The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-31 00:00:00

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THE AMENDED CITY SEWERS BILL.

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Oa uaterously attended scacial court of the
of Sewers for the City f Lmds• wee held on
&MI meting of Tilde, last, for the I,nes of moldering
toesseisse The City el tendon Sewers Act, 18d4se8."
elnil far diodes aadammeling the minims of the sai'.
DrI(MOOCS resided.
fearretig psa absteset of the asseded bill :
Came 1 Moho so smoke/ the 11 t 12 Var. e. 163,
11=01•1•1 to the caemtasseee ot the mid act.
I provides that fit and proper " cars" shall be
rind le the tales of &aim, to the eatis'action of the mar
saheisams.
Chase a npeslis seam% 69 of the 11 et 12 Viot., cap. 112
Clams 4 provides personi shall not be swept into the
sewers, aad Mat my pe so offending shall be fined foe
every sash Ohms any sum not exceeding 51.
Clasen sis important. It is as follows: " Aad where's by
the 77th motion of the said recited act the coinaiiialoaers
are authorised in oer.sin eases therein mention ed to make
an order for the classics, whitewashing, or maifyieg of
etertron dwelling houses or other budding*, and for Om
reamed or sbeteseet of certain poisons* Be it enacted,
that if the cominisiouen, In pursuance of the provisions
contained in the Mid set, and is the exercise of the power
thereby given to them, shall at any time fled it memoir, to
make, and shill make, for the second um , or at any time
eutesqmotly, an order for the claming, whitewashing, or
purifying of any dwelling•house or other building which
▪ allprevously, or by any former order, have been directed
to be elesseed whitewashed or purfieu, or for the removal
or qbatessaat of any 'mimeo proceeding from or 'Ma-
wr, or oommlitted or permitted to exist in. upon, cc
tinder any home, building, or land mentioned in any
former order, aid in, ups', under, or from stuck
any animism may have been by each former order
&meted to be abated or removed, the owner or occupier of
tuck home or building, or the person sommitting, cousin,
net
or
permitting such assame, shall forfeit and pay any sum
szoseding 101., and sulk penalty shall be wholly irrespective
and in of any matter or thing, whisk he may by
such order be directed or required to do or perform, and
shall be paid over and above any costs or expense (If any
such shall have been incurred), to which he may be subject
or liable in pummel of the provisiors contained la the said
recited act.'
Claus 6 gives power to
"refuseion to determine
what shall be considered
be
the seavengen and the public may be speedily and
amiably adjusted.
Claus 7 repeals me 85 of the 11 & 12 Vie. cap. 163, am-
tinning slams /splatter the accumiibition of daag.
Claws 8 provide regulatioes to prevent the dug area/ d
stable houses and cow-homes, or other collection of retase
matter lying in any place within the City for mor than 14
days, or for more than them days after • qumtity errsedieg
a vibe yard shall hare been collected. Penalty cot Exceed-
ing 40a . non less than 51.
Claw 9 repeals the 91st action cf the recited act with
referents to lodging hooves.
Clause 10 is substituted. It is as fellows:—" Asd
whereas, the omen and keepers of lodging house of an
interior description for the accommodative of mendicants,
'tram/ten, and other perms,' for the night and other stort
periods, allow the same to be crowded by receiving more
lodgers than suck lodging bosses are adapted to contain
with a due Tigard to health, end allow proms afflicted with
Leers and otter diseases of a contagions and infectious
sitars to remain in them till infection he been mammal-
Meet to °the: lodgers. and revive other laden into the
apartasiote sad bode hos which diseased persons have bean
removed. without any purifying, or other oisicfecting pro.
Be it enacted, that when the medical (Meer of health
shall certify teat the owner or kerper of any common lid".
Mg house has received into such lodging house 'axe lodgers
than the same it adapted to cocaine with. doe legato to
health, or has allowed mums oliiicted with contagious
or ice:. otiose diver den to remain therein, or has received other
lodgers into the apartments and beds from which cheesed
pawls have been removed without previonely purillizig sad
disionctiog the same, or that the house is India tor the
reception of I.Agen, either item being ill ventilated or sot
andimentip Meani•d, or from any other rem al whatever, and
LOCHS of tta escheat officer it health having so certified shall
have hem given by the commissioners to the owner or keeper
of such lodeng-home, or lett for him at or upon the said
house, it shad not be lawful for the oast" or keeper of each
loi:eing-hcuse after each notice stall have been so hives or
len es atereMtd, to actomm.date or receive any lodgers
thecae teaks and until suck Louse shall have barn regis-
tered is a Look to lie kept by the consannoeters for that
purpose; sad it shell be leaflet foe the commissioners from
tame t• tams to determine the number of lodgers who may
be weeemetodattd In each each lodging-home, and the wines
of the keeper' of such lodging Muss shall be recorded
by the commissioners in e register to be kept for
that puree ; and the commissiemers may order
that a toast c.ntnning the now her of lodgers fur which
the house is frIVIBM red, and any mks or instructions for
the eommiiii mess rips:dull health. clematises, or ventil.a.
Um, drill be Ming up or plated Is • compienous pert of
each room into whieh lodgers an remind ; and toe keeper.
of ell seek kulaimphoesee shall at all timea give access
thereto when required by any person appointed by the
commisioaers, foe the pupae el asking an inspection and
ter.,, soy. or for the purism of introduang, imeg, or per-
Li. ming my diMifecting proems whirl the cumemmonen
may order - and the e Epee,. la curr•d by the etimmisionen
in m c.t;oducinp, usieg, or p. t
*ferfaisg ary diaiotecung
esell emoemeble by eft IA a summary way
fr.,rs the trim keeping tt • Isiglag-Mw in which Me
acme gall have beta eta totrocieed, mod :ref en . •
. o e
and if any keeper of such la: fong•boass shall end against
any of them provalese, he shall lie liable for each offence to
a paisley not extvaling 1., and the like penalty
for any day atter the first spas which any suet
ofteces shall be egotism,' and the eupruslon "common
lOdgiag.hOOSe " shall, for the pimpores of UM act, morn
any public fudging-house, ant being a hawed viatualltog
boos, let, or any part of which is let, at a daily or we. k.y
met set taceediug the, rate 3s. Gal. per week, er in which
petwas are tab oired or lodged fur kite for a iiogl• night,
or fir lees than a week at one time, or ia which any room is
let lee hire to be occupied by some than one tangly at ore
time.
Clams 12 and 13 provide that cellars is courts shall not
br cempled es Miami., and that viler, elsewhere situate
shall KM be so occupied, except under certain conditions.
Other mutton with reference to ostlers are treated of in the
four sucondiog dames.
Clams 19 provides that no plate shall be used as a
alotioliter house mole. registered. Other regulations as to
slaughterhouses occupy the 20th, ast, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, and
2i!lt clauses.
Cisme 26 gives power to the commissioners to appoint la-
i-:tor • of els/Otter hope* and meat, sad by me 29th
clue the inspectors may seise, buts, or otherwise destroy
all mess Mead to be ash( for human food.
Cause 34 provide* tor the appropriation of burial grounds
for public immovemeets the three following clause relate
to the emulations to be felloored in all such ems.
Clams 46 provides that the ground, area, and space in the
mat bust or St. Paul's Cathedral may be laid into the
public West, and that it shall be lawful for the commiesionen
to treat and ogres with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Lord Bisbee of London' and the Lim Mayor of Laudon—
tt, times@ ler the fabric of the Cathedral—tor such

