The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-14 00:00:00

THZ .EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1848.

another.
lithe new commission only exist long enough to
get this sury honourable completed, it will have earned
for itself an place in metropolitan history.
The evidence of the Greenwich collector is curious.
That suburban district pays a sewer rate of 35. 6d. in
the pound, but has not a single sewer. It rejoices
however in long lines of open ditches, which render
up their sweets duly to the residents and London
holiday folks.
The new commission has just come in time. The
breath of public opinion had begun to ruffle the stagna-
tion of the old boards. They were beginning to exhibit
portentous signs of activity. Like a lazy housemaid
caught napping, who makes grievous havoc of the
crockery in a sudden effort to prove herself wide-
awake, the old commissions were about to do a great
deal of mischief by way of convincing the public that
they were able to do something. The Kent and
Surrey commission, for example. proposea to lay out
100,000!. in works which, if completed, would either
have had to be undone,or, if left, would stand in the way
of future improvements. And this was only an instalment
of the outlay threatened by such mischievous and mis-
calculating activity. The works are stopped. The
consulting engineer of the new commission thinks
that by a plan of converging drainage between 3001.
and 4001. may be saved for this district alone. This
prospective saving, however, is not without its set-off
of loss. The dwellers south of the Thames may gain
300,000 f., but they will lose Mr. GWILT, the surveyor
under the former commission, who, like the old hero,
unable to bear the new men and new minds of sani-
tary reform, indignantly throws down his measuring
rod, and retires, a CORIOLANUS of the eewers, from
the ungrateful public he has so long ganged and cal-
culated and surveyed for. An uncharitable his-
torian might suggest somewhat unromantic mo-
tives for this act of reeleation. Mr. Gwitr
has long acted as the administrator of a sys-
tem under which the more a work cost the
public, the more profit it brought in to the surveyor.
lie has been in the habit of receiving a per centage
on all new works. This, in fact, paid him for super-
intending the general sewerage expenditure of its
district, its cleansings and repairs. All that was done
for a paltry 501. per annum, or, in other words, for
nothing. Poor Public, nevertheless, paid handsomely
for all, in the shape of a bonus on every unnecessary
thousand laid out in a new work. The officer charged
with the practical control of the district sewerage,
under the old system, lost by the public's gain, gained
by the public's loss. His interest was set in diametri-
cal antagonism to that of the rate-payers. This system
is at an end ; with it end Mr. GWILT'S services. But,
besides preparing for the future, the new commission
has been actively at work repairing the nuisances of the
present. No lees than 3,472 notices have been served
on occupiers and owners in Westminster only, to
have their sewers properly drained. In the same
district 22,400 feet of sewers have been cleansed by
Sleighing ; and 3,386 double loads of soil got rid of by
the process, at an expense of 8001., when the old
fashion of removal by hand would have cost three
times this amount. The surveyors have commenced
flushing the Surrey, Kent, and Tower Hamlets divi-
sions. They have been actively engaged in emptying
eerapools in courts and alleys by the use of the pump
and flexible hose, directed to the nearest sewer. It is
gratifying to hear that the poor inhabitants testified
the greatest thankfuhtess for this riddance, and,
throughout, showed anything but indifference to the
efforts that are in progress for promoting their clean-
liness, health, and comfort.
Altogether the report of this meeting testifies to a
genuine and practical activity on the part of the new
commission which augurs well for the discretion that
selected them' and amalgamated the different sewer-
age jurisdictions in their hands. They are desperate
innovators, it is true. In fact, they are Jacobins of
the jakee—sanitary sans-culottes. They tarn old pro-
cesses upside down. They begin at what used to be
the end. They insist ou a general plan as a base cf
operations. The old commissions commenced the
operations, and waited for the base. The new com-
mission cleanses the dirtiest places first. The old
commissions always began with the cleanest, and
seldom disturbed the dirtiest at all. The new com-
mission insists on its surveyors doing the work in the
cheapest po,sible way consistent with its being well
done, The old commissions paid their surveyors in
proportion to the cost of the work executed, much, if
it cost much—little, if it cost little. The new com-
mission flushes ; the old commissions carted. The
sew commission uses pumps and hose • the old com-
missions used hands and shovels. The new com-
mission does twice the work at half the expense ; the
old commissions did half the work at twice the ex-
pense. The new commission saves ; the old commis-
sions spent. The new commission works • the old
commissions jobbed. The new commission courts
and is amenable, to publie opinion ; the old commis-
sions baffled and defied it.
In saying this, be it remembered, we say nothing
against the men. The old commissions inherited a
vicious system, formed at a time when knowledge was
imperfect, aims low, and views narrow. That they
ended by defending what they began by adopting,
that they fought fiercely. at last for what they par
sively accepted at first, is a feature common to them

