The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-11 00:00:00

CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.

Mr. DAw, the chief clerk, said a communication bad
been transmitted to,bim by the Chairman of the West
London Union. relative to the •alleged nuisance of the,
'City Gsa Works.
Mr. T. H. HALL moved that the letter be referred to
the medical officer, with instructions to report thereon.

Referred accordingly.
OFFAL EXPOSED FOE SALE IN WHITEOHAPEL MARKET.
Mr. Deputy CEIRISTIR, having introduced a deputation
of master butchers carrying on business in High-street,
Aldgate, said he had to present a memorial signed by a
number of the inhabitants of the ward of Portsoken,
and he would shortly state the,reason why these gentle-
men attended. Some time since the commissioners, in
carrying into effect measures of a sanitary nature, had
considered it necessary to issue an order to the trade of
butchers, requiring them to remove from their slaughter-
houses all offal before 8 o'clock in 'the morning: He (De-
puty Christie) had reason to believe that the butchers in
High-street, Aldgate, had cheerfully complied with the
desire of the commissioners, and bad obeyed their in-
structions, except with respect to one single article. They
killed a large number of sheep and lambs, and conse-
quently had a large quantity of one description of offal,
namely paunch, which, for a great many years, they had
made a source of very large profit. Their custom was
to hare large tanks. of clean -water, in which the
paunches were kept, a few only at a time being taken out
and exposed for sale, at their doors, as wholesale toed for
dogs. They had not complied with the part of, the
order of the commission which related to this species of
offal, because they did not think that the sale of that
which was to them a source of large profit should be in-
terfered with, and consequently one of. the inspectors
had summoned some of the memorialists before a magis-
trate.

The memorial was read by the clerk.
The memorialists, in answer to questions put by the
court, said that it was their custom to keep paunches
after emptying them, 24 hours, that the water in the
tanks were changed twice a day, that they were tho-
roughly cleansed before being exposed for sale.
Deputy CERISTIE moved that the memorial be re-
ferred to the :general purposes committee, to consider
and report thereon, which,
After some further discussion, was carried.
OBJECTIONABLE MEAT.
Mr. BOWSER, a wholesale meat salesman in Newgate-
market, said he attended for the purpose of preferring a
complaint against Mr. Pocklington, one of the inspec-
tors of meat, whom he charged with, on some occasions,
condemning and seizing carcasses that were wholesome,
and on others with overlooking those that were not fit
for human consumption.
Mr. PocKuNGTox, idinsWer to the charge, said the
carcass which he had seized was in a very bad state
indeed, in some places being perfectly green, and that
his judgment was corroborated by four of the' most
respectable salesmen in the market, some of whom had
been appealed to to examine the camas% by Mr. Bunser
himself.

Mr. DQNSER admitted that he had received a letter
from the farmer who sent the carcass, to the effect that
the bullock had been ill,•and that his man, after having
administered a pound of Epsom salts to it without the
desired effect, bad killed it and forwarded it to London
for sale.

Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said that the officer bad done
himself infinite credit for the way in which he bad acted.
It was perfectly clear that be bad discharged his duty
fearlessly and honestly, and it was not to be endured
that animals on the point of death from disease should
be slaughtered and forwarded to the London markets
for sale.
The subject theta dropped.