The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-07 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS.

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Yesteeday a special wart of die asanaissioa was
held se ths Cart-hooso, Orook-.hest, Bee.. Mt. RICIIAID
Stan presided, cad sbo other criumbolooovo present Wore
Mr. 0. Baker. Mr. G. 8. tbsitb, Mr. T. T. Oitoce,
Mown, sod Theism Field.
Wootaeco reported that tbo balsams is Mad wee
66).5671. Ss Id., 'abject to pimento to Use antoaat of
15,3211. Os. Sd.

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NSW UMW.
A het was t►en presented for coefirmation of new works
recommended by the 'repeal esommittee, including now
wavers, alterations, and deviations of existing sowers and
other improvements in various parts of the metropolis, and
iavolvine an evonditure of 37.226/. for the western divi-
sioe of Westminster, 8,409/. 10s. for the eastern division.
1,2'01 for the 109,15 t-street district, 65,1821. 9s. 9d. for
the llolhora division, 1,6931. for the Finsbury division,
99/. for the Spitalfields, &c., level. 7.1311. ss. for the
Surrey and Keat district, and 1201. for the Richmond
district. . •

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The CIIAIRNAN, in movie; that the recommesdatiou to
the general committee be confirmed, stated that the list
which had been read included a great sof the works
to be paid for oat of the rates inalL7tiallr to be made,
daring the current year, that was frees July last
until July seat year. Oa a recent Ocerinion he had
Manned the wart that considerable works had besa con-
stricted as were is hand, and by naives hens the mi-
ens Mane of the eammagiosers it would appear that during
the last six mouths more works in the way of now sews!'
had been executed or put in hand by the promat enema-
lies than by any previous commission in a tentless/nth—
in feet, sufficient had been done during the half-year t 3
sewer a city of 150,000 inhabitants. That wee V the way
of new worki, besides which a vast number of unimases,
&metalling to some hundreds every mut day, had bees
suiltmeeed. The commission would still go on daring the
current year raising rates and making new works in the
&strata comprised in the present list, and their ofloers
were engaged M preparing lists for further works, to be
mode out of the rate* which had been already raised and
which remained to bar collected. The principle on which
the commission had acted, and upon which they would
continue to act, was this—They decided upon the
particular works in the list, and upon other works
which would appear in other lists—sad as he had
taken occasion to observe before, the rates were levied, and
the winks were executed, not by parishes, but by sewage
districts. They lad, at the same time, always recognised
the propriety of considering the just wants and claims of
every parish, and had endeavoured, it the best of their
judgment,o to pay • proportionate degree of attention to
es el in tke dia•rict. They had eonsidered what
rates had been made in each pariah, what works had been
dew, and what ware required; and, although they could
not attend to them with mathematical nicety, they had
given a (sir consideration to the wants of each parish in
every district. Unfortunately the comailwionen bed not
the mesas of westing at once all the works required for
all the districts. Some matt wait for another year. But
they had dens • great deal, and those legalities which
might think themselves negiected, if they could sit
in that court, and see the numerous claims that
were made, sad bear the discnuions upon them, would
not, be was eon, consider that any injustice was dons
to them. The claims of every district and of every parish

hod bees fairly comidered, and M these eases where the
assmissiosers had abstained from 'making sew eswm,
notwithstanding the demands of the iahabitants, it was
bows more urgent shims had bees pat forward by other
districts, which they felt bound to attend to in the first
inatanee. This was the principle apes which they had
hitherto acted, and they would continue to act upon the
same principle hereafter, and would do their beet to attired
M the waste and just ims of every district, and distribute
the funds at their disposal as equitably as was in their
power. It was for the smut to say whether the coon would
confirm the works now proposed. He should may that the
length of new sewers comprised is the list sow submitted
was between 17 and 18 miles, sod would involes as expen-
diture of 74,1171. 14..
The list was confirmed, and the works ordered.
TIC OAS ITOZZII 1117111ANCI.
The BvaTneoa reported that the nuisastee complained of
is the ease of the Western Gas Works at Kentall-green
had bean abated, but not entirely reentived. The report
suggested that a system of filtration would effectually
obviate any nuisance that now remained.
The report was ordered to be forwarded to the gas com-
pany, whose attentks was to be draws to the surveyor's
'mettles.
In the are of the Great Central Gas Compass, it was
reported that the attemary ineallOreg had bees taken to
prevent the discharge of gat water complained of.

11011.111 AND [NAT DAMNAG&
Mr. WOOLIIITCII read a report from the engineer (Mr.
Baselgette) In answer to certain objections which had been
advanced by the parishes ef Deptford and Greenwich
against the proposed new system of drainage for the south
of London. Mr. Basalgetto stated that the complaint erase
from a miaapprebutos of the olen. It wu not proposed
to discharge the sewage into -Deptford-creek, but to con-
vey it from the high-level sewer by gravitation, and from
the low-level sewer by pumping, through iron pipes, into
the ',airs and bottom of the main stream of the Thames,
retaining the outlets into the creek for the flood waters.
These waters would have the effect of scouring away the
mad and filth now collected is the meek, sad of deepening
and insprovies its tunnel. The sewage discharged by the
sewers along the banks 'Atha river above Deptford-auk and
now carried by repeated flood and ebb tides past Oteeswich,
would by this plan be discharged at • much lower point
into the sutra and bottom of the river, sad would, there-
fore be so mach the sooner conveyed away to sea. The
proposed pumping status near the Gas and Vitriol Works
would not came the tightest smell or nuisance. There
would be so reservoirs et any kind attached to it, and no
espaliers of the sewage, as the latter will be buried under-
ground. Ordinary stram-iingthes at work would be the
only Wag perceptible to any of the susses.
It was ordered that copies of this report be forwardel to
the object's"! parishes.
T remaining business consisted of making district rates,
hearing summonses, receiving presentments, and ether
formal matters.