The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-22 00:00:00

THE SU'N, LONDON, SATUrRnAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1858.

SIIABE MARKETS.-(TIII3 DAY.

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING._(THIS DAY.

LONDON, Oct. 21. Wind this day at Noon, S.W., fine,
RAMSGATE, Oct. 21.—Wind, S.W., strong breezo. Ar•
rived—Tridente, Bremen, for Havannah, damaged. Put
Back—Haviland, for Carthagena, leaky.
DEAL, Oct. 21.—Wind, S.W. by W., blowing strong,
Arrived—Tyro, Smyrna ; Black River Packet, for Sydney.

FOLKESTONE, Oct. 21.—Part of a vessel's stern or
quarter board, with " lii‘Larin" on it, in large letters, has
washed ashore at Hytho.
PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 21.—Wind, W. S.W. Sailed—James,
Melbourne.—The Emily, from London to Syra, reports
having seen yesterday, about seven miles S.W. of St.
Katharine's Light, what appeared to be part of the deck
of a large veesel, with two iron knees attached; and the
Ada, from Shields to Port Philip, reports having seen, be-
tween this and Beechy Head, yesterday, several rough
spars, cabin doors, and bulkheads, painted light green.
HARLEPOOL, Oct. 21. Wind, blowing a gak.
Sailed— Ellen, Porto Grande.

HULL, Oct. 21.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Washing-
ton, Richibucto. Sailed—Amherst, Melbourne.
GRIMSBY, Oct. 21.- -Arrived—ldes, Shields, for Lowes-
toft, very leaky-
SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 21. Sailed Wanatah, Port
Philip.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 21.—The David Harrison, hence for
Bahia, has been towed back from Holyhead.
PADSTOW, Oct. 20.—The smack Caroline, of New Quay,
struck on the Villaes, three miles off this port, and after-
wards sunk at her anchors.

FISRGUARD, OcL. 21.—The William and Mary, from
Liverpool, for Bristol, drove ashore on the Codwick Sand,
where she sunk ; a great part of her cargo washed out, her
hatches having come off.
BRISTOL, Oct. 21.—Arrived—A schooner, from New-
foundland.

COWES, Oct. 21.—Arrived—Courier, Matanzas; Agnes
Smith, London for Naples, with foremast sprung.
DARTMOUTH, Oct. 11.—Put Back--Victoria, from Glou-
cester, leaky; pumps choked with cargo—wheat.
TORBAY, Oct. 21.—1 t is blowing a gale from S.S.W. to
S.W.

LOWESTOFT, Oct. 20.—schooner, supposed foreign, is
reported to have been lost on the Baneard Sand yesterday.
GUERNSEY, Oct. 20.—The Champion, from Mevagisocy,
to Jersey, drifted from the road-stead yesterday, and
stranded on the Flatney Esplanade, where she became a
total wreck; crew saved.
LLANELLY, Oct. 20.—The Providence, from Hayti, for
Neath, has been abandoned off Milford, in a sinking state.
LEITH, Oct. 20.—The Wilmington, of Hull, was wrecked
on the 16th of September, in Exeter Bay, Davies' Straits ;
five of the crew arrived here this morning.
LYDD, Oct. 21.—The Chapman, of and for Plymouth,
from Sierra Leone, was lost on the 14th of October, 480
miles S.W. of Scilly; crew saved.
PENZANCE, Oct. 19.—Wind, N.N.E, blowing hard, and
squally. Arrived —Eleonore, Falmouth for Antwerp, with
loss of foretopmast, ma.intopgallantmast, and sails, with
other damage, having been on her beam ends in the night,
in a hurricane, from S.E. and E.S.E.—The Olivia (fishing
lugger), in running for her moorings during the gale last
night, went on shore a mile to the westward of this place,
and is a complete wreck; crew saved.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Saturday, 10 a.m.
Wind, S.W., fresh breeze, and kne.
Arrived—Rosa, from Santander.
_ I WATERFORD, Oct. 20.

Wind, S.W.
Sailed—Ann Jenny, for Now York ; Gazelle, for Mel-
bourne.

