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EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY ACCIDENT
WHITERAVEN, JAN. 24.—The sea walls on the
Whitehaven Junction Railway betwesn Lowca and
this place have frequently been found to be, in dif-
ferent parts of them, wholly insufficient to resist the
action of the sea, and ever since the line was formed
they have been a continued source of anxiety and
expense. During the heavy gales of last winter the
walls at Harrington and Lowca Point were discovered
to be exceedingly weak, and were as often repaired. A
portion of the wall at Lowca was entirely rebuilt, but
the directors, being advised that the destruction oftbe
walls had been gradually going on, considered it their
duty to call in some practical man to examine and re-
port upon the whole of the walls. Mr. Rendell, the
eminent engineer, was consulted, and, after a careful
inspection, reported that the walls had not, in the
first instance, been constructed of sufficient strength,
and that the execution a the work in some respects
was of an indifferent, and in others of an inferior. cha-
racter. He advised the rebuilding of the Lowca and
Harrington walls, which was done at an expense, in-
cluding previous repairs, of 6,0001, part of the money
being paid out of revenue, and the remainder charged
to capital. The principle upon which they were re-
built, and the workmanship, appear to have been good,
no casualty having since occurred at either of these
P•
oints It was not considered that the other walls
called for any interference, from the fact of their not
being exposed to the action of the sea to the same ex-
tent as the Lowca and Harrington walls, and there-
fore sufficiently substantial for their situation. In
fact, so great was the confidence in their adequate-
'less, that, with respect to the wall in question, only
a short time ago it was not deemed unsafe to remove
a quantity of rubbish which had been placed there to
protect it.
It has been observed, however, during the last
fortnight that the waves set in with great force at the
point referred to—namely, between this town and
the village of Parton, the first station from White-
haven at this end of the line. Added to this, the
tides, owing to the prevalence of the very high winds,
have risen to a great height, but, from what we can
learn, no. apprehension was entertained for the safety
of the walls. The tide, however, to-day rose still
higher than it had done on any previous day, and, the
wind blowing strong, it washed violently against and
over the wall.
It was high water here at five minute s past one,
but long before that hour it was quite evident that
with the combined action of wind and waves the walls
must sustain more or less damage. About noon they
exhibited marked signs of weakness, and shortly
afterwards portions after portions were observed to
give way, until at last it was feared the whole of this '
part of the line would be carried away. The officials
at this end of the line were early on the spot ; but,
under the circumstances, nothing could be done be-
yond taking the necessary precautions to avoid the
occurrence of accident to any of the up-trains, one of
which was nearly due. In one place at high water a
considerable portion of the wall was completely
broken down, and there was only too much reason to
fear it would be carried away altogether.
As the tide receded the havoc of the winds and
waves during the last hour displayed itself more and
more, and of course before it had completely ebbed
the result was too evident to be mistaken. For a
space of 50 yards the wall was completely destroyed
to the level of the shore, and the embankment, which
was about 20 feet high, carried wholly away into the
sea. Scarcely a vestige of earth was left, and the
stones, rails, and sleepers were scattered all along the
shore for a considerable distance. The wall for several
hundred yards presented evidence of shocking de-
struction, the coping stones and other heavy masonry
another
place, violence
eon only
l y
being dislodged, and in others completely carried
oa fw theay. windo sahnodw sea,the effectwe observed
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bravedof this
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disaster,
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for centuorriiegs,intaolrnsituuapt,ibann.d lying at some dis-
tance fny m its from
must of course be a considerable time before the
whole of the damage will be repaired, and in the
meantime it is intended to receive and dispatch the
trains from Parton, a village about two miles from
here, and convey the passengers by omnibuses to this
place.

