The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-29 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1856.

MBTROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

The ordinary meeting of the Metropolitan Board
of Werke wee held yesterday in the Council Chamber,
Claildbell, Mr. J. Thwaites to the chair.
The first notice on the paper was for the consideration of •
memorial from various parishes on the sobji ct of forming a
park for the northern suburbs of the metropolis.
Mr. B•vaoa moved that the prayer of the memorialists
be complied with, that the clerk be directed to take the nem.
racy steps to adopt the parliamentary notices already gives
by the parishes, in order that the beard may be prepared to
apply for an act this session, and that it be referred to the
finance committee to report upon the best means of raising
the necessary funds.
Mr. D'lmarionn seconded the motion, which was further
supported by Mawr,. Cubitt and How, and opposed by Mr.
Doelton and Mr. H. L. Taylor, and negatived on a division.
Ultsma•ely all the applications which the board had received
respecting public parks were referred (by a vote of 20 to It)
to the committee of works, to report upon their teepee-
tics importance, urgency, and probable espeose involved

Tilt 01777 ALL 1380 Tsla GERMAN °coati.
The subjoined letter from Sir 8. 81. Pete, directed to the
clerk of the board, and dated Somerlayton Hall, Suffolk,
Nov. 24, wu read by Mr. Wooluch
"My deer Sir,—l am most awakes before you finally de-
cide upon the outfall for the metropolitan sewage you should
bars all the points of Mr. M'Clesn's plan fully before you,
and I should be greatly obliged by allowing me to attend
you with LAI& gentlemen to afford you the saesseaey ex-
planatios. 'Tie itoperatita Importance of the subject will
I trust be considered a sufficieut excuse for thus troubling
you. The whole of the plans end sections of the proposed
car fall sower to the German ocean being now completed you
can bate all the necessary information with accuracy,
so that your derision may be takes without delay.
The levels taken show etch • difference between
the height of the top of the water aqueduct at
West Hun,' as shown in the unitise of the eagineer of
the Metropolitan Board of Works, and the keel of the
spring tides of the Gersten wan at the point of discharge
as will admit a velectity of nearly 3 feat per secoad. The
sewer will be capable of disabarglog the whole of the
sewerage and Mahn estimated by the engineers of the
Metropolitan 'Board of Works enthost any additional
ramping In a continual stream and at all them of the tide.
With the wand velteity all 3 feet per second, tiers will
not be any deposit of 'sewerage except at places 'elected
specially for that pupae, and this velocity k not only sat •
meat to prevent the deposit of say soil, but to squat to
nor CiTiati broken atones as large as those said generally for
maklsg roads. As regards estimates, the sum of 1,000,0001.
will be sueloiest for executing the work., and between
West Hem and the oft. The locality of the outfall is admi-
rably adopted for chemical works of every description, if re-
quisite, is cense:inn with the sewerage, and is so far removed
from habitations or pieces whore houses are likely to be
built, that stab works would never become • nuisance, and
it had the advantage of close proximity to the rivers
Crouch and Blockwator, both of which form excellent
harbours. From the best dsts I can ebtals, 1 am led to
believe that the proposed outfall at B in the metropolitan
plan will cut 1,140.3661. The comparison will therefore
stead in outlay at 1.600,0001, as against 1,140,3561. ; end I.
making ibis somparison I mune that the soot acute/ging
the sawing at Greenwich and Woolwich to the unfelt
tower of the wit side will not be greater than the cost
of the proposed out sewer on the south side. Indeed,
indeed et fkilillasty, adopting tho system of sewerue pro-
posed by yousogiseez for the with side, it will mush sim-
plify the work etesilesting the sewage at Soathwark.bridge,
leaked of at Hopttord•creek, as it will not be coosoouy to
stoke any wiles of the sewer below the water, as at pre-
seat proposed the engineer of the board. You will, by
the adoption @flit.. 11PCloisa's plan, entirely get rid of all
votes and pimping at the ostfill, aid the Thames will
be leftporkottynkar of sewage matter, and the proprietors
of land is bah Leer, by the memorial so extensively
signed, abseeat their great anxiety for the adoption of the
plan, BO then niktppoeitioa of a local need be feared
by you, if after deliberation you should approve of the plea
I have no due in any way to be unseated with the
emetics et ease works. My only object being, that
the plan Assn have ample coeducation given to it. I
feel a Mat blond in the subject, from having sat
two yens is the emir aosuaission, but that yes
may feel the difference In expense is not an inssporable
barrier to the non of those great works, I am willing
with my friends, if you will pay by way of rent in perpetuity,
fist the snot the *Wall sewer to the German wean, an in-
tents of 6 per pat. pee mammon the oast of roar outran
and the works connected therewith, to couture the outfall
to the sea sad that you have the free use of it for the rent so
paid. I make this nifty ;the% ;the subject may be treated
emits own merits, an advantage fully equivalent to any
Mousse obtained at the unfelt into theses, for outelde the
present les wall and lying between the r.oren Blackwater
and Crouch, la an emissive foreshore, capable of being re-
claimed, and there is as area of about six miles loop, and
one mile broad, or nearly 4,000 acres, whist' may be at woe
treated in this way, and there are upwards of 20,600
acres more which alight be similarly treated from time to
time by sewerage otherwise not utilised, being discharged
over it. Than that which will, in the case of the Thames
outfall being adopted (treat it as you will), become a
nuisance on the South Ens: chore, will become • nubile
Weasel and • soark of income. It appears to ma that this
great subject should be grasped with a determination' so to
treat it, that the works executed should be milleient for all
time and able to moat the oentispency of any further
bureau of the metropolis, and any little delay at the present
moment is coming to your datenniaation would be far more
than cosaterbalacced by the right conclusion being arrived
at.—l am, to, Sir 8. U. Pao "
Mr. D'lrraxams, after a few laudatory remarks upon
the character tad steadies of Sir 8. M. Polo, bat without,
es
he said, committing himself to the plan propounded. I
moved "Test the letter be acknowledged, and that Sir
Samuel Mutes Pate be requested to attend on Tuesday next
to explain the details of his plan."
Mr. C should like to see the plan now proposed,
lassenneh at it; contemplikd far more than the former plan
of Mr. M.Mus.

