The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-20 00:00:00

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, Captain Vetch,
Captain Dawson, and Mr. Hawes.
The first business transacted was
receiving
and ac-
cepting tenders for the construction of works. There
were twelve tenders sent in for executing a brick
sewer, &c., at Shrubland-road, Dalston, for which the
engineer's estimate was 4201. The tender of Mr.
Hills, amounting to 3521., was accepted. The next
contract was for similar works in Caversbem..street
and Weller-street, Chelsea ; the engineer's estimate
for which was 6881. The lowest tenders in this case
were referred to the engineer for his decision there-
upon; as was also done in the case of the projected
works iu the Kentish-town-road and Warren-street,
Camden-town, which bad been estimated by the
engineer to cost 1,8821. The next subject was
to consider the propriety of accepting tenders
fur works in London-street, &c., Greenwich; and,
at the suggestion of the chairman, the engineer
was directed to ascertain whether the authorities of
Greenwich Hospital had provided sufficient outlet for
the additional sewerage, before the Court should de-
finitively decide upon the works. The clerk then
read the financial statement to the Court, from
which it appeared that the balance in hand on the
15th inst. amounted to 8,1801. The Court ordered
payment for works and officers' salaries to be made
to the extent of 5,2801. 18s. 9d., which would reduce
the balance to 2,8991. Is. 31. Captain Dawson then
rnoved, " That the order of the Court of the 4th July,
1851, which directs that the expense of constructing
certain sewerage works in Dacre-street and other
places at Lee, in the county of Kent, be paid, one-
half
thereof by a special rate upon the occupiers of
the lands, tenements. and premises, and their appur-
tenances, to be
specially benefited,and the remaining
half out of the district a
rates of the Ravensbourne
district, be rescinded,
_aendd.that such expenses be de-
frayed wholly out of
He
istrict rates of the Raves-
bourne district."observed that he had given
notice of this motion becauset the plan for the
works in question appeared be founded on the
principle of back drainage,a tob which some
serious objections bad been raised , but' taking into
consideration that the main line of
Lee-road, as far as Church-street, basewer along the
t ordered to be executed as an outlet
for already been
sewerage
of Dacre-street, &c., he should contenthimself at pre-
sent with moving, " That the plan and
re
regard to Dacre-street and other places
aptorit, with
referred back to the engineer for re-considerationeebe and
alteration, to enable the works to be charged upon the
district rate." The motion was agreed to. Sewers
were then ordered to be constructed, agreeably to re-
ports from the surveyors, in the following districts:
Eastern division of the Westminster Sewers, works
estimated at 415/. ; Ranelagh district, 40/. ; kolborn
division, 2781. Bs. ; Finsbury division, 997/. ; Spital-
fields, &c., level, 523/ ; Hackney-brook level, 17/. 155.;
Tower-hill level, 1601. • Limehouse level, 251.; Poplar
district, 62/. 10s. ; and Surrey and Kent district, 2761.
The construction, repair, and trapping of gullies, also
ordered, amounted to 911. 18s. 6d. additional. A great
portion of the sitting was occupied in hearing sum-
monses against owners and occupiers of property who
had failed to execute works of improvement according
to notice, but none of the cases involved any matter of
public interest. The Court afterwards adjourned.

REUNION DES ARTS.—Last night this society gave
its second soirée of the winter season to a very crowded as-
sembly, at 27, Queen Anne-street. The soirée was opened by
the celebrated Beethoven Septet No. 1, for wind and stringed
instruments, which was most masterly executed by Messrs.
Goffrie, Hancock, Gantz, T. Snelling, T. Mann, Bootie, and
Ould ; as well as the Trio of Beethoven, in the second part of
the soiree, by Messrs. Gollmick, Hancock, and Booed; and
both pieces were listened to with great appreciation by the
elegant audience; whilst songs and solos were well supported
by Miss Magner, Miss Mary Rose, Madame Lemaire, Mr.
Swift, Mr. Rummel, Mr. )Kos, Mr. Wusteman, Mr. J. Case,
who every one individually were most enthusiastically ap-
plauded. Thalberg's grand fantasia from Don Pasquale
was most elegantly played by Madame Goffrie, as well as
Mr. Gollmick's own compositions, which were by his delicate
touches exquisitely executed, finishing the evening to the
greatest admiration of the whole audience.

THE WOODCOCK —On the 30th ult. John Hannay,
Esq., shot a woodcock on the estate of Mollance. A fine
woodcock was shot by Mr. Corrie upon his lands of New-
tonards, on the 27th ult. This is the first we have heard of
this season. Mr. Welsh, of Furthhead, also killed a very
good one on the 28th.—Dumfries Courier.
FIRES IN LONDON.—The records kept by the
brigade officials exhibit a great increase of fires in the me-
tropolis and its suburbs, as compared with former years.
Since the formation of the force it is gratifying to observe
that the amount of property destroyed is considerably less.
There appear to have been no less than 900 fires broken out
in the metropolis daring the present year.
MORAL MAXIMS FOR EMIGRANTS.—A sovereign,
in the hand is worth a lump of gold in the bush.—Punch,

AN AGED PAUPER.—llelen Church, aged 100,
was on the 3d inst. admitted into St. Pancras workhouse.
For the last 16 years she was maintained and supported by
a kind lady at St. John's Wood, in whose service she had
formerly lived; but the lady's circumstances becoming al.
tered fur the worse, the centenarian was compelled to seek
the shelter of a workhouse.
The Preston ,Chronicle narrates a very shabby
trick of a person who had undertaken to get three or four
triends off to Bolton, but who found the whole of the railway
carriages for that town full. Buttoning his top-coat en
militaire, and giving himself an official air, he put his head
through one of the carriage windows, calling out "All here
tor Bury ?" The passengers, alarmed at the idea of going in
that direction, left the carriage, leaving seats enough for the
party and some to spare. Oa the dislodged passengers find-
ing they had been unseated unnecessarily, the train was
about to start, so as many as could get in returned to their
carriage, glad to set off homewards. Those whose places
were taken had to console themselves as they beat could until
another train was got ready.