RESTORATION OF A LOST NOSE.—Last Wednes-
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witness the operation of adapting a new nasal organ to ,the
human face. Mr. Elickson, house-surgeon, assisted by {r.
Liston, operated. The patient was Thomas Burrows, a Ta-
bourer, at Barnet, aged 22, who had been attacked sone
years ago with a disease of the nose, which was gradnaly
destroying that organ. During the last two years he vras
under treatment for it at the hospital, without any satisfac-
tory result, beyond the preservation of his nose from actual
destruction. The progress of the disease having been at
theatreft h em ca rt
on
el
na ages;
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en,
dha
nen
aedsd
df. oa ryAmacf ant
length arrested, it was resolved, with his consent, to
covet
oeprrdnaiionrognlof nostrils with skin taker:.
ay
nhde
having
t abkeeenn s ianntiv? thete
to the influence of chloroform, the operation was most skil-
fully and successfully performed by Mr. Elickson, and in less than twenty minutes the patient awoke to the pleasing
consciousness of having a perfect nose. He was then re-
moved to a warm bed in one of the wards, where he will re-
main until perfectly recovered.
THE LONDON JEWS.—A remarkable conflict is new
going on among the Jews in London, between the opposite
principles of superstition and infidelity—between Rabbinism
and Rationalism—the traditions of men and the philosoptY
of men. Some are endeavouring to adapt the old maxims
°f Judaism to the standard of modern civilization. Mans.
are diligently studying the Old Testament Scriptures. They
publishing the Scriptures with an English translation of
professes to rectify the errors of our autho-
risedEdinbur h and the ri
plasterers of g cu iers cf
for an advanCe
Arbroath have struck of wages.
'tlhrjeTir:°ew version.ipiast which

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of pub-
lic business.
RE-APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION.
In the course of the election of the officers appointed
annually by the Court,
Mr. TRESHAM took the opportunity which then pre-
sented itself to Question the utility of an officer, whose
duties appeared to be connected eith the shifting or the
measuring of fruit. He believed that the class to which
that individual belonged impeded and encumbered the
business of the fruit-tnerchents, ate their absence upon
all oecations from the vessels would be most desirable.
Deputy 'JOLT admitted that the officers, whose duties
were slid to be connected with the shifting of fruit and
other commodities, were certainly a very great nuisance
and expense, and ought to be got rid of altogether with
the greatest practicable expedition.—.(Hear, hear.)
Mr. PHILLIPS said that those who came down with
Such wholesale condemnation -did not seem to know
that some of the officers of whom they wished to be
relieved had purchased their situations.—(Hear, hear.)
Ho believed the gentleman to whom particular allu-
sion was made had paid for his office as much as
3,0001. It could not, surely, for a moment be sup.
posed that the Court could think of annihilating the
office without giving compensation to the person
who held it.—(Hear, hear, and murmurs.) That sum
of money had certaialy been paid for the
place—some
said to the Lord Mayor, some said to the Court of Al-
dermen, and some said to the Court of. Common Council
—(Laughter)—at all events to one or other of these
authorities e,OOOl. had been given, and those/who con-
stituted the present Court could not act such fla-
grant injustice as to condemn without listening to the
vindication.—(hear.) -
Mr. RICHARD TAYLOR said lieaepreheitied that
blame might attach to the present Corporation if he did
not state with whom the sale of offices originated., The
disgraceful system commenced in the reign of George
the Second, and flourished in the greater part of the
reign of the successor of that monarch, and the pur-
chasers(Hear.) Formerly it was the practice the offices.—
e off ,the Corpora-
tion to sell possessed
offices, and a baser
practice could not exist; but for a considerable time
so ula o f the
itsright
important
there bad been an abatement of the evil, and he hoped
the time was not distant when the alienation or sale of
offices in the Corporation would be unknown,
Deputy HARRISON said it seemed to be forgotten that
the Corporation had, in the year 1823, come to the re-
solution that the practice was highly objectionable, and
ought not to be allowed.—(Hear, hear.) / Since that
period every opportunity had been taken to purchase
the right of alienation in the instances which presented
themselves. He could not see why any objection should
be made to the appointment of the officer. alluded to,
under the present circumstances. Money had been paid
for the place, and money must certainly be paid to the
proprietor of it before the Court placed it in the list of
condemnation.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. MIIGGRIDGE said the 'public had very great
reason to complain of exactions made by certain officers
appointed by the Court with respect to the shifting or
metage ot:corn.—(Hear.) Those persons presented a very
serious impediment to trade, and were generally consi-
dered to be an insufferable nuisance. He was determined
to make every effort to abate such a nuisance; and, for
the purpose of accomplishing this:the more effectually, he
would give notice of a motion upon the subject for the
consideration of the next Court.-.-(Hear, hear.)
Sir JAMES DUKE approved of the intention of Mr.
Muggridge to bring forward in a formal manner a ques-
tion which he had no doubt would be heartily welcomed
by numbers of his fellow.citizens.
Mr. BLAKE thought the Court were bound to bring
forward this question without the usual ceremony; but
the majority were of opinion that enough had been said
to-show that the Corporation were not asleep upon the
subject, and the notice of motion was accordingly en-
tered.

