The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-07 00:00:00

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more perfect system of trapping should be devised, or
that, in some way or other, the sewers should be venti-
lated effectively and inoffensively. At present there are
frequent complaints of offensive exhalation from gratings
in the open ways of the city, and it will be obvious to
37( ur Honourable Court that all which I have urged on
the subject of cesspool exhalations must apply equally to
those which are emitted from sewers. The impediments
to effective trapping are almost insuperable; but I be-
lieve that when the water supply of the city is very
largely increased, washing the drains amply and inces-
sandy, the evil complained of will undergo a sensible
diminution. So far as I can judge, the only complete
and total cure would consist in the aoption of some sys-
tem, including the following points as its essentials—viz.,
that house-drainage shall be separate from street-drain-
age, the former having to itself a series of smeller con-
duits; that these shall be closed from their origin to their
outfall, presenting no gallyholes whatever; and that
their gaseous contents shall be withdrawn from them by
suction, or expelled by pressure, and be made to undergo
combustion, or other chymical! change, rendering them
innocuous. I would venture, even now, to suggest
that any scientific scheme, purporting to accomplish
the object last indicated, would in a very high degree
deserve the consideration and encouragement of your
Honourable Court."
The washing of the drains may diminish the evil so
far as the street sewers are concerned, but it will
only be by increasing the pollution of what must
necessarily be the principal source from which the in-
habitants of the metropolis must ever derive their princi-
pal supply of water—the River Thames. With regard
to the plan of separating the house drainage, and;con-
veving it in a series of conduits, closed from their
origin to their outfall, we much fear that there would
be danger of continual bursting of the conduits from
the pressure of the gases evolved, and that the escape
of those gases would give rise to dangerous explosions,
as, after the result of the recent experiments, we are
doubtful as to the possibility of withdrawing gases form
sewers so as to make them undergo combustion with
safety. A much more effectual method would be to
disinfect the sewage at various points of its progress,
so as 11`) prevent the collection of any large quantity of
gas-proth: wing elements and the consequent evolution
of noxious t7ases ; and this, we believe, may be ef-
fected complCtelY and profitably. Another great
advantage which would arise from adopting the disin-
fecting process would be the preservation of the river
from pollution. Of Ole importance of preserving the
waters of the Thames in a pare state Mr. Sims; is as
convinced as ourselves. die th;ss speaks on this im-
portant subject :
" In further connexion with my prt'leut subject, I
would also solicit attention to the fact that :he sanitary
purposes of drainage are but imperfectly achiev.'d where
the outfall of sewerage is into a tidal river p.'l6ing
through the heart of a densely-peopled metropolis. I
should be stepping beyond my province if I were to say.
much respecting the schemes now before the public for
dealing with the difficulty to which I here refer, inso-
much as those schemes involve questions of engineering
and machinery, on which I am incompetent so form an
opinion. But I can have no hesitation in stating it as a
matter greatly to be desired in the city of London that
the noble river which ebbs and flows beneath its dwell-
ings should cease to be the drainpool of our vast metro-
polis, and that the immeasurable filth which now pollutes
the stream should be intercepted in its course, and be
conveyed to some distant destination, where, instead of
breeding sickness and mortality, it might become a
source of agricultural increase and national wealth.
" I would venture, likewise, to express an opinion that
the city of London is peculiarly interested in the ac-
complishment of this great public work, not only on
general grounds relating to the conservancy of the river,
but likewise and especially on sanitary grounds, by
reason of the large bankside population, subjects of the
city, who now, instead of deriving advantage from their
nearness to the stream, are constantly disgusted and in-
jured by its misuse."
It appears to us that the only plan by which the
river can be preserved free from pollution, while at the
same time the existing sewers and conduits are made
available, is by the adopting of some plan for disin-
fecting the sewage during the course of its pro-
gress, precipating from it all solid matters which it
holds in suspension, and returning the supernatant
fluid thus disinfected into the sewer. It is by the
adoption of some such plan as this that the evils
complained of can alone be effectually prevented, for
it is evident that every plan which does not disinfect
the sewage before depositing it in bulk is
neither more nor less than a plan fur the formation
of a gigantic cesspool, which will infect the air for
miles around the place where it may be established,
and be a perpetual hotbed of cholera. Our observa-
tions on the subject of drainage have extended to such
a length, that we must defer the consideration of the
other portions of this most important and valuable
document to another opportunity.

