The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-12 00:00:00

CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.

Yesterday a eaurt was held, Mr. Deputy Pr_teoct:
in the. chair.

The Clerk to the commission ettted that he had received
the fol:..w.ng letter tram the Govern:4 of the Tower, in
reply to the letter w kith Le had been instructed to write
to that nobleman with referei.ce to the removal of the
barrier at Pustern•row, It the purpose of carrying out the
pr. jetted im,orcvements in the City :
Combennere Abbey, Oct. 7, 1853.
" Sir,—l Lave to acknowledge the re ceipt of your letter of
the 3rd io.t., communicating the wishes of the Commis-
sioners of Sewers respecting the remr.al of the barrier of
the Postern row, and I beg you w:11 have the gu >dues' to
inform the court that I shall be unit happy to meet their
wi•hee, if upon inspecting the premises in Nostruber I hod
that it does on interfere with irranttemeris :bout to be
made in the vic.nity of the Tower.—l have the honour to
be, sir, your most obedient and humble servant,
"J. Dow, Esq." " C0N111111311112.
Mr. 11. L. TAYLOR %aid be thoniht home further notice
ought 9.3 be taken of this emmunicatim, as he antie,pated
that there could be no difficulty in the way of throwing
open Poitern-row, a step in which the citisens of London
were most deeply inter, sted. (11..ar, hear.)
The letter was ordered to be tamed to the Goleta: Parr•
poses C,usnaittee.

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1853.

Henry Cooper claimed in right of a rent charge issuing
out of freehold land and tenements Noe. 1 to 17 inclusive,
situnte in Perk-terrace, Old-ford.
Mr. Sidney Smith defended the claim, and contended
that under the 40th section of the Registration Act :he re-
vising barrister had the di-cretionary power to supply any
deficiency in the description of the qualification.
A leugthened argument ensued, and the Barrister ruled
that he should not be at liberty to change the description of
the qualification wit appeared in the list, except for the
purpose of more clearly and accurately defining the same.
Mr. Sidney Smith asked for a case to the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, but the Barrister declined to grant it, as it was a
II question of fact, and not of law.
The claim was accordingly disallowed.

THE CHOLERA.
(From the Caen] bout of Health, Oat. 1!.)
LONDON.
In consequence of a memorial presented to the
General Board of Health by the Health Committee
of Blackheath, presided over by, John Flint South,
Req., late President of the Royal College of Surgeons,
complaining of several grievous bat removable nui-
sances endangering the health of the inhabitants, and
praying that the shameful condition of certain parts
of the village might be made the subject of immediate
inquiry, Dr. Milroy yesterday inspected the districts.
As an example of the condition of some parts of this
pleasant village, to which so many resort for air and
healtp, it is stated that there is a double row of
small houses, &c., known by the name of Dartmouth-
passage—(the Earl of Dartmouth is the lord of the
manor)—to which not a drop of water is supplied,
although it only requires to have a pipe laid down
along the street, there being an abundant supply
from the Kent Waterworks in the village.
Pheenix-vale is stated to have become a filthy
bog, from the foul water that is constantly thrown
out upon it, having no kind of outlet or escape. A
long, wide, shallow, stagnant ditch is represented as
extendin7 from one end of Blackheath-vale to the
other. !his ditch or pool receives all sorts of im-
purities; and after heavy rains overflows into the
gardens and basement stories of the houses, in which
the water has for several weeks stood a foot in
depth. These are merely specimens of numerous
other localities in the village in which the like im-
purities and causes of disease abound, to which the
immediate attention of the Board of Guardians of
Lewisham, in which parish it is situated, is urgently
required. 24iothing as yet appears to have been done.
In the second report of the Metropolitan Sanitary
Commissioners it was reported that marsh diseases
prevail at times amongst the agricultural population
of the Plumstead, Kent, and Essex marshes.
In one of these marshes the proportion of open
ditches stagnating and giving off emanations from
animal and vegetable decomposition was stated to
be l 8 acres of ditch to 450 acres of land. After
the wind has prevailed for some time from these
lands in the direction of dwelling-houses, marsh
diseases arc constantly noticed amongst the adjacent
population.
Sir Culling Eardley, the proprietor of Belvedere
and much of the Erith marsh land, has represented
to the General Board of Health his willingness to
co-operate in any special measure having in view the
marsh drainage so important to the metropolis.
Another leading proprietor of Essex marsh land has
made similar representations.

NEWCASTLE•UPON-TYNE.
DEATH.

Oct. 10.—Cholera
The total number of deaths from cholera and
diarrhma in Newcastle during the present outbreak
has been 1474. Ia the same period (viz. the first
40 days) during the prevalence of epidemic cholera
there in 1831-2, the number of deaths was 270.

HARPENDEN (ST. ALBANS).
Oct. 10.—Cholera
HATFIELD (THORNE UNION).
Oct. 10.—Cholera
_ GATESHEAD.

Oct. B.—Cholera —v---
6
Oct. 9.—Cholera ..
The total number of deaths from cholera and diarr-
heas in Gateshead to the present date has been 402.
During the like period (viz. the first 33 days) in
1831-2 the number of deaths amounted to 143.

Resent inquiries have shown with reference to
many towns which suffered severely during the
former visitations of cholera, that much improve-
ment has been effected in the way of extensive
cleansing', and in the active removal of nuisances,
while in several considerable progress has been made
with combined and permanent works. For Morpeth
and Alnwick, for example, where great exertions
have been made in the operation of superficial cleans-
ing, the works for drainage and water supply are in
an advanced state.

With respect to Morpeth, Lord Carlisle, who holds
a large area of land in the district, and much house
property in the town, has given upwards of ten acres
of land near the outlet of the sewer, for public uses,
and has ordered that the whole of his house property
be properly sewered and drained, privies and cess-
pools to be removed, and proffer soil pans and water-
closets to be substituted. This is now being done,
not only on this property, but throughout the town,
all the owners of property voluntarily availing them-
selves of the public sewers, though many opposed
the introduction of the act.

With the improvements already effected, the dis-
trict is reported to be above the average. On the
visitation of cholera in September and October, 1848,
there were 145 cases of cholera in the town; up to
the present time there has not been a single case
reported within the district.
At Ormskirk, now spring soft water supplies are
completed with the public drainage works, for less
than 2d. per week ; similar works are reported to
be completed at Penrith, at a like expense. New
works are also in progress at Lancaster and Berwick.

We derive from other manes the following items of in-
formation on the subject of cholera:

CITY OF LONDON UNION.

Yesterday, at a nomerously-attended meeting of the
Board of Guardiaos belonging to the City of London
Unita, Mr. T. Thornton in the chair, Mr. Bishop, one of
the guardians, reported • ease of mono at cholera which
had taken place that morning, in the mum of Ann Davis,
apd 40 years, who resided, with her husband and *vs
children, in one room, at the hams ausbored 7 is Clasomo'r
sou% 13enne's-hill, Doctor'srageggema The boos Is lb
Pokily of a proctor by the moo 24111117. _ th.
Nan there are sight houiss,all of thus ovird, there
Wag la the out shoat NO lama babes. In accord.
moo with the modes 1111 Mr. Wasp, orders were given for
the burial of the body without delay, and for the shelter of
the children in the school at Norwood until the funeral is
over end the house properly purified. The Board spud
she to the following report of the Health Committee: "To
give to the medical offioers permission to attend all cease of
diarrhccai handbills to that effect to be circulated forth-
with." They also state in their report, "That u the
above veec,-----Aatioa may involve some extra labour on

the pert of the medical akin's, the subject of remuneration
be pos ad until the extent of the extra services be more
y ascertained.