This Government evidently intends to do as little as it
can. The Judicature Bill is gone ; the Friendly Societies Bill is all gristle ; the Food and Drugs Adulteration Bill makes cheating a little easier ; the Artisans' Dwellings Bills will be beaten, we shall see, by Municipalities ; and the Sanitary Bill is a huge Consolida- tion Bill of more than three hundred clauses, which is about as likely to pass as Mr. Lefevre's former Bill for consolidating the laws on Merchant Shipping. What is the use of consolidating sanitary laws, when we are not agreed on their object or their details, when we have not fixed on the sanitary area, on the local electoral body, on the agency to be employed, or on the way' 'the money is to be got? The Bill is merely prepared to give Members something to break their teeth on, lest they should take to eating up a do-nothing Ad- ministration.
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