The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-08 00:00:00

TN, COIIIIITTIOI OP RIALTO.

The report of the committee of health we. read. It re-
ferred to the invest'gatien in!ci certain alleged nuisances
more particularly enticed in the report of the medical Aker
cf health, given below, and recommended that the court
should net inter( re with the subject of the bill in parliament
on metropolitan int. ruients, as the parliamentary committee
of the corporation we. engaged in the consideration of that
question.
Mr. Deputy LOTT hoped the court would not allow so
important a aut.). et as the Metropolitan Interment Bill to
pass by without some peculiar huhu, particularly as :hen
were some dames in it which showed a spirit of jobbing of
the mat resolute and netaii its character. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. H. 1.. TAYLOR said the bill alluded to afleved
sv.ry ward is the City, and ought not to be
.iveri the "Re by " to by the court in consequence
of the interference of any other authority. He thought
the report ought to go back to the Committee of Health to
be mouldered, as the commiesioners were bound to allow
the most determined opposition to the bill weigh insured the
vested interests of all connected with the church from the
bishops downwards, as well as promot. d a great variety of
other evils. He e..,uld move as an amendment that the part
of the report he par moistly adverted to be referred bock to
the committee. He was astonished that all the metropo-
litan parishes had not resisted the measure, which was, ho
mut say, a disgrace to minis'ers, whom he hoped, although
he had been in the habit of supporting them, :o see turned
out of odic*, in cons. ql.e: ce of their scandalous support of
centralisation. (•• Hear, hear," end laughter.)
Mr. BLAKE disapproved et the idea of mixing up in the
di.cussion art a polilical kind, and thought it was
quite enough that the subject of the bill for metropolitan
interments we. referred to a entrant:tee of the corporation to
be dealt with.

Mr. Deputy HARRISON said the but hid been referred
to the parlismesaary cnotasi•tee. in or& r that a double /l-
imns* might not be sncurresl. He knew that the tertian:ma.
hey committee inteided to object to the bill for many re..-
sons. But he thought the question ought to be dealt
with by the corporation and not by the Commissioner of
Sewers.

Mr. ILLLIOTT said that when they charged the govern.
meet with jobbuig it would be perhaps advisable to famine
whether the corporation itself was free from • just impute-
ti..n of the kind. Re would wish to mu the corporation cent
aside the antiquated prejudices which stood in the wsy of the
most important improvements attempted to be accomplished
for the benefit of the sanitary condition of the community.
The mean* proposed for effecting these improvements wire
denouactd as Acing pert of • system of centralisation.
Now he would say that emitrelisa•ion was an excelent
thine. (Laughter and " No, no.") The very system upon
which the Cry government was instituted and supported,
was centralisation. The time wu come when the putty

prejudices by w►ich the corporation had been so I.lll34lG-
enced must be ahandrned.
Mr. Deputy OBBARD supported the amendment.
The report wu then received.
NUISANCES IN THE CITY.

Mr. BIMON, the medical ofScer of health, read the re-
port as to the alleged nuisances, the complaints of which
had been referred to him, and which related principally to
nuts' aces alleged to arise from the burial-groued ad)
Si. Botulptes Church, Alderagate ; from an open 'ewer at
the almshouses in Jecob's-well passage; from a drysalter's
establishment it Cripplegate, and from a refining-boos. near
Cheapside. Mr. Simon stated, in reference to the first ease,
that it would on inexpedient at the approaching season to
make any fresh disturbing of the aril; in the second, he ad
mitted that " inconveniences of the highest degree du result
trues the present arraugaments ;" in the third, that the
convenience would be removed by the heightening of a
chimney, or the use of a smoke consuming furnace ; and in
the fourth, that an improved condensing apparatus, which
the proprietors were willing to erect, would remedy the evil.
The report was, after tome remark' from several of the
members, agreed to by the court, only two hands having
been held up against it. One or two matters alluded to in
it were referred at the fame time.
TUN KATE COLLINTORD.
Upon the motion of Mr. BLASE, a liberal change was
made in the mode of paying the rate collectors of the City.

SAWSR WORKS AT PIMA) DOCL.
Mr. MOFFATT applied for leave to cpen a communica-
tion with the Paul's Wharf sad Thames street se wiri, fur
the purpose of obtaining an increased supply of sewage for
his works at Puddle Duck, where he deodurista the sewage
and makes it into dry manure for agricultural purpotps. He
also applied for a lease of the same fur 21 years instead of the
agreement for seven years already entered into betirt.en
and the commissioners.

The application was referred to the general purposes com-
mittee, and alter the transaction of sums business of minor
importance the court adjourned.

SMITHFIELD ON SUNDAY NIGHT. —To get the
bullocks into their allotted stands, an incessant punishing
and torturing of the miserable animals—a sticking of prongs
into the tender part of their feet, and a twisting of their
tails te make the whole spine teem with pain—was going
on : and tnis seemed as much a part of the market as the
stones in its pavement. Actor their horns, acrou their
hocks, across their haunches, Mr. Bovington saw the heavy
blows rain thick and fast, let him look where he would.
Obdurate beads of oxen, bent down in mute agony ; bellow
ing heads of oxen lilted up, snorting out smoke and slaver;
ferocious men, cursing and swearing, and belabouring oxen ;
mode the place a panorama of cruelty and suffering. By
every avenue of access to the market, more oxen were pour
ing on: bellowing, in the confusion, and under the lolling
blows, as if all the church organs in the world were
wretched instruments—all there—and all being tuned toge-
ther. Mired up with these oxen, were great Licks of
sheep, whose respective drove n were in agonies of mind to
prevent their being intermingled in the dire confusion; and
who raved, shouted, scummed, awn, whooped, whistled,
danced like savages; and, brandishing their cudgel., laid
about them most remorselessly. AU this was being duns, is
a d.ep red glare of burning torches, which were in them-
selves a strong addition to tie- horrors of the sans ; for the
men who were arranging the sheep and lambs in their
Mserably confined pens, and forcing them to their destine
Lion through alleys of the moot prepu,teronsly small dimen-
sions, constantly dropped gouts of the blazing pitch upon the
miseiable creatures' bake; and to smell the singeing and
burning, and to ace the p-mss things shrinking trum this
I resisting, inspired a sickness, a disgust, a pity and an indig-
I nation, almost insupportable. To reflect that the gate of St.
Bartholomew's Hospital was in the midst of this devilry,
and that sects a munamissit of years of sympathy fur human
pain should stand there, jutting this disgr.celul record of
yowl of disregard of brute endurance—to look up as the
faint lights in the windows of the houses where the people
were asleep, sad to think that some of them had bees. at
public pump that Sunday, end bad typified the Dais.,
love and gentleness, by the panting, footsore creature, burnt,
beaten, and needlessly tormented there, that night, by t:eou-
siod►—suggested truths so inconsistent and so 'lnciting,
that the market of the capital of the world seemed a
)(neatly ■nd blasphelitent nightraere.—Dickens's Ilutudsold
IVutds.