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The CREDIT FONCIER and MOBILIER of ENGLAND (Limited, in conjunction with the IMPERIAL MERCAN TILE CRED IT ASSOCIATION (Limited), are prepared to R KCEIV S UBSCRIPTIONS for the CAPITAL of T HE MILLWALL FREEHOLD LAND and DOCKS COMPANY. Inzcost,p2osrtahtedjubly specia under f Parliament 27 and 23 Canal Comp any. y, 1861,the title of the Malwall The liabty of the shareholders is limited to the amount of their shares. Interest during construction is guaranteed at 7 per cent. per an upon the fuLy pu_p shares, and at 6 cent. up n those paid by instalments. Interest payable half-yearly, on slot March and 30th September in each year. Capital, £510,000, in 25,50) shares of £2O each, with the usual Debenture. DePosit, Li per share on application, Powers and £4 on allotment. Calls nvt to exceed a 10s. per share, and not to be made at intervals of less than three months. DIRECTORS. Sir JAMES DALRYM PLE ELPHINSTONE, Bart., M.P., Chairman. William Lee, Esq., M.P , Director of the London and County Bank, Dep u t y - C hair man. James Childs Esq., Director of the Credit Fonder and Mobiller of Englad (Limited). Nathaniel J. Fenner, Esq. (Messrs. N. J. and IL Fenner), W. Innes, Esq , C.E., Backside, Southwark, and Field-place, Horsham, Sus sex . James Levick, Esq Deputy-Governor of the Credit Fonder and Alobiller ot England (Limited). Mackrill Smith, Esq., Director of the Credit Fonder and Monier of England (Limited). P. cir. Westmorland, Esq., Dire tor of the Imperial Mercan tile Cr e dit Association (Lim ted). Messrs. BANKERS. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., 07, Lombard-St., E.C. John F ENGINEERS. Engineer-in-Cbowler, Esq. ief., C.E , Queen-square-place, Westminster, W. Wilson, Esq C.E, Queen-square, Westminster. Messrs, Harg rove SOLICITORS. . Fowler, and Blunt, 3, Victoria-street, Westminster. BROKERS. 7, Angel-court, Throg- Messrs. Laa rence E , on, and Pearce, . - morton-street. SECRETAR. 11. T. Robinson, Y Esq. Temporary Offices —Nos. 17 and 18, Cornhill, This Company is incorporated for the purpose of supply ing, under circumstances peculiarly advantageous to the Shareholder; the Feat demand for wharves, sites for manu factories, ship-buddin the port of London, which g yards, the natural increase of trade, and graving docks within co mbined with the removal of existing water frontage by the formation of the Thames Emban.kment, and other me tropolitan improvements, has created. The Company is incorporated by a special Act of Parlia ment passed last session, by which is obtained power to acquire a large tract of land at Millwall, consisting of up wards of 198 acres of freehold land adjoining the East and West India Docks. This land will be rendered available for, the purposes above-mentioned, by the construction within its area of large docks or basins, with access for the largest vessels both from Blackwall and Limehouse Reaches ; so that the deep water frontage thus created by the works will become immediately valuable in the highest degree for wharves, granaries, manufactories, ship-building yards, and similar purposes ; and, from the water being always kept at high level, the saving of time and cost in all operations of lighterage, loading and unloading, which may be effected without respect to tides, will render this site far more valuable than land abutting on the Thames itself. The proposed works will also include the construction of public Graving Docks of the largest dimensions, capable of receiving vessels of even greater size than H.M. iron clad ship Warrior, and of accommodating H.M. frigate N orthumberland, now building on the premises of the Millwall Ironworks, immediately adjoining this Company's property. It is a remarkable fact that for the immense mercantile fleet of the Port of London there is but one public graving dock on the Thames of sufficient capacity to take in a vessel of even ordinary dimensions. All the other graving docks are in the hands of private builder; who require to execute the works and repairs themselves ; and it is therefore not unusuallor ships to be sent from the Thames to Southampton, and even to Liverpool, to be docked for repairs. From the circumstance of the area proposed to be occu pied lying on an average about ten feet below high-water mark, the works will be executed with unusual facility, the material excavated being used to raise the adjoining land to a convenient level above high-water. The main roads which traverse the site of the proposed works afford good a ccess t o th em ;and application is being made to P ar li ament in the present session by the _ Black wall Railway, Company f or an ex t ens i on o f the Blackwall and North London Railway systems, by which direct railway communication will be .afforded for the whole of the Company's works, wharves, and docks with the entire railway system of England. As a Land Company, the present undertaking has enor mous advantages from the unusual ample powers granted by its special Act of Parliament, by means of which it will become possessed, after appropriating about 56 acres for the Docks and Graving Docks, of upwards of 140 acres, with a water frontage of more than 10,000 feet, and from. 400 to 800 feet in depth—the whole of which, on comple tion of the Docks, will become immediately available for letting, on building leases at freehold ground-rents. Be sides this source of revenue, estimated to produce upwards of £50,000 per annum, the Company will also derive a further large income of about £40,000 per annum, the rents of the Graving Dock; and from dues and charges from the docks, basins, wharves, &c., making a total estimated re venue of £90,000 per annum. In calculating the estimate of dividends very much will depend upon the mode found most practicable in dealing with the income of the Company ; if the ground-rents should be capitalised and sold as they accrue, and taking them at- thirty years' purchase, it is estimated that within a period of five years the capital, including the ad ditional amount intended to be applied for to complete the works, will have been repaid, with a bonus of upwards of 7 5 per cent., and the revenue of the docks and royalties and dues still be available for dividend to the Shareholders ; should, however, the whole rentals and revenues be main tained in hand, a dividend ( a ft er p rov idi ng f or expenses, i nterest on debentures, &c.) may fairly bo looked for at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, and, when it is considered that the greater part of this is from freehold ground-rents, the valuable description of the property this Company pos sesses will be at once apparent. • The Directors have much pleasure in being able to an nounce that the whole of the works will be undertaken by Messrs. Kelk and Aird, the eminent Contractors, and that a contract for the first portion to be executed has been entered into with them, and arrangements made for the payment by them of interest during construction of the works at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the Share capital paid up by