The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-18 00:00:00

of puellsowsk acid toe thia pawn I below ymta
fp.Mai order.
"Lind Palma/Mom has fastness' the solicitor 01 the
Ttemeary to seppon the information yoa will l ate Os
gods's. to omassaaleata with ►im.
" I an, sir, your obedient sei nut,
" W. WADDINGTON."

~ Ts the Commissioner*, the Pelisse of the City of Lesion
sad the Liberia!' thereof.

Whitahall.
Viscount Palmerton, being one of her Manatee
principal decretarim of Stabs, do her order aid
direct you to lay as information simian Junta
Watarlow, for the recovery of a penalty, under the Act
of Parliament period in the seventeenth year of the fidget
of Qualm Vinurria, entitled • An Am to abed this animas
annoy from tbe Anoka of Ferneries in the Metropolis, and
from Steam Yemen above London-bridge,' for using es
ntail' premises 'is his occupation at London-wall, a format*
sot oinstreeted or as to corium* or bora its own smoke,
without ming the best practicable means of p deg or
omintenseting such sweeke, contsury to the provisions of the
said wet

4' Gives tutdir my hold. this 1416 day of December, 1864

"The Remetary of the Goy Polies to 1. R. Reynolds, Esq.,
Wisher so the Treasury.
" Chief Offitie, Dee. 26,. 1854.
" Commissioner of the Cley Police having
received directions from Lewd Palmerston to tate proceed-
nage by police information under the Elmelsir Nuisance. Act
of the last session of parliament, against Junin Watarlow,
of London-wall, for using a formes on hie premise► not
constructed so is to eonatime ism own SIMOINI, &c., against
the statute, I am desired to interne you thee the constables
who can vies evidence on the matter shall brit attendants
at year office at any time you may be pleasedtto appoint..
" I am, air, your obedient servant,
" F. titottimus, flteretary."

" T, 31,
" have to acknowledge thereasury receipt Dec, of Mr. 811454.aum.
den's letter dated December 26, informing mu that you
hive received instructions from Lord Palmentote to lay an
information against James Waterlow, for using lb furnace
not constructed to consume its own smoke, &o.
"On the 14th of December, a letter from the Home
Ofßie informed me that you would eoromui
and desired me to support your information.
"Up to the present stage I take fir granted that you have
pursued the same course that has been adopted in the very
Cameron. cases in which informations baye been laid,by the
Commissioaers of Police of the metropolis ; that fa to say,
that you first satisfied yourself as a matter of fact, that the
furnace was aged at the place in question, not constructed,
&e., without using, &c., (as in the act); that yeti then
reported to Lord Palmerston your recommendation that an
joint mation should be laid, and tarnished his lordship with
the evidence upon which you proposed to support it f. that
Lord Palmerston adopted your recommendation and for-
warded to you an order under his band to lay the inkor-
Dianne.

with me,

" The next step is to lay the information, and to take mat
a summons, fixing the day for hearing.
" Fur this purpose I makes a dealt form of informatlea
that hes been adopted in the metropolitan district, which
will require to be filled up with names, dates, places, dm.,
altering also the formal description of the justice, commis-
sioner, constable, &c.
" It will be convenient to keep a copy of the information,
for the use of counsel, and to forward it to me when the
day for hearing is fixed, with Lord Palmereton's order.
and the full written evidence of the witness proposed to be
called.

" I presume that some 'dentine witness has examined
the premises (without whom evidence it is sometimes
cult to negative the use of the bast practical means of
counteracting the smoke,' mentioned in the act).
" And as a matter of convenience, I may add that as a
great number of these cases are now going on in various
courts, it would be worth while to ascertain at the chambers
of Mr. Bodkin (who attends on the part of the Treseury),
upon what days he will be able to attend the hearing of
Mr. Waterlow's sue.—l am, sir, your most obedient ser-
vant, "JOHN GREENWOOD."

"The Secretary of the CI Police to John Greenwood.
1 " City Police-of Dec 30, 1864.
"Sir --I em directed by the Commissioner of the City Po-
lice force to acknowledge the receipt of your communication
of the 28th inst., enclosing a draft form of information.
Before any further step is taken, the commissioner desires
I me to forward for your perusal a copy of the correspondence
which has taken place relative to this matter, and to inform
you that nothing more has been done than is therein dis-
closed. " 1 am, sir, your obedient servant,
. F. SAUNDEItI, Secretary."

" Treasury, Dec. 30, 1854.
" Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of a letter of
this day's date from Mr. Saunders, forwarding to me by
your desire a copy of a correspondence which has taken
i place relative to the smoke at Messrs. Waterlow's.
"The b (Mr. Duddy) was also good enough to
show me a copy of the City of London Sewers Act, 1851
(mentioned in Section 7 of the Smoke Nuisance Abatement
Act of 1863), in which powers are given to the Commis-
sioners of Sewers to take certain proceedings in ease of
nuisance by smoke.
" I have of course no authority to interfere in any such
proceedings. The only instructions 1 have received from
the Home•office are to support your information against
Messrs. Waterlow to be laid under the Smoke Nuisance
Abatement Act of 1863, under the order and direction of
Lord Palmerston.-1 am, &c.,

"JOHN GREENWOOD."

