The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-09 00:00:00

ITIREMNID POLLIMON OP THE THAMES.

Lot evening at a meeting of the vestry of St.
Mary's, Lambeth, held at the Vestry-hall. Keeuiagtoo, Mr.
It. TATLOI in the chair Dr. Prickle, the medical nicer
et health, drew attention to a matter which be maid wee
Maly to prove a great evil. The metropolis woe threatened
liy the scheme of Mr. Demleptati, the en of the
Metropolitan Board of Worn. It was intended to collect
the enrage of a &Maws 21 aims aisles I. extent into large
roan two sew is elm, mid aeon fest deep, at
Dentin end Fulham, elm to Orionewureprdsns, sad there
9,54,40,04X:000 nee of enrage daily wen to uudergos promo of
by trestment with a minim of
of iron Subeequentl the whole of the lignrd. part
of it would he into the Thames at
the
.ernnneenieet of the ebb tide. He felt

toesiderehle alarm at the proposal. He behaved that the
see of the perchloricle would not only sot be effectual to
prevent the putrefaction, but would prove worm thee use•
less. ioasmuch u the effect of ita employment would be to
precipitate the sumeeded matter of the sewage as a black
and filthy compound, which would be deposited on the river
shore by the readier: tide, where it would still undergo
putrefactive cheeses as if no &Gelatin agent had been
employed. He eseakitted that this subject specially
affected the perish of Lambeth, at, from it. long river
frontage and mealier sitnatioa, it would be jest the spot
where the delimit weld printirieffy take place, became the
IllotokohtilZrolles bring dmokarged at high water, the do-
posit osier lower down the new. He was of
ocisice that it w meet important to purify the Thames
within the metrepelitaa area. By the plan proposed it
would be reedered mere impure, for by its means large
quantities of amnia weld be poured into the river daily.—
/Ir. Fowler said the sub** ought to be takes up by all
the vestries of the metropolis. It appeared to him that the
Urge seats of messy sew being expended upon the me-
'treelike of WWI were thrown away, and the works ren-
dered whew, if the amigo of a district twenty-one
miles in extent were to be thrown into the Thames.
He nairred a temptation to the effect that the vestry
Mewed With alarm mid appreheusion the pro. and requested the representatives of
posed
to bring the subject seder the notice of the Me-
tropolitan Board of Works, with the view of eliciting the
coerce that body intended to take in the matter.—Mr. Wes
seceded the motion, which Wei carried.—The Chairman
Slue rasa a communication en the "abject from the Associa-
toe of Medical Officers of Health and the Hones" Valley,
"al* .Steatite to the nadedakie, and describing it es
tee eta very dangerous character, and likely to prove inju-
rious to the health of the metropolis if torrid out.

Til SINKING Or • BaILWAT VIADUCT AT CLAP-
Iux.—TIo• weeks conosaied with the removal of the &brie
and the receestructioa of the piers and arches forming the
viaduct festoon Clapham-root and Bedford-road, oa the
Illetrepolitee Extension of the London. Chatham. and Dover
Bellamy (from Victoria statics to the Elephant and Castle),
have been so energetically carried on during the past week,
and has progressed so far satisfactorily as to allow of the
commencement of the reboikhng of the piers. Some clue
has bees obtained uto the cause ol the subsidence. The
original foundations were laid upon a solid bed of gravel,
and it wee at first supposed that there was a peat bottom
beneath the gravel, but upon the examination which has
recently been made, it has been found that at some distance
below tbegravel was a bed of clay, and in its neighbourhood
soil ol• treacherous nature, which doubtless caused the clay
to give, sad besot the subsidence of the piers. These works
were carried out under the superintendence of Mr. Joseph
Cubit*, C.E., and XL Tumor and Mr. Thomas, of the an
MAIN • Mr. Bishop, the moral superintendent; and
other official; of the canonry being in constant attendiume.
The new foundatmas have bees laid and strengthened by a
bed of concrete. Yesterday morning the workmen com-
menced the reconstruction of the new piers, and u it is
intended to progress u rapidly as possible with the works,
it is anticipated that they will be completed and the through
traffic from Victoria to the Elephant and Castle resumed by
the end of the present month. The traffic has commenced
winning between Victoria sod Clapham, and since Satnnisy
last it his berm resumed from the Elephant and Corti* to
the Brixton station.

DURING Ms Pao QUARTZ.
—busing the put quarter the lifeboats of the National Life-
boat institution have resented 136 shipwrecked pereoas from
the following wreaked vessel':—Ship Annie E. Hooper, of
Baltimore, liaised States, 18; barge Hoerr Everest, of
Rochester, 4 ; 'chooser Cares, of Arbroath, saved vessel
and crew of 5 ; sloop Loftus, of Padstow, 4 ; smack Jobs,
of Teignmouth, 2 ; !Owosso Ellen, of Liverpool, se...a
veinal and crew of 3 ; uneek Mary Elizabeth. of Padatow,
3 ; 'chooser Osprey, of Freserbusg, 6 ; *chooser Janus
Divan. of Newcastle, eased vessel arid craw of 2 ; soborreer
entropies, of Liverpool. 10; plliot Aneseed, of Jaffa,
ansisted to save vestal std crew of 6 men ; ship James
Browne, of Philadelphia, assisted to save vessel and erew of
1$ men; smack Coastal* of Lieberea, of Abstrystwith, 3;
barque Royal Rose, of Whitby, 12 ; bargee Brazil, of U-
neven!, 13 ; schooner Little Aggie, of Berwick. 4 ; schooner
Sisters, of Wick, 3 ; and barque Louise. of Bristol, 20;
total, 136. la oddities to these, 50 osseous were mud ley
shore. hosts and other means duriog the same period,
making a total of 186 persons rescued from shipwreck during
the put three months. For these several aervices the in-
'Suttees hes granted muse silver medals and 1924 13a as
rewards. Deriog the whole yea the lifeboats of the society
Mee saved 358 shipwrecked persons, iu addition to 234
=Tsaved by shore boats sod other means. It is a grati-
act that 1,471 lives were saved by the lifeboat' of the
society and by Wes of shore boats daring the put three
yea's, thus "bowies clearly the groat impatience to dm
aims of humaeity of the lady satiates' sad plailoodkropi.