The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-21 00:00:00

CITY SEWERS.

Yesterday the commissioners assembled. at Guild-
hall—Deputy Christie in the chair.
PUBLIC INDICATORS.
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The subject of public indicators was again brought
before the court, by a deputation consisting of the
churchwardens of St. Michael's, Cornhill, and a
number of inhabitants, who presented the following
memorial :

" To the lion. the Commissioners of Sewers of
the City of London,—We, the undersigned hankers,
merchants, common council of the ward of Corn-
hill, churchwardens of the parish of St. Michael,
occupiers of premises in Cornhill, and persons fre-
quenting the Royal Exchange, having learned that
your hon, court is about to authorise certain persons
to place an indicator in the Royal Exchange-
buildings, feel it incumbent to represent that we
consider such an erection detrimental to the property
in the vicinity, offensive, unnecessary, and tending to
cause obstructions, and therefore respectfully and
earnestly remonstrate against any such authority
being given."

AG*2I3AILY, churchwarden, who acted as spokes-
man to the deputation, said the memorial bore 125
signatures, which represented an enormous amount
of wealth, embracing those of all the bankers of the
neighbourhood, and most of the principal commer-
cial firms, and that with time the number of sig-
natures might have been increased to ten thousand.
The site chosen for the obnoxious indicator was
singularly inappropriate, for the indicator if erected
there would obstruct the traffic to the Royal Ex-
change, Lloyd's, and all the bankers, and in fact
would block up the only open space in the city of
London. It was consequently regarded in the
light of an intolerable nuisance, and the inhabi-
tants hoped the commissioners would rescind the
permission they had given for its erection.
Mr. Deputy HARRISON reminded the court that
as at their last meeting they referred the matter to
a committee, the memorial also should be referred ;
at the same time he gave notice that at the next
meeting of the commission he should move the re-
vocation of the permission previously given for the
erection of the indicator.
In the course of the discussion which followed
some remarks were make upon the conduct of the
churchwardens, in questioning the power of the
commission, by the summary way in which they
originally interfered to prevent the erection of the
indicator in defiance of the official permission given,
and Mr. Baily explained that the inhabitants had
adopted that line of action simply because they
saw no other means by which the immediate erec-
tion of the indicator could be prevented, and not
with any idea of disrespect to the commission, or
of questioning their authority.
The motion was then agreed to.
THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.
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Mr. Deputy LOTT called attention to a commu-
nication received from the Holborn Board of
Works, stating that that board had passed a reso-
lution censuring the appointment by the Metropo-
litan Board of a standing counsel, at a salary of
£BOO a year; and moved a resolution of concur-
rence in that censure, at the same time that it ex-
pressed the thanks of the commission to Mr. De-
puty Harrison and Mr. H. Lowman Taylor, who,
as members of the Metropolitan Board, had almost
alone opposed the appointment.
The motion was agreed to.
TRAMWAYS IN TIIE CITY.

Mr. HAYWOOD, surveyor to the commission,
brought up a report upon the subject of iron tram-
ways, which was ordered to be printed and circu-
lated among the members of the court.

SANITARY STATE OF TIIE CITY.

Dr. LETIIEBY, medical officer of health, presented
his usual weekly reports, from which it appeared
that, notwithstanding the sudden fall of the tem-
perature to an unusually low degree, the state of
the public health within the City was highly satis-
factory.