The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-30 00:00:00

dorising of the feculent refuse of the capital, so
as to render the sewage available as manure, for
the direct and solid advancement of the interests
of our national agriculture, leaving merely the

waste sewage " water " to be emptied as refine

into the Channel. Whatever the additional ex•

penditure consequent in the first instance upon
the carrying out of this supplementary suggestion
—it must, in reason and at all costs, be adven-

,ured upon ! It will be remunerative. It wil

enhance, in a double sense, the productiveness o

the soil. It will be an additional, and of itsel

an all-sufficient, justification of the whole of these
intended improvements, however vast and com-

plicated in their general organisation,
Wherefore—let the Metropolitan Board o
Works in to-morrow's deliberation decide reso•

utely and definitively upon that Plan beyond all

others which shall tend to the most complete
drainage of the metropolis, to the most thorough

purification of the Thames—by conveying the

sewage of London to a point the most remote

from the capital itself, and there, at that remote
outfall (and not sooner) deodorising it for the

,urposes of general cultivation.

The Lady Bateman gave birth this morning to a son
and heir, at Lord Bateman's residence, Lower Brook-
street. Her ladyship and infant are progressing favour-
ably.

The Duchess de Gramont, wife of his Excelle►:cy
the Duke de Gramont, Minister of France at the
Court of Sardinia, was delivered of a son, at Turin,
on the 24th instant. The mother and son are both
doing well.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Augustus Bruce and Sir George Couper, will
leave Abergeldie Castle, N. 8., on the Bth proximo, for
Edinburgh, en route to Frogenore Lodge, near Windsor.
The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh will entertain
a large party at Floors Castle, for the Kelso races.
Sir Benjamin Hall .has left London for Llanover,
South Wales.

Tile Marquis of Granby and Lord George Manners
have arrived at Cheveley, near Newmarket, from Bel-

voir Castle, Leicestershire.

The Marchioness Dowager of Ely and the Ladies
Loftus are gone on a visiting tour in Yorkshire, which
they will probably extend to Scotland.

The Earl of Beverley and Lady Louisa Percy have
gone to Torquay, where it is the noble earl's intention
to reside during the winter.

Lord and Lady Brougham have, during the past week,
received a succession of visits at Brougham Hall, West-
moreland. The Rev. Dr. Tait (the newly-appointed
Bishop of London) has been among the guests of the
noble and learned lord.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford ar.d
Lord and Lady John Beresford arrived at Ford Castle,
Northumberland, last week, from Curraghmore. The
noble marquis and party propose a residence of about
three weeks at this ancient family seat.

The Earl and Countess of Clarendon, on leaving Tay-
mouth Castle, went on a visit to the Count and Countess
Flahault, at their seat in Perthshire, whence they have
since proceeded to Rose Castle, Cumberland, to pass a
few days with the noble earl's brother, the Bishop of
Carlisle.
The Earl Fortescue has left Great Malvern for Lin-
colnshire. The Countess has gone into Devonshire.
Viscount and Viscountess Ebrington, who have al,o
been staying at Great Malvern, have left for Castle Hill,
the family seat, near South Molten. The noble viscount
remain,' in much the same state.

The Eumine has taken out 24,550/. in specie for the

Porlinsula.

S. Hi.ct,hflyer, which is upon the point of leaving
Portsmouth for the East Indies, takes out 80,0001. in
specie for the Cape of Good Hope.

The ship Richard and William has arrived from Syd-
ney, but is not known to have any gold on freight. The
dates are old.

THE HEAVENS.—Jupiter, that enormous planet, is at
present a conspicuous object in the southern sky, and a
very interesting sight through a good telescope.
The Genoa Corriere Mercantile of the 26th announces
that the Sardinian Parliament is to meet on the 2d of
January.

Thirdly—the p lan having an outfall at Long
Reach, at an out lay of 3,873,1361. Fourthly,
and lastly—the plan for carrying off bodily the
.tter of the metropolis, from the
he south, from Surrey and from
entire sewage ,a
north and from ti
Middlesex, givit tg it a remote outfall as far away
from the City of . London, as far removed down
the River Thames, as Mucking Flats, about five
miles below Gray eF,end. A proposition, the one
here last menti4 )ned, involving disbursements
amounting in the aggregate to something very
little short indeed of 4,800,0001., or, to be ex-
plicit, to precisely 4,718,4001. sterling, according
to Mr. BAZALGETt fs own calculation. To-mor-
row, as we have so id, the whole comprehensive
group of suggestioi is, with a view to the purifi-
cation of the Thom( )s and the drainage of the
Metropolis will' at l ength be formally and deli-
berately taken in (t,c. consideration. The Metro-
politan Board of N .orks, like another Hercules,
essaying yet once r [lore to cleanse the vast Augean
stable of the capital, the stagnating cloaca! of the
great twin-cities of ! London and Westminster.
Virtually the B oard of Works is understood to
have already rejected the two former of these four
remarkable schem es of purification. Neither of
them being regv crded as strictly in accordance
with the Act, by reason of the proximity
to the metropoli a consequent upon retaining
outfalls at Ba rking Creek, or Halfway
Reach, or PlumstE lad Marshes. The difficulty
therefore resolves i tself into an alternative between
the Long Reach scheme and the Sea Reach
scheme—the forme r at the risk of, at once by a
single blow, perman
ently destroying the four im-
portant and increat dug towns of Greenhithe,
Grays, NorthEteet, al. id Gravesend ! A conside-
ration which of itself, we cannot but think, leaves
the latter scheme, the Bea Reach scheme, the
scheme giving to the 24 :greated. London sewage an
appropriate outfall at Mucking Flats altogether
unrivalled by any other .of the ingenious plans put
forward in his last rei ort by Mr. BAZALGETTE.
Better plans, of course, than any of those sug-
gested by Mr. BAZALGI'a 'TE may yet be forth-
coming—but this partici 11 ar plan of his, giving an
outlet to the sewage tai bout five miles below
Gravesend, is incompaT ably, and, beyond all
manner of doubt, the yes y best plan he has yet
submitted to the scrutit iy of Government. A
decision at which we ours elves arrive none the
less promptly, and which .we enunciate none the
less positively because it hi ippens to exceed in cost
—the Barking Creek plan. by 1,763,3241.—the
Halfway Reach plan by 1,478,1944—and the
Long Roach plan by 84 5,0001., or, in round
*umbers, very little short of 1,000,000/. ! An
excess of one million pounds: sterling, we maintain,
is absolutely as nothing—if, by that additional
expenditure, we can really insure the more effec-
tual drainage of London, and the more complete
purification of the river Thames. A thorough
purification, a thorough drainage is what is im-
peratively required. And to effect this—What in
the name of fortune is an odd million extra to a
capital containing 2,500,000 inhabitants ? Par-
ticularly when it is estimated (a very astounding
estimate, we admit, but a very reasonable one,
also, nevertheless) that in thirty years' time from
the present year of grace 1856 the population of
the metropolis will be actually doubled —London
comprising then within its limits, anno Domini
1886, not 2,500,000, but absolutely 5,000,000
inhabitants ! It is preposterous, therefore, to
suppose for an instant that we are to boggle about
an additional outlay of 845,0001., supposing ‘y
that additional .outlay we can in any way more
effectually drain away the sewage of our metro-
polis. A supplementary notion in the way of yet
larger improvement is that which affects the deo