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London, England, 1844-01-03 00:00:00

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THE CLEANSING of the STREETS.

MANSION-HOUSE.
The LORD MAYOR stated that he had, within the
last few days, called the attention of the public and
of the police more than once to the state of the streets
of London. He had himself personally, as well as by
strict inquiry, ascertained that the condition of the
thoroughfares was so excessively bad that there could
exist no doubt of the invalidation of the contract in
consequence of the neglect of its terms by the con-
tractor. The voice of the public adequately pro-
claimed the extent and unendurable nature of the
nuisance, and it was quite impossible for the inha-
bitants to perform the duty which devolved upon
them by virtue of the Police Act, to keep the foot-
ways adjoining their premises swept and cleansed
unless the scavengers performed theirs in removing
the masses of mud and filth collected in the carriage-
Nva3r. The season had just arrived when activity and
decision became, in enforcing the provisions of the
Act, indispensable, and he thought it would be of
considerable use to his fellow-citizens to keep before
their eyes the information contained in the following
account of the rakers' duties and districts :

CITY OF LONDON.
Rakers' Duties end Districts for the year ending at Mid,

summer Day, 1841.
CLEAN SING.
The public markets and the carriage ways of an the
streets, lanes, and public places, are to be properly picked,
swept, and cleansed from mud, dust, filth, and rubbish,
and all animal and vegetable matter,iand everything that
is offensive or injurious, and the same is to be picked and
Swept up into the middle of all streets which exceed 16
feet in width from kerb to kerb (but not within 10 feet
of any gully or sewer grating), and carted away there-
from forthwith ; and in so cleansing all places, the iron
gutters laid across or along the
,footway shall be raked
out and made clear for the water to run off, and the air-
grates over the sewers in the carriage-ways of the
streets are to be raked out and made clear from mud and
all obstructions ,• and all straw, litter, tanners' bark, &c.,
laid before the houses of sick persons, is to be removed
by the contractor, ;when notice has been given him by
the Inspector of the district so to do ; and the footway
any street or place situate before any hoard or open
vacant ground is to be carefully swept, at the same time
t the street is swept. The contractor is to cleanse
the streets from
matter, snow and all unfrozen or partially frozen
All streets and places into which a cart can enter are
to be cleansed by Whitworth's patent street-sweeping
I:atoitueand all other places' into which the machine
enter, are to be cleansed by manual labour.
DUST.
f The contractor is to take away without fee or reward
or 111 any house or building, at least twice in the week,
loftener if required by the housekeepers or their ser-
tTat the dust, ashes, dirt, rubbish, and refuse, vegetable
bliousa:ll°l3l 'natter and all other the usual refuse of a
aWa And the dust, &c., as aforesaid, is to be taken
u3' the contractor respectively from the prisons of
_oeewpgraistoen, the Fleet-prison, the Giltspur-street Compter,
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in Whitecross-street, Christ's Hospital, the
131 spital of St. Bartholomew, the Mansion House, the
riank of England, the East India Company's house, the
k,ustom House, the General Post-office, and the Excise-
daily,' if required (Sundays excepted), before ten
o'clock in the forenoon. Penalty for each neglect, 10s.
The contents of all public dust-bins, wherever situate,
shall be cleared out and carted away, twice in every
week, or oftener if need be, whatever may be the nature
of their contents. Penalty for each neglect, ss.
All the refuse from the houses of the inhabitants,
and all the sweepings of the streets and markets as be-
fore described, are to be taken direct and wholly away
from the City of London, on penalty of 101. for each
cart-load not so taken away.
Contractor for the whole City of London,—
JOHN GORE, 11 and 12 Wharfs, Paddington.
The whole line of streets, from Temple-bar to Ald-
gate-street ; also Newgate-street, King William-street,
London-bridge, and Fenchurch-street, are to be cleansed
daily (Sunday excepted) between five o'clock and eight
o'clock in the morning of each day, from Lady Day to
Michaelmas Day, and between six o'clock and nine
o'clock in the morning of each day, from Michaelmas
Day to Lady Day. Penalty on each street 40s.
STREETS TO BE CLEANSED THREE TIMES A WEEK—
PENALTY 40s.
On each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday—South-
place,l the Pavement, Moorgate-street, Princes-street,
PPer Thames•street throughout, Bish,vsgate-street
Within and Without, and Lombard-street.
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday—From Holborn-
bars to Nevmate-street ; Long-lane, Aldersgate-street,
and St. Martin's-le- Grand; Gracechurch-street, Watling-
street, Budge-row; and Cannon-street; Barbican, Beech-
street, Old Bailey, Farringdon-street, and New Bridge •
street, so far as is in the jurisdiction of the Commis-
sioners ; and Lower Thames-street throughout.
STREETS NOT ABOVE NAMED TO BE CLEANSED TWICE
A-WEEK—PENALTY 20s.
Wednesday and Saturday—All in the north division
of the West District ; all in the south division of the
East District that are east of 3dincing-lane; all Broad-
street ward, Queen- street, Wood • street, Aldermanbury,
Lad-lane Milk-street.
Tuesday and Friday—Such in the south division of
the East District as are west of Mincing-lane inclusive ;
all in the Middle District between Cheapside and Fore-
street; all in the north division of the East District east
o
Bih?psgate-street Within and Without.
d Monuay and Thursday—Fore-street,
Redcross-street,
an a I north thereof ; all the north division of the East
District west of Bishopsgate-street Within and Without.
Tuesday and Saturday—All in the Middle District
south of Cheapside and west of Queen- street.
Monday and Friday—All in the Middle District south
ot f Cheapside and east of Queen-street inclusive; all in he south division of the West District east of Farring-
don-street.
Wednesday and Friday—All in the south division of
the West District west of Farringdon-street.
The markets, and all the approaches thereinto, are to
be severally cleansed daily (excepting Sundays). Penalty
51. for each neglect.
Smithfield market is to be cleansed on Monday and
uesday, Friday and Saturday ; to be begun directly
the cattle markets are concluded. Penalt%q 5/. for each
The courts and alleys paved only with flag pavements
are to be cleaned twice a week. Penalty 20s. for each
neglect.
For forcing mud, &c., down any gully or sewer grat-
ng, Penalty 5/.
sewer keeping mud, &c., within 10 feet of any gully or
grating, penalty 403.
Co grating,
of non-performance of the work are re-
quested to be made to the Sewers-office, Guildhall, and
7 proof thereof had before, and to the satisfaction of,
Commissione at an one of the the contractor will be fined as above.ir public meetings,
JOSEPH DAW, Principal Clerk,
H Sewers-office, Guildhall.
tiintl)zteisdLordship baying observed that from the above
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document it appeared to be competentto every
~,..e,ll of London to cause proper attention to be
ny the scavengers to the particular district in
so Nvnlch he resided, expressed a confident hope that, in
important a matter regarding the health and corn-
fo of the inhabitants, he should have their cordial
nsturt
ePrirt and co-operation. He should attend the next
poset ng of the Commissioners of Sewers for the pur-
ductduct Off submitting a proposition relative to the con-
, _ the individual who had so positively invali-
dated his contract.

