The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-04 00:00:00

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CHEAP GAS MOVEMENT IN THE CITY.

Yesterday afternoon a public meeting of rate-
payers and gas consumers was held in the council chamber,
Guildhall, to take steps to secure a reductioa is the price
of gas from 4s. 6d. to 2a. 9d. per 1,000 cubic feet, anti to
smakler the propriety of petitioning parliament for the re-
peal of the Metropolitan Gee Act, 1860. The Lord Mayor
presided, and in stating the object of the meetiog said be
thought the Great Central Gas Consumers' Dempsey had
broken faith with the citizen. of London, and they would
not have -had the coacurrowe of the corporation had
it not been for the representation that a reduc-
tion would take place in the price. Coals had not got
dearer, sad they knew gnat improvemeste had Wren place
whereby the manufacture of gas was attended with lass st-
ream than heretofore, and yet it was • feet that, instead
of getting benefit by this state of things, the companies
magma to raise the price of pa. He was in Liverpool
about two mocths sines, and lie there sew that pa which
cost 3a. 4d. per 1,000 cubic feet gave light as intense as that
produced by 25 candles, whereas the gas in Leedom
which was 4.. 6d., supplied, according to reports, light
equal only to nips candies. Mr. Flistoff said be repre-
sented an associatioa consisting of mere than 5,000 gas
consumers, and wished to state facts oonneoted
with the manufacture mid distribution of gas in the metro.
polls. He asserted that the supply of gas should be
attended with the same oompeution which existed in
everything else, and the means which secured this result
for other places were at the disposal of the eel ansumen
of Loodou. He had succeeded is abolishing 173 monopolies,
such es that of which he had to complain, and a saving of
600,0001. had been the result of his MlOCtlalk Is 1848, when
Sir James Duke was Lard Mayor, a successful
effort was made to redoes the price of gas
from 6s. to 4s. per 1,000 cubic feet ; but since that time so
reduction bad taboo place, sad tested of having is Loa- I
doe pa of the beat description at the lowest possible price,
they had gas of the worst des ription at the highest pos-
sible price. In order to give an Idea of the cost attending
the manufacture of gas, he bad prepared some Meatiest
isfonamica which be ocandand very important, sad by
which it appeered that a ton of coal yielded 9,400 feet of
gas, 10 gallons of tar, 10 gallops of ammonia water, and
id cwt. of coke. He referred to the prices charged for pa
Is the priocipal towels of &oilseed, and conteada that when
gas was supplied at Plymouth at 2a. 9d. per 14116 cubic
feet, it could be distributed in London at the same price.
He urged the necessity ei enueleipsl interference ; mad he
had uo doubt that if the monopoly were done away with
the (Mimes would have light at half the present expense.
After a protracted diaconate, in which delegates from se-
veral of the metropolitan and suburban districts took part,
the following resolutioa was proposed by Mr. Dewar
Row" C.C., and unanimously adopted :—" That the pa
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corporation is their determisation to seek parliamentary
pewee to supply or manufacture gas for thecitimes at

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