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B L DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET first three will convey them along the courso of the NEW-YORK RS it is therefore out of the th;llhdhm“g persqn by whomn the lists of votens in the g . e e i \! ted, s nerbaps should never be more to :::.'vr :n‘\?-‘mrf.m‘('n« nfx nn‘u; ll:-;l;:e:x “',., - T{Int‘.lh‘:lrx}:;flon‘nld”&ntm !:;II" u‘»m'-‘u ! l.’I".';fl .'I."lfl:’ffl?ffi‘,.n, L,?,‘J"m.’:([mr. the neecesity fol: 'u,w,‘(',.‘ fll‘lm“ :‘n;y;l ‘,,,Xu..,. to dp:::.,;, (;,D ‘; Ir“ ,:,.. e "1:,‘;;. ,;1‘_;';“ ,,v.” " o sl 10 trestmiv & & Y o No f vt 10w Wi eve, ie | e Wting th 1 snd velodty of the sewage as weli | pervolr n mile and a balr long an wta st wide by witare of a vast s h *“The 3 One ot with ¥ t uighty waw g todeleve, To calculuting the S8 00 8T feet dee e 168t two Wil converge moer D J. | under our streeta, wore than 200 wmiles of sewers, nearly wj | districts shall bs settlod. s very sorry that 80 goa 10a o8 Mr. Beales should suffor, but it is clear that iy us the auonnt: In geperal tering, cireular, elip egz-shaped sewors £76 the best, for the reamon or less resistance 1o the passage of both nalgnation to Mr, Johnson, who fs tow iy she | thi Prosidency. 1 also desired mysell. by the dispateh whieli 1 | 10 oc ndd: to you of yoeter ¢ pews Lod st 'tved, pod £nanf ette an the B an o8l aried poople 1o the d Bow ot togother th Crosenoss Posnt, The roscrvofe W | of which have beon built wifhout reuxd to auy system. e covered ovor with trched brick-work aud enih te | Thus wioto the Croton A7 oduct Board to the jourd_of srevont 1he escapo of foul gases, acd the sewage boing Aldvrmen at the closo of ; 1o last year. Think of it. W Chief-Justice conld do no otherwise. It woull newy have done to keep the leader of & very serions fort ¢ this goncrous- Deids then those of euy otler form. 17the i 10 201 delay of (bo surcowful emotivn Bey, i corformity with tie & roe, to 1 3 3 b l » : gty et e et o = o O 2 P b T the suifsce comtact great, the frictivn | to some extent deodorized by the trodaction of suitable | krow that we live over 1,065,773 lincal foet of sowerage Beatas deplore: [ Houiwio 3. Prmar. | scwer bo1o0eh 06 A0 b e o mewaio will by propor- | clemical agents, b Sieh tido. il be ki | P g s o o 08, erion b postion. Tour - RL e ST S ARETR tionately retarded, in Vuikding druine it ia thereiors | through largo pipes into the middl aud botiom of The ot Qeponit, wuder the city, Wo kuow that hem‘n; l"“h . heipegriil) mmlm '"mhblml&.- :-nfi x ,‘-',”'.“";‘,"“ s“‘llvs A\D &l wi lz “GI‘ absolutely necessury fo reduce the surface of confact o T i:'(vg«" ;.{ w f]u'( I;h!u the surfuce, aud :al X D ""a“’i'ii{'-“f...?“&r':?“fi indeed, was he at el Sl | oataad quatifionti o Y ) 1AL e suaflost possible mwovnt. Th ey 0 efow 1undon Dridge. The sewers are constructed | d-ainaze; we suspect cethird of this uumber are knows -here, - SR Ty St Py o e s ol e meat P mifistly-that. af o citoe, apon. | in briek-work, aud whero they auito, o iumdensmain tane | lttle servloe mvs to hERERP 10 Y siroets tho noxions Dactioleg ':‘ ""‘"k“ years standiog, 0 that ag iled before the ternbio triaks reseryad for his governmeut. the general geometric rrinciple that 1t inclodes preater | nelis eupporicd by huge futtrosses, beside Leing con- | gases that emanate from o y or sixty miles of secumulated.| can scarcely be less than €0. I have foen_hiny Ry srea within 1ts priwet form of equal | tained in what may be celled an embankment of conerete, and fostering filth, We say that rcform commenced, | going sbowt his business very hi “ work was shout | and we close our article reiterating the belief of the Croton | ¢ 4o v i Conied' s Vo WY ook qh ot ot thie ion that the | The cstimated cost of thia i (‘:{ :l ape {})‘:‘l::‘r:‘u definitely settled. We bLave alo £4,000,000, sud the time for its completion, five years. | Aqueduct Beard, thut we mway * Jook forward with confi- roen the eoncitions upon whiel their size end o The estimetes, Lowever, have been excoeded, end the time deseo to results which will sirow the wisdom of the new depend, end that it becomos necossary to make apcursie exterded wutid the end of the present year. Should the | law 15 the beuelits that will accrue to our citisens at culations concerning every one thet is to be laid. anticipations of tho engineer, Mr. J. 'W. Bazalgottc, bo large.’ ¥ALL AXD VELOCITY OF SEWAGE. realized, these works widl bo among the f"'“m of ancient v v of 80w operds jgo | or modem times. It is said they wiil have absorbed, ln:‘l'h;r:alilol «‘;? lllb‘: l;‘:\\“'f‘r."rllln::nflv:;:xrnll‘y . r.n .‘ hl:l; u'{ when fivished, 300,000,000 bricks u{d 800,000 cubic ,\nvd; OUR FOREIGN GORBESNKDENGE« of concrete, while the excavations will have amonnted to (i B the miwsion which he 1ad With the seuse of roligious @ e vpagrgess winmph of bis piiy [ PATOE AND DESTINY OF FILTIL i reeant procianniions are traces of the thoughts of pra- o6 w41l sy edt ki p nndertaking resolniely the bask of Ution and of comlduling peace, U fact! mplishiu, s v o . 9 stoorded to him, Bas i s{l’l;wrdwp Jorkhot | NECESSITIES AND FAULTS OF DRAINS, as woll a8 e xaa| and I don't think five men at the bar with whom he weg mmm.nyuu«mnwnd&_ cal faith, Tadeed, I doubt whether he himself was eoge scious of it. It isin & differeat sphere, much like the case of ona of the old prophats, mastered by the impulsg to go forth to the people, and he may say with Ames, { < gt Yy 3 of peteietia; whioh bo has oof sense. of courage. and of patriotien which B 196 FECC 1 in 48 for pipe-house draizs, and from 1 in 50 to 1 in 340 Eiory wil ‘bot besiato to pluco him in the rask of citiscus . e “¥be flow of sewngo should | 4,000,000 cubic yarls of earthworks. Theso d s who havo dose 1most homer 1o thelr coneley, spatoh e e veia, Tt Vinot be allowed 2 sto arge daily, of will when they are completed, ENGLAND. was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but & R e B kot 1o samtsanigate B the THE SEWERS OF THE METROPOLIS. B o oo ‘fi"il:‘,. in m:.:‘i.én .;.1';2 galious o:h'q:m o i une ot old :siu‘n ; ABRIVAL AND RECEPTION OF GOY. EYRE IN ENGLAND— :‘:fl “l:d lu:h:n":z’u:m fruit, when the Lord Senate aud legislative body. ¥rance will ananimously taie srpa——— locity of 22 fost per utnute for se-draing, B CINCINNATI BEWERA( STEM. EYRE AND ANTI-EYRE DEMONSTRATIONS—KINGS- said, go prop! my people Israol ¥ o i - f the E Hovere, memn:.:n o g " Dnours De Luvve. Few persons are aware of the amount of refuss matter {.‘:;.l:’\'::fl?f;{ ;:‘:‘ni’:‘p’uvqnm. vnult_}_hléofmgn:"n:,d";l“ lI:A:e' ?fi.fi:’«flfi"flflflhn :l lm«% LEY, RUFKIN AND CARLYLE VESSUS MILLS, DRIGHT :lo‘rhk":'f ::;l«n:mlh;mp;;lu - :'n computing the A, 1 D Growmor, ¥ A (hot accumulatos ia great cities. Wo become accustomed | given by Mr. Wickstecd shows the auount of full for Gil- | sowerege system of Cincinnati, which is perkaps one of ANL SMITI—TIE REFORM MOVEMENT—EXPECTED ' that of Amos, it seoms o be meeg b, e e ol e dispateh o tho | to ith, to some extent, aud ouly notice it when more vio- erent sizos: the best on this contincnt. Thereis 1o placd on 610 e red ovicTmaiw oF SERimsEARIAT ] L the Roform Leagne wilthery seginhyof st e Unted Bl ontly than usnal it assails our sensos. Wo havo street- Dgoste. Vilhr, Geoks Domien, Y8571 594 | of theomstien S Poer puling ...:“.f’m"}.‘z"fi.:‘.."?.'ix';f;‘} {EB’ EXGUIE RADIOALS—THE GHOLKRA—THS. | it g it b gt As might have been cipated, the Government of 40 B e 1ia5a : : g Winter, Ruasia was prowpt, hearty, sad very sympathetic. The | cloaning coatractors, and offal contractors, and scaven- -0 e Ho !fix‘.