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LOUIS PHILIPPE
was to AND CASIMIR DELAVIONE.--As
notices of expected, the papers teem with biographical
'worth c Casimir Delavigne ; but they contain nothing
much yof extract. Louis Philippe is said to be very
affected at the death of the poet, because he looked
upon him as one of his firmest friends as well as one of
the literary celebrities of his reign. When, during the
reign of Charles X. the deceased poet was the victim of
the wrath of the Government, Louis Philippe wrote
to him —"Le tonnere est tomhe sur votre naaison—je
veins offre un appartement dans la mienne." And after
his accession to the throne, g
the Kin amply provided for
him, giving him one or two places, which produced him
a sufficient income, as well as a house free of expense. I
have even heard it said that Louis Philippe gave him a
little estate in the country, in a most delicate manner. A
few years ago, seeing him apparently unwell, the King
Said- , " My poor Delavigne, Paris does not agree with
Y„On Go into into the country, mon cher. There is a
little estate of mine in such a province ; go—it is at
Your service." The , wet—ound to
'Von him—everything readyn
forf occupation servants
; and inwait
a
seeretaire he found a letter from the King, saying that
the little estate was henceforth his. Whatever may be
thought of Louis Philippe as King and as statesman, it
is undeniable that he is an excellent friend and a muni-
ficent patron of literary men and artists.—John Bull.
LORD LYNEDOCH AND OSSIAN.—it is an interest-
ing circumstance as illustrating the great age of the late
gallant Lord Lynedoeh, that he was some time, when a
translator of Ossian, and that to this connexion we, in
B°lee measure, owe the publication of the poems of the
Celtic Homer. In the summer of 1759, a far distant period
to revert to in the history of one who died but last week,
before George 111. had ascended the throne ; when Ame-
rica was a British colony ; when the first William Pitt
was Prime Minister ; when Burke was writing sum-
maries for Annual Register; when Goldsmith was
scribbling essays in a garret ; and when Johnson had just
ther'composed his " Rasselas" to pay the expenses of his mo-
s funet al—in that year Macpherson and his pupil (then
MGraam, yr. of Balgowan) happened to be at Moffat,
atering place in Dumfriesshire. Home, the author of
u9los, was aho at Moffat at the same time, and young
Macpherson recited to him, in the course of their walks,
fragmentsfra of the ancient poems which then floated over
Highlands and were common in the remote districts.
.. r. Home prevailed on Macpherson to give him transla-
-11(?ns of some of the pieces, and he showed them to Dr.
-131. air d David Hume, who were much struck with their
wild anduty and originality. A publication soon took
Macphersonl!iee— travelled over Skye and the other
Islands quest of more—and in two years the fame of
yssian was over all Europe, and his translator was
richer by 2,0001. than when ho journeyed to Moffat,
little dreaming of the stone that was to open on him,
with Mr. Graham, of Balgovgan.--/nverness Courier.
SUDDEN DEATH.—Mr. Payne held an inquest yes-
terday evening at " The World turht‘di upside down,"
Old Kent-road, on the body of John Dowden, aged 40,
a stableman employed by Mr. John Bulstrode, corn-
chandler, in the same road. The deceased had arisen
from his bed on Monday morning in good health, had
done his work for a couple of hours, and then retired to
the stable, where he was found in half-an-hour after, by
Mr. Edward Bulstrode, sitting upon a tub, his hands
clasped upon his knee; and his head leaning back against
the wall, quite dead. Mr. Shoolbridge, a surgeon, pro-
-I,l,9nticed him to have died from disease of the heart.
Verdict, " Natural death."