ME FRENCH REPUBLIC.

The French papers o erday had not arrived
when we went to press.
We find the following in the Dix Decembre
" After the serious events which have, within the last
few days, agitated the high governmental regions,
a schism is on the point of taking place in
the old majority, from the ranks of which will
arise a new parliamentary party, decided on sup-
porting the personal policy of the President. A
preparatory meeting took place on Friday even-
ing, at the hotel of the Prince de la Moskowa.
Amongst the representatives present were Messrs.
Lucien and Antoine Bonaparte, Casablanca, de la
Moskowa, F. de Lagrange, Vieillard, de la Re-
doubte, de Salis, de Mouchy, Charamaule, Larabit,
de Caulaincourt, Gavini, Lallier, Elchevery, Gene-
rals Achard, Wast-Vimeaux; Husson, de Gram-
mont, &c. The new party will follow the line of
policy indicated in the message of Louis Napo•
icon, and will not give its support to the Minis•
try unless it frankly follows the path traced out by
the President. The programme of General d'Haut-
poul was the subject of some criticism; several of
the representatives present at the meeting considered
that document as too indecisive, and as not clearly
pointing out that entire character of adhesion to the
presidential policy which it had a right to expect
from a Ministry formed under such circumstances."
The French Evenentent publishes the following
exquisite series of blunders anent Miss Burdett
Coutts :
" Miss Burdett Coutts, the rich heiress of the Duchess
-f St. Albans, was introduced the day before yesterday
at L'.he Ely see, by Lord Normanby. The rumours of a
rr e between Miss Burdett Coutts and M. Louis
mßoanaipbait,' some months since will not have been forgotten.
Miss Burolitt Coutts is the daughter of Sir Francis
Burdett, formerly Member of the English Parliament,
who passed the first thirty years of his life on the
benches of the Whigs, and the last twenty years on
those of the Tories. The Duchess of Si. Albans, who
left her her immense fortune, had been well known in
the theatrical world as Mrs. Siddons, whose first hus-
band was Mr. Coutts, the rich London banker, and
whose fortune she subseqnently bestowed on the Duke
of St. Albans, who was younger than her by thirty
years, though he descended to the tomb several years
before her. The Duchess of St. Albans died about four
years ago."
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TOE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Nov. 6.
East Indian, 33j4—Great Indian Peninsula, s!4—Luxem-
bourg, OA —Namur and Liege, 53,—Northern of France,
3►,4 dis.—Orleans and Bordeaux, 2%—Sambre and Meuse,

Precisely as we say that Terrorism was contrived
by the friends of arbitrary government, in order to
disgust the world with Liberty—we might with equal
truth declare that Cant was contrived by the friends
of Infidelity, in order to disgust the world with
Religion. Only the difference between these two
abominable conspiracies is this—that whereas the
Terrorists manage to render themselves in some sort
sublime in their atrocities, the Sanctimonious, with all
their petty affectations of morality, only make them-
selves supremely and supereminently ridiculous.
While the one party has been effecting the
massacres of September, the other has bee•
taking some miserable little shrimp of an orange-
boy or a mackerel vender into custody on the
score of Sabbath Desecration. The former has
summoned to its aid the incendiary and the assassin.
The latter, with the hysterical shrillness of that very
respectable person Mrs. GANS'', has screamed for the
" Poleege 1" Like the immortal SAIREY, on the
occasion when in search of the " Ankwork's Pak-
kidge," she got so crushed, and tumbled, and towzled'
by the crow d, that her bonnet bore the appearance of
a cocked hat—the gcod old lady of Sabbatarianism
has now for some few weeks past been shaking her
gig-umbrella very energetically at Mr. ROWLAND
HILL, vituperating him in a great fluster as " a
bage man," and bemoaning the sins and abomina-
tions perpetrated by him and his compeers in "this
Piljians Projis of a mortal wale!" It would be the
height of ingratitude on our part if we evinced any
annoyance at a proceeding which has afforded us such
genuine amusement. We feel as kindly towards the
poor old soul even in her most kantankerous moods as
we have ever done to the " frequend pardner " of
BETSEY PRlG—knowing altogether that she is as
harmless as she is decidedly provocative of laughter.
_ _

