COLONEL BERESFORDasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he will use his influence to postpone the consideration of the Bill promoted by the Metropolitan Board of Works for the purchase of the Water Companies at a cost of many millions sterling, until that Board have, in accordance with the spirit of his recent reply to the Board, taken the necessary steps to prevent the recurrence of Floods on the Surrey side of the water?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, he had not done so, neither did he see what right he had to take the course suggested by the hon. and gallant Gentleman. He might take that opportunity of stating that he had received from the Metropolitan Board of Works, in answer to a letter which he had sent to them some time ago, a communication which induced him to hope that the arrangements they intended to make on the subject would be satisfactory.