The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-12 00:00:00

THE THAMES E3IBANKMENT.

The CfrAiumnx said the time had arrived when the Board
must consider the subject of raising a loan for the Thames
Embankment, and he thought the question was of such im-
portance that it ought to be considered in a committee of the
whole Board. There were many questions they would have
to discuss, and it was very desirable that they should con-
sider them in a committee of the whole Board, in the deci-
sion of which the Finance Committee and Thames Embank-
ment Committee would concur. He therefore suggested
that the matter should bo referred to the Thames Embank-
ment Committee (which is a committee of the whole Board)
for considuation and report.
The motion was formally moved and adopted.
PROPOSED METROPOLITAN RAILWAYS.

The Streets Committee brought up their report, submit-
ting the report of the engineer of his interview with the
engineers of certain metropolitan railways, and recommend-
ing that he be instructed to attend the further conference of
the engineers, with a view to the maintenance and protec-
tion of the works of the Board and other local bodies, and
of the public interests generally. The adoption of the
report having been moved and seconded,

Mr, SAUNDERS moved as an amendment the following
addition to his motion :—" But that it be distinctly under-
stood that his acts or demeanour shall not pledge the Board
to any of the schemes proposed."
A long discussion ensued, during which the powers Of the
engineer were severely criticised, and on the amendment
being put to the Board it was lost by a majority of 18 to 12.
Mr. LEGGE then moved as an amendment, " And that
such suggestions and acts of the engineer shall be admitted
as approved of by the Board."
He contended that as the Board would not agree to the
amendment protecting it from being pledged by the acts of
the engineer, they could not refuse to being pledged by him.
Mr. ROCIE seconded the amendment.
Mr. FREEMAN opposed it, and said they had rejected the
words only because they were unnecessary.
The amendment was then put and rejected, and the ori-
ginal motion was agreed to.
The routine business was disposed of, and the Board ad-
journed,

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE
ENSUING WEEK.—Monday—Royal Academy at 8;
" Sculpture," Professor Westmacott ; Architects, at 8 ;
Geographical, at 83, "Notes on Vancouver's Island," Dr.
Forbes ; " Fraser and Peace Rivers and Gold Fields of
British Columbia," by Lieutenant Palmer; Society of Arts,
at 8, "Art applied to Industry—Furniture," Mr. Barges.
Tuesday—Royal Institution, at 3, "Animal Life," Profes-
sor Marshall; Statistical, at 8; Anthropological, at 8,
"Ethnographical Casts," Mr. H. von Sehlagintweit ;
"The Dotnber," Dr. Shortt; "
Mind, Language, Man,"
Mr. Owen Pike; " Negro 'taco and Civilisation," Mr.
Guppy; Engineers, at 8, " Resistance to Bodies passing
through Water," Mr. Phipps. Wednesday—Meteorological,
at 7 ; Society of Arts, at 8, "Organisation of the Corps Ira-
penal des Pouts et Chaus6es in France," Mr. Burnell.
Thursday—Chemical, at 8, " Theory of Organic Peroxides,"
Sir B. Brodie;
Zoological, at 4 ; Numismatic, at 7; Anti-
quaries, at 8; Linnean, at 8, " Variation and Geographical
Distribution, illustrated by thePapilionidm," Mr. Wallace;
Royal, at 8i; Royal Institution, at
3, " Animal Life,"
Professor Marshall, Friday—Philological, at 8, Royal
Institution, at 8, " Contributions to Mole3ular Physics,"
Professor Tyndall. Saturday—Royal Institution, 3, "Me-
tallic Elements," Er. Frankland.--„lthenceunt.