‘.‘ififii, tl'.".‘.i‘.f“.."m b:‘::::;%-g::::mn i: n: WHATHER AND THE HARVESTS. Booi;clhu’wrm ol followiag is the correspondenco between tho two Gover- | gors, aud house-drains, and sowers, and we fancy they 1in 98 30 huohe 1in 40 1 t of and tho smallest | From Our Own Correspondent. o kish byt wonts: ' h in thei hi Aite 1B 1im 119 36 inche iintes | sewers the greatcst amount of good e him out of the Honse during the last half of the ; Mr. Clay to Mr. Seward. take it away, oach in thoir ewn fashion, yet wo bave 15 inches...180 1in 244 €8 inches. 1% | smount of evil. The engineer, A. W. Gilbert, undor ) Loxvow, Sept. 10,18%. | g by signalived bis recovery. by one of his sorid, Chypos & TN coutinually in sight and somelimos, nay vory frequently, FROM whoso supervision the plans wero made, is an enthusinst The arrival in England of Gov. Eyro is creating a good ot FORMULA TOS CALCULATINU THE DISCHARGE Upon the subject, and has given it groat study. Tho city | gosl of excitomont; indeod, I should not wonder 1f the chievous speeches, at Sheflield. He attacks Lord Russell . 4 and Mr. Gladstone most unfairly, accusing the lstter of even whoa the quantity visible is not unusually large, our nostils tell us the refuse of our kitchons, manufactorics, strcets and porsons is uncomfortably near and apparcutly in immense smounts, 1f large communities do mot ro- gour patriotio labors nxml v-bo‘-lc A e Siorted - move their filth, it will ramove thom. People die of it Sopies of the correspondence hetween Priuce Gortehucow an 3 by 3 Diestt, and also T ertoce. of sondoleuce from the, diply. | every day and our physicians call the discase by such matic wrpsm"r:o R:ul;an‘:s:nu .d Franco nnr{ E.‘l.;h':?lwf ;\ namos as typhus or typhoid fover, scarlatina, measles, o person, and those who did uet do se wrote letiers fuil of nd- + i & ) aiifation for the virtuen of the nio Presidoat, nd borvor st the croup, diphtborin, diarrhca, oholers-tafantum, elolors, aad ime of Uis assassination, Hs Tmperial ".nan the fllfifld they try to cure it by exhibitiag drugs. The plain truth Duke Copstantine sent bis sid-de-cump, Gen. Gregg Hor is Al oy mporial Highvess the Grand Duchess Heclen sont Buron that the causs of death is Blth s seldom told even by ‘M. and His lm‘mml Highness the Prince d'()'dv'rlmurgh {hose who know it best. The disintegrated materials of ailed {0 persen, all (o utter sestiments of gorrow und sy~ | o oots i at every st our parlors Pathy with the American Goversment a-d people. A great our stroots invado our lungs & every d"““d ¢ P"b wany dictinguished Rrssians aiso exproesed their grief at our throagh every crevice. The waste products of com us- B D e ey Jiot Laporisl lighnees | tion blind us 1n evory thoroughfaro. The odor of decom- " nobess Helen, whe is well yerscd in the po : « a0d Listory of our conutry, Las inviced wme to call upon ker iu- | PORI s animal and vegetablo matter greets unhu every formally ou Saturday, with a view of giving us lurther evi- corner and still we have not bogun to enumerate the sources dence of her kind fealings for owr mation snd ita progressive | of foul-air diseases, or to recapitulate ‘:)h:n:i:‘:; o‘{‘mn: eaune, of which sho is an edwmirer. fuse that must bo discharged from our "hose sentimeuts of extoem and sadness are gratifying to | We Lave begun to realize, however, that s great pumber we, and suoh 8 lead me to_the that, the martyrdou of | of (he Giscases now provafent may be traced to the putre- o hoble iriead will at bome and ubrond consecrate in tho | ¢/ CH ORI v ter aud to the oxereta of men and LI A T s E i L aad it 18 wilh the moans of tho removal of f:cse Prosident Johnson ewicrs upen the dutios of his offico under nces that we propose to treat iu the following para- great difficolties. I like the words of humility and calm devo- graphs: '-'IZ'JJ‘-'.‘.‘?&"?.’?&”JL“ the partial revelatiou of bis views at THR NECESSITY POR ADEQUATR SEWFRAGR. " wikh wom for Mr, Lineln mort admimton 1 urope |, 1'% e e S ond ‘Bed- eariote b was bia modaeation in expression 834 Arices {ovaia tho old | gins. Persons who live nomadio or agriculturallivos ex2 Qubioes, sud we trust tao old policy of peuce with foreign na- perience little culty of this kind. The refuse of their Sions, a5d magnav/mity in all things et Bome consisiout With | persons returns 1o thio soil, which it fertilizes, and by tho desiruction of Siavery and the restoration of the Unien. which it is deodoriza, and thus becomes a benieon fu- SEWERS. " itself is admirebly situated for druinago purposes, and, = Thers ure seversl formulas for caloulating the dischamce | whoy s e bailly thoy will W‘Lfif“,’j as oatly | fiebt ovor bim aud his doings, which is almostsuro 10 tako {wm !Iu\n-u,’ but the lfullu\\ nu;'u :l r‘l ;::d(ll:m’: M,":fll"“fii pefect as any. : 2 place now, were to stir some of the depths of political and tis olso substantially correct: A o, Nyé A laige sewer under Eggleston-ave. will take an cial i i mean depth whea the sewerage it lowing and the snount | ey A Do souits Araiaage O g etsts: | i l“’ym“;;'d' which havenot been moved this many of full in feet por mile, The hydraulio wean degth is 0ne- | ¢ part of the city, West of Broadway overy street per- ayear. Your ers have scen that on bis landing at fourth ¢ oftho ;'“.‘"f,'“.’E'{||"{«".f°{|"§":'f"n'f [1he Mowarip It | pon “3“" o tho river in the business portiout of the city | Southampton bo was woleomod at a public dinner by sev- ning;fail; t ig not full | ho gectiol o L s made o seworago district, containing s large sewer | aral Tory Lords ¢ tho wettcd pormeter. ‘The wetled peiitmetet ia that post | which reccives the D e T I b it o o) o b of the sewer wetted by the fiuid. _‘The full in feet per tilo | Jytoral sewern beinye couneoted with the main under every A ik o Klngaley. s casily obtained by measuring 100 or 50 fect ang ealct- | yiroot and alley, ‘Lho strects north of the Miani Canal demonstration was not otherwise than feeblo, in & politi- lating ike fail of 5,8¢ fect. Hoving got these num “".‘v aud thoso west of Emitlest. are drained toward Mill- | cal sonso, a3 no Momber of the House which is directly multiply tho hydraulic wean depth by twice the fall in | greck, the districte being laid out in accordance with the b Tout por mile e tako out the square root, Multiply this | el ylan adopted for the direct drainage te the river, responsible to constituents was present, But othor recep- by 5% and the result by the section area. The product will | 311 (hese sewers are built upon tho m“,‘fl,p,,,",; pie, | tions are now being talked of in different parts of the be the amount in :::‘\“‘;“'gol;:'"c‘:'r‘)":i :Ilb calclu'}:umn ‘lufl;eivm ;o take l:w lbu‘-u:grl: kinglom, and & committee of Roblemen and gentlomen 3 B 10K8. rainage and spurs in front of eve ouse—put in whil ” We have already intinsted the importance of this part | the mains are I)cing buslt—by whis b st s il :’M btmn1 formed to raise an “Eyre Defense Fund.” of the sow erage of cit 1t is by means of sewer con- | yade by house-drains. Tho sewers aro built principal! tis curous bow this testof the treatment of inferior noctions ~.dlm| uurllwu .nlnfl:mald(' ll;l Kv;l‘(ntx ev‘cah;vge- of stoneware pipe, .-“,.l,gd.}l,.