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London, England, 1854-09-20 00:00:00

CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.

Mr. Deputy Peacock occupied the chair.
IT.^.7ITIIOLESOME MEAT.
Mr. Poeklington, one of the inspectors of meat in the
City markets, said that on the last day of the sitting of
the Court he had been instructed by the chairman to get
the names of the parties who had forwarded to Newgate ,
Market some carcases which he had seized as unfit for •
human consumption.
The CHAIRMAN (interrupting)—This Court cannot pro-
ceed against the persons sending the meat. It has only
power to proceed against those who sell it.
Deputy HOLT—The instructions to the inspector were
that be was not only to seize the meat and see it
destroyed, but likewise to summon the parties from
whom it came.
The earaiamax —No, no ; the order was, seize the
meat, and Ammon the parties here who have it for sale,
because this Court need not summon parties from John
O'Groat''s house. The persons sending unwholesome
meat can be dealt with by the magistrate before whom
they are, summoned. (Hear, hear.)
Deputy CORK said he was r)
very anxious that Mr.
Fisher, another inspector of meat, should state how Mr.
Aldermsin Challis, when Lord Mayor, had treated a 1.
case similar to the one under the consideration of the
court.
Mr. Fisher then stood forward and said, some time ago
I seized the carcase of a cow at a whole' .illeleblutcber s in
WhiteclaaTel. It had been sent there from wholesale
was in a. very bad condition indeed. I think them woluse2rt "Il
ever saw. I applied to Alderman Challis when Lordilsyo
fora suitamona against the party sending it to marketar
for sale for human food. The Lord Mayor upon that
occasion told me that ho would not grant rue a summon,,
but that, I was to sell it, and after making the most I
could of it, I was to hand over the proceeds to the man
who forwarded the carcase to Whitechapel. I endea-
voured to remonstrate with his lordship, but to no pur-
pose, for he told me to be off, to go out of court, about
my business.
The CIIAIRMAN—AIderman Challis is not now Lord
Mayor, therefore we need not discuss that matter.
(Laughter.) The terms of the act of Parliament are
very clear. Wherever you find unwholesome meat you
are not only to seize it, but you must also summon the
persons upon whose premises you find it. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. 4-.I3RAIZAM—No doubt the inspector has been led
into a mistake by what fell from the Lord Mayor, who
stated that if possible the names of the parties who sent
the meat to London should be obtained, upon which
they might be dealt with. The Court can deal with per-
sons who expose unwholesome meat for sale in London ;
but its powers do not reach those who transmit it from
the country. If the Lord Mayor has power, let him
exercise it. (Hear, hear.) '
Mr. H. L. TAYLOR— It is the bounden duty of in-
spect.ors to take care that no diseased meat is exposed for
sale, .and if it is the Court has power to interfere, and to
deal .with those who violate the law. (Hear, hear.)
This i ; the full extent we are authorised to go under the
act of Parliament. The common law will touch the par-
ties wl so send the meat to market if you can get at them.
The L ord Mayor, or anybody else, if sufficient informa-
tion is obtained, can summon the persons sending the
meat ft 'om Herefordshire or any other county, but it can-
not be done under our act. Our officers are bound to hold
those r esponsible only who exhibit it for sale. We also
ought to hold them responsible, and to put them be-
fore thie public, if they attempt to offer for sale that which
is unfit for human consumption. At the same time I
should be very sorry to blame those who have meat con-
sign ed to them, and who do not know its quality till
they see it, and I believe it is the practice of respectable
sales: nen to give notice to the inspectors when carcases
of an unwholesome description are consigned to them
for sate. (Hear, hear.)
The• subject then dropped.
A good many persons owning house property of a
poor description in the City were summoned at the in-
stance, of the medical officer or the inspectors of nui-
sances, for neglecting or refusing to provide efficient
drab sage and water supply for their dwellings, and were
order •ed immediately to remedy the evil complained of.
They were reminded that in the event of their dis-
obeyi: n the directions of the Court, the works would
be for thwith executed, and the expense thereof charged
to thei n.
Sev, ;ral of the contractors for cleansing the streets and
public dustbins were fined for neglect, and the Court
adjour ued.

THE REGISTRATIONS.

MIDDLESEX.

The revision of the lists of voters for the metropolitan
county was proceeded with yesterday, by Mr. Shadwell,
at the, Castle Inn, Brentford. The day's revision in-
clude& the parishes and places within this polling dis-
trict. _ _ _

Mr. Jones and Mr. Maelure attended for the Con-
servatives. The Liberal interests were represented by
Mr. Davies and Mr. Sidney Smith.

