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S 111 OCTOBER 24 1849.

LONDON AND NORTILWESTERN
It All, WA Y.
TENDERS FOR S
The Directors of the London told North-Western Railway Company
are prepared to receive Tenders for Stores for their several depart-
ments, viz.:—
Locomotive Stores—Anvils and vices, axles, brass and copper and
brass work ; baskets and bags for coke ; 1-alances (spring), brass
tubes for locomotives ; crucibles, files, iron, steel, ironwork, oil,
tallow, and waste ; sundries, lead, timber, t n.
Carriage Stores—Colours, oils, varnishes, &c.; brushes and pencils;
brass and brasswork ; carpeting, cloth, canvas, silk, &c. ; castings
(various) carriage fittings, iron and ironwork, steel springs, lamps
and lamp 11 Ahtzs, 1 ather, sundries, timber.
Waggon Stores—Axles, brake blocks, castings (various), colours,
&c., files, iron and ironwork, oils, steel, springs, timber, wheels.
General Stores—Chandlery and small stores, carpenters' and
joiners' work, hardware, oil, grease, and cotton waste, canvas and
tarpaulins, leather, coal.
Specilcat ions, showing the quantities and descriptions of articles
required, also forms of tender and printed conditions, may be had on
application to the Secretary, on and after the 20th instant.
The time for sending in tenders is extended to November sth,
after which day none can Ito received.
Samples and patterns of articles purchased to sample or pattern
may be seen at the Company's Works at Euston, Camden, Wolver•
ton, Crewe, Longstght, and Ordsal-lane (near Manchester) Stations;
on Vie 24th and 25th instant, from Eleven to Four o'Clock.
By order of the Directors,
31 11K I I UIS 11, General Manrger,
Euston Station, London, Oct. 18, 1849
LONDON

AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.
BY ORDER OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

The Public is requested to take notice, that on and after the Ist
NOVEMBER, the UP NIGHT MAILS from Preston, Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Chester, and the DOWN NIGH P MAILS from
London, will be made EXPRESS MAILS, and will be accelerated
accordingly.

These Express Trains will continue to carry Second-class Pas-
sengers, at advanced fares. She Down Night Mails will leave
London at the present hours, and the Up Trains will leave—
Preston, at .. • • 9 3 P.M. Manchester, at • • 935 P.M.
I
Liverpool, at .. 918 „ Chester, at .. 10 13 „
Notice is also given, that the trains now leaving Peterborough for
Northampton at 4 p.m., and from Northampton to Peterborough at
5 30 p.m., will be discontinued for the winter season.
By order of the Directors, MARK lILTISH.
General Managers' OlUc', Easton Station, Oct. 20, 1849.

MID L AND RAILWAY
LOANS ON DEBENTURES.

The Midland Railway Company are prepared to receive Loans on
security of their Debentures for a period of three years, in
sums of 1,000/. each and upwards, at interest after the rate of 51
per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly.
Application to be made to the Secretary, at the Company's Office,
Derby. By order,
Derby, October IS, 1849

J. F. BELL, Secretary.

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CITY COMMISSIONERS OF
SEWERS.
Yesterday the commissioners assembled at the
Guildhall, Mr. Deputy Peacock in the chair.
A plan for the prevention of the escape of gas from
sewers was presented to the Court, but
Mr. lIAYwooD, the surveyor, stated that he had
examined it, and found nothing in it calculated to
improve upon the principle already adopted; and the
memorial upon the subject was consequently with-
drawn.

