The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-21 00:00:00

ENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1861.

below its proper comp!ement, and in want of volun•
teers to augment the service companies, volunteer-
ing has been opened among the Ist battalion of the
3d Buffs, under the sanction of the Duke of Cam-
bridge, and has been attended with much success.
Yesterday 43 volunteers, who had volunteered to
the St. Helena Regiment from the 3d Buffs, arrived
at Chatham from Dover, in charge of Lieut. W. A.
Daubeny and a party of non-commissioned officers.
On their arrival at the garrison they were inspected
by Col. H. Jervis, after which they joined the St.
Helena Regiment depot, which is attached to the
Ist battalion of infantry. Each of the volunteers
received 21s. on joining his new corps. Recruiting
for the St. Helena Regiment is never adopted, the
strength of the corps being kept up by volunteers
from other regiments.

Yesterday detachments of the 2d (the Queen's),
3d (the Prince of Wales's), and 7th (the Princess
Royal's) Dragoon Guards, and the Cape Mounted
° Rifles, to the number of 26 men of all ranks,arrived
titl'ithe general hospital, Fort Pitt, Chatham, from
the uPanterbury cavalry depot, under the command
of Lieu ,t. E. Vandeleur, 2d Dragoon Guards, and in
medical itv,harge of Staff Assist.-Surg. W. F. Cullen.
On reachif 3' the hospital the troops were medically
estab-
lishment,inspected inspected,
and when2o si x
sentw
to await the usual order for their discharge from
the service. eti: ;7.1-I\2+airre;;—itnthe
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THE EIIIBANK3IENT O 1 TILE SOUTH

VIDE OF THE THADI ES.

DEPUTATION TO LORD PALMERSTON.

Yesterday a deputation from the several parishes
on the south side of the River Thames waited upon
Viscount Palmerston at his residence, Cambridge

House, Piccadilly, to present to his lordship a peti-
tion in reference to the necessity of the embankment

of the Thames on the south side being carried on
simultaneously with that on the north.
The deputation was a very numerous one, and
consisted of the following members :—W. Williams,
Esq., M.P., W. Roupell, Esq., M.P., A. R. Bristow,
Esq., M.P., J. Brady, Esq., M.P., and A. 11. Layar d,
Esq., M.P.; and from the following parishes :—St.
Mary, Lambeth—Fredk. Doulton, Esq., J. Doulton►
Esq., sen., George Hill, Esq., Hugh Fenton, Esq.,

George Taylor, Esq., Robert Taylor, Esq., John W.
Stratton, Esq., J. Stiff, Esq., J. Williams, Esq., J.
Rhodes, Esq., Mr. Thomas Roffey, vestry clerk,
and Mr. Hugh M'lntosh, surveyor of the vestry

Parish of St. Mary, Newington—E. Dermer, Esq.,
member of the Metropolitan Board of Works ; J.
Bone, Esq., and Mr. Henry Chester, vestry clerk.
Parish of St. Giles, Camberwell—Ja mes Pew, Esq.,
member of the 111etropolitan Board of Works;
Henry Potter, Esq., Francis Herring, Esq., Al-
lum Fisher, Esq., Mr. G. Marsden, vestry clerk.
and Mr. Reynolds, surveyor to the vestry. Parish
of St. Saviour, Southwark—George Newman, Esq.,
Dr. Shea, H. Williams, Esq., and G. Sandeman

Esq. Parishes of Wandsworth, Battersea, &c.—
James Barringer, Esq., and J. Michael, Esq.
The members forming the deputation met in the
first instance at Fendall's Hotel, New Palace-yard,
Frederick Doulton, Esq., in the chair, when the
different points of the petition to be presented were
discussed, and there was a singular and unanimous
concurrence in its prayer. At half-past 11 o'clock
the meeting broke up, and the party proceeded to
the residence of the noble Premier in Piccadilly,

where they arrived shortly before 12 o'clock.
Lord PALMERSTON', having intimated that he was
quite ready to receive the deputation,
Mr. W. WILLIAMS, M.P. (addressing his lord-
ship), said he had the honour to introduce the mem-
bers of a deputation from the inhabitants living on
the south side of the Thames, to present to his lord-
ship a petition in reference to the embankment of
that portion of it which was on the north side, and
it was their opinion, that unless some provision was
made for an embankment on the south side that the
evils which they at present suffered from flooding
would be greatly aggravated. They therefore en-
treated his lordship's attention to the prayer of their
petition.
Mr. ROFFEY, vestry clerk, then read the follow-
ing petition :
"To the Right lion. Viscount Palmerston, First Lord of
the Treasury.

