The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-31 00:00:00

QUESTION OF METROPOLITAN WATER
SUPPLY NOT SETTLED.

The question of the proper supply of proper water to
London is not settled, and none but the wilfully blind, or
the naturally stupid, will say it is,—none but igno-
ramuses or shareholders, the latter of whom, by the way,
merely met as others would do in the same position. We
do not usually employ coarse language; but this is too
important a matter to mince words upon. The water-
supply question is not settled, any more than the drainage
of London is settled because one set of hand-tied com-
missioners after another—dummies in spite of them-
selves, according to their aecount—have been appointed,
and have met, and have killed their officers and them-
selves, have spent money without reference to a plan,
and have got miserably into debt, without advancing the
purpose of their existence a single step. The water-
supply question is not settled any more than the burial in
towns question is settled because an Act of Parliament
has been passed which permits amelioration but does not
enforce it. The water-supply question will not be
settled, and must not be considered settled so long as we
have any but the best water, both in a sanitary end an
economical point of view, and the most efficient supply
possible.—lt is really a very important question for the
metropolis, involving health and money to a large
amount;l a question which should be settled—but is not.
'Wall-informed,
formed, honest, and able men may express them-
selves contented with the present arrangement as a
rifi to expediency; but they must feel that this can-
nsaoctlacset, and ought not to last. It is not the course
they would take in their own arrangements: it is still
less the course which should he pursued by a wealthy
and powerful community.—Builder.

ERECTION OF A. CHURCH FREE FROM THE BISHOP
or LONDON'S CoNmot.—The absence of sufficient church ac-
commodation, at Stoke Newington, has long been severely felt
by the inhabitants. It is now, we are glad to hear. proposed
to erect a new church at the corner of Albert Grove, a site
peculiarly adapted for it, owing to the erection of about
houses. being now in progress. The edifice is to
Archiepiscopal Court of Canterbury, for
the performance of Divine Worship, according to the rites
be registered reglisetwered th-
of the Church of I_igland. The plan is in the Italian style,
and cost estimated at only 1,0501.) is to be defrayed by
public the .blicsubscription. There is to be seat room for about 800
people.
Gritnistoc, AUG. 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Kitty, St.
John's, New Brunswick.
CowEs, Aug. 30.—Arrd. St. Vincent, Young, Syd-
ney, New South Wales
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
.HAMMERSMITH.
Mr. Thomas, the secretary to the Royal Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, applied to
Mr. Beadon, the sitting magistrate, shortly after the
disposal of the night charges, fur three summonses
against Mr.
T. B. Simpson, the proprietor of Cre-
raorne-gardens, and M. and Madame Poitevin, for
cruelty to a horse which was suspended to a balloon
that ascended from the gardens on Thursday after-
noon last.
The applicant stated that he was prepared with
evidence to prove that the balloon ascended at half-
past six o'clock on Thursday afternoon last from Cre-
morne-gardens, and that Madame Poitevin sat upon
the back of the horse, which was suspended from the
machine. Ifer husband was in the car of the balloon
at the time, and Mr. Simpson, the proprietor of the
gardens, was also present when the ascent was made.
He should also be able to prove that Madame Poite-
vin remained for some time upon the back of the
horse while in the air before she entered the car with
her husband.
Mr. BEADON supposed that it was intended to raise
the question whether it was an act of cruelty to the
horse to suspend it to a balloon ?
Mr. Tnomas replied that it was, and said the weight
upon the animal's back while suspended in the air and
the construction of the bandages would be sufficient
to prove the act of cruelty. One of the officers of the
society was present during the ascent, and also a veteri-
nary surgeon, and they both would be able to prove
the act of cruelty to the animal.
Mr. BEADON said be fully expected that the sum-
monses would have been applied for, as it was a ques-
tion of considerable importance, and should be settled.
Mr. Thomas had stated quite sufficient for the sum-
monses to be granted.
Mr. Thomas was then asked whether he intended
to proceed against them for the ascent or descent.
Mr. Thomas said for the ascent from Cremorne-
gardens.