A memorial was presented by Mr. BLAKE from the
proprietor of the house, 86. Newgate-street, complain-
ing of an injurious leakage of water, proceeding from
looseness of the pavement.—Referred to a committee
to be reported upon.
The inspectors of the Court handed in their reports,
which showed that they had done a vast amount of
business since they had last appeared before the Court
—a fact which the commissioners took opportunities
in the course of the day to acknowledge with much
satisfaction ; indeed, one of the commissioners com-
plained that one of the inspectors had actually ex-
ceeded his duty, in giving notice to a housekeeper in
Farringdon-street to clear away a cesspool and other
obnoxious nuisances which were not in existence.
The complaint, of course, did not tell, as the majority
of the Court were of opinion that the nice power of
discrimination which the inspector possessed was
deserving of encouragement, and not question or

censure.
Mr. Deputy HARRISON complained of a very great
obstruction which was constantly occurring in Ship-
passage, which leads from Gracechurch street to
Leadenhall-market, in consequence of the practice
pursued by some tradesmen there, who crowded the
narrow thoroughfare with their goods. The obstruc-
tion was represented as one of very long continuance.
Some of the members were of opinion that it was
the duty of the Markets Committee to prevent the
continuance of the obstruction ; some thought the
matter came more properly under the supervision of
the police ; while others considered that if the inspec-
tors would only occasionally look at the place com-
plained of, and make a report as to its condtiion from
time to time, there would be no occasion for the adop-
tion of compulsory measures.
The last suggestion was adopted, and notice was
ordered to be served upon the parties in error, should
they persevere.
Mr. HAywoon, the surveyor to the commissioners,
reported that there were between 40 and 50 houses,
the property of Earl Delawarr, in such a condition as
to require the very attentive consideration of the
Court. These habitatations were situated in Prim-
rose-hill, Sugarloaf court, and other localities, of
which the public had read a great deal in the various
accounts of the most celebrated London stinks, and
they possessed in a very strong degree the qualities
which tend to the spread and perpetuation of disease.
Mr. SIMON, the city medical officer of health, said,
the places in which his Lordship's houses were re-
presented as being situate were certainly in the most
unhealthy parts of London.
The inspector of the district said, the agent and
surveyor of his Lordship had been served with first
notices.'
The COURT then ordered that compulsory notices
should be issued to the agent of Lord Delawarr, and
if those notices were not attended to duly, proceedings
should, with the advice of the solicitors to the com-
mission, be adopted.
Mr. H. 14. TAYLOR said, it appeared from the
reports of the inspectors that they had exceedingly
heavy and disagreeable duties to perform, and that
they performed all those duties highly to their
honour, particularly in the localities in which the
poor were congregated.
VIEW OF THE ALLEGED NUISANCES REPORTED BY
TUE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.

The CHAIRMIN of the commission requested the
attention of the Court to the report of the committee,
appointed to take a view of the several localities
reported by the medical officer of health as being
in a horrible condition. The committee, it would
appear, agreed with Mr. Simon that there were in the
places objected to many most abominably filthy tene-
ments, unfit to be dwelt in by human beings,
but at the same time they had no power
to interfere internally with them. In the
opinions entertained of the localities visited, the
committee and Mr. Simon were both right, and
so far as the Court could interfere for the improve-
ment of their sanitary condition, viz., externally,
that improvement was rapidly progressing, and a great
deal had already been effected. Serious complaints
had been made about the supply of water to
the inhabii-ants of the poor. Now, the commissioners
had been indefatigable in their exertionsto procure an
abundance of that article, as well as to advance in the
sanitary movement in every other way, but there were
persons who were unreasonable enough to suppose that
everything of an advantageous tendency ought to be
done in one day.
Mr. Deputy HARRISON said, it was not considered
that the commissioners had their present powers for
more than a few months.
Mr. Tickner, the second clerk of the Court, then
read the following report :
"TO THE BON. COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS OF THE

CITY OF LONDON.

" We, whose names are hereunto set, your Committee
upon General Purposes, do certify that, having had our
attention called to various statements as to the condition
of certain places within the city of London, referred to
in the reports of your medical officer, we have deemed it
expedient personally to view the following places, al-
though they have been previously viewed,and reported on
by your inspectors, and we beg to report thereupon re-
spectively as follows:

"In reference to the gully in George-yard, Bow-lane,
adjoining the-house situate No. 48 in the said lane, we
have directed it should be retrapped, and are of opinion
that it does not incommode the public so as to justify its
removal from its present site.
"In reference to the premises in Fan-court, Miles-lane,
we are of opinion that the cisternage in all the houses is
very inefficient, and that although the owner appears to
have done a good deal in the way of repairing the pre-
mi ios under the notices already served upon him by your
tifficcrs, we recommend that he be called upon imme-
diately to erect additional capacious cisterns in each of
the houses; and further, that adequate dustbins be con-
structed therein, and that he be required also to have the
walls oF the staircases and rooms effectually cleansed and
whitewashed.