-mwu sizes are too lar mees divides mon in our time more keealy owner and every tenait :miedintely inteiested i which case bricks are ured, laid in coment and made per- [ and subtly than any other. Inever now can really do- chich his refuse s delivered into the aircet > in > 1 Ao v manner in whic s refuse eliver 0 the Bire fectly smooth nnT'!hx interior surfuce, the form genernlly pend on an Englishmen’s political faith until I know how wain. Weo have spoken of the size, shapo and grado of | heing circule anholes are upon an improved plan, sowers, tho full and velocity of sewage, and given 8 | aud the t though imperfect, the best known to | be fult about your Rebellion, or how he is feeling about formela £ 1 ealcalating the discharge. Now we give o fow | ‘engibeers. ihe cost of these sewers is levied upon tho | this outbreak of ours in Jamaica. Ho may have telked encra) prineiples on which house draine should be laid. | ghutting property, end cqualized throughout each sewer | 4y profagsed liboralism from his youth {ndh est) ti8 of grent importance thut connections should bewade | ago distiict. No' system of draivage, however, can Lo Peaiie youth up, onestly, a8 near the top of maing, and the curves should have 18 | peifeet, and fanity workmanehip Las ulready made trouble | 100, but if he went wrong five yoars sgo, in favor of the largo n radiva e possible.’ Indeed, these two rules thould | for Cincinnatrane, The entiro drainage of the city falls | last now nincteenth ceutury power, with Slavery for its be tuperatively Lusisted upon, The principle upon whioh | juto the Obio Kiver oaly a sot dixiaiice below the Joint | corpor stone, o if he is now shouting sad subscribing for thoy are basod 18 oby’ o rosistance uiminishos 88 | from which the water supply is taken—an obvions fault | o J 3 g the radius of tha curv roased; and when tho m which the eity sooer or later will ba compelled to avoid. Eyre, all his talk and profossions azo but as sounding brass ;{..'."fn:l.r;':"é? -"L";": ;u”‘_:* 1?51";""-1'1';‘;"?;1 r;"t&-nr:;l'« Tho sup iy of water is n:m wi“‘mnll sud ugtl this is and o tinkling symbol, 1 have no doubt, from all I gather ae -l o3 ot vy Foyiy remedied iLo seworuge system wlll not be complete. The | fro ourna i " from e former. 1 mingling of unents sometine - | bienuial flods i R el (ae| om rouz uiuils, had 0w My SRS frionds, thet pedes their fow, and to nvoid this, if the mouth of the | glh; but we fancy the low-water ‘season at over midsui- it is just tho same with you. It is only true liberals, those attempting to cajole and Dbully the House of C and strings together & lot of stupid platitudes sgainst the Reform bill, which were slain gain and again in the G Lates, He looks forward to the amalgamation of the twe great parties of Liberals and Conservatives, and the formas tion of a joint government of greatstrength, Without ege pressly saying so, e gives us to understand that » smelf ramp of Kadicals aze to be left out, including, I presumes Mr. Gladstone. In fact, hois for playing much the same game as your Copperbeads, Domoerats and Southerness bave been about in the Philadeiphia wigwam, and miseal- culates, I belicve, the strength of the Radical rump here, at which he sneers as much as Raymond and tho rest da shat of the true Republican party. We shall see. The cholera has all but disappearod, avd has loft ows sciontific men mors and mere confident that water is o the root of the mischief, I only hope it maey hatea s Tittle the adoption of one or other of the plans for supplge ing London, of which the Camberiand lakes schieme soumg to be just now the most popular. Wo are having terrible Autumn—nothing liko it sises 1963, the drenching yeat of the Great Exhibition, vhes our cabmen began to think Millennium was bona fide st in., The harvest, I fear, both here and in Ireland, will be greatly dsmaged. The ouly consolation is that it will make Reform and the downfall of the Tories (though Rosbucks were ready to back them) the surer and spoediet tountry and the nutions will .:hepr;lr‘«‘r:.'ilmw-d of all se world foilow Lim in ks | tead of a curse, In cities, lm\nrot,;ln disy wl;flhcu o LBt 4%, £ to R RONe B N povs: & . matters is a thing of lifo or death. It mus one at | smalier drain be made in the elapo ofa the connecs fll, when the city is thoroughty sewered, lay ba in whom tho faith, that all men are bora free and equal, £ beg 300 witly this poper hetore the Prosident, e | whatover cost, aa a matter of ganitary sfety, and thie is Siavetid and oven, and tho rulcs wo have given adhered | ovil o e e ;:..’Vi:;o;’;;."g‘;’,,;‘;;;*,‘,.;,,“gn,‘;",;,: bl sl g ladend o m.: rwl T | “"'lgm_,,“{ ndfl',«éu’;omwmvm Nt Wi to bo sought. Tho agricalturist wants saw= | to fuithfully, the futlta of coustruction will be reduced to | to ghun, Nevertheloss, tho system itéolf is aduwirable, b o - . g © ML Ciav. | 6ge for the sake of ita fertilizing T)wcr-. and it may thus | & minimom. 1f, on the other hand, the reeistance to and | and should be pusbid, 43 the experienco of the reseny | Botion of sbeolute equality befors the lew for all colors, PARIS. hyzicntst must have the | the friction of the paes: cither with you or us, and, to my mind, none others de- | From Our Spectsl Correspondeat. Paxis, Bept. 7, 1008 ) eage of rewage be gieat, the fluids nnidomic hus shown, with tho utmost rapldity to full com- will the solids remain, thus making in s little pletion. scrvo the name, We shall see how the hosts muster as prss while an effectusl bar to thoir progress. Pipe-sewcrs should rest on o bard, well-forwed Fand the Jffln Thould, | o are alwnes ers, apt to cetocmn Bighly that whick s rogards present strongth in your Full elocttons, and in our be as r}: ar 08 possible, without sudden differences of | aigent than (st which is near. Filth aiar off is not she Eyre and anti-Byro demonstrations, Yovel. This is & goneral ruls concerning erades, while tho | §iSicreeable tiing hat it is immediatcly under our noses; | ‘The foremost ien ou the wrang side with us, s yet, aro radiu of curves shoald never bo bo lces than 10 tiines the e Cotaes. 10 us diluted, 4nd what would oiher- | Cerlylo, Ruskin, aud Kingsley. Our peoplo are calling ek o ol , only warns and edmonishes. | (hom ronegades, but this is ot fair. Tho only ono to ES OF POUL SEWIRS. thercfore, that we approach the subject of the The principal e ; # of foul sewers have hno‘n suggested | gowers of 'I\' ';1: with :mflm dogree of 'm,:“;(m whom the name can with even prima facie fairncss be in what wo bave already written, notwithstauding the fact | uod nousea, We are familiar with so many disagreesblo | given, is Kingsloy, Carlylo kas been s power we 1, that the subject has Lee very superficially created. They | fuots concerning them, that itaprecations trewble upon onr M.duphnro{filtdflm"n’ time thuwm mmu‘p:: may, however, be grouped thus: L Bed flues oud grades; | yerepoint, aud our ink looks as a malediction wlght look pies 2, imperfect form aud workmanship; 3, exces<ive friction; | i it covld be liguelied. ‘o memory of their odors, a3 wo erenco him as one does, and must, thore is no denying 4, bed or '“""’M*.-";"hhtfllw"""v”f""'r"lvgl'w( AUk of them, 1+ alivost as bud as the odors thomselves. | this. Ruskin has been tho captive of Caslyle's bow aud te; 5, insuflicient water supply; 6, the tido | The prescut solverage sy stom of New-York is, notwithstaod- | spoar for the last 10 yearw, of nearly that. He s i 1 ack the sewngo, and 7, imperfect traps ond i s g old. The Cro- | o e e sty 5 e g0, npe 4 d | ing all this, quite as good 3 any in tho world. The Cro- | 1oor yoan and marmow; cen never ses more than one Hon, Wi JL. SwAR, Secretary of State, Wa-kiogios, D, C. | bo made s sourceof profit. The X atmosphere free from the mephitic gases of sewage, Itis Reiack Goclehaiest 3 AT, Olere diionit to_satisfy botl thoso partios, aud perhiaps e had e hmspimia, April 16, 1845, | botter not try it. If those excreta be aliowed to collect in Altbongh the absence of his Majosty tho Emperor makes it coss-pools, they destroy homan life; it they be whshed fmpossible for me to obtain awd vemmaniciie to you the sway through sewors, thoy are lost to cur ‘wheat fields. ‘*ilv;" °: &h'.':':l"{“l"h': h"‘l’:'h:‘g‘:""fl Kecping, thor=fore, the sauitary safety 1 view, wo must Ve (el o8 90 Bews O b v obstinaiely refase, in_tie prescat stato of knowlelge ab E’..'f:’.