The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1562

TURIN AND SAVONA RAILWAY._
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That Scrip Certifi-
cates Avill be ready for delivery, in exchange for tue Bankers'
Receipts, on and after MONDAY, 31st inst., between the
hours of 12 and 2. The Banker's Receipts must be left at the
Office two clear days previous to the delivery of the Scrip.
By order of the Directors.
J. W. PILLANS, Secretary.
61, Gresham House, 18th March, 1862.

MR. CHAS. DICKENS' NEW READINGS.-
rO-111011ROW (THURSDAY) EVENING, March 20,
and THURSDAY, March 27, Mr. CHARLES DICKENS
will READ, in ST. ,JAMES'S HALL, Piccadilly, at Eight
precisely, DAVID COPPERPIELD (in six chapters), and
Mr. 808 SAWYER'S PARTY from PICKWICK. Sofa
Stalls, 4s. ; Body of Hall and Balcony, Two Shillings; Area,
One Shilling. Tickets at Messrs. Chapman and Hall's,
publishers, 193, Piccadilly ; and at Austin's Ticket-office,
St. James's Hall.
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THOMAS HEADLAND, Secretary.

MR. CHAS. DICKENS'NEW READINGS.-
All the Stalls for the Reading of To-morrow Ninht,
March W. are Sold. The same Reading (David Copperfield
and Mr. Bob Sawyer's Party from Pickwick) will be repeated
on T tiURSDAY, March 27. The Stall plan is Now Opened,
and Tickets may be had at Messrs. Chapman and Hall's,
publishers, 193, Piccadilly ; and Austin's Ticket Office, St.
James's Hall.

THOMAS 'HEADLAND, Secretary.

MRS. MACREADY, the Eminent American
Artiste, will give one of her ENTERTAINMENTS,
consisting of Dramatio and Poetical Selections, at WILLIS'S
ROOMS, onWEDNESDAY EVENING, March 26, commenc-
ing at 8 o'clock—Reserved seats, 55.: Unreserved, 3s. Re-
served seats, numbered, can be procured at Mitchell's Royal
Library, Bond-street ; Sams' Royal Library, St. James's
street ; Austin's Ticket Office, 28, Piccadilly ; and at Willis's
Rooms.

ARGYLL ROOMS.—Series of New Music,
Valses, Quadrilles, and Polkas, by the unrivalled Band
of 50 performers, under the sole direction of Mons. Bonn-
CORT, Conductor and Composer. This gentleman will play
every evening at 11 o'clock, until further notice, variations
arranged by himself on the Cornet-a-Piston.---The free-list
will be open for the profession by leaving their card at the
door. By order of the Proprietor.—Manager, Mons. P.
Grenet. Admission is.

DR. CULVERWELL'S LAST NEW WORK,
OURSELVES.
On Spermatorrheea, Syphilis, Stricture, Hemorrhoids,
Gleets, Nervous Debility, Palpitation, &c., &c.

MARRIAGE ;
Its Expectances and Disapp intments.
Impediments removed, and llealthy Offspring secured.
Price is., by post is. id. ; of Mann, 29, Cornhill ; or Author,
3, Great Marlborough-street, Oxford-street, W.
Consultations daily from 12 a.m. till 9 p.m.

CITY SBIVERS C011.4118510.N.

Yesterday a meeting of the members of this ass&
ciation was hold in the newly-erected court room at
the Guildhall. The chairman, Mr. Henry 1)e Jer.
sey, presided, and there was a large attendance of
the members of the Court.

The minutes of the last meeting having been
read by the assistant-clerk, Mr. -Henry Blake, and
passed as correct, several applications and matters
of minor importance were disposed of.
IMPROVEMENTS IN OLD BROAD-STREET.

A report was brought up from the improvement
committee stating that negotiations had been entered
into with the owner of the house, No. 10, Old
Broad-street, who had agreed to set back the front
of that house, as required by the Court, for the sum
of £795, and this amount they recommended should
be paid as soon as the house should have been re-
built and the ground laid into the street. The com-
mittee laid before the Court a deed for execution,
by which Capt. Reid agreed to set back the adjoin-
ing houses, Nos. 8 and 9, to the same line without
any cost to the public. _ _

The report having been agreed to, the deed was
at once executed.

THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY.
A report was brought up from the same com-
mittee, stating that the Remembrancer had reported
to them that the bill of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway contained provisions which would
affect the city of London. They therefore requested
the Court to empower them to examine the bill,
and report thereon to the Court.
Agreed to.
A report was brought up from the General Pur-
poses Committee, :recommending that the applica-
tion made by Mr. George Walter, to have Little
New-street and New-street-square watered during
the ensuing season, should be complied with.
The report was agreed to.
The principal clerk (Mr. Joseph Daw) read a let-
ter from Mr. Pollard, the clerk to the Metropolitan
Board of Works, informing the Court that the Board
had agreed to contribute one-third of the cost of a
proposed improvement in Throgmorton-street, by
setting back the house No. 39 in that street, such
contribution not to exceed £305 6s. Bd.
SANATORY CONDITION OF THE CITY.
Dr. LETIIEBY, the medical officer of health, re-
ported on the state of 307 houses that had been in-
spected during the last two weeks, and he submitted
a list of 104 places for sanatory improvement. He
likewise submitted certificates of the using of Nos.
21 and 22, Union-court, Holborn ; Nos. 27, 28, and
29, Castle-street ; and No. 1, Norwich-court, as
common nightly lodging-houses—all of which re-
quired registration.
The following are extracts from his report re-
specting the sale of diseased meat in the City
markets :