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with all adatibistratioiss that survive Lk* theories i
which they embody. 1 I
There are two melancholy little items in this loag I
aid cheering report—two pennyworths of stale sod
mouldy bread to the immeose *unfit/
_of autitary
sack. The one is the abdication of Mr. °wag,
alrmAy all
to ; the other is the disallowing, in
the accounts of the Poplar commission, of that
PM little tavern bill of 181. The touching
lama stood there before those imperious new
@swarm'4 like the miserly uncle's orntch-stir-k;
ia lioaaarn's picture of the rakish heir taking pos.
samba at the old man's mansion, a memento of other
thaw and other habits. It acquires additional interest
Item the graeetnl dignity with which it was with-
drawn by al. solicitor to the defunct board. Like
Clams, the Poplar 00113111iSia0111 is determined to die
with decency. They iiill pay their own Blackwell
bill. They will not condescend to fight over the
manes of the whitebait and John dory._ It is almost
as affecting u Lear.surrendaing his fifty knights to

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his unnatural daughter.
This report will come opportunely to assure
doubters that the new commission is in earnest, and,
moreover, capable of the work before it. It is not
without its importance as an earnest of renewed and
active ministerial attention to the subject of sanitary
law early in the session.

THE Times of yesterday morning had two ie....
articles most fraternal and suited to each other. One
was a lamentation over the fall of the Jesuits in
Switzerland and a bitter vituperation of the liberals
for crushing and exiling them ; the other is a venting
of the spleen of the Jesuit party of the English chureh
against Dr. HAMPDEN. That the Swiss Jesuits
levied rebellion, defied the national Diet, outraged
the law, and provoked the government into patting
them down, is plain to (wiry one. That the
Anglican Jesuits have pursued, as far as was
in their power, a course equally nilly, equally
appealing to clamour and notoriety, is abM
obvious. Religion, or rather the supposed in.
lamb of a church, were alike the pretexts of the
dare stood at Lucerne and at Bow. That the re-
sale were in both came equally desecrating to roll-
=lust bo admitted : covering it with disgrace and
hire in the one ease, with discomfiture and
ridicule in the other. The Jesuits of both London
and Lucerne admit this; but they add, it is not ode
fault it is not we who provoked this, or who ought
to be blamed for it, hut the authorities, whom our
frowardness forced to do their duty. Or if the fault
be not in the authorities, it must be in the system.
We agree
.with the Jesuits, Swims and English. The
fault was in the system that encouraged their folly,
sad acted as a hotbed to their malice; and those
portions of the system which served as a pretext to
digir folly, aad which have flung ridicule on religion
and its institutions' ought to be abolished and erased.
With respect to Switzerland, the liberal and
Jesuit party, party, represented by the government and
sanctioned by the Diet, having conquered, it is now
modestly requested of them by the absolutist powers,
and by their organ, the Tinies,to waive all the conse-
quences of their victory, to withdraw the federal
troops from the cantons which rebelled, to permit the
chiefs of that rebellion to resume their influence and
offices, to allow the monks and Jesuits to force their
flocks to elect deputies in Jesuit interest, and finally
to exempt the monks who provoked the civil war from
paying any of its charges. The Swiss executive is net-
' ther so foolish nor so weak as, in the lapse of one
month after having overcome their enemies, to place
them in a condition to receive arms and succour from
France and Austria, and thus renew the war. They
insist on the exile of the leaders and promoters of the
rebellion. They have ordered popuilar elections to
take place publicly, with votes given ora epee, instead
of receiving the usual bulletins written by the Jesuits.
Imtead of leaving all the cantonal portion of the war
expense en the citizens, they have insisted on the
convents paying a large proportion, which is but,
just, as the convents provoked the war.
The Times in its calumnies on the liberal party in
Switzerland, represents the measures taken in the
subdued cantons as the mere seta of other cantons.
Whereas, in fact, they are the acts of the federal
executive, sanctioned by a majority of the Diet, UNA
majority being made up of catholic as well as protes-
tant voters. The quarrel is, in fact, not one f pro-
testant against catholic, or of ultra-liberal against
moderate conservative. It is a struggle of liberal
and enlightened catholicism against monastic and
Jesuit catholicism. The Times takes part with the
latter, and in so doing is merely upholding in Swit-
zerland those Father M'IIALES whom it vituperates in
Ireland. Whatthe Swiss Jesuits aimed at was precisely
to make for themselves a little Swiss Ireland in the
catholic cantons, where they might reign supreme,
monopolising place and power, and preserving their
realm, as Archbishop Manny. does his diocese, by
fostering ignorance and extinguishing education.
Against this the liberal catholics of Ireland, as the
liberal catholic* of Switzerland, are ready to protest
and exert themselves. They have done so with effect
in Switzerland, and, thanks to protistant aid, educa-
tion and enlightened liberalism will do the same in
Ireland, in despite of Father M'HALE and his diurnal
gossip the Times.
It is a very remarkable fact that the Swiss Jesuits
driven freen Lucerne were hooted in the streets of both
Milan and Vienna. In both cities the population is
devoutly catholic, but in both it is loudly anti-
Jesuit. The very clergy of Vienna, a most popular
clergy, have protested against the court favour ex-
tended to the Jesuits. The Times, therefore, should
be aware that the religious party which it abets in
Switzerland is not only abhorred by the liberal pro-
testant/ of England, but also by the semi-liberal
catholics of Switzerland, Lombardy, and even Austria.
Thus is the " leading journal" of England in its re-
ligious opinions at the very tail of civilisation, being
more retrograde than the most retrograde countries
of absolutist Europe.