EXHIBITION MEDAL TO THE CORPORATION.

The Lon) Ma-on-said he - had
received
which Royal Exhibition Commissioners a medal lch was
presented to the Corporation. from. the
Upon the motion of Mr. NORRIS, the question of the
custody and disposal of the medal was referred to the
library committee.
Mr. R. M. PHILLIPS brought up a report for the ap-
proval of the Court to a plan of works at Thames
Ditton by the Lambeth Water Company.--Agreed to.
Upon the motion of Mr. FREEMAN, a report for the
payment of the expenses 01 the Coroner, in holding i
in-
questss in cases of houseburning, amounting to 1301. .
2d.; and a report for granting 100 guineas
in aid of tho
life-boat fund of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Ma -
riners' Royal Benevolent Society, were agreed to; as was
also a report for granting 100 guineas to the Guardian
Society Female Penitentiary, Bethnal.green.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE.
Mr. T. 11. Ham presented the following important
report of the Improvement Committee for the last year,
and called the attention of the Court, and the public par-
ticularly, to the exertions made by the Corporation:—
"To THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR, ALDER-
MEN, AND COMMONS OF THE CITY OF LONDON, IN
CoMM )2,1 COUNCIL ASSEMBLED.
" We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, your
committee for improvements within this city, to whom,
on the 29th day of July, 1847, it was referred to carry
into execution the Act of Parliament passed
reign, intituled
passed in the 10th
' An Act for widening and im
and 11th years of her present Ma esty
for making a new street from proving Cannon-street, and
the west end of Cannon-
street to Queen-street, and for widening and improving
of y,. j
Queen-street, and for effecting other improvements in the
18th Jul 1850,
City of London; ' and, on the to
carry into execution the Act of Parliament, passed in the
13th and 14thA yeafor rs of herin present Majesty's reign, in-
Queen-street to the south side of St. Paul's-
churchyard, 'Act makg a new street from the west
sidefo
in continuation of the new street from. Can-
" Queen street, and for
effecting other improvements in the City of London,'
do certify that since our report presented to this Hon.
Can-
non-street to the east side
Court on the 13th day of February, 1851, detailing our
proceedings under the Act of the 10th and 11th years of
of the we have completed the pur-
chase of the remainder of the property authorised to be
taken by the said Act, and comprised in the fourth por-
tion of the architect's report, being from the east side of
her present Majesty's rei
Laurence Pountney-hill to King William,tr„t; the pre-
of the vacantbeen ground letow up n,
o and considerable portions
n building leases. And we
have now to report that the claims connected therewith,
amounting to 67,0621. 1(1% 3d.
mises have taken d
have been settled and usted for the sum of 42,964/.
.. ad-
" And for the further information of the Court we
have annexed hereto a statement of the names of the
claimants their premises, the
nature of their claims,
lessees, or occupiers, the amounts
claimed, the sums agreed to be paid, and how the ments were effected (Appendix A.) in continuation of
settle-
the previous statements.
We, your committee, cannot refrain from calling the
whet
attention of this Honourable Court
to the importance of
an improvement which has been thus far completed at
her freeholders?,
the sole expense of the Corporation upon terms alike
honourable to themselves and beneficial to the public,
s of our satisfaction
nor can we withhold the expression
at the improved appearance of the neighbourhood, and
i .cclft
roalurmt
mehtbehender-
of street.
property generally,
authority of the said Act
of the 10th and llth of her present Majesty's reign,
adlsoc,huanr.dacetretrbof the
agree
improvement of the nen *ghbour
erectedth e„lvndaeitaouhnrradetvhsa
en erecting
hood of Ship Tavern..
passage,
the claims for the same amounting
to 5,7381. 10s. 7d,
(See appendix 13.)
Gracechurch-street, for
to certif the sum of 2,741/. 10s.,
we beg nowthat, in
A *ii us fort'c -
the' powers repose- larrythe
le into effect the
isions of the Act of the 1
proV •3th and the 14th of her
present Majesty's reign, for continuing the line of im-
provement
of part of the property extending from
provenient from Queen-street to
of February last, directed ne • ' a •
St,
I.aulp,srowseec.uteinonthoef
notices to be given
street to Bread-street, and on the Ist day of De-
last, for the pUrchase of the remainder, extending
Bread-street to St. Paul's.

