LORD STRATHEDEN AND CAMPBELLMy Lords, I rise to ask your Lordships to read for the first time a Bill for the abatement of smoke in the Metropolis. It is identical with that which has lain before on the Table of your Lordships' House. Its object is to prevent nuisance from smoke arising from buildings and factories, so far as it is not already prohibited by Acts of Parliament. I reserve any explanation until the Second Reading, and only add now that whether it comes into force or not must depend to a great extent upon the view and course taken by Her Majesty's Government regarding it.
A Bill to amend the Acts for abating the nuisance arising from the smoke of furnaces and fireplaces within the Metropolis—Presented by the Lord Stratheden and Campbell; read 1a; and to be printed. (No. 22.)