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The Paris journals and our usual correspondence,
of Wednesday, of which a summary of the contents I
appeared in our impression of yesterday, are more
than usually interesting.
It appears that the King has received from her Ma-
jesty Queen Victoria a very affectionate letter of
condolence on the occasion of the death of Madame
Adelaide. The Queen has also written a letter on the
same occasion to her uncle, the King of the Belgians.
' A letter from Toulon of Jan. 7th says: " The
authorities have received instructions relative to
Abd-el-Kader and his family. The Emir is to be
transferred on the Bth to Fort Lamalge with
his mother, his three children, and his bro-
ther-in-law, Muatapha Ben 'fchann. The other
Arabs, now at the Lazaretto, are to be sent to
Fort Malbousquct. These instractions arrived here
last evening, at the same time as Col. Lhuereux, who
is to assume the command of Fort Lamalgue, with an
increased garrison. Workmen are employed to-d
iy
in preparing the rooms on the first story for Abd-el-
Kader. From the precautions that are to be taken, it
is easy to perceive that the Emir is to be detained a
prisoner. at least for an indeterminate period. He is
even to be guarded d rue, and is not to be allowed to
take exercise, except on the terrace of the fort. The
Emir is to be informed in the course of this day of the
decision which the government has come to respecting

him."
It was generally circulated in Paris on Tuesday
evening and Wednesday morning, that goverment had
received additional intelligence of the alarming illness
of Queen Isabella, who, it was said, had had another
fit of illness, and had remained in a state of insensi-
bility for above two hours.
M. Vitet has been unanimously appointed re-
porter of the committee on the address of the Cham-
ber of Deputies.
On Tuesday, at six o'clock a.m., M. Chevalier's
thermometer was down at 6 degrees 4-10 tbs below
zero of the centigrade scale (20 of Fahrenheit), and
at mid-day was still as low as 4 degrees 6-10ths cen-
tigrade (about 23 Fahrenheit).

The proceedings on both sides at Milan have
been very systematic. The abstinence from to-
bacco was commenced with previous notice in
order to enable smokers to leave it off gradually,
and on the 2nd the object was accomplished
not a cigar was to be seen. The authorities
began by hiring persons to smoke, and sending them
through the town. followed by police agents and
soldiers, to seize any of the people who should insult
them. This not proving effectual, the soldiers them-
selves were sent out, and filled the most frequented
cafes and promenades, places where they were
not accustomed to be seen, puffing the smoke
in the faces of the excited populace. The interchange
of angry words can be easily imagined, and indis-
criminate massacre ensued. One of the most pro-

