The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-31 00:00:00

CITY SEWERS COMMISSION.

• At the weekly meeting of the Commireionere of
g him ea Tuesday 4 Guildhall— Yr. Deputy Commie
Vlked fiLegoorMT reported
treetrearkt..46l2l3)!
4)111,0 47_pasese /es meaitery imprempieet. Me
I swim reported that the markets mil ilaughter.homes
had been duly impoeted during the week, and that the
Aker hail &Mal 1,964 lbs. of meat as unfit for human
food. It molested of four sheep. three pigs, sixteee
quarter, of beef, eight joints of meat, sod II hamper of
harm. LIM lbs. were dammed, 1(2 Ibis. putrid, and 4001 M.
were from aahuals that had died from natural causes. le
every case bat one the ealeanien gave Duties of the arrival
of the meat at the market, sod eve the officers the names
sad addneess of the seeders. The carcass of one cow was
tea dengerma state of disease, so much an that the circum-
stances easaretod with it require investigation.
The mortality rotting dung the week were a little under
the average for the season. Last week the number of
deaths was 41. the average for the correspooiling period
of the last six years being 46. Nearly one-third of the
deaths were among children of lees than five years, and
there were 7 among idil persona of (10 sad upwards. The
principal anises of death were as follows :—Pulmonary con-
sumptim, 14 ; mesenteric disease, 4 ; scarlet fever, 3 ;
whimpiog•cough. 3; and continued fever, 3. In all, then
werell2 deaths from lung disease., end 9 from meiotic.
48 births were registered during the week, namely 21
boys and 27 girls.
IN. AHMAMAx gave notice of the following motion, •ix. :
"That no fresh maraca he entered into with the Great
Central Gas UoniPolor with reference to the public lighting
until they hays withdrawn their notice of raising the prim
dgs..A" RILAHAN thee said he should like to ask Mr. Alder-
man Dakia, the ehainee• of the Great l'eutral. who stated
as a prniouriaxiesieu that the price of pa was likely to be
reduced, to give man more defieit, deem iptioe- -whether it
would be is • few weeks or a few months, or how lees It
weld 1.,..

Mr. Alderiess Pnittiroi maid he was sum that him brother
aileron's would only be too happy to answer soy queatioes,
bat et the mums time he did not think it a proper queotios,
nor a proper lima to put. He did not think it right to take
advantage of one of the members being chairman of a pa
company sad ask such a question ; he thought it was a little
oat of arm
Mr. Alderman DAMN raid that he would be ogled to se-
ewer the question, sod perhaps it would be hest for him to
&sower it iu the negative. He mid as Ion; as certaingestle
men calel meetings and created an agitation upon the gas
questioo in district. to which they did not belong, sad to
make statements which they ought not to make, and omit
to niske statement" which they ought to make, he believed
it would hum • great tendency to delay greatly the looked
I (or reducton. .

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF

1862.

There has been the phantom of a rumour that
the buildiug for the Great Exhibitiou will nut be
completed within the time specified in the agree-
ment with the contractors. The best inquiry we
have been able to make enables us to say that there
is no fear on that head ou the ground itself. The
energy and resources of Messrs. Kelk and Lucas
are well known ; and if there was any doubt iu
their minds on this point they would not coofine
themselves to the number of men who are now at
work on the building, they would not give MI their
workmen a half-holiday on Satunlays' and they
would not keep the hours of labour within the
usual limits, but would not hesitate to adopt the
system of overtime. The recollection of the per-
formance of the contract for the building of Covent-
garden Theatre is calculated to inspire confidence
in the undertakers of the present work. There
is a story told, that a German gentleman, who
was in this country, was very lunch surprised
to see, by accident, the tickets for the
opening night of the opera fur the ensuing season
in course of preparation at a printer's, at a time
when he kuuw that the plan of the theatre was not
completol, when the ground was not laid out ; and
in fact nothing done but the acceptance of the con-
tract for the building by Messrs. Lucas. He amused
I his countrymen on his return to Germany with this
new instance of English oddity ; and it was not until
the occasion of his visiting London again in the fol-
lowing May that be was disabused of his conceit
by attending a performance of an opera in one of
the handsomest and most commodious theatres in
Europe, which had sprung into beautiful existence
during his absence. In fact, the domes are the only
portion of the Exhibition building about the com-
pletion of which in due time any reasonable anxiety
may be entertained. The preparations for this
part of the structure have been hitherto carried on
at Thames-bank, and until the last week there
were no visible signs of progress at South
Kensington. We believe that some little delay
has been caused in the tiring of the iron work,
owing to the work at Thames-bank not having pro-
ceeded with the rapidity that was expected; but
here, again, every confideuce is felt in the energy
and resources of the contractors ; and it will no
doubt he the desire of the Thames Iron Company
to fulfil their engagement with their usual scrupu-
lousness as regards time, as they are certain to do
as regards material and workmanship.
Besides the domes, a beginning has been made in
fixing the iron-work of the roofs of the glass courts,
and a ounsiderable quantity of the wrought iron
girders made by the Thames Iron Company are now
on the ground and ready for hoisting. It is ex-
pected that the brickwork for the upper story of
the refreshment rooms will be commenced this
week.

All the technical and legal difficulties between
the Commissioners of 1861, the Commissioners of
1862, the contractors, the surveyors, and the
lawyers, which have hitherto intorpored between the
completion of the arrangements for the refreshment
contracts, have now been happily adjusted, and the
tenders will be issued this day (Wednesday). It is.
believed that there will be about 2110 applicants,
but that this number will soon be reduced to some
190, by voluntary retirement 'A fortnight will be
allowed fur consideration of the terms offered by.
the Commissioners, and then this matter, which
has oat infinite pains and trouble, will be brought
to a conclusion.

As regards the other parts of the buikliug,the pro-
fr duriug the past week has been as rapid as
i=rto. The scaffolding ut the western dome is
nearly finished l and tasegligieliein all side aria
baling floored. One half of- the, pfeturOkallewl
the Cromwell-road is glazed, and • portion of it is
ready for the plasterers. It may be remembered
that last week we alluded to a project which had
been started for the decoration of the exterior of
this part of the building with mosaics. In reference
to this idea some steps have already been made.
Messrs. Minton also have made a most successful
experiment in translating a head of colossal size
into small tesserie. This is the first work of the
kind which has been attempted in the Staffordshire
Potteries, and proves that mosaics may be executed
in this country iu a manner which will bear a com-
parison with any similar works of antiquity. We
understand that a subscription for the purpose of
supplying these mosaics has already been com-
menced.

The question of the price of season tickets has
been settled. The sum of three guineas will be
charged both for ladies' and gentlemen's tickets for
the period that the Exhibition is to be veil. A
statement bus been made that the season tickets
chanted at this rate will entitle the holders to the
entry into the gardens of the Royal Horticultural
Society, adjoining the Exhibition. We are
authorised to state that this is an error. The
three-guinea tickets will not admit the holders to
the Horticultural-gardens. Arrangements are pend-
ing by which the holders of certain season tickets
will be allowed the privilege of accies to the gardens ;
but such tickets will be charged at a higher price
than those which admit to the Exhibition only.