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his public charadter, as well as for his kind courtesy to dif-
fident Members like himself, and to young Members, who
were deficient in experience. When the Right Honourable
Gentleman retired from his high office, he would, in the words
of the Prime Minister when ho was last elected to his present
rosition—he would leave behind him the recollection of being
the ablest, the most courteeur, and the most diligent Speaker
the House of Commons ever had.—(Cheers.)
The Right Hon. the SPEAKER said—l feel greatly, in-
debted to your Lordship for the kind manner in which you
have introduced my name to the notice of this assembly,
and for the too partial notice which yeu have taken of my,
services in the chair of the House of Commons. The expe-
rience of ten years in that position has satisfied me that un-
less I had met with the support of all parties in the House,
my efforts to discharge my duties would have been alto-
gether unavailing. But I have received from all parties the
most generous and cordial support—a support for which I
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her of the House, and who had long been at
the head of Foreign affairs in this country. The
Noble Viscount was well known as one of_the most eloquent
Members of the House of Commons; and those gentlemen
who had the advantage of hearing him' on the first or
second night of the present session would remember with
great satisfaction the triumphant manner in which
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the Noble Lord vindicated the administration of the
Foreign affairs of this country. He could assure the Noble
Viscount, whatever party 'feeling might allege' that the
people of this country reposed with the utmost confidence on
his judgment, experience, and temper, for preserving friendly
relations with this country and all the states of Chfistendom.
They were anxiously desirous to cultivate friendly relations
with all the continental states ; but they were confident that
in doing so the Noble Viscount would not forfeit the honour
and the dignity of this great empire. He was happy to have
this opportunity of expressing the confidence which the
citizens of London bad in the Noble Viscount, and he begged
to propose his health in connexion with the House of Com-
mons.— (Cheers.)
Lord PALMERSTON—I beg, in my own name and on behalf of
that great and distinguished assembly with which you have
done me the high honour to couple my name, to return you my
best thanks for the honour you have done us in drinking
our healths. I feel that lam unworthy of the honour which
has been done me in calling upon me to return thanks to you
and this distinguished company in the name of the House of
Commons. It is indeed natural, my Lord, that in this hall
the House of Commons should receive the honour which you
have proposed to this company to confer upon it; for the
House of Commons and the city of London have been to-
gether the great defence and the mainstay of the liberties of
this country—(Cheers)—and the House of Commons can
never forget that in the darkest period of the political
history of this country, the liberties of England found
their safest refuge and protection within the precincts of
this great metropolis. The city of London, in the worst
periods of our history, has ever stood forth as the fore-
most and stoutest defender of the constitutional freedom of
England.— (Loud cheers.) You have been pleased,
my Lord, to refer to the arduous duties which, in my official
capacity, it has fallen to my lot to perform. I can assure
your Lordship that you have truly understood the manner
in which I consider those duties ought to be performed. I
believe that it is the wish and the desire of the people of
England that those who have the charge of conducting her
foreign relations should, on the one hand, maintain the
honour and assert the dignity and the rights of this country;
and that we should, on the ether hand, exert our best en-
deavours, not only to continue to this country the blessings
of peace, but, as far as the influence and moral exertions of
this country can extend, that we should endeavour to secure
the same blessings to the rest of the civilized world.—(Great
cheering.) It has been our endeavour during a very diffi-
cult period—which, I was going to say, had now passed,
but which, I fear, still unfortunately exists— to act
up to these principles; and in the endeavours we have made
we have, as you justly observed, had the happiness to main-
tain a good understanding, through a frank and cordial ex-
planation of our opinions, with our great neighbour on the
Continent—a country which is so worthily represented by
the gallant Admiral who sits at. your right hand; and I am
happy to have this opportunity to state that whatever
changes may have taken place in France during the last
year, the public men who had administered the Government
of France have met us invariably by a system of friendly
cordiality, in frankness and good faith ; and by the aid of
their support we have achieved, in some degree, our desire,
either by averting hostilities for a time, or by mitigating
their virulence when they burst out. I beg again, my Lord,
to thank yon for the honour paid me on this occasion.—
(Cheers.)
The other toasts were " The Lord Mayor of Dublin," "Sir
W. Somerville and the Government of Ireland," " The At-
torney-General and the Bar," " The Lord Advocate.of Scot-
land, ' " Baron Rothschild and the Members for the City,"
" The Aldermen," " The Sheriffs," '•The Governor of the
Bank of England, and prosperity to the trade and commerce
of the city of London."
Mr. Harker efficiently discharged the duties of toast-mas-
ter on this occasion.

The dinner and wines were furnished by Messrs. Ring and
Brymer, and comprised the following delicacies :
Turtle, and iced punch, turbot, salmon, fried fish, cod's
head, turbons de filets de soles, carpe en matelot, anguille a
la broche, anguille ala tomata, perches ala van fiches,
mackerel en matelot. _ _ _ _

SIDE BOARD.—Petit pates ; Turkey poults, larded ;
chickens, capons; hams and tongues, ornamented ; ribs of
lamb, raised ornamented pies, lobster salads, prawns, Chan-
tilly baskets, ornamented trifles; pine, strawberry, noyeau,
Rhenish, and Italian creams; nougat with cream; Dantzic,
noyeau, and Maraschino jellies ; Charlotte a la Russe,
gateau de pomme, gateau a la duchesse, apple tarts, Fan-
chonettes, boudin St. Clair; raspberry, apricot, and green
gage tourtes ; trifles, cabinet puddings, Nesselrode puddings,
creamed tarts.

