The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-03 00:00:00

City Sewers Commission.

Yesterday the City Commissioners of Sewers held
their usual weekly meeting at Guildhall ; Mr. Dc
Jersey occupied the chair.
The business consisted of rescinding standing
orders, and of their appointing a committee for
general purposes, an improvement committee, a
streets committee, a sanitary committee, and a
finance committee.

Dr. Letheby read his reports, from which it ap-
peared that 256 houses had been inspected during
the week, and that 58 of these required sanitary
improvements in various particulars. He submitted
certificates relative to the indecent and overcrowded
state of certain houses in Blyth's-buildings, Bishops-
gate-street, and elsewhere, which he recommended
should be proceeded against in order to have them
registered as common lodging-houses. Ile reported
that several vessels had been inspected during the
week, the forecastles of which required sanitary
improvement. In all these cases the
i necessary im-
provements had been effected ; but n some others
the vessels left the port before the next visit of the
inspectors. At the markets and slaughter-houses
1,1231b5. of bad meat had been condemned during
the week, consisting of 5 sheep, 7 pigs, and three
quarters of beef. Of this quantity, 9431b5. were
diseased, 301bs. were putrid, and the rest consisted
of animals which had died from natural causes.
On Thursday, Sept. 27, Thomas Norris, a butcher,
of William-street, Lisson-grove ; Wm. Hunt, a far-
mer, of Barking, and Henry Cole, farmer, of West
Hoddingfield, near Chelmsford, were convicted be-
fore Alderman Abbiss for having exposed unsound
and unwholesome meat in the City markets as fit for
human food, and were fined from 50s. to £lO and
costs ; and on Oct. 1, Wm. Stevenson, a butcher,
of Leicester, before Alderman Stone, was fined £lO
and costs for having sent unwholesome meat to New-
gate market as human food. Lastly, Dr. Letheby
reported that during the past week there were 38
births and 31 deaths registered in the City of Lon-
don, and that the mortality returns were below the
period of the last
average rya
egaers(
. 44 of
Ten) thecorresponding
of
ft
hese deathwere among children
of less than 5 years of age, and four among persons
of 60 and upwards. The chief causes of death were
as follows :—Phthisis, 4 ; hydrocephalus, 1 ; pneu-
monia, 4 ; bronchitis, 3 ; alvine flux, 10 ; and scarlet
fever, 1.

Foreign Titan Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Oct. 20.

Ditto, via Marseilles
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British Packet ...... Oct. 4.

Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and at. Helena Oct.
China, Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton—Oct 3.

Ditto, via Marseilles. Oct. —.
Falkland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton Oct. 3
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Wt. 3

Ditto, via Marseilles .. ...... ....Oct.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Oot. 13

Ditto, via Marseilles • Oct. 7
Rana, Egypt, and Aden, via tioutharapton Oct. 3,

Ditto, via Marseilles Oct.
Hauritius, via Southampton Oct. 20
Ditto, via Marseille3 —Oct. ,4
Newfoundland ..• Oct. 10.
Portugal

Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet .. Oct.
Ditto, by United States packst, via Southamp-
ton

Ditto, via Cork . _

Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Oct. 5.
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teucriffe ....Oct. 10.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Honduras) Sept. 28

THE CHAPLAINCYAT PAU.—The Bishop of London
has granted permission to the Rev. Wm. French, M.A., of
Magdelene College, Cambridge, formerly curate of Lezayre,
in the Isle of Man, to officiate as chaplain to the British
residents at Pau, Prance.