• ALLEGED DISCOVERY Or THE PERPETUAL MOTION.
—The Courrier de la Gironde states that a civil engineer of
Bordeaux, named de Vignernon, has discovered the perpetual
motion. His theory is said to be to find in a mass of water,
at rest, and contained within a certain space, a continual
force, able to replace all other moving powers. The above
joernal declares that this has been effected, and that the
machine invented by M. de Vignernon works admirably. A
model of the machine was to be exposed at Bordeaux for
three days, previous to the inventor's departure with it for
London.

FURTHER DISCOVERY OF ANTIQUITIES AT STROOD.
—Within the last few days a discovery has been made in
that rich field of ancient remains the Temple brick-yard, at
Strood, near Rochester, consisting of earthenware melting
pots, crucibles and ladles, such as are known to have been
applied in the fabrication of money. Antiquaries, however,
are divided in opinion as to their date, but the one which ap-
pears to be the most feasible is that which ascribes their
date to the time when the Romans were predominant in
Britain, for large quantities of cast money, both of silver
and brass, were then made, and it is generally supposed
that the cast money was not genuine. Since the Roman
sway, until very recently, we have had no coin in circula-
tion that even if it could be cast, which is doubted, would
have answered the purpose of forgers to cast, and when the
practice of casting spurious coins was resumed, a metal was
used which was fusible at a lower degree of heat than would
require an earthen crucible.

A REDEEMING FEATURE OF FREE TRADE—
"WeII," said a gossip to a friend in the street, a north coun-
try shipowner, a short time ago, "how does the world use
you now? " " Why," was the answer, "I have had a pretty
good year myself; but trade's very Lu
ckily
a badLuckilya sby of mine, at Rio de Janeiro, picked up a cargo of sugar
for New York. I made a pretty good thing o' iliat ~,
cargo from Rio to New York—that's something new with
you, is it not ? " "Yes, we shouldn't have got that cargo
under the old navigation-laws; there is some good in free
trade." We need hardly Bay that this cargo of sugar will
not he found in our Parliamentary shipping returns. Mr.
George Frederick Young will pervert the absence of the
vessel from our own ports into an argument against free
trade—the fact being the contrary.— Gateshead Observer.
SIR JAMES GRAHAM A CULTIVATOR OF FLAX.--
Mr. Brown, steward to Sir James Graham, has been on a visit
to Ireland for the purpose of acquiring information as to the
cultivation of flax. The Right Hon. Baronet is about to
make an experiment on the Netherby estate he, or some of
his tenants, are to be the growers.—Carlisle Patriot.
MALDON.--A BLOOMER MISSING.---Last week, this
town was extensively placarded, announcing that a Miss
Carr, an American lady, would on Thursday evening lecture
on Bloomensm, and show to the women, and eke to the gen-
tlemen, too, how delightful a lady looks in pants. Curiosity
of course was excited, for Maldon can boast as good a stock
of this quality as any other town of its size. The lecture
room was surrounded at the appointed hour, but there were
no lights, no lady; in fact, the last railway
no Miss Carr was there ; and the company
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fever. the crops. That there
1851.—We are very anxious about THE CROPB IN INDIA. B=HAISIPOOS, OCT. 5,
will be a very short rice crop
and much suffering there can-
t
o more rain, it will be alarm-
ing, but some might be
se saved
some by
not be a doubt, and if we havebn
copious showers. Sickness
three •I'he weather still keeps hot during the
days' rain would bring in the cold
weather
day, but two orusmuch.
The whole of this year has
been the most unseasonable
• places to a fearful extent,
chiefly putrid
that has been experienced for a
long time, no
not confined to our locality, but extending from
Ceylon to the Punjaub, as also down the east coast of the
bay.
ibeginning
and
PUSS CHOPS r3R A HOME !—At Rotherham
to
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Statutes, on Monday week, a gentleman who wanted a feed
of provender for his horse, sent his servant man with a shil-
ling to buy some " chop" for a bait. The simple fellow, un-
used to stable parlance, went to a pork-butcher's shop, and
invested the whole shilling in pork chops, with which he
hastened back to his master and the hungry horse.
INGRATITUDE.—Garrick applying to Lord Roch-
ford to appoint a Mr. Glover, a surgeon in the Essex militia,
says—" lie is a most skilful, worthy man, a good writer, and
a steady friend to Government. I have known him long.
he is much beloved, and the worst thing I ever heard of him
was, that, by his skill in his profession, he recovered a thief,
after be had hung half an hour, and which thief, before
he had healed the circle the rope had made, p d
Ted
Glover's pocket by way of gratitude, and never than
him fur his good offices."

HINT TO A HIGH-FLYING LAWYER.--The late
Judge Peace of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio, wssi
a noted wag. A young lawyer was once making his first
effort before him, and had thrown himself on the wings of
his imagination into the seventh heaven, and was seemingly
preparing for a higher ascent, when the judge struck his
rule on the desk two or three times, exclaiming to the as-.
tonished orator, " Hold on, hold on, my dear sir. Don't go
any higher, for you are already out of the jgioaietiork Qf ttle
court."