Mr. BEADON observed, in that case the matter
would not come under his jurisdiction, as the whole
of Cremorne-gardens was in the district of the West-
minster police-court. His district only extended as
far as the road near the gardens.
Mr. Thomas said he was very sorry for troubling
his Worship unnecessarily, but he had been informed
that Hammersmith was the right court to apply to for
the summonses.
Mr. BEADON inquired where the balloon descended,
as it it fell in his district he could then grant the
summonses.
Mr. Thomas said the balloon descended at Heston,
near Hounslow.
Mr. BEADON said that place was also out of his
district. He believed that the first balloon ascent
of M. Poitevin with his horse terminated by
the machine falling in Wimbledon, which place came
under his notice at Wandsworth, and, if Mr. Thomas
had evidence of that descent, he would listen to the
application.
Mr. Thomas said he had not. The only evidence
he had related to the ascent of the balloon on Thursday
last. He understood that Madame Poitevin in-
tended to ascend that evening upon the back of a bull,
from the same gardens, as " Europa carried away by
Jupiter."
Mr. BEADON thought the best course to adopt by
Mr. Thomas was to apply to the sitting magistrate at
Westminster police-court for the summonses, as the
question was an important one, and ought to be de-
cided in the proper district.
Mr. 'l'bomas thanked his worship for the attention
he had paid to the application, and said he should
apply immediately to the magistrates at Westminster
police-court.

THE NA TioNAiLANDa OMPANY.
RICEIMANSWORTII, SATURDAY.—An important and
rather remarkable inquiry has been proceeding here
during the week, under the direction of the Court of
and 14 and 15
Chancery Vic., for dissolving the Na-
tional Land Company,. and Chartist Co-operative Land
for
.aisposing
Society, and of its lands, properties, and
principal estates connected with which
buildings, the
situate at O'Connorville
, or Herring?gate, three
Rickmansworth ;
miles from at Minster Lovell, near
d
at atemarly,
Witney ; near Tewkesbury; and at
Lowlands and Snig's End, near Gloucester. The
estate called O'Connorville, though not the most ex-
tensive,of the earliest-
was one located, and was pur-
chased in 1846, and parcelled out into
ntal of
the experimeplanenabling its occupants, " by
means of the re-productive
and co-operative principle,
and by moderate industry, to live
in comparative
" d
indepenence,
comfort and on two and three acres of
land, and at the same time to form the nucleus of a
political propaganda
for
promoting the exploded six
points of the charter. in the attainment of both these
objects the experiment, as the present inquiry goes to
show, has proved a signal delusion, the occupants of
the estates being, more or less, in embarrassment, and
the projector of the plan, as
is well known, in a state
of mental aberration.
The sittings to inquire into the subject have been
Hotel, before Mr. William
held here at the Swan
one of the official assignees of the Court
Goodchap,
of Chancery, assisted_by Mr.
Roxburgh, as counsel
and assessor ; Mr. "I'm Tucker, of the firm of
Tucker and Sons; and Mr. Woodthorpe, surveyor
and architect ; Mr. C. Roche, of the firm of Symons
and Roche, representing the allottees or occupants,
who attended very numerously.
The report of the official
assignee set forth that
the inquiry was
instituted under the direction of
the Court of Chancery, to inquire into the cases
of all those persons to _whom lands bad been allotted,
but who had relined title or claimed compensa-
tionquish for loss or expenditure in respect of them, and to
ascertain by the best
.and most economical means to
what amount the value of the capital and labour
expended by the allottees had exceeded the value of
the occupation, and the advances of aid money, seed,
and stock made by the company, and to determine
the sum by way ohont
Id° paid for past occupation
by each allottee wshou prove his title, making
all just allowances.
,The report, which went very
fully into the origin a
an cundstittbution of the National
Land Company, ae regarole purchase and e
al-
lotment of lands and the balloting for members
by Mr. Feargus O'Connor as trustee, further stated
that on 11th April, 1846, it was notified to the share-
shareholders by Mr. Feargus O'Connor that he had
purchased the O'Connorville estate, consisting of
130
acres, for 2,344/., subject to an annuity of 601. per
annum, conveyed by T. Ayres and J. Margetson,
but the title deed of which is now retained by
Mr. W. P. Roberts, solicitor, of Manchester, on
the ground of alleged lien. Soon after a ballot, for
two, three, and four acres respectively, took
place among those members of the corn..
pany who had paid 2/. 10s. deposit, being Is the
value of one share in the company. The members
who became located were principally mechanics,
or
weavers totally unacquainted with agricultural pur-
suits, from Stockport, 13radford, Manchester, Leeds,
and 'Wigan. The two-acre balloted members holding
one share had allotted them a licuse, two acres of land,
and 151. ; the three-acre members, a house, three
acres, and 22/. 103. ; and the four-acre members of two
shares, a house, four acres, and 301. In this way the
103 acres wer® parcelled out, two acres being set
apart for the school at the head of the estate. The
members entered on their locations on lit May,
1847. Some are still in possession; others have
underlet. During the period they remained they
received aid money, cultivation money, and bushels
of wheat. Some sold their right of location, which
latter was of the average value of 'i am 401. to 1001.
In some cases distresses were levied on the goons,
chattels, and growing crops, and this state of things
continued until the Act of Parlisment for winding up
this and other estates in a similar position was ob.