The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-30 00:00:00

ETROPOLITAN SEWERS AMELIORATION.

Last night a meeting was bold at 9, Dake-etrost,
Westmiaster, to make preliminary arrangements for the
termsatim et as aeseciatisa, whisk is to have Iss Ns eldest
the seeselilialell of the sewerage sad
be
wateecirm=d the
=Mnage the control of a public le
ho ratepayers, es well aa to alter tic. Meelltation
dap Geseral Based of Health, by making the Waft the
Moab by wham tie health will be provided ter ''ices body
ma to have say eantrol over the teal anekeekka, bat
merely to Mania them as to the beet arcane 4 piewving
the public health.
Kr. YATES FREEBODY wee voted Ile like mart, sad
read letters from weed pelisses who bad Was a promi-
nent part le the preasties ad the quoting et seelsepethan
sewerage improve:Nat, and MOM the pieseat leaseleg Lad
its origin in a letter which appested is the Da* New, by
Mr. R. Dover, of Spring. gardeasondeli wee addr_nits" the
Nettleton, who having ben Invited se es de, mat ila plata
for the &Wage of the metropolis to the eleamissimme of
sewers," and which proposed that they Medd ham a public
1 meeting, for the purpose of considering whether the projee•
I tors had been treated with justice' with reference to their
' several plans by the easeasidonas ; whether it was just
towards than that the espeetes of preparing the pleas of
Captain Vetch, one of their owe body, Heald have bee paid
for out of the sewers rates; to aseertain what ponies or par-
Wee of say ahem, or schemes forwarded by the prajecters
to the commissioners had been plagiarised ; to inquire whe•
titer the cost of Captain Vetch's scheme for improving the
water supply of the metropolis was paid out of the *swan
rates; if so, by whet authority? bemuse it might be inferred
from the unrefuted statement of Mr. Tabora/ that the ex-
penses of both Captain Vetch's drainage sad water schemes
were paid out of the said public fund ; and that all the said
projector a plans for drainage, sewerage, dc, of the metro-
polio should meet publicly for the purports of Sakai sub
steps as the juatioe of the case may regale.
Mr. DO VIA thee rose, and sad that a bill for pressetiag
the public health was, ea the 10th Feb., 18411, entire* to be
printed by the House of Commons, and Le et
this bill the at Viet. 11 and 12, a 63, was mated pal&
er-nt in order to further and more effeeteel preeisies being
made for improving the sanitary iseeditisa of Mies awl
populous places, as well as bettor water being mills* to the
metropolis for domestic uses. On the 4th Sept., 180, the
metropolitan commissioners of Bowen were &Housed, by
Viet. II and 12,e. 112, for the purpcees, smogs' others, of
Hallam means for clearing the 'Thames of the centime el the
sewers; but being incapable of effecting this primary obtuse
the °amalgams!, came to the following resolution ea the
23rd July, 1849, and published it the following day to the
Tires, via. :—" That the court will be ready to receive say
plans which may be sent in foe the effectual drainage of
London." The onnseguenee was that while the specified
periods some clans were seat in by civil engineers and others
of me inectasidetalde merit, as may be inferred from the
invidious spirt' and plagiarisms their pleas sad slap
potions have eammatiend from the sewage sommissioame.
Although the Gemmel Bead of Health was appointed ea the
31st of August, 1848, lea not aware of its having done
anything toward. Improving the sanitary condition of this
or any other city or populous place, notwithstanding the in-
ordinate sum of 20,7001. voted out of the lixeltegeor by the
MUNI of Commons for the expellees of this useless bard,
from the 22nd of April, 1850, to 31st March, 1851. And I
am toll a health rate has bees either levied, or attempted to
be levied, oe Tottenham or its vicinity of Ia in the pound.
The rate-paying public may anticipate from the Report of
the General B card of Health on the water supply to the
metropolis, that it will also ere long have to defray all the
multitudinous repasts a a water eommission I Bat, gen-
tlemen, I am of opinion the ratepayers in general are quite
at *hie to judge of their own Nankin, also of the most
eligible mean of having their wants supplied, as any anti-
British centralised COMillilibllOXll at either Owydyr Hanes
or Greek-street. Have, or have not these new-tangled com-
missioner, or boards inereued the public rates and taus ?
Have they not taken from the ratepayers their accustomed
and popular right of electing their immediate local pariah
or municipal officers, as well as Notarial antral
over the rata raised In their district ? Instead of
the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers attempting
to find the means for clearing era Thames of the
contents of the ewers, the have, in podgy* violation of the
set of parliameat, peeress* a plan for psegetseting the dis-
charge of sewage ia a mare deadly Mae lab the Thames,
and they an sew mailiestlas, at NUNES= impesit, tempo
rary sowers for belegles Ike sewage if Mabee and Went-
mina., r into the Timm at H limes we any
expect fatal eessegewase will we Neel' Is the weigh-
bouthood of Charift Orem, lA, Ma gash
aareimmtizsa
enormous legal Min. I be& to re-
pose , that we form era isM ea ender
the title a " The en' illiasee, sa* flesiessy
ROOM Amestilles; asi M. -- Is es the twat at
awe Is lobe the shalr. I bag taw te wipes Ilia assegai
et Mew be eggelatel brats poem of esportatssilleg sad
arranging tholieporisst puddle WNW el Ms aessedetios. I
bag farther be gsegest, that aum mettles be appointed to
draw up a wide elbpirlaws, celestite* to pants the objets
Ire have this isq sohelakes, sot pewit lima it ger seat
mewing. As time edieleat sanieley gebeliseelim el 1111111 me-
Merolla is one of the great objesla et this I
pees that we pledge ourselves to gssimete al MI of
palette utility, by soliciting the esigeseeks le alli
especially the several branches ef Ihe MIMI gleshadz
because their practical knowledoe le sag
bemuse the community We le dna aiirMsfb
guardians of the public NMI s_ shaft gaisdall iiilbed•
ties, @DRUMM and buildee& ON the Worm Is plied.
Some discussion thee tee* Owe se be Ms design dia d
the arociatioe, and It was Wally medal that it iiisbe
entitled "The Masorete& hewers end Wei.
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Asecotetton."
It was dies agreed that a seamiest be appeimek with
power to add to their samba, fin to bee quersm is enter
to carry oat the oblate of the samodatiaa.