CONSERVATIVE FREEHOLD- LAND SOCIETY-IMPORTANT

DECISION.

Mr. Lewis, solicitor to this society, and Mr. Alley
11,nur attended to represent the claims of seventy-two
members of the society who claimed to be placed on the
reg ster in virtue of freehold land situate in the Rich-
mm id-road, Ealing.
Amongst the claimants named were Lord Maidstone,
Sir 'O. W. Codrington, Bart., Hon. H. C. Lowther,
M.P., Mr. R. Rolt, M.P., lion. R. Rowley, Sir S.
Bign.old, Mayor of Norwich, Colonel North, M.P.,
Mr. E. 11..Vansittart, M.P., Colonel Abdy, Rev. D.
Cooper, Mr. Benedict, t!ie composer, and Captain Mey-
rick.
The first claim was that of Colonel Abdy, who wss a
shareholder in the society,, and held a plot of land, No.
36, value 501.
Mr. Lewis produced the title deed, and said that, if
necessary, he was prepared to go into every individual

case.
Barrister (examining the deed)—There:appears to be a
covenant as to building.
31:r. Lewis—There is merely a stipulation that build-
ings to be erected on the estate shall be built in a certain
manner.
Mr. Davies—But I object as to the value ; if the
claimants could prove that the land is of sufficient value
to entitle them to the franchise, I will not take up the
time of the Court by objecting.
Mr. Lewis then stated that each plot had 27 feet
frontage by 110 feet in depth. The land was situated
in the centre of Ealing, and several houses were ap-
proaching completion. There was not one plot worth
less than 501., and many of them worth 751. He re-
minded the barrister that, under his own decision in the
case of the St. Pancras and other freehold land societies
last year, he had no alternative but to admit of all the
claims which he, Mr. Lewis, was present to defend.
Barrister—But you must show that the purchase-
money has been paid, and that there is no mortgage_
upon the property.
Mr. Lewis assured the barrister that he only appeared
for such members of the society as had paid up in full,
and upon whose property there was no encumbrance.
There were two surveyors present who could give evi-
dence as to value.
Mr. Prickett, in answer to the barrister, said that he
had gone over the estate in the Richmond-road, Ealing;
it consisted of a great many plots, having twenty-seven
feet frontage, and from this experience in valuing land
he considered that the value of each was 3s. a foot, which
would give an annual value of 4/.
Barrister—Then you consider this land worth twenty-
five years' purchase!
Mr. Prickett—ln its present state, uncovered, I com-
pute its value at twenty years' purchase ; when covered
it would be worth twenty-five years' purchase.
Mr. Davies—lt will be necessary for Mr. Lewis to
show that there is no mortgage upon the property.
Mr. Lewis contended that it was for Mr. Davies, who
had objected to the claim, to prove that there was a
mortgage.
Mr. Jones—There can be no doubt that there is suf-
ficient value. We only want 21,, and here is 41. clearly
proved.
Barrister—Such is certainly the fact.
The seventy-two claims represented by Mr. Lewis
were then gone into, and were all allowed.
Mr. Jones said that he had a number of claims in the
same society, which he substantiated, making in all
ninety-one claims, which were sustained by the Con-
servatives.
The whole number claimed to vote at Charing-cross.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD.
Yesterday the ordinary half-yearly meeting of the pro-
prietors of this company was held at the Easton station;
Mr. S. M. Peto, M.P., presiding.
The report of the directors, which was taken as read,
stated that the result, in money, of the past half-year
was an increase in the receipts, compared with the cor-
responding period of the previous year, of 11,096/. 16s,
5d., of which 8,381/. Cs. 7d. bad been derived from the
railway, and 2,7151. Bs. 10d. from the steam-boats,
while the relative percentage of expenses, notwithstand-
ing the rise in value of both labour and materials, more
particularly in that portion of the latter required for the
steam-boat department, showed but a very slight in-
crease. The receipts from the merchandise vessels, in
the statement of accounts submitted on the 18th March
last, exhibited a balance against the merchandise vessels

of 1,8171. 3s. 11d. The ;.stablishment of an improved
system for through transit of goods, between England
and Ireland, would material:;; assist in developing the

resources of the latter country-7. ; and the directors trusted

that the subject would, ere long, receive from other
companies interested the consideration due to so impor-
tant an object. The directors further state, that the
measure, which they felt it their duty to adopt in De-
cember last, of discontinuing to book through with the

