The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-09 00:00:00

CITY COURT OP SEWER&

The Cuminiesiomers of Sewers for the City .of
Loudon held their Est meeting shoe the •pat d
the run for the Christeas holidays 74 at Om*
ohm in the Guildhall. Mr. Deputy arm, the chair-
man of the oammiseica presided.
The court was occupied a considerable time in disposing
of eumomerese that bed been issued against same of the ash
Mears fee chasing the 'beets I. the City, for neglecting
their duty epos the, maim of the late thaw.
The first me that we awe iono wee that of Mr. Wynne,
the contractor for the Bishopegehareet district.
It was admitted that some el the sheets were in a very
bad condition after the thaw that took piece on fleshy, the
nth milta., but Mr. wawa., the inspector, hated that owing
to the walk& thew, sad the ymalaty of mad and wow that
had collected, very tress thillealties were thrown in the
way of the ecavongem, and Mr. Wynne bad exerted himself
all he mild to remedy the inconvenience.
Tbe
an Gem, ender her °imamate:Kea, declined to indict
y
Meson Redd* who have castrate for cheating a eon-
tiderable portion of • the City, were the nowt Denies when
alleged &beat was ma the sulhoct of infra :7. The ge.
fmats did sat appear pasoesily, but they were repos-
seated by sae althea Garen.
The Bret soliwaso that wag gam into charged the con-
tractors w aeghning I. Meats curtain streets in the
rahobbit,
. Has, a usher al the Cast of Casamon Council,
• when the was awls, rid that be fah it to he
hutitetter before the count in am-
Meisel the eliemitkitalle
sr three sate them haw, amd iM
' that won Nader, la him eflicial peahen by his Nigh.
hews, ash a pad gum her of the respadable Inhabitants.
Be added that the evil was i=iliasonsavated in come-
, =of eo proper closeting bees done by the con-
fer throe-weeks before the w.
The CHAIIIIIAN aid thathe hisesell beim testimony
twee feet that nothing had bees dew towards naming
the thaneeb in this. district for a sposiderable thee before
the thaw ocoamenced, and if tide had bessadose It would
haw very cassidembly relieved the Lien ef the
°ATl:repeater in cur,.* in he other, add that the
sheets complained of by Mr. one were undoubtedly in a
bad Mtn but that thersaddarthaw threw immense labour
apes the coutsactors.
Mr. Voruitai said be could not re why-the City of
Laude. &mild act hew its streets olearod ae well seamy
other part of the metropolis, and that it wee the duty of
that court te compel their contactors to wforan their
duty. Be oared that a cue of as bad been
clearly esiablishedi rad he should Gamier, mow that the
ocalnatess be heed in. the sent of ha for each street,
sena in number, which they had neglected to clean.
DepottT Hour said he thought the wool °might to make
w under the CirClllllllllllloll4 and not be too
hen:upon their contractor/a He should therefore move
that the ha be If. for each street, instead ef 40h.
Mr. C. Yocum said, he thought that this court owed a.
duty to its lellow-eitims, aad were bound to enforce the
law. The *sedition eta considerable portion, of the City on
Monday and Tuesday, and even later in the week, after
the thaw on Sunday, was must disgraceful, and it was im-
possible for any one twarer the road without getting ever
his boots in mad. He should, therefore, suppeet the &eighth
macs, that a doe d 40a. he indicted in every awe et
aerpatythat had been established.
HAMM also supported the Milord main.
The Mims a Leadcs, he said, were hexed heavily, sal
17tLaiyding,:arni 71 to the cottssztorsork cllastairirnst: seta,
Manors were aware of what they bad tondo, sad it emir
excuse for them that them was a little additional. diSculty
to be overcome owing to a sudden thaw.
Several other members of the court bore testimony to the
disgraceful condition of may of the prineipai thosoughfaree
of the City on Sunday, Meshy, and Mashy last, and
eventually the motion that the eontractams should be lined
40° for each of the seven Weals they had neglected to
charms was put sad serried.
Another summer maim* the Mews. Rada fee neglect-
fag eo Mum St. Peors-chusebyamd was thee gone into, and
in this use aho •be at 40► wee indicted. A tine of the
same aammat was aim laud eat ouppen them far not cleaning
Peochusel•etreeleed Lsdohallduet
A arsighlet ene Theirie mode spilait the moo eau-
tartars fiy Mr. eleemse, sae ai the oomedisiesers, for
having auglected termer* the dust from the house of one
of his Meats in hpemarent.
The emplaint wee dryly established. It appeared that
repealai syphoning had bees auk to the drama to
mem the dust, bat they neglected to do so. The last
was made on the dot hof December, sod at this
=llll.l ri half a load of dust had asemulated.
/hedonism& of Meer*. Red di earmsood bin sepet al
the arglest, and said that eo far as the Chnistare week wee
sessomed, it woe a good deal owing to the meta, of
giving the dustmen Christmas boa/abut:l:u.
cilia., had
any money they would not wank. the
week the dustmen would not de anything t *rink if they
offered than 51. for going to week.
la this case a fine of His. was Mated.