"In reference to the house No. 5, Creechurch-lane,
we found a fair supply of water; the premises are under
repair. We recommend that the owner be called upon
to cleanse and lime-whiten the inside of the house, and
to repair the roofs and interior of the privies in the back
yard. We found several wooden shed 3 erected against
the wall of the church which adjoins the said premises,
and which appeared to b 3 used for stabling, and which
we consider must cause offensive nuisance, and to which
we think the notice of the pariah authorities should be
called, to have them removed.

"We viewed the premises known as the Queen's
tread, situate in the said lane, and found them in a very
dirty condition. The occupier stated that there was a
plentiful supply of water. We found the privy broken
down and useless, and the smell very offensive. We re-
commend that the owners be called upon to cleanse and
repair the house and the privy immediately.
" In reference to the privies situate in Prince's-street,
Ilosemary-lane we found them under rt pair; there are
no dustbias, and the occupiers deposit it in the cellars in
some instance?. We think the cisterns erected in some

of the houses adequate fur the wants of the inhabitants,
and the owner assured us he is about to erect similar in
all the other houses, and to close up the access to the
basements, so as to prevent their being used as we

have described. We recommend that he be called upon
to construct an adequate dustbin i❑ each of the houses
aforesaid, and to remove all dust and rubbish from the

cellars forthwith.

"In reference to the premises in Artillery-lane, we
are of opinion that Mr. Clark. the owner of certain pre-
miles therein, should ba cailed upon effixtually to repair
the same.
" We viewed the premises No. 6, Ilalf-moon-passage,
Aldersgato, where we consider the supply of water
inadequate and the drainage defective. We recommend
that the owner be called upon forthwith to construct a
cistern of sufficient size, and to have the house drains ex-
amined and repaired, and a dustbin fixed.

. •
"In reference to Sandy's-row we have to report that
only one-half of the street is within the City jurisdiction.
The street was clean when we saw it, and the inhabitant

of whom we inquired had no complaint to mako as to the

supply of water or otherwise. -
" We viewed Star-court, Milton-street, and found that
the outhouse formerly" used as a slaughterhouse, but
which had not been registered, did not appear to us to
have been used for such purpose for some time past. We
recommend that the owner of this court be called upon
to repair the same throughout.
"In reference to Moor-square, Cripplegate, in which
a sewer is about to be built under the direction of your
Honourable Court, we recommend that the owner be re-
quired to erect an adequate tank on the top of the octa-
gonal buildings in the centre of the said square, and to
communicate the water to the several privies, as well as
to drain them into the public sewers.

" We have viewed the promises in Doby-court, Monk-
well-street. in which a sewer is about to be built under

the direction of your Honourable Court.

We found

one cellar foul from leakage of a cesspool in the ad-
joining premises, and we recommend that the owner be
called upon to drain the same into the sewer when com-
pleted, and fill up the existing cesspool, and to construct
a dustbin at No. 4.

" In reference to Bird-court, Philip•lane, we recom-
mend that a sewer be constructed therein, and that the
owner be called upon to drain the premises into the
sewer, and to construct proper cisterns for the use of the
inhabitants.

