The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-30 00:00:00

DRAINAGE OF THIS METROPOLIS.

Yesterday, a meeting of the owners of property
ekes the beaks of the Thum woe bold at Bridge-home
Heed, " for the purpose of taking each measures as might
be expedient wit► the gummiest and City of Losdoo,
wok In ma of seeassity, with the ladletial Wrestle aid
with parlismut, to avert the Instilment evil " of dim-
'busies the lunge of the metropolis lam the river
Thum at Bath. Not eases time forty pumas were
preset. The chains= was iiir C. EANDLIBY.

Mr. Ftmitmin, Mayor of Gramma, moved the follow-
ing resolution : " That this meeting views with considerable
alarm the proposed plan of the Metropolitan Board of
Werke for the drainage of Londe. as tending to pellets the
Elver Thames, end Wen the health of the towns akwg its
beaks between Lab sad OISTONSIC by the intemied soa.
matration sad eslemelng ialterzerser national estuary
in Evith Besse of the woke tan sewage.
Captain. Waz mT, LIM el W Ilaaor of Bridt, essended
the motion, which, altar Noe diummioa, was put and oar.
sled unanimously.
Mr. JAMES RENSHAW, of RAM, prepased the neat reso-
lution, to the offset that the uratiag wrmd of the ap-
pointment of the two aremakdens toest the question of
the seareyansel the dispeed, sad appbotties of the 'swap
of the metropolis awl ether large tower. He hoped that the
*aims of melba sea would be remised by them comp

The Rev. Azoldsocom Brno, roster of Stone, mended the
reselation, ono said that any nu who had a use or an eye
aloes the banks of the tiver mast be opposed to the plea
Pertby tho Metre
_Board of Worn. (Rear.)
AVIS of the Milligan= Baud of Works, sup
noted the middles end endoneed the majority of the
bend Ire abatelag out the of
sewagetille
awe. Ile had as dean that the whol the the
meloopelle might be esavated late valuable maws winds
the linsass e 7 the metoopelena asnatim wend be caly toe
ged ilegmeasem
endatlns was and serried.
P)e.Aideeinen Damon pat iheregin that they did got fate
nen peen{ peones la of the mantake is the
appenhoteat of en Beard of Works at all,
whites wee adedeled byline nonabees of It whom they had
beard that day to be p.mii boompeteat to do their
wabuaison. Ile peopend One a esaradttee be %notated to
teh loss ef the asedies.
Ur. Dimming.= eseemlod the resoletton. He
' renneeted Gm time whys salaam were sees in Gravesend.
They were ought as high es Chelan, mad it would be a
Illsarees to the nation sad de trelf, when they ease to m
ma a-
dder the tat the Thane% permitted say paths of
W rime le be osennimated. (Hear.)
Dr. Inn endiseed it sheer medusa to spead 6,000,0001.
la sadden %dee to seem away the Imams of the mono-
pole'. la Pads Ithey timodorised the sewage, and why could
the, set de the ease *lei In Leaden
The resobann wee "dead norisd, after which the meet-
bid spa dad.

TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS.