instalments, and of 7 per cent. per an num on all Shares applied for and allotted as fully paid-up Shares. The interest will be payable at Messrs. Glyn and. Co.'s Bank, half -yearly, on 31st March and 30th Septem ber in each year. The first payment will be made 30th September, 1865. It is believed that so sound a scheme, and one which so specially addresses itself to the investor, is seldom brought ho bef ld land and ground-rents removes from it all character of speculation, so often the leading feature in public com anies ; and as a British and home security it will doubt less be appreciated by those 'who, while expecting good profits up on th e i r investments, yet look for solid security An accompanyi ng p l an shows the whole of the works a.s proposed when complete. Copies of the Act of Parliament and plans may be seen at the Offices of the Solicitors. Applications for Shares in accompanying form may be made to the Secretary, at tleeb9irces of the Company ; or to the Credit Foncier and to thelerllf England (Limited), 17 and 18, Cornhill ; also 95, BishopsPgariate I Mercantile Credit Association (Limited), -street Within; to the Bankers and Brokers ; b_lit,.n.o application will be entertained unless the deposit uptai7iLtr trb.Share on the number applied for has been duly meat being compan y C° 's Bankers. In the event of no allot the a licant, the deposit will be promptly returned in f PP 28th March, 1865 ull. PORE OP APPLICATION FOR £5 PAID SHARES. eg 6 Per cent. interest during const ruc ti on . No(To b e reta i ned by the Bankers). . Company To the Di rectors of the Millwall Freehold L an d an d D ocks 27 and 28 ict., cap. 255, 25th July, 1864, under the title Vueurporated by Special Act of Parliament, Gentlemen, of the Millwall Canal Company). Glin, lir Mills, Currie, and Co , the sum of £ 1 being Canal paid to your Bankers, Messrs. a deposit of £1 per Share o'n Company, I hereby request that ou will Shares a in the abov e llot me t nuhat Cum and I agree to accept such y Shares, or any less m ber you may allot to me, and I agree to pay the sum of £4 per Sh are on allotment, and I authorise you to insert my name on th e R egister of Members for the number of Shares allotted to me. Usual Signature Name in full Residence Profession .......................... form : Y paid-up Shares a Date ................ ...... ... , 1865 FORD' OF Or if f u ll required on the followin g A PPLIO.A.TION SH ARES. FOR PITLL - Y PAID-13P Bearing 7 per cent. interest during const ruction. (To be retai ne d b y the Bankers). No. - To the Directors of the IliHymn Freehold Land and Docks Company (Incorporated by Special Act of Parliament, 27 and 28 Viet., cap. 255, 25th July, 1864, under the title of the Millwall Canal Company). Gentlemen,—Having paid to your Bankers, Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., the sum of .£ , being a deposit of £ 1 per Share on Shares in the above Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that number of fully pap Shares, and I agree to accept such Shares, or any less number you may allot to me, and I agree to . pay the sum of £l9 per Share on Allotment, and I authorise you to insert my name on the Register of Members for the number of Shares allotted to me. Usual Signature Name in full Residence Profession. Date .....- ................. ~1865, THE MILLWALL FREEHOLD NOTICE IS LAND and this Company will be Closed on WEDNESDAY next, the sth Aprtl, at Fc ur o'clock p London ; and at Twelve o'clock noon on TIIURSDAY next , the Oth April, ;or Coun try applications. By order of the Board, Tem porary OMees— II T. ROBIN SON. Secretary. 81 st Marchl7 i t 65 and . 18, Cornhill, , SAILORS' ORPITAGIRLS! S CHOOL and PATRON— 11011E, Hampstead. oQfnucep2x7, CornhilL The TRIIsTEEs. 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O RN" i NTS for the Drawing-room, Library, a id Dining-room, consisting of a new and eiegant assort ment VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &c., in Italian, Alabns er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &a Imported and manufactured by JAMES 'PENNANT, Mine. ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand, W.C., Lonaon. Me.. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, 14INERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate Cie Interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY, tad GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 60, to 100 guincat enh. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNAIi r, at 149, Strand- W.C. THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another home to lips 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer hen 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected 'Tom want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,067, who have been sent away in fire years. Here are brief details of a few of the most recent cases: F. V., aged it, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father. M. A. F., aged 13, homeless, both parents dead. A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother. 6. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead. C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead, A. 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead. H. S. aged 14, hrmeless, deserted by her parents. 111 -H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. C. H., aged 17, fallen, both l :vents dead. A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead. E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead, S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. M. A. W. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead. S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents demi. The new home the Committee wish to form would be for hoaveung girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who been led astray from the path of virtue. Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary, Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen-street, Cheapside; or by Messrs Barclay and Co.. Lombard-street. 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James Watt and Co., Messrs. Slaughter, and Messrs. Rothwell and Co.—Times. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. (THIS DAY.) The fiftieth quarterly Report of the Executive Com mittee was laid before the shareholders at the meeting at the offices, Norfolk-street, Strand. Mr. GRIM - EISEN, the secretary, having read the advertise ment convening the meeting, Viscount I.IANELABit sub mitted the report as follows : The returns for the two 'first quarters of the financial year ending September 30th, 180, are as follows Qrs• ending Qrs. ending Shares in Shares Total progress. Complete. Shares. Receipts. £ s a. Dec. 24, 1864 262 15 277 19,229 9. 