The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-11 00:00:00

CITY COURT OF SEWERS.

Yes:erelay this Court, which performs all the pub-
lic functions of a Board of Works in the city of
London, was formally reconstituted under a new
commission, the Lord Mayor presiding at the cere-
mony until the re-election of Deputy De Jersey as
chairman. A memorial numerously signed was pre-
sented from owners, lessees, and occupiers of property
in Finsbury-circus, praying the Court to oppose a
bill which has been introduced into Parliament
authorising the Great Eastern Railway Company
to make a station in the Circus, and to take with
that view the whole of the adjacent property, in-
cluding the London Institution. They stated that
the Circus, with its garden, comprising as it does a
large and open area in the eastern portion of the
metropolis, is an ornament to the city, a most desir-
able place of residence, and a healthy spot for exer-
cise for the young and infirm people of the district.
They stated also that, in addition to the area and
houses in Finsbury-circus, it is proposed to take for
the purposes of the terminus the entire property ad-
joining on all sides, comprising the south side of
South-place and Eldon-street, the west side of Blom-
field-street, the north side of London-wall, and the
east side of Finsbury-pavement, in addition to the
London Institution, which has an important library,
second only to that of the British Museum ; and
most of the houses condemned are residences of a
superior character, occupied by incumbents of the
adjoining parishes, physicians, surgeons, and other
professional persons, and by merchants. The memo-
rialists pleaded the vital importance to the commu-
nity of every open space and garden in an otherwise
overcrowded neighbourhood. It is proposed, they
state, by the bill in question to construct five separate
branch railways, and to shut up and Lppropriate 13
courtyards and other places, all covered by small
houses, chiefly inhabited by the labouring classes.
They added that the level of the proposed railway
will be 19 feet above the surface of the ground, and
the level of the Metropolitan railway adjoining 19
feet below the slit face, so that the formation of the
station would he detrimental, if not fatal, to any
scheme for a continuous railway system throughout
London. The memorial, which was presented by
Mr. Alfred &nee, was unanimously referred to the
Improvement Committee for consideration and re-
port. On the recommendation of the General Pur-
poses Committee leave was granted to Mr. Otto des
Granges to lay down the cellular iron pavement of
which he is the patentee to the extent of about
300 yards, for purposes of trial, in a spot to
be selected by the surveyor to the commis-
sioners. As the pavement cannot be fairly
tested in less than three years, it will be
left at the end of that period for the commissioners
to decide whether it should be retained and paid
for at a fixed price, or be removed by the patentee,
power, however, being reserved to the commission-
ers to remove the pavement at any time if it be found
dangerous to the public, Touching the sanitary
condition of the city, Dr. Letheby, the medical officer
of health, reported on the state of 199 houses that
had been inspected during the week, and he sub-
mitted a list of 56 places for sanitary improvement.
He likewise reported that the markets and slaughter-
houses of the city had been duly inspected, and that
the officers had condemned 6,0211 b. of meat and 180
head of poultry as unfit for human food. 3,8561 b.
were diseased, 2,0141 b. were putrid, and the rest
was from animals that had died from accident or
disease. It consisted of 17 sheep, 9 pigs, 38 quar-
ters of beef, and 118 joints of meat. All of it was
sent to the boilers. On Thursday last John Nichol-
son Halfhead, a cowkeeper of Worship-street, was
summoned before the justices at Guildhall for send-
ing the carcass of a diseased cow to Newgate-market.
He was fined £5 and costs. 45 deaths and 67 births
have been registered in the city during the week.
The mortality returns are much below the average
(68) for the corresponding period of the last seven
years. This, together with the gradual falling off
in the weekly number of deaths during the last
month, indicates a satisfactory condition of the public
health. The chief causes of death were as follow:
e"'4verh,Yd27SeeParhltie;
lus and convulsions,
—Phthisis, 4 ; mesen4treiconatiai.neuesd fever,
feve-, 1 ; small-pox, ; and whooping. cough, 2.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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LEEDS-TUESDAY.

Wheat at prices nominally the same as on Friday. F'
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barley at fully late prices; common qualities very slog "fro
sale. Oats, beans, and other articles sold in retail at to"
rates.

MARKET HARBOROUGH—TUESDAY.
White wheat, 4 s to 52s ; red, 44s to 488 per 36 stone•
Barley at 34s to 38s per qr., grinding 20s to 32s per 30 Bt.
Oats, 26s to 235; new, 208 to 25s per 24 st. ; beans, 383 to
43s per qr.

SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY.
Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...2os Od to 21s Od
White
,22s Od to 24s 6d

New red

e ..,16s Od to 18s Oa

, )
,) • • •
New white „
Beans )) ff ......12605s 6d°d totl9s 6
to
21s
61
Peas, per qr
Grincline, barley, per qr 2Bs Od to 32s oil
Malting ditto, „ 34s Od to 40$ 0a
,
Oats 11 22s Od to 30s 0"
Flour, is 9d to 2s 2d per stone.

LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY.
At our market to-day there was a fair attendance of the
town and country trade; very little business was done in
wheat, but prices wore unaltered. Flour very dull, at fer-
nier rates. Indian corn in moderate demand, and freely
offered.

MELTON MOWBRAY—TUESDAY.
The following were the currencies :—New white wheat,. I
52s Od to 568 Od ; new_ red, 478 Od to 53s per 36 stone .
beans, 45s for old ; new sorts, 38s to 41s per 38 Bt.
barley, 368 to 388 for malting, and 30s to 32s per qr. for
grinding; oats, 22s to 30s Od per 24 stone.

DUBLIN—TUESDAY.
e. d. s. d.
Wheat, white 26 0 to 28 6
Do., red,., 23 0 to 26 0
Do., new — 0 to 0
Barley
Oats
Do., black lO oto 12 0

8. d. 8. d.
Beans.. ..... 24 0 to 27 0
Bere
Rapeseed
Oatmeal l3 6 to 15 0
Bakers' flour
Indian corn

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ...... Feb. 18.
via Marseilles ......... Feb. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Mar. 6.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena. Mar. 3
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Feb. 18.
via Marseilles ...Feb. 1::.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Feb. 1.
-- via Marseilles Feb. 1-.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Feb. 19,
via Marseilles Feb. 20'
Portugal.... Mar. 6.
Malta, Egypt, and Men, via Southamptor Feb. 10.
via Marseilles Feb. 19,'
Newfoundland ..Feb. 18'
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. Amorie a, by Brit. packet.... Feb. 12,

. ........._.
,by U.S. packet.," 3,
by Canadian packet. Feb. 1
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife Feb. I,`„
"
Bahamas, via New York Feb. Iba
Mexico Feb :4`"
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 Feb, 13.
California, and British Columbia..