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dry were detainee°, the ,
Chi .tke',Fiamm. fie* Oa: sae of the pa,
erezeirlited wide' foifild thirty-two bkyonst
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bre wounds. All the shops
_and ode were closed
on the 6th, private houses . had their gates barred.
A general gaper prevailed; no one dared to go oat.
The streets were constantly. Swept by squadrons of
and detachments of infantry.
of the pretneditabad netof this
military
.Imomore, it le stated that Bedetdd and
Torres's°, the chichi of the military and the police,
had previously sent orders to the hospital@ on the
morning of the 3rd to prepareall the dhiposabht:beds
and litters for the wean
Two Counsellors of the government, declaring that
they could not any consent to form part of such
an administration, resigned,
*litter fronds Milan says :
The attitude of
etbaelelte wee remarkable. They have
eared the meet meirleate to the troops. Men
wars PIM kVA/ft down the mots of houses, in order
toshrew the tiles at their eipwreare. Window frames,
p t
asesoirWlsis, kelEasetipowsitike Attstriank A placard
te the was tittek up, reed with aridity,
and pulled down ea oppress\ el a petrol. At every step
he ties diens of Milan an Seal siren written notes,
Meng the to
to offse resistance. The armouren
swat mass to the sale of aim. Oa* a them sold
ISO pin et pistols. It is evident the people are
ibr the struggle. We ham by the mcet receunt in-
that the lottery b
hp been prohibited, as well the
use tebeceo. All those who shall gamble at the lottery
age to be dismissed from their places if servants or men on
wego-bire, banished if meet of an independent station. It
ia ma, on the other hand, that the Austrian agents, Its-
&Mkt mid Torresani have swore, if tranquillity be not fes-
tered, to set the town on firs and kill the inhabitants. T
heyta
he
have prepared a plan of persecution Spina the biand especially against the Milanese nobility.
It appears from reports which have arrived,
that the league spinet the consumption of articles
from which the government derives a revenue, has
not been coded to Milan, but has spread generally
through Austrian Italy. At Cremona, at (lomo, et
lamas apd MIME chief places, there, have been
ea the part of the people.e
poi
Gazette of Frankfort of the 9th says thd
the reinforcements sent by Austria into Lombardy
were producing a oorreiponding movement in other
Italian states ; that a reaction at Rome had com-
menced, and that the retrograde party was gaining
ground. It says also, that the remonstrances of
Austria conveyed to the Pope against the progressive
movement, as being in fact directed against religion
itself, had produced a certain impression. This, how-
ever, appears scarcely compatible with the more recent
intelligence which we have received directly from
Rome, where the most important reforms are in
active progress. The same journal says, that at
Naples all hope of reform was given up. The King,
who had been well disposed towards certain reforms,
received news of the proceedings of Austria in Lom-
bardy, and advice from that power not to allow him-
self to be drawn into the current of Italian radicalism,
which was a mere temporary fever which would sub-
side. It is certain, concludes this journal, that the
postponement of all reform in Naples is owing to
French and Austrian influence, and that the general
discontent and fermentation is attributable to this.

Mt court.
Prince Albert, attended by some of the gentlemen
of the royal suite, enjoyed the sport of shooting yesterday
forenoon.
The Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Frederick
of Besse visited the Duchess of Ciloueester yesterday.

A Cabinet Council was held at twelve o'clock yes-
terday at the Foreign-offioe. The ministers present were
Lord John Rumen, the Lord Chancellor, Sir George Grey,
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, the Marquis of Clanri.
earde, Lord Campbell, the Right lion. H. Labuuchere, pod
Viscount Murpeth. The council sat three hours and a half.
The Postmaster-General had an interview with the
Chancellor to the Exchequer yesterday at his official reld-
denoe in Downing.street.
A deputation respecting the Bristol Docks transfer,
consisting of the lion. F. Berkeley, M.P.. Mr. Coates, Col.
Roberts, Mr. Burroughs, Mr. Beadon, Capt. Thoruborough,
Mr. Britten, and Mr. Ellicombe, had en interview with the
Right lion. T. Milner Gibson yesterday, at the office of the
Board of Trade.
Despatches front the Governors of Ceylon, South
Australia, Malta, and Gibraltar, were received yesterday at
the Colonial-office.

METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWIi
itttST MEETING.
A meeting of the recently appointed Metropolitan
Commission of Sewers took place yesterday at No. 8, com-
mittee room. House of Commons. The commissioners pre-
sent were Lord Morpeth, in the chair, Messrs. Hutton,
Broder:p, Puckle, Hon. H. Byng, Chadwick, Leslie, L. Jones,
Buller, Lord Ashley.
The first business taken was the auditing of accounts from
builders, surveyors, and various other parties recently em-
ployed in carrying out the objects of the commission. Some
accounts of the old comma/lions also came under notice ;
among the rest, that of the Poplar Commission. A tavern
bill of 181. was objected to by
Mr. IlurroN, on the grounds that although reasonable
tavern expenses might be allowable, still the law could never
have contemplated dinners at Blackwell.
Mr. BAKER, solicitor to the commisdon, said he was au.
thorised to withdraw the bill if it were made the subject of
any observation. Bill withdrawn. The secretary proceeded
to state the steps which had already been taken by the com-
missioner' in Westminster; 3,472 notices had been served
on house-owners and occupiers to have their sewers properly
drained. A petition had been presented from the improve-
ment commissioner' relative to the driiiia..e of the new
street, Victoria-street, Westminster.
Mr. CHADWICK said that as this petition referred to the
drainage of en entirely new street, he thought it a proper
time for settling on a new and general system of drainage.
Two proposals had been submired to the commission,—one
from Mr. Phillips, the other from Mr. Austin. The Intter
he preferred, as it contained a plan for pumping up the
sewage water in cases where the drains were below the level
of the Thames. Mr. Phillips' proposal contained nn sugges-
tion of that nature. He proposed that the petition and plans
be referred to Mr. Austin, with orders to report thereon,
with a view to the adoption of some general system.
Mr. BRODERIP seconded ti emotion, which was agreed to.
Several petitions from different localities praying tor im-
proved drain ice were then presented ; among others, one
from Dr. Ouy, stating that typhus fever prevailed in
Princes-street, Holborn, and that toe drainage of that dis-
trict was in a very bad state.
Lord MORPETR said that rues of typhus should be imme-
diately attended to. The next document read was the fol-
lowing communication from Mr. Bardwell, relative to Mr
drainage of Paris:
4, Great Queen-street, 27th Dee., 1847.--Sir,—ln answer to Lord
Morpeth's question—. What becomes of the contents of the sewer,
sad cerepoois of Parlor I reply—These contents are carried to Mont-
Mow= and there deposited upon an inclined plane, down which the
more liquid part runs, and la received progreseirely into differ-
ent reservoirs in which it deposits every particle of solid matter,
thr the water in the last reservoir Monti rfectly limpid, end is
then allowed to mope. Oa examininucon two years ago, I
was surprised to Pod tha people employed them were far from appear-
ing sickly, and the chddren dwelling in the holism around looking
ruddy and healthfulhowever, that the effluvium from
tiontfouoon Livery injurious to the patlews in the 9t. Lode Ifeepital,
and the government had then determined to abolish the laystall at
Moetfaueon, and tat form a railroad for the purpose of conveying the
filth usually deposited there to some distant forest, and this railroad,
I apprehend, is now in progress.—l am, Mc., We. BA ELWELL.—
Lew. C.Bastlit, Esq.
The SECRETARY then proceeded to read a voluminous re-
port from the Commissioners of Metropolitan Police, de-
Kribing the state of the different localities under the super-
vision of the commissioners, all being in a most lamentable
condition from insufficient drainage.
Mr. CHADWICK. thought this a fitting opportunity for call-
ing the attention of the commission to the state of the sur-
face of the streets. He wished that this matter bad also been
referred to the police authorities. He believed the amount
of dirt on the surface of the streets to be as great a nuisance
as the accumulation in the drains.
Mr. BYNO said that the report was satisfactory as far as it
went, but be wished it had gone further. Everything
should be done to make the public aware of the masses of
filth amidst which they were hying, and what an August
stable the commission had undertaken to cleanse.
Mr. LESLIE said that sometime since he had had occasion
to make inquiry respecting the state of Kensington, when he
found that there were 25 houses in that district inhabited by
1,360 people, fur all of whom there was only one privy.
Mr. BRODEKIP said that as far an the Thames and West-
minster police districts were concerned, he could state that
the report, so far from being highly coloured, was consider-
ably under the mark. The fact was, that the inhabitants of
this great city bad no adequate notion of the horrors amidst
which they were living. (Hear.)
Mr. Brno observed that the nuisances occurred princi-
pally in districts where the inhabitants were too weak to
resist. They were poor and helpless, and therefore suffered
is silence.
Lord HORPETH thought it desirable that the whole of
these reports should be referred to the surveyors.—Moved
and agreed to aecordingly.
The next subject considered was the report of the sur-
veyors as to the flushing' of sewers, which was read by the
secretary as follows:
MWriZOIDLITAN Coximmosom or fiEwros.--Surveyore Report on
Flushing Sewers, Cleansing Sewers, and Emptying Onwpooln—To the
Worshipful bee Majesty's Jces and Commissioners et Bewers.—On
the 23rd of December test W
enwhad the honour of presenting a report
on flushing of the newer, in the Westminster division ; we now beg
respectfully to submit a further report of the progress made since
that dote. We have directed our attention chiefly to the deeming of
the 'seven in the poorem and most densely populated localities in the
same division, and have increased the number of hands employed in
chi work to upwards of 100. A ustal length of upwards of 22,400
feet of sewers, in which the deposit varied in depth from 6 inches to
3 feet 0 inches, has been thoroughly cleansed by flaking, and 3,986
double Rode of soil have been limbed away by this process, at an ex-
pense of about 1001. The removal of Ws quantity by hand labour