8 March 25, 1865 297 60 357 16,249 5 0 -- Half year ending Lady Day, 1865 559 Totals to Sept 75 631 35,478 14 8 30, 1814 16,723 4,505 21,223 782,389 13 10 Grand totals to . Lady Day, 1E65 17,282 4,580 21,862 817,868 8 6 receipts for n dn tgh period r p i o r e d s e o n f t lastfinancial s y h e o a w r, T the total sal e o f l an d to a c n o o p h c a e r r o h o a d a : o w - o y i t f e h a r x t 1 2 h y , e 7 r e B c 3 o c r r 1 1 d ; Lady Day, 1865, amounts to £385,001 10s. Id. ; the total withdrawals since the formation of the society (September, 1852) to Lady Day,`lB6s, are £244,687 17s. 6d. The returns of the Register of the Order of Rights areas follows :—Completed, 5,565 ; drawn, 3,305 ; seniority, 1,758; total, 10,628. Deduct rights exercised on estates, &c., 8,023 ; unexorcised rights, 2,605. The last share number on the register of seniority (date of membership) is No. 15,875. The last share issued up to Lady Day, 1865, is No. 21,862. Tho allotments for the first half year were : the Southgate-road estate, Wood Green, No. 2, Tottenham, Middlesex, and the remaining portion of the Felixstowe estate, East Suffolk, with the exception of a piece of land:at the junction of the Cobbold and Montague Roads. These two eligible building properties were offered on the 11th of January. The executive committee have the satisfaction of reporting that the whole of the Felixstowe plots have been sold. The sale of the Southgate-road estate, which is within a quarter of an hour's walk of Wood Green Station, on the Great Northern line, bids fair to be equally successful before the end of the year, and to prove as remunerative to tho allottees as the first Wood Green property, numerous plots on which have been sold at con siderable premiums. The roads and drainage on the Southgate-road property will be completed as speedily as possible. The allotment of the Sunnyside estate, Sandown, Isle of Wight, will be commenced on the Gth of April, on which day the new plans of the Roehampton, East Surrey, and Seven Sisters (Tottenham)estates will be issued. The demand for additional accommodation in the fast-rising bathing-place of Sandown was the inducement to make the society's first purchase in the Isle of Wight. Tho opening of the new railway—which line will be soon ex tended to Ventnor—must tend to develop° Sandown, with its unrivalled sands, rapidly, trains running from Ryde in fourteen minutes, at cheap fares. The Sunnypide estate is on the summit of a picturesque chain of hills, with frontage to the bay ; two new roads communicating with the High Road to Shanklin. Superb views of the sea and of the interior can be had from various por tions of the - estate, which has been laid out for first and second class sea-side residences. The villa at the end of Talbot-road, with a piece of land, will be sold with the privilege to any purchaser to convert the building into a hotel, or to erect eight houses on the plot. The railroad projects in contemplation at Roehampton and Tottenham have rendered it expedient to prepare modified plans of allotment of the unsold portions of the society's estates in those localities. Since the last report nearly all the plots on the Plough-lane, Battersea estate, No. 2, have been disposed of. The plan for the allotment of the Deal navy-yard on the 17th of May will shortly be issued. The new railways through the Kentish Town and Brighton estates are in active progress. The Earl of Bective, M.P., having resigned, the executive committee have tho plea sure to report that, under rule 32, they have elected James Goodson, Esq., chairman of the Great Eastern Railway . Company, a member of the board. The executive com mittee, in conclusion, have the satisfaction to announce to the shareholders that they have just entered into arrange ments whereby two properties have been secured in Cheshire and Cornwall, being the first purchases in those counties for the Conservative Land Society. Tho report was adopted, and a vote of thanks passed to the Board. THE CASE OF DR. PRITCHARD.—The Scotsman of yesterday says :—" The particular stage at which the investigation in this complicated and excited case has arrived renders it impossible that any definite statement of results can be published for a few days. The chemical ex amination of Mrs. Pritchard's body is proceeding, and will probably be completed in the course of this week ; but very special precautions have been taken to prevent any exposure of the first results obtained, and, as some time must elapse before any report will be made even to the au thorities, it is not expected that public curiosity will be gratified for some days to come. We have grounds, how ever, for stating that the case against the prisoner has as sumed a grave aspect from the result of the post-ntortem ex amination alone of Mrs. Taylor's body. The condition and appearance of the organs denoted no serious or fatal illness almost aeswl graveo". of a natural character." The Glasgow Morning Journal of Saturday says :—" In the course of our inquiries yesterday a fact or two came to our knowledge, the importance of which in a painful investigation like the present it would be difficult to over-estimate. Hitherto little or no direct proof has been brought forward of the accused beinein possession of autimonial preparations in any considerable quantity, or of having them at all. The sale-books of the drug gists with whom he was in the habit of dealing throw, it is understood, but little light on the matter ; and if the police officials have found the drug in any form in his surgery, this information has, of course, been studiously kept secret. There can be no doubt, however, after what we have learnt, that for several weeks past Dr. Pritchard was really in pos session of tartarized antimony, and this, moreover, in un usually large quantities, purchased by himself at the esta blishment of a respectable wholesale druggist in town. We believe we are within the mark in stating that not less than two ounces of this medicine was thus procured by him within the space of two months. Another somewhat striking circumstance is that a few days before the death of Mrs. Taylor he was supplied from the same warehouse with a goodly quantity of " Fleming's" tincture of aconite, a medicine, we understand, possessed of virulently poison ous qualities when administered incautiously. It is quite true that both of the drugs mentioned are largely used in the healing art, but it is not easy to guess at first sight what need any surgeon in private practice could have for great quantities of them, more especially of the tartar emetic. A very free use of antimony as an outward appli cation might, perhaps, partially explain the necessity for purchases so unusually large, but we are led to understand p th le a t t el a y ny la su id c a h si p d ra e practice has h edi as ca b yearsleepnraocftitlaioteners who keep pace may y h tahseaupmhearmiDarc.euptircaitichimap, Pritchard improvements ° et : roe : ur n 'el have e ep n i oi s, oor must uso the hn. tcou s question, o d whatis knownta then, en become, t our o h r ao e v a f e d t readers es bought:, A YANKEE TItUS GOOD lUDIOUREDLY corrects the errors of Mr. Sala :—" Mr. Sala says that here, ' If you purchase an article, no one dreams of saying Thank you.' I say that, according to my memory of my experi ence through all my life, and my particular observation within the past few days, salesmen not only dream of it, but do it. There are