§ House in Committee (according to Order).
§ LORD REDESDALEsaid, that his opposition on a former occasion had been directed, not against the provisions of the Bill itself, but against the want of sufficient notice with regard to the lands proposed to be taken or affected. The interval which had elapsed since last December had afforded ample time for residents in the locality to make themselves acquainted with the character of the proposals contained in the Bill; but it was right that these should be also understood by the public at large. In establishing, as was contemplated, a Museum for the East End of London, at the national expense, they were laying, he feared, the foundation of claims to have similar institutions established at the national cost, not only in other parts of the metropolis, but in all the great towns of the Kingdom as well. For his own part he could not see why Lambeth, in the South of London, had not as good a claim as the East. Dublin possessed a Museum, and he could not see why Manchester or Liverpool should not ask for a national Vote for a Museum as well as Bethnal Green. It might be quite right to establish this institution, but the precedent would certainly prove inconvenient.
§ Amendments made: The Report thereof to be received To-morrow.