Deputy Lori. observed th;t—he co-Z-i;lered the refusal and
neglect to remove dust from the houses of the islishiteals
a very peat nuisance ; and but for tie fact el Means. Dui-
din having been already deed so heavily for the ether
matters, he should certainly have proposed that a ranch
heavier penalty should be inflicted.
Some discussion them took place as to the duties of the
isepectors with regard to these matters ; and the court
expressed an unanimous opinion that they ought come.
drat* to report to the curet any neglect on the part el the
contractor, to perform their duty, so as to endanger thu
ocenfort and convenience of the pubbe.

ME ADULTERATION or FOOD ACT.
In 'rawer to a question put by Deputy Lorr,
Dr. LEIII3III, the medical officer, gated that at present
there bad been no conviction in the City natter the provi-
does of the Adulteration of Food AA.

wirrAir CONDITION Or TIN CM.
The Medical Moor then reported that during the three
week* that had elapsed since the adjournment of the court
the inspostan bad seized 9,14011e5. of meat that was unlit
foe human foal-4,4811b5. of this quantity was seized in
Newgate-market by Mr. Pietism Wait is Laadenbetlely
Mr. Davidson, and 2,6511 b e. by Yr. Newels= in Leid
market. The whole of it bad been destroyed. He also re-
ported that the mortality return for the last three weeks
woo below the ordinary avenge fir the last Mime= ; but
the namber of deaths during the lest week (77) was tho
exact average number for that period. The pester portion
of the deaths was among children and old perms, who
readily succumbed to the influences of cold aad inclement
wootloor.

Dr. Lemma also made his usual quarterly report. I
The court then adjouraed.

YR. NOYRA ON SPIRIT-RAPPING.

Mr. Henry Novra, the author of several into-
resting articles in Ovine Week oil the subject of spirit-rep.
ping, is now giving the public the benefit of hie experience
and inveetigatioes in a eerie@ of lectures at St. James's.
hall. Mr. Nona propane to exhaust the whole mystery,
from its Ant beginaiag in the table-turning of a put menu
down to the most recent manipulations of Mr. Here.
noes who had read tie articles in Once a Week would
hays had little to learn from the lecture, as it merely em-
bodied the facto stated in those articles ; but others who
had not been so fortunate most have derived
greet amusement and advantage from it. As we
ourselves never bed the slightest belief in these spiritual
manifestation, the lecturer had no difeculty in convincing '
us of their absurdity, but there were evidently • great
many strong believers among his numerous auditory last
evening, end they frequently contradicted his exertion,,
and denied the sufficiency of his demonstrations. Some of
his explanations appeared to us very clear and satisfactory,
whilst others woubl hardly have convinced any person who
came to the lectors armed with a belief in spirit-rapping.
It struck us that if the manifestations are per-
fanned by the " medium " in the manner de-
scribed by Mr. Nona, the latter must be very
skilful manipulations indeed to secure belief, as we
cannot imagine that any person out of a lunatic asylum
could be deceived by such transparent charlatswie. The
melancholy fact, however, stands coefesed that otherwise
sensible people can and have been deceived by these ma-

nitematit;os:and therefore Mr. Horn will be rendering •
punt public 11.117100 if he succeeds in dissipating the delu-
sion. He bee ► good delivery, plenty of confidence, and ob-
viously an earned conviction. He wee loudly cheered,
with one or two dissentient voices, and at the end of the
leatore an attempt wee mode to get up a spiritual diacuasiou.
One or two questions were asked, and the excitement
seemed gradually to be rising, when a hint from the ball
potter that the gas Iris about to be extinguished entirely
dieperesd the audience. The great hall Mad nearly full, and
the reserved sesta were all occupied.

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