exceptions, but Thank you' is the rule. Mr. Sala tells you that this courtesy—thanks--is not common here, except among those who have travelled in Europe. I tell you, having been brought up among people who had not been in Europe for seven generations, that any Yankee who is brought up at all is taught to say 'lf you please' and 'Thank you' even to a servant. Mr. Sala tellsyou that he 'never saw a lady thank a gentleman' for handing her fare and returning her change in an omnibus. I tell you that for the sake of observation I have ridden up and down in all sorts of omibuses throughout this week, placing myself in a position in which this service would fall upon me, so that in ono ride I have performed it for six female fellow-passengers, and never for less than two, and in every case except ono it was acknowledged either with an audible ' Thank you,' or with a bow and a smile. The exception was a woman in a dirty gown, with nails in full mourning, who took her money out of a greasy purse and illsmolling. But the purse was full, and her daughter will probably flaunt in silk, and inherit not only her mother's money but her manners, which were not learned in this country. I admit that there are many such women to be found as that daughter will be. Mr. Sala tells you, writing lugubrious pages about it, that he could not get any lucifer matches, and that ho had to buy three hundred feet of cord to get a little to cord his trunks. That he may have had some difficulty about theso trifling matters I of course will not deny. But I assure you that every chamber in every ftht h ah o ta u tt s h e yeol o .ue r ahroet can hotel abilil ha ys s matches in it o in ne th b e o s x tre o e r ts a , even Wall-street, at which you can b u y th en , an d th a t boys rush into your office, shouting Matches !' also that d as oze a n matter any t g of grocer's; c c s ers if my little boy wants a new cord to his sled he goes to one of half-a-dozen places near by and buys it. Mr. Sala'S representation would be as true of London if he said that he could not get a pot of beer there, and that if ho wanted a slice of beef he would be obliged to buy an ox and roast him whole." THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, 1865. A. PHOTOGRAPHY:C CURIOSITY.- With a copy of THE S [TN Newspaper is presented GRATIS (with a Supplement) a MINIATURE PHOTO GRAPHED FAC-SIMILE of tl le FRONT PAGE of THE SUN of MONDAY, the 2d Jan - uary, 1865. *** For the convenience of S abscribers wishing to pre serve the Photograph a suitable :frame is provided, and may be had at "The Sun" Office, Price ls. The Photograph, on card, m ounted In frame, is 6d. REMEMBER, YOU WILL SEE YOUR FRIENDS at " EVAI\ " After the Opera we shall Sup there! KIiNAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH: WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It 14 Pure, Mild, Mellow, Da aims, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd.,'at the Retail Houses in London; by the Agents in the principal tate as in England; or wholesale st 8, GREAT WINDMILL-I;TREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pim% Label, and Cork branded "Kinahan's LL Whisky." CRYSTAL PALACE.—WET or DRY.— ki Always charming.—To-4110RROW (Wednesday). Performances by Orchestr U Band at 12.30 and 4.30, and Great Organ Performance at 3.30. Picture Galleries, Fine Art Courts, Shakspere House, Chinese Collection, Fish- Hatching Apparatus, Skating Hall, Chimpanzee, Armour Plates (lent by official auth arity), and the thousand and one other attractions of the Crystal Palace. Open from Ten till dusk.. One Shilling; children under twelve, Sixpence. Note.—The hyacinths. tulip s, and other flowers round the basin of the Crystal Fountain aro now in full perfection. R. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr.. JO FIN PARRY. will appear in their new entertain ment, entitled A PECULIAR FAMILY, by Mr. William Brough. New scenery by T. an d H. Grieve. Every Evening, except Saturday. at 8. Saturdt. y afternoon, at 3. ROYAL. GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATI ON, 14, Regent-street. Unreserved seats, ls , 2s. ; ; stall chairs, ss. May be secured at the Gallery without fee. OPERA. DI CAMERA. every Tuesday and Thursday Morning, and Saturday at 8. THOXF O R D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). ORPHICE AUX ENFERS, FAUST, and NORMA will be performed during this week. Principal artistes : —Mons. Lavessiere, Signor Spagnoli, Mr. Green, and Misses Ellison and Barrie, with full Band and Chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans. Comedy, by Mr. George Hodson (the celebrated Comedian and Mimic). W. Randall, Little Bob, Miss Kate Balte, Les Freres Talliott, and the Grotesque, D'Aubans. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. - • - Every Evening at Half-past Seven. Admission—area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, 18.; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CIANTERBURY HALL. The Oxford, and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). HODGE PODGE, (According to Act of Parliament). CANTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENING at half-past Nine o'clock. R OYAL CAMBRIDGE MUSIC HALL, Commercial-street, Shoreditch. (Close to the Great Eastern TerminusN Sole Proprietor, Mr. G. W. NUGENT. Operatic Selection, SONNAMBULA. Prima Donna, Miss ELLISON. Comic--NELLY POWER, HARRIETT COVENEY. G. PORDE. WEST, FRED. FRENCH, M ;dile. CERITO SYLVES fER. The BROTHERS ALTOFF, from the Theatre Desarts, Isouen, and the ELLISTRAIS, from the Crystal Palace. Stalls, is. ; balcony, Gd. ; area, 4d. Open every evening at Seven o'clock. Manager and Conductor, Mr. C. GREVILLE. 3/I.ADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, established 29 years at the Bazaar Maker-street. NEW ADDITIONS.—A Full-length PORTRAIT MODEL of MULLER, taken from life, and corrected from the Cast taken by Doctor Donovan; also a full-length MODEL of KOHL, taken at his trial —are now added to the Chamber of Physiognomy. • Open, it till dusk, and 7 tilllo evening. Admittance, One Shit ; extra rooms, Sixpence. ARGYLL ROOMS.-NOTICE.---RE ENGAGE %TENT of J. LEVY, the celebrated Paga nini Cormt-a- Piston, will appear EVERY EVENING, at Nine, Ten, and Eleven o'clock, and perform on Dlstin's Patent Light-Valve Cornet. Conductor—M. LUIGI CURTI. Manager—M. GRENET. (1 C ITY SII 0 W-R 00 M FOR GLASS AND CHINA, 147, lIOUNDSDITCH. tDEFRIES and SONS' TABLE GLASS, • Cut and Engraved. of the choicest designs. T DEFRIES and SONS' DINNER, DESSERT, • and Tea Ware, of the newest patterns. --- T DEFRIES and SONS' LUSTRES, TAZZAS, f9' • and Flower Vases for the present se4son. --- T DEFRIES and SONS' - CHANDELIERS, el • the Dining-room, in Bronze, Ormolu, and Silver. --- T DEFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS' • in Crystal, for the Drawing-room, for Gas or Candles. T DEFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS, • in Crystal, in the Venetian and Grecian designs, for India. T DEFRIES and SONS' SPECIAL DESIGNS t.l • in Lamps for India. 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HAIR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX.`ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes, without effect to the skin, superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms. 3s. 6d.; sent the same day.as ordered by post for 51 stamps. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES 0 IL, which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent free fors4 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248 ,13%h Holborn, London. Essay )n Hair, Id. D IM PLE REMOVER. All diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of,ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness &e. 28. 9d.; by post for 40 st.tmps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. ALEX. ROSS' FACE POWDER, Is. ; sent for 14 stamps ; Eye Colour, 3s. 6d., or 51 stamps. Skin tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45_,. or 60 stamps. Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6 d. , or 54 stamps.--AL L. ROSS, 20, High Holborn, London. XTOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most useful invention of the da, AGUA AMARELL A. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., 12, Three King-court, Lombard-street, London, Perfumers to her Majesty, respect fully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid. which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of dyes; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 6i. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH-PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the the breath. Price is. td.-12, Three King-court, Lombard street, London. 11 - AMBERI"S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN KJ EFFECT CAL ItEM E DY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad mitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom tie faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Preparea on iy and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, King-Wallam-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottle', 131 d., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the stamp. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus. King's-cross. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of coutaining several hundred more beds, had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas rerman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; W 'Maras, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gur ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; L Barned and Co 2 Liverpool ; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5. STANFORD Sf&ITH, Secretary. CiREAT FIRE IN LEICESTER-SQUARE. SALE OF THE SALVAGE STOCK. STA 73G and MANTLE respectfully announce V; their Numerous customers and the public that they are now SELL ING OFF, at a farther immense rcduc , ion, the remaining portion or the SALVAGE STOCK of Silks, Shawls, Mantles, Dresses, Calicoes. itibbons, Hosiery, Trimmings, &c., which must be immediately cleared to make room for the new Spring Goods. Doors open at Ten o'clock. T HE PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIF.E ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION. Established, TRUSTEES Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. llhomson Haukey, t.bq., M.P. William George Prescott, Esq. Bar,M. L. N. de Rothschild, 31. P. The whole of the Profits divide I among the Drembers. Every description of Lilo Assurance and Annuity busine s transacted. • Annual Income £50,000 Invested Fund ... ••• ••• 250,t( 0 Claims have been paid exceeding Bonuses have been added amounting to 100,000 Full information may be obtained at the Chief Office, 15, Bloorgatc-street, E.C. Wm. 111031 AS LINFORD, Secretary, April, 180. TEETH. —Mr. ALBERT, Dentist, 34, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. ARTIFICIAL TE ETH of the best quality, fixed on the improved principles, without pain, from £4 4s. to £8 Bs. the Set. Decayed and painful Teeth rendered useful, and irregula rities corrected. (See Testimonials.) Established 33 years. Consultations free. CONSULT Mr. A. ESKELL'S popular and N..) reliable TREATISE on the TEE isH. before having recourse to the Dentist. " The expense is not great, and it will well repay perusal." Published by John Clements, Little Pulteney-street ; and may be had through any booksel er, from Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers'-hall-court. Price, 7d. ; in cloth, 13d. TN THE SPRING many suffer from SCOR BUTICAL AFFECTIONS ; and if any other disease be hid in the system it will be sure to show itself at this season. No medicine can be used with more perfect confidence than PARR'S LIFS PILLS. They clear from the body all that is hurtful, and produce health and comfort.—May be had of any Chemist. T HE Invigorative NERVINE ESSENCE.— The most scientifically prepared and most powerful nutritive cordial ever introduced ; restores to their normal condition a 1 the secretions, on the int, grity of which perfezt health depends. It is a specific for debility of all kinds; and from its containing, among other ingredients, pepsine and phosphate of soda, will prove highly beneficial to the nervous and dyspeptic. Price Bs. per bottle, or four qu,ntities in one for 22s.—Sole agents, Messrs. Baumgarten and Co., 520, New Oxfoal-strcet, W. C.; and 133 A, P enc h urc h - a t , E C., London. engineer, Mr. Bazalgette. This intercepting system consists of three great main lines of sewers, or rather tunnels, which run from the extreme west to the extreme east of the metropolis, and which are laid at right angles to all existing sewers and a little below their levels, so as to intercept their contents and convey them to an outfall 14 miles below London bridge. As large a proportion of the sewage as practicable is by this means carried away by gravi tation, and for the remainder a constant discharge is effected by pumping. At the outlets the sewage is delivered into reservoirs situate on the banks of the Thames, and placed at such a level as will en able them to discharge into the river at or about the time of high water. By this arrangement the sew age is not only at once diluted by the large volume of water in the Thames at high water, but is also carried by the ebb tide to a point in the river 26 miles below London-bridge, and its return by the following flood tide within the metropolitan area is effectually prevented. A series of experimenti has demonstrated that the delivery of sewage at high water into the river at any point is equivalent to its diScharge at low water 12 miles lower down the river ; therefore the construction of the 12 miles of sewer to Barking, so laid as only to discharge there at high water, is virtually equal to taking the sew age to a distance of 24 miles from London. Before these sewers were built, however, many subjects had to be carefully considered—such as the population, their habits, water supply, &c., the incline at which the sewers should be laid, and the rainfall to be pro vided for. The quantity of sewage flowing from a given population varies but little from the water supply with which that population is provided. The water