The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-04 00:00:00

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No. 22,447.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1864.

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A Six-roomed Parsonage £74 3 0
An Eight-roomed ditto
A Ten-roomed ditto
A Twelve-roomed dltto 391 11 0

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llurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

the following is a summary :—Twelve miles of connecting
sewers had been constructed on the middle level sewer con-
tract at the estimated cost of £309,000. Nearly four miles
of the sewers intended for the interception of the western
district drainage had been completed at a cost of about
£53,000. Three out of four of the compartments of the
northern outfall reservoir were now completed, and con•
stantly received the sewage brought down from the high
and middle level sewers, and discharged such sewage into
the Thames at Barking at the ebb tide only. The fourth
compartment, the embankment over the whole reservoir,
and the sluice-house would shortly be completed. The value
of the work here executed amounted to about £164,500.
About four miles of the southern low sewer had been com-
pleted at the estimated cost of £121,000, and under the
contract for the works at Crossness work to the amount of
£225,000 had been executed. On the first contract for the
Thames Embankment (between Westminster and Waterloo
bridges) work to the amount of £33,000 had been executed ;
but on the second contract (from Waterloo-bridge to the
eastern end of Temple•gardens) the work had not been
altogether of so satisfactory a nature, and it would be neces-
sary in some respects to adopt a new system in carrying out
the work.

Together with a Price List of purified Bedding, and a mass
of valuable informationto all requiring househild furniture,
carpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy-
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Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth,
Wells. Oxford. Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder-
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The report was ordered to be entered on the minutes, and
after various other matters had been disposed of the board
adjourned.

Royal Humane Society.

Yesterday evening the 90th anniversary festival of this
society, one of the oldest as it certainly is one of the most
valuable of all our London charities, was held at the Free-
masons' Tavern. The company was not numerous, owing
perhaps to the fact that for the last two or three years the
festivals of this society have been in abeyance, but what
they wanted in numbers was amply made up in zeal and
earnestness, as the liberal donations at the close of the
evening clearly showed.

The chair was taken by Viscount Dufferin, who was
supported by Sir Brook Brydges, M.P„ Sir Wm. Fraser,
Mr. Sheridan, M.P., Mr. Thomas Page, C.E., Mr. Donald
Nichol], and ether friends of the society. The dinner
was of a most excellent kind, and, what is more rare at
these public entertainments, was admirably served.
The report of the society which, at the conclusion of
the repast, was distributed about the room, spoke most
cheeringly as regards the usefulness of the society. Dur-
ing the past year 208 cases of rescuing or attempted
rescue from drowning were brought under their noticz,
comprising 262 persons ; of these 246 were successfully
treated, but 16 were, unfortunately, beyond recovery when
taken out of the water-16 of the number were cases of
attempted suicide. The society had also in the same period
conferred and distributed to those who were instrumental
in saving life frem drowning the following rewards :
namely, 4 silver medals, 73 bronze medals, 9 thanks of the
society on vellum, 73 thanks on parchment, and 69 pecu-
niary rewards of various amounts. In the past summer
no less than 255,142 persons were estimated to have bathed
in the Serpentine River during the hours appointed for
morning and evening bathing. It was not surprising
that 36 casualties should have occurred out of so large a
number of bathers ; but it was satisfactory to state that,
owing to the attention of the society's men, not one had
proved fatal.

After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts had been given
and received in the usual cordial manner, the noble chair-
man gave the toast of the evening. He said that nearly a
century had elapsed since they first entered into their con-
flict with the powers of the grave, and dared to dispute with
the Angel of Death the spoils he had already counted as
his own. Each successive year had enabled them to inscribe
fresh victories on their rolls, though others had been un-
doubtedly engaged in analogous efforts. The advance of
science, the spread of civilisation, had done much to pre-
serve the world from the inroads of disease. The citadel of
human life was better guarded now than formerly; but the
utmost that Dither science or civilisation dare to pretend to
was a defensive attitude. To them alone had it been given
to carry the war into the enemy's country, and annex a pro-
vince of his empire, to penetrate beyond the mysterious
frontier which separated them from eternity, and restore
to she kindly light of day and the pleasant love of friends
those who had already tasted of the bitterness of death,
whose eyes had passed into the dim borderland beyond the
grave, whose feet had wended one stage on that journey
not to be retravelled by mortal man. He called upon th.m
therefore in all earnestness to drink success to the Royal
Humane Society, than which he did not believe there was a
more valuable association existing.
The toast was drunk with all the honours, and at the
close of the evening the secretary announced a list of dona-
tions amounting to £3OO.

Atter this toast was drunk the Chairman had the pleasure
of presenting to Mr Donald Nicoll the medal of the society
for his gallant and most desperate effort last February to
save the lives of three persons who had broken through the
ice on the lake at Hampstead, and who were fast drowning
till he came to their assistance. At the most eminent peril
of his own life Mr Nicoll succeeded in saving two, but the
third person, a lad, sank under the ice before he could reach
him. The award of this medal to Mr Nicoll was greeted
with immense applause.

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