§ SIR CHARLES RUSSELLasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been called to the proposed demolition of houses occupied by the working classes in the Metropolitan Street Improvements Bill; and, if so, whether ho proposes to take measures for the protection of the interests of those to be removed?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, he had placed himself in communication with the Metropolitan Board of Works on the subject. He was bound to say that he had found the Board in this as on all other occasions on which he had communicated with them, willing to meet the question in the fairest possible way. He had no doubt, therefore, that they would take care that there should be no destruction of houses before some provision had been made—he would not say for individuals, but for the accommodation of any class of people who might in consequence be sufferers.