The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-01 00:00:00

CITY COMMISSION OP SEWERS.

Yesterday, the commiastonere of sewers for the
Cit 7 of London held a court for the despatch of buskin's at
Guildhall; Deputy Cement acting as chairman. With
regard to the sanitary condition of the City, Dr. Letheby,
the medical officer of health, reported that the mortality
returns are still remarkably favourable, for there were hat
33 deaths in the course of the week, although the average
for the season is 48. In fact, the average weekly returns
for the whole of the month has been only :83, whereas the
number for the corresponding period of the last four years
is 32. Fifteen, or nearly half of the deaths, were among
children of less than five years of age, and six among old
persons. The principal causes of death were es follows :
DOrriness, 4 (of which three were infanta) ; scarlet fever,
2; and one from each of the following : Meades,
small-pox, and fever, making together nine deaths
from cymotic affections. There were only four deaths
from pulmonary diseases, namely, three from phthisis,
and ono from bronchitis. Fifty-seven births were
Itt-dis the week 211 girls andboys. The own.
on general purposes reported the circumstance that
hides ore allowed to remain in Leadenhall-market beyond
the regulated hours ; and the alert empowered the inspec-
tor, acting under the instructions of the City solicitor, to
take steps for securing the rigid observance of the regula-
time on that subject. The committee also reported that
they had taken into consideration the letter of Dr. Letheby
on the evil effects of gas leakage from the street mains
and pipes, and that from communications they have
had with the three gas companies supplying the City, it
appeared that while the leakage is a source of great loss to
them, which they have endeavoured to prevent as far as
passible, the result of their experience is that the pro-
posed remedies have failed to effect the desired object. The
improvement committee reported that they had had words
inserted in the Adulteration of Food Prevention Bill, which
would bring it within the power of the court to use its pro-
visions. They also reported that the Locomotion Bill in
parliament, the object of which is understood to have been
to facilitate the metropolitan street traffic by means of trains
ways, had been withdraw,. They had likewise examined
the Local Taxation Returns Bill, the Highways and Raids I
Bill, the Local Board of Health Bill. and the Nuisances
Removal Bill, and were of opinion that they did not call for
the interference of the court. A casual conversation arose
on a controversy between Dr. Letheby, the medical officer
to the commission, and Dr. Hoffman, acting on the pert of
the Metropolitan Bout, of Works, as to the beet means of
deodorising the Thames, but full information not being
before the court on the subjeet, it was postponed until it
became ripe for discuesion. The remaining business Mane-
, acted by the oenniissioners was of a routine character, and
after its disposal they adjourned over their customary re-
ems in Anost.

Dzorratterivi Fits AT BHADWIELL.—An extensive
are broke eat yesterday afternoon, and wss nut entirely in-
tingui.hed at nearly midnight. The premises in which the
misfortune origiiatesl belonged to lessrs. Reed mad Co.,
ropeniakers, &c., carrying on business in Lure-lane, Shad-
well, a abort distance from the eastern entrance of the LOll-
- Docks. The premises in question were of vast extent,
and covered mine acres of ground, and comprised a covered
roPerY, about a quarter of a mile long, with a spinning fee-
tory, two stories high, built of brick and timber ; the steam
enktine-house, boiler-house, rigging lofts, and sundry other
kidding's. The fire was discovered in one part of the
covered rope ground, but from whist muse it arose is not It
pre west known. It is generally supposed to have originated
either from the tar boiling over or from the friction of some
of the macbioeq. A number of engines were speedily in
attendance ; also the band engines from Schoolhouse-lane,
Wellelosoaquare, Jeffrey-square, Watling-street, and
Whitecromatreet stations of the Locidno Brigade, attended,
but the names having seized upon a portion of the
rope factory, extended to tire or six houses in the
opposite side of the street, occupied by poor families. The
Names also extended to the spinning factory, and in the
1.0111.1. ..f is few minutes butte flours. and all they contained.
lasi,ime also enveloped, as were soon afterwards the engine-
bons.- and the rigging lofts. The damago done by this
otisauttnotie event is very serious. Messrs. Reed sad CO.
were insured in the Pbseuix Fire Office.