~ That we have consequently received numerous
10e., being set-
0100iticureaebdiin:s gene-
claims, and hay entered into and concluded treaties, with
several parties for the purchase of their interests, upon
amounting i
sduoxrtfeiondt gih
hereto,
83ouoirlo 0 4
Appendix C,
rfaailrly,anthdeecqinaiitmabs
tied at 85,5381.103.
l e term s
Court, a statement showing thi, bemire and amount of the Claims,
wefor"tAhend
furtherhave also
informationan
the sums agreed to be paid, and how settled; and we
are proceeding with the remainder as quickly as cir-
cumstances will allow.

" We have also arranged for the,
purchase
to the
-..ase of
Chandlers' Hall; the claim for which Wax
sum of 6,500/., was settled at the swia of 4
n
Appendix D.) 0144 (Seo
" Ta the course of our proceedings wo entered into
treaty with the authorities of the parish of
St. Martina
Orgars, and arranged with them for widening the en-
trance to St. Martin's-lane, Cannon-street, n,-,o_
r u terms
satisfactory to all parties.
" We hlso agreed with the parish of St. John Baptist,
Dowgate, for setting back the railing of their burial
ground to a sufficient extent to complete the line of im-
provement in that neighbourhood; and with the parish
of St. Thomas Apostle, for the improvements connected
with their burial ground, Queen's-street, and the imme-
diate neighbourhood.
" With reference to the contemplated improvement at
the corner of Fenchurch.street and Gracechurch_street,
by the removal of the parish church of St. Benet Grace-
church, your committee have to repeat, after repeated
meetings with the parishioners, that we have not yet
been able to arrange with them as to the terms and con-
ditions for effecting the same—the subject, therefore,
still remains under consideration.
" Your committee was occupied for a considerable
time, in the course of the early part of the Year, with
the detail of the arrangements to be entered into between
the Corporation and the commissioners for the Millen-
well improvement for carrying out that measure in their
steed, and having ultimately agreed upon the same, a
Bill was brought into Parliament for the purpose,
during. the last session, which passed bath Houses, and
received the Royal assent on the Ist day of August,
1851, and was referred to your committee to be carried
into execution.

viz.:

directed the
"Under this Act, your committee, in the first in-
stance,tor,
tthhee
books,comm ispsaipoenreer,s,
atnhdat
dteheenyinemnitfi
Architect to ascertain aC11"I thePtrZtise.tre;nSkiinicgi claims againstCCity
handed over to your committee. Anhdbtewlbcoeenhgaainlsgho
eltehlakt
to
oe
found3l-rr :01i;leerseea
adjusted,trleef.et
referred
ur t.
ao
examine the accounts delivered in by the mcommissioners,
e in
it to
subsequentlyiMnero. mpele' apnridn eareportedinpsaat isfactory State;
met from time to time, to afford th'e officers Of 'tflipenrawtee
commission an opportunity of supplying evidence as to
the correctness of the statements as put in by them, and j
we were ultimately enabled, upon receiving reports from I
our officers to that effect, to sign warrants to Messrs,
Burchell and Persons, the solicitors of the into commis-
sioners, and to the other parties having claims on the com-
missioners, for payment of their respective accounts out
of the fund created by the Act of the 13th and 14th year
of her present Majesty's reign, cap. 103, authbrising the
raising the sum of 88,0001. for the purpose, and the docu-
ments subsequently handed over to your committee.
" Having, in our report of the 13th day of February
last, stated that wo had raised the said sum of 88,0001.,
at 31. 10s. per cent. per annum ,upon bonds secured by
the seal of the Corporation, we beg now to report that
the same was invested in East India bonds, under our
directions, so as to bear interest till such time as' the
moneys were required for the purposes of the improve-
ment, since which, sufficient portion thereof has beep
disposed of for discharging all the outstanding mort-
gages, viz.:—
Messrs. Burchell and Parson, for their r •
account secured by mortgage £10,310 12 3
The Economic Life Assurance Com-
pany, the like
Mr. Samnel Grinsdell, the like
" Having thus adjusted the claims upon the late com-
missioners, in which we have expended a sum of 41,465/.
3s. 2d., we have, in addition, to state that we directed
notices to be given for the immediate purchase of such
premises as were used for slaughtering horses, and car-
rying on other offensive trades, as the City's architect
might consider desirable to be forthwith removed, feel-
ing anxious that no time should be lost in proceeding
with the measure.
"By the 12th clause in the Act, transferring the
powers of the. Clerkenwell Improvement Commissioners,
authority is given to the Corporation to take, erect, and
build on the land vested in them, or to be purchased by
them, such and so many improved dwelling and lodging-
houses for the poor, fitting up the same as they ,should
think expedient, and letting
.them to labourers, mecha-
nics, and other poor persons, as they should see fit;
your Committee, consequently, referred it to the City's
architect to consider of the most desirable situation, in
or near the line of the new street, for the erection of
such lodging-houses, and this honourable Court, on the
23d day of October last, placed the sum of 42,4692 es.,
Reduced 3 per Cents., at our disposal for purchasing and
clearing the requisite ground for the same.
"It will be in the recollection of this Honourable
Court that, by the Bill introduced into Parliament in
the year 1850, powers were sought to be obtained for
effecting an improvement at the west end of Thread-
needle-street, which, owing to the opposition in the
House of Lords from the parties whose interests were
principally effected, was obliged to be abandoned; the
matter, however, was deemed of sufficient importance to
be renewed, and negotiations were opened by them with
your committee for that purpose, when, after several
meetings, we ultimately agreed with them as to the
basis for effecting the improvement, subject to the
sanction of the Legislature, and reported the same to
this Honourable Court, on the 30th day of October last,
who were pleased to agree therewith, and authorised au
application to Parliament accordingly.
" In our report, presented to this Honourable Court
on the 18th day of February, 1851, we stated that we
have not been able, from the pressure of business before
us, to prOceed in the consideration of a petition from the
inhabitants of the ward of Tower for an improvement in
Mark-lane to a sufficient extent to justify us in sabmit-
ting any recommendation thereon; since that
time we further considered the subject, and
on the 2d day of May last, reported upon all
the references, recommending the Honourable Court to
enter into a treaty with Messrs. Henry to purchase sun-
ry freehold property belonging to them at the corner
of Mark-lane and Tower-street, for the purpose of
widening the street at that point; the Court was pleased
to sanction our report, and to authorise the measure to
be included in the application to Parliament in the en.

suing session.
"Towards the latter end of the year our attention
was drawn to the reference of the 9th day of March,
1848, upon a petition of the merchants, traders, and
other inhabitants of Dowgate ward and its immediate
neighbourhood, for widening Dowgate-bill, and your
committee, after hearing the patitionerP, and being in-
formed that the Tallow Chandlers' Company, who were
the freeholders of nearly all the property required, would
be willing to concur upon reasonable terms for setting
back the same to the extent required, presented a report
to this Honourable Court, on the 30th day of October
last, recommending that we should be authorised to give
the necessary notices for 'an application to Parliament in
the ensuing session for the purpose. The Court was
pleased to agree with this report. The notices have
now before Parliament.
been given accordingly, and is included in the measuro

" Having thus generally detailed our proceedings
connected with the improvements within this City, which
have our attention during the last year, it now remains
for us to report upon the state of the funds placed at our
disposal.

a We have consequently to state, in the first instance,
that we received during the year 1851 the sum of
fortu addition
editttoerm u
thereto, o
25,0001., being the balance of the sum of 300,000/. agreod
to be advanced by the governor and company of the-
Bank of England to the corporation, at an interest of 41.
per
ften
theye sum
years from
February, e tn
of
140,000/. has been raised by the Chamberlain at the
rate of 3il. per cent, per annum for a period of ten years,
cper annum,
and
leaving a sum of 60,000/. (part of which is now tendered)
to be raised by your Committee for completing the im-
provements now in progress. And we take the present
opportunity of reporting that we have recently examined
.Ir. Chamberlain's accounts of the various funds under
our management as under:-
Ist. Of the receipts and payments in respect of the
fund created by the resolution of this Honourable Court
of the 25th day of September, 1845, by which a charge
of twenty thousand pounds per annum was made on the
City's duty of fourpence per ton on cosh', to be applied
towards effecting further public works and improve-
ments withinjhe City, as the Corporation should direct,
including the discharge, with interest of the BUM of
50,0001. raised under the order of the Court of the 18th
January, 1844, towards effecting certain improvements
in the vicinity of the Royal &change and in Maiden-