The Catslnseam said that this plea, beteg now before the
board, be thought it right to disabuse the public mind of
some sermons notion e which seemed to have been formed '
is regard to it. (Heir, heat) It ►pypeared to be generally
andereteod that tee proposition of Mr. M'Cleas involved all
the iaterrepting &sleep works eontemplated by the board.
Nothing could be more foreign to the real f the fact.
When Mr. M'Clean had appeared before that board, he
hal, in answer to qumtions put to hies, made • statement
that he would collect the eawsp at Southwark bridge,
across which it should be pumped, being raised 70 or 80 feet,
and then dropped dews by • sewer on the north ride to
West Ham, and thence should be 'tarried down to the
Crouch River. He (the chaining) had then asked Mr.
M 'Clete whether he was aware that the whale of the semen
on the southern side had their inclination from west to east,
and that gentleman did not appear to have mitered into
the question as to how the 'swigs c mid be cillected at the
toot of Southwark-bridge. This collection of the mirage
involved in the first place the construction of • large sewer
Irma Plneasteed Marshes, to bring the sewage beck from
the wallyieg districts. the reversal of the other amen, the
constrattion and working of the pumping station at South-
wark ; and without t►king this ►xpease into eossiderstioo,
and without coasideriog the increased capacity of the
northern sewer, Mr. M'Cleaa came before the board with
hie plan and estimate. In fast, the expense of doing all
that had been entirely ovi 'looked by Mr. M'Clean. It was
serenely fair to the board to publish • eaheme, end sum,
and eoatrect, and not have these important imam. The
additional pumping power on the south side &lose being 2i
times more than was required by the engineer, and eapi-
Wising the annual climbers*, that would amount to some-
thing like three quarters of a million of money. He was
quite certain that his friend Sir S M. Peter would not lend
himself to anything deceptive, but that be had taken up
this plan with a view of conferring a benefit on the inha-
basal* of the metropolis. This, however, was not • drainage
scheme for London proper, but one for taking away the
sewage from a point elm* to the metropolitan area, and was
therefore a plan for the eoaeideratioa of the government
r•'her than of the board. (Hear, hear.)
Several members strongly opposed the scheme set forth in
Sir 8. M. Peto's letter, and the resolution of Mr. DIA-an-
ger, when pat, was negatived by • large majority.
Adjourned.