Morning Herald

The inhabitants of Lower East Smithfield, Burr-street, and, indeed, the whole neighborhood in the vicinity of the St. Katherine's Docks, were, on Sunday, 4th March, subjected to an intolerable nuisance, which the authorities ought to have suppressed. Late on Saturday night the steam-packet Sirius, Captain Mowle, arrived at her moorings off the St. George steam-packet-wharf, from Cork, with nearly 800 live pigs on board. The crew and a number of laborers commenced unloading the vessel early on Sunday morning, and throughout the sacred day, the streets near to the docks were covered with a "swinish multitude," whose noisy screams and the profane bawling of the drovers, and, above all, the effluvia arising from "Par's household," created a nuisance not to be tolerated. Burr-street, which is inhabited by respectable families, was, during the forenoon service, made a regular "pig-stye" and at one time (noon), it had the appearance of Smithfield market, rendering it extremely dangerous (some of the animals being in an infuriated state,) for any person to venture out of doors; and, consequently, several families who would otherwise have gone to chapel, were reluctantly compelled to remain at home.

[The Sirius is the steam vessel whose arrival we expect to announce tomorrow.]