The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-14 00:00:00

THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.

Mr. Dalton brought up the report of the Thamee Em-
bankment committee, submitting the correspondence
between the chairman of the board and the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, on the subject of a Government guarantee
for the re-payment of the loan for the Thames Embank-
ment works, north and south, and the new street to the
Mansion House ; together with copy of Treasury minute
on the arrangements for carrying out the proposition on
certain terms. The report stated that the board could not
raise money at less than 41 per cent , unless the Govern-
ment would guazantee the re-payment of the del, t, as they
did with the main drainage scheme, in which case they
could get the loan at 3 per cent. The chairman of the
board represented to the Chancellor of the Exchequee
those facts, and be recommended to the Lords of the,
Treasury to give the guarantee provided the board would
introduce into any bill for carrying out that object a power
to charge the rates of the metropolis with any deficiency
which might arise in the funds now appropriated by parlia-
ment to meet the eh age. The right lion. gentleman ale°
suggested that the Government might advance the money
out of the surplus moneys received from savings banks
and post-office savings banks at a rate of interest of 31 per
cent. The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury had
intimated their concurrence in the suggestions made to
them by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. By this
arrangement they would be able to obtain the money re-
quired for the execution of the embankment works and
the new street on much more reasonable terms than they
could have hoped to negotiate a loan in the money market,
and that a saving to the public to the extent of £18,600
per annum, or £334,100 in the whole, would be effected in
the payment of interest. The committee recommended
that the arrangement proposed by the Treasury be ap-
proved, and that the solicitor of the board be placed in com-
munication with the Crown solicitor in reference to the bill
to be introduced into Parliament for giving effect to the
same.

The motion was agreed to unanimously.
DIVISION OF THE LAMBETH DISTRICT.

Mr. Robert Taylor moved that it be referred to the build-
ing act and general purposes committee to consider the pro .
priety of dividing the districts now under charge of Messrs.
J. It. Taylor and Parsons.

Mr. Savage seconded the motion, and it was agreed to.

THE FIRE•ESCAPE BRIGADE.

•
It was resolved that the board should take tho escape
brigade under their charge in connection with the fire
brigade, and recommending that the necessary provision be
made in the bill to be introduced into Parliament in relation
thereto.
The hoard then adjourned.

The Royal Victoria Friendly Society Again,

Mr John Lawrence, of the Triangle, Hackney, and Mr.
John Monk, of Leslie-street, Mile-end-road, were charged
before Mr. Cooke, at Worship-street Police-court, the
former on re-examination, for that they being, one the
managing secretary and treasurer, and the other being
secretary, treasurer, and trustee, of the Royal Victoria
Friendly Sick and Assurance Society, did unlawfully with-
hold the sum of £lB 108 from Margaret Forde, widow of
John Ford; that being the amount for which her husband
had insured his life in the said society.
Mr Bury Hutchinson, as before, appeared for the widow,
and Mr Nind, from Mr Abbott's offices, for the first named
defendant.

Mr Hutchinson now said that since the last examination
he had put himself into communication with Mr Tidd
Pratt's office, and found that though an application had been
made to dissolve the Royal Victoria Society, its affairs had
been found in so unsatisfactory a state that the application
had been refused. This society, therefore, which had been
stated to have been dissolved, and to have merged into
another similar association subsequently established, called
the Prince of Wales, was, in fact, still in existence, and
both defendants liable for the claimant's demand. On the
31st of January, 1863, Mr Monk was appointed a trustee,
and Messrs. Sadler and Hitchcock trustees also, and a
very curious fact in connection with Mr Monk was, that
an audited account or balance-sheet of the affairs of the
society having been furnished on its behalf, Mr Monk
went down to Mr Tidd Pratt's office, and there told
them that it was a fradulent account, as it only repro -
sented about half of the members. Under the act govern-
tug such cases, where trustees had not received any money
on behalf of the society, they might not be liable, but those
persons who had received the money on behalf of the asso-
ciation were to be held to be trustees as far as the purposes
of the society were 'concerned. Now, he should be able to
show that Mr Monk had received money for the purposes of
the society, and that though he had not given new policies
on the Prince of Wales Society being started, he hal given
out fresh cards which professed to be for the latter society,
but he contended that, the Victoria being now found to be a
still existent association, he and the other defendant were
liable to the complainant for its funds. It was clear to him
that the defendants had been concerned i n a conspiracy, for
Mr. Lawrence, when here on the last occasion, had acknow-
ledged that these societies were a swindle upon the public,
and that he knew them to be so. In July, 1803, it was elm
that the society was utterly insolvent, Mr. Monk claiming
to be entitled to a large balance in his favour, and he con-
tended that the society being so carried on, while there were
no funds in existence, rendered the persons conducting it
manifestly guilty of a conspiracy. The case was not now
so properly before the court as it should be, in consequence
of the poverty of the claimant, ,but ho could prove here-
after that this society had been deceiving from 3,000 to
5,000 of these poor people, and that whatever money Mr.
Monk had got hold of he had kept for his own private pur-
poses, and that Mr. Lawrence had done ,the same. Mr.
Lawrence repudiated having anything to do with the so-
ciety, and referred him to Mr. Monk as the person answer-
able, while there were no arbitrators to settle this claim, as
they said the society was no longer in existence. Messrs.
Monk and Lawrence had received money on behalf of the
society, on their own showing, each, as it appeared, having
received about £6OO from the members, and that he consi-
dered amounted to a fraud, as he should show they had
never pk id the money over to the trustees. Mr. Lawrence
admitted there was no dispute about the money, but
whether the woman was not entitled to it from the assoft
dation, and he said she was not.
Other evidence having been given,