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City of Dublin Company; had been entirely successful,
in producing considerable in reuse in the receipts from
passengers between Ho:yliead and Kingstown. A com-
parative statement subjoined to the report, exhibiting
the number of passengers and tonnage of merchandise con-
veyed, as compared with the evrresponding period of pre-
vious years, gave for the last half-year, in passengers
281,524 against2so,o47 in the half year ending 30th June,
1853 ; in tonnage of goods 151,642 as against 126,571 in
1854 ; income from railway, 97,1771. against 88,7951.;
percentage of expenses oft receipts, 53.18 per cent. against
52/ per cent. ; receipts from steam-boats, 17,942/. against
15,2271. ; and balance 6291. against 2,0601. The direc-
tors also reported that an act had passed during the last
session of Parliament, authorising a lease of the Bangor
and Carnarvon Railway, on terms substantially the same
as those submitted and aroved by the proprietors, at
the meetings in March and June and that the necessary
steps would be at once taken to 'complete the arrange-
ment, and offer the shares to the proprietors. The ac-
counts showed a gross balance to the credit of revenue
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the full dividend of Bs. 3d, per share for the half-
,er, deducting the interest
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the first preference shares, after available
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would be a balance of 1,2301. 5 ld
Payment of which there
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nh half-year.
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thes.ado.p
and accounts, observed that the directors had, in com-
pliance with a wish expressed by the shareholders at the
last half-yearly meeting, circulated the report and ac-
counts amongst them a week previous to the present
meeting. The result of the last half-year's working, as
exhibited by those accounts, would be considered satis-
factory. Since the year 1850, when he had first the
honour of addressing them as their chairman, the pas..
senger traffic on their line had doubled, and the tonnage
of goods had trebled. The money results were also fa-
vourable ; for while in the corresponding half-year of
1850 the total receipts were 57,4811., and the charges
35,6371., in the last half-year the receipts had been
97,1771., and the charges 51,681/. (Rear.) Again with
regard to the steam-boat traffic. In the corresponding half
year of 1850 there was a balance against the company
on the half-year's working of 5,8161., while in the WA
half year the adverse balance was only 629/. But although
the accounts showed a balance against the working of the
steam-boats, this could not fairly be taken as the real
state of the case, inasmuch as but for the traffic which the
steam-boats brought upon the railway, the net results of
the latter would not by any means approach the point at
which they had arrived. The change which had been made
in the through-booking system had been attended with
remarkable results ; for while in 1850 the number of pas-
sengers brought by the express vessels had been in the
half year 6,359, in the half year just closed the number
had risen to 19,534. The new system had not yet been
carried into effect, as the directors were anxious it should
be in reference to goods, in consequence of the existing
agreements among the Irish companies. The attention
of the directors was, however, directed to this subject,
believing that by this meals the traffic would be more
fully developed. But with the present appliances the in-
crease in the goods traffic was most satisfactory, and it
was scarcely necessary for him to point out the impor-
tance of developing this branch of traffic, not only in
regard to the benefit it would confer upon Ireland, but in
reference to the great increase which it must bring to
the nett receipts of the company. (Hear, hear.) Upon
the subject of branch lines he thought much misappre-
hension had arisen in the public mind, and no wonder,
when the injudicious manner in which they had in many
cases been projected and carried out was considered.
(Hear, hear.) In some instances branch lines had been
constructed, the whole traffic of which, it had afterward
been discovered, was merely the abstraction of so much
traffic from the more direct route, while other branches
had been constructed not upon the principle of remune-
ration for the capital expended, but on that of protection
only. The result of this policy was that a feeling had
obtained in the minds of most railway proprietors that
branch lines were in all cases injurious and operated upon
the main lino as suckers rather than feeders. (Hear,
hear.) But it was not so in the case of the Chester and
Holyhead Company, for it was to their branch lines that
the great increase ill the local traffic was entirely
owing. Take the Bangor :.11d Carnarvon branch. The
receipts arising from it during the last half-year had
been 8,0471., and the working expenses 4,392/.' leaving a
positive profit on the increased traffic in favour of
the company, after paynymt of the rental, of 6551.,
and that for the worst half year ; and taking the
increase they might calculate upon for the current,
which was the best half year, into account, it would
amount for the year, he believed, to between 1,5001. and
1,6001. And this result had been obtained with a rol-
ling stock by no means adequate to the enormous goods
traffic which came upon this branch from the slate
quarries. He had no doubt if they could supply more
trucks for carrying the slate; the net receipts would be
much greater. (Hear, hear.) The directors were most
anxious to see that branch extended from Bangor and
1 Carnarvon to the slate quarries in the vale of Lanberris,
and also a branch from Conway to the quarries of
Llanrwst—if it could be dole by arrangements with the
proprietors of these mineral districts, and without calling
upon the Chester and Holyhead Company for any ad-
vance of capital. Such arrangements were in contem-
plation, and he hoped next session these schemes would
be prosecuted in Parliament. (Hear, hear.) Looking
at the present position of the company, though the pre-
sent accounts showed 2,0001. worse than those of the
last half-year, it must be remembered that the accounts
of that half-year included the traffic arising from the
Dublin Exhibition and the Queen's visit ; but notwith-
standing that, he believed that the rapid increase in the
slate and goods traffic which was going on would in the
current half-year more than make up that deficiency. If
his expectation in this respect should be realised (which
he saw no reason to doubt) they would be enabled to pay
the nine months' dividend which would then be due upon
the second preference stock, as well as the whole of the
current dividend upon the first preference stock. He
was happy to say that eleven-twelfths of the holders of
the first preference stock Lad agreed to accept second
preference shares at par in liquidation of the arrears due
to them, and although there was a small proportion
of dissentients, all difficulty that might have been ex-
pected to arise from their refusal of the terms offered
would be obviated by an offer which had been made by
the other shareholders to tike amongst them at par the
new shares so refused. He trusted, therefore, that
when next the directors met the proprietors they would
be in a position to report that the arrears upon the first
preference had been arranged, as well as that the divi-
dend upon the second preference for the half-year had
been earned. (Hear, hear.)
One or two proprietors expressed opinions adverse to
branch lines altogether, and one gentleman, while ad-
mitting that it would be politic to encourage them in
the mineral districts, when made wholly at the cost of
the mineral proprietors, drew attention to the loss which
bad resulted from the Male branch.

