The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-05 00:00:00

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COURT OF Cl? SON -
IA Court was held for Ore dispstch of publie:htthinels. • •
CORPORATION' PROCRASTINATION. _
Mr. EDKINS complained that the time of the Court..
was generally so much taken up with empty discussions . sm ,
aig
upon subjects wholly unconnected with the interests of
the citizens of London, that there were upon the paper
of business notices of motion of fifteen or sixteen months r
standing. He thought the Lord Mayor was bound, at
all events, to convene Courts fo r twelve o'clock, accord-
ing to old custom, instead of tike later hour at which
they assembled, and was sure thot the departurein jurfirooums
the earlier tine contributed very much to th
procrastination of public business.---(Hear, hear.)
Sir PETER LAURIE said, there were upon the paper
numerous notices of motion, which the persons who
caused them to be inserted never intended to bring for-
ward.—(Laughter.) Ile would instance the project of
the railroad to Farringdon-market. which was amongst
the complete impracticabilities, and Mr. Be nnoeh's
notice for holding the meetings of the Court of Common
Council at House of Commons hours.—(Laughter.)
There were also notices of motion for substantial compli-
ments of plate, and nothing could be inure certain than
that the hand of death would be laid upon the indivi-
duals selected for such honour before the motions would
pass. He hoped all the useless and stupid notices would
be at once removed from the paper by those who had
been so injudicious as to place them on the list.—(Hear.)
A report was presented upon the subject of appropri—
ating the site of a house in Newgate street, the rent of
which had fallen in, to the beneficial plan of widening
the street. It recommended such appropriation, and also
the appropriation to the same purpose of other houses
in the naarow part of the street, as the rent of each
should fall in.
The report was agreed to immediately, and amidst
applause, the object being to give greater public accom-
modation in the crowded loCality of Newgate-street.
HEALTH OF TOWNS.
Deputy BEDFORD rose to present the petition, which
the lamented Dr. Lynch had expressed so much anxiety
to introduce, from the inhabitants of Farringdon With-
out, praying the Court to set aside a sum of money to
improve the sanatory condition of the ward, and to adopt
such measures as would improve the habitations of the
labouring classes.
The petition, after alluding to the projected new
street from King William-street to King-street, which
would cost an enormous sum, without producing benefit
at all corresponding, and which had the appearance of a
monstrous job rather than of an useful undertaking,
represented that there were undertakings appertaining
to the state of the public health vithin the City which
more immediately and imperatively demanded the
consideration and interference of the Court than any
plan of street decoration. "It is," said the peti-
tion, which enters very fully into the subject, and con-
sists of twenty-six long pages, " notorious, as shown in
the evidence given in the Health of Towns Commission
and the Poor-law Commission, in their inquiry into
the sanatory condition of the labouring classes, that the
disease and mortality of the metropolis are frightfully
increased by the absence of such sanatory regulations as
it is clearly within the power of the Corporation to sup-
ply. Your memorialiie-s remind your Honourable Court
that, in the month of March, a resolution was moved in
the Court of Common Council by Dr. Lynch, urging
upon the Corporation the imperative obligation under
which it lay of immediately adopting those sanatory
regulations which the exigencies of the case required
for the purpose of diminishing the disease and mortality
arising out of the absence of such regulations, which re-
solution was supported and illustrated by a speech re-
plete with striking and important facts, which created
great interest in the public mind, and obtained a refer-
ence of the said resolution to the improvement commit-
tee. Your memorialists cannot avoid expressing their
deep concern at the fact of your having permitted a mat-
ter so important and pressing as this to remain for eight
months without any report having been made upon it,
and without, as your memorialists have reason to believe,
the committee to which was refer red ever having given
to it a moment's considerati,in, especially after it bad
been shown by the evidence of the highest authorities
that of the deaths annually occurring within the metro-
polis between 4,600 and 5,000 occur from diieases pre-
ventible by ordinary precautions, while the disease, de-
bility, and poverty engendered by the absence of them
add greatly to the amount of human suffering, and to the
burden of the poor rates."
The following are the concluding paragraphs:—
" By the 44th of Edward 111. the butchers of London
were forbidden to slaughter cattle iiithin the City, and
by the 16th of Richard 11. the prohibition was extended
to swine. We are at a loss to conceive of any good
reason for now dispensing with a regulation so properly
deemed necessary for the preservation of the public
health in former times. The same may he said of fur-
naces and other sources of atmoaph. tic pollution which
call for the like interference of your Court and the Le-
gislature. By the 35th of Edward 1., the Mayor of
London was commanded to prevent persons from light-
ing furnaces near the Tower of London during the stay
of the Queen and nobles at the Tower. because the air,
as it was alleged, is corrupted and infection promoted by,
the insolubility of the air on account of the said fur-
naces. What was true in the time of Edward the First
is equally true now, and we would respectfully suggest,
that it is scarcely less necessary, to free the air from that
infection which is injurious to human life because the
Queen and the nobles may not now happen to stay at
the Tower of London.
" We also venture to suggest, that in addition to all
the other and pressing obligations which rest upon your
Court to promote the sanatory condition of take City
there is one arising out of the fact, ;at it 'was the cor-
poration of the City that 6pposeff Sir Christopher
Wren's plan for the rebuilding of London, which was
approved by the King, and which would have
excluded all grave-yards, as well as all dark
narrow alleys without thoroughfares, and courts;
as also all trades that use great fires or yield
noisome smells, and would have secured perfect ven-
tilation and arteries of communication throughout
the City, sufficient even for its present enormous traffic.
Taking the premises herein set forth into consideration,
and adverting to the serious responsibility which rests
upon the Corporation of the city of London, with its
ample revenues and great powers, we confidently rely
upon your Court to proceed, without loss of time, to the
completion of those sanatory arrangements which you
have so commendably beLan by the making of sewers,
and the cleansing of highways ; and that you will give
to them, moreover, a preference over the widening of
streets merely for the purposes of traffic, which, however
necessary and important, falls far short of those mea-
sures upon which the health, the comforts, and the lives
of so many of the inhabitants of the city of London im-
mediately depend."
Mr. DUCKMASTER also presented s petition from the
inquest jury of St. Andrew s, Holborn, on the danger to
the public health ari.ing from bad sewerage. It stated
that though sewerage was proceeded in, the locality was
in as bad a condition as if there was no sewerage at all,
as the landlords did not choose to go to the expense of
opening drains to make it available, and that the supply
of water was most inadequate ; and it would be desir-
able that the Legislature should make it compulsory upon
landlords to have a due and proper supply furnished to
every house.
It was stated that an effort, which it was expected
would be successful, was to be made in Parliament to
introduce a clause making it compulsory upon landlords
to accomplish what the memoriali,ts recommended.
The reports were referred to the Improvements Com-