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Andrew's, Holborn, for the loan of the pump and apparatus
'for cleansing oesspoole. This application It was found im.
1 possible to grant ; but in reply to a question from a commis-
sioner, it *as stated by one of the surveyors that the whole
expense of the pomp and apparatus ooraplete was only about
• 16_ ,l. the cost of the pomp itself being only lot.
Mr. CHADWICK, in referring to the importance, in a sani-
tary point of view, of cleansing courts and allow, suggested
the propriety of giving rewards for experiments for that
purpose.
After a few remarks from Mr. Leslie on the subject, it was
ordered that the letter of the vestry clerk of Bt. Andrew's,
together with the answer of the comtniaion, which is to con-
tain the information al to the cost of the pump and appara-
tus, should be printed and circulated.
Mr. CHADWICK wished to make a remark as to the objec-
tions which had been offered by various parties to the re-
moval of soil and other refuse into the Themes, or rather to
making any addition to the quantity now discharged into
that river. No doubt that the practice of discharging night
soil into the Thames was objectionable in itself, and he
hoped that hereafter arrangements would be carried out by
which it might be avoided. At the mime time, it should he
remembered that it was only a choice of evils, and that the
danger to health resulting nom turning the whole of the
sewage into the Thames was truly inconsiderable when
compared with that consequent upon its being kept in cess-
pools and laystalle, in the midst of crowded neighbourhood..
lithe whole of the cesspool matter of the metropolis were
to be turued into the Thames it would amount only to one
part in 10,000 of the water in that river ; and if the whole
of the street refuse were added, it would amount to no more
than one in 5,000. The quantitof cesspool matter was much
•
exaggerated generally, taking liebig's data that the excre-
m of an individual averagesliquid, and 1 solid
Fdiem, or 111 b. in all, the quantity for a population of
two millions would be 300,000 gallons a day, the whole
of which might be discharged by a tube of 7i inches in
diameter, in less than 12 hours, at a flow of 4 feet per
second. Though it would undoubtedly be desirable, if poe-
able, to prevent the mingling of this matter with the water
of the Thames. the extent of the pollution was truly incon-
siderable, so far as the public health was concerned. The
pollution of the Thames water arose rather from mineral
and other deleterious matters discharged into it from the
several gas works and manufactories, and from the constant
disturbance of the sediment by the steam-boats, than from
any amount of cesspool deposit which was or might be
turned into it.
Mr. Brune lltr hoped the time would come whoa all this
matter would be turned into gold, icstead of into the
Thames.
The SECRETARY then read the report on the proposed
ordnance survey of the metropolis and suburbs, as foilovre:
We have the satisfaction to report, that in answer to the questions
((herewith annexed) transmitted to the office of Ordnance respecting •
block plan of London, for drainage and other purposes, requited by
this comma...ion, Col. Ilan, superintendent of the Ordnance survey,
has forwarded to the irepector-general or fortifications the &company-
ing letter and memoranda, from which it would appear that a block plan
of the metropolis, and of the suburban distrietalncluded within 'radius
of bight miles from et. Paul's (the same area for which the estimate for
a detailed map was given by Meier-General Colby), may be executed,
with s proper system of levels, for 24,2151., and that the cost of en-
graving the block plan, upon a scale of five feet to the mile and upon
901 plates of double elephant gee, would be (including 3.6u4/. for the
eopper) 12,6141., making together, 36,629/. Although the superb
tebient of the ordnance survey expresses regret that • new map ef
London should be executed only as a block plan, including • peeper
system of levela without the great detail inserted iu the plans es.
muted by the ordnance surrey for towns in the north of England—a
regret no doubt founded upon • desire not to produce • map of Lees
don inferior in detail to the piano of such towns—we would oberve
that in the questions proposed to the ordnance we have looked
strictly to the pressing requirements of the metropolitan maw
IWINNIIXI/1 of lowers., and, consequently, that we did not Went
to details which were ant immediately connected with them.
It appear (Ate us very important that the COMMIIINIOINTP 1111.1ia. Wilk
as little delay as possible, be placed in a situation to comprehend the
kind and amount of drainage at present existing in the districts NM.
tided to their care : so that, there being beertained, effective mobs
awes might, without loss of time, be taken to remedy the evils whin
have arisen hem divided and independent jurisdietione over the general
area; regardingtbisareatherefore als whole, bringing itsdrainage into
general system, and securing greater efficiency at reduced cost- To
obtain the needful evidence, an 1 Elective plan, with • proper eptem of
levels (recorded in convenient situatioes by a sufficient number of per-
manent bench-make) Is, in our opinion, meential. We 0011XIder
the block plan prepared to be sufficient for the purpose contemplated,
presenting also the advantages of greatly reduced out and mote
speedy execution. At the same time it lays the foundation forte
amount of detail for topographical, administrative, or sanitary
posy, which either the government, or public bodies mteressd. iwy
hereafter think advisable', _ transfers or copies of parts of sick • giaa
could at any time be obtained by public bodies for their woman
With oopics of such parts as a foundation, adminietrative auttiegMless
water and gas companies, and others interested, could insert anything
they may consider expedient, thus employing a cermet work as • Wee,