The CHAIRMAN had shown that one branch which had.
been leased to this company at 4 per cent, already pro..
duced a•profit, and with regard to the Mole branch, any
loss that accrued fell not upon the Chester and Holy.
head, but upon the Male proprietors. The principle
upon which the directors proceeded was not to incur the
responsibility and expense of making the branches them-
selves, but to encourage their construction by the pro.
prietors of the large slate quarries and mineral works
in the district to construct them at their own cost, by
affording facilities for working them when they were
constructed, and by this means they were bringing to
the main line a most profitable class of traffic. (Hear.)
After some further conversation, the resolution was
put and unanimously passed.
The CHAIRMAN tuen proposed a resolution declaring a
dividend of Bs. 3d. per snare for the half-year upon the
first preference shares, which he said would be payable
on and after the 30th inst.
This resolution was also unanimously carried ;
after a vote of thanks to the chairman and
and his co-dire°.
tors the meeting separated.

BOSTON, SLEAFORD,
CO TINTIES.
AND MIDLAND

The half.yearly meeting of this company, which was
advertised to be held yesterday at the Euston Hotel,
Euston•square, was postponed in consequence of there
not being a sufficient number of shareholders present.
The directors' report stated that since the last half-
yearly meeting an arrangement had been made with the
Marquis of Bristol for the purchase of that portion of
his property which would be required for the purposes
of the railway, on terms satisfactory to the directors, and
they were about entering Into negotiations with other
landowners on the line. The directors were in commu-
nication with the Great Northern Railway Company on
the subject of working the intended line ; and, although
nothing definite had as yet taken place, still they hoped
the result would be an arrangement mutually advan-
tageous.

GLASGOW AND SOLTTII-WESTERN RAlLWAT.—Traffic re.
turn for the week ending Sept. 16, 1854 255,819 5
Corresponding week last year ,585 16 0

Increase in 1851..

£233 9 /

SUDDEN DEATH OF AN INSPECTOR OF THE nu=
POLICE.— This morning about five o'clock, as Mr. David
Gibbins, an old and respected inspector of the Thames
police, was crossing over Waterloo-bridge, to proceed to
the Investigator, police-station ship, lying off Arundel-
stairs, to relieve guard, he was observed to stagger and
fall, and on being picked up he was discovered to be
quite dead. The Way lien at Eines Collogo