Latterly the frow of Sabbatarianism has been
growing more and more subject to these fits of
ethical hysteria. Doubtless, if she is as well
supplied by the Birmingham manufacturers as
poor PEGGOTTY, she has of late been " shedding
buttons" innumerable. We have a sympathy for her
staylaces. Especially in those intense paroxysms of
grief and indignation, when the Lord Bishop of
LONDON got snubbed in Downing-street, or when
the rogues of St. Martin's-le grand triumphed over
the godly malcontents of Exeter Hall.
Defeated, we had almost said ignominiously de-
feated, in her efforts to render the Sunday not a day of
solace and gratulation, but the " deadly lively " fes-
tival of weekly hypocrisy and hebdomadal humbug—
the Gamp of Sanctity has just buckled on her
" storm-cap " and attached a new ferrule to her
parapluie, for the purpose of again having at that.
Man of Sin, the Marquis of CLANRICARDE. The
heart of Mr. ROWLAND HILL must certainly sink
within him at this grand premonitory flourish of
penny trumpets.
" By the pricking of our thumbs
Something funny certainly comes,"
for there is to be a rising throughout the country of
the legions of Sabbatarianism. A field-day for
FALSTAFF'S ragged regiment, with its "shirt and a
half!" could not assuredly be more suggestive of the
facetious. We await the issue with the drollest
anticipations ; and are fain to call out with
GUY BOLDING, even on the strength of
mere conjecture, "such fun !" But the
announcement is made with all the pomp of 80111-
BASTES, with all the mystery Of RIGDUM FUNIDOS,
with all the sequipedalian grandiloquence of the ever-
redoubtable CHRONONIIOTONTUOLOGOS. The deed is
to be done " off.hand," and not by any means "on
the sly." We are to witness the simultaneous
barricade of all the post-offices throughout the
United Kingdom. Led on, under the banner of the
umbrella, the strongholds of common sense are to be
stormed and captured—the thoughts, the sensibilities,
the commerce of the country are to be put every
seventh day under padlock. And all this isbe to done
in the name of the Gon of Wisloirnaanndi of Goodness ,
of hum
in the name of the Gon Humanity
intermittentan
dhris-
tianity Men may be ruined this
stoppage of the national circulation : no matter—
we
shall be spared from the sin of Sunday-stamped
envelopes. The nobler and gentler feelings of our
common nature may be violated: no matter—we
shall be shielded from the crime of a Sunday-stuck
,"Queen's head." The ordounations of a beneficent

