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

---- CITY CUT in, _OF SEWERS.

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Yt sfer.lol this Court, performs all the: pub-
jie factions t-f Boast, .of Works in the city of
L vkz s formally re, f:on,qituted under a new'
e
tne _Lord Mas 'or presiding at the cere-
monyaim lection of Deputy De Jersey as
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Ind
tnerously signed was
cra untiln.t A ii e m
pre-
sented fromowners, iesoees,, and occupiers of property
.
ibnillFvinhsbicuhryh-cais bt
rcuse,n ettroduced into Parliamentp xilying the Court to oppose a
au' horisirg the Great Cestern Raili,vay Company
to make a station in the Circus, !irk to take with
aujacent property, in-
cludingthtit view
the Le o whole
Inosftitthuetio ns Tht y stated that
the Cifens, with its garden, cm, gas it does a
t h
n
large ant: open area in the eat Item p ortion of the
metropolis,
1.,4 an ornament to the city, k ' most desir-
able place of rt.
idence, and a hee.lthy spk -It for exer-
and infirm people of the' district.
cise for the young
in addition to the at 'ea and
They stated also that,
2se for
houses in Finsbury-circu,-,, it is proposed to ta
the purposes of the ter Min" the entire property ad-
joining on all sides, c0:m.13'6611g the south side; of
South-place and Eldon-sti 'eet, the west side of Blom-
field-street, the north side o.f London-wall, and the
east side of Finsbury-paveme.trt)• in addition to the
London Institution, which has an' Lnaportant library,
second only to that of the Britist Museum ; and
most of the houses condemned are rk -sidences of a
superior character, occupied by incuusaoents of the
adjoining parishes, physicians, surgeons,, and other
professional persons, and by merchants. Th..' memo-
rialists pleaded the vital importance to the coitimu-
nity of every open space and garden in an otherwise
overcrowded neighbourhood. It is proposed, they
state, by the bill in question to construct fivesepa.rate
branch railways, and to shut up and appropriate 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 outface, 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 Smee, was unanimously referred to the
Improvement Committee for consideration and re-
port. On the recommondation of the General Pur-
poses Committee leave was granted to Mr. Otto des
Granges to lay down tho 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
testa-1 in less than three Sears, it will be
left at the end of that period fbr the commissioners
to decide whether it should be retained and paid
for at a fixed price, or be removeel by the patentee,
power, however, being reserved to the commission-
er s to remove the pavement at any time it 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, a.-td he sub-
mitted a list of 56 places for sanitary impr.
ivement.
He likewise reported that the markets and slaughter-
houses of the city had been duly inspected, and that
the officers bad condemned 6,021,b. of meat and 180
head of poultry as unfit tor human food. 3,85611.
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 wile
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 L 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:
—Phthisis, 4 ; mesenteric diseases, 4 ; hydrocepha•
lus and convulsions, 4; continued fever, 2; scarlet
feve-, 1; small-pox, 1 ; and whooping-cough, 2.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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LEEDS-TUESDAY.

Wheat at prices nominally the same as on Friday. Fine
barley at fully late prices; common qualities very slow of
sale. Oats, beans, and other articles sold in retail at late
rates.