The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-03 00:00:00

City Sewers Commission.

The Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London met
on Tuesday at the Guildhall, under the presidency of the
Chairman, H. De Jersey, Esq.
A deputation of several inhabitants of the parish of St.
Andrew, Holborn, consisting of Mr Sand, churchwarden;
Dr Read, one of the District Medical Officers of the West
London Union ; Mr H. Potter, Mr Pontifex, Vestry Clerk,
&c., attended before the Court, suggesting the removal of
two or three houses at the end of Plough-court, Holborn, in
order to give a thorough ventiloAlon through the place, from
the want of which the inhabitants hai long suffered. It was
explained by the deputation that the place in question was
densely populated, and the inhabitants had been visited by
fever, which had called forth the attention of the parochial
officers. The Commissioners of Sewers had given them
partial relief by enlarging the entrance to the court in
Fetter-lane a few years ago, and they were now asked to
proceed with a further improvement on behalf of the per-
sons residing there.

Upon the motion of Deputy Obbard, seconded by Mr
Green, the memorial was referred to the Improvement Com-
mittee to consider and report.

Mr DAW, the principal clerk to the Commissioners, also
read a memorial from the same parties complaining of the
quality and price of the gas supplied in the city, and they
asked the Court to take all measures that might bo needful
to put au end to the evils of which they telt they had so
just cause to complain.
Mr Deputy OBBARD moved that the memorial be referred
to the Special Gas Committee to examine and report.
Mr G. WALTER seconded the motion, which was at once
put and agreed to:
A communication was read from Mr Thomas Lott, vestry
clerk, forwarding a copy of a resolution passed at a vestry
meeting of the inhabitants of the united parishes cf St Mary-
le-Bow, St Pancras, Soper-lane, and Allhallows, Honey-
lane, in which they expressed their opinion that the gas at
present supplied to the City was d ficient in quantity and
inferior in quality, and the charge for the same excessive,
and requesting the Commissioners of Sewers to consider the
propriety of taking the manufacture and supply of gas into
their own hands.

The communication was also referred to the Special Gas
Committee for consideration and report.
The attention of the Court was drawn to certain negotia-
tions at present pending between the Bishop of London and
the inhabitants of the pariah of St Dionis, Backchurch, re-
specting the state of the parish church; and also to an order
issued by the Commissioners for certain repairs to be done
to the church. It seems that in the first instance a report
was presented to the Commissioners by the district surveyor,
referring to the dangerous state of the church, and an order
was issued by the Commissioners calling upon the church-
wardens to take the necessary steps for putting it into a
proper state of repair. A meeting of the inhabitants was
enbecquently held, at which several gentlemen called atter's
tion to the echeme proposed by the Commissioners appointed
under the Union of Benefices Act, who suggested the union
of the pariah of St Dionis with that of St Clement, East-
cheap, and recommending that the church of the former bo
Pulled down, and it was urged that in the face of these
facts it would be imprudent tog) to the expense of putting
the church into a state of repair. At the meeting referred
to the vestry clerk was instructed to lay a statement of the
facts before the Bishop of London, requesting to be fur-
nished with any information as to the contemplated union,
which might guide the parishioners in dealing with the
question as to the repairs of the parish church, and, a fur-
ther resolution was come to, requesting the churchwardens
to communicate with the Commissioners of Sewers, request-
ing them to suspend the order made upon them to proceed
with the repairs. This latter communication was to-day
read to the court by the principal clerk.
After some conversation an opinion was expressed that it
was the duty of the Commissioners to proceed against the
churchwardens and enforce the carrying out of the order,
and a motion to that effect was adopted.
A letter was read from Messrs Cert and Berton, submit-
ting a specimen of a natural pit paving stone, similar to
that at present used in Paris, for paving the street of the
City of London. The stone in question it is said has a great
advantage over the ordinary granite paving, being cheaper
and not so slippery.
It was referred to the General Purposes Committee to con-
sider the advisability of making a trial of the stone in the
City,