The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-23 00:00:00

Court of Common Council.

HITS: a Collection of the Best Tales contri-
buted to "Tempi,' Bar." „Once a Week," " Cham-
bers's Journal," &c. By L o:vvri °UGH, M.A. With
Two Illustrations by W. bchwench Gilbert.

Derry 4to cloth, price 7s. 6d.,
THE PSYCHONOMY of the HAND ;
or, the Hand an In ex of Mental Development.
• London : F. Pitman, 20. Paternoster-row, E.C.

The BOOK of the DAY and EVERY ILAN'S BOOK.
Just published, prise ls. 6d , by post. free, is. Bd.,
REVELATION of QUACKS and QUACKERY.
By D ,•T ECTOR.
For notices of this stdrtldig work see the " Saturday Re-
view" of April I, entitle' "Quacks and Qus.ekery ;" the
"Weekly D.spatch" of April 9, "The Quacks and their
Crimes •" "The Sun" of April 12, " Detector's' Broadside
on QuaCks and Quackery."
GUIDE TO THE QUACKS OF LONDON.
A Series of Papers relative to Quacks, which appeared in
the " .medical Ci. culsr," with the signature of "Detector,"
has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet The
rea ter of "Punch" should read this pamphlet also. lie has
often read, in the pages of "Punch," of a rtain Quacks, frau-
dulent an l noisome, who obtain money by false pretences,
arid more money by menr‘e,es and extortion, from green
young min. For their names, which " Punch" would not
advertise, he hay referred his readers to the lower corner of
tee advertisin columns of low newspapers, amongst which
too many of ;qr.'. Punch's' • contempora, les, espe.riaily in the
country, may. still be enumerated But now he begs to pub-
lish the information that a nominal list or these ••Irereants.
with copies of their puffs anti other articulars coneer•iing
them, needfui to be rdiown, will be found in tee pamphi t
Above ref. rred to, which is entitled " Revelati ns of Quacks
an i Quackery." arid is to be had at the " 11.1edie31. Circular"
Office, 20, him, William-street, St, and, WA,.
The vile practices, the nurnstrou, impudence, the cruel
rapacity, sad the enormous g ins of he obscene tribe of
Qu.s. ks, the nistsahlet they do, the rum they w'rk, even to
the cauAatiou ot -uiAde, are sully set tor h In "ft. vela i,m4
of Quacks ait Qa kery." And mars espee ally th t. as
aforesaid. the names of the Quacks we pu.',lishe I. The
pamphlet is question thus contitu es a regui..r Quack Dl-
r.-story. Is,- eon ulting which every young man may know
where he may go if he wishes to get plundered and destroyed
Buy, therefore, reader, by all means buy " EvFlations of
Quacks and Quackery." Ita contents will astonish and am se
y ,11.14 Whi e they invoke your indignation and disg,ase 01
course you 'o not want it on account of its warnings for your
own sake, but you doubtless do for , hat of the many siuiple-
.ons with whom you must be. acquainted, it your acquaint-
ance is large. " Who arc the Quacks that Punch' means '?"
Consider what it is to he ab!c to answer t is question of the
young and inexperienced, and, for charity's sake, if for no
other, go and provide yourself with "Revelations of Quacks
and Quackery," by Dace:Dr.—Punch, April 12.

Yesterday a meeting of Common Council was held at
Guildhall, the Lord Mayor (lilderman Hale) presiding.

THE CALAMITOUS FIRE IN LEADENHAT.L-MARKET.
Mr. WEBBER, addressing the Lord Mayor, asked if there
was any public, officer in the city of London whose duty it
was to render assistance in the interests of relatives and
others in such calamities as that which had taken place in
the ward of Langbourne. The place, he said, at which the
fire occurred was left untouched for three days afterwards,

though it was known that two persons had perished, and
that their remains were buried in the ruins. He understood
that no steps were taken in the first instance for their re-
covery, because it was said the persons immediately late-
L °noon F. Pitman, 20, Paterno, ter-ro E. C. `rested in the matter were poor.

The LORD MAYOR should say it was the duty of the
district surveyor to interfere in such an emergency, and
to secure the public from danger by having any dangerous
structure propped up. It would also, he thought, come
within the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of Sewers.
Alderman WATERLOW, the alderman of the ward in which
it happened, said he had his attention called to the fire on
the Thursday morning, shortly after it occurred ; that he
communicated with the district surveyor, and that the sur-
veyor (who did not visit the scene until the Friday) said
he had only power to act where there were dangerous struc-:
tures, and none to search for the bodies, and. that if he at-
tempted to search for them he would be treated as a tres-
passer. He (Alderman Waterlow) had recourse next to
Mr. Haywood, the engineer to the Commissioners of Sewers,
who told him that he had no power to interfere, and that
nothing could be done. He then went to the Commissioners
of Sewers, while they were sitting on Tuesday last, and
they, too, said they had no power to act in the matter, upon
which he urged them—power or no power—to take on
themselves the responsibility for once of acting in the
emergency. They did so, and within an hour afterwards
a search was made, which resulted in one of the bodies
being found in the ruins.
Deputy FARRAR, a Commissioner of Sewers, explained
that the whole matter had been referred by them to a com-

mittee to inquire whether there was not some local civic
authority whose duty it was to search for sufferers or their
remains on such occasions. Whenever a question of salvage
arose at such times the insurance offices interested took care
to institute a search; but in this particular instance the

office concerned (there being a total loss and no salvage ex-
pected) declined to take any steps to recover the bodies, It
was•remarkable that what was known on Thursday meru-

ing to the whole city of London was not known to the dis-
trict surveyor (Mr. Young) until the Friday. He then took

immediate steps to shore up the dangerous walls, to prevent
injury to those who .were searching for the remains ; but
five days•elapsed from the time of the fire before one of the