The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-13 00:00:00

THE STATE OP THE RIVER THAMES.

A meeting of the inhabitants of Twickenham and
its neighbourhood waa held yesterday aftersoou at the
parochial schoolusecn, to comicim what memories should be
take. to remedy the present umatisfactory state of the
river. The chair was taken by the vicar, the Rev. G. G. P.
OLO6llOr, who reed letters horn the Duchess (Dowager) of
Northurnberlaad. the Count of Paris, the Duke of Aureole
and other dwellers on the banks of the Thames, all
of whom bitterly oomplained of its very offensive state.
Mr. F. H. N. Glossop, Mr. Garde:we Dr. Clarke, Dr.
Horatio !Day, Mr. B.lld, Mr. Bohn, Mr. Chillingworth,
Viscount asselagh, and other geotlemen addressed the
meeting. From their statemeets it appears Met the volume
of water has for assay years been gradually diminishing.
Tbe removal of old Loudon-bridge was the beginoieg of the
evil, foe its vast piers nod to act as • kind of weir, which
kept up a tench greater !Nada water than is now the mac
The improved agricultural drarsags of the had has
also had a very prejudicial effect. Formerly the rainfall
after a heavy shower was weeks in eerie, away, whereas
now the heaviest rain pares off the land in the course of
a few hours. In fact, the river in some places has come to
resemble a mountain torrent; at times a whin stream,
and at others little better than a dry water-course. But
the great source of mischief is the amount of water ate
erected by the companise This is estimated at so lees Was
75.000,000 gallons a day—so small proportion of the whole
volume of the river. While this has been going cc there
hu been a gradual increase in the quantity of
sewage which le daily poured into the stream. Never•
tholes', though thole are two and thirty toot'
which drain tato the upper river the waters that
COW/ up with the tide are worse thin those which come
down from the country. The sods of sU the sewers at
Teickeohun have been lengthened year by year, but the
river is now so shallow at Icier water that the sewer mouths
caw scarcely be permanently covered at all. It was argued
that the Thames comorvaters ought to defray the cost of
the necessary works. Umberto& as its amounts showed an
annual earplug of 13,0001.. but it was amid that so great
was the public desire felt to reform the 000ditioci
of the Thomas that a handsome subset-seldom) znieht
be depended upon. biome discussion arose as to the
remedy to be proposed. The corneal opinion seemed to be
in favour of a weir somewhere letwees Isleworth sod
' Brantford. This, however, was vehemently disputed by Mr.
Nelson, who contended that what was wanted was to put in
! a proper stomas works is the upper portion of the stream,
' which it was admitted were is a most disgraceful condition.
It was elm urged oe behalf of Brantford that that town
would not be benefited unless it was *moiler.
' ably above the proposed weir. To which it was replied that
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TIIIIIDAY. Brentford might, if it thought peeper, agitate in favour of
ST. LEOe.L of a weir of he own. Mr. Collier, who said he had known
60 to 50 agst Gladlateur (t) 1 100 to 7 egit Breadalbaoe (5) the river as • poetical navigator for sties last twenty-five
11 to 2 Regatta (II 1 100 to It Peeress (t) years. cowteeded that a great deal of the mischief bed been
74, t The Duke (t) lop to 6 Archlmedm (off)
to 1 Xlarmska ,t) 1 100 to Arid ;of) caused by the oonswvators themselves, who hid been hol-
Nothing done on soy other event bowies out a mid.chsnnel, and toss destroying a number of
Iheaps of stones, which had been most acieotifioally con-
. streaked by nature, and which used to tat as
"water-atomics." He thought a lock would rather
%crease thaa abate the militias. What was wasted
was to cleanse the stream. Eventually the followiog
resolutions were agreed to with very few dissentients :
" That, ILI the opinion of the cement meeting the oats of
the river Thames in this locelity is prejudicial to the
health of the inhabitants, in einesqueoce of the daageroue
exhalation, which arise from the ostensive banks of and
ezposed to the action of the sun for many hours daily :
and that steps be forthwith taken to call upon the official
conservators of the river to remedy the evil. That in the
opinion of this meeting a look sad weir situated between
Isleworth and StrandocothieGreen, would be the most
efficacious remedy for she evil complained of. That a com-
mittee be appeintad to co-operate with the inhabitaate of
the neighbouring to woe on the hanks of the Thames, with
the view of adopting much measures as may be deemed ad-
visable." A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

TRAFFIC RETURNS
Mlles Par MN, Total. Wel,
11ALLIF open. sengers. ebandlm. 1336. 1864.
Week ending June 10. t a i L
Bombay. !tared*, anal 1. 1. 306 3,435 864 4.289 1,661
Week ending August 31.
Sietrott and Milwaukee 1119
Week ending Sept. 1.
Great Western of Canada 346
Week ending Sept. 3.
Brecon and mar-4w O4 467 EMS 1,161 743
eea ending Sept. 9.
Cork and Bandon
utsager South Women' 249 10,511 9.94
Week ending Sept. 10.
Cambrian ........ 739 1,601 1,323 9,618 1,196
(Meat I.unimboan6 lel 1.674 4,184 4.9114 6,037
London and Inaolterall 1,931 2611 Lll6 11,-16
Metropolitan.
North London

T,6117 0.799

- 15.318 18.04111

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