§ Mr. Barnebymoved for leave to bring in a bill "to remove from counties the expense and liability of repairing the highways over bridges, and the 300 feet next adjoining to any ends of the same."
§ Lord G. Somersetopposed the motion. If the expense of repairing such highways should be taken from the counties, it must necessarily be imposed on private individuals or parishes. To such a proposal he should strenuously object, as, instead of localising such expenses, they should rather be disposed to generalise them.
§ Sir C. Burrellsaid, that until they should see how the railroads would answer, they ought not to suffer the common road-trusts to fall totally into neglect.
Mr. Jonessaid, that most of the highway-trusts through the country were insolvent. He thought that a county should be the smallest space that ought to be rated for the repair of those roads.
§ The House divided:—Ayes 17; Noes 52: Majority 35.
| List of the AYES. | |
| Aglionby, Major | Eliot, Lord |
| Bowes, J. | Evans, W. |
| Dowdeswell, W. | Jackson, Sergeant |
| Lambton, H. | Sheil, rt. hon. R. L. |
| Litton, E. | Turner, E. |
| Lygon, hon. General | Verner, Colonel |
| Maule, hon. F. | Winnington, Sir T.E. |
| Perceval, Colonel | TELLERS. |
| Pigot, D. R. | Barneby, J. |
| Shaw, rt. hon. F. | Darby, G. |
| List of the NOES. | |
| Barnard, E. G. | Hurt, F. |
| Blair, J. | Irton, S. |
| Bolling, W. | Jones, J. |
| Bridgeman, H. | Langdale, hon. C. |
| Briscoe, J. I. | Mahon, Viscount |
| Broadley, H. | Morris, D. |
| Brotherton, J. | Muntz, G. F. |
| Bruges, W. H. L. | O'Brien, C. |
| Busfeild, W. | Ord, W. |
| Crompton, Sir S. | Packe, C. W. |
| Currie, R. | Power, J. |
| De Horsey, S. H. | Rickford, W. |
| Duke, Sir J. | Rolleston, L. |
| Duncombe, hon. W. | Rushbrooke, Colonel |
| Duncombe, hon. A. | Salwey, Colonel |
| Filmer, Sir E. | Scarlett hon. J. Y. |
| Finch, F. | Sheppard, T. |
| Gordon, R. | Smyth, Sir G. H. |
| Goulburn, rt. hon. H. | Somerset, Lord G. |
| Graham, rt. hon.Sir J. | Style, Sir C. |
| Greig, D. | Vere, Sir C. B. |
| Grimsditch, T. | Wallace, R. |
| Hawes, B. | Warburton, H. |
| Hodgson, R. | White, A. |
| Houldsworth, T. | |
| Hughes, W. B. | TELLERS. |
| Hume, J. | Burrell, Sir C |
| Humphery, J. | Baines, E. |
§ Leave refused.