The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-16 00:00:00

CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.

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Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of
public business. The chair was occupied by Mr. Deputy
Pascoe.

THE 1111011 NUISANCI.
Mr. Wood, of the firm of Browning and Co., distillers,
carrying on business in Smithfield, who had been summoned
a month sines ou account of the great quantity of smoke
issuing from the chimney of their distillery, again attended.
It will be remembered that the summons was adjourned till
this day, for the purpose of affording Messrs. Browning an
opportunity of carrying out alterations with a view to the
abatem. nt et the alleged nuisance.
Turner, one of the inspectors of nuisances, was called.
and, in answer to questions put by the court, stated that
since the day of the former hearing he had observed very
little smoke indeed issue from the chimney of the defen-
dants, who were now making very extensive alterations for
the purpose of consuming it.
Mr. WOOD said that the works were not yet completed.
Deputy liaaussow—What length of time will it take
before the works are completed ?
Mr. WOOD—The alterations are of an extensive character,
and must necessarily take some days.
The summons was then further adjourned for a month,
in order that the result of the alterations might be known.

PIIDDLE- DOCK.
Deputy limns said that a deputation from the ward of
Castle Baynard had come to the court on Tuesday last, for
the purpose of complaining of whet they deemed • great
nuisance, but unfortunately the court was not sitting. Some
members of the court were aware of the fact that the City
had been put to great expense in attempting to get rid of
the nuisance of Puddle-dock. (Hear, hear.) At Vulcan-
wharf, a few yards to the right of it, nuisances which were
formerly loudly complained of still existed, and labourers
and culheavers employed at the adjacent wharves were
unable to work on account of the stench arising from the
large quantity of animal and vegetable matter which was
daily brought there and shot into barges alongside, where
'lt was allowed to remain for several days at a time before
it was taken away. (lieu, hear.) He (Deputy Hicks) was
most anxious It should be known that this offensive matter
was not collected in the City, although it was brought by
Mr. Gore, the contractor, to Vulcan-wharf, for the purpose
et being taken down the river.
Camara/at—The offensive matter does not remain on the
wharf at all
Deputy Htcle—No; it is brought by the carts to the
wharf, and shot at once into barges, where it remains for
several days together, poisoning the atmosphere, and
muting a most intolerable nuisance. (Hear, hear.) When
expostulated with, the labourers and bargemen were very
laeolent.
Deputy Hannisop suggested that a document, giving
the details of the nuisance, should be drawn up and pre-
sented to the court, in order that it might be referred to
e Navigation Committee, as, from the fact of the offen-
sive matter not being deposited on the wharf, but at once
shot into barges, the court had no power to interfere.
Deputy lima thought that as a deputation from Castle
Hayseed had attended en a former occasion, when the court
did not sit, the statement of Deputy Hicks ought to be con-
sidered sufficient to justify the interference of the court
without the presentation of a document of a formal cha-
racter detailing the nuisance.
The Inspector of Nuisances for the district was called in,
and, on being questioned, stated that the matter, which was
of a highly offensive nature, wee, on its arrival at the wharf,
at once dropped into barges belonging to Mr. Fiore, who, he
believed, had sometimes to wait two or three days before a
customer could be found for it.
After some further discussion, it was moved, seconded,
and carried, that Kr. Gore be summoned before the Lord
Mayor to show cause why he should not abate the alleged
nuisance.
11.111 T CUMMING.
Mr. Rooks, a contractor for cleansing: the streets, was
convicted in two penalties of 40e. each for neglect.
Mr. Reddin and Mr. Drummond, two other contractors
were also fined, the former and the latter Of. for neglect:

lIIALTH OP TH2 CITY OF LONDON.
The Medical Mel reported that during the lut week
o daub ►ad occurred from Anode cholera.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Nov. 15.
At the distribution of prises which took place on
Saturday, in the Queen's 'College, at Cork, the presi-
dent, Sir Robert Kane, addressing the mayor, the
Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, and other persons
of distinction, who were assembled on the occasion,
said:
We have had, pursuing their studies together in this col-
lege, in each Tow, some one hundred and fifty young men,
of various Kasai conditions, of various degrees of intellectual
capacity, and of various forms of belief, and there has not
occurred among those masses of students a single instance of
controversy or collision ; not in a single cue has it been
necessary to apply those rules of discipline wisely provided
by our statutes for the repression of serious irregularity of
conduct: and in the higher responsibilities of morality and
religion, I believe I may appeal to the reverend geatlemen,
who being officially connected with this college have fa•
voured me with the expression of their views, and who con-
sider the conduct of the students in those regards to merit
their full approval.
A hundred and twenty government emigrants, of
whom 77 were young women under 25 years of age,
were despatched last week from Cork to Plymouth,
for conveyance to Melbourne.

BOOKS FOR THE EAST INDIES.-13eneral Poet
offide, October, 1853.—1 n consequence of the great diffi-
culty and expense attending the transmission of heavy
packets across the Isthmus of Sues, it has become necessary
to rescind the regulations under which printed books,
magazines, reviews, and pamphlets, addressed to the Bast
Indies, Ceylon, Mauritius, and New South Wales, are at
present forwarded rid Egypt, and to restrict the conveyance
of such books, itc., to the direct mail packets proceeding to
those places. In future, therefore, all books and other
printed publications addressed to India, Ce)lon, or Mauri-
tius, intended to be forwarded through the post, under the
privileges of the colonial book post, will be conveyed by the
contract mail packets, via the Cape of Good Hope, leaving
Plymouth on the 15th of each month ; and book', Ac., for
New South Wales will be sent by the contract packets de-
spatched from this country once in two months, of the sail-
ing of which notice is issued from time to time. The rates
of postage chargeable on books for the above-mentioned
British colonies and possessions, and the regulations for
their conveyance, will remain as heretofore, with the excep-
tion of the restriction as to route laid down in this notice.
THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH WESTERN
RAlLWAY.—Yesterday Mr. Carter held an inquest on the
platelayer who was run over on Saturday last. After a
lengthened inquiry the jury returned a verdict of " Acci-
dental death," accompanied with a recommendation that the
company should consider the practicability of giving fur-
ther notice not only to the persons employed on the line,
but to those waiting to travel by the trains, of the approach
of the various trains after leaving the ticket pi ;dorm.
STEALING RAILWAY TinKETs.-.-A passenger by the
Suite Eastern Company's line at Rochester hu just been
sonseneed at Quarter Sessions to one month's imprisonment
and two weeks' solitary confinement for "stealing a railway
ticket."