«“n“.'i‘r?u‘?‘;”:;e“.‘p‘. n‘lfld‘l\‘l";( wi E'fl-'.‘:‘,'.l.“,‘;",, fy. | least, to put monoy in our purses from this source. Wo: g the lively and profound ‘sympathy of the Imperial Cabiget | TRUS trid of it, even if we lose the profit. Nay, we Fi {wh oh Provi- | must do more—pay largely for its removal. for the Fedoral Govornmesi im this new tria ay la 3 donce tad reserved for it. I Bave asked our Minister ot « Middens are destined to bo an atteibute of man." The b Washington to comwnnicate i to Vice President, Mr. | animals he uses leave manure-beaps aud he must clean up. Johusor WAL your Exoeliency transwit it to Liw, together | after thom. Cees.pools ho makes for Limself, and theso with our sincero wishes that ehis abominablo crime vifl L0t | gro the more dangerous of the two. The former lose much Riuder the progress of the Amorican nation toward the estab. | o¢" 4} .ir power fur mischief by becoming dry thivugh the Hrbment of the Ufon and_of peacs, wiich are the pledges of | U (00 VWG i ito the soil. The Iatter are con- We arc pow geparated by less than six mouths from the opening of tho Universal Exhibition o 1867. During the late palpitating political period of ovents—as the French phraso it—much spoculsbies Lss been afoat respecting the futare of the exhible tion, Would it take place in 1367, or would it ba dofeseed to 1868, or to the Greek calends? Ifit teokt place, would it be a success or afailure? Tow, with helf Earope in arms, could the attention of-nations or of gave eruments be given to the peaceful contests of art, industey and scionce? On the question as to its opening ot the proper time, doubters were hardly reaseured by the suswes and its prosperity. T 1 4 -E,h;v.xoefi:n"ma.wa te sccept the assurasoes of | tinually moist, aud, boing loss exposad to the air hich owbined with faulty catch-basing and bsdly | ton Acquodics Bourd has all”the knowlcdze upon the my mont distingushed cunsidersison. GORTCUACOW. 1o Kz away thelr more dangarony peadnc e tremely diffcult to keop | subjeet that b 5ot appourcd, and they admit’ tho uiterly +ido, and 1 as bigoted # hero worshiper, both in the good | Een by M. Leplay to tho represeatativo of » forelgh ; U, Oty an ey oriible form. Both are old n they should always stek dit of ma oS, A il sed ot ould o st ) epuRo, April 29, 1565, | thom has taxed, from' tho fis?, the skill, ingenuity and | required for Liis purpose, sujposing them to be properiy | wiat lio under our stroets; but wo sufler none the | saging “ 1 am o King's man, not & mob's man,” incieding | % .0 ot Paris that fighting were going on tyrant in his term king, aud people iz his term mob. But | which would be tantamount to saying, at Ni "'f*lfil""‘l‘,";‘c‘;;‘":fr“ . -'""; ;'hl:dhm!“;l lhv'}"“nlll:;j" thut account. We kuow, and so do they, that much of " ops for each n duily, in addition to the rain-fll. | the fith that passes into our sewers must run up Lill | Charles Kiugsley bad far moro real lar sympathy in | diat battle was raging at Brooklyn. As ¢ L0 SBONEt Shotia be faore. T ud- | efore it can ges out; theta great deel of it is washed | pim at one time. I remomber “mlyp;)p«;““ zgo at omo | probable success of the ugzdmnklng 10 reasonablo doubt uddon_passage of large bodies of water | heck and foith iu tho slips, until merchants are compell d d an be entertained, On tho coutrary, it bids fuir to be througl: the sewors i oftcn mecessry and should bo em- | 1 transfer their commureo to other dooks; that the nox- | Of 8 serics of mectings of tho leaders of our London work- | ghsolutely unsurpassable, if in this ‘age of progress we ployed on the ground alrcady stated, that the moio water | jous gases which come up iuto many of our house s, making | ingmen, called by M. Maurice and & lot of young lawyers | may venfure to make use of an exim-nion which indicates an imponsibilicy, and typhoid foves | ead parsons who wore working with him, Kingsloy | finality. Butindeed it is difficult to believe that the wergy of the wiscst of our race, But' the drainage of My Dear Cotrzacre: I Lad desired to offer you. i per- | @ Sou, 1wy boieit sympaihy, but en account of indisposition, T | marshes and buildinzs, the removal of the waste of mano- am obliged to dofer my visit. factories uud of superfiuous rain-water, a8 well s the solid In the meanwhilo I kuow vot bew I eaa belic sud flaid excrementitious matters, become a neceseity e A e oy ticiod whenover city is built, This was well known to the O O o e ot iiatots ancient Rowans, and probably suggested tho idea of of ber greatest eitizen avd wost cminont stalesn i TEhe biood of & martyr in 80 Roble 8 cause Wik 5t building sewe ey made drains under the strocts until e Koorioan Uniun, ¥bose power and. prospor.ty have every | Pliny vias obliged to call Remo urds peusilis—a oty built wish of Italy, In renewing to you, wy colleague, my ex- | upon arches. Really this 18 the only mede of removing jons of sorrowfu! syrapathy, axd in thankiog you for your m citics. True, it may e collected in oeks- vommupication, I have tho bener te teader you the rance they reccive the beiter. dinser often i MAN-TIOLES AND OATCTI-DASINS. ouly. another name for decth, arise from decomposing | makize o speach in which e declazed himself & Chertist, | Fr%nt 8 s:l:‘m‘;gl;f%}gm“"‘mz:_‘h‘:{“‘,"‘lfi“‘f;’p‘.“" Man-holes are congtrueted 5o a8 1o wllow persona to de- | puilual matters that the scwers should earry awh i § and gave his reasons, earrying the whole moeting entbu- | and placed at the disposal of so puissant an initistivo—ee seend into th They are bui't wherever there is o | fauity drain are the rule, end good oues the excey sudden change of Iy, mispovert od, iufernal pit of o Metroy siastically with bim, Three or fouryears later sgain, at | eentralized an authority. Proposing, 08 1 do, to keeg attending this carted away, but tho du ade, and are used for the p.';l(m of of my high consideration. LAUSAY. cthod is too preat, 1t capnot with safety to tho publio i i il o | Shis jgood y i i P 00 ¢ t D sufe removing the sediment or matter which fuils to bo dis- | paredi which we call New-York, and that finally, and e et s ur readers informed, from time to time, s to the “ e Mot o Secden and Norway to My, Ciog. | bk bowlowed 13 scounlaoycven to tho exion of & | ersed, Catch-bisi are bult ut tho coraon Do e | e e O Sewem cto an sboriaablé juss- | (28 tme of the fist grest exbibition, T remember bit | {y, gnd dolngs. eonnootad with tho Universl it [Transhuien. nlod uuless it be troated daily with such chemuieak | grocts, for the purpose of taking ap the surfuce-drainage, | ance. Everybody kuows this ea well g we, aud yoi we preaching bis celobrated sermon on Freedom, equality and | tion of 1867, it seoms to me that this, my fizst letter, the washings from the | shall tell over and over sgun and sgain the same thread- | brof erhood, in & London pulpit, to which he had been | with advanta, be devoted to o sketch of tho pngn: to adu m in the bx The sBURG, April 16-°8, 1865, | quents g8 will render it inoccuous. This is im ledge the sad end are #0 consirucied pavener s and the great work which is to oceupy our attention for mow hian a year from its origin to its presest state. whilo the weter | bure #tory cdiment must be s 'we will leave is o« neernirg specially invited by the incumbent, who rose up in the = e ignorant and poor, 5o that at last sowers e YOUR FXCELLENC ¢ grandehildien o re sommanication by which your excellency has just iuformed s b 4 s of the ascamivation of Air. Lincela, Tresideat of the United | & Becessity 10 every congrogation of Lumab beings: ows off tl ¢ | ready i tee of Amerion. I bog Tou ¢ od ex WHAT GOES INTO THE SEWERS ! froquently rais e and carted away. The for » centary or two beforo tho evil siall have | 120ding desk, scared, and made & protest against the doe- | " The {dea of periodical exhibitions, as the Frynch Minise pressioua of ey mpatiis, and also Fow persons are aware of the quantity of waste matters | catclobasing act 18 veiL ,and_chambers bave becn i is niot & hopeful view of the wamedi- | trine and the preacher, the moment ho had finishod. Afier . | ter of Inatruetion recontly observed, is of purely hich hes deprived your country and your goverument of their | 1o bo removed through the sewers. It cannot be umln-.