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CIISTOM-HOUSEORETURN.

Arrived—Fifeshire, from Archangel ; Sophie, Aarhuus.
Sailed—Caledonia (s), for Hamburgh ; Triton (s), for
Calais ; Belgium (s), for Ostend ; Perseverance, for Leer ;
Wanderings Manden, for Christiania.
Tide, 10 a.m., low water; weather, fine.
DEAL, Saturday, 9.23 a.m.
Wind, S.W., fresh, thick rain.
Passed—Caroline, from Taganrog for London.

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT GARDEN.

The supplies of both fruit and vegetables on sale to-clay
were extensive, yet the demand ruled steady, at last week's
currency.

FRIIIT.—Pine apples, English, 3s Od to 6s Od men; ditto
colonial, is to is 3d each ; Orleans plums, is to 2s ; green
gages, is Od to 2s Od per punnet ; hot-house grapes,
is Od to is 6d; foreign ditto, 8d to is per lb; apples,
3s to 6s per bush.; pears, 2s to 4s per half sieve ; lemons,
is Od to 2s Od ; oranges, 2s to 3s per doz. ; almonds,
5s per peck ; Barcelona nuts, 20s per bush.; cob-nuts, 50s to
60s per 1001bs. ; chesnuts, 8s to 20s per bushel ; filberts,
65s to 86s per 100 lbs ; walnuts, 8d to ls 6d per 100 ;
peaches, is to 5s ; nectarines, 2s to 7s ; apricots, is to
3s per dozen ; figs, 1s to 2s per dozen ; damsons, s6d to
3s 6d per half sieve • melons, is to 3s Od each.
VEGETABLES.—Cabbages, Gd to Os 9d ; Brussels sprouts,
is 6d to 2s Od per half sieve ; brocoli, 2s to 4s ; greens.
2s Od to 3s Od per dozen bunches; broad beans, Os Od
to Os Od per half sieve ; French beans, is 6d to 2s 6d per
half sieve ; sea-kail Os Od to Os Od ; red cabbages, 2s to
4s Od per dozen ; potatoes, 1308 to 185 s per ton ;
turnips, 2s Od to 2s Gd ; carrots, 4s Od to Gs Od per dozen
bunches ; cucumbers, Os 2d to Os 6d each ; celery, 9d to
is 6,1 per bundle ; spinach, is Od to 2s Od per sieve ;
onions, Gs Od to 108 Od per bushel ; Spanish ditto, is to 3s
per doz. ; leeks, 3d to 4d per bunch ; shallots, Gd to Bcl ;
garlic, Gil to 8d per lb ; endive, 2s 2d to 3s Od per score ;
small salad, 2d to 3d perpunnet; horse-raddish, is Od to 3s Od
per bundle ; mushrooms, 6s Od to 8s Od per bushel; parsley,
2s Od to 4s Od per dozen bunches ; turnip greens, is 3d
to is Gd per bushel ; beet, is Od to is 6d per dozen ; cos
lettuces, Od to is per score ; radishes, is Od to 3s Od per doz.
hands ; tomatoes, 6s Od to 8s Od per dozen ; mint, 3d to
5d per bunch ; artichokes, 3s to 6s per dozen ; sorrel, 6d
to is per half sieve.

THE DRAINAGE OF LONDON.

(Front the Times.)

