49 



commendation, the reply of Lord Granville, on the part carry out re- 



of the Government, being that " the Home Office was in commenda- 



° tions 01 Com- 



" communication with Lord Robert Montagu, who had mittee of 



" introduced a measure on the subject into the other Hansard 3rd 

 " House, and he (Lord Granville) hoped a satisfactory Series, vol. 



« 1 J 1 ^ 1 » 177, pp. 636 



measure would be iramed. to q^i\ 



On the 8th March following, Lord Robert Montagu, March, 1865. 



in a most able and exhaustive speech, moved the second j^j"^ . " "^ 



reading of the " River Waters Protection " Bill. moves second 



This Bill, however, owing to strong objections being felt River Waters 



by the House to its machinery, was, in deference to a gene- Protection 



rally expressed wish, withdrawn, though at the same time Hansard, 3rd 



the enormous extent and dangerous nature of the nuisance ^^^^^^' ^'° • 

 it sought to arrest, and the pressing necessity for legisla- 

 tive action, were admitted to have been fully established 

 by Lord Robert Montagu's masterly exposition. 



On the 17th of the same month a deputation from the ^''^^h March, 

 T^. . .,...,... 1865. 



Fisheries Preservation Association, including in it Lords Deputation 



Robert Montagu and Ebury and other influential per- fi"9™Fish- 

 o J i eries x^reser- 



sons, had an interview with the Home Secretary, when it vation Asso- 



most earnestly represented to Sir George Grey the urgent jjome Secre- 



need there was for the Government, on the supreme tary. 



ground of the public health, and in the interest of the 



fisheries, taking prompt and energetic steps to abate an 



evil which had now become so vast and in every way so 



baneful. 



The result of this interview was the issuing by Sir :„rl y' 



^ •' 1865. 



George Grey on the 18th May following of a Royal Issue of the 

 Commission 'Ho inquire into the best means of pre- „-,-2,f„„ °!"' 



-*■ ^ xiiission on 



" venting the pollution of rivers. the Pollution 



of Rivers. 

 Extracts from the several reports of this Commission on 



the Thames, the Lea, and the Aire and Calder have been 



given at pages 25—27, 28—30, 32—38. 1866. 



-, , . . . 29 & 30 Vic, 



In the Session of 1866 the " Thames Navigation Act" c. 89. 



(29 and 30 Vic, cap. 89) passed, containing certain g^t™n a^^'" 



D (short title). 



