§ (The Marquess of Salisbury.)
§ SECOND READING.
§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
§ THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY,in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, it was very much the same measure which had passed the House last year, and was lost in the general confusion which usually attended the termination of the Session in the other House. It did not go quite so far as that measure, but it proposed to effect three objects—the exclusion of solid matter and of sewage from rivers as well as all new sources of pollution arising from manufactures and mines.
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday next.