"-ith may be rendered irksome and i-VI 1.,-' Y '
and Cf,IMIVIERCIAL PTE WS,
and venerab_
r---the streets will be protected CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
Sunday-postman s * tan- There was a steady demand for Cotton at Liverpool
from the profanation ot.l y escerda The
_ sales were 8,000 bales, including 4,000
I And England is to be placed under on
n,ec
.3,7. .
intollerable : no mattes.
tarrarra . speculation.—Rrelemy shares were dull.
this periodical interdict, forsooth because a few old The
weaker The Cern
nen Ma
talrket is
sils firm
are all to-day.
out of their usual
courseings
itnhitshe morning;city and this causes a very dull state of
conti is
women in the garb of the ruder sex have
A ole
clear stage,
! an
aSnoo!
pre-
things
.
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KEELEY. Mr. MORRIS BARNETT'S Serious Family ing the quwatity grown. The specie in the New York
asw
ash
is nothing to it—comic as that farce in three
banksne ral l easy.ywcacsndainmuiendishing, although the money market ge-
acts proves to be before the footlights of the The r eturns of ie Banks of New Orleans to the
little Haymarket. One thing alone marrs Board c,f Currency, dated September 29, shows on hand
the satisfaction of our anticipations—the over- sopfec:e49tooot2h3e
daeml l
so u
depositsnt o f 7,470,292 dolls.; a circulation
ture of penny-trumpets is just a trifle too protracted deposit 8,215,471 ao;l1s. ex et
a6n58e3i094224d2071138.01175ans
dueon
—we regard with a sense of tedium the lilliputian foreign and domestic l'ianks, lessg exchange, 1,592. ,202
fanfarronade of the orchestra. Our impatience dolls. Total cash liabilities 12,797,511 dolls. Total
disposes us to wax importunate. But the piece is
easThhaessi;:ntjsurlyB,dlo6n9e,2t4oBtdhoelFls.
French colonies by the vou-
about to begin. Hats off—sit thee down, 0 most tion of February has been incalculable, and it
r muste lh e
expectant public, for " the muffin bell rings" and the the work of years ere a recovery can be looked for.
The Ottoman Consul-General has officially notified
curtain rises. the intention of his Government to pursue the same
lane in its exchange operations as it did last
consequently tall operations entered into
.he Bank of Constantinople will be entirely
,or account of the Ottoman Government, M.
Jacques Al'd Ai and M. Emanuel Baltazzi being en-
trusted with the direction of the establishment, and being
in that capacity empowered to issue bills of exchange,
which are guaranteed by the Imperial Goverament.
In the English Stock Market, the quotations have
been without even a fractional variation, owing to the
absence of news. Consols have been 924 -I. The
wisdom of the policy adopted by the Turkish Go-
vernment in delaying to send the Hungarians to Eng-
land, is much questioned. Exchequer-bills are 455. to 48s.
premium, and India Bonds 82s. to 85s. India Stock
has been firm at 258. The New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. have been quoted 921 i.
Foreign Securities have been a little more in re-
quest,
but are comparatively inanimate. Spanish
Three per Cents. have been quoted 34k, and have
not improved upon the informatlon that Mr. Falconnet,
the new envoy of the bondholders,_ has left for Madrid
in company with • Mr. Baring. Portuguese Four per
Cent. Bonds have realised 33. Mexican have been 26,
end Chilian 94 to 95. Russian Bonds have been quoted
107. and Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents. 531. •
Railway Shares are flat. North Stafford Et i; North
Western, 1144 to 1151; Eastern Counties, 7 to 6i, and
Aberdeen 13 to 13i. It is stated in reference to the
latter, that the directors want no more money to com-
plete the line, as would be inferred by a paragraph that
has appeared in the Times. The amount needed, say
100,0001., is said to be for additional plant, and will not
be required for some time.

C'
year
by

018 O'CLOCK. imm•ING
'ILICES OF ,kltlrTiS II , UND,A PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Anna ..... ••• • 91%14 9114
3 per Cont. Consols Annuities 92% % 92%
Yew 314 per Cent. Anne...". 92 ,4t % 92%
Long Anne. to expire Jan.lB6o 8 7-16 8 7-16
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10. 1859 8 3-16 8 3-16
Ditto 30 year;, Jan. 5, 1860 8% 8 11-16 8 11-16
fndia Stock 258 258
India Bonds, 1,0001. ....... ...... •• 82 p
Ditto underl,ooo/... ...... .- B2 85 p 85 p
Consols for Account.
Exchequer Bills. 1 lied. & 2d
1,0001. June 45 48 p 48 p
500/. June
Small. June ......... 45 48 p 48 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. 011 F. CLOSI
OPCLICK. PRICES.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.... 4014
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent .......... 94 95 05
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. .. 72 721 i 7,11 j,
Equador Bonds
111 yxican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto, Account ... ..... .......
Ditto, Small
Portuguese 5 per Ce 'its.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto, Account ........
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.

