The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-14 00:00:00

SERTROPOLITAR BOARD OP WORKS.

The weekly meeting of the Metropolitan Board
of Worts, wee held yesterday, at the office in Elpriatgar-
dens ; Bir J. THWAITIOS la the chair.
A motion for increasing the malarial of the ardsteat en-
gineers from 6001. to 8001. per salaam, wan proposed, end
after an iseffectual attempt to reduce the purposed ipaeldie
by 100/. the original motion was agreed to.
Kr. BAzaLocrrs returned thanks on behalf of himself
sad assistant engineers ; after which lie brought up
the following report ea the state of the Blackman-street
sewer by Dr. Letkeby, sad resommeoded that the solicitor of
the beard be iestracted to serve • notice upon the Aerated
Bread Company. requiring them at once to desist treat
discharging their manufacturing refuse into the sewer :
" Oct. 9.

" In soredanos with your request I have to report to
you for the information of the Metropolitan Board of
Works the results of the elamisation of the sample of the
sewage from the main newer is Blackmer-street. Borough,
where as accident occurred ors the 14th ultimo to three of
the men engaged in fleshing the sewer. The material was
sent to me oa the god last
off
It wee
o:unsalted in a
gum wise bottle. It was giving eff &Waseca of sulpha-
rotted hydrogen and carbonic arid mid or analysis 1 found
i
It worsted of carbonate of lime n the form of chalk or
whiting, and sulphate of lime mixed with the usual black
deposit of sewage. The comportios of it was the sense as
that which I examined in June last from the sewer in
Beeoh.rne. &whims, into which the refuse from
one of the establishments of the Aerated Bread
Company was discharged. I may state also that in
that case as in the provost the quantity of foal
air evolved into the atmosphere of the sewer was so great
as to be dangerous to human life; in fact, the workmen)
were afraid to enter the sewer, and it was a subject of 00111-
plaint by the migiseers of the Oromirioners of Sewers. I
was recurred to inquire into it. I found that the Amsted
Bread Company were in the habit of employing a mixture
of whiting and oil of vitriol for the gemussion of carbere
acid used in the yr:Mantraps et the bread, and that when
this n.ixture had ceased to evolve the gas in scant maw
tity for the purpose. it was discharged into the newsy,
where it continued to give off carbonic arid in such volume 1
se to render the atarepher• unwholesome. About half a
ton of this refuse was let into the sewer at a tin" wed I
have reason to believe that it was not only eyelets(
outlooks acid, but it was also, from its rid nature,
emuieg the camps suipburettad hydrogen from the
sewer mud. Judging. therefore, from this analogy. I have
no doubt that the material found in the main sewer in
Blackman-et:ea has bad a similar origin, namely, inthe
oeighboaring bakery of the Amsted Breed Company, and
that the foal Mr which was so nearly fatal to the workmen
was the carbonic acid evolved from the material. As to the
j remedy for the danger which arias from the discharge of
j .sob matters into the sewers lam not able to offer math
o advice, except by pointing oat the severity for the sudop-
,, tion of some means whereby the discharge of noxious
r matters into the public sewers may be regulated, if sot
a 'tritely stopped. The records of the fatal moldier
a is the °swam of this metropolis. show how, nadir
leordinary oircumetances, by the natural proceire cf
desompositioo, the sewage may evolve @niftiest forbear
a. acid and sulphuretted hydrogen to be dangerous to homso
,h life; but shun, as in the present instacce, the proportions
a. of these gases is largely teoressed by the chemical action of
at of manufacturing refuse, the danger may be serious. Fr•
periment has proved that air with lass Man ten per coat. of
Em carbonic acid, or with may from one to two per cent. of
selphuretted hydrogen, may be immediately fatal to ',Mord
a; life, sod although these proportions do not of ten exist is
aja the atmosphere of the metropolitan sewers, yet they may
jja, be easily generated by the action of end mina* ape
jth the 'ewer med. There is iodised remarkable
a Instance of this in an accident which warred is
foe the Fleet-lane sewer in the month of February, 1861,
the when four men were instantly killed. The pa which
stroyde-
ed thee wee rulphuretted hydrogen, and have no
▪.; doubt it was produced by the chemical motion of acid retire
,aa from a neighbouring factory upon the mud of the sewer is
iga'a which they were working. Other cern have also some
fl as under my notice where more or lees mischief bar arm
to. a from like causes; and (murdering the importable of the
the subject, lam of opinion that certain restrictions should be
placed on the dirobarge of manufacturing refuse into the
used public sewers."
Apt. The report was received and mitered of the minutes.
rim, The other burgess having bean disposed of, the board
him adjourned.

MURDER OP A FRENCHMAN AND HIS
EIBFANT IN ST. PETERSRURO.

Jean Beck, born at Thaws, Alsace, and his Ras-
elan meant, were murdered during the night of the 19th
of September, at their lodging, in St. Yetanherg. The
murderer is • Georgian prince, aged 19, who till the 15th
of August lan *erred ea sergeant is the Emperor's moon.
Amor • r the 'coma of Plisse !Hohokam himself, the
murder wee committed under the following oircumstemosa.
Os the 19th Septomber the prime Game to M. Beek, who
wee a pawnbroker, with the ietentkm to redeem a gun
pawned by Vox for tb• man of 12 roubles; bet se he had
oily six roubles with him, Bonk refund to deliver him the
pa. An altercatiog ensued, sad Micholatsi offered to
pawn his cartridge-box foe a sum of two roubles.
The esreant, who was present at the constr.
Nation, made very impudent observations to the
Georgian. However, after the woman bed retired, Beak
began to write down in his book the Dame of the borrower.
At list the latter, eanged at the abases of Beck (as stated
by the madam), gave him a (ml with his dagger en
the heed, then a soma an blow that cut his neck
deeply. The menus been' enterethe room at this 'so-
mata he peaked her beck into the hitches, and gave her
some =hi with the ewe, and the light Mang gone out
during their straggle, he stabbed her fourteen times in the
dark. Having completed them murders, the Georgian re-
tuned to his first victim, tore oat the sheet of the book
where his same was inscribed, and repaired to the room
when the pawned things were deposited. Then he took a
pelage, some watahea, sod other things, end tied. This
theft was the cause of his daemon. In his minnow to
poeseas himself of the different oblate he forgot in the
room the sheet of paper tore out of the book, on which the
begionieg of his same was written, and which led to his
speedy &memory. The Frisch coaxal was immediately in-
formed of the event, god invited to be present at the nand-
nation of the affair. Enerrgetio nneauras were at ogee
taken by the polio*, and several permits arrested mooning
to the informations gives by the porter of the beam, and
at lecgth the murderer wee arrested. The speed with
which the examination was meditated by the Remise
police has produced a very famarable interesting upon the
foreige radiate in St. Potersbarg.—Bualion Correipos-
desos

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copper an, and oiL
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