The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Woolama, OCT. 4.—Commander—Henry Need
1/41848), to command the Linnet gun brig, commis-
sioned this day at Devonport.
Mate—Graham J. Eden (1850), to the Rodney, at
Devonpor t.
The Terrible steam-frigate, Captain James Hope,
, is to be paid off at this port on Saturday next.
She is at present in the river, having her paddle floats
and the outer rim of the paddle wheels taken off, pre-
vious to her being taken into the basin to have a
thorough refit before she again proceeds to sea.
The Blazer steam-vessel was taken down the river
on Friday last from Deptford to Woolwich, and the
Monkey steam-vessel left Woolwich this afternoon
with the Blaz,.er in tow for Sheerness, where the
Blazer will be taken in charge of by Mr. Allen, master-
attendant at that port, and he will proceed with the
Cyclops steam-frigate and her to the Clyde, as the
Blazer is to receive on board the machinery of the
engines of TBO-horse power, made by Napier for the
Duke of Wellington, 140, screw steam.ahip, late the
Windsor Castle. The Cyclops and Blazer will bring
the engines in pieces, and they will be put on board
the Duke of Wellington at "Portsmouth,

RNUISANCES.
ThefEiilV
following circular OFular has
bee nissued by the Poor-
law Board :
" Sir,—The Poor-law Board are desirous of direct-
ing the attention of the guardians to the provisions
contained in the statutes for the removal of nuisances
and the prevention of disease (11th and 12th Victoria,
sai
iaat r i i c
chap. 123, and 12th and 13th Victoria, chap. 111), so
far as they relate to the powers And duties of the
guardians and their officers.
seof
Asiatic
.11n in cholerathis
The recurrence of the
disease
la to o require a rea-
sonable
n the part of all
in an epidemic form in some parts of the continent,
though not sufficient to cause immediate
acnonuanbtlrey,aims neverthelessnuntnfnarean
calculated
vigilancealcu
those public functionaries to whom the law has en-
trusted authority with reference to sanitary measures
for the prevention of disease.
" The guardians will remember the duties which
have been imposed upon them by the former statute
in respect to complaints made to them of nuisances
upon private premises. Under this statute they can
only act when complaints are made to them by indi-
vidual householders, and have no power to commence
any proceedings. By the latter Act (12th and 13th
Victoria, chap. 111), the guardians are enabled to
take measures for the removal of nuisances in private
houses or premises upon a certificate of their existence
from their medical or relieving officer.
" It therefore appears to the board to be advisable
that the guardians should communicate to those offi-
cers their desire that they should direct their imme-
diate attention to this subject, so that, when in the
discharge of the duties of their respective offices, they
perceive that any nuisance exist, of the class and de-
scription to which these statutes relate, these officers
may certify the same to the guardians.
" The beard, however, consider it most important
that the attention of these' officers should not be di-
verted from the full discharge of their ordinary du-
ties, and they request
eset
them distincty that
may be so conducted heine gvuesatridgiaatninsnstoaenxdprreespsortfos
unnecessary ianr ntorourebslpeecatnd todeilnatye:ftehree
with those duties.
~ To prevent
guardians may, in some districts, find it conveeient
to supply their officers with blank forms of certifi-
cates, to be filled ap where they find that nuisances
exist, and to instruct them to leave copies with the
occupiers of the premises, so that the latter may re-
move i the nuisances without the necessity of legal
proceedings.