-u sometini 4 plec: r{ by the sid adinit, shall lions of dol!ais | wacd he was one of the chicf leaders among the Christian | ODgiR. It dates as far back as the reign of Louis XIV, fos or aud must inciude the water-supply a8 | same porpose. ‘These wero ma in undoing what bas Been b and then, when ol the five arts, and the great revolution for industiy, Onthe worthy and uhustrious chiel. : withont great le weizo the present occasion te effer to your exceliency re ] s the rain-fall sud the waste from dwel'ings, public posted asscrusces of my bigh ewnideravon, Idings, batbs, wash-houscs, Sive & ot e A eeway. | linetion of firce, " cleansing (o streets, from fou kb i ~ tains and other .~ The population of the . v l’lr: e Y ares to be drdined must be cousidered, snd also | nsmuno, May 16, 1065, | the superficial exteut of (ke n borhood. If we & e Simar B4 Tab » the water-supply et 3 gallous per diem for each ionation exoited hy the | person, which is much too small, and a pepulation of ited States, and tuo | 100,000 upon au krea of 1,000 actes, the quantity to be pro- vided anuwally for suck & town would be 1,617,120,000 gal- , most of which must puss off through the sewers, It afler it had passed shrough horizontal or vertical harcoal | this moncy bas been washed o the Atlautio, w Socialiste, aud wrote constantly in their paper, and o sexies " 9 74 ned at Pt cxhibif trays, by which it was doodorized and purified; but we rhaps, find that tho loss was doubled, b wo | of tracts, under the om ds piume of Patsoa Lot. One of A T '(;.‘,’;.Y.'.‘:k"{f.i'-i“":“.‘.2.‘,‘233:.:“.‘.'1‘“-1 L‘i’:‘..‘.?u“‘.‘.".. u»:rr"l;x» r'“p-‘Ax I"n:h‘z\nl.x.’"{, .\1_1'"1!',.1.»4 ",,,.“ the valuo of filih. Hut let us see fora | Lis tracts in this series, calld Cheap Clothes and | such famons names s Bieguet, Lemaire, Fortin sad entifation sre mupcrfect; aud we not swure of any | moment what our sewers reslly are . et " ir ¥ ol 5 ofou- {rep yet 1ntented which thorovgbly preents the cscape of | * Prior to the organizction of Tt Groton Aduedoot Board, | 2¥7; had considorable repatation st the tims, sad do- ‘.ffi?':flfxfiéfm‘n‘%’?x!,‘%?.‘émm‘? bidet & Horbas tho mephitic gises al 3 1 sorved it. His carly books, too, Tho Saint's Tragedy, | fn typog-aphy. Through all the chavges of governmentin ays generated in sowers. ‘The efford | in 1819, New-York contained sbout 70 miles of sowers, L.l.nu:h“:'[x:uind:r "fi 1 the sewer; but very littie success | with 060 catel-basins for recoiving the surface druinnge. | Yeast, and Alton Locke, had the true liberal mng im | France these exhibitions have continucd to be held with far bren ac d. Uutil within tho _pest year, the condition, grade, capacit i inerea present E in tho carieg TIE ROMAN SEWER and direction of these sewers were unkne No rvl'uumi "f'I"'h ppedte iy a0 bl el U e 4 days r;hh‘xgu!l"l::;”l;e':::lyl ‘rl::sed lh:!utfi‘:mr;? \h:Q“ The sewers of obiney Bane were salled cloacac, snd | Of their dopth, focation o size could be found; they | 844d that his ympathies were at the bottom strongly | gin of foreign competitors. It was reserved for the were originated by Tarquin the ebler, 150 years sfter the | seemed to bavo boen built merely for the purpose of put aristocratic, and 50 it has proved. Ho was bred - in @ | Prince Consort of England to carry out the first the grand Mg, MovisTeR: In informin perial Cabinet, of the prof jon of the Preside: mpati'y which the o met wilh among u 1o ‘of haviog expressed the semtiments of his diajesty the | iy il > Vikia : 3 " - B -~y d v o (P e ’Ahx"qlullm 2 .‘3&&“3}2"..‘3?: foundation of the city, for the pusposo Of draiuiug We | ting o many tuniels under tho sticcts, W0 80 wiuch | soiool where deferenco to mere rank was part of | ides of an exhibitien of art-industiy and science to whiek ‘ iy 08 goueral pi warLy grcund betwecs tho Palatine a4 Capot line hills, | money into somebodys pocked, witkout ny¥rolerence 10 | by oqued, M g Hdon o o o aouid be. {avited {0 sond: ompetilee. Tiho tenuk drain, ealled cloaca mazima, 18 formed by three | the utility of the drains, and apparently in she bekiel thab . Morcovor, his brother Hoary, who | ryq'vear 1851 will undoubtedly form one of the grea Scarolly has my avgust master setarned to his dominions, when be orders we to testis te you his grief at fhis painfal wvent. Tricd bimerlf by aw boss, which is also a ounse of 0 :-fl«ux wourning for Ruseia, tte Buiperor joins lu thre unani. | Assumes giganti 1 that pusses into a sewer the better. The amount of excrementitious matters to be removed ‘Im-punm:m when is comes to be caleula- A. Parkes assumes, toking all ages in w tiees of concontrio aiches overlyitg each other iu contact. | 1o one would ever inguiro wiero they were. The labor | W08 out in Australis during Eyre's exploring | cpochs in the world's history, as having inavgurated o pew o L The whole work is 15 feet v , aud tho | was wosted aud the woney thrown away. The sewers | trips came hoine a great admirer of tho ex-Governor, asd era of international harmony and universal progress. The masonry is of hewn Agrippa | wor pestilontial, and many of th ) Universal Exhibition of the London Crystal Palaco in 183% 5 rem o 1aid wi u b0 Some | junocalated Lis big brothy ica ri - By bad 20 outiot whats . i brother before tho Jamaica riotaoc- | L LThou0d by that of the Palars @ Industric in Paris s regrois wlich encircle Wb womery f ihe ewivent wd. Dr. Edmw i 1 B T ehed away so suédesly 0d 10 30 teribic a | necount, that the excreta of each person duily aro at loast | sailed through this sever in a boat, and Nero cunscd Lia | of them were sa constructed th r from his noble career. 