48 



1864. 



Joint Letter 

 to Lord Pal- 

 merston. 



1864-5. 

 Memorials to 

 Home Secre- 

 tary. 



1865. 

 Petitions to 

 Parliament. 



24 Feb. 1865. 

 Earl of Long- 

 ford, in the 

 Lords, in- 

 quires if 

 Government 

 intends to 



joint deputation from the Sanitary Associations of Great 

 Britain and the Fisheries Preservation Association went 

 up to Lord Palmerston, and urged his Lordship to intro- 

 duce a Government measure to put an effectual stop to 

 the nuisance. 



On the 4th March, 1864, the same Associations, by 

 their Presidents and Vice-Presidents, Lords Ebury and 

 Shaftesbury, and Lords Saltoun and Llanover, addressed 

 to Lord Palmerston a joint letter (from which extracts have 

 been made at pp. 12 — 14 ante), " entreating his Lordship 

 " to lose no time in proposing such measures as might seem 

 " best adapted to prevent the spread of this enormous evil." 



In the same year (1864) and beginning of 1865, the 

 boroughs of Nottingham, Sheffield, Birmingham, Man- 

 chester, Preston, Coventry, Derby, W olverhanijiton, Bath, 

 Huddersjield, York, Stockport, Cheltenham, and Oxford, 

 and the Rotherham and Kimberivorth Board of Health, all 

 memorialised (as set forth at pp. 16-20) the Home Secretary 

 to carry out the recommendation (before given at p. 16) 

 of the Committee of the House of Commons of 1864, viz., 

 " that the important object of freeing the entire basins of 

 *' rivers from pollution should be rendered possible by 

 " general legislative enactment." 



In this year (1865) also petitions against the pollution 

 of rivers, most numerously signed, wxre presented to Par- 

 liament by the late Lord Llanover, then President of the 

 Fisheries Preservation Association, in the one House, 

 and by Mr. Martin Tucker Smith in the other, 

 from Shreivsbury , Richmo7id, Twickenham^ Machynlleth, 

 &c., &c. 



On the 24th February, 1865, the Earl of Longford, in 

 the House of Lords, called the attention of Government 

 to the bcforcmentioned recommendation of the Commons' 

 Select Committee of 1864, and enquired whether it was 

 the intention of Government to carry into effect that re- 