Lane, from thecommeneenient of the account to the 30th

day of November last, by which it appeared that the
whole receipts, including the said sum of 50,0001., had

amounted t; the sum of-196,0021..148.8d., and the ex-

penditura of the sum of 148,6491. 10s. lid., leaving a
balance in hand on the 30th day of November last, of
47,3531. 3s. 9d., to which the sum of 20,0001., the City's
contribution for the year ending the 25th of September
last, has since been transferred, the state of the City's

cash having permitted the sam; to be done.
" We have also audited the accounts undermentioned,

" 2. Of moneys received and paid by the Chamberlain
in respect of various public works and improvements ef-
fected upon the credit of the aforesaid fund, from the
commencement of the account to the 30th day of No-
vember, 1851; by which it appears that the receipts, in-
cluding the loan of 300,000/. advanced by the Bank, and
140,0004 advanced as above mentioned by various parties
on account of the loan of 200,0004, had amounted to
the sum of 473,2761. ss. 7d., and the disbursements to
436,731/. 4s. 9d., leaving a balance in hand at that time
of 36,545/. Os. 10d.
" 3. Of moneys received and paid by the Chamber-
lain, being the produce and application of the several
duties and piymenta, constituting the fund called The
London-bridge Approaches or Improvement Fund,' for
effecting public works or improvements in the metropo-
lis, pursuant to the provisions of the Act of Parliament,
11 Georgo IV., c. 64, &c., for the year ending sth Ja-
nuary, 1851, by which it appeared that the receipts
amounted to 139,302/. O. Bd., and the disbursements to
20,204/. is. 6d., leaving a surplus of duties of 119,0004,
carried quarterly to the account of application of sur-
pluses as per account following, and a balance of 97L
12s. 2d. in the Chamberlain's hands unappropriated.
"4. Of the surplus of the year ending sth January,
1851, of the fund called The. London-bridge Ap-
proaches or Improvement Fund,' for effecting public
works or improvements in the metropolis, and the ap-
propriation of the same in discharge of moneys raised
under the authority of the Act, 11th Geo. IV., cap. 64,
&c., by which it appeared that the receipts, including
the balance of the previous year, amounted to 200,034/
135., and the amount applied in discharge of debt to
105,500/., leaving a balance in hand on the 31st January
1831, of 94,534/. 135., of which 94,500 L was directed to
be applied in further dischage of the debt under notice
by advertisement since issued by orders of this Honour-
able Court.
" We also examined and audited 15Ir. Chamberlain's
accounts of receipts and payments under the Act of 2d
sad 3d Victoria, as connected with the improvement of
Maiden-lane from the let January to 31s t December,
1851, and found that the receipts amounted to 1461,
and the disbursements to 1,950/ 6s. 30.. including a
balance overpaid on the 31st December, 1650, of 1,943/,
Is. lid., leaving an amount overpaid on tlio Ist Dec.,
1851, of 1,8041. 63. 31d., towards which the produce of a
,i et to() rt ae,
sale of a house in Gresham-street, and of two houses la
Upper Thames-street, hereafter to be disposed of, is
applicable.
" We also examined and audited Mr. Chamberlain's
3cOorith.
since 3 O t h Novthe
account under the Act of the sth and
,61th85
last audit the dis-
bursementsnected with the improvement on .the site and in the
neighbourhood of the Church of St. Benet Finok, by the
ItNooyva,llEBsxcl
amounted to 108/. I Is. 2d le. •
~aving a balanc3
in hand on this account of 2,713/. , d
,haanogdefoufrnodmthtahte
" btl.. and for the
further information of this Ilonourable Court we have
annexed hereto the statements of the four first n
tioned accounts, numbered 1, 9
l
3, and 4 res Tacit;
continuation of the accounts reported by uson thec 131 h
day of February, 1851.