On Thursday last, as appeared by our impression
of yesterday, the Metropolitan Commissioners of
Sewers held a special court for the purpose of re-
ceiving what the Chairman correctly described as
some "interesting and important" reports relating
to the drainage of London. This business was
transacted in proper official form—that is to say,
the reports in question were read, " received, '
" adopted," and ordered to be printed and put into
circulation forthwith. We apprehend, however,
that the publicity thus desired will be of no great
effect without some more popular exposition of the
matter actually in hand, and we perform our duty,
therefore, by putting into plainer language what
has been now announced of the views and pros-
rests of the Court.
It will net be forgotten in what position the
Commissioners were left by recent proceedings.
They possessed an ordinary income of some
200,0001. a-year, of which 50,0001. was absorbed
in current ordinary expenses, leaving 150,000/.,
or thereabouts, available for " extraordinary
works." The works thus characterised included
the construction and reconstruction of sewers
wherever they were required, and the obligations
under this head represented, it was said, at pre-
sent an amount of not less than 200,0001. a-year
more ; so that upon the whole the Commissioners,
if they performed the whole of their duties, would
have found themselves with an annual deficit of
50,0001. Besides these obligations, however, there
was another and a heavier one. The whole system
of London sewerage was so unscientific, imperfect,
and unserviceable that an entirely new scheme was
required upon new principles, and with a compre-
hensive character, before the metropolis could be
well drained at all. Not only was it indispensable
to relieve the Thames, as well as other localities,
from pollution, and to find some fitter main sewer
for this huge city than an open tidal river flowing
through its centre, but it was at length plainly
confessed by the Commissioners
themselves, that
even district drainage could never be thoroughly
accomplished without the provision of a better out-
fall, under an improved system. This is what was
termed the "Great Drainage Scheme." After certain
proceedings, to which we need make no present allu-
sion, the second Commission of Sewers approved, in
the year 1850, of a plan proposed by Mr. Frank For-
sterfordraining afreshthe north and the south side of
the Thames, at costs respectively of 1,200,000/.
and 250,000/. ; but the funds for this undertaking
were not forthcoming, and this Commission soon
after broke up. There next appeared on the stage
a private company, which offered to provide the re-
quired substitutes for the bed of the Thames, by
constructing two intercepting tunnel sewers at an
outlay, if we remember rightly, of some 650,000/.
for the north, and 350,0001. for the south side of
the river. The conditions they demanded for the
execution of this enterprise included a fee simple in
sewage abstracted, and a guaranteed interest of 3
per cent., by means of rates, on the expenditure
incurred. The bill for this purpose, however,
having been successfully opposed by the Metropo-
litan Commissioners, was lost in the last session.
This opposition seems naturally to have quickened
the responsibilities of the Commissioners them-
selves, and they now appear, accordingly, with a
scheme of their own in place of that to which they
objected.
As far as we can extract any definite statement
from the successive recitals of official reports, it
seems that the Commissioners contemplate the im-
mediate commencement of certain works in con-
nexion with the Great Drainage Scheme on each
side of the river, and we presume these works will
be in substantial accordance with the plans pre-
pared by Mr. Frank Forster, and approved by the
second Commission some three years ago. The
operations on the north side, we are told, " will
divert the whole of the sewage and flood-waters
of 14 square miles of the upper districts from the
river Thames ;" will relieve the Fleet sewer, and,
though still incomplete, will change the whole
character of this portion of the London drainage.
Those on the south side, if we correctly apprehend
the report, aro intended "to produce the same
, effect that would be produced by raising the
land on the south side of the metropolis 20
feet." Without, however, entering more minutely
at present into the specifications before us, we
conclude that it is proposed to put in hand im-
mediately certain portions of the great drainage
scheme on each side of the river, and to carry
these out, as far as may be found practicable, on ,1
the true principles of metropolitan sewerage. With '
such a resolution nobody can quarrel ; but there
are several points on which more distinct informa-
tion is exceedingly desirable. Official forms, un-
fortunately, do not always convey much popular
knowledge, and the public is still left in uncertainty
respecting many details of considerable interest.
We observe in the documents published that the
"estimated cost of the whole (northern) work " is
271,2901., a sum which Sir W. Cubitt wisely re-
marks may as well be called 300,000/. at once. We
also observe that in the report relating to the
" south side of the Thames," a certain " high level
sewer " is set at 258,000/., and a "low level
ditto," ' with its appurtenances, at 379,0001.,
making together an amount of 637,000/. We
should be glad to learn more intelligibly to what
these sums refer. Is it proposed to make an
expenditure of 637,0001. on the south side
of the Thames, and 300,000/. on the north ?
If so, this appears to be a reversal of former
estimates, whisk all made the northern works
materially more expensive than the south-
ern. Perhaps this practical raising of the whole
southern side which is now projected involves an
outlay not contemplated on previous occasions.
Again, if we add the 637,0001. to the 300,000/.,
this gives nearly a million, which is upwards of
two-thirds of the total demanded under Mr. Frank
Forster's plan for the complete performance of the
entire drainage scheme. Will two-thirds of it be
completed by the present works ? What is the real
aggregate of the outlay at present proposed, and
what proportion of the whole scheme is this ex-
pected to accomplish ? Mr. Robert Stephenson,
we observe, says of the northern undertaking,
" the work proposed by your engineer, and sanc-
tioned by Sir W. Cubitt is undoubtedly a step in
the right direction, but its effect will scarcely be
felt if not followed up by similar designs of much
greater magnitude, both on the north and south
sides of the Thames." Now, this description does
not exactly coincide with the anticipations put on
record by the Commissioners, and we should like
to get some better approximation to actual facts.
Besides all this, there is a further point of very
considerable importance. How are the funds to be
provided ? The Commissioners, it is true, ob-
tained from Parliament the other day additional
powers for raising money to the extent of 200,0001.,
but this would not go very far, especially with an
established deficit of 50,000/. to start with. Taken
in conjunction with the whole available funds of
the Commission, it would amount certainly to some
350,000/., but then what becomes of the extra-
ordinary works—works of " urgency," which were
described as pressing on the Commissioners to the
extent of 200,000/. a year, irrespectively altogether
of the main drainage scheme ? To put the case in
half-a-dozen words, if the Commission requires
250,000/. a year for its regular
duties, and pos-
sesses but 200,000 i. to performthese withal, how can
an addition of 200,000/. for a single year enable it,
over and above its current liabilities, to undertake
works involving a further expenditure of a million ?
These are points on which we look for some infor-
mation. In the meanwhile we fully concur with
Mr. Robert Stephenson in thinking that " the
amount absolutely required for rendering the
sewerage of the Metropolis what it should be,"
ought to be laid before Parliament and the country
without hesitation or delay. When these estimates
have been properly tested we shall discern the real
extent of our obligations, and either get our city
well drained at last, or know the reason why.

