The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-16 00:00:00

NES.

S tiN, LONDON, WED NESDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1864.

This Day,

CITY SEWERS COMMISSION,

Yesterday, at 12 o'clock, the members of this
Commission met at Guildhall for the despatch of
public business. Henry de Jersey, Et q., Deputy of
the %Yard of Aldersgate, occupied the chair.
PROPOSED RAILWAYS IN THE CITY.

Mr. J. am read a report from the Improvement
Committee, to whom had been referred for conside-
ration the various railway and other bills introduced
into Parliament this session which affected the city
of London. They stated that the following were the
bills which it had been proposed by the joint com-
mittee of the Houses of Lords and Commons should
be proceeded with in the present session :-
1. The London and Blackwall Extension—the
worts proposed being to widen the existing railway
on one side only, and to enlarge the station at Fen-
church-street, for which purpose arches will be
thrown over the adjoining streets, and the station
will be thrown up to Mark-lane.,
2. The North London (additional powers), the
proposition being to extend the station on the east
side of Liverpool-street, taking in Broad-street-
buildings, Thompson's-court, &;;.‘..
3. The London, Chatham, and Dover (No. 2), to
continue the railway round to the north-western
parts of Smithfield, to unite with the Metropolitan
(Finsbury-circus Extension), underground through-
out.

4. The Metropolitan (additional powers). This
did not appear to affect the City.
5. The Metropolitan District Railways, Inner
Circuit, Nos. 32, 33, 34, Junctions 7,8, 9, by which
it is proposed to continue an underground railway
from the Thames Embankment at Blackfriars along
the line of the intended new street to Cannon• street,
thence on the south side of that street to King. Wil-
liam-street; north of the Monument, and south of
Easteheap, by Tower-street, to the north side of
Allhallows, B irking- churchyard, to Trinity-square,
to join the North London Railway.
6. The Metropolitan Railway (Trinity-square
Extension), to continue the Metropolitan line from
Finsbury-circus to Trinity-square.
7. The Metropolitan Grand Union (portion north
of Thames•street) is projected with a similar object.
8. The East London is also designed with a like
object, to run by Landon-wall, Hounsditch, &0., and
to be brought into connection with the Thames
Tunnel.
9. The Great Eastern (Metropolitan Station and
Railways), by which it is proposed to bring the
Great Eastern Railway station into Wormwood
street.

The committee recommended the Court to peti-
tion Parliament against each of the said bills affect-
ing the City, and they had accordingly instructed
the City Remembrancer to prepare petitions to be
[aid before the Court for signature, and it was their
ntention to Beek a conference with the special com-
mittee of the Court of Common Council on railways
in the City, to endeavour to arrange for a joint op-
position to the bills, or of such of them as might be
found necessary or expedient to oppose in committee,
and they asked the Court to refer the same back to
them for that purpose, that they might take such
steps therein as they might be advised.
The committee further reported in reference to
the bill promoted by the Charing-cross Railway
Company to extend the station at Dowgate-hill and
Cannonestreet. They stated they were in negotia-
tion with the promoters to effect an amicable ar-
rangement; but they thought it expedient to peti-
tion against the bill, in order to give the Court a
locus standi if needful.
The report was agreed to, and the several petitions
were then laid before the Court by the City Remem-
brancer (Mr. Corrie), and were at once signed.
SANATORY CONDITION OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
Dr. LETHEBY presented the following report on
the sanatory condition of the City :
"To the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers
of the city of London.
"Gentlemen,—The inspectors' returns, which are
before you, relate to 184 houses that have been in-
spected during the week, and I submit a list of 32
places for sanatory improvement.
"The markets and slaughter houses have been
duly inspected, and the officers have condemned
3,8381b5. of meat as unfit for human food. It con-
sisted of 13 sheep, 13 pigs, 25 quarters of beef, and
24 joints of meat. Nearly all of it was in a diseased
condition.
" I place before you a letter which I have received
from the meat inspector of Leeds informing me that
it is a common practice with certain persons in that
town to send diseased meat dressed as human food
to the City markets, and that in consequence of the
vigilance of the meat inspector at Leeds the prac-
tice of sending the meat to London is largely in-
creasing. I may mention, however, that although
the salesmen of London are accustomed to give your
inspectors great assistance in the condemnation of
such meat, yet there are many instances of refusal
by the salesmen to give up tie names of the senders.
We have, therefore, no opportunity in such cases
of bringing the guilty
parties to justice.
" I also place before you a letter which I have
received from Mr. Thompson, a veterinary surgeon
of London, informing me that horses affected with
the infectious disease, glanders, are frequently
driven through the streets of the City in such a
manner as to be dangerous to cattle, and even to
man.