"The humble petition of the representatives from the
parishes of St. Mary, Lambeth ; St. Mary, Newington ; St.
Giles, Camberwell; St. Saviour, Southwark; Clapham
Tooting, Graveney, Streatham ; St. Mary, Battersea ;
Wandsworth, Putney,:and Roehampton, on the south side
of the Metropolis.
" Showeth, that your petitioners represent the several
parishes before mentioned, containing a population of
1,652,420, and having property therein of the rateable value
of £1,589,400.
" That your petitioners are from experience deeply im-
pressed with the present defective physical and sanatory
condition of the locality they represent, arising from its
low. lying situation, and its liability to floods, and they
learn with considerable alarm that that condition is likely
to be aggravated by the bill now in the course of prepa-
ration by her Majesty's Government for the formation of
an embankment on the north side, a work which, they are
informed on good engineering authority, will tend to
reflect the current to the other side, to undermine and
otherwise injure the wharves and other waterside property,
but above all will greatly increase the injury from floodings
to which some districts are already subjected.
" That in the opinion of your petitioners the only remedy
for those evils is to extend to the south side the salutary
protection of an embankment.
" lhat your petitioners are informed that the cost of the
proposed works is intended to be defrayed out of duties
levied on coal for the whole metropolis, to which fund they
are, from the number of industrial establishments on the
South side, very large contributors, and from which they
have hitherto derived little or no benefit whatever, and they
entreat your lordship to prevent such an apportionment of
a common fund as shall perpetuate that gross injustice.
" That from the amount of river-side trade which will
be displaced by constructing the northern embankment, a
very large proportion of the northern heavy traffic will be
thrown on the south side, while the means of communica-
tion adjacent to the river are not calculated for such an in-
crease, and that great injury and damage will therefor*
occur to the inhabitants, unless some means aro provided for
improving the communication and providing sufficient out-
lets for such increased traffic.
" Your petitioners, therefore, pray that your lordship
will be pleased to direct that, in the preparation of the pro-
posed bill for the Thames embankment, a clause be inserted
empowering the Metropolitan Board of Works to construct
such a necessary protection on the south side, as far as pos-
sible simultaneously with the northern works, and that the
cost thereof be directed to be defrayed out of the duties
levied on coal within the metropolitan police district, or
from such other sources as the Government may think ad-
visedly, so that the charge be extended over the whole me-
tropolis. And your petitioners will ever pray."
The petition having been handed to his lordship,
Mr. F. DOULTON said, his lordship would perceive
that all the reasons which had been urged in favour
of an embankment of the Thames on the south side
side greatly exceeded those which had been urged
in favour of the north side, and could be applied to
it. The whole of the arguments which had been
used on behalf of the embankment on the north side
applied to the south side, with the exception of one.
and that was, that they were not dependent upon
an embankment of the river for a low level sewer.
One reason, however, which they wished to put
prominently before his lordship was, that the inha-
bitants of the south side of tho river wore subject to
frequent floods of a most dangerous character, in-
flicting annually great injury, attended by a vast
less of most valuable property ; and, above all, they
caused great injury to their poor neighbours, and it
was only those who lived in those localities who were
at all aware of the extent to which their losses and
inconvenience extended. The persons living on the
southern side viewed the formation of an embank-
ment on the north side with alarm, far if it was
made those evils of which they complained would
not be diminished, but on the contrary would be
considerably aggravated, That would not be the
greatest of the evils to which they were to be sub-
jected, for they must look at the sanatory condition
of the people on the southern side. Their evils,
the want of sanatory arrangements and comforts
would be increased by an embankment on the north
Side of the Thauleo ; and here be would beg hip)