IFIRE AT SHAD THAMES.—The loss by the late fire has
proved more serious than was anticipated. The three
highest floors of the granary contained several thouwsa le
n I
quarters of wheat, Indian corn, barley, and oats, h
flour
the lower floors were filled with bags of guano' report
,
and other articles. Mr. Braidwood, in his offleni,althe fire
raises the damage, gives the following :
e"rFirCeaouse of fire
raises of Mr. J. Dudin, granary keeper.
unknown. The three upper floors and of granary
destroyed ; the two lower floors and contents severely
damaged by fire and water. Insured in the Monarch
Fire-office." The subscription e
onooblr.ought to
TESTIMONIAL TO MR. BRIGHT.— _ - -DM-
menced. in Rochdale for a testimonial to Mr. Bright for
his exertions in behalf oN,f,farseeuptrwaadredsiaosfbsee,
a close. The amount After
consulting with the lion. member, the committee decided
that a library would be an appropriate testimonial. The
case is an elegant and elaborate work of art.
to this handsome A
The library consistssilver
plate is affixed furniture,
with an appropriate inscription.
of more than 1,200 volumes. It Ny
Bright at an additional cost of 1,300/
as selected by Mr.
after deducting the expenses,•, and the balance,
has been •
tleman. paid to that gen-
THE Hort. MRS. NORT
says :—" This distinguished".--The Waterford Mail
been staying at Lismor and much-injured lady has
accompanied by her Z.l Castle for the past three weeks,
about the middle size, eldest son. Her portly figure is
as to win the , and her attractive appearance such
the foul debasing stranger in her favour at first sight ; but
have had its influence tongue of unfounded slander seems to
preyed deeply on her constitution, and to have
retains all those upon her cultivated mind. She, however,
. traces of exquisite beauty for which she
and her two sisters, Lady Dufferin and Lady Seymour,
are 8,3 I)re-eminent."