The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-18 00:00:00

OPPOSITION TO THE GREAT LONDON

Di CA tii al BILL.

A vestry meeting of the pariah of St. James,West-
"taster, see held yesterday to take into consideration the
Great Undoes Drainage Bali—Mr. Ono. Guthm, church-
warden, is the chair.
Mr T. M. Mouths introduced the subject to the notice
of the vestry. The bill had been read a second tints in the
Home of Commons, and, though called a private bill, it
rive power to tax the metropolis to the amount of 33,0001.
arm. The preamble or the bill stated its object to be to
provide more eff,etually for draining the metropolis,
Maumee the City of London, and intercepting and collect-
ing Uie sewage water, to with& no elemeiaa meld be made.
It proposed to establish •joiat meek wespasy,, with a eapi-
ail of a million; and after the 111116111011 have been audited,
it from iasproper management ee any other cause it is
loud that the amulet ot dividend is not 3 per cent., it is I
to limeade up to that amount by the Commissioners of
Nun. This he considered as the most serious objection
tome bill. It proposed to exempt the property of the corn-
May from payment of poor rates and other taxes—a pri-
vilege which no other private company ever asked for.
There was to be no supervision of the works while
t‘.47 wen in progrem, and it was an anomaly that
'due the main object wu stated to be to preserve
the Thames front the impurities which flow into it no means
willtrommil for enforcing this object, while they were to
10 Dud for fouling other streams. The metropolitan drain-
s(' district comprised an area of 63 equate miles on the
north, sad of TO on the south, of the Thames, but one-hell
Maus urea wee to be excluded from the influence of the
trespsoy's works. The districts drained by the King's
Scholars Pond Sewer, the Ranelagh, and the Counters
Cwoki was secluded, and also a largo dirrict on the south
aide of the Thames. The outlet on the tooth aide was so
seer to the metropolis that the sewage would be driven
back. lie proposed the adoption of a petition to parliament
entedying the objections to the MU.
Mr PRATT seconded the motion.
kr Gusto gild it would be useless to present a petition
tales they wet, prepared to oppose the bill before the com-
wattle to whom it was referred. The bill started a private
Noisier fora private speculation, for which the public were
:be sailed upon to pay. The company had, in fact, stolen
swarth upon th” Inhabitants of the metropolis. It had been
ilktdated that the sewage of the metropolis was wotth
590,0001. a yam and a company having got hold of this
meted the p. üblic to pay them (or taking it away,
`tom isi Nemo' the public should be paia for it. If a
,41wesentative body had the management of the sewers,
'ay would be mid for it instead of the public being fleeced,
Nu Present, or whet was most valuable, and getting no-
Mit brit.
and desultoy iision then took place as to the I
Welt advisable courser of proceeding to be adcpte and it
amt length agreed that their two representatives should
rwloested to firm', the guarantee classes on the bill
nor hroaeht up for the third reading!
.24 liming terminated with a vote of thanks to the
suenum.

TOE WAR wirn Am (Ear 'Nines.) —A dam-
-I.6*.bas Just been waled,p by order of the House of Lords.
Xtk.
toe of tbe th Ara ; end in a return it is
lkat no account of the @amuse already incurred with
tet been received. In the Bengal regular estimate
_'"^n, the War ( hart•es on account of the expedition
i" -"nag are aesumed to amount that year to 10,00,000
:1;1,7• sad in the Bengtl sketch estimate for next year,
the amount antuned is 60,00,000 rupees.