" In the course of the last fortnight the officers
have seized 4,763 lbs. of meat, and 111 head
of poultry and wild fowl, as unfit for human
food. It consisted of 59 sheep, 3 calves, 14
pigs, 27 quarters of beef, and 45 joints of meat ;
3,269 lbs. of meat were diseased, 182 lbs. putrid,
and 1,312 lbs. were from animals that had died
from natural causes. Some of this meat was little
better than carrion, and having been condemned
by the justice he submitted that the City solicitor
should be instructed to take further proceedings.
The practice of sending diseased meat to the City
markets is again on the increase, and it was to be
regretted that in a few cases the salesmen do not
give that assistance to the officers which they ought.
On Saturday last one of the inspectors seized the
carcase of a sheep which had been slaughtered while
in a state of acute disease, and had been sold as hu-
man food by Messrs. Bonser and Sons, of Newgate-
market. Those gentlemen complained in a public 1
manner of the act of the inspector, and had stated
that although the animal was diseased, and the meat
was not of first quality, it was, nevertheless, fit for
human food. The terms and directions of the act
of Parliament are so precise, and the responsibili-
ties of the inspector's duties so serious, that he
has no alternative but to seize such meat. By
the 26th clause of the City of London Sewers
Act, 1851, it is declared that if, after
the seizure of such meat by an inspec-
tor, and upon further examination by him (the
medical officer) it is found and declared to be
diseased, or unsound, or unwholesome, or not fit for
the food of man, the same shall be immediately
burned or destroyed, or otherwise disposed of in
such way as to prevent the same from being ex-
posed for sale, or being used for the food of man.
In the present case, the meat was not only diseased,
but the animal had been killed while in a state of
high fever from acute inflammation of the lungs
and pleura, and was manifestly unfit for human
food. This conclusion was derived, not merely from
the fact that there were pleuralic adhesions be-
tween the lungs and chest, for these alone are of
small importance, and are never regarded as serious
signs when they are of old standing. It is rare,
indeed, to fiud an animal entirely free from them,
although its flesh may be in the soundest condition.
They are, in fact, the signs of disease which have
passed:away. In the present case, however, the whole
of the walls of the chest were covered with recently
effused lymph,whichwas hanging upon them in pulpy
threads. The pleura was in a state of active in-
flammation, and the animal, at the time of its death,
was suffering from acute pleura.pueumonia. The
whole system, therefore, must have participated in
the disease, and have been affected with the con-
comitant fever. The meat of such an animal, how-
ever good it may appear, cannot be good for human
food, and the inspector would be wanting in his duty
if he were to fail to seize it. It may be that the dis-
ease had lasted but for a short time, and that the act
of the butcher had anticipated the wasting effects of
the malady and the final processof nature ; but none
of these circumstances render the flesh wholesome,
or make it other than the act of Parliament de-
signates—" diseased and unsound." Unfortunately,
it is a common practice with farmers and cowkeepers
at the present time to slaughter animals afflicted
with a hopeless disease, in order that their carcasses
may be saved for the shambles. There is hardly a
cowhouse in the metropolis which is not contin-
ually furnishing diseased animals to the butcher.
Very recently these houses have been inspected by
Mr. Gamgee, the principal of the Veterinary Col-
lege, in Edinburgh, and he has stated publicly, .
the last number of the Edinburgh Peter:nary Re-
view, and elsewhere, that the diseased cows of the
London cowhouses are invariably sent to the City
slaughter-houses to be killed for food. One cow-
keeper of the City told him that, in July last, out
of an average stock of 30 cows, he sent upwards of
a score to the butcher. Considering how prevalent
disease has been for the last two or three years
among the eows of London, it is very probable that
thousands of animals have in this way been dis-
posed of. The practice is not without danger, for
although it may generally pass unnoticed, it now
and then shows itself in an unmistakable manner. In
the month of November, 1860, the effects were wit-
nessed by the medical officer on rather a large scale.
A quantity of cow beef was brought into Newgate-
market by a sausage-maker at Kingaland, and
made up into sausages in the usual way. The
meat was not of first quality, for the
i sausage-
maker observed, such meat never is, but s always
quite second-rate. It was part of a cow that had
been sent to the butcher from a London cow house.

Epizootic diseases ;;rePiWalent at that time in
the cow houses of London, and it is very probable
that the animal was affected with one of them. It
was a lean cow, and had ceased to give milk. This
was all the dealer would eonfess, but the flesh of
the animal told a terrible story. Of 66 persons
who partook of the sausages made from it, 64 were
attacked with the symptoms of poisoning, and the
severity of the symptoms w ere in direct proportions
to the quantity eaten. In several cases where mem-
bers of a family had not partaken of them, they
alone escaped, and people far away from Kingsland,
who had bought the sausages of a second dealer,
suffered likewise. The effects were those of an ani-
mal poison, they were sickness, purging, giddiness,
great prostration of the vital powers, intense irrita-
tion of the bowels, and in one case death. The matter
was referred to the medical officer by the coroner for
investigation, and it was fatly inquired into by Dr.
Tripe, the medical officer of health for the district
where the accident occurred. Both were of opinion
that the effects were clearly due to the sausages ;
and as the most careful chemical and microscopical
examinations did not discover a trace of mineral or
vegetable poison, the conclusion was that the meat
of the sausages was unsound. With such a fact,
and many others of a like description, before him,
he should be wanting in his duty if he
the sale of diseased meat, He added that it was not
an uncommon practice for butchers to permitted
drag for the