and avoidi. g the cost of constructing a new plea or map from
Is a:mumps meat. To the commission it oars the ready means
of laying down. not only the courses of the existing sewers,
but also the relative level. of the actual surfaces, and channels
over which the sewage flows. This done, a true picture is presented
of the existing drainage beneath the airfare, and gradually of the a..
dificatione and eatelialons that may be found necessary. Bench-flout
would be aufilciently multiplied at convenient distances, so that
whatever changes may be made In themewere, or upon malice monad
'with respect to roads, pavements, or buildings), a ready referenoe to
them would he at all times available, and having levelled to one or
more of thew permanent benehanarke the level of any new work, or
of Its parte, could at once, and with little trouble and met, be beers
mined relatively to other works, either adjoining or distant, and
to the common datum level. The convenience, eliciesicy, and economy
of suckan arrangement, available for various porpores,will he apparent.
As an efficient plan of London, upon • ormvenieat scale, such as that
adopted by the ordnance survey for Liverpool, Manchester, mulother
large towns, appears to us earential for the proper drainage of the dis-
trict committed to the charge of the commissionere, and as a well-
executed triangulation is equally essential to the construction of a
correct plan of the metropolis and suburban distriMs, whether such
plan be • muted in greet detail, or in the manner we have proposed,
~ we would urge the expediency of undertaking such a triangulation
without delay and ordnance consent of the proper authoritiee being ob-
tained) by the survey. This service by the ordnance survey
le estimated at 4,2701. We also recommend that memmres should
be taken to procure a block plan of the metropolis, end
of the suburban districts comprised within the area above
specified by the same survey. The block plan to be such as we
have proposed, and for width an estimate of 19,9451. has been trvi7.4
Both a plan, It will be observed, would not only show the
stress and quanta, but also all courts and alleys; so that the needful
information connected with the drainage, or absence of it, amid the
dwellings of the poor, would become generally apparent, and the pro- I
stairs made in this rem for such lc:eddies exhibited to the commis- I
eionere In its true relation to the sewerage adopted for the streets and
squares inhabited by those powered of larger means. Should this
feCollll3lell4/0011 be adopted, and the block plan he commenced, we '
would further suggest that the localities abounding in courts and
alleys should be among those portions of the general district which
may receive the earliest attentkm. Assuming that the 1301.,
estimated as the met of the black plan tor a square mile
of the town district, refers to a common average, the cost of •
square mite, which should include a multitude of wretched
courts and alleys, mixed with a few better streets, would
still be small, and scarcely to be regarded when we consider the im-
mense adrantage which the efficient drainage of suchlocalities would
confer upon the health o! the metropolis- Although It may not, at
first sight, appear very desirable to incur the expense of engraving
the block plaa, the cost of which, including the copper, in estimated
at 12,6141. • we would, nevertheless, represent that it is of great ins.
that' the points ascertained by the triangulation should be
rdre on down the copper, and that the masa of the work should be se-
cured in in the same meaner, so that, either by multiplying copiesmi to
of
the plates by the electrotype proomu'or by tram/ening impreamo
mime, the original copper plates should remain uninjured, and afford
a secure foundation for any detail which may hereafter be
added to the Oen, or for any extended work which may be
Orb 1 paper documents of plans upon so large a wale,
executed.
requiring io ably sheets, are liable to damage, and copies of them,
by mulUpliontion, may accumulate great and serious errors We
therefore, oonaidering the great adeantage that would result from
securing the work on copper and the ready means of multiplying cor-
rect coies of it when so secured, would recommend that the plan of
Londonp and its suburbs should be engraved on copper; and we believe,
should these moonamendatioos be des med worthy of adoption, and
the plan be completed, that the inhabitants of London and ite suburbs
will be pussm,ed or a document of great practical value to them for
many purposes, and more especially important for their sanitary
condition.—(Signed) It. Da La Borax, EDWIN CIINDWICW. Deco 1017.
Lord Mongerli thought this was the proper moment to
mention that government were anxious that such a survey
should be proceeded with as would enable the commission
to adopt a general system of drainage for the whole metro-
polis. They were aware that without such a system they
could not do anything to check disease, which had latterly
increased in eo formidable a manner. He was gratified,
therefore, to have it in his power to announce that govern-
ment having ionsidered the representations of the sanitary
commission as to the urgency of the case and loss of time
and expense attending upon an application to parliament,
had consented to the preparation of a block plan to be at
once commenced under the auspices of the Board of Ord-
nance. Government had made arrangements with that
department for the purpose, the plan would be immediately
begun, and would involve no expense to the metropolis be-
yond their share in the ordnance estimates for the entire
kingdom. (Hear.)
Mr. LESLIE moved that the report be adopted. The public
had great reason to be grateful to the government for the
prompt manner in which they bad acted, by which much
loss of time would be prevented, and much benefit conferred
upon the metropolis.
Mr. BILODEEI P observed that the committee had resolved