• "We have viewed the precinct of St. Bartholomew.
We find the houses in Middlesex passage are damp from
the want of adequate drainage. We recommend that a
sewer be immediately built therein, and the owner be
called upon to drain the houses into the same.
" We observe that the whole of the precinct is in course
of being repaired, and will shortly be completed, and will,
so far, very materially improve this place. We observed
that many of the houses in the more remote places of this
precinct are obviously very old, being entirely or par-
tially built of wood, and otherwise dilapidated. Taking
the circumstances into consideration, we think that
this property should be left to the district surveyor to
deal with as he may see fit, and that notice be sent to him
accordingly.
" We have viewed Fox and Knot court, where we
found the one public privy recently rebuilt and water
laid on, and that the court is supplied by a common cock.
We were informed by the clerk that he has already, as
directed by your Court, served the owner with notice to
erect adequate cisterns, and to construct two newprivies
therein.
" In reference to St. John's-court we recommend that
the owner be called upon to construct a new dustbin of
stone, and that your • inspectors be directed to see the
orders which have been already given to the owner to
construct enlarged cisternage for the use of the inhabi-
tants promptly carried into effect.
" We find the premises No. 4, Smithfield, are in
bankruptcy and unoccupied, and that the parties repre-
senting the owner have been served with notice to trap
and lay on water to the privy, and empty and fill the
cesspool; and the time of notice has nat yet expired.
" In reference to Cox court, Alderegate, the inspec-
tor reports to us that the nuisance therein complained of
is abated.
" We viewed premises in Hartshorn-court, in which
we found the inhabitants are supplied with water by
means of a common cock. There is no cistern or tank
in the premises, although there is ample room for such.
We recommend that the owner be called upon to pro-
vide adequate cisternage forthwith, and that the pre-
mises be also supplied with water.
" We consider it right to state that in all these places
we found the courts and alleys clean and well paved, ex-
yeeoputrincgh airngoen,
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" We repeat, in closing our report, that we have been
induced to view all the above loc .litres, being desirous
that we might be able personally to report as to their
condition. We have also expressed our opinion as to
certain works which we think require to be done in them,
but it must not be supposed that these places had been
neglected until we went to view them. They had all
been viewed by your officers, and" in most of them the
owners have executed or are executing works of sanitary
improvement under your directions."
Some observations were made upon what the mem-
bers seemed to consider to be a dangerous and dis-
gusting nuisance, arising from a cavity, over which
there is a cellar flap, in Tower Royal, which flap is
not always closed even during the busiest hours of
the day.
The report, with the exception of the paragraph
relating to the nuisance just described, was agreed
to ; and notice was ordered to be served upon the
proprietor'eof the "yawning gulf," as Mr. Deputy Lott
called the uncovered chasm.
THE CHIEF CLERK OF THE COMMISSION,

The CHAIRMAN gave notice of a motion from Mr.
Under-Sheriff Millard, that, in consideration of the
long and faithful services and the altered and ex-

tended duties of the principal clerk, the salary d that
gentleman should be raised to the sum of 6001. a year.
The subject will be considered at the Court on the
6th of November next, as, in consequence of her
Majesty's visit to her faithful citizens on the 30th
inst., no Court of Sewers will then be held.
Mr. Deputy LOTT said he had read a statement in
the public papers to the effect that Mr. Simon had
said there was not room for another body in the
churchyards of the city of London.—(Laughter.)
He wished to know whether such an assertion had
been made by that gentleman.
Mr. SiscoN begged to b excused from being re-
sponsible for everything that appeared as if it issued
from him. A discussion had certainly taken place in
the Committee of Health on the subject of the
crowded churchyards of the City ;_ and he had cer-
tainly expressed the opinion he had long maintained
on that subject—namely, that the churchyards of the
City, which embraced an area of, he believed, only
eight acres and a half, were not fit receptacles for any
more bodies. His decided opinion was, that one more
burial ought not to take place in the city of London.
Mr. Deputy LOTT said The churchyards ought to
be examined by Mr. Simon before utterance were
given to such an opinion.