average for the season—only
" The mortality for the week is greatly below the
48 deaths have been
registered in the week, whereds the average num-
ber for the corresponding week of the last eight
years is 61. At the close of last month the mor-
tality returns advanced to 82 in the week, and from
that time they have been gradually declining. The
chief causes of death during the week are as follow
—Phthisis 8, mesenteric disease 2, pneumonia 4,
bronchitis 6, whooping cough and diptheria 2
making together 10 deaths from tubercular diseases,
10 from inflammatory affections of the lungs, and
2 from diseases of a zyrnotic character.
" Seventy-five births were registered during the
week—namely, 30 boys
and 45 girls.
"I remain, gentlemen,
(Signed
" HY. LETHEBY."
Some discussion took place, in which attention
was called to the Cattle Diseases Prevention Bill
now before Parliament,
your obedient servant,
which Dr. Letheby said
was at present under the consideration of the Mar-
-1 kets Committee of the Corporation. He expressed
' his opinion that the bill was a very proper one,
but he considered that the foot and mouth disease
among cattle, being of so serious a nature, should
be included within the provisions of that bill.
It was ultimately decided to leave the matter in
the hands of the Markets Committee; and Dr.
Letheby expressed his willingness to attend that
committee if necessary when the subject was
brought under their consideration.

SUPPLY OF GAS TO TUE CITY.
Dr. LETIIEBY reported that the illuminatiig
power of the gas supplied to the city during the
past week had in mien case been above the require-
ments of the Act of Parliament
; out the propor-
tion if sulphur present in the Chartered and Great
Central Gas was above the quantity sanctioned by
Parliament.

The Commissioners, after transacting some rou
tine business, adjourned.

THE YANKEE CONSTIITUTIO-zi.—.There is an un-
mistakeable influence of climate on the European
race settled for some generations in America, The Ame •
rican, compared with the Englishman,is lean, though he
grows fat rfter long sojourn in Europe. The Virginian—
except the West Virginian—is especially tall, slender, and
lean; for, the effect of American climate is more striking
in the central and southern than in the northern parts, and
most so among the working classes in the plains near the
sea. The New Englander, of the same stock as the Vir-
ginian, is shorter, and usuelly round-faced. The genuine
Yankee is clearly distinguished from the Englishman by
his sharp angular features and the excess of breadth
between the angles of his lower jaw, which makes the lower
part of the face square instead of oval. The curly hair of
the European is apt to become siraight and stiff in America,
and to grow stiffer and thicker with each generation. The
long neck which usually accompanies in caricatures the
a there is a great increaset
long straight hair of the Yankee, indicates weaker develop-
ment of the glandular:system, Io
of nervous irritability. Seine writers have attributed this
to a predominance of dry west winds, others to the use of
spirits. The voice of the true Yankee has less metal than
than that of the European; his eyelids are said also to be
shorter. It has been said, too, that the beef and mutton of
the United States shows, by defect of flavour and nutrition,
as compared with that of Europe, the less favourable in-
fluence of the climate upon animal lire. In Now South
Wales the influence of climate tends to make the children
of :Europeans tall and lean, while at the Cape there is
among European colonists a tentlency to fat.—Dickens's
" All the Tear Round."
THE THIRD EDITION OF THE "SLANG MC-
rrorraity," now in the press, will contain, it is said, fully
3,000 more unauthorised words and colloquial expressions
than the preceding edition.