supply to various parts of London in 1856 varied from 20 to 25 gallons per head per diem ; but a more liberal supply is contemplated, and that supply is likely to be further augmented by an in crease in the population in districts not then wholly built upon. It has been ascertained that a district of average density of population, when wholly built upon, contains 30,000 people to the square mile, so that in districts containing that, or more than that, number of people to the square mile the numbers have been ascertained and provided for ; but in districts where the population is below that number provision has been made for an increase of population up to 30,000 people to the square mile, except over the outlying districts, where provision has been made for a population of only 20,000 to the square mile. An improved water supply, equal to 5 cubic feet or 31i gallons per head of the contemplated increased population, has also been anticipated. In providing for the rainfall an averagewas taken of several years, which shows that in London there are no less than 155 days in the year in which rain falls, though out of thisnumber there are only about 25 on which the quantity has amounted to a quarter of an inch in depth in the 24 hours. But there are every year exceptional cases of heavy and violent rain -storms, and these have measured one inch, and sometimes even as much as two inches in the hour. These exceptional storms, however rare their occur rence, have been provided for by the construction of overflow weirs at the junctions of the intercepting sewers with the main valley lines, which act as safety-valves in times of storm. On such occasions the surplus waters will be largely diluted, and, after the intercepting sewers are filled, will flow over the weirs, and so by their old channels into the Thames. To carry out all these works three great main lines of intercepting sewers have been necessary—a high, a middle, and a low level sewer—on each side of the Thames. It is the low level at the southern outfall which the Prince opens to-day, and all the works are now complete, save only the northern low level, which, as having to run under the Thames Em bankment, cannot, of course, be yet constructed. This northern low level sewer, however, only diverts about 1-7th part of the northern sewage, so that virtually from this day forth the Thames may be said to be tolerably pure. It can never be made as clean and sparkling as in bygone times, but at least we may be certain that it will never egain become offensive. The High Level Sewer at the north side of the river commences with a small drain at Hampstead hill. It is about seven miles long, drains an area of about 10 square miles, and intercepts the sewage of Hampstead, part of Kentish-town, Highgate, Hack ney, Clapton, Stoke Newington, and Holloway. A portion of the district adjoining the Hackney marshes is so low that it was necessary to drain it through a branch passing into the Low Level Sewer. The form of this sewer is mostly circular, and varies in size from 4ft. in diameter to 9ft by 12ft., and its fall is very rapid. Much property had to be tunnelled under in its construction. One house was actually underpinned and placed upon iron girders through the cellar without any further disturbance to the house. At another part it had to be taken under the New River, and again through the embankment of the Great Northern Railway. One of the worst difficulties, however, was getting it under Sir George Duckett's Canal, where the crown of the arch of the sewer is only 24 inches from the water in the canal. The bottom of the canal and the top of the sewer are hero formed of iron plates and girders, with a thin coating of puddle between, and no leak age has yet taken place or is likely to occur. This instance of careful tunnelling is, however, far from being the only one, or even the most difficult. One line of tunnel, from Kennington Church to the Old Kent-road, runs a distance of I,oooft. close under a row of houses, the top of the tunnell being only from 10ft. to 12ft. below the surface, and its diameter is about 10ft. The water was pumped out of the sand for this length of tunnel at the rate of about 8,000 gallons per minute. The same sewer was carried, through similar soil, under the Grand Surrey Canal, and within Bft. of the water in it ; and again under the same canal in the Deptford Lower-road, where the distance between the top of the tunnel and the water in the canal was only 6ft. 4in., the whole of the soil being gravel and sand, with Ift. of puddle in the bottom of the canal. In the Caledonian-road the Regent's Canal was also tunnelled under, the distance between the top of the tunnel and the water in the canal being only 2ft., so that the miners could hear the barges as they passed over their heads scrape against the ground ; this was, however, executed in clay. Another tunnel has been formed 33ft. under the rails of the West London Railway, and under the Kensington Canal. The sewers were constructed under the London and Brighton, the North Kent, and other railways without any interruption to the continuous traffic on them even for an hour. Per haps, however, the most curious instance of success ful engineering was shown in taking the Middle Level Sewer over the Metropolitan (or subterranean) Railway by a wrought-iron aqueduct, 150 ft. span, weighing no less than 240 tons ; the depth of con struction between the underside of the aqueduct and the inverts of the double line of sewers being only 2i inches. As the traffic on the railway could not be stopped during the construction of the aqueduct, which is actually there only a few inches above the engine chimneys, the structure was built upon a stage at a height of sft. above the intended level, and was lowered into place by means of hydraulic rams. This stage was necessarily of great strength, and the sewers were formed by wrought-iron plates rivetted together. The Northern Middle Level Sewer drains an area of 173- square miles. It commences near the Har row-road at Mensal-green, passes under the Pad dington Canal into the Uxbridge-road at Notting hill, along Oxford-street, Hart-street, Liquourpond street, and across Clerkenwell-green ; thence by way of Old-street-road to High-street, Shoreditch, along Church-street, Bethnal-green-road, and Green street, under the Regent's Canal and the North London Railway, to a junction with the High Level Sewer at the Penstock-chamber at Bow. The Low Level Sewer, besides intercepting the sewage from the low level area, which contains 11 square miles, is also the main outlet for a district o about 14 The Main Drainage of the Metropolis. To-day his Royal Highness *he Prince of Wales will celebrate what may be fairly termed the com pletion of the Main Drainage of the metropolis by an inspection of the works which have been long finished and in operation and by starting the great engines at Crossness Point, which thenceforth will daily pump the 24,000,000 gallons of sewage and rainfall on the south side of the water into the Thames at Erith. Seldom in any country has a more