The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-07-18 00:00:00

allow-yards are
-4 of upland
and •

METROPOLITAN SE W AGE

The Metropolis Sewage and Essex Reclamation Com-
pany has at length become an accomplished fact, mot
the public arc now invited to become shareholders by
prospectus, the promises of which appmr to be made
upon good authority. There is no doubt that the es-
tablishrnent of thin company indicates that another ad-
ranee has been made in "social :science," and 4,,
~
augumtes • nes epoch in agriculture and " ciejo,
economy." For 20 years and more, boards of health
corporations, medical officer', engineers, surveyors, and.
philanthropists have co-operated to introduce thorough
and complete systems of drainage and sewerage is dr
the towns and villages in the country, and such hes Mee
their industry, that there is scarcely a coissideralle river
in the country which bas not been polluted sed rendered
unfit for use by human beings. Long after most of oar
, present statesmen entered public life it was Mill • grave.
, ruiademeanor to allow the contents of a ceapool t ges
' into the sewers which were constructed exclusively ter
the surfers.) drainage of the streets in wet weather, con.
sequently in dry weather a river did not suffer much
from the proximity of a large town. Now, however,
' cempools are abolished, and all the filth of our towns i.
carried clown through the sewers to pollute the nearest
river; so-celled boards of health and other hostels and
bodies being armed with formidable powers for the
thorough and effectual carrying out of this system-
that .O
even in the driest weather, when the poor rivers are
at their lowest ebb and are the least able to carry off the
filth, they cannot escape from the task imposed upon
them, but must still receive the very uttermost particle
of filth that can be collected for their poliution. Th.
accounts we read of clear limpid brooks beiog converted
by "boards of health" into thick streams of putrid
slime are punitively revolting, and with the cholera,
grinning at us in painful proximity, we cermet help,
fearing that the present enlightened system of sewerage,
may prove far mere destructive to human life than the •
cesspools of our poor,ignorant old grandfathers. Alreedy'
it has become quite an everyday occurrence to me
litigation going on between the owners or users of the.
rivers and the authorities of the towns. Where, how-
ever, the subject bee been looked fairly in the fees,
either from the superior sagacity of the authorities or
from the force of circumstances, and the terrors of the
Court or Chancery, things have assumed a very different
appearance, as in the case of Croydon, for instance,
where the system of sewerage carried out has concen.
trated the sewage into two outfalts, from which it is
conveyed to two farina, one of about 300 SOMA and the
other about 30. These are laid down in permanent
grass (the most useful crop near • town, as well as that.
best adapted for fertilisation by sewage irrigation)„andl
the sewage is allowed to flow over the differeneluldaina
rotation, the result being that the suits in shame" are,
stopped, and that Mr. Marriage, the enterprisier
farmer, is rapidly accumulating a large fortune. /Leery,
one is familiar with the effect produced upon the,
Thames by the suppression of the cesspools and the,
development of sewers, and all will recollect the effect
produced in its turn by the Thames upon the Homoof Co..
monnbeing a practicalillastration of thecheanical theory.
of the indestructibility of matter. The pungent aa-
moniacal manure, which, instead of being devoted to its
proper use and allowed to exhaust its strength in the
soil by producing luxuriant vegetation, had been turned
loose in the river, asserted its exist floe, and deimns-
trated its indestructibility by stimulating the brains of
our lawgivers (all doctors agree that the olfactory
nerves act directly upon the brain), and producing a
luxuriant crop of legislation. From this legialmion
sprang Sir John Thwaites and the Metropolitan Board
of Works, whose mission it was, and is, to neutralise by
some means or other the indestructible child of the
Board of Health. Accordingly the new board OM
vigorously to work to carry out the wishes of the
authors of its being, and to protect the members of the
House of Commons from subjection to the unpleased
and dangerous stimulant to legislation above referred to.
To effect this object, they have constructed and are on.
structing those immense sewers and other underground
works, designed for the interception of the sewage,
known as the Metropolis Main Drainage Works, hoping
theta to gag, burke, and finally dispose of the trouble.
some child of the Board of Health. They have now
completed the mittens both north and south, and the
various intercepting severs are being pushed rapidly
forward; most of them,indeed,having already come into
operation. There is no doubt that the scheme of the
Metropolitan Board will most effectually accomplish,
Its object, and already its partial completion has stopped,
the application of that legislative manure, the possible.
oonsequenoes of which so much alarmed the country
and the House of Commons. But the chemical theory
that all matter is indestructible is not the leas true, and
the pungent manure which threatened to produce such
• dangerous mental activity in the House of Common,
threatens now, when concentrated at Barking;
and BHA, to produce effeots no less =whoa
and violent upon the typhus and other fevers
in those places which heretofore, stunted and
meagre in returns, have now taken new life, toll
are yielding abundant and prolific crops. The appliestion
to its proper uses of this strong but dangerous measure
is an advance, and a very great advance, in social
science' for not merely will the Metropolis Sewage and
Essex Reclamation Company purify the Thames, but it
will set an example which, we doubt not, will be eagerly
1111 i speedily followed by every town in the country.

