The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-27 00:00:00

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To-day has been somewhat brighter than yester-
day, but a very cold, violent, northerly wind has
prevailed, and out of the sun the temperature has
been like that of December. There was frost in the
country early this morning.

The Boundary Commissioners and the
Borough of Lambeth.

Yesterday Major-General Bainbrigge, R.E., and
Nassau Senior, Esq., barrister-at-law, the Assistant
Boundary Commissioners, attended at the Sessions
House, Newington, for the purpose of adjusting and
settling the boundaries of the borough of Lambeth
for electoral purposes.
The proceedings created considerable attention,

and a number of influential gentlemen who take an
interest in the affairs of the borough were present.

Among these were Messrs. Fowler, Jones, and
Martin, as representing the parish of Lambeth ;
Messrs. Andrews, Thompson, and Marsden as repre-

senting the parish of Camberwell; Messrs. Bartlett
and Shore, as representing the hamlets of Dulwich;
Messrs. Chadwin and Corselles as representing the
parish of Battersea; and Messrs. Selwyn, Barlow,
and E. Dresser Rogers, as representing the Lambeth
Liberal Registration Association. There were others
present who felt interested in the proceedings,
though not in a representative capacity.
Mr. E. DRESSER ROGERS submitted that, consi-

dering the great extent of ground which had now
been built over outside the present boundary of the
borough, it was absolutely requisite the boundaries
should be considerably enlarged. It was, at the
same time, of great importance that any increase in
the boundary should, if possible, be consistent with
the parish boundaries, and looking at the fact that
it was possible a change might take place in the local
government of the metropolis, and that any such
change would most likely include municipalities
consisting of the several areas computed in the
present districts now under the present local
Management Act, it was most desirable that the
borough of Lambeth should include the whole of the
parish of Lambeth, the whole of the parish of Cam-
berwell, inclusive of Dulwich, together with the
parish of Clapham. At present Dulwich, which was
in the parish of Camberwell, was not within the
borough boundary, though it was within the opera-
tion of the Metropolis Local Management Act, and
though there was a large population there, and a
large portion of the houses such as would not give
the occupiers county votes.
Mr. BARTLETT objected to the hamlet of Dulwich
being included within the borough boundary. It be-
longed to the corporation of Dulwich College, and
had always been secluded from the borough of
Lambeth.

Mr. SELWYN said the reasons which Mr. Bartlett
had assigned for Dulwich not being placed within
the boundary of the borough of Lambeth did not
seem to have occurred to the Boundary Commis-
sioners of 1832, for the reasons they gave for not
extending their boundary further then, were in effect
that they had fixed it so far as that space would be
afforded for building operations for some time to
come. But the fact now was that building opera-
tions had so extended that number of houses, dis-

ricts of them he might say, had been built contigu-
ous to but outside the present boundary ; and the
houses composing these districts not being sufficient
to give a county vote unless the boundary was ex-
tended so as to include them, the occupiers of them
would have no vote at all, and, so far as they were
concerned, the Reform Bill would be a dead letter.
General BAINBRIGGE said that would be almost
doubling their present area, and he doubted whether
the Legislature would sanction such a proposal.
Besides, they would take a large slice off the county
of Surrey.
Mr. FOWLER thought the new boundary should
be extended beyond the present one to the points
where the houses became dispersed andirregular, and
where the population was thin. The boundary he
would suggest was that they should start from a
point on the west side of Brixton parish, and pro-
ceed eastward through Upper Tulse-hilll, then down
Tulse-hill to " Tulse-hill Hotel," and from thence
along Thurlow Park-road by Dulwich-common
on to the boundary of the parish of Camber well ;
while on the other side they should include so much
of the parish of Battersea as lay between St. George's
Church and the boundary of the parish at the river.
Mr. BARNARD said he had been requested by Mr.
Burnett, the distiller at Vauxhall, to bring under
the notice of the commissioners the state of matters
which existed at Nine-elms at present in conse-
quence of that district not being within the boun-
dary. There were gasworks and other large manu-
factories there in which vast numbers of men were
employed. When these men left off work, some
went one way, some another. Those of them who
occupied houses within the boundary had votes, but
those of them who lived in an exactly similar class
of houses just outside the boundary had no votes,
their houses not being sufficient to give a county
qualification. Mr. Burnett was unable to be present
himself, but he had' desired him to bring that cir-
cumstance under the notice of the commissioners, as
he considered it a matter which ought to be reme-
died by bringing a portion of the parish of Battersea
where this district was situated within the new
boundary.
Gen. BAINBRIGGE said the suggestion was one
worthy of consideration, and it would be attended
to. He then stated that the commissiouors would
carefully examine into all the suggestions which had
been made.
On the motion of Mr. D. ROGERS, seconded by
Mr. SELWYN, a vote of thanks was passed to the
commissioners for the attention they had given to
the various gentlemen who had made suggestions
to them, when the proceedings terminated.
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THE RESCUE OF PRISONERS FROM POLICE VANS.
—The recent rescue of Fenian prisoners from the police-
van in Manchester seems to have attracted the attention
of the authorities to the subject of the safe holding of pri-
soners in general. A communication was received by the
Marylebone Vestry, at their sitting yesterday, from the
Chief Surveyor of the Metropolitan Police force, calling
attention to the fact that the exterior of the Marylebone
Police-court was often the scene of riotous proceedings
and attempted rescues of prisoners being removed from the
court to the police-van. The van could not approach close
to the court, but the prisoners had to be escorted down a
narrow passage GO yards in length, and in this frequent
attempts at rescue were made. To prevent such occur-
rences it was proposed to take the house next to the court
and throw it into the police-yard, so as to allow sufficient
room for the van to be driven up. This, however, would
necessitate cettain alterations in the paved passage, which
could only be carried out by the local authorities, and it
was hoped the vestry of St. Marylebone would afford the
facilities required. Dr. Bachhoffner thought it was their
duty to afford the assistance askod for, if possible, but ho
believed the passage was only just wide enough to admit
the van, and the alteration would do away with the foot-
path altogether. Ho moved the reference of the subject to
the ro.vintv, Committee, which was unanimously adopted]

SA TELT INTELLIGEBNO.

KREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

CROOKHAVEN, Sept. 27, 8.40 p.m.

The Cunal .d steamer Persia, from New York, is
now passing Browhead signal station. She will
probably arrive at Queenstown about noon. Let-
ters will reach London at 6.25 p.m. to-morrow
(Saturday).

SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 27.

The American Steamship Company's steamer
Atlantic, from New York, passed the Needles at
8.35 a.m., to-day.