The consideration of the London Water Bill in Committee was
resumed in the Commons on Thursday. As now amended by the Government, the number of representatives on the Board is to be seventy-three, including ten from the County CounciL To this Sir J. Dickson-Poynder proposed an amendment raising the representation of the Council to fourteen, and condemned the proposed Board as an unwieldy and inexperienced body, but the amendment was rejected by a large majority; and other amendments, revising or reducing the representation of the City and sundry of the boroughs, were also negatived before the House rose. We cannot profess to be convinced by the arguments in favour of this huge Board—the new Septuagint, as it might be called—but the meagre attendance in the House certainly does not argue any very convinced hostility on the part of the Opposition. But a Water Bill is not calculated to "light a fire" in the country.
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