The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-04 00:00:00

DRAINAGE OF THE METROPOLIS.

The following is a copy of a letter, dated the 21st
day of July, from Mr. Morewood, to her Majesty's Se-
cretary of State for the Rome Department, in reference
to two tunnel sewers for the arterial drainage of the
metropolis : _ _

" Islington, London. July 21,1834.
"My Lord,—l have been duly honoured with the
knowledment of the receipt of my printed letter on the
subject of the great London drainage plan.
"Seventy millions of gallons of water* are daily raised
to the surface of a densely-inhabited volley, and there
converted into sewage, stagnating in the low-lying dis
tricts of the metropolis, and, daily polluting the atmos-
phere and the Thames, they urgently demand an efficient
outfall.
" The Metropolitan Commission of Sewers do not pro-
pose the removal of the injury resulting to the inhabitanis,
but to spend 1,050,0001. in covering over a naturally-
formed rivulet, meanderin; through open fields, the
Hackney-brook,' and, on the south side of the Thames, in
diverting similar rural drainage into the populous locality
of Deptford.
"These works have been strongly opposed by public
meetings and circulars, by deputations to the Home-office
and Greek-street, and also by petitions to Parliament, and
it is respectfully submitted that no money should be de-
voted to their construction.
" The Great London Drainage Plan of two tunnel sewers
running through the most populous localities, extending
from Chelsea to Vauxhall respectively to the marshes
east of the metropolis, would be capable of removing-not
only 70 millions, but 270 millions, of gallons of sewage
daily, and would cost 1,000,0001.
" These tunnel sewers were very favourably entertained
by the Government in 1845-6; were approved by the offi-
cers of the Westminster Improvement and Commission of
Sewers in 1847; were not opposed by a resolution of the
City Commission, February 29, 1848 ; and subsequently,
received assurance of support, March 21, 1848; their com-
prehensive character being acknowledged by the Metropo-
litan Commission, by resolutions, March 7, 1848, by report
to Parliament, February 24, 18 'l, and by the resignation
of the commissioners, when they were unable to carry
them into execution, June 23. 18b2.
" This plan rests upon actual surveys and levels, con-
firmed estimates, borings, and data collected during a series
of years. Its having been prosecuted through the agency of
commercial enterprise, as the only means available to
tprio-
vate idividuals, and its having bien twice submitte
the scr n
tiny of a select committee, s respectfully urged in
its behalf.
" Your lordship directed the attention of the house to
Phis arterial drainage of the metropolis
ve, on the 4th and 9th
"J.
March, 1853, and subsequently.— ha Szc.
J. MonEwOoD.
(Signed)
" To the Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston. M.P., etc."
* By Parliamentary Paper 515, also delivered July 31,
it is shown that the water companies supplied, in 1853,
62,135,553 gallons per day (pumps, etc., probablyB,ooo,ooo
gallons); and the companies are now able to supply more
than double—viz., 124,000,000 gallons ; and the sewage
removal is therefore the more urgently required.

THREATENED WITHDRAWAL OF THE LONDON OM-
NIBUSES.—Yesterday afternoon, a general meeting of
omnibus proprietors was held at the offices of their
association, No. 19, Strand, for the purpose of con-
sidering what means should be adopted in consequence
of some new regulations which had been issued by Sir
Richard Mayne, the chief commissioner of metropolitan
police. Mr. Gray presided. From the statements made
by the respective speakers, it appears, that within the
last few days, the commissioner of police has caused to
be forwarded to the omnibus proprietors of London and
its suburbs a notice that all their vehicles must be
altered to meet certain requirements contained in a
printed paper of instructions which he has circulated,
and has added that no omnibus will receive a licence
after the lst of October next in which these alterations
are not made. Various omnibus proprietors having ad
dressed the meeting, it was resolved that a remonstrance
should be prepared for presentation to the House of
Commons, and that a public meeting should take place
on Tuesday next. It was also resolved, "That in the
meantime Mr. Bradfield should again endeavour to
induce the Under Secretary for the Home Department
to advise the withdrawal of Sir Richard Mayne's ob-
jectionable requisition." A vote of thanks to the chair-
man closed the proceedings.
THE EGYPTIAN PRINCE. —SOUTHA MPTON' Thursday.
—The Egyptian yacht Faad Geliaud arrived from
Portsmouth last evening, it having been discovered
that tliat port does not contain a dock sufficiently
large to receive this fine vessel. Owing to the
delay which the fullness of our docks will necessarily
incur in the preparation of the ship previous to
her return, his Excellency El Hami Pacha has deter-
mined, on leaving in the Peninsular and Oriental Coin-
pany s steam-ship Ripon, which will take her departure
to-morrow for Alexandria, with the heavy portion of
the India and China mails. His Excellency has some-
what recovered his ordinary cheerful spirits, but does
not seem to altogether prefer other than a semi-secluded
mode of life.
SALE OF THE PRINCESS'S THEATRE. —This theatrical
property was yesterday brought to the hammer by
Messrs. Winstanley, at the Auction Mart, and it was
stated to be submitted' under the direction of the Court
of Chancery in a cause entitled " Phillipson v. Turner
and others." There was a large assemblage of the
theatrical world. The property
consisted of the
theatre, &c., let to J. M. Maddox, Esq., for 2,6001.
per annum ; the Concert-room iu Castle-street, pro.
ducine- an averacre income of about 3001. per
annum ; and the vaults beneath, let at 941. 108. ; the
whole held for 26 years, at ground rents of 3401. This
property was at first submitted at 25,0001., subsequently
at 20,0001., then at 15,0001., and eventually at 13,0001.,
but there were no bidders, and it was consequently
declared not to have been sold.
OLD AGE. —At Moss-side, Glenlivat, parish of Inve-
rayon, Banffshire, Henrietta Grant, died at the ad-
vanced age of 105 years. She retained her faculties in
wonderful degree to the end, and until about two weeks
before her death she could sow and perform such like
operations without the use of apeitacles,—A berclecm
Journal.