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Objections were made by Mr. G. PALMER and Colonel
EIBTHORP, to the house going into committee on the
Health of Towns' Bill. The latter wanted to know, why
the city of York—which, when he had formerly visited it
in his military capacity, was as distinguished for its hos-
pitality, liberality, cleanliness, and good feeling as any
city in the country—should be included in this bill, when
the city of London, with all its filth and insufficient
sewerage, was to be exempted from it ? He was afraid
that the savory steam arising from the Lord Mayor's
kitchen overpowered the olfactory nerves of Lord J. Rus-
sell. and rendered them insensible to the villainous smells
of Puddledock and other similar laystalls in the city of
London. The bill was most partial, dangerous, and un-
constitutional; and he should therefore meet it with the
most strenuous opposition in his power.
Mr. W. BROWN considered this to be the most impor-
tant bill of the present session, and hoped that the house
would support it. Some bEtter sanitary regulations were
required in all large towns, and particularly in the town
of Liverpool, in consequence of the crowds of destitute
Irishmen who were flocking into it. In the course of the
present year 250,000 Irishmen had landed at that port, of
whom 70,000 had since gone to the western world, carry-
ing with them the seeds of pestilence and death. The
remainder were, for the most part, still in Liverpool ; and
he was sorry to say, that there were at present 6000 or
7000 cases of typhus in the hospitals of that town, and
that disease and death were spreading in every quarter of
it, owing to the want of proper sanitary regulations. A
medical gentleman who had recently arrived from that
borough informed him, that in the course of the last fort-
night the authorities had paid not less than £l6O for
coffins. With these facts before their eyes, he hoped that
both houses of Parliament would give their support to
government in carrying this bill. If experience should
show that there were defects in it, they could easily be
remedied in the next session.
Mr. MACKINNON did not mean to deny that the bill
omitted many points which it ought to include, and that
it contained much machinery which might be as well left
out; but still, upon the whole, it was a good bill and de-
serving public support. If the government had power to
include in its operation the city of London, it would un-
doubtedly exercise it ; but it had not the power, and
therefore it was not fair in the opponents of the measure
to twit the government with not doing that which it had
not the power to do.
Mr. SPOONER objected to this bill, as it was founded on
the principle of centralization, on which we had acted too
much already. If the system, of which the bill was a part,
continued to be acted on, we should have nothing but
commissions to govern the local affairs of the country.
He sympathized with the present condition of the borough
of Liverpool ; but was the house, on account of the dis-
tress of that town, to pass a general and permanent mea-
sure—from which, however, the city of London was to be
exempt—to meet a special and temporary evil ? The bill
established a most expensive machinery, of which nobody
knew anything ; and the most objectionable feature in it
was, that it placed no limit to the expense which might be
incurred on it.

MR. Hunsox also objected to the bill, which was one
of patronage and jobs. He also objected to the bill be-
cause it contained powers that were monstrous in respect
to the unlimited rating of towns. Other bills contained
clauses limiting the amount of rates to be levied in one
but no such clause was to be found in the present
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The house then divided, when the numbers were—For
the committee, 117 ; against it, 26 ;—majority, 91.
The house then went into committee ; and before any
clause was proposed, Lord MORPETH, to mollify opposi-
tion, announced his intention of reducing the number of
commissioners from five to four, and of making only one
of them a nairl rammissinner.

The rest of the evening was consumed in the discussion
of the first seven clauses of the bill, upon which some
verbal amendments were made, but not without the con-

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