The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-29 00:00:00

SEEDS.

Only a moderate business hrs been transacted in linseed;
prices, however, continue firm. Clover seed is drill, but
holders refuse to accept lower rates. Canary is very inac-
tive. Linseed cakes command full quotations The
transactions in rape-cakes are limited on former terms.
Turnip, Wnite,per bush 20s to 21s
Swede .. • • •• 21s 21s
.custard, Brown •• • • 21 b
White, new ••• • .. 108 12s
Tsres,Virtnter, new.. ..5s 641 68 Od
Canary, per onatter • 703 76•
Rye ;rasa (new) •• 24s 34s
CloTer,Red Eng . (cwt.) 66s Ths
White •• • • •..... 68,
FOToigll Red.• •• • • 70s 75s
White...• 88s 80s
ntw,. • • 2Ss 323

Carraway ...... •• • • 44 46s
Coriander • • 22s 248
Ilempseed, per quarter 42 461
Linseed, Eng.4owing • • 68. 70s
Crushing ........ 56k. 650
Baltic 508 605
Odessa 62s 62s 6d
Linseed Cake, pr. ton—
English .. ...101 0. 10 108
Foreign, per ton 10! 1111560 d
Rape Cakes, per ton 51 15s 6! 15$
R.apesoed,, pr •• 825 84s

Trefoil,

Our market is rather flat
on Monday last. P.Y.C.,
Town tallow 57s nett cash ;

b, and prices are lower than
ni the spot, 58s 3d per cwt.
rough fat 3s 2d per 81be.

1856.

Stook this day .•• • •
Price of Y. C
Delivery last week • •
Ditto from June 1....
Arrivals last week..
Ditto from
Price of Town

47,135
456 (1c to
45s 31
1,416
62,226

42,256
59s 6d
—50(1
2,057
63,632
10
82,623
613 Od

,u 29
68,733
475 3d

35.781 f 19,896 17,300
64561t0 665 6d to 68s 3d
—B Od —s Od to —, Od
832 639 j 1,370
48,011 76,885 175,784
3,908 856 1,406
47,792 49,066 76,004
1 655 6d 678 9d 588 6d

DRAINAGE OF THE MEtROPOLIS.

MEETING THIS DAY.

This afternoon a public meeting of owners and occu-
piers of property on the line of the river 'names below
Greenwich was held at the Bridge House Hotel, Lonion.
bridge, to take such steps as may be expedient to avert
the evil likely to arise from the emptying of the filth
of the metropolis close to Erith Church, as proposed
by the plan of drainage adopted by the Metropolitan
Board of Works ; Sir Culling E. Eirdley, Bart., of
Erith, in the chair
The CHAIRMAN said that this subject had been so long
before the public, and done such ample justice to by
thep ress, that little need be said in introducing it.
it. All admitted the necessity of London being pro-
perly drained, but those who lived on the banks of the
river Thames, near Frith and Gravesend, did object to
the nuisance being brought to their doors. The hon.
gentleman said that he hoped the movement that had
been made against it had been conducted in a proper
spirit, and he detailed what had been done by the in-
habitants of the above districts in waiting on Sir B Hall
and the Metropolitan Board of Works, and said that their
object in having this public meeting was that the subject
might be openly discussed. He accounted for the
smallness of the meeting—first, from the festive season
of the year preventing many from attending ; and,
secondly, that many considered the Government were
determined to prevent the nuisance complained of. The
scheme propounded was open to two arguments against
it, both almost fatal to it, viz.—first, that it was an in-
jurious measure ; and, secondly, that it was an imperfect
one. Amongst other things, the discharge of the sewerage
as proposed would be destructive to the fish trade, as
it would affect fish brought in by the well boats. It
would materially affect the commerce of the trade of
London, and be productive of mush disease. It would
deprive the T.,ondoner of his usual recreation in
that part of the neighbourhood of London, -and
be productive of much injury to the owners
of property. He had said that the plan was
defeetive. It might be sufficient for its present
purposes, but after the lapse of half a century, in all
probability, it would be insufficient, and then the work
would have to be done over again. It was much better
and more like Englishmen, to do the work in an effectual
manner at first. He read a letter, which he had
addressed to Sir B. Hall, explaining the nature
of the meeting and referred to the appointment
of two engineers by Sir B. Hatl to examine the
plan, and also the appointment, by the treasury
of a committee to enquire into into the best way of
disposing of the sewerage of large cities. No doubt
they would begin their enquiries with the largest city
first, London, and he urged on them to be prepared
with evidence to go before that Commission. No doubt
the metropolis would hereafter have to thank the in-
habitants of Erith and Gravesend for having interfered
to prevent the mismanagement and blunders of their
own administrative government. (Hear, hear.)
The MAYOR OF GRAVESEND, in a short speech, spoke
of the injury that must result from the sewage being
emptied into the Thames, and moved the following reso-
non—" Toat the meeting views with considerable alarm
the proposed plan of the Metropolitan Board of Works
for the drainage of London, as tending to pollute the
river Thames, and injure the health of the towns along
its banks below Erith and Gravesend, by the intended
concentration and outpouring into this great national
estuary in North Reach of the entire metropolitan
sewage.
Captain WHEATLEY, lord of the manor of Erith, briefly
seconded the resolution.

Mr. Hows, a member of the deputation from the
Board of Works, defended the conduct of the Board.
They were called on to do a certain work, which
they were ready to execute in a❑ effectual manner,
but if it was thought by the government necessary
the outfalls should be carried lower down the river,
they would undertake the construction of the
works, the expense should fall on the government, and
not on the taxpayers, of the metropolis. He and the
majority of the members of the Board of Works
were opposed to this nuisance being inflicted on
the inhabitants on t' e river below Erith.