Yesterday the general half-yearly court of the
solemn of this isatitatlas took plan at the Loudon
Tama, Bbiepegatc-street—Mr. Ottoman bloom, the
Omura, Y the shear. A report was reed, which stated
that the reedgie for the half year, tubala/ the sum of
1,078 L Niggled by a slinelimmene mthreriptloe" Ia the
meaner Weber 15.% emeuweed m 4,11436 111 s. In come.
queen of the mew ed the elmeltaaesse eillestioa, it was
Cfrthat imilsomenamet should take pine cm the
edasider Y Oeteher •IN:santS: lei that the day
should be nibd the "Orphan' ." The amount
to meet meet the reneinhig ea the new baUd-
hsdl raised, eat the imillbstie• wee now altogether
imam debt. The wee et the handbag, with the works
▪ •IMENdea therewith, behadieg p. works, farm build.
• ofseledag, =Wm nab. leases, water supply, play.
iLiwZi=l=lsistereel end external, was U,2211.
and law charges amounted to
▪ Oman mem el 1,2264 making altogether, with 2,0001.
imam site, en aggregate et 26,4471. After paying for these
earlwas item, then remained a bathos in i of the
balliai toad of about 6001., whist+ would be subject to
seem Oa east of a lodge sad two cottages, new
be mime et inalrtio•, for the accommodation of the
lmsenn who might be employed about the
retrie:ll itritdis le.
There wore now in the establishment 99
bole 2.1 411 girls; of these nine were about to lean, haying
*NOM the of 16. &stem children would be admitted
te4sv, a 114 the numbers would then be 103 boys and 49
gin% making begetber 162 seholan. The report of the sur-
geon gin a meet favourable mount of the sanitary sea-
Miss it the *Wen ; sad the prospects of the schools were
sash se 11661Vass a fesiiag ciffflistral sitishstisa amosgst
disk mil Nipponese. The report was adopted, sad
a iseistiem wee passed Witte effect that the last Wedaesday
Is Osmobse only year catcall be set apart as the Orpheus'
Day," Ise the purple it rabbi a simultaneous collection
eneept the pseeelpratriaef eommercial travellers. The
swum gni mu with, sad 10 boys sad 6 girls
having bees admitted hem a list at 28 candidates, the but-
ane Isemiseled.

0111MIAL POST.OFFICI, DEC. 26.—Exteation of
Privates for transmitting through the Post printed Papers
addressed to Frames, &a.—On the let Januaey next, and
thalweg:merest, the iegalstioas with ?swim to printed
✓epave addressed to Frame or Alert* or to say of the
Freese Mien In Turkey, Syria, or Egypt, will be modified
as foSews s The primed papers may be in any binding,
saleusthei, se seveidag, whether such binding, &0., be loose
or Moshe& Is the ewe of plats or maps, rollers or oases
may empempeigy Ohm ; gad markers, whether of peper or
etbrmelse, smke he ant with hooks or other printed papers.
310 pubs. seek however, sassed the Clawless of 18
bass be Wilk width, or depth. AU other regulations
he Ike tnaimilaka dame piloted papers will :news In
hues, and the privileges dew speeded will not apply to
ether foreign muffles the traresspeadwire of which is
dawarded through Prase% The places in Turkey, Syria,
cad pt, at which Frames maintains post-o Men are :
Alszaadrette, Nythat, Constastinople, Dar-
desilm Gellipoli, Jaffa, Latakia, Morales, Mitylese,
Maass, Smythe, end Tripoli in Syria.—By souileand of
the Peetaseter• General, ROWLAND Hutt., Bsortta.-y.
Tali MADE OF LIVEZPOOL.-14,11P00L, MON-
DAY.-11ka Custom Bill of Entry, published this morning,
gives a Mum of the number and tonnage of the ships that
hare altered inwards from sod ousted outwards for foreign
ports in the week media( the 27th of December, 1856, as
I well a the eirresponding week of 1855. It appears that
I dada( the Met week 48 skips, of an aggregate tonnsge of
24,502 tosa, entered Inwards, spinet 160 ship, 77.828 oww. In
1866, bele( • theorems of 112 in the number of ships, ands
demure of 63,326 tons in the tetras:Re; the member of clear-
oases outwards deem the week, 61 shim of a tonnage of
37,619 tone, egotist 44 ship sad 20,673 tone in 1855, being
an inane, of 17 ships sad 17,046 tons. The total number of
ships reported Inwards from foreign ports during the pre-
sent year up to the 27th of December was 4,344, with a
toestos it thenageef year 1865, showing 272,10
3 toss,ihoageignst stlracnass o
ship sot
127, 6
01076,6534 e
sad 196,460 too.