raittee.
Mr. WATERLOW brought up the report of the Parlia-
mentary Committee, with the draft of a petition to
Parliament against the interment of the dead in
churches and churchyards ; and also a report recom-
mending the abatement of the nuisance of smoke from
steam-engines, and the draft of a petition on the subject.
Agreed to.

NEW PRISON.
Mr. WIRE brought up a report recommending the ap-
propriation of some City ground at llu11ow•ay for the
erection of a pricon.—Agreed to.

BRIXTON ALMSHOUSES.
Deputy ALLAN brought up a report recommending
that the Corporation should take thet future manage-
ment of the almshouses erected a few )ears ago at
Brixton under its own management, and to autho-
rise the committee to carry into effect the negotiation
carried on for the transfer of the prop. rty, and fur their
entire management and control by the Corporation.
Agreed to.
THE CLERK OF THE CITY'S WORKS.
Mr. BURN brought up the report on the reference to
consider the present salary of the clerk of the City's
works, and recommending the same to be increased to
spoke in terms of the highest appro-
uct of Mr. Bunning, the clerk of tho
geualirfiece.tdtoinions.
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question will be dis-
works, and of his high
posed of at the next Court.

NEW CONSULAR, APPOINTMENTS IN .BARBARX.—
We have much
')lesoansuorei
sinirsinTnhotumlnacisnßgeathdaet
hßeirchßarrd
Reade, the eldest
tannic Majesty's Consul-General at Tunis, 'bas been
appointed Vice-Consul at Tripoli, in Barbary, from
whose perfect knowledge of the Arabic and Maltese lan-
guages we feel persuaded that be will be found a very
useful auxiliary to our much respected Consul, G. W.
Crowe, Esq., in a place where so many natives of Malta
are permanently settled; and among whom (so prone as
they are to litigation) disputes are continually arising
requiring Consular interference. Another appointment,
that of Consul at Ghidames, with a salary
of 5001, a
year! is also spoken of; having principally e.o vii the
abolition of slaveryi n Central Africa; and it is currently
reported that Mr. James Ricrdson,. known in this
island as the editor of the Barlequin, Clown, and other
satirical and facetious
(to say nothing more of them)
publications, has had the good 15rtune to obtain
penny
the same through the influence of the Anti-
Slavery So-
ciety.—Malta paper.
WAKEFIELD CORN MAR F. ET, FEIDAy. The
arrivals are pretty good of ot, ts and bans, and moderate
,f wheat. The business pAssing- to-thy is extremely
inuited, buyers restricting their pereha.ses to mere retail
quantities for immediate wants. The value of wheat is
tbout the same as on Tues,ay, which is 6s, to Bs. lower
han thpeirs day
load,wierel4. Outs
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b„ahs2
2,. pier
1
p-,_,rtl. (lup,elrrtsetrociaohe,
,sZ:ring 2s.
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POISONING FISH IN THE REGENT'S CANAL.-
011 Friday evening and this morning the draught of water
,etween the Kentish-town and Maiden lune locks was,
as to the surface, completely covered with fish, consist-
ing of roach, dace, bream, and carp. Some scores of
curious boys were entertained for nearly four hours in
descending into the canal, and redeemed at least four
bushel baskets of fish. It is supt)oseo that cecolus in-
ieus had been introduced into the current, with a view
to destroy the finny tenants of the stream, dither from
-,pite towards many idle boys who occupy their time in
angling there, or to serve /,‘ new organized party of
suburban poachers who vend'albutig the Jews this order
of fish at this season of the year.