Mr. NICOLAY, a member of the Metropolitan Board
of Works, also spoke against the nuisance likely to be
inflicted by the proposed outfall of the sewage of the
metropolis into Erith Reach. He believed when the
engineers appointed by Sir B. Hall bad examined the
proposed plan of drainage, that they would condemn it,
for in fact it was one that ought not to be carried out.
He advocated a plan for deodorising the sewage for
agricultural puposes.
Mr. BLUNT supported the resolution, and congratu-
lated the meeting that the course now pursued by
Sir B. Hall would be productive of much good, and
that an efficient plan of drainage would be thereby
carried out. The proposed plan was very defective,
and would never properly effect the drainage of London
without polluting the river Thames.
Mr. G ARVEY, from St. Pancras, said that the people
of that large district sympathised with the meeting, and
that they also objected to the proposed plan of drainage,
on the ground that the discharge of the sewage in Erith
Reach would be likely to produce di-ease. The river
Thame■ would be the most gigantic nuisance and ter-
rible scourge that had ever been inflicted on any city,
and in support of his assertion, he quoted largely from
the report of the Commissioners appointed in 1847, as to
the health of the metropolis. _

[We shall give the continuation in our last edition.]

2WE RETIREMENT OF CORNET AMES FROM
THE ARMY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING ADVERTISER.

Sir,—A correspondent in your impression of the
23d inst., while damning with faint praise the indi-
vidual on whose behalf he interferes, challenges a
decision as to the course to be adopted by a young
officer joining a regiment in the event of his being
subjected to practical jokes, and calls fc,r an opinion
as to the line of conduct resorted to by Mr. Ames
under such circumstances. I answer unhesitatingly,
after some experience of the army, that these jokes
are never attempted unless a young man's character
gives evidences of the necessity of some correction
in his manners and conduct ; and, secondly, that
in this life, though the authorities presiding, in such
matters, over any profession, may give theoretical
data as to the line of conduct to be adopted by
those under their rule, the individual concerned
can alone be the judge and guardian of his own
honour, and with reference to Mr. Ames, I express
my opinion that a man is not fit to hold a commis-
sion in her Majesty's service who silently puts up
with a most offensive insult, without even seeking
advice as to his means of redress till reminded by
the adjutant of the regiment to which he belonged ;
that such a stoicism, though perhaps justified in his
philosophy, was not according to the code of honour
as adopted in the army, and I may add in any class
of society.
The would-be reformers of the army, those who,
forgetting the distant graves so many officers have
found of late in the 'noble discharge of their duty
—who, oblivious of the heroic conduct of the
officers of the British army during the late war
(better exemplified by the statistics given in a note
at the end of this letter), who with presumptuous
empiricism would destroy the present system,
without the knowledge or imagination to
enable them to suggest a remedy, indulge
in warrings against " the cold shade of the.
Aristocracy," and because a physically unfitted
man, like Mr. Ames, unfortunately finds himself
shovelled into the army, they complain that the
officers of his regiment exhibit, by their conduct
towards such an individual, their opinion of his
unfitness for the service. This may be the tone of
irresponsible anonymous contributors to journals,
but I believe it is not the judgment adopted by
the British public.
Let, then, Mr. Ames, unchallenged, be allowed
to console himself by exhibiting in the meritorious
discharge of his duties in some other sphere of life
those charitable qualities of meekness and endur-
ance, the possession of which he has given so nega-
tively a forcible proof, and let him frame, glaze, and
hand down as an heirloom the courteous and sym-
pathising letter, we are told, H.R.H. the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the English army has sent him.
And with his happy hearth, thus furnished,
what Englishman will envy him his home ?
Are there not some generous ones who would
rather entertain an unexpressed feeling of pity for
the practical joker in this case, whose different na-
ture could not suffer him to consider a. meek a
lamb as fit to be a dragoon, who, for attempting to
correct that too peaceful nature, was expelled the
army as guilty of conduct unbecoming the charac-
ter of a gentleman and au officer—a sentence
allowed by competent law authorities to be illegal.
Will not some, rather than subscribe to what will
probably be proposed, a testimonial to a Mr.
Ames, give a passing regret for one who, at barely
20 years of age, has been branded, through an
illegal sentence, with a mark as cruel and as in-
delible as could bo inflicted on the worst male-
factor of the day.—Your obedient servant,
JUSTITIA.
NOTE.—Copied front a tabular statement of the number
of killed, wounded, and missing of the British army from
the first landing in the Crimea till Sept. 8, 1855 :
Officers—Killed, 195; wounded, 577 ; missing, 13.

THE COLCRESTER GREAT POULTRY EXHIBITION.—
We understand that upwards of 500 pens of birds have
been entered for this Exliibition, which will be held on
the three last days of the' present week.
THE STAFFIELD MUREtEß.—William Graham, one OF
the persons charged with the wilful murder of Mr. Cha,t.
FeatherAtonhaugh's gamekeeper, at Staflield, has con-
fessed that he was the actual murderer, and that his two
brothers, Her,ry Graham and Joseph Graham, were
acc'mplices after the fact.
EXECUTION AT yogi•-_John Hannah, who was tri€d
and co ivicted before Mr. Justice Erle, at the late
Winter Gaol Delivery for this county, for the wilful
1 murder of Jane Benham, of Arn'ley, near Leeds, on
the 11th Sept. last, suffered the extreme penalty of
the law, on the scaffold behind York Cagle, on Satur-
I day, in the presence of several thousands of spectators.