The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-20 00:00:00

CITY COURT OF SEWERS.

Yesterday a Court was held, Deputy Peacock in the
chair.

Several applications were made of a personal cha-
racter, with reference to which order were made.
The reports of the several inspectors were read and

agreed to.

An application made by the labourers in the City
Stone-yard for an advance of wages of 6d. per day, in
addition to the 15s. per week now received by them,
was, after some discussion, rejected.
The principal Clerk stated to the commissioners that
he had received an official communication, to the effect
that in the course of a few days all interments in the
churchyard of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, would be, by
authority, discontinued.

1 With reference to an alleged nuisance, caused by cer-
tain refuse deposited from time to time in a dung pit be-
longing to Mr. Sherman, of the Bull and Mouth, in
Oxford Arms-passage, Newgate-market, it was ordered
that the same should be cleansed at least twice a week,
or discontinued altogether in the event of any neglect on
the part of the proprietor.
The CHAIRMAN called the attention of the Court to
the conduct of the Chartered Gas Company, who, it
appeared, had, in defiance of the surveyor's notice,
taken up (for the purpose of inspecting certain joints be-
longing to their mains in Bishopsgate-street) a consider-
able portion of the pavement newly laid at great cost by
the commissioners throughout the whole of that impor-
tant thoroughfare.
_ _

Ordered, -on the motion of Deputy HoLT, that the
parties be summoned to show cause why they had not
conformed to the terms of the surveyor's notice.
The medical officer's report and some other trivial
matters having been disposed of, the Court adjourned.

THE HEALTH OF HER MAJESTY.—The indisposition
under which her Majesty was suffering when the Court
left town on Saturday, is happily so far mitigated, that
her Majesty was sufficiently recovered to take an airing
with his Royal Highness Prince Albert and the Prince
of Wales in the grounds of Osborne on Monday.
THE ROYAL FAMILY.—Since the arrival at Windsor
of the Princesses Helena and Louisa, Prince Arthur,
and Prince Leopold, the four youngest children of the
Royal Family, who had not then had the measles, two
of them have been attacked with the infection, the
Princess Helena and Princess Louisa. The Princess
Helena is now convalescent, and the Princess Louisa,
who fell ill with the complaint on Sunday last, is going
through it favourably. There are now only the two
youngest of the Royal Family who have not had the
complaint. The Royal children are under the charge of
Lady Barrington and Miss Barrington.
THE LATE DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT DERBY.—The young
man (Mead), who dropped from the window, upwards
of 60 feet, at the late destructive fire at Mr. Davenport's
mill, died yesterday afternoon. Bennett is still lying in
a very precarious state ; and Thorpe, the man who escaped
by the ladder, is somewhat better.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The perfor-
mance of the Distin family, in conjunction with the ad-
mirable band of the establishment, is received with great
enthusiasm nightly, and now that St. Swithin seems to
have relaxed somewhat of his watery contributions, the
gardens are nightly crowded with company, irresistably
attracted by the liberal bill of fare provided, of which
the "Feast of Lanterns" is still the chief item, and the
execution of Arne's " Soldier tired of war's alarm" by
the elder Distin, and the beautiful singing of Miss Cicely
Nott may be reckoned as the side dishes. Although up
to the present period nothing can have been more un-
propitious than the weather generally, we trust the pro-
prietors of open air amusements will yet realise the old
saying that "a bad beginning makes a good ending."
THE LATE FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE UNDER THE
ADELPHI ARCHES.—Ye3terday, Mr. Bedford held an in-
quest in the hoard-room of Charing-cross Hospital, on
the body of James Piggott, aged 57, late an iron-turner
in the employ of Messrs. Pierce and Countz, coach-
builders, Long-acre, who died in that institution
through loss oehemorrhage, from a frightful wound he
had inflicted in his throat under the dark arches of the
Adelphi, a notice of which occurrence appeared in Fri-
day's newspapers. The evidence went to show that the
deceased, who resided with his son, a coach-smith, in
the same employ as himself, at 43, Clarendon-street,
Somers Town, had, since he [suffered from the typhus
fever many years ago, been occasionally afflicted with fits
of delirium, during which he had threatened his wife with
violence, and to destroy himself. On Thursday morning,
before leaving home for work at five o'clock, he com-
plained of his head being bad, and on reaching the shop,
where his manner seemed very strange, he only re-
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