23 ounces of «olid ard 40 ounces of fluid master. Taking | victims t Whsown fato it Al {bis subterras 111 * ourred—and lastly, Kingsloy’s family owned West Indi i i i Tmperial Mojesty requeets ue, your exosency, fo tenns | (/i vl g s i ctims to bo thiown ivtoit, Along tbis subieraucan | ever, Some, 1 fuok duep wore utly, King ned din | | Tho utifity of these great iuternational peace com= T Lmperial Majoety ragoests ae yous, cnseloncy, Lo lense: | Lhin an base wo ledesy LY 8 Yoy casr compn et on o0 | e oot Sbanae] well s tho surplus we- | oontents, if’ at all fato others tw property, aud wezo gread losers by omancipation. Taking®| tests was at once manifest in tho improvement displa pogeus " ¥ ¥ y 190y ters of the aquedict dischargd thomselves into tho river, | thas wo are aware of was demined by a hugoe rock #ll $his into consideration, I think ono may regret very much | by the various exlibitors ot aa interval of ¢ of the cloacs were contided | eontractors thought too largo to be removed sud ° cars, and the great question of the Tho cleansing and repair 1o the censors, bus aflery axd cou for tho purposa, who employed o o0 expense by & the drsdnr, s vaults by which ¢ tial marshs abou tiss city was effecte ains of whatever k flow was posei a | Thirty-second and T one in Thirty-4i wpaily with the family of e late Mr. Liucolo is Excellency Presideat Jebnsen. T also fuil] the orders of my awgest mester by, infering you | ) bpw moch his Imperial Majosty bas been toucked by the spon- | E:.onl testimonicls of rvepest Which the bedeval vilicers a ud with | Douids of soiids and 250,000 galions of fluids; o, in & 25,000 tuus of fecal and 91,269,000 gallons, or 14,616, lc fecd of urinary matt 1L we n7ain romind ader of the necessity for the ol ept of ocaspools; o | o aneled. A fow had outlets into vacend Jots, and | b0 prominens part whioh ho has thonght 8t totake ia this Tl valte of Universal Exhibitions was admitbed v X and | many discharged thoir contents, and do shill, ab the bulk. | matter, withoutquoting Browning's‘ Lost Leader " against | to bo triumpantly solved in the aflirmative, Tho nexd e 'wa»‘.u |ylu'xNW\lI; | IA;. ad lllu\‘ Recont pu‘m' &) lr,v‘ll'.' |'m|un|lu|\.-'1iviul ]l&m-nl him, or ceasing to respeet ard feel kindly toward a man | Boiversal oxhibition was hadd in London in 1852, to be clud ot merely | discovered a sewer four feet by tvo foes eight inches in n ’, , o g is time, s tast | Slecmatan, with aa ascsnding grado of more than thiree ot | Y0 a8 dous yuoman's sevice e thorigkt f one e In B i R ey 10 be overeome, betw cen Secoud aud Third-aves., boforo a | Bis Hfe. with so much interest in 1867, 1t is to be held, as " \A.;r.»r] :h Madison , b N\‘"l; On tLe other sido the leading names om the Jammden | readeis are awere, in the L~mou:“(;";vr'mp de Mars, & third-sts 4 i0 200 | Gommitteo are J. 8. Mill, J. Brighs, and Goldwin Sa Lain, 3,080 feet long by 2,29 broad, hounded on the south E A , J. Bright, and Goldwin Sugh. e . Y J B £3 0 ook | s vious have laft (ke commiit . | e Eole Miitwire aud on the north by the mves ve shown to the memocy of s dearls eloved son, during | of the necessity to or, of tho neces- Dassage of tho squidivn bearing te Mussis kis worgal se- | ity for sowers. 811!l wo hays only spoiccu of & part of the d | refuso of & lurgo city. Ia"New-Terk the butchers thiow ins of Gl into ers every week, Unfertus lies there and festers uniil our sewors becowe we are compel i matos 1 bave already communicated to the Pedecsl Gover ut & thanks of his Imperial Mujosty, shrongh his reproscutative t Washington. Lie wsks of you the favor (o reterate thes sewers. ‘Bhe princip! thereby of course | Seine, ‘This locality has hitherto been devoted to Bo assuted, your Escelicney, of my very distinguihed ¥ mamm._ ¥ o bt GOLICHACOW, masses of putrescent u]w!ulhu the deiuage of modera in Thiri ou. Clay, &e., &, &e. ¥ . + | althongh many improvements have Iy were rob wrong in ealling me damaging i serfousl : itary i Lo tho Nethorlands, not enly %d the Goveremest ex: T g that alwape | o ik Sortramtion of somern, oy afe yot faity, and cone | sawers elongated oem-pocie, Mr. T heodors W SRS Y peCoRy M B 1 think, mach | military reviows aud o the drillg of tho trooys of the ress their sympathy, but the Legislative body hasteued | e contradic "Ihe sewer | turies must elapse before whas s now known concerning | less than o year & *exceph when Uio grudes re | < opetoon the ground that outragoouely illogal sad un. | €arTison of Paris. It presents, 80, MY the fote of the pass rosolations of coudolense. 1 e dge bofound tobo a mistako, | thewm wil b fally applied to our older citics sud Wwus. | steep, or whore o large urea ia drained through ono chan- sighteon e they admit Gov. Eyre’s conduct to have beca, | Yeiersrion so 1o, when Loais XVI. swore on tho atasof Mr. Pike to My, Munter. | e absorbed the well-being of TIE SEWERS OF PARIS. Del, tho sewers are rarely found free from deposit in some | they cannot ses their way to putting him on bis trial at | Liberty to maintain the now_constitut Here, to0, & UNITED SM1iS LEATION, THE HAcUE, Moy 4, 1805, the lh,m..nf.mmmw Victor Hugo affirms that #io samo After what has been wriston by Vietor oo concerning | degren” Thus it will e soen thas the drains, instead of | bome. A rich though not numerous section of the okl quarter of a ceutury later, the first Napoleon beld the SIR: Yesrcrday the secord chamber of the nationa! Legisia- engulphed th 1. We bevo kere, o3 Im.n’ whe | tho sowers of Paris, iv would be uscl teanpt th carrying eff the GLih of the aty, in B places only sorve | gavi Slavory party here, has followed th 2 gothering of May af er his roturn from E Under the of genuis aguinst scwers. 1t i8 [ deseription. For our present purpos rel, 83 permascat receptaoles 3 ¢ wore buils to lavery pasty here, has followed them, and it sooma | Looong Finpire, the horso-racing of Paris was inaugurated, nony of Lwe extimatod that Peris alone throws 5,000,000 fruncs pee through her sewer:, and the smount s 100,009,000 per sunum. We are imases have been made of the valno of Wo bavo beon calling this thor of Jee Miserables calls it gold, sarjoram, and green fields, and Jlng bay, and fat oxen, and a fow of his sentences concs ach hiccough of our cloa is imporerished and the wate « Hunger rising from she furrow and disease g from the viver” AN te buwas and asimal wa- which is thus lost, restored te the luad, inetead of being thrown into the water, would Bonsish the woi 1. u We quote from memory, but the texs is substautially X have the honor to be, with great ru;m:'t. ’ws"f»" obe- | correer. We are not prepared to dispute avy of his asser- gl Y AMEs 8. Pz, ::u;m We live in cireles, nnd the refuse tnn:l\wdnl:m‘lmr‘r‘-;fi . r nd be )l Acting Secretary of Siate, Washington. . 4 o o e auuntcfin{n e athized with ws in gpe great shiapes, nd laden with lemonts Wab delight our scoscs 4 th t fsumo the Flowery Khugdem sud wake our conversation, sesiedy sud dinuor-tables at- m gfifi;lfas"flln;l:fie:' " e e tractive. We have not yvlfi!:- to uso it ug aud st s therefore put it away as s we eun. Afler awlile, JuLy 8, 1665 (g;".‘-w yoar imruhz } when the soil becomes okd aud sbows sigas of tho starva- 5ih Moon, 17th day, tion we compel it te cnduse; whea M ecasce 10 nourish Prinoo Kung, Chief Secretary of Siate for Foreige "Afhuies, | our bodies and we want the feod it eamnot give for the sends, in reply: yeason we have not fed it; in one werd, when the neceesi- Ebad the boror yosterday te seceive you ExceNoncys som- | tics of our fields becomie to ws what they aro slieady te ing me_that fhe President of the United | tho Chinese, nm:fiv, the mothess of inveution, then, per- M“":e:‘:m" 'bymo'."x“"“"-:‘““l;‘.“:: Laps, we shall fiud some method by which to save for ooy i dand staztied e, Bn 40 Lo pouition | the land the fiv;:ln:lng substansa ve are nox com pelled assasel arrest o throw into the sea. Weo canuet ebop here, however, to jrithont aay disturbance, and o e e ~ estimate the value of filth; we are mow merely treating the affairs of the Goverament were going ou s |y 1 hope these considerations will M‘&e‘yw:‘n‘fie ut | of the subterranean passages throwgh which we ase tryiug ovent, and you will be able to attend to public business. 10 remove ite sball be pleased to embody whe particalars counected With | THINGS To BR CONSIDRRED IN COXSTRUOTING EEWERS. mmm ~B. :’:n':: Y Evincs | The functions of sewers, then, aro to drain the sireets > g and houses; to convey away from the city all the rain- possible that their defection may make it impossible to | j; the Chimps d'Mars, the mees now held in the Bois B o B N ogislaturo authorized "hn raiso tho funds necessary to &ry Eyro for the illegal exeen- | d’Boulogne having for & short period been held here, The Crotol A cduct Board « At nof G 0] i viding adequate drains for each district with maias of [ bey Will be forthcoming, Meantime tho press hore is | gony, the City of Paris & like sum, aud 3 privete Associss city to cuiry off all the filth of tho arca strongly deprecating the trial. There is in fact scaroely a tion, composed of some ef the loanfln,:men in the county, \:1‘{:'1'.'.;‘ .'":d:ulolr"ll::_:{.»:.rll:xlzln:'{:nl;l-r paper except 7%he Star, which has come out for putting | EUAIaNtecs a sum amounting to eight millons of francs, o8 i, nd_ tho wholo will ba cow. | tho thing thro on Journal which wero wniforaiy | SPRtom ot TSI LM BT A o vnt year. For the ro- | on the right side during your civil war, aro giving enua | that from the various monopolies and eoncessions alreadg Nos, 9,10, 11, 12and lés comprising | certain note, putting tho case on a wrong iasus, and villify- | granted by the Imperial Commission directing the under- ty-first-s€ on tho west | juoo 1he Jumaice Committee. The P 2 G taking, such an_amount will be received ns will go fag as U0 B i v & e Pall Mall Gazette, | @] mpeting the outlay. For instance, the mo for instance, which is generally sound on legal questions, | of the right of advertising alono has been sold for W that the netion will not allow “the burden of | francs, or $i0,000; that of printing and selling the catalogue for $30,000. TLe space covered by the * P’ will be 14 hectares, or 35 acres; the quantity of glass slone ession, pessed resolutions - structigg (be Ministers of Fereign Afiairs to eommunicate to the Cafnet ot Waskington their senso of the great loss sus s in tho doath of the Prosident, to y of 1ho Chamber, and o expr tation of the foul erimes by which fho en torminated and that of the Becietary ngered. State e ‘m resolutions were supported im debate by the Miuister He says ) #Poni n Affairs on the part of the Govemment, and by M. | golden corn, and swi ‘a0 Zaylen ou ibe part of the eppemtion, aud were wiur | oy, and lie. Wo qu e sewers of Par Bure, the ovly branch now in discharge. bo egout | 10 the Spring of 1855 ¢ mary to state 006 or two facta iu e Tho great sewer surrounding the city, known e cetnture, wos Luils in 1412, for the purpose of ¢ the vallgy of tho Max montant and Montmart and from thus time the Central Government has ox t of Publie Works, an sctive con- | sufficient ca; The present Ewperor | undoe which t A with great energy. | 12 districts ha sruus she cisy on boih | of the sewers I o their contents into the | pleted, doubtle K Bew ot | aining in | ol the 3 le, and north Wously carried. To-day the Minister of Torelgn Afluirs bas called snd com- Mmunicated to e this action om the part ef iLe Secoud Chamber, y requested me o travsmit it 10 the Governmens at Wash- broad, 14 fees high snd 2} u sowers uro mado Wil patls on each sido, Jus tho | stream. A trawway runs on ove side, which carrlesa machine which can s b \ the bottom of the sewor, | extending to Onc-hurdied- are | has sai ce of ¢ hou i ked by pleted and tract, The lust 0 tha I v " Tho entrance of each house-drain is warked by o pleted and ready 1 ract, The last repor 19 | Lroof to Yie on & British Governor; that in taking meas- plate bearing a sumber, and the of thel Aqueduet Board, fesun! early in tho present yonr, = Muree francs snnually to have his house-drain k S Qistriots etabrace o toful Rrea of 3,750 pores | Ures for tho public safety he has not been actuated by mel- | will suffice to cover e‘:{hl hectares, or 20 acres. 1t pre- THE §EWERS OF LONDON. or 45 square miles, in which an aggrogate longth of 74 | ioy ot by any fecliug which the English law will construo | seuts the appearaiice of an enormous colosseum of an oval The drainege of Londen v.a6 provided for by legislative | wiles of sewers bave been already coustructed, while | a3 malice,” Now tho question of malice, on which it is | shape. 1Itisono story high in the outer eircle, the romaia- enactments, commeneing in 1%, but the whole subject | bout~130 miles remain to bo bui District No. 10, | 000w om tad to ride off, b e der consisting of a ground floor only. The oval form has wis thorougLly revised by Sir Thomas Moro in # bill | covering Hurlem tlsts is the larget, und has its outloi at | P ride off, has no bearing on the point at | pogy preforred to the square, or rather rectangular;as et assed 0 1691. Twe wse of the sewezs in London was, | the foot of Ove-hundred-and-sixtb-st. It drains su areq | Jasue. Our law is 80 clear on this part of the case that I | fording greater facilitics to visitora. It isa fact proved owever, resiricted to the removal of the st e druinege, uf;m Jess than 3 square miles, or abous 2,000 aer doubt whether any Iewyer of character and stauding | vxpericnce that crowds flocking to Jarge buildi, 1 Now, the ) until the present contury, and during t! en of (ieorge ) distriet W 1napped out by , and Lins o con- | o 5 T ’ £ i n Tl an ne was pasced prohibitiag tho discharge of oticr | Bection whi eny other. The by ieclf, and L 20 con- | yonid arguo it ‘Tho last time that it was seviously argaed | 011008 800 soek wpaces SoubnGing TN, lome matters into thew, umder the penalty of a fine, The in- Bt forme nud 8izes, while the remainder are vitrified | Woe ot the beginning of the century by Mr. Dallas, after- | rule applies wit! Nam ‘foree to exhubitors, whose objeets ",.m,;.‘,,f“m-. losets yvddq.,.“u- use of the scwers, . WATe ]ln‘]-e.lfrnm 12 to 18 inches intertor dismetor. | wazd Lord Chief Justice in Gen. Picton's case, who | bocome lost to public view exacly in the proportion uf and their eapacity was tuxed to an extent xot st all con- purs are put in, to ser 0 A -UTRILS, | was tried fi ’ ) the repugnance of the public to scek them out. The I\ orseunal construetion.. Tho rofuse mat. | 00 each sido of the sawers, 13 oot wpast, * Esthmates ars ‘:‘l“““,'r"\ 'l“"‘_“""’“{"' the torture of cobored | 116 WRSTR, O {1° 0 srrangement of the various templated 1o Shelr origina] comat o, o, pottating ita | ATt mado se to tho amousit of sewago fo bo discharged | €1 in Trinldad, which had bedo recently taken from Roads of the objects displayed will be a3 admizablo as it waters, whilo the sewers themselves, meompetent to_dis. | from each district, and the capacity of the sewers deter. | Spain, and of which be was Governor. Ho urged again | unique as regards past exhibitions, Identical objects charge their increased bumlens, became avenues of the | mined upon tns basis, Scparato caleukations are, there- | gnd gain that theae was no evid t . | every ditforent nation may be com sido b ga videneo to prove shemost re. Ty 5 a 'm‘ oq\ul{y ot poisonous gases, which were discharged into the [ fore, nocveeary for ack district, sod are earclully made i 4 " . - which, to the thoughtful an ) 18 begun, mote suspicion of makice, and sgain and again Lord Elen- | 1 o :nm .ight-n:fmd pleasure-secker, will prove a vast streot. It soon become neoeseary to eonatruct the sowers | befude the wor 0 Ihe fullowing teble shows the locetions, outlets and | borough,the judge who was trying e case, interrupted bim | saviug of timo and labor. The main bullding is suron upon & larger seale and better planw, Ther wore thes 04 | o gy or' e Gatricts in which the sewervge 1s new f over 1,100,008 out upon & regelar system, coming down to the river from Koy + - LWeRge 18 ledsly com- | with, you eannot go iuto thi . Dallne. The if up- ith rden or park covering & space of over each gide for o dm.’m of six fm« slong its course. | pleted under the new plan: \...n'n{. p,mw..r{, ,,; h':,":,“ madiolor el 'lu‘r:‘;c .J:m will I‘:g emm various _bui s us. The ar- | CHEH'Y shall describe in fature letters, whilo in the vecy tou; and to add that nowhers ko Burops bas there been o rofounder emogion feit then in Hobaxd over the awiul traged, in the United States, and nowhere oan it condeuin and upamimous, life comes back 1o ws eften i & ! which is the of sending the present reply. Y . ) mn:;n W. WiLLas, Chargé d‘Afin f Uuited | Woter that fulls upon its suruce, and the solid &5 | Thelr total kength excoeds 2,000 miles, and tho principal | o= ———————gg ...