the more efficient trappings for gullies for the total pre-
vention of the escape of effluvia from them, in conjunc-
tion with a perfect system of ventilation to the sewers;
the total and uniform diversion from the Thames of the
ilage now p,lluting it, and its ultimate disposal when
diverted, and the securing an r.dequate supply of water,
ire, inter alia, q iestions of the highest importance, which
will for some time to come engross a large share of your
attention and consideration. In addition to these, the
entire abolition of cesspools, the perfecting the internal
.irainage of houses, and the removal of nuisances, &c.,
must continue to demand your utmost care and the most
erenuous efforts of your officers. Although much has
been done this year for the abatement of nuisances,
nuisances still exist, and your officers have unfortunately
too much evidence that, owing to the apathy, careless-
ness, and reckleSsness of many of the inhabitants of the
poorer dwellings, the very conveniences which you have
recently caused to be provided for their use have been
neglected or abused, and 24 hours have sometimes sufficed
to generate nuisances where all was previously clean.
Under such circumstances, nuisance is likely to exist
until improved habits are induced, and will render the
greatest vigilance requisite. It is nut, therefore, with
any view to the relaxation of your endeavours that I
misapprehension, it is my hope yon will be en-
haye submitted to you this report, but rather, by cor-
recting
couraged to persevere in what has been, and will be, a
laborious, unthankful, yet most important duty.
" I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your most
obedient servant,

" W. HAywooD, Surveyor."
The report was received with much applause, and
ordered to be printed and sent to all the members of
the Corporation.
The CHAIRMAN then called the attention of the
commissioners to the following letter from the Com-
missioner of Police, upon the important subject of the
sanitary exertions of the city of London :
TO THE HON. THE COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS.

" City Polic-office, Old Jewry, Oct. 22, 1349.
" Gentlemen,—The period of three months, for which
you requested the special services of the city police
having expired, it cannot fail l!o be acceptable to your
Honourable Board and the public to receive,:as it is gra-
tifying to me and dee to the force to give, a report upon
the nature and extent of the duties which have been
performed; a knowledge of which is the more desirable,
as it renders to all parties engaged their appropriate
measure of usefulness, and presents at the same time the
surest guide to the fittest agencies by which the great
objects committed to your charge can be best car-
ried out.
" It will be in the recollection of the Court that on the
lath of June last your medical officer, Mr. Simon, re-
ported his belief that an ,extensive attack of cholera
was impending,' and his conviction that the existing
state of inspection could not, by any possibility, perform
the immense anount of duty at the existing crisis,' and
suggested that it would not be possible to do better than
obtain the co-operation of a section of the police force.
It will be further in your recollection that I subsequently
attended your deliberations upon this subject; when I
ventured to repeat the substance of various recommen-
dations which I had previously submitted to your Hon.
Court, delineating the best mode by which I considered
the service of the police could be at a trifling cost made
permanently effective in carrying out the various and
important objects contemplated by the Sewers Act.
"My conviction so expressed has been greatly
strengthened by the experience of our exertions and the
character and extent of the information we have supplied
during the last three months, and which I shall now
proceed to detail.
"By the returns which accompany this communica-
tion, it will appear that the sergeants of the force who
were selected for this duty reported upon the condition
of 15,010 houses in the following several respects:—
" 12,878 houses were reported as generally clean in
appearance, but in many instances were found, upon close
examination, to require special notice for one or more
of the following nuisances:—
" 2,132 required whitewashing or other cleansing, on
account of general dirtiness.
" 2,524 had offensive smells, from bad drainage and
other causes.
" 720 had filth or rubbish in the cellar.
" 106 had stagnant water on the premises.
" 51 were found offensive, from the deficiency of dust-
bins, and the necessary accommodation for refuse. •
" 446 were found in an offensive and unhealthy state,
from bad or deficient drainage.
" 154 wero found in much need-Of water, or used water
deteriorated by improper recep!acles.
" 109 presented the necessity of having their dustbins
immediately clean d.
" 148 presented nuisances of various descriptions un-
favourable to health, not previously described.
" 13,020 houses bad privies and water-closets free
from nuisance.
" 1,120 had privies and water-closets in a very offen-
sive state.
" 4,608 had their privies in the cellars.
" 4,389 had their privies in passages and other parts of
the houses.
" 4,991 had their privies in yards and outer premises.
" 152 privies were used in common by more than one
house.

