Scot-
land, but it was to extend to London, which he could see

no ground for excluding. He proposed that the crown,
by an order in council, should have power to extinguish
all local bodies which exercised the same powers with
those which he now created, in each locality. An in-
spectln would be appointed to institute preliminary
incmiries into the condition of towns. When the local

council was constituted he would visit the town, see what
works were wanted, and make his report to the central
board. This officer would generally be an engineer of

towns placed and
this he would n
-was thought bett

nine into the sanatory condition or tne
the control of the central board ; but
be 'connected with the towns, as it
hat he should be independent of all
the local council would also be em-
urveyor, who would superintend

local connexion

,owered to a

nuisances; wt

an inspec

were injuriou

slam in the bill
ventilation of h
of water, and s
themselves in el
the general ben

Id have authority to remove such as
iblic health. There were also provi-
the prevention of smoke, the better
the furnishing most ample supplies
other measures as naturally suggested
rig the object in view into effect, for
of the public.

asked Lord .MoiTeth what his inten-
tions were respecting the removal of cemeteries from large
towns and populous districts ?
Lord MORPETII replied. that this bill did not contain

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any provision on that subject. Intermural interment was
now. under the consideration of the goverment, and was
of sufficient importance to be introduced in a separate
bill.
After a few words from Colonel WOOD, jun.,

The Earl of LINeOLN thought the bill could scarcely
be said fo be more comprehensive than the one he had

nd in that bill. lie should not, how-
ever, enter upon the discussion, as it would be more con-
venient to do so when the bill should have been in the

io, for nearly all its chief provi7

sions were to bi

present measure went so far in its details as to intermed-
dle with local authorities and interests, from whom much
apposition might be anticipated. He looked also with
great jealousy to the appointment of three paid commis-
sioners, and thought modern legislation tended far too
much towards the creation of such appointments. The
noble lord stated other objections to some of the provi-

Morpeth in attempting to extend the operation of the
bill to the metropolis—an attempt which must lead to a
signal failure. He assured the noble lord that he would
be ready to give him every aid-in his power in endeavour-
ing to render a measure of such importance as perfect as

p9ssible, though he felt it incumbent upon hini to state
his objections to those provisions which might endanger
its becoming law.
After some oba-

tions from Mr. AGLIONBT

'Mr. GREENE said there were twenty private bills before
the house for the improvement of the health, &c., of as
al he therefore suggested that all those
nded until the present measure should

many towns ; an
bills should be su,

be disposed of

Sir W. Ciao,- doubted the (
etropolis inthis bill, and h

be given_ tc

diency of including the
. that ample time would

guru uFbeb ainicuities he had not
calculated upon in extending the bill to London.
After a short conversation, in which Mr. Hume, Mr. P.
Howard, and Mr. Brotherton took part, leave was given
to bring in the bill.
On the mo

wittee on t

vfor the house resolving itself into com-
rmy Service Bill,

Sir 11. DOUGLAS moved tt

at the bill be committed that
The bill, he contended, in no way

tended to the interests of the soldiers, or of the classes
from amongst whom they were drawn. The pensions to
them under this bill were a mere mockery. After ten
• • they were to he paraded twelve
d then if they
of. age, but not otherwise, they

iiays in the year

Ten year

Lc magnificent allowance of sixpence

woutu we-einiuzu
a day. There ought, in his opinion, to be no period of
service without a corresponding pension. but a service of
twenty-one years ought certainly to be entitled to a pen-
sion of at least ls. per dfern,