§ SIR MORTON PETO moved, that a Select Committee he appointed to inquire-into the causes of the present state of the Thames, and to suggest such remedies as may be deemed expedient for its improvement; but stated that he would far prefer that the Government would investigate the subject by a Commission.
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Motion made, and Question proposed,—
That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the causes of the present state of the Thames, and to suggest such remedies as may be deemed expedient for its improvement.
§ MR. BLACKBURN moved the Adjournment of the House. It would be impossible at this period of the year that a decent investigation should take place.
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONsaid, the matter was gone into very deliberately last Session. The cause of the state of the Thames was the making of the river a common sewer, at the same time that the water companies were abstracting more and more water from the upper part of the river; and the proper remedy was already in the course of construction in the shape of the intercepting sewers. He hoped the Motion would not be pressed.
§ MR. TITEsaid, the Metropolitan Board had already accomplished a portion of this remedy, and by next year considerable progress would be made.
§ Motion made, and Question, "That this House do now adjourn," put and agreed to
§ House adjourned accordingly at Two o'clock.