REMOVES.— Quarters of lamb, haunches of venison, chines
of mutton, sirloins of beef, pea-fowls, ducklings, goslings,
turkey poults, guinea fowls, leverets.
DESSERT.—Pines, grapes, apples, oranges, dried fruits,
brandy and cherries, savoy cakes, mixed cakes, almond
cakes, wafers, preserved ginger.
IcEs.—Pine, millefruit, raspberry, lemon, ginger, cherry,ke.

THE CITY COMMISSIONERS OF

SEWERS.

Yesterday a meeting of the Commissioners of
Sewers took place at Guildhall.; Mr. Deputy Peacock
in the chair.

Upon the motion of Mr. Deputy L ABB, who com-
plained that the carriage• way of Leadenhall-street,
although lately repaired, was in a very bad condition,
the water occasionally breaking into it, a view was
ordered to be taken of the locality, in order to ascer-
tain whether some permanent measure for improving
it cannot be adopted.
Upon the motion of Mr. BLAICB, a list was ordered
to be kept, for the information of the members of the
commission, of the names of those inhabitants who
complied with the directions of the Court as to the
drainage, a species of knowledge not yet attained in
consequence of the absence of system.

CESSPOOL NUISANCES.

Two persons, landlord and tenant of a house in
Fan-street, Bishopsgate, were charged -by a police-
man with having caused a cesspool to be empited into
the common sewer, contrary to the Act.
The excuse made by the defendants did not at all
touch upon the main question, but merely called the
attention of the Court to the fact, that the drain had
been made by the proprietor of the premises ten
years ago, and that the rate had been raised upon him
notwithstanding.
The policeman said it was quite impossible to
describe the offensiveness of the stench occasioned all
round thei neighbourhood by the act of which he
complained.
Mr. BLAKE said, upon the retirement of the parties
from the Court, that if the members failed to take
notice of the matter complained of there would be no
advantage derivable from the Act which had been
passed for the City, and other inhabitants would
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CHAlRMANauthority. said that Mr. Haywood, the sur-
veyor to the Commission, had prepared a:report upon
the very subject which they were discussing, and he
thought it could not be introduced at a more proper
time.

The Surveyor then put in the following report,
which was read by the Chief Clerk :
" To the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers of
the City of London, and the Liberties thereof.
"Sewers Office, Guildball, April 24.
" Gentlemen,—l beg to bring under the notice and
consideration of your Honourable Court—a 'nuisance of
a very serious description, the perpetration of which
has lately become a very frequent occurrence. I allude
to the practice of turning the contents of cesspools into
the sewers in an undiluted and undeodorised condition.

" Recently, this has occurred very continually, and in
all cases has been with ill effects. It not unfrequently
happens that the whole contents of a cesspool, which has
been a dozen or more years accumulating, is all at once
turned into a sewer, and the whole neighbourhood is for
days poisoned by the stench which, despite the traps of
the gullies, finds its way into the streets and houses,
and which is only abated by men being sent in to re-
move, and flush it away ; the effluvia is frequently so
bad from it, that men are with difficulty found to enter
the sewers for that purpose. It has also frequently oc-
curred, that sewers which had previously been per-
fectly clean, are for a, length of twenty or thirty feet
half filled with the soil thus turned into them, which, in
its undiluted state, is with difficulty removed, and the
expense of removal is generally double or treble what it
would have cost the offenders to have emptied the cess-
pool by means of the engine-pump which you have pro-
vided for the use of the citizens for such purpose. About
this the offenders care very little, as once in the sewer,
they know it will be removed, and the expense has
hitherto been defrayed by this Commission.
" If cesspools are emptied into the sewers by means of
the cesspool pump, no ill effects are experienced; for, in
the first place, the contents are deodorized; and, in the
second place, are in that state of fluidity which will
enable it to mix with and be curried away by the ordi-
nary flow of the sewer. I beg to suggest to your
Honourable Court, as the only means of preventing this
offence, that you should make it imperative, and should
give notice to all persons making applications for draips,
to empty their cesspools before constructing any p
of the drainage, and that the islet to the sewer should
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not be construct, d before the cesspool is properly l_
and known to be so by your officer; and that in the
event of the offence still in any case being perpetrated,
the parties offending should be punished under the
clauses in the City Sewers Act for that purpose made
and provided.—l have the honour to be, g( ntletnen,
your most obedient servant,
Wm. LIAYWOOD, Surveyor."
Mr. HAYWOOD informed the Court that there were
five case which came under the class of offences
alluded to in his report within the last week,
The motion of Mr. BLAKE was agreed to unani-
raously, and the surveyor's report was ordered to be
entered in the journals.