223 cesspools were found full of soil.
30 had burst or had overflowed.
21 cellars were used as cesspools.
40 drains were found to be choked with soil.
The above reports have reference to the internal
state of houses. I shall now detail the number and
nature of out-door nuisances.

" 103 reports have been made by the police of stinks
from the drains, gratings, &c.
" 92 of stagnant water iu the streets or out door pre-
mises.

" 16 of accumulated deposits of offal, decayed vegetable,
or other offensive matter in yards, wharfs, &c.
" 36 of unwholesome trades, manufactures, or other
operations. _ _

" 28 of urinals, or places used as such by the public,
in an offensive state.

"32 of dung and dust-heaps offensive to their neigh,
bourhoods.

" 51 of common privies complained of as nuisances.
"8 of various nuisances not particularly defined.
"In addition to these representations upon internal
and external circumstances, 952 cases of actual cholera
have been ascertained through the information of the
medical attendants and reported in the daily returns, of
which number 635Jhave proved fatal, 286 have recovered,
and 31 are still under treatment, or the result is not
ascertained, the sufferers having been removed to the
country.
" Such, gentlemen, have been the labours of the police,
effected for the most part in a few days, arid all within
the prescibed period of three months, and that at the
trifling cost of 1001.

" It will be obvious to your Ilonourable Court that the
extreme urgency of the inquiry imparted to it the
character of haste, and precluded that minute search
and persevering investigation which under other and
ordinary circumstances would be desirable, while our
anxiety to obtain information in neighbourhoods most
exposed to disease precluded inquiries into more favoured
localities, but which, upon other occasions, ought not to
be overlooked.

" What may be the course your Hon. Court, upon
mature deliberation, may decide hereafter to pursue, to
accomplish the important objects of your appointment,
it would be presumptuous in me to predicate; but I trust
that tho suggestion of ten years' experience, respectfully
submitted by one filling the responsible office of Com-
missioner of Police in this great city, and for the most
part residing within i:s walls, and in daily superintend-
ence of the manifold objects which affect the peace, the
safety, the health, and the comfort of this vast corn •
munity, will not be considered as unacceptable or un-
worthy of your attention; and in so doing I feel it duo
to the medical practitioners within the City, with scarcely
an exc, pant), t i acknowledge the: readines and courtesy
with which upon all occasions they have given informa-
tion to our officers; at the same time I anticipate the
satisfaction it will give to your Hon. Court to hear that
our inquiries have been uniformly received with grati-
tude, and cheerfully aided by all classes of thee:lmmunity.
"It will be obvious to your Hon. Court that the main
objects of your commission are—first, to ascertain, as
perfectly as possible the fullest and most minute infor-
mation upon all matters which can in any way affect the
health or comfort of the inhabitants, and of persons
frequenting the City; next to be satisfied, by frequent
reports, that whatever is suggested to be done, is well
and promptly done; and lastly, that the information of
what is required and performed should be obtained in
the most efficient and least expensive way.
" Now, I venture to think that, fur obvious reasons,
there is no agency by which these objects can be so
difectually accomplished as by that of the police force.
The police is a recognized authority, to which applica-
tion can be made without annoyance or loss of time;
whose services can be rendered without intrusion, and of
whose neglect complaint may be legitimately made and
redress promptly obtained. It comes within our expe-
rience to know that serious inconveniences are tolerated

from an indisposition to incur personal reproach, or the
trouble that individual interference imposes, but which
would be promptly brought under the notice of the
police if their services in this respect were publicly an-
nounced in relation to these matters, and many other
such as are detailed in the accompanying returns.
Secondly, it will be admitted, that next to the know-
ledge of an evil is the evidence of its speedy removal.
" Now, though we have reported upon many hundreds
of cases, assuming different degrees of nuisance, to
which there can be no doubt the ready attention of your
Honourable Court has been given, yet there is no
channel so prompt and disinterested through which to
ascertain that your directions hare been effectually

enforced, as that by which the original information is
given, for the parties through whom nuisances are re-
ported and their suppression ascertained are not the
fittest to execute the orders of your Honourable Board.
It should also be borne in mind that when actual
nuisances are reported, and their removal satisfactorily
attested, such reports can only have reference to things
as they exist at the time, and that to effectually main-
tain a perfect system of sanitary authority, the super-
vision of which I speak should be vigilant and continuous.
To relax is
_to retrograde; to delay is to parley with

disease and death; and by what means, permit Ile re-

spectfully to inquire, can such an amount of aid be so
efftctually and so economically secured as through the
agency of the police?

