The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-01 00:00:00

CITY COMMISSION OF SETVERS.

Yesterday, at a meeting of the Commissioners of
SewerF, held at Guildhall, Mr. De Jersey in the
chair, a rate of 3d. in the pound was made and
ordered to be collected forthwith upon all rateable
property within the City, to meet a demand of
£16,499 odd made by the Metropolitan Board of
Works, being the estimated quota of the Citytowards
the main drainage works for the year ending the
Ist of August, 1862, and payable on the 25th March
next.

Mr. DeputyThuutisoN, one of the Commissioners,
and a representative of the corporation of the Board
of Works, stated incidentally that during the last
year the rateable value of the property in the City
of London had increased by.E20,000, a circumstance
which tended to lessen the rate, adding jocosely,
that he hoped the prosperity of every citizen had
increased in proportion.
Mr. Arthur S. Denny applied for and obtained
leave to exhibit before the commission an invention
for " dressing a scarfying" street pavements, the
object being to counteract the slippery smoothness
of the footways produced by constant friction.
On the recommendation of a committee, Mr. Se-
condary Potter was nominated to transact the leggy
business of the commission until they shall have
appointed a solicitor in the room of the late Mr.
Charles Pearson.

An incidental conversation took place as to
whether the next solicitor to the commission should
b 3 paid by fees or by salary.

At a recent meeting of the Common Council it
was referred to a committee to consider the duties
anti emoluments of the City Solicitor, and whether
it was desirable to amalgamate the office with any
existing one in the corporation. Yesterday it was
suggested Oat the commission should wait for the;
report of that committee before they appointed a
solicitor to the commission, inasmuch as it would
save them the trouble of making a similar inquiry
for themselves. That was opposed by Mr. Deputy
Elliott, who said the appointment of the late City
Solicitor as such to be the solicitor to the commis •
sion was a mere accident, and not a desirable one
in itself. He contended that the commission ought
to appoint a solicitor of their own wholly regardless
of who might be the future City Solicitor.

The conversation led to no practical result,
Touching the sanitary condition of the City, Dr.
Letheby, the medical officer of health, reported on
the state of 190 houses that had been inspected
during the week, and he submitted a list of 149
places for sanitary improvement. He likewise sub-
mitted a list of 57 places which required further
proceedings on account of orders alit% 'tidy issued but
not yet complied with. He also
repo eted that the
markets and slaughter-houses had been duly in-
spected, and the officers had seized 960 lbs. of .meat,
601bs. of sausages, and 175 head of game and poul-
try, as unfit for human food. All of it had been
destroyed in the usual manner. The mortality n nm-
ber for the week are a little below the average. The
returns of death was 45, and the births 48. Exactly
one-third of the deaths were among children of less
than five years of age, and ten were among per-
sons of a
of 60 and upwards. The chief c3uses of death
follows :—Phthisis, 9; pneumonia, 2 ;
bronchitis, 3 ; continued fever, 2; scarlet fever, 4
measles, 2 ; and infantile diarrhce3, 3.- Most of
the deaths were from diseases of a chronic charac-
ter. Yesterday the commissioners fined Air. Baker
and Mr. Boakes, two of the contractors, £.5 and £1
respectively, for proved neglect of scavenging duty.

GREAT INTERNATIONAL FRUIT SHOW. The
Commissioners of Customs have had under consideration
an application of the Royal Horticultural Society, stating
the .+. a Great International Fruit Show will be held at South
Keneinjton on the Bth of October next, and requesting
that p;ckages of fruit arriving from the colonies and from
foreign coontries for the exhibition may be passed without
being opened
r disturbed. The board allow all such pack--
C.
ages addressed to the horticultural Society to be forwarded
without examination under seals of office to the society's
premises, at Kensington, to the "care of the officers or
customs in charge of the international ExhiNition," subject
to the same regulatio.ns as ware observed in Wgard to gooda.
for the International Exhibition.
THE LORD CII.V.SeELLoit's LAND TRANSFER ACT.
—The Land Transfer Act, which the Lord Chanoelloorosz
ceeded in passing through Parliament last sessfio
--Iva cm--
into operation to-day (October I). The objet ttoo he Act,
as stated in the preamble, is threefold :ta—tel:t.,
2d, b.
to facili-
tainty or security to the title to real
fate:;
render the dealing
tate the proof of such title;
with land more simple and.
operation to-day it is not ex-
..
.14nd gistry-oft3ce will be opened
tnnoeeapnectitsive than it is at present.
Although the Act comes ini
petted until the end of the present month, in,
doiays which have taken place in the
for tpeodbtlihoabtotshierioNsae
the
eetween the different public offices and
corn
the numerous intricate dotaile which heee,ssarily have to
cons.ctuTincactoils
arroged•

RAILWAY INIELLIGENCE.

ANDOVER AND REDBRIDGE.

The half-yearly meeting was held yesterday at
Southampton. Mr. G. Hunt, the deputy-chairman,
presided.

The report stated that important negotiations,
of the shareholders' interests, were pending,
but they were not at present in a position to sub-
mit the particulars_ A special meeting would be
called to consider the same as soon as a definite pro-
posal could be made, and to decide on the future
policy of the company. The engineer, Mr. J. Col-
lister, reported that immediately after the works
Were let to Mr. Brotherhood, in March last, he
'brought a quantity of plant on the line, and con-
tinued the works in a very satisfactory manner
until the beginning of July, when he stopped with-
out giving any notice, although he had paid up
beyond the amount stipulated by the contract.
Nothing had been done since that time, and the
brickwork in the bridges,which are partially con-
structed, is now suffering much by exposure to the
weather. •

The CILAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report,
hoping that the meeting would not require any ex-
planation pending the negotiations which were
going on, and asking their confidence in the direc-
tors a short time longer.
Mr. J. ELLIOTT seconded the motion, which was
carried nem. con.
A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors
concluded the proceedings.