§ [THIRD READING.]
§ Order for Third Reading read—
§ Motion made, and Question proposed—"That the Bill be now read the third time."
MR. CLAUDEHAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)opposed the Motion. He explained that the Bill proposed to give authority to acquire certain lands in Lambeth for 1379 the purposes of the railway. Of late in connection with the construction of these railways, a great grievance had arisen by reason of the occupants of the houses underneath which the companies were boring, being unable to sleep through the noise and clatter incidental to night-work of that kind. His own experience was that if one had the means to make oneself obnoxious to the construction of the railway one could get some relief from this intolerable nuisance. That was shown by the case of the lady who succeeded in getting £700 from one company in order to go away and recuperate her health, which had been injured through her not being able to sleep while they were boring under her house. He complained that the works were carried on by the company by night in such a manner as to cause annoyance to poor people who could not go away, as well as to others in the neighbourhood, and as a protest against this he moved the recommittal of the Bill.
§ MR. DILLON (Mayo, E.)formally seconded the Motion.
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Amendment proposed—
To leave out from the word 'be,' to the end of the Question, and add the words 'recommitted to the former Committee.'"—(Mr. Claude Hay.)
§ Question proposed, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question."
§ MR. JEFFREYS (Hampshire, N.,)said the Bill came before him in the Committee as an unopposed Bill, and he thought the hon. Gentleman was under a little misapprehension. The Bill was not one to carry on works at all, but merely to transfer certain houses which belonged to the South-Western Company to the Baker Street and Waterloo Company. A great number of clauses had been taken out of it to remove the objections that were made to the Bill, and under those circumstances he hoped the hon. Gentleman would reconsider the position and not persist in his Motion.
§ Question put.
§ The House divided:—Ayes, 69; Noes, 18. (Division List No. 122.)
1379| AYES. | ||
| Allan, Sir William (Gateshead) | Dickson, Charles Scott | Percy, Earl |
| Anson, Sir William Reynell | Doughty, George | Philipps, John Wynford |
| Anstruther, H. T. | Evans, Saml. T. (Glamorgan) | Robertson, Edmund (Dundee) |
| Austin, Sir John | Fellowes, Hon. Allwyn Edward | Robertson, H. (Hackney) |
| Barran, Rowland Hirst | Fenwick, Charles | Ropner, Colonel Sir Robert |
| Bigwood, James | Forster, Henry William | Rutherford, John (Lancashire) |
| Black, Alexander William | Gorst, Rt. Hon. Sir J. Eldon | Sadler, Col. Samuel Alexander |
| Blundell, Colonel Henry | Goulding, Edward Alfred | Shaw, Thomas (Hawick, B.) |
| Bousfield, William Robert | Groves, James Grimble | Sloan, Thomas Henry |
| Brigg, John | Gurdon, Sir W. Brampton | Soames, Arthur Wellesley |
| Bryce, Right Hon. James | Harmsworth, R. Leicester | Soares, Ernest J. |
| Buchanan, Thomas Ryburn | Haslam, Sir Alfred S. | Stone, Sir Benjamin |
| Caldwell, James | Helme, Norval Watson | Thomas, David A. (Merthyr) |
| Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H. | Henderson, Sir Alexander | Tomlinson, Sir Wm. Edw. M. |
| Cecil, Lord Hugh (Greenwich) | Hutchinson, Dr. Charles Fredk. | Tuke, Sir John Batty |
| Coghill, Douglas Harry | Jeffreys, Rt. Hn. Arthur Fred | Ure, Alexander |
| Collings, Right Hon. Jesse | Jones, David Brynmor (Swansea | Valentia, Viscount |
| Craig, Robert Hunter (Lanark | Layland-Barratt, Francis | Wason, E. (Clackmannan) |
| Cremer, William Randal | Leng, Sir John | Wilson, John (Glasgow) |
| Crombie, John William | Lewis, John Herbert | Wylie, Alexander |
| Cross, Alexander (Glasgow) | Loyd, Archie Kirkman | |
| Crossley, Sir Savile | More, Robt. Jasper (Shropshire | TELLERS FOR THE AYES— |
| Denny, Colonel | Morgan, J. Lloyd (Carmarthen | Sir Frederick Banbury |
| Dewar, John A. (Inverness-sh.) | Murray, Rt. Hn. A. Graham (Bute | and Mr. Purvis. |
| NOES. | ||
| Channing, Francis Allston | Moss, Samuel | Wason, John Cathcart (Orkney |
| Delany, William | Nannetti, Joseph P. | Whitley, J. H. (Halifax) |
| Doogan, P. C. | O'Brien, K. (Tipperary Mid) | |
| Foster, Sir Michl. (Lond. Univ | Shackleton, David James | TELLERS FOR THE NOES— |
| Griffith, Ellis J. | Sheehan, Daniel Daniel | Mr. Claude Hay and Mr. |
| Hobhouse, C. E. H. (Bristl, E. | Shipman, Dr. John G. | Dillon. |
| Lundon, W. | Thomas, F. Freeman (Hastings) | |
| MacVeagh, Jeremiah | Tomkinson, James |
§ Main Question put, and agreed to.
§ Bill read the third time, and passed.