important, more extensive, more costly, or more difficult work than this been 'executed, and certainly never in any of the cities of England. London, even with all its faults of a poisoned Thames, was still in the abstract and, as far as the mere construction of sewers went, always the best drained city in the world. After to-day it will hold a position in this respect which will be above com parison with any other European capital. For such an all-important boon it is mere justice to say that we are almost entirely indebted to the Board of Works, who have . gone about their duties in an earnest, practical way, which sets a high example alike to both the Government and the City Corpo ration. With the assistance of their engineer, Mr. Bazalgette, they have triumphed over natural and artificial obstacles in the way of the perfect drain age of this great province of houses, and whether it has been in making new streets or in widening nar row ones, whether in• embanking the Thames, or giving new designs , for lamp-posts, nothing in the way of metropolitan improvements has as yet proved either above their capacity or beneath their atten tion. The work which will be inaugurated to-day has been more important and difficult in its execu tion, and will be infinitely more beneficial in its re sults, even than the embankment of the Thames it self. If ever the history of our main drainage works is written we venture to think that the story of its engineering difficulties will vie with all that may be found in the " Lives of the Engineers," while it is certain that even in that history of mechanical and engineering marvels there will be no record found of works so dangerously difficult effected at so small a cost. What they have been may be best understood by a few figures. There are now about 1,300 miles of sewers in London, and 82 miles of main intercepting sewers.: Three hundred and eighteen millions of bricks and 880,000 cubic yards of concrete have been consumed, and three and a half million cubic yards of earth have been exca vated in the execution of these main drainage works. The total pumping power employed is 2,380 nominal horse-power ; and if at full work night and day 44,000 tons of coal per annum would be consumed. The sewage on the north side of the Thames at pre sent amounts to 10,000,000 cubic feet a day, and on the south side to 4,000,000 cubic . feet per day ; but provision is made for an anticipated increase up to 111 millions on the north side, and oi millions on the south side, in addition to 281 million cubic feet of rainfall per diem on the north side, and 171 mil lion cubic feet per diem on the south side, or a total of 63 million cubic feet per diem, which is equal to a lake of 482 acres, 3 feet deep, or fifteen times as large as the Serpentine in Hyde-park. The cost of these stupendous works has only amounted to little more than £4,000,000. The sum for defraying this expense is raised by loan, and p a id off by a 3d. rate levied on the metropolis, which pro duces £180,262 p er annu m, the rateable value b e i ng £14,421,011, an d th e principal and the interest of the loan will be paid off in 40 years. As the works have advanced constant and full notices of their pro gress have appeared in these columns. From these notices, and from a most able paper which has just been read by Mr. Bazalgette at the Institute of Civil Engineers, a brief resume can now be given of all that up to this day has been accomplished. The old system of drainage was simply to make the Thames the great.main sewea of London. All drains and sewers flowed north and south into the river, where their low `„,level prevented their dis charging at any time but dead low water, when all London's refuse was kept churning backwards and forwards, till the river became one of the foulest and most offensive open sewers in Europe. As the tide rose it closed the outlets, and poured back the the low-lying sewage flowing from th e hi g h grounds w hi c h accu mulated - lying portions of the sewers, where ant in many cases for 18 out of every 24 hours. During that p er i o d th e heavier i ngr edients were deposit e d, an d f rom d ay to d ay accu mulated in the sewe rs; b es id es w hi c h , i n t i mes er e it in remained stagnant o f heavy and long continued rains, and more parti cularly when these occurred at the time of high water in the river, the closed sewers were unable to store the increased volume of sewage, which then rose through the house drains and flooded the base ments of the houses. The effect upon the Thames of thus discharging the sewage into it at a time of low water was most injurious, because not only was it carried by the rising tide up the river, to be brought back to Lon don by the following ebb tide, there to mix with each day's fresh supply—the progress of many days' accumulation towards the sea being almost imper ceptible—but the volume of the pure water in the river being at that time at its minimum rendered it quite incapable of diluting and disinfecting such vast masses of sewage. This, however, was not the worst. The pent-up refuse, as it gradually deposited in the sewers, en tailed an annual expense of some £30,000 to flush the filth into the river, and thus again entailed a still further outlay of some £9OO a week in summer months for disinfectants to prevent the stench from the stream which has been so successfully poisoned from breeding a plague. The innumerable commissions of sewers which were issued quite failed to abate this monstrous evil, and it was not till the appointment of the present Board of Works that the matter was ener getically taken in hand, and has now been carried out under their care, and according to the plans of their PRICE 4d. STAMPED sd. L square miles, forming the western suburb of Lon don, which is so low that its sewage has to be lifted at Chelsea to a height of 17ift. into the upper end of the Low Level Sewer. This sewer commences at the Grosvenor Canal, Pimlico, and passes . along Lupus-street and Bessborough-street, to and along the river side from Vauxhall-bridge. From Westminster-bridge to Blackfriars it is being formed as part of the Thames Embankment ; and thence it will pass under a portion of the new street to the Mansion-house, and take the line of the Inner Circle Railway to Tower-hill. From Tower-hill it is being made mostly by tunnelling along Mint-street, Cable-street, Back-road, Commercial-road, and under the Limehouse-cut and Bow-common. It is now being tunnelled under the river Lea, on its route to the Abbey-mills pumping station, where its contents will be raised no less than 36ft. by steam power. It has two branches—one from Homerton, and the other from the Isle of Dogs. All these sewers meet in a great outfall sewer at Bow. This sewer is a work of most peculiar construction, as, unlike most other sewers, it is raised high above the level of the surrounding country like a railway embank ment, which, indeed, just now it perfectly resembles, as it has rags along the top of it for the con tractors' steam-engines and trucks, and is carried by aqueducts over