§ LORD ST. LEONARDScalled the attention of the Government to the state of the River Liffey, which took its course through Dublin from one end to the other. That state was most melancholy—it was during two hours of the tide an absolute sewage. Those who had seen the Liffey higher up knew what a beautiful river it was; but it was melancholy to see it as it was in its course through Dublin—it was a positive sewer. The stench was so great that, when he passed by it, he was obliged to increase his speed to escape from the pestilential air. Now, from the circumstance of its being quayed up on both sides, it offered every facility for a system of intercepting sewage.
§ LORD PANMUREsaid, that it was deeply to be regretted that not alone in Dublin, but in all our great cities, the streams which seemed to be placed there by Providence for sanitary purposes should be made pestilential rather than wholesome to the inhabitants. He would draw the attention of the Lord Lieutenant to the subject, and he was certain that no one was more disposed to do what he could to remedy the mischief than his noble Friend now at the head of the Government in Ireland.