-‘u‘ in China. sy iy htrul refuse produced in thoroughfares and buiklinge. It | sewers are of egmovd‘nnr{ dimesions. Those k'::n’n Z|Besw'n s.| Between drenuen. ‘ Oulleta, o | gement you are now statiog would be of the highest im- | Leart of the place itself 8 space has been reserved to e W close our extracts from the Departmental archives | Will be seen thet their propertions, dimensions, inclina- | the Fleet ditch ere from 12 to 14 feet high, and 6} feot 2 Py v | portance if wrged in mitigution of poni %, but 1o the | Iaid out a8 an inner 'and surrounded by & ‘ru.., Wwith & letter from Spain: tions, (Y,md oo‘mm lrm ¢l the bighest import- | wide. The Moorfichle sewer 14 8} by 7 foet, ad | T e R (== | ool ’ ponishment, oy W, £ 600 et Jong by 2 Br. Perry to Mr. Seward. anco. ln? are nn& Dt 1R iZ6, in sbape, im- | & the mouth }0 by 8 feet; s the north end of :llmhln:‘ll::‘ ave and HHodson Riv|AL Bith ot Frudwon Riv 4 question of guilty or ot guiky it is wholly irmlevant— | U hnm‘“ommr ‘or park, will Mm“‘,d,m Lacamion o tua Usirep $rutes, § | properly built and ventilaied; if the gradiont be imperfeet, | the pavement, it 18 27 feet Lty o eztace, | HISAte Sctb{itheve s2d Hintoon Rviat “;‘_f Hogion 1128 of | (Sate Triak, ol 30, pp. 455-9). 'Tho Jamaica Committeo | priciple b outer e o voiding corners and MADAID, April 28, 1865, ihe wateraapply muull, the Eistion of maters ing | The more ordinery dimepsions, however, &80 0f the | § [Fithlodiak[iti-ave sid AR, e v | gontond thot the only issno is whother the seizure of Gio- i ter s to bo & important feature both a3 regards the we are still permitted to address you. A | through the t; if from asy eauee they become | largest size of #t0) e "of semi-circula: Bon | 8 [#4hio ek Tth-ave sud East Riser At dth-ot, East Kiv b8 AF, i i hie and tho dul An aquerinm, if not more n fnforms me at this momedt “1bat | ehoked up and 1 to dieebarge their contents promptly; | upon s diamete foJ"?u"m :’r'idfcwl;;rl' :;cog; 4] - 1og] |l rhd g I % Eas Rive: |1t | 900 in & distriet whese the civil Wy was ia #oees; ad his | O .Lh:m:;:ion a l‘&gfl sealo for the ‘1 R et kupd my if they open into our baserment and their odors esca Vlape 8 feet 3 ipchee in hight by 2 feet in_width; sud 1o i b ave sud Eam River 'A: Wit i, Euas River 714" | traadbr to @ distaict under mertial dew, was not oo fliogal | joiurating the of pisciculture in S iemeal coum~ into eur dwellings, they are worse than eesspools; for the higmd feet, width 2} feet; snd 4 feet 9 inches by 3 | Total 4% sqease mikes, or 300459 | Aot If vilegal, the higher the posision of the effender the | tries, and 8 riveris to meander through the pari : b ¥ T h the other, But I reserve for s future :m 1" | reason that it 1s Joss bad for the ‘:ou from human excreta sir, the expression of my | and decomposing animsl mabker te eseape into the free air the foel crime of whiol you have been 1han to be confined in s small space and forced in a con- the Assistant Seeretary of Svate | tinuous jet through all the sewer-ope into the balls pathy for ell his suffes- | and passoge-ways of every honse, or into our lupge at wonk wi mieh e sewers must be properly collosted ug. “M:J‘ .lthbm. prom vered, all time teushed the term | .y, for thege purposes the somstruction ot house-drains, the life of she Republic, | their traps, eonnections and junebions with the mains, re and &x:n the grestest care and d:‘l}odm If these fail, efficiency of any system of inage will be imperfect, »ot l&.bdm aud all care bestowed upon the larger works will be uscless. ey BIZE, SHAPE AND OAPACITY OF SEWERS. ‘We have already ssid that, in building sewers ti pu- eYyery otber Luman name whioch ’ P record, avd Dlling that broad place lation of the ares and the extent of the surface to be ¢nm.m"::.n aod ..u‘n.'. » has | drained must be considered. These clements form the borror through Europe. The Spanish psople | basis of the calculation for the size and capacity of the orsrusk 4 pavg beprd ordiuay gow, igas ) Ardas, Thug o scalo of sizes for duffrent lougihs wey $208e fruia this system, notwitketanding ivs Mg | ewers hitherto construvted in these several districte, aa | hould not bo ab i _ ) a8 able to sercen hm by refosing to proeeed nificnt proportions. The outlets of the sewers in Order | wo)i gy the total length of aM sizes remaining on the Tt of sgainst him. The matwer is i el sty :t;ad:m ggd "'l‘m v‘v:o‘l;.c:ig:“g'u;mwuu o gt Secen Al o Qe O B s atocod by | (AL, 1866, #'De built sseondiog 80 the armuge meut | s hope thattho Jemaien Commteo will b suseesstel. | mhlch will form tho sorios of my correspondence, t0 the tide except st Jow water.” By this means their OO e daan AR eSS SRR SAR RS 0K S The Reform movement gathers weight and strength {J‘:;um? &fl‘:’.,:‘“'{;“i;?%‘;., rmn‘l"n. ity s el Rk a0y g kvt 1 e dnty. Livoyool and Machester ae folowin o s | th“Spping day of ths et xnuds, 4, i smple of Birmingham, and there will bo monster moetings | Here on the spot with my thoughts mmw&e g{‘heb'b”md w::e wuhe;l A:;out in .!‘rlma( of lh; city until p o M b g e ebb, an n at last oarri own the stream, at each of these places in the course of the month. The o Exbibiti they were immediately replaced by the same amount of fresh indi, - a amount of interest already excited by the Exbibition fll'g- A plan was ldiplupl in 13{8 and is now ll:: pm‘cfu leaguo is very indignant at the refusal ({l Chief-Justice | 157 “qnd all that .x?u,h" % it, I cannot hu‘: of execution, by which it is hoped these difficalties may be TALS mesel kel | Coskiutn: to ro-appoint Mr, Beales, their president, re- | myself to what pitch of excitement we l-lh-l!l all find oure pemnn-m:lv overcome, d" consists :f fil“l giflnlm ain ~ “slleet | vising barrister for Middlesex. The reason given by the selves t'hound :p “:E;?) :how%:fi?l nruugumest:; three morth and two south of the Thaues—at | Chic e g . » up o the wondrous 4 ) cumulated hopes difforent levels and distances back from the river inter- ((uhrahl‘ulwo‘l.l that, however ‘lmplruflbu'. “‘"‘1‘; "I"Yl and expoctations of 80 WEM moulhslhnl\.n:u r‘r;nc.u;:w cepting the sewers at right angles. Receiving their cons be in his judicial capacity, it is not to bo supposed that | climax, and the question being put, IN(' ey rea tepts, which wore fommerly cwgiigd Wio the mien the L dralng bas seesntly becn mede & 1o peily Wik bebivio Lty L &0 Qpd thet | o puil” what Wik by ey b 10 kG KT feet, and by 5§ lgu.'i‘i-!::i. The mest terious diflieuliies | “rfy following fable gives the Emen Jength of Ml the more noedful fa it that the Executiwo Govermment here m‘:.mm.:udn?dmdou "Setmls which r::dm:. ' cations 351500 Tivesl foet.| 980 lineai feet.| 43, 349,065 lnes! feot, 60,11 miles. | 1149 miles, t that a great reforin_in the construction of Y0k bub A pwca b 150 Co3E000

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