The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-05 00:00:00

THE SCOTTISH SOCIETY'S FETE.

We aro happy to observe by advertisements, that
the members of this society have determined to gratify
the pleasure-seeking public with a repetition of their
fete on Wednesday and Thursday next, the 10th and
11th, in Lord Holland's magnificent park. It will be
remembered that on the two occasions of their last
celebration her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, with their family and suite, and the
most distinguished of the nobility honoured the games
and sports with their presence, and moreover that her
Majesty was then pleased to signify her appreciation in
the encouragement of such innocent and healthy recrea-
tion, by adding fifty guineas out of the royal purse to
the society's prizes. Such patronage ought to be received
with gratitude, not only by the members of the Scottish
Society, but by the public generally, for whose enjoy-
ment such fetes are got up, and we hope that the exer-
tions making for an agreeable and novel day's amuse-
ment will be encouraged by the multitude, in whose so-
ciety and happiness our beloved Queen takes so lively
an interest, as frequently exhibited in her visits to the
Crystal Palace. The programme announces the various
athletic games, sports, and pastimes of the three kingdoms,
and the management have judiciously reduced the admis-
sion fees considerably from their former prices. We will
conclude this our preliminary notice of the grand national
fête, by a reference to the encouragement given to all
sports, by a proclamation of Charles 1., in which he
states that it is his will that his good subjects bo not dis-
turbed or discouraged from any lawful recreations,
such as dancing, for men or women ; archery, leaping,
vaulting, running, or uny such harmless amusements for
men—nor for having May games, Whitsun-ales, and
Morris-dances, or the setting up of May-poles. This
regal order was issued in consequence of the ridiculous
and meaningless declamations of the zealots and puritans
of that age. The great demoralization of this age has
not unfrequently been attributed to Sabbath-breaking, in
which offence the bigots would include the after-church
water parties of the poor cooped-up Londoners, who, on
this only
.day of relaxation, crowd to Richmond-park,
to walk in the meadows and admire the beautiful
scenery. Surely this is a lamentable mistake ;at any
rate the encouragement of such fetes as the Scottish
Society's will do much to meet the growing demand for
out-of-door amusements. Lord Holland deserves the
thanks of all such as appreciate those enjoyments, for
the handsome manner in which he ,throws open his
hitherto exclusive splendid park.

METROPOLITAN COMMISSIONERS OF
SEWERS.

A monthly court of the Metropolitan Commissioners
of Sewers was held yesterday at the office, Greek-street,
Soho-square. The commissioners present were, Viscount
Ebrington, M.P. (in the chair), Sir John Burgoyne, Mr.
S. M. Pet?, M.P., Mr. W. Hawes, Captain Dawson, Mr.
P. Hardwick, and Mr. E. Lawes.

Payments for works in progress were ordered to be
made to the amount of 2,575/.

Oa the motion of Mr. E. Lawes, it was agreed " That
5,300 feet of brick sewer, 4 feet by 2 feet 8 inches, be
constructed in Loughborough-park, Brixton, at an esti-
mated cost to the Surrey and Kent district of 2,3001.
Also, " That upon the sum of 1001. being paid into
court by the parties interested, 1,600 feet of brick sewer,
4 feet by 2 feet 6 inches, be constructed in King Henry-
street and Coach and Horses lane, Newington, at an
estimated cost of 1,2801.; and that the remainder of such
expense be defrayed out of the district rates of the Fins-
bury division."
Lord EBRINGTON said a question on this subject was
asked him the other night in the House of Commons,
and he might state that under the old law of sewers per-
sons were not only called upon to contribute to the dis-
trict sewers rates, but to pay certain amounts varying
from shillings to pounds for the frontage charges in en-
tering those sewers. Such charges under the New
Sewers Act were prohibited, but still it was considered
that the benefit received in a district by a new sewer
was more than equivalent to the charge fur frontage in
an assessment to a special sewers rate.

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Pills are a universal Remedy for old Wounds and obstinate
Sores. —Mr. John ,hackie, proprietor of the Xort4ern Ensign,
Wick, informs Professor Holloway, by letter dated, April 3,
1851, that he is aware of numerous instances in which Hollo-
way's Ointment and Pills have been of the greatest service to
sufferers in that part of the country, more especially as regards
wounds of long standing, and that he could, if permitted, give
the names of many respectable parties who have been entirely
cured by their use. No family should be without a supply of
these excellent medicines, which are so justly celebrated
throughout the civilised world.—Sold by all Druggists, and
at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.

APOTHECARIEs;-LIALL.—The following are the
names of the gentlemen who passed their examination in the
science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to
practise, on Thursday, July 3: —John Roulston, Helperby-
bridge, Yorkshire ; Edward William Stephen Davis, Merthyr
Tydvil ; Edward Abraham Hancock Head, Stoke, near Ply-
mouth ; John Tom Gabriel, Royal Navy ; Augustus Florence,
Isle of Portland, Dorset ; Robert Gordon, Tatham, Newby-
place, Poplar; Thomas Seal Blackwell, Staplehurst, Kent;
Robert Lucas, Burwell, Cambridgeshire.

SURVEY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COAST.—The
Admiralty have ordered Commander Shortland, in her Ma-
jesty's steam vessel Columbia, to proceed from Halifax to
survey SaWe Island, in the vicinity of which, it will be re-
membered, the Irish steamer Vice- was lost on her trial
trip from Galway to New York,—United Service Gazette.