The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-03 00:00:00

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Dr ST.
The contractor is to take awa

PENALTY 40s.

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THE CLEANSING of the STREETS.
MANSION-HOUSE.
The LORD MAYOR- ststed that he had, within the
last few days, celled the. attention of the public and
of the police mo:e than once to the state of the streets
of London. lie had himself personally, as well as by
strict inquiry, s:ertained 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 arid 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
tinb,ss the scavengers performed theirs in removing
the masses of mud and filth collected in the carriage-
way. The season Ead just arrived when activity and
decision became, in enforcing the proviiions 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 rak(r.; duties and districts:—
CITY OF LONDON.
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Makers' Duties Ind Districts for the year ending nt Mid-
summer Day, 1844.
CLEANSING.

The public markets and the carriage ways of all the
s try( lanes, and public places, are to be properly picked,
swept, and cleansed from mud, dust, filth, and rubbish,
and nll animal and vegetable matter,land everything that
s offensive or injurious, and the same is to be picked and
,wept up into the middle of all streets which exceed 16
feet in width from kerb to kerb (but not within 10 feet
.o! any gully or sewergrating), and carted away.therc-
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 inked out and made clear from mud and
all obstructions ; and all straw, litter, tanners' bark, &e.,
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
in any street or place situate before any hoard or open
vacant ground is to be carefully swept, at the same time
that the street is swept. The contractor is to cleanse
the streets from snow and all unfrozen or partially frozen
matter.

- Ail streets and places into which a cart can enter are
to be cleansed by -Whitworth's patent street-sweeping
machine, and all other places into which the machine
cannot enter, are to be cleans6d by manual labour.
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retail any house or building, at least twice in the week,
er oftener if required by the housekeepers or their set.-
%ants, the dust, ashes, dirt, rubbish, and refuse, vegetitpe
and animal matter, and all other the usual refuse of a
house. And the dust, &e., as aforesaid, is to be taken
away by the contractor respectively from the prisons of
Newgate, the Fleet-prison, the Giltspur-street Compeer,
the prison in Whitecross-street, Christ's Hospital, the
Hospital of St. Bartholomew, the Mansion house, the
Bank of England, the East India Company's house, the
Custiau House, the General Post office, and the ExciSe•
office 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_ol 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 10/. for each
cart-load not so taken away.
Contractor for the whole City of London,—
:row; GORE, 11 and 12 Wharfs, Paddington.
The whole line of streets; from Temple-bar to AM-
gate-street ; also Newgate-street, King William-street,
London-bridge, and Fenchurch-street, are to be cleansed
daily (Sunday- excepted) betweeh five o'clock and eight
Welock 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.

without fee or reward

STREETS TO BE CLEANSED. THREE TIMES A WEEK^

On each Monday, Wednesday; and Friday— South-
place, the Pavement, Moorgate-street, Princes-street,
Upper Thames street throughout, Bishopsgate-street
Within and Without, and Lombard-street. •

Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday—From Holborn-
bars to Nei gate-street ; Long-Jane, Aldersgate-street,
and St. Martin's-le-Grand; Gracechnrch-street, Watling-
street, Budge -row, and Cannon-street; Barbican, Beech-
street, Old Bailey, Farringdon-street, and New Bridge•
sneer, 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 7 WEEK-PENALTY 205.

Wednesday and Saturday—All in the north division
of the West District ; all in the south division of the
East District that are east ontincing-lane; all Broad-
street ward, Queen street,'NVood- street; Aldermanbury,
'Lad • lane, M i lk• streetA, •

Tuesday and Friday—Such in the south division of
the East District as are west of Mincing-Tillie inclusive ;
all in the Middle District between Cheapside and Fore-
s:reet ; all in the north division of the East Districteast
of Bishopsgate-strgAjOhin and Without.
Nlonday and TlTtiday—Fore-street, Redeross-street,•
and all north thereof ; all the north division of the East
D:Forict west of Bishopsgate-street Within and Without.
Tuesday and Saturday—lUdrin the Middle District
south of Cheapside' and west ueen.street.
Monday and Friday—Alm the Middle District south
or Cheapside and east of Queen-street inclusive; all in
the south division of the West District cast of Furring-
don-street.