pur;time.
clause. 51 and a giro power to the commiseioners to
collect, manufacture, and sell the contents of the sewers, or
to lease the right to collect and manufacture the same.
Cle me 56 provides that the monies arising from so selling or
lemurs, the contents of the sewers shall be applied in aid of
the raw.
Clause 67 provides that "so far se it may be practicable"
firnesee shall consume their own smoke.
C arfaes tip aid 63, stipulating that hot liquid from manila-
tore -a should not be permitted to run into the sewers, and
pro. dune a penalty in such oases, were struck out by the
unabisout vote of the commisaioners prerent.
S.serul of the points in the different datum were can-
vassed at prat length by the commissional", especially the
one with reference to the regiatretion in lodging houses,
chi. tly on the ground of Its ao: being workable. Even-
tually, however, it was reseed, the medlcal Oaten of health
warmly supporting it. During the tours, of his remarks's.
suggeeted some further matter to make the clause more
intelligible, which suggestions were ordered to stand part
of U.e ciente in the intended bilL
Alter a long sitting, the bill as altered was handed to the
memlnincer, that he might prepare the same, for the
pur....oee of laying it before the legislature, in compliance
with the standing order' of the Hoses of Commons.
lha cummnsioemei thee separated.

Possums IN LINDS.—Tha Bishop of Ripon is
takias may decided immures far shocking the prevalent
ji-ra in his district. Some days sin the tacumbent of
She-twit was ordered to desist from certain papal practices
wit:on his church, sad chirrup the past week the still more
notorious Br. Saviour's Church, Leeds, hu been specially
under his lordship's eausideration, and hu led to were mea-
sures eisiost the risme. The bishop has ordered the Rev.
Mr. Rooks to desist from taking any put in the performance
of dicier worstip is say episcopal church within the diocese;
and bee *neatened the Rev. Mr. Beckett (another of the
curates) with the tame matinee within fourteen days unless
be ma satisfactorily justify his ender*. The Rev. Mr.
Minster, the vicar, has likewise received 'Mice that farther
steps will betakes i retinues to his church.

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MURDIRLD FOR lIIS CLOTHRS.—The Mew:ger du
Nird gives tee fellowlag details of a crime just committed
is Frans. The criminal, Leona's, had born detained far
ten years in the prises of Loos, when an attempt to swab.
mita eased his condemnation to perpetual hard labour.
After receiving this sentence, be was led back to prison, and
=strived by his suhocquent goof conduct to secure the con-
Alerts of the turnkey', and especially of the chief warden,
whose domestic he eveatusily hens. On Tuesday, after
armee, he called to a young man of eighteen, like himself a
primer, and with whom be appeared to be cn the but
terms, and led him to a place called the Tour Noire. The
rune pris-nsr was afterwards found dead on this spot. A
pest newton elimination proved that he had died of stran-
gulation. Tnis ease consummated, ',scenes quietly took a
hamper which etood near, climbed to the room of a turnkey,
stole articles which he hid In the hamper, covered It wits
leave, and proceeds d towards the spot whore the keys adds
prison were kept. By the aid of these, with which he was
famillar, he arrived at the pte of tke enclosure which mu"
ae a cemetery for the prison. Arrived there, the pious
divested himself of his prise drew, pot on the ordinary
dram which be had stolen, end pot on a pair of spectacles.
lii had still to get out of the prison. lie mauled to get to
the last gat* unperceivet Arrived thither be went up to
the woes= who keeps it and asked for the road to gocioligio
and the dwelliag of the card of that commune. Oa the
informatioa thus given he quietly took his way and dims-
Cr.d. Up to the present moment all alt apt' to discover
legfeive measeta have proved vats.