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made by the Board." This contrasts strangely with
his statement on the 9th, when the present Commis-
sioners have various plans under consideration, and
with the fact that they only await a reference to, and
report from, engineers.
6. There is but one reason why the bill should be
in the hands of the President of the Board of Health.
Lighting, and watching, and gas supply, and paving,
are not sanitary questions. The dispollution of the
Thames, the intercepting tunnels, is the vitality of the
bill, and yet the object is hardly likely to be accom-
plished by a General Board, as proposed by the
bill. The ratepayers electing their Vestries, these
their Local Boards, and these the General Board,
which electing three for chairmen, the Government
selecting one of the three, then the choice of officers,
the division of districts, the making and raising of
rates, will all cause an accumulation of works in
respect to the metropolitan area which will scarcely
leave time for the General Board to commence the
building of new bridges, opening thoroughfares, or
intercepting the sewage.
7. A reference to engineers in two months time is
almost impossible, as they are out of the country
during the autumn. A prompt decision from them
now will probably materially narrow the question.
The successful candidate would naturally have the
supervision of the works, in connection, no doubt,
with the ablest engineers. The Royal Institute of
British Architects might decide the question of re-
muneration to be received by him, if not an officer
of the Commission. Millions are annually and tens
of millions are now being spent on the responsibility
of two or three individuals. The engineers to the
Commission, or a successful candidate, with other
engineers, and her Majesty's Board of Works, or
Commission of Sewers, may commence the works
within a month, passing them into other hands when
constituted.

8. That the Commissioners' plan was quite ready
for letting the contracts was shown in your paper of
the 26th of May. Nothing will supersede it unless
it be more perfect and prepared; and the Metro-
politan Board, not having to make "all the plans and
levels," may perhaps also be dispensed with for
making the " contracts." It is much to be feared
that the Metropolitan Local Management Bill would
be worse than a Sunday Bill, and that the dispollu-
tion of the Thames would be again and endlessly
deferred, leaving us to deserve the ridicule of the
world, as able to penetrate a north-west passage,
suppress the slave trade, repel northern aggression,
&c., and yet unable to remedy an acknowledged
and crying evil in our very midst of our own making
and continuing.

Lastly, Lord Palmerston's promises made during
the sessions of 1853 and 1854 have left the question
where it was. If the present juncture be lost
the whole subject will inevitably be delayed, and
probably be entirely lost sight of. Although Parlia-
ment granted 300,0001. for commencing the works—
(July 27th, 1854, Hansard)—yet Sir B. Hall in-
formed Mr. Walter on the Oth " That there was
no power to prevent the nuisance ; that the Commis-
sioners had no power of acquiring land for the pur-
pose of making outlets for the drainage ;" and thus
the powers granted by Parliament to raise money
have remained ineffectual and abortive.

2EOIIIB.

July, 1855.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tuesday, July 24.

BANKRUPTB.—WILLrus, Jowx, and Sawtrzt 8. Burrow,
Carlisle and Bradford, Yorkshire, wooletaplers—Taos. BARNES,
Southampton, woollendraper—Sswom. How, Liverpool, broker
—THOKAS CROWDEN TIPTAPT, Taunton, haberdasher—Joux
Hssay BRADSHAW Birmingham, innkeeper—Jsisza Bzsans•
MORE, Audley, Staffordshire, miller—Twomss Bautos, North
Shields, grocer.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. Jowls 13zcks, Scotetoun,
near Glasgow, contractor.
Friday, July 27.

BANKRUPTS.-"ARTHUR FERDINAND Ds NROYANN, Glonees-
ter-street, Pimlico, merchant—ALYßaD GIBSON, Great St.
Helen's, City, ship and insurance broker—Tuonts NAIR,
Stourbridge, Worcestershire, builder—Bonaire Baown, Lim&
street, City, ship and insurance broker—Joint Wasvox, Market
Harborough, Leicestershire, tailor and woollen draper—Joun
Jonas, Tottenham-court-road, earthenware dealer—Tuouas
Reza, Mile-end New-town, shalt and bent Umber manufacturer
STZPREN EDWARD SHERWOOD, Selling., near Canter-
bury, tailor—Pumps Wasson, Loughborough, Leicestershire,
bleacher—ANTHONY BIRCH, Birmingham, grocer Prataux
Bnowns, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street, Middlesex, wine
merchant Jour; JONES, Manchester, machine maker
JOSEPH SKINNER, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, carpenter—
ANDREW Ham., Manchester, garden net and Berlin canvas
manufacturer—Jamas BEARDSMORE and THOMAS Jon. BARD.-
MORE, Stafford, millers—GEOßGE GOODFILLOW, Rowell, North-
amptonshire, shoe manufacturer—Gaoaea Wets= Howiwa,
Liverpool, ironmonger—Wmuem WATRIII FORD, Sydasy-cot-
tage, liornseyt brushaanufacturer.

i)COTCH iIEQUESTRATIONb.—Jauss Scam, Edinburgh,
furnishing ironmonger—Gaosoa GonaLar, Glasgow, slater—
ANTHONY IWOLIS, Panda, road oontraotor—lßS FORSTSB
and Co, Kirkcaldy, merchants.

THE CITY STATUE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL, having
been finally adjusted on its pedestal at the west end
of Cheapside, by the sculptor, Mr. Behnes, waM un-
covered and inaugurated at eleven o'clock on Satur-
day morning.