_.r:TING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.
Yesterday a meeting of the magistracy of the
county of Middlesex took place at Rieke-hall. H. Pownall,
Esq., presided.
PRISON RETORTS.—The reports from the visiting justices
of the various county prisons were read. That from the Cold-
bath-fields House of Correction stated the number of pri-
soners therein confined to be 758 males, 239 females, and 12
children ; one death (from natural causes) had occurred since
the last report. The average health of the establishment
was good. The Westminster House of Correction contained,
it appeared, a total of 739 prisoners, 654 of which were
males. The average of sickness was 2; per cent. amongst
the males and G per cent. amongst the females. Not one
case of influenza had occurred.
TRIAL or POACHERS.—On a report of a committee on
the treasurer's accounts being presented, Capt. Cotterell
rose, and wished to be informed whether the clerk of the
pease for this county had received any official intimation
from the Secretary of State with regard to the trial of per-
sons who were committed for night poaching ? He wished
to know this, for the other week he and a brother magistrate
of his in Herefordshire committed • person to the quarter
sessions for trial for night poaching ; but he had received a
notice from the clerk, stating the prisoner could net be tried
at the quarter sessions, but must be sent to the assizes ; and
he was told that Secretary Sir G. Grey had issued an official
circular to that effect. No doubt but such an arrangement
would secure persons so charged a fairer trial, because they
would be tried by a judge instead of • bench of country
gentlemen, who might feel particular interest in such
matters but it involved a serious question of ex-
pence matter,
the county, as the prisoner would have
to be maintained in prison for a period before trial conside-
rably beyond what he weuld if tried by quarter sessions.
The man he had alluded to was now awaiting an assize trial,
and he (Captain Cotterell) was not sure that he was not ille-
gally detained.—Mr. Maude, the deputy clerk of the peace.
informed the court that no official information upon the
matter had reached him.
NEW LUNATIC ASTLCST—A report was received from a
committee appointed to provide an additional lunatic asylum.
It stated that a sum of 20,0001. had been raised by mortgage
on the county rate, with which a portion of land at Colney
Hatch, belonging to Sir Wm. Curtis, had been purchased,
and on which anew asylum was proposed to be erected.
THE RATE UPON ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER.—The
deputy clerk of the peace then laid before the court • protest
on the part of the parish of St. James, Westminster, against
the last rate assessed upon that parish.
FRENCH PAUPER LUNATICS.-Some months ago 'French-
man was pent to the Westminster House of Correction for
three months, for presenting a pistol loaded wi'h ball at a
youth's breast, with a threat to shoot him. After his admis-
sion he exhibited symptoms of mental derangement, and
eventually it being satisfactorily ascertained that he was a
confirmed lunatic, and had been " transported" to this
country by order of the French government, his alleged
offence being that he was found armed at the Chateau d'Eu
with the intention, it was presumed, of shooting the King,
he was placed in the county lunatic asylum. The magis-
testes were informed, in a correspondence they had with the
Home-office, that the French government would defray the
expenses incurred by tke lunatic's maintenance in this
country, oossequeetly Mr. Allen made an application at the
French embassy, when he was informed that no official in-
timation had been received with regard to the lunatic, and
therefore they could not reimburse the county in the amount
' expended. Upon this Mr. Allen, at the desire of the visiting
' justices, wrote to Sir George Grey, informing him of the
answer he bad received at the French embassy, and request-
ing information for the guidance of the visiting justices.
The answer stated that "it appeared from a communication
which had been received from the Foreign-office upon the
subject, that no answer had yet been received from the
French 'government to the proposal made to them by her
Majesty's government, that they, should defray the expenses
incurred by the maintenance of French pauper lunatics in
this country, and that the proposed arrangement between
the two countries for the maintenance of pauper lunatics will
be again brought under the notice of the French govern-
ment in order to obtain their answer thereupon."—
Mr. Rotch, as one of the visiting justices con-
cerned, directed the attention of the court to this cor-
respondence, which he said involved an important ques-
tion. The French government chose to send a man over to
this country without any passport, and because he had no
passport they refused to take him back again. It was, in
his opinion, a violation of the laws and property of nations,
and a matter much less for the consideration of the Home
than the Foreign-office. (Hear, hear.) He considered that
the justices ought to urge upon Lord Palmerston the neces-
sity of taking the matter in hand, and pressing the French
government to come to some definite arrangement upon this
question.
New committees were appointed, and after some other
routine matters had been disposed of the court adjourned.
_ _ •
with that

CONTINENTAL INTEECOBB.BII.—Ou neatl returns
give the following number of passengers through the channel
ports for the week ending Jan. 9 :—Through Boulogne,
713 ; through Calais, 164. Corresponding period of 1847
shows the following:—Through Boulogne, 726; through
Calais, 193. The passengers through Boulogne are thus
subdivided:—From Folkestone, 200 passengers; from Dover,
66; from London, 64—total, 330. For Folkestone, 285 ; for
Dover, 30; for Dbodon, 68—total, 383.