streams, railways, streets, and roads. The outfall sewer at this point consists of two huge main pipes, eaph Oft. by Oft., bedded in concrete and earth, and fenced in by hedges, as we have said, like a common railway embankment. This outfall is continued to the Abbey-mills pump ing station, where low level sewage has to be raised 36ft. The Abbey-mills station is one of the largest establishments of the kind on the Main. Drainage works. It has a nominal engine power of 1,140 horses, for the purpose of lifting 15,000 cubic feet of sewage per minute a height of 36ft. The engines are all expansive and condensing, have a stroke of 9ft., with cylinders of 4ift. in diameter, and each works two pumps. From this station the sewage is lifted into the Barking reservoir, where it is in a great measure disinfected, and where it is retained till high water, and then discharged into the centre of the river. The Barking reservoir is 16-Ift. average depth, and is divided by partition walls into four compartments, covering altogether an area of 412,384 superficial feet, or about 9Eacres. The ex ternal and partition walls are of brickwork, and the entire area is covered by arches supported upon brick piers, the floor being paved throughout with stone. The reservoir is almost entirely above the general surface of the ground, and is covered by an embank ment of earth, rising about 2ft. over the crown of the arches. The ground on which it is built being unfit to sustain the massive structure, the founda tions of the piers and walls had to be carried down in concrete to a depth of nearly 20ft. So much for the works on the north side of the Thames. On the south the High Level Sewer and its southern branch commence with the main line at Clapham and a branch line at Dulwich, and they together drain an area of about 20 square miles, including Tooting, Streatham, Clapham, Brixton, Dulwich, Camber well, Peckham, Norwood, Sydenham, and part of Greenwich. :Both lines are constructed of sufficient capacity to carry off all the flood-waters, so that they -may be entirely intercepted from the low dis trict, which is tidelocked and subjected to floods. The storm-waters will be discharged into Deptford Creek, while the sewage and alimited quantity of rain will flow by four iron pipes, each 3ft. 6in. in diameter, laid under its bed into the outfall sewer. The length of this portion is only 4k miles, of which a little over 300 yards was executed by tunnelling at a depth varying from 30 to 35 feet below the surface. The Low Level Sewer on the south does not follow the course of the river, as on the north side, but, commencing at Putney, it takes a more direct line through low ground once forming the bed of a second channel of the Thames, and drains Putney, Battersea, Nine Elms, Lambeth, Newington, Southwark, Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, and Dept ford, comprising an aroa, of 20 square miles. The surface of this land is mostly below the level of high water, and is, in many places, five or six feet below it, having at one time been completely covered by the Thames. The sewers throughout this district had but little fall, and could never empty themselves save at dead low water, and it was with reference to the condition of this part of the metropolis that some of our greatest engineers described the effects of artificial drainage by pumping as equivalent to , raising the whole surface by more than 20ft. The Low Level Sewer will in fact render this district as healthy as the highest in the metropolis. Its length is about 10 miles, and its size varies from 4ft. at the commencement to the two main sewers, which are 7ft. by 7ft., at its termination. This line commu nicates with the pumping station at Deptford that raises the low level sewage into the main southern outfall. Four engines are used for this purpose, each of 125-horse power nominal, and capable together of lifting 10,000 cubic feet of sew age per minute to a height of 18 feet. From this point the great tide of refuse passes off by the southern outfall sewer, which, unlike that on the northern side of the river, is constructed for its whole length of nearly eight miles entirely under ground. This sewer, nearly 12ft. in diameter, was taken under the town of Woolwich at a depth vary ing from 50ft. to 80ft. below the surface without casualties or settlements of any kind. The Cross ness reservoir, into which this outfall flows at Erith marshes, is 61- acres in extent, and, like that at Barking, is formed on the peaty soil by brick piers i on brick arches, covered in with earth. The pump ing engines, by means of which the sewage is lifted into this reservoir, are almost identical in power and general arrangement with those at Deptford Creek, From the reservoir at Crossness, as at Barking, the sewage is discharged into the river at high tide, the volume of water with which it mixes and flows away being more than 100 times greater than the bulk of that into which it was suffered to flow under the old mismanagement which poisoned the Thames. The maximum quantity of sewage to be lifted by these engines at Crossness Point will, as we have said, ordinarily be about 10,000 cubic feet per minute ; but during the night that quantity will be considerably reduced, while, on the other hand, it will be nearly double on occasions of heavy rain-fall. The lift, also, will vary as much as fromlOft. to 30ft., according to the level of the water in the sewer and the reservoir into which it has to be raised. These very variable conditions of working led to some difficulty in the arrangement of the engines and pumps, which it has been endeavoured to meet by the arrangement of pump plungers. The pumps, which are single-acting, are placed equidistantly on each side of the beam centre, the pumP cases being each 12 feet in diameter, fitted with four plungers 4 feet 6 inches in diameter. These plungers are placed in pairs, each pair being worked from a cross head on the main beam, which is in two flitches with this object, an d arran g ements are made p r uni three,pas the inner pair, smay be varied for throwing either p air of p lun g ers out of gear. By these in the means proportionthe capacityfone, of the two, o o uter pair, or both pairs are thrown i n t o gear. o The sewage is discharged into a wrought-iron trough, through hanging leather-faced valves, which are suspended from iron shackles, and fitted with wrought-iron back and front plates. Each valve is 12in. by 18in. It should be mentioned that sub stances which prevent the n propa.ac ion of the valves are intercepted before reaching the pumps, by a wrought-iron grating placed in front of the openings to the pump well, the substances so stopped being liftedfrom the face of the grating by an endless chain, with scrapers and combs attached, working vertically in front of and in close contact with the grating, the teeth of the comb passing between the bars. On the descent of the chain, the buckets aro over turned and discharge their contents into a trough, from which they will be removed by manual labour. 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