Tee ENGINE Drucce.—lu deported days, when
the writer was wont to stand upon the fort-plates, through
the kindness of engine-driving friends now far away, there
was a difficulty in looking out ahead : the current of air
was so tremendous, and particles of dust ware driven so
viciously into tioe's eyes. But advancing civilisation has re-
moved that disadvantage. A snug shelter is now provided
for the driver: an iron partition arises before him, with two
panes ofglasethroughwbi.htolookont. The result is that he
eon maintain a far more effeetaallook-out ; and that he is in
great ODOINEUE protected from wind and weather. yea, it
would be plangent to be an engine-driver, especially on such
a day as this. Pleasant to look at the great train of car-
riages standing in the at.ition before starting : ti i.e the
piles of luggage going up through the exertions of hot
porters : to see the number of passengers, old and young,
cool and flurried, with their wraps, their newspapers, their
books, at length arranged in the soft, roomy interiors : and
then the sense of power, when by the touch of a couple of
angers upon the lever, you make the whole mass of lug-
gage, of life, of human interests end cares, start gently
into motion ; till, gathering speed as it goes, it tearethrough
the green stillness of the summer noon, amid daisied Gelds,
through little woody dells, through clumps of pest forest
tree., within sight of quiet old manor houses, across little
noisy brooks and fair hrosd rivers, beside churchyard walls
and gray ivied churches, alongside of roads where you see
the pretty phaeton, the lordly coach, the lumbering
waggons, and get glimpses that suggest a whole picture of
the little lite of numbers of your fellowmen, each
with heart and mind and concerns and feline very
like your own. Yee, my friend, if you rejoin,
in fair scenery, if you sympathise with all modes of
human life—if you have scone little turn for mechanics, for
neatness sad aecurncy, for that which faithfully dose the
work it was mode to do, and neither less mar more : reifies
it in your mind as an ultimate end. that you may use day
drive a locomotive engine. You need net of aseemity to.
come Few of aspect; neither need you heosare black. I
DIME haft known more tidy. neat, accurate, intonagest,
sharp, punctual, responsible, Ood-fatties, sad truly risspece
table men than certain engine-drivent—Praecesafspasine
for August.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT..

ROUX OF LORDS.—TvanDAy, JOLT 31.
TM LAID Camicauos took his art on the woolsack at
5 o'clock.

INSOUMIT DEBTORS.
Lord BROUGHAM prorated a petition from certain
debtors moaned in the Queens Bench Prison, complain. I
ing that the act pared in VIM to enable amassment@
to made with creditors had bra oretrued not to sr-
linad to prior actually in custody. His lordship said as
the car was wXeot, these peters being in prison, he had
a bill to remedy the evil, and he now laid it on
=d e.
Tke bin vias Ain 741141 *lt time.
The Militia Bill, the Mio ro litaa force Bill, the
Heritable Securitica, ka. led Turnpike
Acts Continuance Bill, eaventlV pealed committee.
MAYNOOTH COLLEGE BI
The above bill passed through committee.
An aniendmeat was added by Lord RICIESDALI, giving
to the Conitniasionors d Public Works a control ore the ex-
penditure for new bulld sspp at the college.
BANK OF Mt. AND (No. 2) BILL.
Thia bill pared through oonunittee.
WEIGHTS AND ICEASUREB (IRELAND) BILL.
The shove hV pasd through committee.
SHERIFF HOUSES (SCO'TLIIND) BILL.
This hill ramrod through committee.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (1838) AMENDMENT
BILL

This bill thee passed thr;iecOomittee.
COMMON LAW PROCEDURE (IRELAND) ACT (1553)
AlitO/DBEDT BILL.
—The peemed Womb committee.
COPYHOLD AND INCIA:2I.3URE commumacors, ice.,

BILL:

This bill passed the:nighcometMee.
The following bills also passed through committee :—Tke
Turnpike Trusts Amusement Bill, the Railways Act
(Ireland) (1851) Amendment Bill, the Game Certificates,
kc., Bill, and the Xuaicipal Corporations (Ireland) Act
Amsodnient BLIL