§ MR. CANDLISHsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, during the present Session, he intends to introduce a Bill to prevent the pollution of rivers; or, if he does not intend to legislate on the whole subject, if he will introduce a Bill to prevent solids being deposited in rivers?
§ MR. GATHORNE HARDYreplied, that he was not prepared to legislate upon the subject during the present Session, as he did not think the inquiry into it had been sufficiently complete. The old Commission had been dissolved, but a new one would shortly be issued, and he therefore did not think it was advisable to legislate until that was done.