§ VISCOUNT CANNINGmoved the Second Reading of the Bill for embanking the river Thames at the northern side, between Vauxhall-bridge and Battersea-bridge. It was also proposed that a new bridge should be built across the river somewhere about Chelsea Hospital. The expense would be about 160,000l., which would not, however, be charged to the public. The noble Marquess behind him (the Marquess of Westminster), and other owners of property in the locality, had dealt very liberally with reference to those improvements, and the whole amount of their contributions was estimated at something between 40,000l. and 50,000l. The tolls would not, he thought, be overestimated at something like 6,000l., which would 1123 pay something more than 10 per cent of the cost of the bridge.
LORD KINNAIRDobserved that the Report of the Metropolitan Termini Commissioners recommended that the mode of communication between the south and north sides of the river should be by a bridge somewhere in the direction referred to; and he (Lord Kinnaird) suggested that it would be worthy of consideration whether the bridge now proposed to be constructed would combine both purposes.
§ VISCOUNT CANNING, as a Member of the Committee to whose Report the noble Lord had referred, was of opinion that the bridge, to answer the purpose contemplated by them, should be very far westward of Chelsea Hospital.
§ Bill read 2a.
§ House adjourned.