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

METROPOLITAN MAIN DRAINAGE SCHEME.

IMPUTATIONS TO LORD P

Yesterday forenoon, at 11 o'clock, two deputations
from the south-eastern section of the metropolitan labial
ha/ an iaterrisw with the First Lord of the Treseury, at
the Premier, privets' rondense, Cambridge, house, Pie-
daily. The first, which was from Brith, sod wee lane-
' dined by Sir Calling Sardis', Bart., consisted of James
Renshaw, Esq., churchwarden ; Mr. Charles Beadle,
cherchwardee ; the Rev. Mr. Berson, and others. Lord
Dualey, the Venerehls Archdeacon Smith, sad Mr.
Masten Smith, to. of the member. for the county, arrived
too late, in consequence of a misappreheasios of the hoar
fixed by the noble rim:oust.
Sir CULLING BAIIDLxt opened the ohjeet of the dep.
talks. The inhabitants of Eritk had heard with regret
that it wee
_proposed by the Board of Works to carry the
sewage of Loadoa to within three-qsarten of • mile
of Stith Church. If such was to he the Cu., ha (Sir Cab
Hag) was SUM that it would inflict • very geisapis wrong.
In the upper stories of houses in Pins the dwellers
Naked ups it as a owistitotioiist right to empty their slop-
ping tato the West. if that prisciple was applied in this
twee, he (Sir Culling) would ask what was to beam* of
Zeite, Neb. It wee so far below t Slop-pails mot be

' emptied somewhere, but be hoped that it would not be done
either at Hebb or Gravesend. The deputations which had
the honour of attending upon his lordship that day were
strongly of opinion that the sewage should be carried down
into the estuary of the Thames, where it could not by any
possibility return to pollute the river. According to the
Registrar, General, in from 2.5 to 30 rem the population of'.
London will be doubled, and, assuming that data to be
correct, London may then have actually extended Stool( to
Erith—ln;fact, the legal limits went already to Plumstead
and then all that sewers which we were now making
would have to be broken up again as being too
small. Thee be would just allude to the question
of the marshes on the banks of the Thames. It was
well known that these mantles produced fogs and agues,
affecting not only the vicinity of the marshes but even
extending to the metropolis itself. This being so, it was
highly desirable that any plan to be adopted for the main
drainage 'tumid 'salads also the draftiest* of those Rushes.
Sir Morton Peto had published his plan, which was m'
Garry the sewage from Southwark across the Themes, com.
Oise it with that on the north side, and then take the
whole of it on to the sea. It was necessary that some plan
.I'deodorisattss and utilisation should be adopted. He
would respectfully suggest to his lordship the advisability
of a commission sitting upon the question, and there could
not be any doubt, from the facts which would be *limited
fres engineers and other parlous thoroughly acquainted
with the subject, that some plan would be bit upon whisk
would contain none of this obnoxious provisions of these
already in existence. He would conclude with the lags
that hie lordship would 'favourably consider their position,
and, from what had been already told him. Weed to them
his protection.
Mr. Buoszow said that es a merchant end shipowner of
forty years' steadies he *might that a river like the
Thames, which bore apes it nearly all the fishes of the
world, should not be polluted near Its estuary by snob •
met emumulation of filth as would flow into it under the
intended arrangements. He was, of opinion that nothing

weld be worse-ttten foreign reside eatiing into pent meet;
int this aboininable Elthy stream.
The °monad deputation was than introduced bi
Calling Eeidley, and sonalstad of W. Fletcher,
Mayor; Alderman Dobson, Alderman Ditchbans, W. :
Plane, Esq., Mr. Councillor Gould, Mr. Southgate, shah
to the Coutousioners of Improvement' ; and Mr. Shetland,