0 City Police-office, January 8, 18.55.
" Gentlemen,—l have the honour to transmit for your
consideration the further communications which have been
made to me by Lord Palmerston upon the alleged smoke
nuisance caused by Messrs. Waterlow's furnace, as also a
copy of the letter I received from the Solicitor of the Trea-
sury to whom I represented the provisions of the law touch-
ing similar occurrences within the City.
olt would seem it belongs to the Commissioners of
Sewers to deal with this end similar occurrences.—l am,
gentlemen, &o. "D. W. Heaver.
"To the Commissioners of Sewers."
The Chief Clerk having read the letters to the court,
Mr. Warzsu.ow (a member of the court) said that an
error ran through the documents re►d by the clerk : his
name being used instead of that of his sons, who, however,
did not wish to raise any technical difficulty, with a view of
getting rid of the complaint. Be himself had nothing
whatever to do with the premises. Ever since the complaint
was made they had been endeavouring to abate the nui-
sance, and had been in communication with the engineer of
the commission for this purpose. Experiments had been
tried for the last six weeks to consume the smoke, which
however seemed occasionally to fail. The engineer was
still endeavouring to effect an alteration, which it was
hoped world entirely abate the nuisance complained of.
Deputy lianalsore—We have only one course to pursue,
namely, to proceed under the reference, end I hope that
this commission will not depart from their ordinary course,
and that they will order the necessary proceedings to be
taken. (Hear, hear.) I move " Th►t Megan. Waterlow
be summoned to the court."
Mr. WATEHLOW—I second the proposition.
Teo motion was carried unanimously.
Mr. Dew was then directed by the court to inform Lord
Palmerston by letter, that Messrs. Waterlow would be sum-
moned to the court forthwith.
The inspector, in answer to questions put by the court,
stated that an apparatus had been applied to the furnace,
which he had no doubt would remedy the evil complained of,
and that be had seen ne smoke issuing from the chimney
that morning.
The court then adjourned.

EXCHANGE OF CHURCH LIVINGS.-PARISH
OF ST. CLEMENT DANES.

Yesterday morning a new rector of the parish of
St. Clement Danes, Strand, wu formally inducted, and
took possession of the living under somewhat singular cir-
cumstances. The Rev. William Webb Ellis, the late
rector, was presented to the living in 1&36. At that time
he held, and has continued to hold up to the present time,
the incumbency of St. George's chapel, Albemarle.street,
one of the most fashionable places of worship in the metro-
polis. Of coarse the reverend gentleman could not attend
to the duties of both churches, and the consequence was
that a very large portion of the services at St. Clement
were performed by curates licensed by the Bishop of
London. A few weeks since, Yr. Ellis caused an adver-
tisement to be inserted in the newspapers, stating that he
was anxious to exchange his rectory for some other rectory
where a curate might do duty, and where the bishop would
not insist upon the residence of the rector. The result has
been that an exchange has been effected between the Rev.
Mr. Ellis, rector of St. Clement Danes, and the nee.
Skinner Chart Meson, 8.A., rector of Magdalen Laver,
near Chipping Gager, Bare. All die preliminaries havin
been settled, lite.lluon presented himself yesterday morning
for induction into his new bent Sc.. Re was received in the
vestry-ball by Mr. Willits°. and Mr. Dobie, the church-
wardens ; the Rev. John Owen, 8.D., the curate of the
parish ; and a large number of the inhabitants. Mr. Ellis,
retiring rector, read the episcopsl mandate for Mr. Mason's
induction, and delivered to him the keys of the church.
The rev. gentleman wu then taken across the road, and
escorted to the sacred edifice, where he was riot in and
left alone. Is conformity with the custom which prevails
on such mations he rang the church bells, in order, as the
mandate stated, "that the parishioners might know he was
there," and then retuned to the vestry-hall, where a repast
was tarnished to the principal parishioner, and several
appropriate speeches were delivered. The rey. gentleman
will perform the eeremony reading in" with the ordi-
nary ecclesiastical formalities on Sunday next in the Wyss(
the pariah there. Mr. Mason, who lea Bachelor of Arta
of St. Catherine Hall, Cambridge, wee presented to the
Rectory of Magdalea Laver is 18.52, prior to which time he
was curate of Winkfield, near Windsor, and of Shoehorn°,
Derestahire.
Lawyer Ellis will take possession of the Rectory
of Magdalen without delay.

SoCTZTT or Atm.—Last *veiling, at the meeting
of the Society of Arts, Mr. William Faftbairn, FAA, is
the else% Mr. George W. Muir deligered a lecture contain-
ing many useful practical suggestions on the smoke nuisance,
in its moral, histories', scientific, and practical aspects.