_ .
Dutch 214 per Cont., 12. Guild. .. 531,E
Ditto. c per Cent. Certificate F... 81% 8214

PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSIN,,
AILWAY SHARES. PAT— AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
iberdeen

Do. Preference
Amber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 634
kyrshire and Galloway.. 71h —
3elfast & County Down 28 ......
Berks & Hants Extens.
(Gt. West. Per. 5 per ct.) 6
,irminghain and Ox-
f rd Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a guaran. 20
Do, withoutguarantee 20
rsirming, Wolverh'ton,
and Dudley, calls duly
pd, er pith guarantee 10 .....
Do. without guarantee 10
Tiirming.,Wolverlepton,
and Stour Valley 131. 14s .04
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire Jung.... 20 ••••
3oston, Stamfd & Birm. 71. 4s. ...
Bristol and Exeter 9O
Ditto, Thirds
:iuckinghamthire
Caledonian
Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10
Ditto,Cl3-desdaleJunc 50
Mester and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference l5 ...... •••
Clarence
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Direct London & Ports-
month
Dublin and Belfast June. 40
Dundalk & Enniskillen 27% —
East Anglian, 25/., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25 ......
Do. 18/., E. & H.... 18
Do., 31. 10s., Pref... 3%
Eastern Comities........ 20 7 5%.
Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 10
Ditto,Extension, 5 per
Cent., No.l 6/.135. 4d.... p ..
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... par
Do. North. & Eastern,
6 per Cent.
Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 ......
Do. New
Eastern Union Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25

Ditto, Class A, ditto... 3% —
Do., Class B (I. & B.) 25

Ditto, Class C, ditto... 25 . .... 43/4
Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ......
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Ditto, New Quarters OA — ..
Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ... 6 tAt ....”
East Lincolnshire ...... 25
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ......
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 .. ..
Edinburgh and Northern 25 —
Ditto, Newport
Exeter.Yeovil, & Dorch 25,u ......
Exeter and Exmouth 215....... --
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle ....... ... -81.65. 8d....
Glasgow,Kilmar~ & Ayr 50
Do. Preference Consul.
Great Northern
Do., ;42 A Deferred ... 121/2 ......
Do., 1/2 B 6 per Cent... Ph — •• .......
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 10
reat South. and West.
[ (Ireland)
Great North of Enaland 100 ......209 ...........
.

Ditto, New, 40/ 4O
Ditto, ditto 35
Ditto, New, 30/......... 30 - .• 000000 .
Ditto, New ,15/... ...... 15 .. -
Great Western 100 ...... 60% .. ... ....
Ditto, 1,4 Shares 5O ...... 29
Ditto, 1„( Shares
Ditto, Fifths ..... - 20 - ........••
Ditto, New 171.- ..... 15 ...
Hull and Selby
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25
Do. Quarter Shares... 121

Lancaster and Carlisle 50 ......
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire Si Yorkshireloo
Do. do. M. B. 4 8... 98
Ditto, ditto ...
Ditto, Lb Shares ...... 49 - ..
Do. Quarters ..... 23% —
Do. Fifths-- ........ 10
Do. Thirds .............. 16% - • I
Do. New Guarantied
6 ter Cent....
Do. Liverp. and Bury 49 —
Ditto (Huddersfield
and Sheff.).. ......... 50
Do. (W. Riding Union) 10 . .....
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25
D 0.% Shares (A)... 10 ...
Leeds and Bradford...... 50
Leeds and Thirsk ..... . 50
Do., Prefer., 6 per CL 5
Do., Pref. Quar.,lB4B 9
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport lO
London &Blackwall...ll/. 6a. 3d 3%54., .....
London, Brighton, and
South Coast... .....103
Do., New 51., guaran-
teed 6 per Cent..... 100
Do.Guarant. 5 per ct.. 9
Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50
Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50
L .ndon and Greenwich 12/15s 4d — • ..„,„
Ditto, Prefer.m.,. .20
•••I
London and N. We tern 100 ..... 1151 1143/4._
Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 ...... 12%.
Ditto, Fift ~ 7 ...

Do. 40/.ShAres(L.M.) 35 ......
Do. 101. (M. & B.) C. 1
Lond.&S 50 .• 31 •••••• .......
Ditto, New 501.
Do. New 401 .. 34

Do., New Scrip, 1848,
Pref. 7 per Cent. ... 5 ......
Londonderry &Coleraine 25 ...... ........
Do. % Shares . .. 5 ...... ••
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen ......... . 25
Do. % 5hare5............ 5
Lowestoff, guar. 4 per ct 20
Ditto (6 per et.)
Manchester,Buxton,and
Matlock...
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire 100
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 23