The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-09 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

The business of this Court commenced this morning
shortly after 9 o'clock, and by 12 o'clock, the usual

time at which the business commences, the whole of the
cases were disposed of. The police magistrates of the
City, or rather we should say the presiding alderm en,
appear to imagine they are privileged to play such f an-
tastic tricks as they please, in connection with the busi-
ness of the Courts, and from the continual changes taey
make in the hour of their opening, they have ear aed
for themselves the ridicule of all those who have busi-
ness to transact there, and the sobriquet of " Colic
Jim Crows." It is to be hoped that in the new Londfon
Corporation Bill, Sir G. Grey will make provision :for
the appointment of stipendiary magistrates for the Ci ty
police courts, and fix the hour for commencing business
at not later than 10 o'clock a.m. If the aldermen of
London would only condescend to put a notice
up in the Court announcing the change of
hour the day before the change is to take place, mulch
inconvenience and disappointment would be avoid( ud ;
but ,then who ever heard of the condescension of an
alderman when wrapt in civic robes and ermine, rind
perched on the judicial bench.

Alfred Moger, aged 20, a porter in the employ of
Messrs. Crowden, Garr rd, and Co., of Falcon-strott,
Aldersgate-street, brush manufacturers, was placel at
the bar before Sir H. Muggeridge, on remand, char,;ed
with stealing a quantity of brushes, value 71., their pro-
perty.
Mr. Wontner appeared for the prisoner.

The prisoner bad been in the prosecutor's employ about
seven months, and during that time he had continna,lly
Plundered his eirrln_vers. and pawned the goods as Lis
property.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

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SEWAGE OF THE METROPOLIS.

A very interesting and able lecture was delivered last
night at the Literary and Scientific Institution, Great
Sillith-.hest, Westminster, by Alexander \Vright, E
member of the Metropolitan Bard of Worl
engineer, &e. ; David Wallecu, E-eq., in the elm

and civil
Tbe

lecture was divided into two part3—first, as to the che.

mir2al properties of manure; second, the engineering
clialcalty to dispose of it. The I,eturer spoke of the high
iellu3 entertained by many onilneet in >ivicluals in this
country of sewage; and that it could be highly benefic;:il
to save the same andclisperse it on the land, but put forth
the immense labour and expense in so doing, in conse-
quence of the great feeling we entertain of cleanliness in
flushing our closets and drains, and the immense quail-,
tity of rain water mingling with, and carrying away, the
excrement of the metropilis, thus deodorising and
leaving cumbrous the same for manure ; and spoke of
chemical science producing, for about ss. per ton, an
an admixture of ammonia and phosphates from coal,
applied with chalk, a manure at one-tenth the labour
and expense for the land. The next point, as to the
engineering difficulty, he said, if it was proved we could
do without saving the sewage an immense expense might
be saved. As the emiuent Illzalgette shows the an-
cients never intended the streams which now run into
the Thames to convey soil, but the rain water from
the hills about London ; he designs a sower to be made
at the base of the hills, and convoy as far as Woolwich
on each side of the Thames, and the present sewers to
run into a large tunnel], constructed by the river
side, and fcrm a boundary aid esplanade
on its banks as far as London-bridge, the same to join
at Woolwich, and be pumped up and carried off to sea
by the immense body of water coming through the main
trunk from the hills, leaving then an opportunity for
future ages still to make use of the sewage for the land
if to their advantage. This scheme would cost
4,7"'

:,770,580/. But another question was started as to the
effect it would produce if the rain water was withheld
from its natural bed, the river, and. if it would not affect
the tidal influence. The able leetnrcr closed his discourse
at 9 o'clock, having been favoured with the presence of
several members of the Metropolitan Board and a large
meeting of the ratepayers of tha district. After a warm
eulogy upon his ability and a yoto of thanks the meet-
ing separated.