The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-10 00:00:00

CITY COURT OP SEWERS.

Yesterday, a court was held; Deputy PEACOCK in the
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REFLECTORS,
Several shopkeepers were summoned for having neglected
to comply with the standing order of the court with regard to
the reflectors, which ' have of late become a complete
nuisance in the streets, not only on account or their position
in the shop windows, but because they are used as sign-
bciards and indicators of advertisements.
The inspectors said they found much difficulty in pre-
vailing upon the proprietors of shops, in fitting up which
with reflectors considerable expense had been incurred, to
make the required' alterations adapted to the public conve-
nience ; that some of the shopkeepers had positively refused
to submit to the rules, not being able to see that the en-
croachment upon the pavement was any other than an orna-
ment to the street, or that' the exhibition altogether was
anything but a credit to the City of London.
The commissioners found it necessary to come to the re-
solution to direct that in every case in which compliance
with the standing orders was not given, the inspectors
should at once cause the reflectors to be removed.
The following are the standing orders alluded to :
Resolved and ordered,—That all reflectors be placed at
an altitude of at least 8 feet, measured from the pavement to
the base of the reflector, and to project not more than 18
inches, and that they remain only during the pleasure of
this court.
No inscription, or sign of any description will be permitted
on any portion of such reflectors, and where such has been
done, the saw is to be instantlF•removed by the owners.
By order of the Court,
JOSEPII Davi, jun., Clerk.

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Several persons were ordered to make complete
water;closet arrangements, according to the suggestions
of the medical officer of health, after which the court
adjourned. .

THE MISSING CITY OF GLASGOW STEAMER
WITH NEARLY 500 SOULS ON BOARD.

The gloom which has for several weeks prevailed by the
continued absence of any tidings of the City of Glasgow screw
steam-ship, Captain Morrison, one a the large vessel's forming
the Liverpool and Philadelphia line of steamers, has been
most painfully increased by the recent arrivals of mail packets
from the other side of the Atlantic not communicating the
least intelligence of the long-missing ship. An almost general
opinion is now entertained among the members of Lloyd's
that the worst has befallen the noble 'vessel and her unfortu-
nate passengers and crew.
The City of,Glasgow was built'on the Clyde in 1850. She
was 1,087 tons burthen, and worked by a screw and engines
of 350-horse power. She is the property of Messrs. Richard-
son Brothers, at Liverpool, and has been engaged in run-
ning between that port and Philadelphia. She left the
• Mersey for that city on the afternoon of the Ist of last
March, having previously undergone the usual survey_and
examination by the Government officers, who reported
upon her proper condition. All her berths were engaged,
and she took out altogether 111 cabin and saloon and about
293 steerage passengers, making with her crew, 76 in num-
bei;,, a total of 480 persons on board. By the ship's papers we
find that she manned as follows : Captain and officers, 5;
surgeon, 1 ; purser, 1; engineers, 4 ; firemen, 6 ; coal trim-
mers, 5; stewards, waiters, &c. 19; stewardesses, 1; quar-
termasters, 4 ; and able seamen, &c. 30. It was Captain
Morrison's ill st voyage in her as commander, although he had
served many months in her_ In
•the position of chief officer.
He bears an unexceptionable character for ability and care in
his profession, and he has had considerable experience in na-
vigating the Atlantic. The' weather for days after her depar-
ture from the •Mersey was most- propitious, and sanguine
were the expectations at Liverpool that she would make a
rapid run across. Not one word, however, has been received
of her since either by the owners or at Lloyd's, and neither
does it appear that she has been spoken with by the many:
vessels which have arrived at Liverpool from Phila-
delphia, and which doubtless passed over or near
the track pursued by the Philadelphia line of packets.
A sister ship of the City of Glasgow, the City of
Manchester, employed on the same line of route, arrived
at Liverpool on the 17th of March, having steamed out from
Philadelphia on the 28th of February. She brought intel-
ligenee that the ice had broken up and was drifting about in
the course taken by the mail steamers. On the Bth of
March, in lat. 45, long. 49, the weather moderate and clear,
she came np with innumerable bergs, and large fields of ice,
compelling the captain to alter her course to the southward,
and so ccintinded for 19 hours before he could find a passage-
The City of Manchester has since recrossed the Atlantic to
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the same port, Philadelphia, and, we understand, is again
her way back to Liverpool, nearly the whole of the transat-
lantic steamers that have since arrived speak of the ice being
greater than had been witnessed for many years. The report
of the captain of the ship Westmoreland, at Philadlphia from
tiverpool, which had sailed a few days previous tothe
de-
parture of the City. of Glasgow—received by the America.
elan d
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mail
steamer on Monday, states that theship (Westmoi
when in lat. 46.50, long. 46.30, on the _
6th of March, got
entangled in ice, and remained embedded for five days. It
was calculated that the ice extended in _one direction for 347
miles in nearly a compass mass, with numerous bergs 300
vessel arriving from England furnished similar reports of the
and 300 feet high and of immense proper. ions. Nearly every
immensity of the ice, and in some instances nearly involved
a passage through the ice, it was
Git•tsgow had become disabled in
the foundering of the ship. From the fact of so many vessels
and in consequence made for
having succeeded in making
thought that the City of
endeavouring to force a course
the Western Islands, but the last accounts from Fayal fur-
nish no tidings of her.

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MURDER IN ABERDEEN.--Early on Sunday morning
the authorities were informed of a murder committed
upon Ann Harvey, at Cults, near Aberdeen. Her body
was found cast into a he,ditc and
otherwise mangled. A. person named Forbes has been
apprehended, accused of being the perpetrator of the
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