iVednesday and Friday—All in the soot) division of
the West D;striet west of Farringdon-:..treet.
The markets, and all the approaches thereunto. are to
he severally eleanaefkdaily (excepting Sundays). Penalty
5/. for each neglecri t
Stnithfield market is to be cleansed on Monday and
Tuesday, Frii-lay. and Saturday ; to be begun directly
the cattle mnrkets -are concluded. Penalty .51. for each
neglect.

The courts and alli,ys paved only with tlag pavements
are to be cleaned twice a N‘eek. Penalty 20s. for each
t)eglectl

For forcing mud, &c., down any gully or fewer grat-
i ,,, penalty 5/.
For keeping mud, &e., within 10 feet of any gully or
sewer grating, penalty 40s.
- Complaints of non-performance of the work are re-
quested to be made to the Sewers-office, Guildhall, anti
on proof thereof had before, and to the satisfaction of,
the Commissioners at any one of their public meetings,
the contractor will be fined as above.
JOSEPH 1)A W, Principal Clerk,
Sewers-office, Guildhall.
His Lordship having observed that from the above
quoted.document it appeared to be competentto every
citizen of London to cause proper attention to he
paid by the scavengers to the particular district in
m hick he resided, expressed a confident hope that, in
so important a matter regarding the health and com-
fort of the inhabitants, he should have their cordial
support anti co-operation. He should attend the next
meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers for the pm--
pose of submitting a proposition relative to the con-
duct of the individual who had so positively invali-
dated his contract.

Louts PHILIPPE AND CASIMIR DELAVIGNP.—As
wes to be expected, the papers teem with biographical
notices of Casimir l)elavigne ; but they contain nothing
worthy of extract. Louis Philippe is said to he very
much affected at the death of the poet, because he loeked
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
all the wrath of the Government, Louis Philipps wrote
to him -"Le tonnere est t0m1.6 sur votre maison—je
vous offre un appartement dams la mienne." And after
his accession to the throne, the King amply provided for
him giving him one or two places, which produced him
a suificient 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
you. Go into into the country, 1110)1 c/or. There is a
little estate of mine in such a province ; go—it is at
your service." The poet went—found servants to wait
upon hint—everything ready for occupation ; and in a
secretaire 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
LORD LYNEDOCII AND OSSIAN.--It is an interest-
ing circumstance, as illustrating the great age of the late
gallant Lord Lynedoch, that he was some time, when a
boy, a pupil under the charge of Mr. Macpherson, the
translator of Ossian, and that to this connexion we, in
some 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 the Annual Register ; when Goldsmith was
scribbling essays in a garret ; and when Johnson had just
composed his " Rasselas" to pay the expenses of his mo-
ther's funeral—in thatyear Macpherson and his pupil (then
Ms. Graham, yr. of Balgowan) happened to be at Moffat,
a watering place in Dumfriesshire. Home, the author of
Daughs, was also at Moffat at the same time, and young
Macpherson recited to him, in the course of their walks,
fragments of the ancient poems which then floated over
the Highlands and were common in the remote districts.
Mr. Home prevailed en Macpherson to give him transla-
tions of some of the pieces, end he showed them to Dr.
Blair and David Hume, who were much struck with their
wild beauty and originality. A publication soon took
place—Macpherson travelled over Skye and the other
',lands in quest of more—and in two years the fame of
Ossian was over all Europe, and his translator was
richer by 2,000/. than when he journeyed to' Moffat,
little dreaming of the scene that was to open on him.
with Mr. Gt.:till-Im, of Balgowan.—lnverness courier.
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