The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-09 00:00:00

CITY SEWERS COMMISSION.

Yesterday, at 12 o'clock, the Commissioners of Sewers
of the city of London met at Guildhall for the despatch of
public business. H. De Jersey, Esq., Deputy, presided ;
and among those present were Deputy Bone, Deputy
Lorkin, Deputy Hawtrey, Deputy Bower, Deputy Perkins,
Deputy Read, Deputy Pewtress, Deputy Jones, Deputy
Elliott, Deputy Owden, Deputy C. Reed, Deputy Scamell,
Deputy Cork; Messrs. George Walter, Spilabury, Green,
Houghton, Straker, Botterill, Cole, Nind, Banning,
Blakeeley, Cox, Dadswell, Saunders, Matthew, Israel, &c.
After the despatch of some ordinary business, the solicitor
to the Commission (A.. BAYLIS, Esq.) reported to the Court
that he had, in accordance with his instructions, caused
inquiries to be made into the circumstances under which a
quantity of meat, consisting of four quarters of a cow, was
sent up for sale to Lealenhall-market in January last. It
seemed that the cow had been consigned by a butcher living
at Pinchbeck, in Lincolnshire, he having bought it for £3
10s., and that the animal had " dropped" from long-stand-
ing disease, and was on the point of death at the time it was
purchased. The solicitor stated further that there could be
no doubt the purchaser must have bean aware of the con-
dition of the meat and its utrfitness for food when sent up
for sale. The solicitor added further, that as there might
be some difficulty in proceeding against the person who
hal sent the meat up to London under the Nuisances Re-
moval Act, he suggested that proceedings should be taken
under the common law.

The Commissioners instructed the solicitor to prosecute
the person implicated at the Old Bailey.
Mr. BAYLIS then explained to the Court the circumstances
of the case of Charles Cox, a butcher, near Romford, who
was summoned the day previously at the Mansion-house
police-court, at the instance of the Commissioners of Sewers,
for sending diseased meat to the London market. He said
it was proved beyond all doubt that the meat was diseased
and unfit for human food, and that it was sent by Cox to a
meat salesman to be sold for human food; but as it hap-
pened to have been placed in that part of the salesman's pre-
mises from which, as he alleged, meat was never sold, the
presiding magistrate (Sir R. W. Carden) decided that that
was not a sale, nor an " exposure for sale," and the case did
not therefore come within the strict interpretation of the
Nuisances Removal Act of 1863. The magistrate, however,
informed the sender that but for this technical difficulty he
should have sent him to prison for three months. The soli-
citor further explained that under the common law it was
not requisite the diseased meat should be sold or exposed
for sale, it being sufficient to prove that the diseased meat
was sent from the country, and such offender could there-
fore still be brought to justice by indictment at the Central
Criminal Court.

After some discussion the matter was referred to the soli.
citor for further inquiry.
THE STIFFLY OF OAS TO THE CITY-DR. LETHEEY'S
QUARTERLY REPORT.

The medical officer of health, Dr. LETHEBY, presented a
report relative to the supply of gas to the City for the quarter
beginning November 14, 1863, and ending February 13,
1864. He stated that the illuminatory power of the gas
supplied by the three companies supplying the City had
been above the requirements of the act of Parliament, the
average having been as follows :—The City Company's pi
was equal to 15'20 sperm candles; the Chartered to 13.93;
and the Great Central to 13.80 'candles. The average power
of the Great Central Company's gas for the corresponding
period of the ten years preceding the act of Parliament was
13.40 candles.

Dr. LETHEBY further reported that the amount of sulphur
in the gas had, in the case of each of the companies, been
above the quantity sanctioned by Parliament, and was below
the average quantity found in the gas before the passing of
the act.

Some other business having been disposed of, the Coln-
missioners adjourned.

AN ENTHUSIASTIC ADMIRER OF QUEENSLAN D,—
The following is extracted from a letter written by
a man who left England in March last year. Ile is a block
printer by trade, and having worked in England, Ireland,
Scotland, France, and the United States, he was pre-
pared to meet with some difficulties in Queensland
and the latter country he says he likes best. He its,
tnow a residingfri
en friend
a sin
flopllwsowisch from which place ho writes
:
" I am glad to inform you
that 1
is plenty of work and plenty of meat, and good wages.
am proud that I came out to this country, where
there
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except she had plenty
of money to keep her independent.
She likes the country very well, and so do I. Infact we are better off than ever we were in our lives before. We go down
the street on a Saturday night and buy 81bs or 91bs of beef;
or we can buy a leg of mutton at 4d per lb, and can have
the best cutting of beef for 31d per lb. We are not the same
as we were at home, for we were then glad to get a penny-
worth of liver; if we could manage to get a sheep's head
it was a fine treat, lam working as a carpenter. I work
eight hours per day, and get 8s for it. Wo start at eight
o'clock in the morning, have an hour for dinner, and knock
oil at five in the evening. On Saturday we stop at four
o'clock in the afternoon. So you see for a week's work I
have £2 Bs. My eldest boy is porter for a grocer, and ho
has £l;s for the first six months and his rations; and if ht.?
stays after the first six months have expired he will get L3o
per year. So you see he is better here, for he is not dragged
out of bed, to go to a dirty, filthy factory with a faceas palo
as death. He gets plenty of beef and fresh air, and he is as
fat as a pig. Thank God ho has not to run with his clothes
in his hand for feu. of being locked oat, and then to have to
go through the ' penny-hole,'
so that the slave (hiving
factory masters can take something out of his wages for
being too late. If I liked I could keep a horse and a cow,
and they would cost me nothing for their keep, as they turn
them into the bush to find for themselves. 'There are very
few persons here who do not ride their own horses, There
is no poor law, end there are no infernal bastiles. Thank
God, I have shaken off the chains of oppression, and have
got to a land that 'flows with milk and honey ;' and I hope
before long to Bit under my own vine and fig-tree. There
aro many unpleasant things here, such as mosquitoes,
sand-flies,
cockroaches, ants, &c, ; but with all these it is
far better than being at home,"—Bury Times.