PHI directors of the Great Western Railway have
notified to the Oxford authorities that they have finally
decided to transfer their carriage works to that city.
THZ payment of the dividend to the creditors of
Messrs. Attwoods, Spooner, and Marshall', Rank corn.menced on Monday at the premises of the Birmingham
Joint-Stock Rank (Limited).
Mr. CLUTTER/308T, an offioer of the sth Fusiliers,
went fowling, at Parsonstown, on Monday, and was
found the next morning, murdered. Robbery is sup,
posed to have been the motive of the crime.

Sore burglars in London made • good haul on Tuesday
night. They broke into the premises of • silk ware-
houseman, named Meyer, in Chespeide, and got clear
away with upwards of £3,000 worth of (Bilk.
Mr. DEBENHAN has been tried for the manslaughter
of the man Solomons, whom he shot with a revolver,
when he discovered him crouching about the back Part
of his premises, in the met of London. The jury, attic
some deliberation, acquitted the prisoner.
DPNTEDIICTION OF A ToWN BY Fran. —A Stockholm,
letter announees that the town of Quieted, capital of
the provinee of Weraselamd, has been almost entirely
destroyed by fire. It consiated of MO homes and 4,000
inhabitants, and all that remains is the hospital, the
prison, and the bishop's residence. A steamer loaded
with provisions and clothing woe immediately despatched
from Stockholm.
A FM days ago it was mentioned that a lad al
Nottingham had died while engaged in prayer. We are
informed that on Sunday morning Peter Mattes, of 13f.
Austen, walked to Trensrren, a distance of three mile,.
accompanied by two or three persons', for the purpose of
attending a prayer-meeting at • Wesleyan meeting-
house there, and while in the ace of praying, ruptueed m
blood-vessel and died almost immediately.
80111018 IT stands fifth among the English counties fir
the amount of property smarmed to the income-tax.
Those above it are Middlesex, Lancashire, York, and!
Surrey. Middlesex is far above the rest, namely„,
£43,460,741; Lancashire miming next with £25,881,822 ;
and York next with £10.928,60/ ; Seeley, £8,647,202;,
and Somerset, £7,109.797. Wilts is only £3,063,565;:
and aloucestershire, £3,068,223.
Mimeo OP THU FneNCH AND ENGLISH Irutos.—
The Pattie says :—" We learn that in consequenoe of
new arrangements the great international maritime ftee.
In August will take place at Cherbourg and meat Brest.
The English squadron, commanded by Rear-AdM,ral
nacres, will arrive at Cherbourg on the 14th. Th*
admiral's flag will be hoisted on board the ineamerof the
line Edgar. Arrangements are being made on board thiw
vessel to receive the Duke of Somerset, First Lord of the
Admiralty, Lord Clarence Paget, and the other lords.
The Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubet, Minister of Marine-
and the Colonies, will go with the fleet to England to
return the visit of the Duke of Somerset."
• EITILLORDINARY ASSAULT CANN IN IRCLAND. —At
the Ferrnoy Quarter Sessions, Captain R.. Morgan and
Captain J. Morgan were charged with a murderous.
assault upon Mr. W. Stopford Hunt and inflicting upon
him grievous bodily harm. All the parties are of highly-
respectable connections and moving in good society..
Mr. Hunt had on several omissions met Lady Morgan,
wife of Captain R. Morgan, at balls and noes, and was
on a friendly footing with her. He admitted that on
one occasion' when dancing with her, be made some
remark with respect to the happiness it would give him
If -the lights., instead of flickering, went out altogether.
This did not seem to please the lady, and some time
afterwards, as both were riding at the Youghal races, •
conversation as to the merit' of their respective horses
arose. Mr. Hunt appears to have mid— I wish my
horse had am good legs as yours," and the lady (looking
at the observation from the "flickering lights" point of
view) emended that he meant her own personal legs,.
and not those of the horse she was riding. She accord-
ingly advised him to "ask Captain Morgan about them,"
and rode away. Captain Morgan Instructed a Captain,
Hamilton to demand an explanation or satisfaction, andl
Mr. Hunt gave the former, declaring thet he had only
referred to the horse's legs. This did not satisfy Capt.
Morgan, and after endeavouring in vain to get &personal
ioterriew with Mr. Hunt, he, in company with Captain.
Jonathan Morgan, waited upon him at his house at the
unusual early hoar of three in the morning. They
knocked Mr. Hunt down, and gave him • very severe
beating with sticka. In the course of the proceedings
the advocate for the defence had to be checked by the
Bench for staling that the object of the presenter was
to seduce all the wives of the jam. After a lens fovea-
Option, the Court senteneed each of the ddendanfil 40
tears' imprisonmeut.
CARIL—ALLICOATION OW PAW DOCMILINI. -
The case (in the Dublin Camila Common Pleas) of the
Rey. Charles Jones,. Lord Lifford -was resumed on
Monday. The libel was s.'" seed to be contained in a
" memorial sent to *' 1 Den"

Ble.hop

f b Sta.
' 0170001)1111

defendant,