• ' " The plan I propose gives the services of 40 intern-
• gJent men, whose business it will be to report every
; nuisance or inconvenience which can in any way impair
Ole health or affect the reasonable comforts of the public,
to bo accomplished by the daily inspection of each and
all of the highways and byways of the City—its streets,
lanes, alleys, and courts—to the end that no nuisance or
danger shall be allowed to continue, and that the advan-
tages of water and light be uniformly and amply supplied.
Further, that the inhabitants of the City, of every con-
dition, may enjoy the benefit of this system of general
ptotection. I suggest that notices should be periodically
left with every dweller, inviting attention to our arrange-
ments and co-operation in their observance; so that in
effect no just cause or complaint should escape detection
nor elude redress. I forbear to enlarge upon this subject
or its advantages, having upon former occasions, in
various communications, taken the liberty to enforce it;
hilt there is one point which I consider it important to
notice. It has been, not unfrequently, intimated to me,
that the suggestions I now repeat, and venture to re-
commend, are viewed with apprehension as part of an
aggressive system, by which it is proposed to aggran-
dize the power of the police, and to circumscribe the
important functions of your Hon. Board. I need hardly
express my conviction that these views can receive
no countenance from a body of men with whom
the public health is a supreme law, and who
must feel it their cheerful duty to secure that great end
bY every legitimate instrumentality, unbiassed by con-
siderations which can only have their origin in the dread
of that censure which justly follows neglected duties or
palpable incompetence.
" For myself I do not discern, and assuredly I do not
seek, in the plan proposed any augmentation of power
of patronage; already I find the appointment and dis-
posal of 600 men amongst the least pleasing of my
duties, rarely a source of pleasure, a continued cause of
anxiety and pain.
" But whatever *construction may be placed upon this
overture of service, I deem it incuinient upon me to
wake it; because I feel that by the harmonious co-ope-
rution of the two Commissions of Police and Sewers
such great and various social advantages may be secured
as shall silence the jealousy which the principle of self-
government provokes, and earn the lasting gratitude of
present and coming times.
" I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your faithful
and obedient servant, " D. W. HARVEY."
Mr. BLARE, in moving that the letter be entered
upon the minutes, intimated that the commissioner
showed a great anxiety to appropriate to himself and
his police the whole credit of the City sanitary move-
ment; so that, according to that gentleman, as well
as according to the Committee of Health and others
who set up claims, the Commissioners of Sewers
would come in for a very small share of commenda-
tion indeed; although they had originated the board
and engaged the police and had done everything else
calculated to meet and avert the impending calamity.
After making some spirited comments upon the
manner in which the commissioners bad been attacked
by the press, he suggested a mode by which that
powerful organ might, instead of dishonouring itself
by statements founded in gross misrepresentation and
falsehood, render substantial service to the poor. His
suggestion was, that the pens of the editors should be
turned to the task of inducing the Government to
abolish the assessed taxes. By rendering that ser-
vice they would contribute, through the blessings of
air and light, to do essential good to the whole com-
munity.
!Sir. Deputy BRIDGE wished that the letter be laid
upon the table, as containing a mass of misrepresen-
tations.

The letter was finally ordered to be entered upon
;he minutes, and the Court adjourned.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY.
WINDSOR CASTPLE, OCT. 20, 1840.
This day had audience of her Majesty, Abbott Law-
rence, Esq., Envoy Extraordinarpeend Minister Pleni•
potentiary4om the Uojted Stites of America, to deliver
his credeitols• to which holus introduced by Viscount
Palmerston, nLC.B:, her DatZisty's Principal Secretary
of State for Deign Affair: