§ SIR MORTON PETOsaid, he rose to move for the following Address:—For returns from the Metropolitan Board of Works, and from all district boards established under the Metropolis Local Management Act, and from the City (of London) 601 Commissioners of Sewers, of any and all operations performed by them between the 25th March last and the 18th June, with the object of preventing the occurrence of noisome effluvia from the River Thames, and particularly of the quantities of lime or other deodorizing agents day by day used for that purpose; specifying in tabular form when, where, and to what amount, such agents, or any of them, were respectively employed, and the sums of money expended on or about the use thereof. Tabular returns from the Metropolitan Board of Works and the Board of Conservancy of the River Thames respectively, of the daily or other ascertained quantities of fresh water which have passed into the tideway of the River Thames from the weir at Teddington Lock, and from other principal streams which discharge into the said tideway between Teddington Lock and Chelsea Bridge, and particularly of the daily quantities in the years 1858 and 1859. From all the Metropolitan waterworks companies of the daily quantities of water delivered by them respectively in the years 1858 and 1859. From the Astronomer Royal of the daily quantities of rain fallen at Greenwich, and at any other places within the drainage area of the Thames of which he possesses particulars, and of the daily mean temperature of the atmosphere at Greenwich, and of the water of the river Thames. From the Medical and other officers of Her Majesty's hospital ship Dreadnought, moored in the Thames, of any and all observations and experiments made by them, or under their direction, with reference to the condition of the river in the years 1858 and 1859. And returns from Her Majesty's Office of Works, and from the Metropolitan Board of Works, of any communications, resolutions, and measures of the years 1858 and 1859, in reference to the suggested improvement of the River Thames by embanking the same, and by forming low-level sewers within the embanked spaces.
MR. FITZROYsaid, he must suggest that some alteration be made in the last paragraph with regard to the Office of Works. They had no returns to give.
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONsaid, he wished to draw the hon. Member's attention to the paragraph referring to the Astronomer Royal, which omitted to specify any time.
§ SIR MORTON PETOsaid, he wanted the return for the last three years.
§ The Address, as amended, was then agreed to.