Mr. Cooke said—l have not the least doubt you can re-
cover from the trustees. I have no doubt that Monk and
the other trustees are liable—are responsible for the whole
claim, and that all in office at the time of this woman's
husband's death are responsible. The statement made is
that the society did not pretend to dissolve till the 21st of
November, and the woman's husband died on the 6th, when
there was a full force of officers of the society subsisting. I
shall dismiss the adjourned summons against Mr. Lawrence,
adjourn the other for a fortnight, and you (Mr. Hutchinson)
can in the meantime consider what course you will pursue.
Mr. Hutchinson--A person in a much higher position
than myself may then take it up, for these poor people have
not money to do so.
The defendant here said something,
and Mr. Hutchinson
said—" Mr. Monk says that they will not get a copper from
him."
Mr. Monk—No, not anything from me, for I am not
liable•
they got 18 months each.
The further hearing was then adjourned fora
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Vacancies, Promotions, and
in the Civil Service'

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EDUCATION-OFFICE.—The
of
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clerks. E. Bishop,
Baisnhoinsp,
it, F. vi, Groves has been appointed to
INDIA-OFFICE.—qur - G 1.,
witant- enera s Department.
a clerkship in the Aom
v„ Air R. Denniford has been appointed
BOARD OF TRAD-•-- ..... .
the negistry of Seamen's-office.
a temporary clerk in __ j
wnoDS. Mr .C. Chapman has been ap-
pointed OF •• --
' clerk to the deputy surveyor, New Forest.
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pointed
COPYIICILD INCLOSURE AND TITRE COMMISSION.—Mr
J. C. Davies has been appointed to a clerkship.
virAn.oFFlcE.—Dr. W. L. Kellner has been appointed
a temporary assistant in the medical department.
POST-OFFICE.—Mr J. D. Southam has been promoted
from the lower to the upper section of the first class, vice
Mr W. Court, appointed book-keeper—Mr H. E. Lipsham,
from the second to the first class—and Mr H. D, Irving,
from the third to the second class in the Receiver and Ac-
countant-General's-office.
CUSTOMS.—Mr E. A. West, clerk, third class, has been
promoted to be clerk, second class—Mr T
Grar clerk,
Grady,
clerk,
fourth class, to be clerk, third class—
MraC•
U. Fd
Alr W. H. Sen-
fifth class, to be clerk, fourth class—
tame) clerk, sixth class, to be clerk, class—and
class, London

Docks.
INLAND REVENUE, EXCISE BILANCII.—Mr E. J. Lan-
Yon, officer, Dartmouth division, has been appointed to Lon-
don, east, first division-11Ir Chapman, officer, Tickhill divi-
sion, York collection, ' Dartmouth division—Mr A. Grey,
dropped officer, Alloa, fourth division, to Tickhill division--
r G.Harman,
Mr officer, Derby, second division, to be
dropped officer, Alloa, fourth division—Mr D. Best, officer,
Shepton, first division, Bath collection, to Derby, second
division—Mr T. C. Manning, officer, Glasgow, seventh
division, to Shepton, first division—Mr J. S. Norris, officer
of Richmond, first ride, to be officer of Richmond, second
ride, Ripon collection—Mr T. Heron, officer of Richmond,
second ride, to be officer of Richmond, first ride. Ireland.
--Appointments.—Mr P. Dowling has been appointed a
transcribing clerk in the Registry of Deeds-office, Dublin.--
and Mr E. D. Daly a clerk in the Metropolitan Police-
office, Dublin.

TEW THEATRE-KO Y AL, ADELPHI.-
I_lll Sole Proorigtor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Last Week but four of he Great Tragethene, Miss Bateman,
In the character of LEAN.

THIS EVENING,an apropcs Sketch, SHAKE3PEAEE'S
HOUSE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, Stephenson.
Af er which, at 8, LEAH: Miss Bateman, supported•by
Messrs. A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Biiiiugton, Stuart, Eburne,
Stephenson ; Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billington.
To conclude with T HE AREA BELLE : Messrs. J. L. Toole,
P. Bedford, it. Romer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis.